Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — "YOU TOLD ME THE TRUTH AND I WANT THE PEOPLE TO KNOW IT" [ARTICLE]

"YOU TOLD ME THE TRUTH AND I WANT THE PEOPLE TO KNOW IT"

The following unsolicited letter he* been received from Mr. J. F. Ward of Donalda, Alberta. It Is a plain statement of conditions as Mr. Ward has found them: r —. ■ A Settlers U re I drop a line to Plain Letter. y OU- We had a good year. Oft of 66 acres, oats and wheat, I got over 2,600 bushels of wheat and oats. Oats went herb from 60 to 100 bushels per acre, and wheat from 25 to 62 per acre. Just see me being here one year and have over 700 bushels of wheat It is now over |I.OO per bushel. Oats is 42 cents, and going up. You told me the truth, and I want the people of Toledo to know it Hogs are 8% cents; cattle are high. Canada is good enough for me. I have 6 good horses. I sold 2 good colts, 2 cows and 18 head of hogs and killed 2. I have 6 hogs left I got 400 bushels of potatoes off an acre and a good garden last summer, fine celery and good onions. One neighbor had over 1,200 bushels of wheat,-and sold over S7OO of bogs and 2,000 bushels of oats. This Is a great country, If you should tell the people of Toledo of this it would get some of them thinking.'The soil Is a rich black loam, and a pleasure to work It.

“We have a good farm. We have a flowing well with soft water. It Is the best water in the country. Some people think they got to go to war when they come out here. They need not be afraid of war. There is no war tax on land; only’school tax, $12.00 on 160 acres, and road tax of two days with your team. I* tell you the truth, there Is no land In or around Toledo as good as our land here in Alberta. If anybody wants to write us, give them our address. “We have had nice weather. We have had it quite cold for one week, but no rain and sleet, and the sun shines nearly every day, and it Is hot in the sun. Coal is $2.25 per ton. The people are very nice and good here. We are well enjoying the West. The horses and cows are feeding on the prairies all the winter. We Just have two horses In the stable to go to town with. Yours truly, (Sgd.) J. F. WARD, Donalda, Alberta, Feb. 9,1916.” i —i “I was bom In Statement of Steve wlßCO nsin, but Schweltzberqer moved with my parents when a boy to Stephen Co., lowa. I was there farming for 60 years. I sold my land there for over S2OO an acre. I moved to Saskatchewan, and located near Briercrest in the spring of 1912. I bought a half section of land. I have good neighbors. I feel quite at home here the same as In lowa. We have perfect safety and no trouble in living up to the laws in force. My taxes are about $65 a year on the half section for everything. I have had splendid crops. Wheat in 1915 yielded me over 60 bushels to the acre. That is more than I have ever had In lowa, and yet the land there costs four times as much as it does here. The man who comes here now and buys land at SSO an acre or less gets a bargain. (Sgd.) S. Schweitsberger, February 9th, 1916.’ Advertisement.