Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — Very Favorably Impressed With Canada. [ARTICLE]

Very Favorably Impressed With Canada.

Col. Fred A. Philips returned Monday from conducting a personal property sale at Portage La Prairie, Manitobia, Canada, for Reese Hill, formerly of Brook. The sale totaled SIO,OOO, and the prices for horses and stock there are considerably higher than here. Brood mares sold at from $350 to SSOO at the sale; three yearling colts sold at S2OO each and teams of mules as high as S6OO. Reese owns 900 acres of mighty fine land there which he has rented out and will move back to Brook: The best land near railroads, sells there at about S7O per acre, and Fred says that it is finer land than any in B,enton county. Hundreds of thousands of acres is as level as a floor. It is cheaper back further from the railroads. Wheat is a little higher there than here .which shows the fallacy of our tariff on this cereal. The people there generally favored reciprocity with the United Stated, but the standpatters went out and made them believe that it was but a stepping stone for this Country to annex Canada to this country, and that they should stand by the crown. * Fred thinks they are mighty fine class of people there and that the land is unsurpassed anywhere.