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IS
MKNITOBK
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Assiniboia,
THE
the
heard
be
to
of
country's
the
because
lands
owing
and
as
result
a
Manitoba
It
and
is
longer
no
make
to
of
arc,
and
farming,
that
etc.,
beet
kind
of
for
each
way
railway
of
of
lands
settling
in
soil
the
cattle
those
less
to-day
are
in
highly
which
other
while
shipped
the
them
The
country.
stock-raising,
to
Atlantic
the
across
matured
tions
por-
produce
other
any
favorable
have
any
and,
to
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these
upon
with
required
than
both
grown
compared
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and
sake,
shame
very
acknowledged,
of
is
are
than
upon
to
of
plains
the
territories.
whether
in
simply
if
pages
the
The
Canada.
divisions
advocates
warm
is
it
what
a
good
of
part
thing
that
to
great
dian
Cana-
the
to
go
it will
country
be
home.
following
The
when
amount
finer
but
a
knowledge
the
question
a
other
universally
North-West
the
and
acre,
per
now
of
no
for
have
Northwest
into
silent
are
wheat
pasturage
North-West,
best
is
market,
Canadian
the
converted
disbelieve
to
them.
the
yield
natural
English
the
of
nature
and
of
public
the
.^
greater,
are
IN.
wished
been
others
the
SETTLE
fertility
have
believe
now
greater
the
to
climate
the
Saskatcheuian.
who
those
first
continent,
the
obtained
crops
and
quality
the
and
of
TO
merits,
superior
The
COUNTRY
the
;
will
one
no
and
concerning
reports
ceased
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AlbePta
doubted,
who
THOSE
OF
will
reader
land
he
getting
the
to
will
and
the
regalations,
Western
He
thinks
division,
what
west,
with
Canada.
will
is
impart
will
best,
find
and
general
the
other
learn
which
for
are
the
Western
words
of
book
chief
several
the
for
raising,
information
particulars
information
the
features
this
accurate
sutflciently
grain
from
general
full
a
in
comprised
preferable
are
ranching.
for
that
learn
localities
which
read
carefully
territory
vast
where
bearing
seek
markets,
towns,
concerning
of
mixed
to
the
government
and
the
subject
on
HOW
liaving
COLONISTS
summer
train
with
at
night,
cars
principle
lower
first-class
They
etc.
berths
taken
the
upon
into
constructed
same
sleeping
the
on
same
and
able
equally as comfortthrougli, without
change, all the
cars,
taken
are
No
Canadian
the
convertible
in
Ontario,
in
by
are
are
sleeping
Manitoba.
Montreal
cars
Montreal
or
homes
new
which
cars
and
upper
the
of
ventilation,
to
as
having
to
Columbia
These
cars.
Quebec
at
travel
British
sleeping
first-class
WEST.
Canada
winter,
or
colonist
in
the
THE
in
in
North-West,
those
as
REACH
arrived
Halifax
or
the
Manitoba,
Pacific
Railway
fast
TO
other
do
this.
to
No
railway
extra
from
can
is
for
the
made
accommodation.
Second-ciass
"charge
sleeping
passengers,
If they
do
not
provide their
bedding.
liowover, must
bring it with
own
outfit
of
and
curtains
will be
them,
complete
a
mattrass,
pillow, blanket
of the
at f he
supplied
by the agent
Company
point of starting, at a cost
of 5r2.50"
The
be
around
ten
curtains
ing
shillings.
hung
berth, turna
may
it into
little
In
addition
to
this, men
private room.
a
travelling
alone
off from
the
dle
midfamilies
the car
cut
by a partition across
are
near
in
that
of the
is not
the
where
smoking
permitted
car
part
; and
way
women
The
and
children
train
stops
and
rooms,
are.
stations
at
where
hot
meals
where
and
coffee
in
served
are
and
tea,
well-cooked
refreshment
food
be
may
The
allowed
not
to become
cars
are
prices.
of passengers
and
the
welfare
tended
over-crowded,
safety and
carefully atare
that
the
is taken
coloni.^t
does
to.
not
possible
Kvery
care
go
lose
f^uffer
Where
of
his property
imposition.
or
a
large number
astray,
the
of
to
colonists
colonist
west
are
going
together, special fast trains
bought
at
sleeping
No
dispatched.
are
railway in America
cars
other
does
as
passengers,
train
The
reasonable
very
is
met
in
In
regard
directly
intend
seek
to
obtained
at
Most
to
for
the
point.
home
a
the
in
and
that
Pacific
way
Rail-
and
advice
they
quire
re-
west,
ment,
locality for settle-
some
shown
how
such
upon
to proceed
locality, but
a
information
every
be
can
Winnipeg.
for
this
suitable,
in doing
assisted
are
reaching
Canadian
assistance
furtlier
examine
to
the
before
or
the
of
have
already fixed upon
them,
awaiting
they are
If they
have
decided
not
Office
most
and
all
somewhere
Land
wish
men
them
They
that
to
are
ist
colon-
to
home.
new
they
friends
Winnipeg
at
Government
give colonists
their
to
where
cases
wliere
the
of
accommodation
good
such
Pacific.
arrival
its
upon
city, by the agents
who
Company,
offers
Canadian
the
this
is
by
the
themselves
strongly
in
appointed
officials
which
section
recommended
by the
seems
case.
every
Government
purpose
the
Government
remain
the
at
family and
MeanW'hile,
baggage
can
themselves
with
food
house
in
and
comfort.
Providing
immigrant
safety
in
the
cook
their own
meals
in the
the
stoves
they can
city markets,
upon
has
served
the bedding
which
them
house
during their journey,
; and, with
in the
the
bunk
bedsteads
which
with
sleep in comfort
rooms
are
ihey can
Should
at
fitted.
to stop
hotel, they will find in
they prefer, however,
an
Winnipeg
from
varies
It
sometimes
sufficient
than
will
an
public houses
$1 (4s.) toSH
be
1
anxious
Provincial
brsiness
it
happens
money
to
to
begin
of
all
grades,
(12s.) a day,
that
carry
immediately
Governments
is
to
be
the
him
informed
have
where
where
the
total
according
to
cost
settler
far
Winnii^eg.
to
each
as
earn
some
an
agency
labour
each
person
circumstances.
intending
as
for
has
money.
in
is needed.
much
not
In
that
The
more
case
he
Dominion
Winnipeg
Societies
whose
repre-
o
M
S
q"
O
5s
6
all the
almost
senting
and
will
nationalities
welcome
of
and
see
been
Europe
have
the
welfare
to
nipeg,
Win-
in
formed
their
of
respective
countrymen.
of
arrival
The
that
contractors
may
take
in
or
as
many
in
work
of
is always
settlers
employing
are
other
some
of
party
a
who
the
building,
Winnipeg
men
the
of
city
newcomers
choose
as
in
announced
in
to
work
to
go
able
advance,
so
tion,
railway construcneighbourhood,
or
with
them.
and
generally on
good wages.
men
pay
and
board.
The
$20 ("5) per month
girls of
paid are
in
find
in
and
other
Winnipeg
towns,
always
employment
can
a family
in
factories
and
domestic
service,
establishments,
ing
employhotels, shops,
Good
female
labour.
little time
paid to capable girls, and
are
wages
is lost in getting a situaition.
Farmers
The
the
are
lookout
for
wages
average
CAPITAL
"
How
question
It depends
THE
into
North-West
the
of
statements
what
This
information
kinds
and
conclusion,
be
can
dollars
done
("200)
namely
:
given
the
build
dollars
500
and
house
a
writers,
amount
swer.
an-
gone
little
A
time.
Some
500
dollars
say
be
nevertheless
in
tables
to
about
ous
vari-
of
the
same
"
("100) will
(160 acres) obtained
belonging to
cheaper lands
The
prospered.
capital,
("600) may,
all
have
valuable
saves
many
; but
to
one
men
many
certain
by
localities
difficult
a
have
and
a
upon
been
has
easier
3,000 dollars
or
is
Very
capital and
any
start
various
for
?"
circumstances.
the
makes
("100) or 1,000
advantageous.
is necessary
much
upon
without
capital, however,
REQUIRED.
there
stay
set
as
down
a
man
a
free
the
Railway
or
ter-section,
quar-
chosen
one
and
Company,
farm
his
until
western
some
upon
homestead
among
him
enable
to
self-
and
productive
becomes
supporting.
In
this
Manitoba
connection
speaks
of
farmer
practical
a
follows
as
some
in
residence
years
:
for nothing
be had
cheaply here, or it can
purchased
of $385, made
A single man
start
an
outlay
on
can
up
follows
One
and
harrow,
harness,
yoke of oxen
:
as
$115; plow,
etc.,
and
kitchen
stove
lumber,
$40;
furnishings, $40 ; bedding, etc., $20;
A
doors, windows,
etc., for log house, $50; provisions, $90;
seed, $30.
with
have
farmer
of
five
would
out
to
$240
bringing
family
lay
more,
a
his outlay up to $625.
"
Land
be
can
by homesteading.
farmer
A
build
he
his
; he
shanty
break
can
in
come
can
ten
can
$60
about
Suppose
the
at
acre,
oats
at
40
potatoes,
acre,
worth
After
80
cents
bushels
bushels
200
40
farmer
raise
bushel,
per
at
still have
and
cents
$80;
cow
fortj
it will
3
in
ten
a
acres
and
be
acre
acres
to
acres
of
of
and
crop,
;
can
for
him
give
and
April
continue
can
fall ready
a
crop
start;
July, and it will
the
spring.
raises
only 25 bushels
in
cost
in
$600
5
; say
stuflf at
the
to
;
total
original
whole
good
acre
bushels
40
$120
acres
1
$70 ; say
bushel,
of barley,
garden
and
harvesting
to the
something
1
; he
under
the
worth
per
sod
acres
acres
the
on
the
35
cents,
; and
of
ten
of wheat,
acres
per
$48
forty
oxen
seed
acre
the
fifth
the
the
on
crop
puts
the
enough
to
30
expenses
will
he
his
for
at 40
cents,
deducting
the
after
in
puts
it under
put
about
land
his
select
March,
of
plough
to
backset
additional
he
middle
the
commence
and
acres
for two
months
breaking
break
and
thirty acres,
He
in the
spring.
can
he can
cut
hay enough
him
about
start
with
to
of
of
per
$918
lay
outnext
year."
It
must
not
be
forgotten, however,
that
hundreds
have
arrived
in
Winnipeg
and
These
without
any
become
substantial
remarks
habits,
bookkeepers,
etc., in
themselvea
the
and
cities
Provinces
by
uniform
lots
six
of 640
of the
Dominion
the
miles
or
acres,
mile
square
quarter-sections
for between
is provided
between
every
alternate
following
The
have
is
plan
section
contains
640
opportunities
into
out
sent
pre-
and
square
"
ships"
town-
"sections"
divided
sub-
again
are
allowance,
chain
one
north
and
contains
160
running
surveyed
into
these
road
A
and
TOWNSHIP
Eiic'h
clerks,
as
thirty-six
and
south,
and
west.
:'"
township
a
men
young
accurately
contains
section
east
of
to
divided
is
land
acres.
each
section
the
pered
pros-
to.
parcelled
section,
160
few
been
now
and
each
of
not
situations
referred
"
into
wide,
West
The
plan :
Each
township
square.
one
have
wages
SURVEY.
Government,
following
the
on
kind
OF
North-
find
Very
towns.
of the
SYSTEM
THE
on
colonists,
to
expect
employment
for
woricing
wohking
to
who
others
or
first
by
farmers-
addressed
are
of expensive
and
money,
DIAGRAM
acres
;
each
section
quarter
acres.
N.
6
Miles
Squark.
E.
S.
Open
for
Homkstbad,
(that
Jaw,
School
Nos.
can
Sections.
Bay
from
purchased
"
Company's
Section
the
Canada
Nos.
Section
solely for school
Hudson
"
1, 9, 13, 21, 25, S3, along
be
settlement).
"
Section
Nos.
2,
Nos.
4,
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17,
33,35.
19,21,23,25,27,31,
Section
Sections-
Railway
Pacific
free
18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36.
6, 10, 12, 14, 16,
Canadian
is, for
11,
main
line, V/innipeg
North-
29,
are
West
Land
reserved
by
purposes.
Sections.
"
Section
Nos.
8
and
26.
to
Moose
Company.
Government
8
REGULATIONS.
HOMESTEAD
All
of
seotions
even-numbered
Nortli-West
and
Manitoba
in
Lands
26, which
have
the
or
home-
been
Territories, excepting
wood
lots for settlers, or
other
to
provide
purposes,
be homesteaded
of a family, or
who
the
is
liead
sole
by any
person
of age,
of one
male
to the extent
eighteen years
quartsr-section
over
may
any
160
not
reserved
steaded,
of
Dominion
8
more
acres,
less.
or
ENTRY.
in which
the
personally at the local land office
he
desires
homesteader
on
situate, or if the
may,
of the
Commissioner
the
Minister
to the
or
Interior, Ottawa,
application
receive
of Dominion
to make
one
authority for some
Lands, Winnipeg,
is charged
for him.
for an
fee
the entry
A
of $10
ordinary homestead
have
been
additional
fee of $10
which
an
entry ; but for lands
occupied
is chargeable
cancellation
to meet
inspection and
expenses.
Entry
land
made
be
may
be
to
is
taken
HOMESTEAD
Under
ways,
which
Residence
2.
of
prior
to
broken
the
for
two
homestead
third
year;
third
hold
nine
entry
be
to
acres
5
in
under
years' system
first
within
second
crop
the
at
reside
the
must
of
next
received
the
second
made
before
the
at
time
any
be
must
acres
and
and
year,
two
residence
second,
in
15
25
acres
taken
a
by
homestead
A
SECOND
anyone
who
patent
or
for
homestead
entry,
at
least
or
any
settler
homestead
on
and
after
there-
six
monthg
six
notice
months'
of his
Lands
Before
inspector.
give
must
intention
settler, application for
fee of $5 is chargeable.
the
a
the
PATENT
Dominion
of
residence
of
of
end
the
before
years.
agent,
the
date
additional
acres
house
actual
from
years
his
anywhere
by commencing
5 acres
breaking
entry
habitable
a
reside
may
thereof)
10
breaking
FOR
local
his
commence
two
succeeding
making
application for patent
in writing to the Commissioner
of
for convenience
When,
so.
before
homestead
inspector,
a
be
in
year
one
within
months
date
and
acres
cultivate
and
three
after
building
expiration
upon
of the
perfeci
APPLICATION
may
any
10
the
period
actual
system
settler
a
must
5
settler
The
year.
homestead
be
three
the
which
(but
years,
six months
two
the
may
for
"
anywhere
additional
; 15
in
afterwards
this
:
which
months
months
and
Under
land
his
three
under
declare
must
during
je,
six
than
homestead
patent.
after
the
each
to
residen
and
the
for
first year,
cropping these
and
second
also
year
in
elects
in
performed
year.
The
the
he
more
years
upon
year
10
be
miy
settler
quarter-section,
house
first
cultivation
the
entry.
entry
the
duties
for
and
for
the
application
the
3.
for
the
habitable
a
absent
be
forfeiting
miles
conditions
cultivation
year's
not
homestead
application
following
may
without
the
the
Three
settler
law
present
making
on
of
1.
in
the
and
DUTIES.
patent
to
do
is made
HOMESTEAD
on
a
the
second
certificate
of
day
of
June,
recommendation
1889, had
counter-
9
by
patent
made
or
Commissioner
the
signed
of
Dominion
Lands
earned
titlt tc
nad
who
or
uiK)n
first
applir-ation for
his
liomestead
on.
'
date.
to, that
prior
liim,
by
INFORMATION.
that
are
immijjrants
arrived
Newly
Manitoba
in
the
or
for
open
will
North-Weat
from
and
entry,
receive
at
the
Lands
Dominion
any
information
Territories
in
officers
Office
tlie
to
as
of
charjre, free
lands
expense
full information
securing' lands to suit them
; and
the
and
and
coal
mineral
land,
laws,
timber,
copies of these
respecting
in the
well
those
Lands
Railway
as
as
respecting Dominion
Kegulatioiis,
be obtained
retary
British
Belt
in
Columbia,
application to the Secmay
upon
of the
of
the
of the
Commissioner
Interior, Ottawa;
Department
to
of
Dominion
Dominion
the
Winnipeg,
Lands,
Manitoba;
or
any
the
Lands
Territories.
North-West
or
Agents in Manitoba
and
aflvice
For
disposal
following
within
to lands
lands
by free-grant, or sale, the Dominion
all the business
in relation
agencies, at which
public
of the
the
established
has
in
assistance
district
the
of each
be
must
LANDS
DOMINION
{Figures
transacted
:"
OFFICES,
Inclusive).
are
Manitoba.
Districts
WinnipegandDufTerin
Nos.
townships,
1 to 8
langes
to
Souris
13
ranges
12
west.
District."
to
2nd
; ranges"
1 to
townships
Agent.
Township
meridian,
Combined."
all
Includes
of
east
4. ranges
9 to
all surveyed
Ist
14,
and
meridian,
and
townships
5
6
7
"Winnipeg.
13
5, ranges
8
townships
to
12,
18, townships
to
9
ranges
2nd
to
and
meridian
Brandon.
Agent,
Turtle
Mountain
township
22
9 to
ranges
District."
5, ranges
Saskatchewan
Little
Eirtle
2nd
to
north
25
to
; also
west
9
7, ranges
1
west.
District."
to
Agent,
1
Townships
2nd
to
meridian.
District"
Agent,
Townships
15 to 2nd
4, ranges
Deloraine,
of and
north
dian,
meri-
including
13
Minnedosa.
To\Vnships
Agent,
meridian.
19
of and
north
inc'uding
13,
23
ranges
to
Birtle.
ASSINIBOIA.
Coteau
Agent,
District-
-Townships
1 to
9,
ranges
1 to
30
meridian.
2nd
west
Estevan.
District"
Townships
Qu'Appelle
Agent, Regina.
10
to
23,
ranges
1
District"
24
to
31,
ranges
1
to
30
west
30
west
2nd
meridian.
Touchwood
Townships
2nd
1 west
32 to 36, range
meridian
meridian, townships
37 ai'd 38, 2nd
to
3rd
meridian,
meridian, townships
meridian.
Agent, Saltcoats.
Swift
meridian,
transacted
Current
District"
31,
township
at Regina.
ranges
Townships
1 to 6
west
1
to
3rd
30,
ranges
meridian.
to
to
range
6
range
5
west
1 to
3)
All
west
2nd
west
3rd
3rd
business
2
10
Alberta.
District.
Calgary
township
4th
19
30, range
to
B.
meridian
Station, who
Deer
Edmonton
4th
B.
to
7
7 west
meridian
to
meridian
Agent,
to
13
lands
for
Township
north
District.
west
at
Red
43,
8 west
range
31
7 west
to 36, range
3rd
meridian
Townships
37 to 38, range
3rd meridian
6 west
to
; townships
4th
34
11 west
meridian
3rd
northwards,
; township
range
7 west
4th meridian.
Agent, Battleford.
10
time
From
8
located
district.
including
and
C.,and
"
west
District.
3rd
"
39 northwards,
Township
range
Albert.
Agent, Prince
as
to
the
the
time
13
west
2nd
meridian.
"
alteration
is
toB.
range
42,
Edmonton.
District.
Lethbridge
Townships
1 to 12 between
townships
meridian, and
B. C.
Agent, Letlibridge, N.
boundary
to
in that
4th
west
31
to
; townships
A
Calgary.
suh-agent
entries
"
24
18, range
to
4th
meridian
Albert
Prince
west
receives
Agent,
4th
west
range
C.
1
District.
C.
Battleford
to
Townships
"
to
progress
1
westerly
W.
boundaries
of
18, ranges
to
of
limit
1
24
to
of
west
24
range
4ih
and
T.
the
difierent
renders
settlement
agencies
are
atlvisable.
In
liable
every
is given to the
made
ample notice
public of any
changes
in
of
in
the
the
land
and
colonists
districts,
case
newly
arriving in
the
in
fullest
Manitoba
obtain
information
all
to
regard
possible
they can
of
office
the
land
the
Commissioner
Dominion
at
of
matters
by inquiring
iu Winnipeg.
Lands
in the districts, detailed
will
At
be
the offices
found,
showing
maps
The
homestead
lands
the
exact
vacant.
are
always
agents
ready
in
For
and
their
assistance
information
the
to
give every
power.
of
convenience
of applicants,
information
terms
to
as
prices and
chase
purfrom
lands
of Railway
be obtained
all station
agents
along the
may
In
line and
branches.
is an
entitled
main
no
to
agent
Company's
case
case,
however,
receive
directly
in
money
to
the
Land
for
payment
Commissioner
All
lands.
at
payments
must
be
remitted
Winnipeg
fe.
i.-.v':.^"ff^""*'
On
the
Bow
Kivbr"
Alberta.
t;"^*s"ft"ci*;:?Ti^:"""
11
RAILWAY
Canadian
rpHf:
-L
Battle
wan,
sale
Canada
Mstern
Deer
and
Lands
Line
River
Agencies
various
REGULATIONS.
Railway
Main
the
Rod
and
the
at
Paoiflc
along
sections
Land
the
the
of
Branches,
Districts.
of
tho
consiat
and
in
and
Tlu^
Saskatc^lie-
Uhited
the
Company
West
Territories,
North-
nunibored
the
Lands
IJailwav
in
odd
the
at
for
are
Kin"dotn.
followintr
^
prices
:
"
PRICES.
in
Lands
the
Province
of
^*"S i" ?,^ Province
$4
to
l?o
LandF
an
Wesi
in
in
Lands
Assiniboia,
of
oast
the
For
lands
plicanta
3rd
Meridian,
District, $3
the
including
per
Saskatchewan,
Battle
Red
and
convenience
and
investors
of
been
price, have
the
^P^^
an
annum,
town
free
sent
detail
in
showin"'
maps,
will
be
and
to
ao^
Manitoba.
Soutliern
Between
Manitoba.
Fields
Coal
2nd
and
and
Oxbow.
Meridian.
3rd
Cypress
Hills
District.
District.
Calgary
Saskatchewan
The
^*"^^
^^"^'"
^' 1^'G}, H,
^^P*^
o"
sold
are
Valley.
the
at
uniform
price
'^
acre.
in full
at
time
OF
of
the
purchaser
may
nine
spread
over
payable at the end of
All
sales
PAYMENT.
purchase,
final
pay
years,
the
year
and
All
3.
The
Company
coal
lands
taxes
marble
sites
the
has
paid
; and
railway
by
with
with
in
of
cash,
interest
conveyance
the
and
six
at
per
will
balance
cent,
be
in
per
instalment.
each
the
reserves
lands
lands
purposes.
follomng
upon
land
been
made.
general
conditions
purchased
lawfully imposed
assessments
quarries,
and
to
placed
payment
Deed
a
one-tenth
CONDITIONS.
subject
are
improvements
until
to be
and
r.
Districts,
^
^
^
^
2.
and
River
Deer
Manitoba.
All
1.
lands
valuable
Central
GENERAL
thereon
the
Western
paid
payments
of
^
; but
given
average
:
TERMS
If
Meridian,
following
prepared
"
$3
(I2s. to"L4).
acre
3rd
most
^
r
an
acre.
J,
of
$G
to
acre.
])er
the
the
Calgary
the
of
$3
average
acre.
of
tlie
Manitoba
to
upon
be
the
:
maintained
land
or
provements
im-
purchaser.
from
sale, under
timber
containing
with
water-power
the
in
al
regulations, all minerquantities, stone, slate
thereon,
and
tracts
for
12
coal
Mineral,
4.
timber
and
will
wutor-power,
nivini; satisfactory
persons
utilize
the
be
lands
and
disposed
evidence
of
and
elTects
moderate
very
on
their
lands
and
(luurries,
of
intention
trolling
con-
to
terms
ability
and
to
same.
Liberal
for settlers
rates
their
will
be
granted
L.
A.
by the
pany
Com-
its Railway.
over
Commissioner,
Land
C.
P.
of
the
HAMILTON,
Ry,
Winnipeg.
Co.,
MHNITOBK.
MANITOBA,
contains
It is the
eastermost
extends
about
and
further
south
The
relieved
miles
Provinces
seven
from
49"
by the
the
great
to
West,
East
of
parallel
Dominion
equal to about
prairie country
milles,
States.
United
the
and
latitude,
be
It will
the
of
that
and
boundary
line
boundary
the
acres.
Canada
of
Southern
observed
Canada,
74,000,000
between
Manitoba
lies
England.
than
of
feature
general
at
the
square
portion of
300
is determined
Canada
of
one
11(),021
by
intervals,
the
is that
country
gently
rising
of
broad
a
hills, and
rolling
numerous
prairie,
bluffs
and
River
and
lakelets.
For
Assiniboine
of description
purposes
River
Valleys, and
RIVER
RED
The
Valleys
throughout
the highest
the
of
the
American
it may
and
Continent
the
Red
the
VALLEYS.
Assiniboine
for their
Rivers
fertility.
In
them
are
noted
is raised
price in all
kets,
maris produced
in
wheat
than
and
yield of hard
a
greater average
any
in
Oats
and
other
equal profusion, roots generbarley, grow
country.
ally
size and
have
carried
off prize after
to the largest attainable
grow
and
native
the
of Manitoba
are
prize at agricultural exhibitions,
grasses
of few
excelled
It is
by none.
equalled by those
places in the world, and
mixed
tinguished
disfor stock
of all
kinds, and
healthy country
farming,
as
a
method.
from
wheat
to be the
most
growing, is found
paying
River
and
Assiniboine
line
and
Red
The
Valleys are served
by the main
Manitoba
of the
Canadian
and
Northwestern
and
branches
Pacific, the
of them
is marketed
Grain
at every
at most
station, and
other
railways.
for storing wheat, and
flour
of them
is a grain elevator
there
at many
a
Few
stations
without
mill.
town
adjoining
are
village where
an
or
been
of various
denominations
the
churches
have
established, where
lic
pubis open
the several
free to all, and
school
where
all the
stores
supply
In
household
farm.
these
two
valleys
requisites of an ordinary
or
main
of
to
inincluded
smaller
those
for the present
streams
falling
are,
purpose,
north
of the
Canadian
rivers and
the lakes
Pacific
the two
Railway.
is now
best
of
little free land
left in the
There
agricultural sections
very
is some
excellent
with
but there
intermixed
grazing country
Manitoba,
in the
of Manitoba,
Shoal
land
and
neighbourhood
farming
Winnipeg
land
for sale
and
at
Lakes,
quantity of railway
prices ranging
a large
three
dollars
The
is much
from
(about 128) to five dollars ("1).
country
others
wooded
and
well
diversified, some
prairie, and
parts being open
of English
parks.
watered, having the appearance
grade
of
wheat,
that
which
into
Manitoba.
AESINIBOINE
AND
Red
divided
be
Southern
fetches
the
best
(
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hill
'}
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I
'
-I,
u
SOUTHERN
diblrict
This
Kailway,
is iKuietrnted
that
ho
at
and
crosHCH,
part
of
miles
lontr, and
resort
of deer
that
the
sowing
of
this
wild
hay
towns
numerous
with
the
Most
of
for purchase
for
at
"ii)
to
moderate
a
coal
at
i)er
capital
of
Manitoba
It
of Canada.
Atlantic
Ocean
"
is
of it :
says
It is the
great
$4
(Ids)
the
the
Souris
River
midway
Vancouver
Pacific
best
land
(jf free
of
forage,
are
etc.
raising
still
land
ofmn
able
suit-
$5
at
to
is reached
have
be
tons
Manitoba
railway
water
branch
of
summer
churches,
wheat
will
the
resort
There
of
a
ly
recent-
supplied
witli
MANITOBA.
distributing
and
and
a
Two
for
and
of
ton.
the Red
about
terminus,
on
the
OF
of
of.
the
near
deep,
ern
south-
thirteen
the
cut.
tracts
Manitoba
{)er
diief
the
atul
on
TOWNS
situated
Railway
Eegister
Southern
junction
summer
Pacific
Canadian
in
and
of
some
bought
is rich
all
schools,
tlosirabie
acreage
l)e
can
soil
AND
tlio
large
is
tliis nart
mills,
dollars, and
coalraincjs
New
settlers
at
a
land
The
exceeding
not
cost
a
is
six
to
acre.
and
WINNIPEG,
West
Manitoba,
there
CITIES
the
elevators,
is
growth
to
through
interspersed
grain
tbrcic
depth.
amount
th(^
wood(ul,
thought
never
utmsual
an
lake
plentiful
a
is
vast
largest
the
durinj?
the
this
in
li.'ih and
dry
promote
fodder
Southern
Improved
opened
been
in
but
up,
from
at
grazing.
( "1
$15
villages
laiHl
free
taken
been
has
is not
accompanying
the
to
otlier
or
is
well
contains
spots,
many
gathers
hay
acre
per
untl
In
lake
of
and
This
lofty cliffs,
Tlie
fowl.
wild
of
and
which
ravine,
a
Pelican,
tojrether.
ExneptI'enibina
the
wliol("
Htroamw,
which,
strung
birds.
enough
niontiis, moisture
one
Iuih cut
HpotH, the
n)any
PatMfic
niari"""t8.
called
phiteau
Hivt^r
aro
of
by steep
jraine
of
BO
There
from
remote
the
limited
more
bordered
ijuantities
large
of
other
or
and
fariiu^r
tlio C7unuiliaii
of
branches
r("ui)iina
lakes;
half-a-dozen
chain
the
prairie.
ral larj^e
neve
four
liollows
some
undulating
is
ro^;ion
by
is the
point
no
liiils and
injr the wooded
Mountain,
tlironj^h which
railway
MANITOBA.
The
and
city
the
Assiniboine,
of the
between
the
wholo
Montreal,
terminus
American
Land
is
North-
of
and
the
the
Title
"
; the
territory
of Canada
seat
; the
of
of rich
nearly 2,000,000,000 acres
ion
keystone
province of the Dominof the political, social, literary, monetary
and
Dominion
the
of the Canadian
its
West, with
mart
a
country
of government
centre
of
of
the
world
of
manufacturing
of
the fountain
head
the educational
institutions
of
suburb, St. Boniface,
but the whole
North-West.
not
only Manitoba,
Its positive pre-eminence
is yearly becoming
and
more
pronounced
small
isolated
then
Twenty
settlement,
commanding.
a
a
years
ago
of
the
first
the
advent
when,
struggling village, then a town
on
railway,
;
within
few
of the
to the
it rose,
proud
position of one
leading
a
years,
of the
Ten
continent.
centres
trade
like spokes
in a
railways, branching
in all directions, gather
the wealth
M^heel
inland
of an
it
empire to empty
at
her
feet
The
great
navigation
Saskatchewan
of the
and
Red
other
River, Lakes
Winnipeg
make
navigable streams,
and
the
Manitoba,
its
to
tributary
line.
Seventy- five per cent, of the
to
untold
directly tributary
it, while
wealth
of iron, coal, salt, petroleum,
gold, silver, lumber,
fish, timber, furs,
and
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, etc., go to swell
resources
backing
more
varied
than
vast and
possessed by any other city in the world.
are
other
is attracting so
the
attention
much
To-day
city in America
no
of miles
thousands
wheat
land
of
North
of
important
America
coast
is
16
tweU'e
miles
balance
tavinp
good
horses
all
of
few
There
two
and
down
and
oxen
the
cow,
a
can
from
in
most
settled
district.
intend
to
I
It
and
governmeiit
man
wages
good,
living, if
you
in
got
cheaper
private
land
lazy
too
are
and
to
attends
f^nuntry, but
the
of
parties
in
a
good
Manitoba
recommend
soil, it has
cessful
unsuc-
home.
parts
buy
to
very
are
hard
works
some
from
or
who
others
who
been
not
who
so
easy
and
to
it has
schools,
good
on
a
well-
those
who
good
self-
cliurches.
cold
are
they
healthier
and
I would
young
be
confidence,
winters
agreeable
more
and
C.P.R.
good
has
good
the
Although
with
can,
farm.
have
country
every
man
any
to
it is
cases
in
good, comfortable
a
the
who
country
economy
is that
make
soon
bought
be
that
of
want
this
people
still homesteads
are
can
always
the
cause.
any
in
experience
my
There
from
farmers
are
for
but
his business
far
for
$150
and
handy
were
paid $100
I
acres,
paid
I
wood
and
water
160
house
damage
a
some
"
work,"
terms
of
were
are
successful.
land
where
farm
a
instalments.
keep
to
suffered
T
There
to
Carberry,
bouglit
till the
All
the
farming
Imple.crops
grew.
I have
neighbors.
willingly lent to me
by kind
now
of farming
stock
of my
I liave
also three
good
implements
own.
and
twelve
of poultry
and
stock
a
goofi cattle, besides
good
pigs,
which
I have
in
failure
had
paid for.
are
never
nor
a
crops,
$50
I needed
'.ave
of
and
annual
in
ments
a
north
soil good,
the
Go
:
say
and
to
those
are
able
and
than
clear
are
of
that
Manitaba,
to
who
wish
willing
work,
to
where
make
to
a
1
Old
Manitoba.
to
go
dry. I find them
the
To
Country.
work
is plentiful and
free
and
independent
and
the
am,
(Signed)
Alex.
R.
Farm,
Oct.
Hensall
Langmuir.
1892.
29th,
of Ontario
in
I came
this province
from
the province
to
Sir,
I find
half years
spring of 1884, and during the last eight and
a
have
the
bast
dren
chilof health
that my
myself
enjoyed
family and
; our
of school
of the older
had
the
benefit
have
privileges equal to those
there.
better
and
financially than
we
were
we
are
province of Ontario,
in
much
the
done
of
We
have
hitherto
not
stock-raising,
ours
way
farm.
We
arable
into
however,
especially an
going
being
are
now,
mixed
farming,
satisfactory system.
believing it \o be a more
the
wheat
has
bushels
27
During
our
averaged
past nine seasons
per
Dear
in
"
the
acre
and
them
have
to
$3,000
53.
oats
We
pay
("600)
be better,
and
engage
farmer,
thus
and
learn
think
a
if
but
sense
advise
year
a
make
any
up
only
not
two,
or
his
the
twenty-five
it is
to
principles
this
a
good
a
settler
P.S.
man
can
contend
"
Virdtn,
Whilst
get along
with.
I
say
with
take
but
to
found
about
energy
more
,
severance
per-
is not
wages,
hold
of
also
the
farmer
to
experienced
thoroughly
a
practical
it comes,
and
everything
as
of
practice
farming.
an
with
truly,
James
Elder,
Canada.
Man.,
$3,000
a good
have
have
course,
constitution,
(Signed)
Farm,
Of
country.
Yours
Hensall
to.
succeed.
moderate
mind
for
in
who
man
young
at
will
he
forty hogs, and
to
desirable
satisfactory start
is possessed
he
of
common
I would
for
I
make
to
would
kept from
always
well.
make
deal
a
satisfactory
less, but
would
start, of
have
course
drawbacks
a
to
18
In
letter
a
Province
the
Virden,
"
says
section
of
you
and
1889,
level, so
will
land, sandy
of
Minister
Gnienway,
results
the
give
think
I
Mr.
Mr.
Manitoba,
II. C
tjiiupaon,
of
venture
a
Aorriculture
of
farmer
for
vicinity of
the
in
:
will
I
which
Hon.
the
to
of
broke
it
was
agree
soil,
break
to
easy
120
from
in
I
Virden,
of
acres
it.
ploughing
as
jxrowintj wheat,
bought
a
quarter
the
during
spring
I made
succpssful.
very
miles
Heven
backset
and
as
a
was
It
ordinary
smooth
and
is very
I sowed
stubble.
last year.
started
of August
and
the
7th
cutting on
off it.
I have
sold
it now
at 95 cents
2,1)75 bushels
per bushel,
for the
I paid $8.50
to
$2,25G ("451. 4s)
land,
(Hs) per acre
comes
$5(50
seeding,
etc.,
tliroshing,
("112) ; my
including
ex|)enses,
Eureka
it with
wheat,
I threshed
which
or
say
amounted
$485
to
of $1,200.
keep
accurate
an
Brandon
4,500 bushels
Tlie
harvest.
He
his
all
pay
The
of
Cleveland
his
started
in
bushels
I obtained
"
West
N.
$14
the
about
from
and
ixty
renti
to
will
amounttHl
$300,
$75,
a
store
small
rent
$25,
which
backsetting
marketed
and
fifty
acres
this
and
marketed
fourteen
flax
and
3,420
bushels
wages
pure
of
and
oats
I
wheat,
flax
six
sowed
900
and
all
In
1891
millet.
of
besides
having
1,100
ends
and
of
1889
capital
harness
finish
and
oats,
half
I sold
a
third
acre
ment
pay-
acres
of
each
of
I threshed
barley, and
77c.
jjer btishel,
total outlay for
of
at
My
invest
of
threshed
above.
bushels
600
to
bushels
an
the
ing
Dur-
oats.
ninety-seven
elevator.
sum
paid
house
my
When
and
the
and
and
seeded
I
for
ground
wheat
the
paint
year
besides
fall.
breaking
threashed
more.
from
until
meet
ami
when
exj)enses
1 seeded
The
tlie separator
direct to
leaves
$80, which
a
snug
stock,
spring
My
team
stable
acres
barley,
breaking
on
stead,
home-
16-4-26
wheat.
:
crop
of
bushels
the
following
sixty
paid
crop
J
in
botli
additional
some
section.
14th, 1891.
West
follows
bills,
The
backset
quarter
of
S.
it to
season's
from
was
bred
of
each
it
hauling
second
whicli
millet,
bushels
and
ex{)enses.
Mr.
spring.
$50, plow $20, house
ivagon
by obtaining
capital ; however,
my
stock.
to
to
$125,
all my
pay
rented
broke
my
another
wheat,
ten
I
season
on
and
wheat,
to
of
first
to
additions
some
feed
limit
The
enough
(iurrent
pay
and
to make
managed
occupied in Iniilding a sod
was
("7.10), during
realized
December
I
credit
fifty acresrealized
enough
make
and
the
was
of
season
seed
$180,
small
("2.1 6s.")
and
seeded
crop,
which
I invested
as
("160),
$25,
amount
tirst
The
$800
to
cow
this
of
three
of
sell until
not
for
ready
acres
aid
E.
land
Cleve-
year
wliole
$37.50
balance
and
"if Mr.
Mr.
The
this
for a homestead,
in 18^8,
purchased
16-4-26
to
care
by pluck
case
Last
with
entry
an
I
great
done
the
grain.
and
snug
a
be
Melita
Sir,
profit
net
a
taken
of
was
storing
with
1881
have
can
grade
wages
is
he
croD
what
himself
by
for
1,500
him
leaving
debts,
balance
best
very
sold
has
I
Tnanagement,
is interesting.
Manitoba,
outlay
only
of
careful
harvested
and
sown
was
horses.
instance
the
and
nothing,
for
becatise
expenses.''
my
an
of
land
the
correct,
with
Routhwaite,
of
had
crop
"As
together
perseverance,
have
of
account
SSun:
Cleveland,
I
that
; so
Agures.are
These
in
grain
land
and
left for
seed
and
it has
not
more
feed.
This
is the
accomplished
result
of three
by slavery
or
years
drudgery
on
a
in
homestead
any
way,
nd
L
t
like
results
been
may
19
be
accomplished
and
the
by
courage
who
anyone
stick
to
has
the
do
to
energy
Yours
L. A.
Hamilton,
Manitoba
to
first
After
a
farm
laud
from
and
in
and
one
hundred
them
and
Besides
with
they
run-
a
wheat
efforts
and
and
shipped
we
tlie
the
and
colt
They
This
hundred
acres.
liundred
one
through
two
it.
These
started
and
l)oth
for
themselves
them
to
100
a(Tes,
acres
crowned
Blasson
Manitoba
their
Johnston
and
peg
Winni-
into
wheat
took
and
first
blood
ai\d
acres
three
hunilred
pasture
with
work
the
work
for brood
prize
classes.
160
over
bit)
all.
at
contract
success
they
Clydesdales
another
in
of
liard
show
driving
have
fenced
again
fall "Messrs
1
Fall
the
horses
now
No.
of
had
wheat
at
encoiiniged
they
in,
favored
help
doing
Success
year
in the
papers
loads
saddle
whole
The
the
arr"
with
their
sort
know
land
of
this
on
without
stocik.
have
broken
Creek
Gopher
has
hired
one
up
cultivation
under
acres
farm
any
tiiousand
three
and
oats
buildings
willing
are
the
$2,200.00
and
50
of
in
wanted
men
and
how
capital
a
first crop
in wheat
acres
This
no
it
on
ftmcetl
attemj)t
hired
^oOO.OO
year
bought
been
running
done
help
all
at
these
by
excei)t
at
time.
(japital who
of
oats
bought
fellows
young
harvest
their
the
they
They
year
following
at
made
farmers.
the
Tiiey
Fortune
crop.
employinu:
they
money
bought
they
R.
improvements
any
'hrst year's
and
raising
are
out
their
on
stable, wells, pasture
their
and
work
own
car
west"
in
for
P.
$!40o'(lf)
("280)
the
first three
from
mare
and
saw
without
C.
years
in
in
came
then
experience
the
on
house,
neighboriog
(iO
who
worked
and
ner.t
and
crop
colonial
some
V^irden
with
wheat
for
teams
bigger
Virden
at
tlie
tbeir
theS14(l0.00
their
fntin
-eady
made
all
yrainin^'
them
acres
doing
farm
15ay Company
find
we
out
came
Mountain.
mile
one
Hudson's
fall
Melita.
Englishmen
in May
and
young
Blasson
Rontledge's
and
out
acres
the
tiie
growing
in
320
"
two
are
Mr.
Ridintr
tlie
workinjj;
of
Johnston
18S8.
Bouverie
in
ranche
own
"
in
Messrs.
on
Clapp,
Winnipeg.
Blasson
Messrs.
out
day's work
truly,
J. B.
To
fair
a
it.
to
and
horses
to
Next
year
with
men
;
and
each
increase
and
At
as
will
a
They
$1,900,00
200
run
valuation
fair
stand
they
today
,
they
worth
are
$0000.00
$11,000.00
three
They
years
a-
very
ago.
believers
thorougVi
are
fair
in
increase
working
their
on
for
out
a
capital
while
little
a
it.
made
they
for
hay.
implements
grass
farm
work
dollars
second.
timothy
40
country
new
a
outlay
before
ing
start-
intending
to
purchasers
gain
strongly advise
some
any
before
their
that
if a
investing
capital. They
practical experience
say
in
succeed
and
is ever
to
work
going
colony he must
man
any
young
learn
himself
and
not
to do
a
premium
things
as
a
pu])il to sit and
pay
and
watch
would
other
In
men
addition
mentioned.
Judges
niiied
That
Ist
class
by the
very
do
them.
the
to
they
farmers
best
foregoing
are
and
now
the
I may
say
that
considerdered
work
of Canadian
done
their
on
T.
In
the
farm
parties
competent
has
ad-
been
ROUTLEDGE.
Manitoba.
Wbllwood,
I
both
practical
farmers.
(Signed)
Virden,
I know
by
complying
cheerfully give
with
the
a
request
following.
from
I
have
resident
lived
fanners
in
Nov.
11th
Manitoba
in
this
for
1892.
Province
the
last
20
twenty-one
and
saying
on
that
staying
as
energetic
of America
I do
as
any
reasonable
of
amount
man
no
of
done
I
labor,
well
to
hesitation
no
farming
in
here.
coming
regret
of the
part
Burnside
in
years
have
yet
nor
Dominion
in
or
fact
better.
just say
patience he
would
skill
do
reason
any
any
settler
; nine
and
would
I have
of
intending
viz
farm,
Wellwootl
know
not
I could
that
in
pushing
concerned
am
long,
so
To
I
the
on
farm
present
my
any
far
So
constantly
years
twelve
and
ROBT.
if
he
willing
is
will
be
to
use
a
succeed.
to
eure
FERGUSON.
Reeve
of Nortli
Cypress.
Man.
Times
Deloraink
land
of
bushels
14,470
and
oats,
threshed
acre
12
90
M.
B.
1
wheat,
of
acres
Mr.
of
acres
TESTIMONY
Mr.
Noble,
States,
travelled
through
opinion of
"
It
is nci
necessary
recognize
to
the
for
will
life
your
the
itself
make
has
Messrs.
State
for
C.
of Vermont,
the
dison,
wheat
without
laborer,
which
irresistible
an
facilities
is under
in
felt
rapid
M.
N.
B.
of
United
the
and
material
the
being
on
"
to
through
mind,
my
for
here
world.
is beginning
world
country
a
freedom
The
railway
you
visiting farmers
from
visited
Mr.
here
nine
and
the
met
7,000
the
Sanfarm
a
3,000
acres,
of
principally
being
crop
as
ago
years
of
farm
of
have
also
other
"
We
report :
who
king of Manitoba,
came
capital, and
now
owns
a
of cultivation,
state
high
a
the
recurring
in
Blair, and
tlieir
an
stook."
travelled
I
great
charm,
your
startling developments."
Barnes,
say
As
best
history
the
of
panegyric,
a
kept
the
have
Bros,
"
epithets
the
all 19,
biishels
38
Territories
have.
you
in
from
Department
you
and
and
in
give
country
a
:
bushels
STATES.
Western
said
to
me
fields
grain
to.day, two
You
beautiful, magnificent.'
that
Interior
the
of
tlireshed
was
of,
acres
Mitchell
year.
average
an
400
4,020
making
barley,
this
UNITED
Canadian
country
what
of
out
THE
'from
of land
acres
land
of which
your
'
of
turned
of
raised
75
bushels
483
acres
the
Son
from
acres
and
Secretary
the
"
and
FROM
his
for
asked
547
50
wheat,
Wilson
land
grain from
N. Haggert,
of
for
on
of No.
off
bushels
573
"
:
wheat.
After
adieu
to Brandon
bidding
the party
kindly furnished
by
and
fine farming
a
we
country,
were
and
the
fertility of the soil.
crop
were
Mr.
Knechtel,
in
Canada
the
their
"
Southern
The
soil
great
condition,
and
in
said
in
June
and
the
all
kinds
of
wheat
garden
crops
to
land
yield
vegetables
is
on
very
us
teams
through
splendid
the
Western
examine
to
farmers,
desiring
to
prove
im-
:
the
following
suitable
clay subsoil,
it produces.
.35 bushels
were
drove
with
pleased
report
where
Regina,
who
agent,
highly
29, and
country
with
loam,
a
expected
his
Tiie
black, sandy
fertility in the wonderful
I visited
the
went
Michigan,
of Michigan
number
a
Winnipeg
Manitoba.
is
State
the
of
I arrived
to
of
interest
visited
next
we
showing
for
and
Many
to
the
an
day
mixed
gives
of
proceeded
farming.
evidence
the
acre.
excellant
of
farmers
Oats,
ley
bar-
growth.
22
I visited
Turtle
the
with
covered
A
of
lake
l)eautif(il
(juite a productive
])ected in tiie near
I visited
far
west
coal
has
many
is tile
from
the
or
fields
are
blight
of
The
kind
of
that
tlie
of
vince,
and
figures
:
the
ex-
wh'"li
import
and
great
a
grain
fields
strength.
all stands
midge,
no
most
crops
to
vear,
tlie
grain
the
was
the
the
uniform
of
as
of
the
of
grain,
of
went
about
weavel,
rust
grain."
in
Agriculture
the
REPORT.
the
IVIanitoba
These
Government
cultivation
undor
acreage
yielded.
liarvest
be
to
ther.
CHOP
showing
reports
tlieir
feat"ire
soil
in
acres,
this
necessary,
the
of
one
idea
Some
harvest
to
sliowing
is
there
noticeable
A
injure
to
found
was
informed
was
Dejiartment
annual
is
line
main
the
wc'-ld.
the
farmers
the
GOVERNMENT
lishes
h'^ap
(
a
Deloraine
coal
district, and
along
Virden,
of
it
that
surface
1
any
up,
is
water,
White-
at
one
Near
and
Brandon
that
to
districts
hundreds
of
height.
same
larj^er
a
and
Tliere
hay.
is excellent.
the
say
Blutf
High
assist
to
of
evenness
There
and
oi"ened
and
to
still required.
are
^rivo
Kiilarnoy,
been
I venture
laborers
more
of
They
are
yields a jrood
mountaina
the
of
out
run
well-water
Plains
Portaj^e
the
Itroductive cereal-growing
the fact
begainoil from
can
1,70(1 farm
wliich
future.
Pacific,
(-'anadian
mine
Manitoba.
of
ash),
ai)urulauco
at
water
tlie
lietrina.
as
(irenks
many
speaking
South
and
oak
tlie vicinity
dear
pure
(renerally
"
tireat
in
nuirshea
numerous
scrub
(poplar,
timber,
firewood.
of
supply
the
along
Mountains
show
reports
jinl)-
in
the
the
)'"-o-
following
"
Yield.
AvKRAGB
1890.
1891.
Bush.
Bush.
18!)-J.
Bush.
Wheat
20.1
2o.3
2i'.7
Oats
41.3
48.3
43.
Barley
32.1
35.(5
32.1'J
235.0
Potatoes
Produce
of
U)
180.4
"
Wheat
23,191,595
14,665,799
Oats
9,5i:'.,433
Barley
2,0()1),415
14,7(i2
3,179,879
Put atoes
2,540,820
2,291,982
Peas
23.00
Flax
17.00
(i05
HSSINIBOIK
EASTERN
The
to
million
of
and
largest
found
eastern
in
south
acreage
any
part
North-West.
is
lies between
extends
latitude,
of
divided
into
Each
of
and
two
one
of the
At
from
of
IManitoba
tlie International
contains
great
these
Province
the
north
an
thirty-four
Eastern
areas,
divisions
of
area
its
has
and
ary
bound-
Assiniltoia
peculiar
wheat-growing
for mixed
and
In
farming
ranching.
the
of
south
the
river
and
plain
lying
great
Qu'Appelle
the
is considered
International
to
have
to
boundary,
of wheat
chara(!ter
land, possessing a uniform
of soil,
of
in the
fertile prairie land
tract
NorthWest.
The
eastern
portion
; the
the western
better fitted
Assiniboia
stretching
the
It
Assiniboia.
characteristics
Eastern
and
parallel
acres.
country,
Assiniboia
Alberta,
52nd
the
Western
and
of
District
tlie District
ASSINIBOIA.
District
Regina
is known
is the
being
as
junction
the
essentially
Park
of the
Country
Prince
own
a
of the
Albert
Canadian
branch
with
24
CLIMATE.
The
climate
which
from
come
falls
during
with
together
Pacific
rich
the
favor
feels
of
growth
with
Of
W.
22-18-27
Society
"I
in
grass,
and
I have
since
soil
for
stock
was
of
of
for
I
raising.
work
and
who
out
here.
succeed
the
Agricultural
Moosejaw
is
and
my
1883
the
crop
is exceedingly
size
has
and
prudent
soil
good
Any
and
that
since
perseverence
could
make
need
man
it
of
success
I
bought
is
B.
this
in
an
one
and
country
active,
fail
about
fcr
well
after
country.
It
My
doing
all
for
well.
bushels
purposes.
stock
If
so.
the
labor
paying
energetic, persevering
North
do
to
8,000
grazing.
thriv(,j
energy,
this
agricultural
wonderful
winter
this
grain,
for
in
land
section
requires
ming
scarcely
can
of
R.
half
It
fai
of
bushels
is
the
another
from
1883
P.
C.
I
quired
re-
prudent
-West,
Latham.
Maria
Assinihoia.
Moosejaw,
Charles
Mr.
to
sure
Bbeslbv.
in
of
me.
excellent
is
section
by
capital,
country
of
pay
fail
not
soil
in
half
siiccess
a
10,500
do), surely
I
(as
make
little
a
whole
farming
in
afraid
not
with
start
Canada
of
a
purchased
out
The
the
nearly
out
1890)
to
and
better.
be
not
can
these
this! year
threshed
wheat.
The
are
of which
run
first
prudence
of
possessed
But
bought
(in
land
and
Territories
and
time
the
adjoining
North-West
Kngland,
in
I have
the
to
came
produce,
is
P.O., Assinihoia.
Marlborough
I
bushels
garden
that
one
capital
some
there
when
thousand
for
to
beaten
be
188t!
four
over
here.
out
in
upon
change-
my
cannot
grass
Clinton,
land
with
except
crops
be
will
said
satisfied
prairie
of
.town
the
on
than
good
the
from
John
Chester
that
snow
circumstance,
brought
parts of
raisers.
settled
more
raised
amazing
an
in
then
am
farming
year
It
wheat
to
grow
I
have
this
grain, chiefly
and
resided.
is first-class
all roots
Ont,
Huron,
failure, and
a
of
District
Moosejaw
the
to
of
The
late
the
of
winds,
:
County
which
This
horse
Directors
the
of
much
year.
has
Oi'
that
as
(Chinook
SETTLERS.
OF
of
one
same
the
"
came
the
2,
the
cattle, sheep
TESTIMONY
the
of
remove
of
months
much
effects
the
and
0(;ean
three
or
into
Assinihoia
Assinihoia
tlie
two
is
Assinihoia
Eastern
of
Western
but
Manitoba,
Dodd,
of
Broadview,
Assinihoia,
R-aid
October
on
20th,
1890:"
"
I
from
came
I
Winnipeg
had
This
County
Durham,
just $200 in my
under
forty acres
I had
year
averaged
grain, which
which
averaged
myself,
willing
much
to
bushels
22
better
work
can
45
do
England,
bushels
than
per
I
the
same.
and
oats
the
to
acre
could
of
in
got
acre.
first-class
have
done
When
lij82.
To-day
pocket.
a
I
fine
crop
had
ten
I
of
$3,000.
England,
"
pesrer
Say
the
concerning
I arrived
right
this
letter
in Winnipeg
Our
thing.
Mr
with
crops
Dodd
replied
$2 instead
this
year
good
of wheat
acres
done
and
Charles
Asked
reached
extra
I have
grain.
in
T
worm
am
well
anyone
Dodd."
:"
of $200
are
and
beyond
you
our
will
be
highest
OS
rnrin.'onsfi
Wtl'l
1883
eprinu'ot
la.ned.
I
tl.18
riie
be
us
thrifty
unquoslionably
i8
will
means,
Great
liritain
I myself
man.
^T^'-ceste.slnre,
England,
my
Al.
preatly
began
life hero
with
of
agricultural
chiefly wheat),
progress
the^
raised
made
machinery,
during
by
the
in
me
the
and
118
oxen
a
of
Moosejaw,
the
spring
of
DELGATTY'S
prospects
1889
we
wuhthefollowingoutfit:
and
household
rented
(640
granary
a
goods
of
piece
with
have
24, good
X
lo^rtT'f^"^
work
farm
have
are
situated
tiori.
900
now
a
of
the
near
surrounded
desire
to
Agricultural
second
by
write
the
all
the
cow,
all
about
20
and
all
also
soil
creek,
house
rude,
three
the
I
ever
about
conveniences
a
uS
miles
known
to
A.
mostly
Chinook
shelter,
In
in
this
to
necessary
that
so
in all
thrsun
from
We
Pasqua
eastern
life.
sta-
If
von
^
Dbloattt,
N.W.T.
and
tie
and
coulees
the
part
be
large
and
best
by
ravines,
number
part
the
I would
ranges
Medicine
lying between
the
sheltered
and
enquiry
your
the
best
cattle
Current
Assa., May
10, 1892.
:
to
of
Swift
to
belt,
of
Winnipeg
reply
beone
to
between
consider
number
Esq.,
Sir,"
Hills
range
been
a
oxem
Pasqua,
Dear
the
also
fo^r
Assiniboia.
Hamilton,
Cypress
fur^
pointers, address
FoRfiKS,
L.
(frame),
horses,
saw
We
cropT
whidi
iialf section
two
the
myse/n
work!
to
implements
taken
from
implementa
some
acres
Albx.
Pasqua
Society.
and
willing
comfortable
linest
Moosejaw
for
me
in
put
one
and
District
children
seven
horses,
boy has
land,
Moosejaw
and
cash,
very
stock,
young
Our
acres
of
$50
house,
a
.
we
vvife
stabling, although
some
our
team
about
the
to
came
A
and
land
\ye
acres;.
16
Moosejaw
DORKKLL.
STATEMENT.
'". ^y
"^.^"'"^"' ""t-A(tl'f
T^h%
the
n
Assiniboia.
MR.
In
of
""om-
aKMth
t^/ie
for
sat
H.
President
a
ofVra
bushelu
my
n
cattle,
well
am
with
eSetio km
and
onS
and
an
7,000
I
to
fSer
or
cominrtoT'
head
about
season.
past
of
fourteen
and
j.ast
voke
one
is
the
S/ntJy
Old
by
if he
in
thatre-
nee
laborer
himself
Canada
"i^!'tI'orses.
T ^'l''\"^^T^'
nlet^on'iSr
plete outfit
the
farm
benefit
Eastern
or
Any
and
I Imves
dian.^e
here
from
""'*'
location, wliem
present
eatisHedwith
from
my
upon
well
am
Koi
whatever
country
^'''"'"'''^^
sottled
Maple
of
the
Cypress
which
of creeks
afford
and
say
in
the
Hat.
and
being
considerlthe
esSiy
exb^rienoe ha^
Forres,
that
grazing
are
^^^^^*^^"^
JhfsSti^talTSe'^^^^^^^^^^^
and
situated
togethfr
with
Hills,
splendid
lakes
I
country,
Mv
Creek
range,
that
in
P"
in
the
krgi
ground
the
I
the
and
district
^
by
26
district
This
will
after
district, for
I waid
as
for horso
I
horses
and
I
before
raising
all
large
at
condition,
raising
start
to
suitable
running
in fine
spring fat and
country
is also
and
show,
would
Ijeliovo
have
we
in the
out
come
coming
anyone
settle
to
large bands
many
they
advise
cattle, and
firmly
the
as
winter
somewhere
best
the
to
this
in
this
in
range
the
country.
Yours
truly,
E,
G.
Mr.
McNeil,
Alberta,
writing
"
country
any
to
this
year
of ground
raise.
Single
high
raised
it
country
Europe,
could
feed
and
million
grade
beyond
of this
land
20
cents
No.
one
per
1 harj
men
and
grain
went
of
the
the
has
entire
acre.
value
((uarter
a
they
crop
last
year
they
properly
this
of
out
'.Jnch
absorb
an
for
pay
own
yield
The
capital cropped
wheat,
Canada,
$5
to
vvitli the
season
starting
bushels
$2
the
of
They
busliel.
more
in
adapted
foot-hills
hard.
1
else
soil
of
from
Young
no
or
doubt,
any
of
Anthracite,
Nowhere
expanse
the
to
Winnifieg
in
and
"
uiibrokon
cents.
last year.
market
it out
of No.
busl.ola
Thirty
the
little
with
owners
on.
to
80
to
:
revelation.
a
an
improvements
and
50,000
as
is 75
station
section
as
says
was
uniformly
crops
The
acre.
price
liberally figured,
the
to
the
:.
sikjIi
Caninoie
at
Tlie
of production,
cost
belt
tliis territory from
as
bushels
to 50
The
mines
Herald
wheat
is there
Mountains.
Rocky
30
earth
on
raising
wheat
this
over
coal
the
Oskaloosa
the
to
drive
My
of
inaiuiger
NUGHNT.
of
stretch
all
than
area
population
Europe
of
granary.
SKSKHTCHEWHN.
Tins
division
extends
miles
mixed
and
north
Mountains
and
eastward
territory
of
It is watered
Railway.
Lake
brancli
innumerable
by
land
Prince
lakes
in
for
Manitoba.
of
the
the
Rocky
and
It
the
is
Canadian
small
grain
on
the
Alberta
in
and
hundred
Albert,
rises
through
Winnipeg,
Albert
excellent
which
branches
two
seveial
is
miles,
.square
for
town
River,
Prince
the
of
principal
in
into
114,000
Assinibola
districts
large
The
Saskatchewan
the
terminus
present
contains
Hows
Saskatchewan
comprising
of
boundary
farming.
of
branch
Canada,
northern
and
northwest,
culture
Western
of
the
from
the
Pacific
and
streams,
is
character.
There
extensive
topographical
are
in the
tlie railway
southern
grazing plains through which
portion,
passes
and
wood
but
lake.
by
the greater part of it is rolling prairie diversified
In these
well
the
soil is
farming,
adapte"l for mixed
are
parts, which
with
luxuriantly
clay subsoil, in whicli
generally a rich loam
grass
grows
is at
Settlement
and
grain
chiefly in the Prince
ripens well.
present
of
a
and
Albert
of
quantity
settlers
great
the
diversified
very
wheat
Battleford
the
best
take
who
The
all kinds
(Red
IJ bushels
up
which
crops
of
vegetables
Fyfe), about
sown
to
land
the
be
may
consist
30
acre.
selection
for
open
said
of
which
free
to
cultivate
to
of
of wheat,
one
are
raised
to
the
about
and
successfully.
acre
60
in
is
there
great
a
Homesteaders,
and
district
oats, barley
bushels
Oats
both
in
districts,
land
Government
that
measure
other.
and
the
live
upon
i.
it.
e.
In
applies equally to
Turnips
Normal
yield of
potatoes.
favorable
bushels, from
; 1
seasons
three
sown
to
to
tho
Barley
ivoro.
for
doiniind
given
any
yield in
good
a
Iiiih
bo(Mi
not
of
nimntity
this
favorable
Hively, tliore being
no
it has
district, but
always
exte*
urown
in
cereal
the
ueasunH.
TOWNS.
Prince
beantifnlly
is in
the
is
on
of
course
mills,
Battle
and
or
little
a
bank
is
It
and
line
runs
F^a F'rairie
is
in
(ihurches, scIkx^Ih,
the
on
there
and
;
brani^h
stores,
town
Albert
is
delta
town
a
of
the
destined
lakes.
Qu'Appelle
the
near
with
Hituatod
I'rince
of
west
A
I'ortaire
from
supplieil
division.
Saskatchewan,
dintrict.
line
well
territorial
North
tim
farniintr
another
centre
of
another
It is well
is
this
of
town
Houth
(extensive
an
Rc^gina
important
an
the
Battlpford
River,
chief
the
constriK-tion.
et(!.
be
of
centre
it and
betv/een
to
Albert
situated
CLIMATE.
The
climate
and
Is healthy,
free
and
and
salubrious,
bracing
for constitutionally
healthy
It is
earth
about
The
6f I".
of
reason
endemic
from
undoubtedly
is
Average
people.
etiuability
the
of
the
disease.
epidemic
or
the
finest
climate
on
temjmratnre,
sunnner
in
tem|)erature
anmnier
been
be
but
the
stretches
water
investigated,
thoroughly
yet
may
it.
for
of
found
about
the
to
account
Spring
beginning
April.
opens
is generally
in May.
week
Third
in August
is tisually
completed
Seeding
harvest
when
winter
time
settlers
the
begins.
During
generally
are
in
rails
for
for
out
getting
employed
huilding
fencing,
logs
pur{H"ses
and
in
to
work
cattle
and
doing
which
be
cannot
attending
fuel, and
has
not
during
undertaken
busy
spring
of
seasons
STOCK-RAISING.
The
such
sheltered
be
from
of
bands
cattle, and
in
In
farming.
and
be
would
prevalence
in
grass
Pure
had
abundance
of
North
always
imported.
be
to
of
in
all
of
parts
Eagle
country
here
from
Sir,
"
In
generally
in
England
trips hither
to taking
adapted
admirably
several
the
and
up
the
to
wood,
of
districts, except
of
or
of
the
chewan
Saskat-
of
the grass
is abundance
.lackflsh
of
cool.
are
dairy
which
and
I'urtle
and
Nights
that
the
dairy
for
of
products
in
had
be
can
south.
extreme
N.W.T.,
Albert,
your
request
Albert
months
for
in
Prince
ago,
the
homestead.
the
as
care
VIEWS.
with
district
thither
a
For
well, and
same
south
everywhere.
supply,
so
the
consists
four
about
the
there
vicinity
the
exceeded
compliance
and
out
luxuriance
the
to
Prince
Dear
winter.
requirements
Saskatchewan
the
Fuel
Hills
ENGLISHMAN'S
AN
every
winter
require
all the
abundance
in
water
scale,
fed, and
be
must
Etc.
answer
the
slopes
suitable, owing
has
demand
have
will
places, particularly
m;\ny
Mountain.
Home
most
springs.
of
Horses
FARMING.
district
the
on
months
moderate
a
flocks.
small
of this
portion
four
to
on
Cattle
farming.
months
DAIRY
Any
stock-raising
mixed
unsurpassed.
in large
hands.
Sheep
kept
better
are
for
Etc.
it is
500
to
be
therefore,
for
three
300
RANCHING,
adapted
well
suitable
be
would
as
should
can,
is
country
summer.
or
requirements
I
purpose
have
of
and
for
in
never
settlers
seeing
seen
who
8, 1891.
mv
opinion of this
particular, I arrived
since
of
Nov.
then
the
any
wish
have
made
country
country
to
"
live
paratory
preso
by
29
dpHirnns
of onjmtriag in
lainl," and espociiillyfor tlioso wlio aro
tiio rivt^rs,with
fanning or cattin hroediii^. 'I'iiocountry l)")tw"(eii
lal""'n and
its I)ru8(|n("
pictnres|iio hlnlFH,the
uiKhilutioiis,iiiimeroiis
the
mixed
the
of tho liirch IMIIh. and beyond tiie Carrot Kiver, whnro
l)road slojies
interHected
wide
by rippling'
prairio is stnddi'd with tinilmr hoitx and
All am
and
for tho gettier.
lo cry aloud
trood ; wood, water
brooks, Hoern
tho
of
soil
The
riili,dark
is
abundance.
in
nxceedin;;
fertility
are
hay
evidenced
by tlie luxuriant L'rowth of the wild pea vine, natural Krasnos
and
jrarden vei^i^tablesof nearly
otlu^r l)eef-producinj;
herbajre,while
be brought
to
climate, in my
can
perfection. The
every
descrijjtion
with.
met
o|)inion,\n without exception the mf)st enjoyable I have ever
heat is less oppressive than
in
the
During' the hottest days of Hunitner
Euro{M\ while the nij.'bt8are cool and pleiisant. Of the winter I cannot
to complain .." tl'e low temperature,
seems
yet speak from exi^rience, but no one
winter tlit nio^t pleasurand some
able
ap{)ear actually to consider
of the
season
year.
I am,
Sir,yours
faithfully,
S. H.
FROM
TESTIMONY
STATES
UNITHD
SCKOGGS.
F'ARMERS.
with
visited Western
Canada
State
their
in
Ea.stern
for
the
friends
of
the view
the
country
upon
reporting
the several reports :
from
The
extracts
States.
followinji;
are
r"elepatesfrom
I will
"
say
that
and land that I have
S. C. Pollard, Emx.
cattle
man.""
"
Albert
"
only
the
of
I
saw
ever
Vermont
the
best
wheat, oats, barley, potatoes,
1 think
seen.
it is the place for
The best wheat, oats, potatoes and barley I have
Azra Rinnfy, Jericho, Vt.
and Stony Creek.""
It is the
W. A,
a
poor
Vt.
best place for a poor
Pollard, WeMford, Vt.
man
to
make
seen
a
home
are
at Prince
dren.""
for his chil-
who
it to anyone
wants
a cheap
most
can
heartilyrecommend
laid up for the future."" ylr//tr/rEllis.
and money
with a jiood living:
soil is wonderfully rich, producing: a
"The
variety of luxuriant
is no
in
v/orld.
There
the
make
finest
the
that
place in
hay
grasses
in so short a time,
home
comfortable
where
create
a
a
America
maii can
is not to allow this
and
advice
and
to every
middle-aged man
young
my
land to be taken or given to railways without
making a selection first,
that are
doubt
these fine farming lands
given'by tho Canadian
no
as
settlers will be very soon
to become
who
wish
Government
to those
'homes
taken and made
plenty.'""yl. /'. Goff,Rich/ord, Vt..
"I
consider the country well adapted for mixed
farming, and the
with
in making
home
for themselves
a
pioneers have little to contend
the old pioneers of the New
England
and
families compared
to what
J. Wilder,Sheldon, Vt.
States had.-^.
"
for a
make
the country
fine home
would
I should
that
a
say
free
in
low
or
lands
The
so
are
price
man.
or
middle-aged
very
young
with
the intention of getting a
that those who
to homestead
go there
3/. W. Rounds, Enosburgh Falls,Vt..
in earnest
must
succeed.""
home
"
Prince Albert
After
thorough inspection of the country between
for stock
of the finest countries
and Stony Creek District,I think it one
trious
that any indusraising I ever saw, also grain raising,and am convinced
inside of three years."" jf. S.
home
make
can
a comfortable
man
"
I
home
Jericho,Vt.
All the other delegates made
Ransom,
.'-3?^ffT??*r""'",""*"
similar
reports.
30
A
Canada
started
and
districts,
finest, if
believe
tinest,
the
farming
of
a
fine
very
for
timber
cla"^s ; the
building
not
believe
roof
our
from
natural
and
this
country.
Mr.
oats
weighing
45
with
of
bushels
lot
of
oats
oats
We
"
that
care
Northwest
ought
a
agreeable
very
we
it
being
drove
all
overcoat
no
for
cold
the
and
can
to
move
land
and
and
child
in
is
"A.
KtssELL,
his
the
:
"I
and
of
was
Creek
raised
and
432
fine
as
a
it
were
in
any
very
the
the
of
that
say
is
winter
eastern
tries,
coun-
the
not
kind, and
thinly dressed
cannot
we
Canadian
climate
in
storm
severe
of
gloves
here
as
that, with
tho
The
years.
muc'i
as
most
such
in
season
even
an
\
an
had
suffered
we
to
from
that
state
tlie
sell out
best
the
and
Maine
our
:
where
particularly,
and
to
the
as
the
State
every
give
can
soon
as
of
intend
we
advice
wo
that
in
property
our
Northwest,
home,
evidence
this
is
country
to
man,
United
we
Maine
take
up
woman
States
erally,
gen-
likewise.'
do
Price, North
Maine
Andover,
District.
to
Canadian
H.
A
delegate
State, says
without
with
future
State
the
barley
Stony
lie
Jn
and
acre,
and
acre,
were
is cold
certainly
the
our
going
great
our
'Go
During
wish
we
are
make
tlie
the
farmer
poor
few
a
in
feel
to
party
and
wliatever,
satisfaction
wo
prosperity
to
bushel,
per
a
much.
very
entire
possibly
of
hands
conclusion
"In
our
ilriver
some
our
it
seem
dry.
the
day,
to
there.
produce
a
although
not
extremely
while
on,
cover
from
of
does
farm
independent
and
one,
for
management,
become
still anybody
time,
farm
Campbell's
42 pounds
weighing
had
made
hay
first-class condition,
the
to
would
not
the
on
visited
ihen
and
and
luid
hard
1
bushels
HO
We
prices paid
the
good
and
to
No.
for
way
country
cattle,
they
and
tho
this
evidence
of
the
just enough
in
being
all in
were
l)ore
the
all
grown.
ever
noticed
with
acre-
is
fed
Mr.
at
4', acres,
was
reasonable
an
look
a
on
as
grew
abundance
there
1 is
been
.'5.3bushels
bushel,
per
bushels
had
and
district,
Myers
GO
had
as
great
that
Creek
of
one
America,
over
saw
us
prairie ; the cattle
Everything
lbs.
of
yield
a
We
informed
and
it
looking
days
place.
fat.
even
in
and
fuel, without
four
Myers'
of the
them
of
here
Stony
doubt
continent
first-class,
and
when
he
eyes
all winter,
heads
grass
uf
most
Mr.
at
own
their
over
water
Western
upon
and
without
found
is
River
is
the
are
pur{)rses
We
spent
operations.
night
stopjx"(lone
farming
Carrot
this
on
reporting
"
the
that
country
recjuisites for successful
:
say
Maine,
of
State
inspect
to
out
\ve
not
the
soltlemout,
for
field
a
as
Wo
"
from
Delegates
of
party
Fryeling,
; E.
the
State
of
C.
Maine;
Murphy,
Maine,
uIurphy,
F,
A.
Maine"
Michigan,
reporting
to the
farmers
in
Prince
bert
Al-
:
much
very
The
pleased
country
in
with
the
the
appearance
immediate
of
vicinity
the
is
admirably
It is hilly and
contains
small
for stock
lakes
adapted
raising.
numerous
where
the
from
three
and
feet
The
two
to
long.
hay
marshes,
grows
luxuriant
with
of
covered
growth
hills, too, are
vine,
a.very
grass,
pea
of timber,
and
is an
There
abundance
etc.
poplar), for
(spruce, oak
About
Prince
firewood.
from
Albert,
fencing and
along the
fifty miles
is a
Creek
Carrot
in the
and
Kiver, there
locality unsurpassed
Stony
in this
Territorities
for mixed
Homesteads
be had
farming.
(Free) can
be purchased
for $2.50 an
acre."
locality, or land can
in
where
live
there
is some
to
good scenery.
People enjoy
a
country
the
of
is gently undulating,
surface
this
the
Along
line, though
country
to become
delightfully picturplaces it is sufficiently broken
yet in some
"
32
For
esque.
got glimses
along
up
frequently we
springing
are
secluded
Bome
distance
short
a
dell
or
we
the
on
beautiful
valley, and
through
a
very
of
the
that
villages
Many
plains.
in
either
pleasantly
situated,
very
ran
delectable
of
line
are
sheltered
a
hillside."
Yours
truly,
very
(One
the
Knkchtel,
A.
(Signed)
of
from
delegates
Michigan.)
KLBERTK.
The
extends
of British
limits
divided
in
of
westerly
most
which
from
essential
divisions
limits
western
within
Columbia,
Alberta
Northern
into
fhe several
the
and
particulars
the
and
the
Northwest
Rocky
the
of
range
Alberta.
Southern
therefore
are
of
of Assiniboia
occupied
by
tories,
Terri-
the
to
eastern
is
Mountains,
unlike
They
are
difl'erent
classes
of settlers.
NORTHERN
division
of the
ALBERTA.
r! I'; ;ui
large extent
a
g land
the
vegetables
on
by
tinent
concrops
any
of all kinds
is raised
of America.
stock
Live
ing
extensively, includIndian
horses
of all grades,
from
to
heavy draught
poniefi, horned
and
do well
Native
horses
cattle, sheep, pigs
poultry, including turkeys.
the
but
whatever
all
stock
without
of
kind
good
stabling
round,
year
it
is
it
its
when
to
to
most
best,
bring
requires good treatment
profitable.
There
and
nutritive
in summer;
is a varied
during
long season
pasture
a
is an
abundant
for winter
there
supply of hay procurable
feeding, and
an
distributed
There
abundant
and
water
few
supply.
universally
are
timber
is
winter
The
storms.
Building
easily procured.
or
summer
than
that
of
districts
climate
is less severe
the
winter
ewan
along the Saskatch-
This
for
unexcelled
further
east
class
of cattle
better
in
loss
tell
so
lavor
season,
be
can
and
root
of the
account
on
contains
territory
and
grain
raised
chinook
winds.
cheaply
more
As
and
a
with
consequence,
less
a
danger
of
than
other
The
this
district
in some
which
advantages
parts.
for
of the district
cattle
in
raising tell as heavy
heavily in favor
is a
milk
There
rich
of
of
for a
lone
dairying.
large flow
is unsurpassed.
and
the quality of the butter
made
here
Macleod
and
Edmonton
Canadiii;,;
Railway,
operated
by the
the
divisions
from
two
leod
MacRailway
Company,
through
passes
in the
in the
south
facilities at
to Edmonton
north, affording market
of convenient
number
distance.
There
is a
points along the whole
a
the north
of the
called Edmonton
bank
Saskatchewan
on
flourishing town
in
the
vicinity of the old Hudson's
Bay Company's
post, of the
same
The
Pacific
and
name,
railway
both
the
sides
of
for
stations,
south
'he
over
called
town
new
a
on
bank.
river,
a
hundred
as
South
Land
well
miles
as
Edmonton
of
in
south
the
at
the
terminus
best
quality
of
neighborhood
very
the
of
it.
Coal
is
of
is found
the
mined
the
on
railway
in
the
and
the
bars
of the
river
small
but
Saskatchewan,
on
a
of
is
taken
months.
So
out
the
quantity
gold
during
summer
pood
paying
of the
that
this section
reputation
enjoys that settlement
IS the
country
number
of points before
the
made
at
and
railway was
was
a
complete
in
in 1882, when
road
full operation,
the
of
stream
was
regular
more
a
banks
of
the
34
settlement
There
began.
that
sections.
This, however,
find
can
will
of
room
looked
; and
world
to
as
of
one
stands
the
the
unequalled
land
unknown
the
be
to
room
for
choice
in
the
selection
for many
case
of
free
years.
ALBERTA.
Alberta
Southern
the
ample
for
continue
not
SOUTHERN
To-day
such
is, however,
thousands
locations
of
a
supply
future
greatest
the
among
few
cattle
years
of
depots
tries
coun-
is
ago
the
now
British
markets.
Great
boundless
only
owners
are
fatten
that
be
being
now
after
paying
into
year,
animals
that
stockmen
$42.00
that
in
of
round
ups.
tlie
cost
the
all the
country
of these
and
annual
plains,
western
freight for 2,000
had
Yearto
it is reckoned
the
miles,
fattened
been
and
stocking
Ontario
from
way
per
their
cost
incurred
cattle
these
it is
to
original investment
this
grasses
of calf
cost
if
tlian
greater
in
profits
shown
this
ranges
the
on
sent
nutritious
the
on
the
tlieir share
and
when
seemingly
these
over
the
management
imagined
on
interest
the
ranche,
linsrs
readily
will
at
roam
proper
naicl for steers
was
tlie
With
be
can
as
cattle
range
pastures.
large,
are
head
of
herds
profit will
feeding in
by stall
Ontario.
There
which
is
at
point
of
the
on
now
season
any
in
cattle
to
any
range
have
been
imported
satisfactory and
fed
neither
and
size
breeding,
of Alberta
ranges
are
condition;
general
world.
the
great
at
hundreds
cattle
;
but
which
in
superior,
and
bulls
Angus
the
on
outlay is
Herefords
interest
the
of fat cattle,
too,
if
equal,
are
Shorthorns,
expense;
of herds
sheltered
nor
not
the
and
cattle of the Alberta
encouraging,
young
the
with
cattle
of Great
barnyard
would
favourably
compare
ranges
from
to
local market
Britain.
The
eighteen
consumes
annually
twenty
while
the
of the
demand,
thousand
great market
growing
a
beeves, with
number
for
Tiie
is
England
world
within
is
shipped
access.
easy
both
increasing.
annually
TOWNS.
The
chief
Alberta
of
towns
Macleod
Edmonton,
Calgary,
are
and
Lethbridge.
Calgary
situated
miles
is
the
at
of
east
and
bright
a
busy
confluence
of
Rocky
Mountains.
the
tuppHes
It is built
West.
principally
and
Macleod
Calgary branch
It is an
important
Railway.
of ways
does
a
variety
large
of
hotels, several
excellent
Edmonton,
market
the
and
Alberta,
town
for
the
Edmonton,
Macleod,
the
Macleod
on
of
terminus
present
ri."ing centre,
on
the
good
where
and
is
and
Saskatchewan,
South
farmers,
the
Old
Edmonton
a
of
station
of
the
It
business.
and
Saskatchewan,
the
traders, miners, etc., on
hotel
well
and
south
bank
and
of
laid-out
the
Edmonton
at
is
the
the
present
chief
stores.
is
the
north
present
side
of
town.
and
the
Saskatchewan,
is
another
Railway,
accommodation,
River,
Railway,
a
several
has
first-class
in
and
Police,
the
of
Pacific
Canadian
Mounted
the
schools
and
Macleod
Man
line
increasing
and
prosperous
the
and
stone,
main
the
bank
north
centre
smaller
the
white
with
churches
the
on
of
is the
It
It is
population.
about
Rivers,
sixty
tricts
disof the
ranching
towns
to the
mining
is the
junction of the
4,500
Elbow
and
of
many
about
of
town
Bow
the
stores,
etc,
lished.
estab-
terminus
southern
centre
are
of
business
of
for
ISM
35
that section
at
of
Pinchers'
There
country.
Creek,
is also
tliirtymiles
about
LETHimiDCB, the terminus
Dunmoro, on the line of the C
Macleod, is a progressive town
of
with
villajre
a
of
west
tlie Alberta
P.
and
Railway
R., situated
doing
liotels,
stores, etc.^
Macleod.
Coal
Co. from
thirty miles
about
of
east
good bu.sine.ss.
a
.CLIMATE.
The
climate
though
not
wind
reaches
climate.
No
been
that
in
the
touched
Edmonton
finds
one
Alberta
winter, and
with
fault
with
in
that
frost
the
be
the
anxious
snow-fall
the
on
district.
time
in the
In
Alberta
winds
result
that
is
the
snow-fall
the
valuable
ranches
the
older
operations
many
conditions
direct
more
in
being self-cured
horses
during the
with
the comparative
most
light ; and
and
to
suppose
those
on
rare
should
regard as a
is hardly
all
hands
ever
ing
great ranch-
new-comer
there
for which
The
the
the
year,
endless
of
does
aiibrds
led to
has
remain
not
nutritious
most
the
the
the
on
composed
grass,
food
for
of
which,
cattle
and
fodder, coupled
of
Alberta
Southern
the
of
action
north, with
mainly
is
supply
climate, makes
the
country, and
The
in the
country
with
This
mildness
grazing
than
ligiiter and
fall of
the
winter.
difl'erent.
are
stronger
in much
length of time.
any
covered
rolling j)rairii-
extensive
crops
mistake
a
the
liave
no
by settlers,except in the
a
good deal of complaint
for
ground
Chinook
tempers
summer.
Southern
Chinook
It is
Manitoba,
and
extent
and
of
The
that
shorter.
some
very
of that which
it does
is
winter,
was
score
benefit, facilitatingas
like
much
to
country
is regarded with dislike
districts.
There is, however,
when
is
winter
the
snow
occasions
not
of Northern
cold
so
a
of the
establishment
already mentioned.
THE
COST
OF
STARTING
A
RANCHE.
For
of the cost of starting
the benefit of intending settlers an account
is herewith
Take
t)ringing in
:
as
a
given
example
jjerson
band
of 500 head
of good grade two-year
old heifers,at say $25 (t;));
a
suitable
locate
also -0 bulls at $50 ("10). In the first place, he must
a
a
ranclie
for buildings, etc., in
is,of course, preferable.
will cost
log house, which
site
eight
horses, "50
the
vicinity
Then
pomes
al}out
("10) ;
of
good
the
$150 ("30) ;
a
shed
water
;
of
erection
a
100x20
running stream
buildings"
a
lii.s
stable to
for weak
horse
feet
a
date
accommocows
and
calves during winter, say $75 ("15), and a pole corral for branding
calves,
for the first year,
etc.,about $15 ("o). These
buildings will be suthciont
and
be added
Next
the purchasing
band
incr^-ases.
to as his
can
comes
head
of say
fifteen saddle horses
of
at
about
team
$60 ("12) per
; one
work
and
at $250 ("50) ; mower
rake. $125 ("25), and a wagon
$125 ("25). This will be the principal outlay ; in addition
the smaller tools,furniture,provisions, etc.
horses
harness,
are
HOW
If
horses
it is the
intention
TO
to
OBTAIN
A
embark
in
RANCHE.
the
extent
a
large scale, an
sheep on
rancher's requirements
be obtained
under
can
:
Government
terras
the following easy
on
or
and
there
business
of
of
ground
lease
from
raising cattle
equal to the
the
Dominion
36
Settlers
annual
in
two
allowed
the
three
other
than
granted
are
obtained
on
from
years
lands
upon
the
lessee
a
Minister
not, no
and
the
or
Manitoba
in
of
lease
order-in-
the
of
date
the
be
he
years
his
by
an
for.shall be placed on;
stipulated
Whether
place sheep
from
permission
grazing lands
to
specified above,
be
of
lease.
the
covered
be
pay
three
within
of land
acres
cattle
of
to
without
can
twenty
sliall
lessee
shall
shall
lease
The
The
sections
four
exceeding
not
residence.
years.
The
lessee
acre.
for
each
granting
be
twenty-one
every
of tlie number
ird
settler's
the
an
lands
public
of
of
cents
of cattle
within
range
shall
of
one-t)
council
leases
vicinity
exceeding
not
head
one
least
the
the
rental
place
at
obtain
can
(2,650 acres)
for a period
Interior.
the
person
west
Northof
Leases
that
larger quantities than
Full
lars
particupublic competition.
the
Minister
of the
to
Interior,
settlers,
in
or
only after
application
Ottawa..
showing
Maps
Commissioner's
Maps
sale
lands
the
secured
be
can
their
and
height
atmosphere,
purest
noted
become
other
States.
A
Its
combine
for
luxuriant
for
open
to
Canada
the
horse
adapted
dry
breeding
for
freedom
has
horse
Alberta
the
young,
and
power,
the
and
plentiful supply
and
grasses
tucky
Ken-
what
attains
invigorating
its
eminently
it
lung
endurance,
be
where
is still very
industry
the
will
altitude,
high
make
to
lands
the
showing
prices.
country
with
winters,
Although
Land
the
at
seen
cost,
Alberta
country.
perfection.
of
short
water,
horses.
or
United
the
to
very
of
breeding
horse
a
is
be
can
RAISING.
HORSE
As
lease
of
free
there
districts
ranching
intlie
under
now
Winnipeg.
in
Office
hereditary
from
diseases.
in
several
in Alberta
at present
grades of horses, varying
are
the
the
Indian
to
beautiful,
(Cayuse)
quality from
hardy
pony
Britain
and
Great
"Thoroughbreds
well
from
formed
thoroughbred.
and
from
Percherons
Irom
Scotland,
France,
Clydesdales
Kentucky,
United
from
at
the
been
States, have
imported
great
trotting stock
There
point
of
expense,
and
with
in
any
is that
result
the
to
Capitalists coming
busineso, will find millions
attraction
every
During
have
been
without
hillsidee
or
pasture
horses
the
last
raised
any
are
of
will
of Alberta
horse
young
country
of
acres
advantage,
five
years
and
of
fit
for
which
half
other
of
to
compare
lands,
a
the
on
and
horses
rich
grasses
found
shelter
world,
the
the
along
off
taken
when
sheep
in
shop
ing
possess-
location.
cattle, sheep
Alberta
this
in
engage
choose
and
butcher's
any
to
the
than
cattle
The
trees.
wishing
meadow
unoccupied
thousand
many
shelter
or
and
from
thesourthtrn
feeding
in clumps
fat
this
and
in
rolling
are
the
Canada.
and
the
the
fat.
SHEEP.
Alberta
years
ago
in every
and
also
dust
has
to-day
offers
what
the
a
storms,
railwav
injurious to
through
running
so
colonies
Australian
of acres
of rich grass
; millions
for first-class
mutton
respect
the
and
centre
had
watered
are
almost
of the
thirty
adapted
ofier
to
and
cold
where
wool,
fine
fleeces,
the
well
lands,
unknown.
grazing
lands
rains
It
and
PQ
"
6
a
u
K
O
M
:-}8
of
the
within
wool
mutton
and
country
suits
for
markets
air
sheep,
mature
early owing
safely, good warm
roomy
Sheep
them
and
head)
brother
My
to
bring
raised
in
wheat;
year
40
from
1887
we
sowed
110
acres,
our
wheat
would
other
have
a
in
failure
sowed
we
and
had
in
better
1
I
four
This
broken.
acres
wheat,
When
1883.
part
of my
acres
raised
weighing
acres,
42
of wheat.
3,900 bushels
and
hard,
yielded per
in
success
always
settled
I .sowed
with
well
done
acre
raising wheat
than
We
us.
all
I had
in
1884,
Sheep
on
S70.
was
Brothers.
paid $32
threshed
and
in
Creek,
I
Alberta
have
to
bushels
225
of
spoiled.
being
crop
lately.
4
grain-raising.
and
Hope
I landed,
Port
from
came
July,
almost
and
acres,
Shikld
20th
in
sowed
we
15
Alberta
sutlicient
until
stock
1885
30
raised
No.
have
oats
;
sowed
we
grade
have
and
Barley
crop.
had
never
We
potatoes
1886
in
busliels.
55
to
100
1892.
in
only
engaged
in
invest
to
settled
had
we
been
have
we
for
oats;
of
1891
Each
in
1883"
means
no
except
bushels;
2;')0
time
having
crop,
winter
the
L'Oth January
and
Ont.,
inSeptmnber
which
since
no
bushels
1,000
any
had
',ve
Peterboro'
from
came
Calgary,
raising,
grain
1884
and
of
here"
us
exclusive
In
I
and
south-east
To
to
SETTLERS.
OF
Cau;.\ry,
miles
disease.
no
is wanted.
TESTIMONY
20
l)racini?
dry
or
fnie "|uality of
the
the
grass.
slieds, plenty of hay, (10 tons
to
is all that
attention
little
from
suffer
clear,
The
reacli.
easy
which
.
T
cattle
and
14
of
cultivation
estate
as
acres
of
horses,
1
900
own
960
land,
my
follows
"
acres
all
land,
binder,
and
work
of
2
which
mowers,
5
teams.
is fenced.
and
1
76
own
I estimate
the
value
fenced
at
$9,600
$10
cattle
2,000
00
14
horses
2,000
00
1,000
00
$14,600
January,
of
00
76
1892.
(Signed)
Joseph
of
for
:
Implements
27th
head
needed
implements
00
Prick.
my