| Show A WORD IN REPLY KEPLY please allow me space to reply to the writer who is the author of this in the tribune lehl lehi july 12 A letter received yesterday by james kirkham from his daughter alberta in canada reports that herself and husband M H anderson andersen are on their way to utah once more much dissatisfaction is ia reported twenty five teams having hav ing left in one day wheat is about six inches high the canadian government seems to have reserved the best land for speculative purposes necessitating a journey of over a hundred miles from the settlements already made to where there is suitable land tor for preemption pre lyre emption 11 I 1 would think any person who invented this misrepresentation would be sick of most any place on earth I 1 will here state there is one truth that is a few parties have returned from canada experience teaches us that some people are not content anywhere they left their former homes because spirit actuated them but some of those 25 wagons never entered the dominion they ame cagne to the national boundary looked feigned to lookout look but closed their eyes and said we can behold nothing A few others came as aa far as the custom house failing to assure the officials of their identity retreated A few others that returned came into our settlements and failing to find a location among the old settlers of eleven years residence could see nothing that suited them aside from cultivated farms became discontented and returned to this no one objected but the stat sta tennent that there was no land bihin miles is absolutely false during the last three months I 1 have located about new settlers within 16 miles and can locate another thousand people and not go to exceed 40 miles from all these within the purview of our organized wards L can do this on government land CUB as homesteaders too now about the land held for speen y dative purposes our country like t that of the united States has subsidized ran roads and the odd section the railway have to sell on easy terms at 3 bata acre As few townships of land norm and east of our settlements are hel Q in solid blocks to facilitate irrigation S all of which the government has tha right to do however within this raft i us of miles there are hundreds of 9 homesteads on excellent lands I 1 ar been a resident of cardston bardston Card ston alberta for over eleven years and we haws A never failed in raising a crop how ho w ever a few seasons have been crops light in these dry seasons whets 3 the land was put in in time and erly tilled we have raised 15 to 18 aaa 20 bushels of wheat per acre last deew yeast we averaged 30 bushels of oats and all of this has been done irrigation once we have natu J enough to establish a thorough system of irrigation I 1 believe our 1 alberta country will be second to the industrious portion of our drools il are very prosperous of these we ar 1 J blessed with a great majority 3 mr editor there is no iio nse without labor the industrious Us hv haw not time to complain neither davs they any desire to do so I 1 left cards cardest az 3 ton ten days ago and at that date 0 oss uy 6 for a good f prospects crop were vex vert t favorable people were haylee BA preparing to harvest that six I 1 li wheat the shortest the late sw was knee high while the fall and e el sown was equal to that I 1 saw in C ca a valley planted at the same time sides aides our farmers the most of th have a years or more bread on b haa our vegetable are in crops fine 00 0 oon 0 tion people eating new potatoes the new comers are busy bull breaking land haying etc and I 1 cheerful besides all of this we are offered joffere hundred thousand dollars in labor the alberta irrigation companas comp anys CA cat half cash and half excellent nral land at 3 per acre all the wor work i be contracted work ten cents Y yard for earth and correspond corresponding I 1 n g arfe p for gravel c cement n tt loose and adf rock all of which our people have ave t first opportunity to do which to i be tokens prosperity for the industries Indu Indus trio home I 1 will here state if you desire formation enquire of those that live j our settlements or come and see yourselves it will only cost vou voli for the round trip by calling on agent arn C spence box B salt bait L city send your men of judgment i will take a few days to look over country coTi call on the old residents v their farms gardens stock etc C 0 CA OARO salt lake city aug eth 18 1898 98 |
