Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — A WISCONSIN PAPER ON WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

A WISCONSIN PAPER ON WESTERN CANADA.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ona of the Favored Districts. The following, clipped from the correspondence columns of the Hau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader, Is but one of many letters of a similar character that might be published concerning Western Canada, the land of No. 1 hard wheat and the best cattle on the continent. It Is a simple matter to reach the lan.-la ipoken of, the Canadian Government having agencies established at St. Paul and Duluth, MinnesotafOrafton. North Dakota; Watertown, South Dakota; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Des Moines, Iowa; Wausau and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Sault Ste. Marie and Detroit, Michigan; Toledo and Columbus, Ohio, and by writing to or calling upon any of these agents at these points full information can be secured. This is a great opportunity to secure a home free of cost, or If you desire to purchase lands, they can be bought now at prices much lower than will exist in a few months. But read what the correspondent referred to has to say of one particular district: To the Editor of the Leader: “The rush of the land seekers will be to the prairie provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The aUurements of a ■oil that yields 40 bushels of wheat to the acre are too great to be resisted and an Immense migration from this country may be confidently predicted. People here laughed at first at the idea of any one leaving the United States for Canada, but the Dominion authorities knew they had a good thing and they stuck to it. Their officials evidently knew the value of printer’s Ink. They spared no expense in letting the people of this country know that these lands were there and that they were exactlv as represented. They did more, They sent out specimens of the crops raised and samples of the grain. We have bad them here at four consecutive street fairs presided over by one of their ablest immigration officers. This gentleman spared no pains. He explained the value of the lands and the richness of the soil from morning to night to all comers. “All this told in the long run. Several went up from hare to spy out the land and, like Caleb, the son of Jepunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, brought back a good report and now some ten families will leave here in a few weeks for Saskatoon to settle upon farms there, and others are preparing to follow. Of course many will appear ■hocked at the Idea of any one leaving the Stars and Stripes for the Union Jack, but patriotism is but a nomenclature after all, and our experience has been that In nine hundred and ninetynine cases out of a thousand, a man Is the most patriotic where he can make the most money and do the most barm to those whom he hates.”