Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1912 — GOT RICH IN THREE YEARS [ARTICLE]

GOT RICH IN THREE YEARS

EXPERIENCES OF A BRITIBH IMMIGRANT IN CANADA-WEST. The following straightforward statement needs no comment to add to Its force and effect. It appears in a recent issue of the Liverpool Mercury. H. Patterson, of Nutana, Saskatchewan, Canada, when he arrived from Liverpool, had “Six of us to support," to use his own phraseology, ■ and his funds were getting low. He secured a homestead 32 miles out from Sundura, and started living on it Apjil 15, 1907. The previous fall he put all his money, $137, into a shack and lot, making sure of a home. As cook and caterer in a local hotel he made $75 a month, and out of this had some savings out of which he paid his breaking and improvements on the homestead. The shack was sold to good advantage. Then Mr. Patterson tells the story after he had removed his family to the homestead: "For the first month life was so strange and new that I hadn’t time to think of anything, only fixing up our home.- I was so ‘green’ to farm life that I didn’t know the difference between wheat and oats (I do now)i Between working out, cropping my place, and with my gun, we managed to live comfortably for the three years, which time was required to put In my duties. I had accumulated quite a stock of horses, cows, pigs, fowls, and machinery in the three years. , “In Octdber, 1909,1 secured my patient to my land, so took a few days’ holidays to Saskatoon to locate a purchased homestead (viz., 12s. per acre) from the Government. Instead of getting the purchased homestead, 1 secured a half section (320 acres) on the Saskatchewan River for $25 per acre on easy terms, nine years’ payments with a cash payment of SI,OOO. I mortgaged my first homestead, obtained chattel mortgages on my stock, and on December 24th, 1909, took possession; on June 10, 1910, I sold out again for S4O per acre, clearing, besides my crop (140 acres), $4,800. I also sold my first homestead, clearing SI,BOO and two Saskatoon town lots, which we value at SI,OOO each today. We placed all our capital in another farm (river frontage) and some trackage lots (60), also a purchased homestead (river frontage). I remained as Manager of the Farm I had sold on a three years’ contract at a fine salary and house, garden, and numerous privileges. "So by the time my three years haye expired, with my investments and the Increased value of my frontage lots, ! am hoping to have a clear profit on my $137 investment of $50,000. My land doesn’t eat anything, and it is nearly all paid for. I hold a good position (and secure)”— Adv.