Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-03-11
AGRANDEATHER'S STORY
From $143 to a Competence in
Three Years.

bSANAS hlONlhS " OuLuud III
1915 to make d living. It was hard
work. He had so many ups and
downs" that he became dispirited be-
fore he learned of the success of for
mer neighbors of his who were doing
well up In Canada. He sold his hold
ings for a song, and had a sale of what
effects he had. When he Strengthened
up with his storekeeper and paid a
few debts he found that he had $143
In cash, a good constitution, a wife
and FIVE children. He had saved SOM
few things from the sale. These he
put into a car with the effects of a
couple of others, who like him were
going to Canada. He went into the
Gem Colony in Alberta in 1916, bought
L piece Of land and commenced opera
lions The money he placed in the
bank. and started one Of his boys out
to earn enough money to supply the
table. The older boy used his wages
to break up the sod on the 100 acres.
But let Mr.. Chamberlain tell the rest
Of the story, which he has signed over
his WI signature. He says: II rented
70 acres and hired it put into wheat,
thrashed % wagonloads for my share.
We lived in the granary two years.
"The first of December, 1918, I laid
the concrete foundation for a twenty
five hundred dollar house and COM
pleted it the last Of January. I have
nine head Of horses and mules, five
head Of cattle, fifteen pieces of ma
chinery, seven outbuildings paid for
and half interest in a thrashing ma
chine. This is an old grandfathers
story, as my son-in-law came with four
children from Idaho last March and
bought 800 acres G. P. R. irrigated
land and we helped him develop 200
acres of 1t. They can't say around
here, everybody works but father"
Increased His Wealth Six Hundred
Fold.
There are more stories of success
In Western Canada. There's that OIL
Allan Nicholson of Hazelbridge, Mani
toba. In speaking Of it he says: 81
shall regret coming to Mani
toba. I came here seventeen years ago
I think 1t was in the spring of 1909
My old home was at LIE Mars, Plym
outh county, Washington township
Iowa, where I had been farming for {
good many years. I had a farm Of
24S acres, Of which 1 owned so acre:
and rented 100. When I left in 100;
I sold my equity in the farm for $75.OC
per acre. The nearest station to m!
place was Dalton, and my old neigh
bors there will remember me very well
"When l came to Canada l rente'
three-quarters of a section at Soutl
Plympton, near Springfield, Manitoba
After a year or two's experience a
renting J bought my present farm o
800 acres, and am now engaged il
mixed farming. 1 have always hal
good crops since I came here, an,
some of them have been bumpe
crops.
"If 1 went back to the United State
today I could take back $500 or 500
to every $1.00 that I brought int
the country. My land today is wort
from $500 to $500 an acre, and Il
addition to my grain growing I hav
made a speciality of h%igh-grade Pei
cheron horses, purebred Shorthor
cattle and purebred Berkshire hogs.
have had uniform good luck in cor
nnnffnn with INV StnnH anH tn6au
would not sell my farm for a cent les
than $4,000.
'sThe older settlers of LIE Mars, low;
will remember me very well. l wa
greatly impressed with the countr
when l made my first visit here i
!. 1903, and that impression has bee
here.
, "The climate agrees with us all. b
fore I came here my doctors bill
were something awful. I had n
sooner got one paid than I was du
fer another one. Since we have bee
in Manitoba $4,000 would pay all on
Doctors bills for the last seventee
years.
II think 1 am doing my old friends
kindness in letting them know ho7
well I have done since I came her
This is certainly a country of opport'
mites. I have had no more good luc
than falls to the fortune of any ord
nary person, and 1 am satisfied I coul
never have done as well had 1 r.
NAMED in the old home. 1 shall b
, pleased at any time to give informs
ton to old friends who care to writ
me about my experiences in tn
= country"
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City, Mo-, and G. j. Broughton, Roo
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