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Show BjB . . .- f -. . .I ,i 1 CEDAR MAN DE f SCRIBES CANADA. 1 Thirty to Fifty Bushels Wheat Per If A$re Without Irrigation. if STICK WINTER OUT AND KEEP FAT. rf F.( Rich Black Loam Soil For Six to 'J- Twenty-Five DolIarsPer Acre. Good Home Market. ' , Our fellow townsman, ' Johu II. " Adams, returned Wednesday, April 20, , from a trip to Canada where he hns been in scaroh of n place to make a new , hom. Mr Adams has resided in Cedar nearly all his life and is a practical ( man who has mndo his living by manual manu-al labor and Is consequently n pood 1 judge ot what It takes in the wny of v natural advantages to constitute a V ' country susceptible of becoming a good l place in which to mako a living, and r. . while he has nothing to any ngalnst Cedar, nor the homo lie has hud here, he feels that it is incumbent upon him to make u home where theru will not only be room for him, but also for his fa soas and duughtors nfter him. And he '"' thinks that in Canada lie lias found the X couutry that will fill the bill. Mr. C. . Adams left here on the first of April, taking advantage of the conference rates as far as Salt Lako City, from which place ho purchased a round trip ( ' ticket to ilutte, Montana at home seek- :- " crs rates for 330, and from there to Cal gary in t.ho province of Alberta, Canada It cost htm about S10. Prom this point , ho began at) examination of the coun try, returning southward, A descrlp-1 descrlp-1 , tion of the country in the nelghporhood kof Calgary (Us the conditions generally in that part of the world, at least as far as Adams had time to examine it. i Tho country, Is rolling prnrie with an abundant covering of grass. Although the mercury gets down quite low In the S , . winter season the settlers say that the , 'xy ,& r cold does not seem so severe by suvdral SL,ll. .--,l..tJggrce RsJdoen In our climate nt-ihjt J snow aften falls to a greater depth than (' it does in Utah, it does not remain so long on tho ground, us tho "Chinook" winds clear toft. The prico of land varies from six to twenty. five dollars per acre, and the railroad company are .the principal vendors. When the railroad rail-road was built the government gave the company every alternate section for building the road. Tho government sections aro nearly all taken up, ut ! least in the neighborhood of the towns, . and ouly the railroad' sections are left. i . Tho-country is fast filling up and It will not be long befero land Will be j much more difficult to obtain. I Mr. Adams thinks it is a flno country i for agriculture, both farming and stock 1 raising, lie saw cat'le there fat enough (I to make good beet that bad wintered l out, and that were then on the way to '( market Tho land, which Is a black' "1 loam produces, 60 1m was Informed, M from 30 to 50 bushels to the aero, and ; other crops In proportion. Timber is jl scarco and coal is the fuel of the coun- ") try, which costs various prices, depend VM lag on how far it has to bo hauled, but 1 the average is about S3. SO per ton. I Lumber that has been planed on one 1 side costs 520 per thousand feet, in Jfl, to vn and so far the most of tho build !jMt . Ings are built of that material. Posts jfl for fenclHg aro brought into the the '', country and sold for 12f cents each. "BJj Thcro is an excellent market for all ,B sorts of farm produce and the farmer B& does not have to hunt or thu buyer, but "jflfl the purchaser comes to the farm. BE Mr. Adams has purchased two city IBS lots and a quarter section of land at H Stirling, a town of about twelve or 4BV thirteen hundred Inhabitants, lying . ;BB south of Calgary, tho city where he - BS first landed. In that country tho peo- .Bm , pic generally llye on their farms In the ,Bv summer, and keep their stock there tho j'flK vcar rou"(, uul nvc their families in- ,K to tho towns I iv the winter for school flP nnd other social purposes. Good well 'B water can begotten at from ten to flf- fl teen feet below the surface. No lrriga B tion is needed so that the water ques- tion, that is such an all important fca- BB ture ot the question of selecting a home ,BB in the arid region, cuts no figure there. H Cattle bring-a higher prico In the B market there than they do here, in J deed so much higher that Mr. Adams Intends to ship nil his cattle that lie lias here to that country, as ho thinks it will pay him better than to sell here and buy again there, lie also intends to take his team with him. It takes four good horses to pull a plow in the sod that covers the unbroken prairie, but tills sod when onco broken Is no troublo to pulverize, nnd yields good crops from the start. It cost him ovor two hundred dollars to mako tho trip, but he has no regrets that ho went, and he Intends to return as soon ns ho can close up his aflulrs in this part of the continent. |