Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1910 — 90,000 AMERICAN SETTLERS GO TO CANADA. [ARTICLE]

90,000 AMERICAN SETTLERS GO TO CANADA.

The Year 1009 Has Ikons aa la- ««**■• ■ Over Rlahtr Her Ceat ta American Settlement. Recent afivices from Canada, our next door, neighbor, the neighborly country serosa the boundary line, are that upwards of ninety thousand Bettiers from the United States went into Western Canada during the past year,, most of theta for-the purpose of tak-] Ing up and settling updn the vacant! lands. 160 acres of which are, given free by the government, and lands adjoining held by railway and land com--panics are selling at from nine to fifteen and twenty dollars per acre. Even if thirty or forty dollars per acre were paid, the price would then be low, as: the lands produce wonderfully, and at these higher figures there is s large; Interest on the money and labor Invested. The ninety thousand settlers’ 6t this year, followed about sixty thou-J sand last year, and for several year* ; the figures have been running into ; these large figures. There must be a reason for it. It may be found In the single phrase, ’They are satisfied.” Nothing attracts people mere than the! success of others, snd< the news of this' reaching other thousands causes them

to Investigate. The investigation in this case Ib always satisfactory. The splendid isnd of lowa, of Indiana, of Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and other states has risen to a high value, and it is worth every dollar asked for It. But there is not room now for all on these lands. With the ever increasing demand for grain there comes the ever increasing demand for land. Canada Is the only country on the continent in a position to supply it. Land there that costs, say, sls an acre, produces on a reasonable calculation twentyfive bushels of wheat to the acre, or about S2O. The most liberal calculation as to cost makes the cost to produce $7.50 per acre, leaving a balance of $12.50 per acre. The $7.50 carries good wages for the farmer, and all other conceivable contingencies. With conditions like this, covering the entire area of about 500,000 square miles, It is readily understood why 90,000 Americans should follow the 60,000 last year. Canadian government agencies at different points in the Union are always ready to glye information regarding the free homestead lands, ready to advise the settler as to the districts which would suit him beat.