Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1910 — Former Roselawn Merchant Prospers In Western Canada. [ARTICLE]

Former Roselawn Merchant Prospers In Western Canada.

Roselawn Review. We are in receipt of a copy of the Yellow Grass Journal, published at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, Canada, in which is published a report of this year’s crop on the land owned by our former merchant and townsman, T. H. West, and also a report of a land deal consummated by Mr. West. The following is a statement of the crop just threshed, giving the number of bushels, price per bushel and amount received at elevator: Wheat, 10,686 bushels at $1.01%, $10,846.29. Flax, 7,078 bushels at $2.45, $17,340.10. Oats, 5,103 bushels at 41c, $2,092.23. Barley, 1,076 bushels at 52c, $559.02. Total, 23,943 bushels, $30,837.64. The flax averaged 21% bushels to the acre, wheat 32 bushels to the acre, and the report stated that small farms which were better farmed than Mr. West’s large acreage, yielded from 40 to 48 bushels of wheat to the acre. The town of Yellow Grass and surrounding country is having a great boom at present and several farms change hands each week at advanced figures. The town of Yellowgrass is ortly six months old and has a population of over 1,500 inhabitants. We reprint from the Yellow Grass Journal of September 23rd, the following: “One of the largest land deals made in Yellow Grass for some time was closed on Saturday evening, when “Chicago” West sold to Mr. Burnell, of Illinois, one of his large wheat ranches, two miles east of town, consisting of 800 acres of his choice land for forty thousand dollars. Mr. West came from Chicago a few years ago and bought up several thousand acres of land when it was cheap, paying from $5.00 to $12.00 per acre, and is now readily disposing of it at SSO. And yet some of the American newspapers are claiming that our Yankee friends are dissatisfied.” In the above deal Mr. West disposed of 800 acres of his thirty-two hundred acre tract which we understand he offers for sale at forty to fifty dollars per acre. Mr. West, in renewing his subscription to the Truth-teller, informs us that he intends coming back to old Newton county this winter to renew acquaintances in his dear old home, Roselawn. He also states that western Canada is the place for a young man with energy. Mr. West also sent us a Canadian postal order to the -amount of $5 to apply on subscription account. He is well known in northern Newton county and for years was engaged in. the mercantile business here and had the honor of being postmaster for two terms under President Cleveland. Tom is a hustler

and his Indiana friends will be glad to hear of his prosperity in northwestern Canada.