Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1898 — Reports or Delegates Who Have Visited Western Canada. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Reports or Delegates Who Have Visited Western Canada.

The following letters have been selected from a large number of those sent by delegates t o

report on Western Canada to their friends in Michigan, and as a result of which hundreds of people expect to leave this spring for the Free Grant Lands of Western Canada. Ludington, Mich., Nov. 1, 1897. M. V. Mclnnes, Esq., Colonization ’Agent, Detroit, Mich.: Dear Sir—We have just returned from the West, and were exceedingly well pleased with the country. We are going back to take up our homesteads In early spring. We received $35 per month and board, working for farmers, and the board was the best we ever had —the beef and mutton especially were excellent. The fine flavor Is owing to the fine grasses which the cattle and sheep feed upon. The people are very hospitable, and treat their hired help with much kindness. The grain Is much heavier than here, wheat being 62 lbs to the bushel, oats 48 lbs, and barley often 55 lbs. Any man with a good team and money enough to buy provisions and seed for six months can become rich there in five years. Many people who arrived there five years ago with little or nothing are well off now. One man I met held his wheat from last year and was offered $16,000 for this year's crop and what he had held over from last year, and fs holding It at SI.OO per bushel. We are going back in the spring to work for this same farmer until seeding, after which we will homestead between seeding and harvest. We think we will settle on the Manitoba and. Northwestern Railroad. You can refer any one to us for this part of the country, while we are here, and we will cheerfully answer any questions which anyone may wish to ask. Yours truly, (Signed) CHAS. HAWLEY, JOSEPH DOLA.

Alameda, N. W. T„ Aug. 31, 1897. Dear Friends of Saginaw: Those tie■fcifing to secure a good and sure home will oiTiyeh to take our advice aud examine‘lhffvland In the neighborhood of Alameda, 96 we know that everyone who sees will be agreeably surprised. this land we were partly in to moving here, but after looking it ovetsjweat once decided to make our home and w e beg those of our friends who a?i*s^ eßir ' ous of securing farms not to let''^ 8 chance slip by, as the soil is of the betTfand the water cannot be excelled. The finest wheat we ever saw is also raised here. We shall return home In haste, straighten out our affairs and move here at once. Yours truly, (Signed) WILLIAM GOTTOWSKI. ALBERT MAI. WILLIAM RIEDEL. Of Saginaw. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 10, 1897. Mr. M. V. Mclnnes, Chief Colonization Agent, Detroit, Mich.: Dear Sir—We are pleased to state to you that we have found the country in the vicinity of Alameda fully up to what you and Mr. Keller had represented it to be. It IsUn fact, an ideal location for mixed farming. The soil is the best we ever saw, and as the farmers were all busy at threshing, we had an excellent chance to see its productive quality, which cannot be surpassed anywhere. . The cattle could not be in better condition. We saw- two-year-old steers equal to three-year-old raised in most places, and these, as all others are about Alameda, were fed on native hay in winter and herded in summer. As we had previous to this visited the Northwestern States in behalf of a large number of farmers, to locate suitable land for mixed farming, we are now in a position to say that the Alameda district of Western Canada surpasses them all. The country is equal to that about Thuringen In Germany. We were rather sceptic before starting, and our intentions to settle In spring, if we were suited, but we have now decided to move at once; that early this fall as we possibly can. We left Mr. Riedel at Alameda, and take back his report, and we will take his family and effects with us when we go. Yours Bincerely, (Signed) ALBERT MAI. FRED GOTTOWSKI.