Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — The Cumminsville Sage. [ARTICLE]

The Cumminsville Sage.

"The average politician,” said the Cnmminsviile sage, “regards a campaign somewhat after the way of a bottle. He won't open it unless he flunks there Is something in -it.” —Cinnati Enquirer.

Delegates representing a number of neighboring farmers in Clay County, Minnesota, who visited the Edmonton district of Western Canada last summer are evidently very well satisfied with the result of their trip. They think so well of the country that in addition to thy privilege of obtaining a free homestead of 100 acres of land they have also purchased land. In a recent interview on the subject Messrs. C. E. and A. Hughes of Barnesvilie, Clay Co., say: “We are well pleased with Western Canada. It is far ahead of what we expected. We find the climate to be warmer than we expected. As for the crops we have never seen anything that can compete with them. We have lived In Minnesota and have farmed some of what they count the best lands in the Red River Valley for ten years and have done very well in that part of the country, and hare farms there at present free of all encumbrance, bat believe that this country (Western Canada) is so much better that we have bought from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company one section of land northeast of Edmonton in the Beaver Hill district. We have traveled through that part of the country and have seen .the grain in the granaries and the amount of land that It was taken off and find that they have grown as much as fifty bushels and over to the acre, and they say that this has not been a good year, and very little, if any, grain has beat touched by the frost. Hay seems to be plentiful, and if you wish to put up log buildings you can get the logs within a few miles. Coal can be bad at the mines for 75 cents per ton. or you can dig it yourself. Nearly all kinds of garden track can be grown in abundance. We find everything that can be grown in good demand. The farmers tell ns that they can get four and a half live weight per hundred for hogs, and for three-year-old steers from fifty to sixty dollars per bead, providing they are good. We will more into that part of the country next summer. Ail the people in that part of the country seem satisfied, and we do not see any reason why they should not be so.” The Messrs. Hughes also stated that they would be very glad to afford anyone desiring particulars about the country they had visited the fullest information. on receiving inquiries at Barnesvilie. Clay County, before the Ist of June-next. when, it is understood, they propose to return to the Edmonton district.