Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1913 — PREPARING FOR NEW SETTLERS [ARTICLE]

PREPARING FOR NEW SETTLERS

EXTENDING THE AGRICULTURAL, IN WESTERN CANADA. For sometime past the Canadian government has had surveyors at work platting new areas for the accommodation of the largely increasing number of settlers coming in to occupy the agricultural districts of the three prairie provinces. There were these connected with the work of securing settlers for western Canada who last spring prophesied that there would be as many as 175,000 new settlers from the United States to Canada during the present year, and there were those who doubted that' the previous year’s figures of 122,000 could be increased. Recent computation made by the officials of the immigration branch at Ottawa show that the largest "estimates made by officials will be beaten and that the 200,000 mark from the United States will be reached. As great an Increase will be shown in the figures of those who will reach Canada from other countries this year. The results of the year’s work in Canadian immigration will give upward of a total of 400,000 souls. But this is not to be wondered at when it is realized what is offering in the three prairie provinces and also in the coast province of British Columbia, which is also bidding strongly and successfully, too, for a certain class of settler, the settler who wishes to go into mixed farming or fruit raising. When the central portion of this province is opened up by the railway now being constructed there will be large areas of splendid land available for the settle. Reference has frequently been made of late by those interested in developing the American west to the large numbers who are going to Canada, high officials in some of the railways being amongst the number to give voice to the fact The more these facts become known the more will people seek the reasons and these are best given when one reads what prominent people say of it. What the farmer thinks of it and what his friends Bay of it. James A. Flaherty, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, was in western Canada a short time ago. He says: "If I were a young man I would sell out my interests in less than two months and come right to the Canadian Northwest, where so many opportunities abound.” —Advertisement