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Show CANADIAN SOLDIEPvS WILL GET FARMS ! OTTAWA, Canada, March 17. Ca-1 naulan soldier farmers will soon bo i able to settle In a large area of western west-ern rererve land which has been thrown open through cancellation by the crown, according to announcement by the soldier settlement board. Action Ac-tion haw been taken to dispose j 75.-1 000 acres of Hudson bay reserve lands j situated Jn tho provinces of Saskatchewan Saskatch-ewan and Alberta and 10.100 acres of Doukhobor roserve lands near Kam-sock, Kam-sock, Saskatchewan. ( A portion of the land will be sold! April 15 and tho proceeds given lo a' reserve fund to offset settlement j losses and to aid returned men physically phys-ically disabled whose condition and circumstances necessitate their being settled on land. The remainder of the' area will be thrown open about April j 30 for soldier grant entry'. Assistance in the Torm of farm loans for stock! equipment will be given to those meni whose knowledge of farming will en. able them to proceed with tho development develop-ment and operation of their lands". |