Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Join the Canadian Excursion July?

The first excursion from Rensselaer will be run July 7th toCalgary and intermediate points on the Canadian Pacific for the benefit of prospective settlers in that country. A special Pullman car will leave Rensselaer and the entire trip can be made in this car, meals being furnished in a diner attached. If you are intending to take the trip and have not already done so, leave your name with Theodore George, the local agent, as it is necessary to know how many are intending to take the trip before arrangements can be made for this car. A rate for the round trip to Calgary with stopovers at all points, good for 25 days, of $46.50 from Chicago has been made. The rate from Rensselaer will be slightly more. The rate for sleepers will be about $3.00 for upper berth and $4.00 for lower for the trip. At this rate the prospector will be able to return by way of Saskatoon through the Saskatchewan country. To those desiring to go simply to the Saskatchewan country the fare will be $37.50 with the same rate for sleepers. Agents of the company will meet the excursionists at their destination and convey them to the land free of charge.

“READY-MADE” FARMS What Is. a Ready-Made Farm? —A readymade farm is a farm upon which the pioneer work has been done; a farm ready for occupation by the settler and his family, with operations advanced to the point where they will begin to turn an income almost immediately. Indeed, the settler who is properly supplied with milch cows, hogs and poultry can make his farm f revenue-producing frory the day he arrives on it. These farms, which are sold to married men only, consist of 160 or 320 acres each, and are laid out in colonies on lands which have been carefully selected with a view to-their suitability for mixed farming. They are located within easy reach of markets, and as they are laid out in colonies, there is none of the loneliness of remote settlement. Indeed, the ready-made colonies are among the most closely settled agricultural districts in the provinces, a condition which contributes to the social advantages of the settler, and also to the economical maintenance of rural schools, churches, local improvements and telephones. On each farm a comfortable four- « roomed house, built in cottage style, and of design which experience has shown to be best suited to the conditions of the country and the needs of the settler, is built. A substantial barn, to accommodate the horses and cows of the settler, is provided; the land is all fenced; a well is dug and a pump installed, and an area of from 50 to 100 acres is brought under cultivation. The prairie sod is first broken up, then disced and harrowed until It is in condition for cropping. In the spring it is seeded with wheat, oats or barley, so that the settler arriving in summer finds his crop already under way. This enables him to realize a crop the season of his arrival in the country; indeed, the settler arriving -In mid-summer may commence almost at once with his harvest operations. The buildings and improvements on these farms have been found to cost from $2,250 upwards, and th& actual expenditures (details of which

This Company Is not urging the settlement of a district stpi in the frontier class. The Canadian West is law-abiding, Godfearing, has an education system unexcelled, a constantly extending system of railways, and progressive city, town and rural governmental organizations. Few, even among the older settled districts, have more of the requisites necessary to the material, moral and mental development of a community than has Western Canada. In addition, and of primary interest to the farmer, the Prairie Provinces offer lands, returning crops of wonderful yield and quality, at prices and terms unheard of in long-culti-vated districts. The Canadian Pacific Railway offers, at prices from 111 per acre up, virgin lands that will give greater returns than many districts where farms sell for SIOO and over per acre. This Company sells farm lands to actual settlers only, on payments extending over a period of twenty years, also offering such settlers loans to the extent of $2,000 in farm buildings, fences, wells, etc., - the loan also repayable in the twenty-year period. Interest on both purchases and loans is six per cent per annum. $2,000 LOAN FOR IMPROVEMENTS The $2,000 Loan to Settlers is absolutely the strongest, most positive and convincing answer that any one could ask to any and all questions as to the quality of the Canadian Pacific lands, and as to the profits that can be made in farming these lands. Think of this—ls a farmer purchases 160 acres of these

Personally conducted excursions leave Chicago on first and third Tuesdays of each month from Chicago to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saslcetoon, Sask., and Calgary, Alberta. Tickets good for 25 days, allowing stop overs. ■ • Write for Free Maps and Illustrated Literature to Theodore George, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 18 or 345. Office with Rensselaer Republican. Address, P. O. Box 673.