Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — THE KANSAS PEOPLE ARE IN LOVE WITH WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

THE KANSAS PEOPLE ARE IN LOVE WITH WESTERN CANADA.

They Say the Land There la the Finest on Earth. A great number of delegates have been Influenced through the agency of Mr. J. S. Crawford, the Canadian Government representative at Kansas City, to visit Western Canada, and whether from Missouri or Kansas the story is always the same—they are pleased with the new country being opened up. Isaac H. Levagood writes from Dldsbury, Alberta, as follows: “I met three delegates from Kansas yesterday at Didsbury, and took them home with me and took them out In the afternoon and showed them some of the finest land that lays on top of God's green earth. They are more than pleased with this country. They stayed with me last night; this morning I took them to Didsbury, and they went on north. When they come back they are coming to my place and I am going to help them to run some lines and they are going to locate In sight of my house. There have been over 1,260 acres of land changed hands here in our neighborhood this spring. When I located here last fall I was the furthest back of any of the settlers; to-day I am in the center of the settlement We have thirty-six children that are of school age In our district, and we will have our school district organized next month, when we will proceed to build our school house. The longer we stay here the better we like the country; that is the way with everybody here. They all seem to be satisfied and doing well. I have talked with a great many men here and they told me that they had less than SSO when they got here, and to-day they have got 160 acres of good land and five or six hundred dollars’ worth of stock. Crops are looking fine here. I think this will be a good winter wheat country. One of my neighbors has a small piece and it looks fine.