Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — A MINNESOTA FARMER WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

A MINNESOTA FARMER WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA.

Ib Now Located There—Farms Being Rapidly Settled by Former U. S. Residents. The following extracts from a letter written to Mr. Benj. Davies, Canadian ! Government Agent at St. Paul, Minn., give an excelleiiT idea of what is said of Western Canada by those who have gone there during the past two or three years: “When we first arrived here and took up our homes on the pralr!e near Daieaboro, Assa.. for a short time we had a fit of the ‘blues,’ but now all hands are settled to business, hale, hearty and contented, enjoying the finest winter we have ipvor seen. We have got very comfortably situated, with considerable preparation for a crop, and alb hopeful. I think this is a very fine country, and if the past season’s crop is not an exception, which they claim not, 1 believe thifj is going to lie the wheat field of the West. It is filling up fast. In this township last spring there were twen-ty-five quarter sections of land vacant, and to-day there is not one; I can stand at my house and count ten houses where there was not one last spring, with six more to go up this spring. This is only a sample of what is going on air round. We intend to build a church next summer, right close to my place, so we will be strictly in line.- It would have amused you“e"have been here last spring. There were crowds ot land seekers, and sometimes in the spring the prairie is not very inviting, and of course lots were discontented. There was one in the crowd-who jumped on me for putting a letter in the' paper, only for which he never would have come here, and he was very hostile, but eventually he got a place and to-day claims he would not take’a thousand dollars and move out; so I am glad he is satisfied. “Well, my dear sir, as Arthur Finney is about to move out in March, with his family, ami also one of my sons, anything yolt can do for them ’to assist them along and to make things smooth as possible will be greatly appreciated by me'. I will close for this time, and will write from time to time to let yon know we are living. Drop ns a few lines to let ns know how things are moving in St. Paul. “Yours respectfully, “ALEX. CAMERON.”