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Show w mim m nun Saji Its a Good Country. Tlirough tho courtesy of Abo Gud-ninnsen Gud-ninnsen we copy tho following extracts rrom a pilvate letter written to him by Jnmes Kvnna who Is In Catdston, Canada: "I have never regretted coming to this country for ono minute since arriving ar-riving hcio. TliU Is a good country lor a poor person to start life In. Land is easy to get, and It Is the best of land. I'very thing tho farmer raises Is n good price. Thero is 1300 people In Cnnlston and vicinity and 10,000 bushels ot grain was raised there last year without Irrigation. Ir-rigation. Tho fattest beef I ever taw Is taken ofTthorango nnd killed. Up to this writing tho Jtockinen have not fed any stock. "Wo have had two short cold spells this winter. Tho last one was very cold for two daya, tho thermometer registered 20 degrees below sero for one day nnd tho snow wns 8 inches deep, the deepest this winter. One of those warm chinook winds caiuo from the west and look all thu snow nil" nnd niiirp limn It has been very warm nnd p'.cnsant. "I linvo only lost thrco day's work (His winter. With the exception of Inst week it has been warm enough to work without coats ou. The nights are no colder than tho days thero being many nights when it does not freeze nt nil owing to the warm winds ofthewes. I don't want you to think that these w'ndsnrc nlwnys strong for they are not, eonietini.Hlt is only n light breeze and so far It tins been light breezes. The mean touipcr.itu'c lias not been as low as it ia in Lehl, though at times It tins been colder. "I liavo plenty of work at prt-sent. I am engaged in putting up a builJiug for the Cnrdston Co-op, then I have a building to put up for n hotel and I also contractod to build six dwelling houses for ono company before April 1st. 1 have built myself a nico 4-roomed 4-roomed cottago this winter. 1 now have sovon men working for me. ''if you scanny politician looking for n job don't Bend him up hero for thero Is nothing for him to do when ho gets here, hut if you sco n young innn look-inglor look-inglor a good piece ofland mulls willing to work, Just send him nlong for he nill find plenty of innd and work on his arrival here. If you know of any old maids looking for good husbands send them nlong nlio, for thero will bo Joy wlusn thoy get here." |