Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — A MINNESOTA FARMER WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

A MINNESOTA FARMER WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA.

la Now Located There—Fauna Baine ■agidly Settled by Faraser U. Sealdeata. The following extracts from a letter written to Mr. Benj. Davies, Canadian Government Agent at St. Paul, Minn., give an excellent idea of what Is said of Western Canada by those who have gone there during the past two or three years: ’ "When we first arrived here and took up our homes on the prairie near Daleaboro, Assa., for a short time we had a fit of the ’blues,’ but now all bands are settled to business, hale, hearty and contented, enjoying the finest winter we have ever seen. We have got very comfortably situated, with considerable preparation for a crop, and aU hopeful. I think this is a very fine country, and If the past season’s crop is not an exception, which they claim not, I believe this Is going to be the wheat field of the West. It Is filling up fast. In this toMmsbip last spring there were twen-ty-five quarter sections of land vacant,, and to-day there is not one; I can stand at my house and count ten houses where there was not one last spring, with six more to go up this spring. This is only a sample of what is going on all round. We intend to build a church next summer, right close to my place, so we will be strictly In line. It would have amused you to have been here last spring. There were crowds of land seekers, and sometimes in the spring the prairie is not very inviting, and of cobrse lots were discontented. There was one in the crowd who jumped on me for putting a letter In the paper, only for which he never would have come here, and he. was very hostile, but eventually he got a place and to-day claims he would not take a thousand dollars and move out; so I am glad he is satisfied. “Well, my dear sir, as Arthur Finney is about to move out In March, with his family, and also one of my sons, anything you can do for them to assist them along and to make things smooth as possible will be greatly appreciated by me. I will close for this time, and will write from time to time to let you know we are living. DriSp us a few lines to let us know how things are moving in St. Paul. “Yours respectfully,

“ALEX. CAMERON.”