OCR Text |
Show A MINNESOTA ! writes of western Canada where he1s now located. Tlio Tallin In HI, Noialitiorhood Arc Itchif; Kapidly Talieu I'p by Toraier IlcsldeutB of the L:ni!ed Stulei. ' The following extracts from a letter j written to Mr. Benj. Davies, Canadian government agent at St. Paul. Minn., give an excellent idea of what is said of Western Canada by those who have gone there during the past two or three j years. "When we first arrived here and took up our homes on the prairie near Dalesboro, 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 ever seen. We have got very comfortably situated, with considerable preparations for a crop, and all hopeful. I think this is a very fine country, and if the past season's sea-son's crop is not an exception, which they claim not. I believe this is going to be the wheat field of the West. It is filling up fast. In this township last spring there were 25 quarter-sections of land vacant and today there is not one. I can stand at my house and count ten houses where there was not oi.e last spring, with six more to go up this spring. This is only a sample of what is going on all 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 to have been here last spring. There were crowds of land-seekers, and sometimes some-times in the spring the prairie is not very inviting, and of course lots were discontented. There was one in the C1UWU W11U JllllipU UU llie 1U1 puLLin, ; 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 today claims lie would not take a thousand dollars and move out, so 1 am glad he is satisfied. "Well, my dear sir, as Arthur Finney Fin-ney is about to move out in March, with his family, and also one of my sons, anything you 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 you know we are living. Drop us a few lines to let us know how things are moving in St. Paul. "Yours Respectfully, "ALEX. CAMERON." |