Western Canada and its Great Resources
The Testimony of Settlers, farmer Delegates and high Authorities

16 WESTERN CANADA 7 And as experienced, practical farmers, we who have made farming our life-labour and study, we who have owned and worked in good countries as well as bad, would say that we are well pleased with our new home, and to our brother farmers in other parts of America, those who seem to be struggling against fate, to you, we, in all sincerity, earnestness and truthfulness, advise you to come and cast your destinies in this most bountiful of bountiful countries. Respectfully yours, (Signed) J. B. Truscott, M. Freeman, W. M. Slattery, All of Millard, Faulk Co., S. Dakota. To our friends in South Dakota and elsewhere. Mb. B. C. Talbot writes : I left Aberdeen on 4th October for the purpose of examining the agricultural resources of the Canadian North-west, in company with Thos. Gregg, of Clarke county. Next day we reached Winnipeg, a splendid city Mr. Campbell, General Immigration Agent, met us at the station; showed us the agricultural exhibit, then going on. Here we saw the products of the country from Calgary to the Red River. The display of grain, roots and stock was enough to gladden the heart of any farmer. The horned stock were the bestlever saw in any country. From Winnipeg I wentwest to Qu’Appelle, where I stopped two days, visiting friends who showed me over the beautiful Qu’Appelle valley, and I wish to say that for wheat growing that valley is hard to beat. After parting with these kind friends we pushed west to Calgary,, a splendid growing town. From there we went both to the Red Deer, where we stopped two days looking over the country. We pronounce this a first-class stock country. From there we went to Edmonton. Here we looked over the country for twenty miles around, where every farmer told us they were more than satisfied with the country and their success—good soil, plenty of timber, first-class coal right on the surface, hay and grass in abundance, stock of all kinds rolling fat. At all the points mentioned there is plenty of free home- stead land. Any person 18 years old can file on a quarter-section; filing fee only $10. Donald Ross showed us over the Edmonton district. He showed us timothy hay and garden stuff that excelled anything we ever saw. Stock of all kinds bring big prices as compared with South Dakota. Jn conclusion, I tell my friends that I found the country much better than the agents at Aberdeen described it to me. That farmers desiring homes cannot do better than settle in the Canadian North-west for the above and other reasons too numerous to mention. At Winnipeg we grand success. visited friends who have farmed there 33 years, and have made a B. C. TALBOT, Bath, »South Dakota. What a Stockman says : Calgary, Alberta, 27th August, 1891. Sir —I came to Alberta with a band of horses in 1882 and again in 1883, and was so favourably impressed with it that I concluded to make my home here, and returned with that intention in 1886. Since then I have resided at Calgary, and, m connection with my business as stock dealer, am continually in the saddle and have constant oppor- tunities of seeing the country during all seasons. And I must say that the more I see of it the more I am impressed with the great future it must have as a cattle, agricul- tural and mineral country. As to my experience, I may say that I have not confined myself to stock alone, as I have under crop some 225 acres, principally oats, but have also wheat, barley, potatoes and roots, and I am pleased to be able to state that my crops