Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1902 — $300,000 WHEAT FARM STARTED. [ARTICLE]

$300,000 WHEAT FARM STARTED.

American Syndicate Will Farm 40,000 Acree in Canada. A syndicate of Americans, led by T. B. Hoard, of Nebraska, a wealthy cattleman, will establish the first bonanza wheat farm in Canada between Craik and Davidson, on the Prince Albert branch of the Canadian Pacific. Forty thousand acres of land have been purchased at an outlay of $200,000, and another SIOO,000 has been set aside by the syndicate for improvements that are to begin at once. None Ot the methods which made the great wheat farms pf North Dakota famous have yet been applied in Canada, and wheat raising has been confined entirely to small areas and to the work of small farmers. The syndicate includes F. J. Waddell, of Aurora, Neb., another wealthy cattleman, and capitalists from lowa and Illinois. One whole township is to be converted into a monster wheat field, and the greater portion of a township adjoining is also to become a portion of the syndicate's interests. Mr. Hoard and hia associates will introduce steam plows and other modern machinery. The syndicate will own its own elevators, two of which are to be built this fall at Garvin, in the center of the new farm. It will also operate line elevators at adjacent points. Telegraphic Brevities, - Eastern Kentucky may get a railroad running north and south. John Little, Tallahassee, Miss., shot and killed Attie Allison. * Cullen Gates killed Homer Bennett and wounded James Crawley, Peart County, Mississippi. England la cheeking Italy's advances in Tripoli, and Turkish Sultan is tickled nearly to death. * The* City National Bank, With a df $50,009, la soon to be established at South McAlester, I. T.