Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1902 — FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT SASKATCHEWAN, WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT SASKATCHEWAN, WESTERN CANADA.

A Michigan Farmer Visits Saskatoon and Is Well Pleased. Mr. S. K. Lent was a delegate aent from the farmers of Allegan County, Michigan, to Western Canada to report on the prospects for successful settlement. Ills report Is as follows: I went f;em Winnipeg to Edmonton, thence east one hundred miles by wagon. I found the country In that vicinity a rich,/ black loam, varying from twelve Inches to three feet deep; the crops are •Imply something enormous; wheat and oats by actual measurement often standing five feet in height. I have been a farmer for forty years, and conalder myself a fair judge of the yield of grain, and I saw wheat that would yield 50 bushels per acre, and oats that would yield 100 bushels per acre; not one alone, but a good many. As for root crops and garden truck, In no country have I ever seen their equal for all kinds except corn and tomatoes; the nights being too cool for these to ripen well. As a stock country It has no equal. East of Edmonton, on the head waters of the Vermillion river, I saw bay meadows containing from 10 to 100 acres, the grass standing 4 feet high, and would often cut three to four tons to the acre. From Edmonton I passed through some fine locations, namely, Wetaskiwin, Lacombe and other points. From Macleod I went to Regina, thence to Prince Albert, 247 miles north of the main line. For the first fifty miles Is fine farming country, but the next hundred miles Is more of a stock country. Then at Saskatoon, Rosthern and Duck Lake I found some very fine farming country, so good that I found a party of Americans from Minnesota buying land for themselves, one "party buying twelve sections, and the other twenty sections of land for themselves, whleb they proposed to Improve at once. I have traveled over twenty-three different States and territories in our Union, and never In my lifetime hare I ever seen snch magnificent crops and especially as fine a stock country.