Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — WHAT WE HEAR FROM ASSINIBOIA. WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

WHAT WE HEAR FROM ASSINIBOIA. WESTERN CANADA.

“Do»'t Think of Coming, but Como,** To the Editor: The above is the emphatic manner in which a friend in Yorkton writes to a friend near St Paul, Minnesota, and it is pretty nearly right, too, with the advantages that Western Canada offers to those seeking homes. The Assiniboia district is one of the best The writer from whose letter we quote goes on to say: “John, if you miss this chance you are foolish, for you can get out cheaper when there are so many coming, and I would not tell you to come if I thought you could not do well, and if you don’t come in the spring you will have to go away back, for you do not want to think that there is no one living out here but us. I saw nicer buildings out here than I ever saw before, and if the country was no good what would they want them for? John, if you sold everything you have and came out here you would be worth more than ever you were before, and if you can bring your team. You can get anything you want on tick, and when they do that with strangers they are not afraid they can’t make enough to pay for It I saw as nice wheat as I ever saw in my life, and if they could not grow grain what would the flour mill be for, and it cost $20,000.” Now this was what Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, of Yorkton, Assiniboia, Western Canada, wrote to a friend. There wilj be opened up this summer new districts in Saskatchewan and Assiniboia at low prices, particulars of which can be had of any agent of the government of the Dominion of Canada, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper. Yours truly, An Old Reader.