Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1898 — THE CANADIAN GOLD FIELDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE CANADIAN GOLD FIELDS.

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The excitement of the past few months has drawn a great many people to the Canadian

Yukon in the search tor gold, and ha* diverted the attention of many others. Hut in order to get there it ta necessary that a man should be poem seed of the lest of health, strong powers of endurance and considerable means. He leaves bis wife and his family for a considerable period, and the hardships he has to endure arc all unknown to him. • Canada has other gold fields, though. They are the fields that produce her golden grain. This year the crop of Manitoba, lying directly north of North Dakota, yielded 21,000,000 bushels of wheat alone. The current price averages 76 cents, which, as a local paper puts it, “makes the produqMn gold this year, for wheat alone, equal to a value of $15,960,000.” Twenty thousand farmers did this, or an average to each producer of about $798. "But these same farmers are not living by wheat alone. This is only one source it revenue to them out of many. They have also beef, butter, potatoes, oats, barley and poultry to sell, and sometimes jther things, so that it may be fairly estimated that their incomes will average st least SI,OOO per farmer. Thus Manitoba’s fields have yielded this year fully F 20,000,000 in gold, divided among 20,000 actual producers, and a general population of about 200,000.” After counting the cost of stamp mills, expense* of men, rich as is the Klondike, such vast wealth as is being taken out of the soil in raising wheat in thia one province, cannot possibly be secured in iny mining district Of course mining development assists agricultural development, and that is why the Government of Cnnada feels so much assurance in prelicting prosperity to all who take up farms in Canada. Western Canada to-day promises more than any other known field that is open to immigration. Farms of 160 acres, capable of producing the best No. 1 hard wheat, yielding thirty to forty bushels to the acre, are given away free. Railways, markets, schools, churches -nil are -convenient. The Canadian form of government is one of the most liberal known, and a hearty welcome is given to settlers of all nationalities. Already there are many settlers gone in from the States, and the reports from them are highly favorable. Those desiring information as to tree homestead lawn, low transportation rates, etc,, will have pamphlets, etc., sent free on application to the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, er to any agent of the Government