| Show r u a l UNCLE E SAM SA M IN CANADA HOW OUR UP THE AMERICAN BRITISH CITIZENS H NORTHWEST ARE BUYING r w I t I tl Special Correspondence we of tile the tI c A News w by Prank Frank G C Carpenter Car Copyright 1906 1306 liy by II rank Prank l 0 lJ Carpen Carpenter ter Feb 10 There are aft arenow arenow WIN now nol more than Amor ta Icons In the Hit Canadian north northwest northwest west They number one third of ot the population and ime ome sec rec sections of pt tho the wheat belt arc settled nettled al ul almost I most entirely by them A f few w Ameri American AmerIcan can have hao taken up largo lar p tracts and omo individuals have IlIe taught of at net notes us and art are I hoMing holding them but the tho of ot our l hare t on the homet Allotted l II the government t nod mid hav having v vIng 44 ing bought lands adjoining tiro wait unit uniting waiting ing to crow rOlV up with till the country t American ate tiro doing U a large Him re of or thu business s of ot tho the new lIew towns A Ataw Afew Afew few taw aio 1110 merchant others odium uro are Investing La to elevators and hills ami and thure ure are u number at III K who hove have much to aay at f In III the tho grain exchange and other financial This rUB A ll INVASION INASIO Indeed Canada tiny muy U bJ bi J said to In have havea a real an delma or of II I In III ISM 1686 less les that than W 60 hOlI were allotted i to 10 them In ID l n the 1111 number jumped to toy y 1000 and in III ma m it wan 2 GOOl ow in III It t rose roo to IQ a ouo unit and last year U more inure t than llian Americana American III army arm 10 time l lH UH es H largo large ns lie that which sod led tin un hi march to the aea seu wine OWl aver Into I Canada anti and are uro now here L tho god od of or prosperity The government toll mo they Oney I expect to have le www mote mole Americans tint year ear unit und 1 t warn you ou that path both thoy and amt the thu reel syndicates aro arc junking money out ont of ot oI buying baying lauds lamia and gelling thorn 1111 do du what they cnn can to w If that number In the runes ThU tg is a 11 mat matt i t ol ut vital to the United It Jt the Ille loss loan of of or ortho tho the hest best of tl our farming forming population andin und and In addition the actual carrying it away y yInto lute Into Canada of ot millions million of ot dollars of or KOMI American gull guld UNCLE SAM AM WILL LOS Loaf IN Ili 1909 1905 The Thu most mort or of the American who hu go 10 to Canada are oro farmers They aru mail nt h of lit meant meone and cull n nearly nely ily nil ill of It thin carry Borne money along a 1001 I 1 mn run told tol l that the average tl so ea fai for hu has ha been lIeen at ut u II thousand dollars per lieI ii r bend which for tor the who havo ha vo 8 SlI rill far gone KUDO there would mean 4 If It the Pro n In to I kept Up It means liMnS that t Uncle Unah lam Ham t ni will lose loco e SO from tram such year und that tat to tl say Bay nothing of or tho en cn erg and muscle mu le of good 1011 American citizens It lit Iii generally esti catl estimated mated ladled that u II s man without u tJ cent In his hll pocket la Is worth nt at least loa lit u II thousand thou and dollar dollare to tu the tha country In 11 t j which he ha settles settle and our nul emigrants III c G worth that to Canada They lira worth north morn more In III the building up UI of or this country tot foi they know l now Just how to handle It They Thoy are valued at Rt some nome lIke a n year by II tho the rail railroads toMs roMe an iIa rattle producers James Jimes J Hill estimates that every new family faintly which settles settle s tUell along the tho Great Northern Is in worth at lit least lean u a 1 year In tn addi L freight Now nt ht even flit tI tho the family means mean families un ar at nt Mr Ir Hills hate this equals an all annual Increase of or at least leant to the tho receipt of ot the tho Canadian railroads Do you ou wonder that the Canadians are to gat got us TUB TIm MOVEMENT u T BY YANKEES S This remarkable Invasion originated In Ilia UIO combined forces of ot the Dominion and Yankee speculators and It has hns been blen carried on by forces torce from froin the tho beginning until now Indeed i 1 might say that our rent real es ca e estate tate men were w re tho the real of ot the Dm now Canada The Tho Th have long Ion known l that they have a vast area nr 11 of ot good toll moll hut but they had hud no Idea how It II could ba bo b developed until tho thu strenuous American A crossed crewed tho thu boun bounder Joun dory der and planned out the th way To begin with tho the movement Is I the outcome of ot the tilling II III nil up of or the tho United Slates States For years tho the American rail mil wa wn waye 8 I which are aro always 9 after hale known l that they were carrying about emigrant to our great creat west every 12 19 1 month This Chili army has been rendered over our nur coun COUll country country try and It hue hau rapidly titled the vacant spaces It lm eaten ealen UI up roost moil rno t of ot the homesteads given free freo tr t by our nor goVern goVernment meat ment and Ilea hm about all nil the chell II laude 16 that could bo bu hud had In lures large About Aboul 1900 tho Iho fact that the tha not most t of or such ouch lands were gone well ell known and the pioneer tanner farmer who nho had hud fettled settled In Ohio nn unit I Ithem there them made money by hy out and aM buying cheaper lands In Illinois and ana again In III made more moro by h moving mo 1 nR from there thern thereon thernon on to North Dakota found at nt althe th the end enl of ot peculation Lands Lantis hat hal Hs tl then n und and In the th tar fur weal treat they toey were Vare worth front from W 16 1 anti and up tip word per acre At It t the th Um time the hug big land lanel opera oper t torn tore who wlm had been lIeen buying large lurge tracts In und and the Dakotas from the tho Not Northern them and und other and felling them out to tha the farmers found that thero Mas OS no iw more land to buy rind and that they thoy would have to have I no m III w territory or quit the business badness The Tho ronnel began to wonder what shat kind of land wera In Canada and our rent real estate men Inn to far and wIde for tor new worlds to conquer A MILLION HOLD SOLD DY lW Amm Among these theio real estate agents were wem IJ hud made mudo quick by b haying hll ln our mode landa nod and them than Their were and ond Lynch on hail had started life lito us tie n country school chool teacher at lit 30 n 11 month and Lynch J had halt begun no as n n II land surveyor OI at nt a tow low IW dollars per tract Tho Thu two discussed tho the situation and Robertson was us sent Bent to Canada to spy p pout out the moot land Ha ito came here hele In the tha win winter ter and took look tripe front from Winnipeg out over oer tho the different railroads I the thu th small towns town of or tho the wheat tell belt and of ho the new nelV country Ha liE would stop atop at n village maKe hotel lintel and engage In conversation with the inking as ns to their crops and the prospects One man would tell him that tint he got 27 2 bushels bush lush bushels els of ot per pur nero aero that year yar and on nit being inked us to tho year previous would reply that he lie had hall made malJe 20 bush both bushels els eta then but hut that the year Lar before gotten Rotten only IS 16 bU ns nil tile his crop had been n a failure T II T II N The American Am Invasion and What it Movement Started by Estate Agents AI Fortunes How One American Amer lor Woman Sells Lands Lunds Our Settlements in Canada Some YanKees Who Dont Want Wont Homesteads n I Ax As heard hearl this kind of or talk his eyes eyel bulged out so eo that they almost dropped upon u on the hIli hl cheeks Ho lIe saw the tha th possibilities pO of or land speculation peculation fur for he hu knew the average o yield In Minnesota at tt that time was not more morl than 15 13 per acre nere When he learned that tho thomen men held their farms farina at nt only about flO per aero acre he was WIlS still more mor excited H It i heard the same name 1 stories lit itt other lither village und and when ashen hen he ho returned to Winnipeg he be I EN EH TO SASKATCHEWAN AN I called upon Mr 11 the Canadian Pacific railroad tend land commissioner and told him that he lie wanted to buy acres along the tM Hoo Soo Ho which cornea comeS Into Canada arada from the tho and joins the Canadian I Paoli trunk line lino a 11 short distance above th As s tho the story tuly t goes bur Air Ir was not nt It all anxious tn to sell deli 1 r am an told tol 1 h upon as ns crazy un advised him to lu purchase the lend land through the tho local real reul estate e agents Thin was IU done und nUll It created such audi a In Winnipeg that the agent nt employed by Robertson veto accused o or unmercifully a n poor American At nil all events event the land Was wag soon noon pur cd und and within four tour months It wa ova nil sold for 11 per acre nere A short after that nod Lynch cam to Canada and bought n million ncr of lit tho the Canadian railroad grunt grant In dd the part of or M an ua anIn uain In what hut Is now lIoW lower i They Chey paid I 1 urn nm told less le I 5 than 13 3 p nero acre That was tour four years earn carll ago an nn their tend has Ins all nil been sold They ha hn halet halet let the land go nt at nil all kind nf or but It Is IA said Mid that tho average has hn be beat beat beitt at itt tenet least 6 d per acre and that they ha hamade hIlt hat made In all nit probability out or of orthe orthe the deal dellI About this Fame ramo time another lIn bought a I bits bIg tract of or tend land nod and r disposed O ed of It nt at n I profit proUt of ot millions This was wua Col Co Davidson of or Duluth who had bad tall made much money In buying Min Minnesota lands and them Col 01 went Into Canada to buy Home cattle for rol n a farm fann ho hu had In the tho United States He lie made maUl Inquiries iu ta tato aUto to the tho crops crop and ww the tho of or land speculation In looking he found that tho lime Qu Long LOll Luke latke I AMERICAN SETTLERS ETT S ONO GOING IN I id 11 II Sll rt had res reI which they were 10 anxious to Kt KIt KItI gutI I 1 of nt Tho Thu railroad company lead had re ved wt 1 tho the land tin ne a concession for lor tiding the tho road with the provision n nt t It Will was to be good farming land cy ey did not no the toll coil how ho hoer i er and were so disgusted with their rant Irant that lint they thuy wanted tho rho dominion government to tako It buck back and allot them theta something else ehe The Tha road roal I as of or was u almost bankrupt It consisted little more moie than two Iwo streaks of ot rust ruiL and anda a n mortgage with n Q tray stray settler ettler here and there thero along th line When Col Davidson Davison offered l to take the grant rant off ore Its Ito hands at ut II it I cash per acre the owners owner I fairly tumbled over oler themselves In their rush to accept Davidson on tint t got the tho sale ual confirmed condoned by the dominion government govern government ment and then brought In a u trainload nf ot bankers and capitalism from tho the United StAtes He lie took them over OI the tract and showed them the tho land I urn um told that he sold of It on the train and that within a a year ear tho the whole holu of ot his hua hi 0 acres had been IJen disposed dl of AH As to his hi prices I under understand stand tint that he started nt at 11 U I per acre In iii big JIg block that quarter sections were wem retailed at 10 6 per Iel acre aero and und more Shove Iee then three simo men and oth oUI others ers have hav gotten possession elon of land Kr grants belonging to the various rail railroads rail roads made and t have 11 f sold lold old some mil million lion Ilona of acres nerr Indeed the moat meet of or the theland theland land selling idling his bua been dono donta by Amen Amert t IW lna This Thin IH Is especially so eo with the largo Ine tracts toted There Thero are also aho Canadian real estate tK but hut the time most moat of ot them are aro doing business In ht tho the small AN AMERICAN WOMAN 01 AGENT GE T Indeed eI one ono of or the tho chief bu ln 1 k I t r of ot tho the new Canada li le selling land In J Tho The Thereal I real estate agent ag Is found round at nt every elery eta sta station elation i tion lie He meets you ou as you step from 1 the cars caN You see ace ee his sign In the 1110 sam ram samples plea ples of ot wheat oats uati potatoes and other uther products product In his office ounce windows window and you may mil find Ond farm exhibits even at the depots Take for tOI Instance In Moose Jaw Ja nt at tho Junction of ot tho the Soo and tho the Canadian railroads It Is a live lIe ly Iy city cUr of at 1000 souls eoula and the tho liveliest part of ot It In fa the tha n 1 rond depot Just Juat outBId tho the station buildings n a pyramid lute has been erected of or sheaves shen of at oats oale wheat unit und barley with a 11 Canadian flag Illig heating floating over It The pyramid In la made incite up of I r samples nt of 0 the tho grain grown In III Inthe inthe the vicinity and they are lire so 10 o displayed that they can b be seen leen from the cnn care careWe We had a n wall walt of ot 20 minutes at oo o Jaw and I stepped ort oft and walked about AH All I 1 stood before b tre this thin pyramid a tine line looking American woman of ot 10 V 11 with a 11 buxom ked girl of or 16 drove up In a 11 buggy lour ladles were Vere clad In furs fun and aM the cheeks of ot the tha girl like rose role Tho Thu lady Inti accosted mo me asking If It I wore about to nettle In ill Canada und and If It so ao did I 1 not lot want some ome choice lande I 1 replied that thal I had not fully tully decided whereupon she HUB continued coot Well 1 can tell you sir air that there Is 3 no better bettor soil Boll than right about Moose Moone Jaw JI v and anti that I 1 have the best beset of ot till nil loft left In the neighborhood I have a II few tell choice cholet pieces piece I that I want to Mil dell II ant and If Ir you care core to look 1001 I will drive you out dut f Into the country That Is ts my ign 1 And ahe oho thereupon pointed pain ted to 10 a bill billboard billboard board tacked up be the straw stack saying that Mary Jane bought and amid sold lands lunds landsI I 1 asked naked her where her lands land II were Vero and ahe she told me m laying that they were worth from U to 20 0 unit and that they IhL would produce HO 10 O bushels bu hel of wheat M 00 bushels of or bat barley ley or 01 bu hols of or oats oata tn lu 11 tho thu acre Hut said I 1 I am afraid It will twill ho bo too cold I understand you OU people freeze to death In winter oIB As to that said tho the madam I am aman aman an n American woman who came here her herfor for tor my nn health from tram Colorado n 1 good many nany years Jeara cara ago Ilg Suppose you take tako a look at lit my daughter who tilts lilts hero hen beside lle me mI She H is 11 10 16 old DIll aul I never paid u a cent for tor doctor bills blue un JO her account Do either of or us ua look like freezing to death Ileath No lI sir h wo Wel havo a d few rew coll days In III tho thu winter but butas us as a 1 rule our climate Is la I better than that of ot the northern parts parte of or the United I then thell told tho the madam madum that I woe was a 11 I newspaper correspondent and uno not u it uland land put purchaser chaser whereupon she oho handed bonded me mine her card saying Well ell I ovoid woul 1 I like to Interest you ou In iii our lands lunde and If Ir you ou BOO seu S Q any ally one who wants wanta to buy bu Ben send Henl 1 him to me meI I mean any OilY man mall with good Bool goodhard i hard cash Send t your caid caul along with I him mind and If It he buys huy hU 14 you ou will get your I commission With Ith that cho pho droo quickly away to accost another er who had |
