Williams news., 1921-07-08
LAND IN DEMAND
Why Western Canada Can Take
 Her Pick of Settlers.
Opportunities and Conditions There Appeal to the Most DesirabIe-Pos-
 abilities of Country Proved.

While Canada wants settlers, and is pursuing every legitimate means to secure them, it is realized, as pointed
 out by Hon. J. A. Calder, minister of
 immigration and colonization, that se- lection is necessary, and in order to
 keep undesirables out of the country
 legislation is passed that will doubt
 less have this effect. As pointed out
 by the minister, the class of settlers
 which Canada stands most ready to welcome are those who desire:
 Opportunity to acquire good farm
 land, either free or at a cost within
 their means.
 Opportunity to live in country un-
 der healthful conditions and liberal
 laws and among an intelligent and friendly people.
 Opportunity to live in a country where children receive free public edu- cation and where all children are en- abled to start in the battle of life with,
 as nearly as possible, equal advan- tages.
 Opportunity to live in a country where industry applied to the land will produce something more than the bare necessities of life, and will afford within reasonable time comfort and independence.
 Opportunity to live in a country where ambition is not handicapped by any creed, birth, or class, but where every citizen has the right to aspire to the highest position in his or her chosen walk in life.
 These are the conditions which will appeal to the most desirable people for this or any country, conditions which, to a certain degree, make an io 0f
 Canada possesses farm lands in large areas which may be had free or at a cost within the reach of the set- tier of limited means. Vast areas are available for settlement within reason able distances of railways. Land val ueS have in the last quarter of cen- tury received a tremendous impetus, SO that any good farm land which can still be secured in it's raw state at prices is an attraction. Such lands today are probably more attractive to the settler than were the free homesteads of the pioneer era. The country has been tried out; its possibilities have been proved; the trails have been blazed; the founda- ions have been laid. Railroads, tele- phones and public roads have been provided; market towns dot the prai- 10S ana OCnor aSr1culCura1 schools churches, and all the marks ! ,f modern conditions of life abound. | Records which have been taken over | period of years establish the fact | hat Western Canada's grain produc- ion is greater per acre than that of | any other new country. It is worthy of note that the production Of ,rain per acre in many of the older has increased with the in- ensified farming methods which the -ery high cost of land made necessary. This condition does not yet obtain to my extent in Canada, and yet the field compares favorab1y with some uch countries in which the cost Of and is very much greater than 1t is n the farming districts of the Do- ninion. In most cases present owners # Canadian farm land who are not ultivating it themselves are willing O sell at moderate prices and on ermS arranged for the convenience of he purchaser, provided that the pur- haser is prepared to go into actual peration and bring the land under ultivation and cause it to produce. That is the kind of settler which Can da wants and to whom it extends pen arms.-Advertisemen