Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — Favorably Impressed With Canadian Land. [ARTICLE]

Favorably Impressed With Canadian Land.

Theodore Phillips of Gillam tp., who accompanied a party of Medaryville land prospectors up in western Canada last week, returned Thursday evening to Rensselaer and yesterday went to his home in Gillam. He reports crops something immense up there, and he wonders how they will ever get it all threshel, so much is there of wheat and oats to thresh. , Wheat is the principal crop, and there is oceans of it. Threshing has just begun, and oats are yielding as high as 90 bushels and wheat from 25 to

47 bushels per acre. There is hundreds of acres of flax yet to cut. James Guild was the only one of the party to invest. He bought a quarter .section near Herbert, Sask. Raw land out 12 to 16 miles from town runs from $12.50 to $22.50 per acre. When they reached Herbert last Friday night it was snowing and Saturday morning there was 4 inches of snow’ on the ground, but it all , disappeared during the day. Potatoes are but 45 cents a bushel up in that country.