Show GREAT COUNTRY IS CANADA lehi jensen tells of some matters there war made on weeds by govern menta ment A land where prohibition really prohibits I 1 lehi jensen one of the jensen brothers of redmond who went to can ida about aboul si years ago arrived farm that section la last S t S 3 burday on a pleasure trip among his old friends he reports a very prosperous car among the farmers of alberta th s beir e ir the benben brothers raised over bushels of wheat and about bushels of oats the pitter litter to be for their own borses principally mr air jensen will spend the next two weeks in savier and counties and then he will make a tour of california and mexico before returning to his northern home he has applied himself to his farming and business interests for the past six years without a rest and he believes himself entitled to a vacation he his prospered and he can well viell afford the trip he now contemplates speaking of canada he be grows enthusiastic thusia he believes it to be the 6 tik ti k LJ L J alry in tic tl c world with wonderful opportunities for young men with energy and who are willing to work hard he does not advise anyone to go there expecting to become wealthy by such a life as ag many of his acquaintances in utah lead there is plenty of land of ane highest quality which requires but the hand of labor to make it produce its agricultural wealth the government permits a man to secure a homestead and a preemption filing adjoining and three bears ears are given in which to pay for it with ordinary energy any man can make the land pay for itself in that time she he is located dislocated near mcgreath cath and rid land in that vicinity has advanced irom to 6 per alre aire to in the past few years there ii 13 no low priced land there row to get land one has to get away from ane settled i portions options ort ions but this will all be gone inta ina short time and new towns will be springing up all over the great western larada the government is taking an active interest in the matter of weeds in the settled portions of canada the farmers are supplied with every means of information as to the best methods of eradicating them in every community there are farmers associations and the government aids these institutions financially and supplies teachers and experts to show the farmers how to kill the weeds after the farmers receive the instructions they have to put them into practise and there is no such a thing as escaping if a farmer does not comply with the government regulations the officials L send a force of men onto the land remove the weeds and the cost is taxed against the farmer there is no escaping this cot as the land will be taken without any formalities if payment is not made another anither thing which mr jensen thinks an improvement over existing laws here is the method of taxation improvements are not taxed A straight land tax is all that is assessed the man with unimproved lands pays just as much tax as the man who makes his land of the greatest value police regulations are strict and there is no monkey work with the mounted police they are almost a law unto themselves but no man is molested or interfered with who is law abiding and who are of an otherwise disposition get all foolishness taken out of them by a brush with these officers in prohibition districts in canada the man who brings in liquor is prosecuted the railroad rail roid that hauls it and the express company are all made parties to the prosecution the liquor is siezer and destroyed destroy cil and as a result prohibition districts are rarely disturbed by blind pigs or speakeasy speak easy kitchens this is one prohibition really prohibits to mr jensen canada is the greatest country in the world he would not return to fucili h any ally ireum |