Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — What a Former Resident of Cascia County, Idaho, Has to Say Regarding Western Canada. [ARTICLE]

What a Former Resident of Cascia County, Idaho, Has to Say Regarding Western Canada.

Mr. T. A. Tolman of Lacombe, Alberta, N. W. T., a former resklent of Cascla County, Idaho, who moved to Western Canada in July, 1894, writes as .follows: “I brought here thirty-four head of cattle, fifteen horses, two wagons, two sets of harness and one hundred and fifty dollars in cash. I homesteaded the southeast quarter of section 28, township 40, range 26, west of the fourth meridian, also purchased a quarter section of Canadian Pacific Railway land. I have been farming more or less nearly all my life and I am convinced that you can raise crops 40 per cent cheaper here than where 1 came from. My capital at present, counting everything, la about five thousand dollars. The yield of my grain all round in 1897 was 60 bushels per acre. This year (1898) yield of wheat per acre 37% bushels, oats 50 bushels, barley 35 and potatoes 400 per acre. I consider this is a much better country for a man than where I came from, provided he is industrious. You get a free homestead here and Canadian Pacific Railway lands are cheap and the terms easy. 1 have now made my seventh payment on the land purchased by me and am much pleased with my purchase, as the land has already much more than paid for itself. School law here Is decidedly ahead of where I came from, and there are schools wherever there are settlers.” , s