The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-03-16
THE EVIDENCE
IN THE CASE
Results Following Settlement
Show That Conditions in West
ern Canada Are Highly
Satisfactory.

OHlll u lbW ythIe hbO WI IltHIy
Lohmann lived at Efingham. Ill. lie
thought ho would better his condition
Ia q new country. where he would
have wider scope for his farming OPP
erations. II would not seem essential
TO refer TO Mr.. Lohmann. at this par
ticular time. as OF German blood. but
for the fact that Sc many false state
ments have gone out as to III treat.
ment OF Germans in Canada
Writing from Willmont, Sask., n
der date OF January 30, 1916. Mr.. Lob.
mann says:
I'VE are perfectly satisfied in this
country, and doing we'll up here.
81 bought a half section Of land and
took up a homestead. my three sons
also took homesteads. two OF them
buying each 100 acres OF land as well.
! sold my homestead. and | and n of
my SOM own n t~hreshing outfit.
THE crop this year was good; tho
oats wen so TO 90 bushels per acre,
and wheat went 40 to 80 bushels and
the price In fair"
Sam Morrow. OF Mlllet, Alta. In
writing TO Mr.. ]. NJ. MacLachlan. Ca
madam government agent at Water.
town, s. D.. says: II am we'll pleased
with the country. The climate is bet.
ter than I ever thought II could be
so far north: ideal climate for stock.
I have some colts and cattle that have
not been inside OF a stable In four
years. I consider this n fine country
for mixed farming. I know OF farm.
ers around here who had ~ bushels
OF barley TO the acre and 55 bushels
o: oats 10 the acre"
Jacob Goetz OF Piapot. Sask.. had -
acres OF wheat from which he got
1900 bushels. and got an average OF
90 bushels OF oats TO the acre.
Golden Prairie. Sask.. is a district
largely settled by South Dakotans.
Horace Blake Is n OF those. He
says: Tho crops OF 1915 we're i'm.
mense."
Wheat in his locality went from 40
10 80 bushels per acre: oats about so
bushels or an average. One hundred
bushels OF potatoes were grown on a
/ Huhl N'I VI dH hNlt VI lhlu lWtlNt Do
tatoes weighed 30 pounds. His horses
run out all winter, and come In fat.
lie raised excellent corn. and fat.
tened hogs on II. He concludes an
Interesting letter by saying: There
are schools in every district. The
people here IRE most all hustlers and
are fast pushing to the front. When
first came up here on almost every
half section stood n little 12xl4 shack.
TO- almost everyone has real modern
houses and barns"
Some Southern Alberta yields for
1916:
/. Il. Hooker. SO acres. 1880 bushels
Marquis wheat No. l. GO pounds per
bushel.
]. !, Lee. 40 acres. stubble. 1900
bushels; 40 acres summer fallow, g..
$40 bushels.
Peter Brandon. I64 acres, 1861 bush.
els Marquis wheat.
r. Marandi, 1875 acres. $500 bushels,
ca pounds per bushel.
I. M~cReynolds. 45 acres. 1875, stub
BILE.
ole ChrIstoferson. 80 acres, 2,647
bushels.
Arufhus Gavett, 1855 acres wheat, g.
6i2 bushels; 30 acres oats. 1000 bush.
els.
Robert Mathews. 46 acres wheat,
2,0l6 bushels. machine measure.
d. Dunbar. 1870 acres wheat, 5,925
bushels.
Ingauld Hoppy. so acres wheat, O..
500 bushels. all stubble.
Louis Kragt. so acres wheat, 1000
bushels.
w, ]. Pate. &c acres wheat. $50
bushels.
w, Roeniche. $50 acres wheat, 5.337
bushels, 50 OF this stubble.
j. c. McKinnon, so acres wheat, 2.
$50 bushels.
Gordon s%winehart. 30 acres wheat.
LAO bushels.
Albert Hanson. So acres wheat, $3.50
bushels.
Elmer Hamm, 10 acres wheat, 5.l5s
bushels; 90 acres oats, $3.50 bushels.
John Larson. 50 acres wheat, 5000
bushels; 30 acres oats, 1000 bushels.
John Hecklln. 81 acres, 1884 bush.
els.
VIM. Hccklin, 100 acres. 1876, stub.
BILE and breaking.
o. Salisbury, 80 acres MARQUIS
wheat, 600 bushels on breaking.-Ad.
vertisement.
Large New Industry Projected,