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

AND ITS GREAT RESOURCES. 19 FROM BRULE COUNTY. A BRULE COUNTY FARMER ADDS SOMETHING TO THE PRAISE OF THE NORTH-WEST—HE IS SATISFIED THAT THE CANADIAN NORTH-WEST IS A GOOD PLACE FOR A HOME---ONE YOUNG MAN’S SUCCESS IN FARMING IN THAT COUNTRY. Gentlemen,—Being on my way from the South Dakota colony, Assiniboia, Canada, I just dropped off here to tell you—as you know I went from Brule county last spring —I found the country much better than you represented it to me. I have taken up a quarter-section near Sheho Lake, where I have plenty of timber for all purposes; plenty of water, splendid grass and hay to no end. I have built a good log house and have everything ready to move in next spring. I am now on my way to Bru e county to get my stock and what things I have there ready to go up in early spring. A car from Aberdeen to Yorkton will cost me $78; but stock is so much higher in. Manitoba than South Pakota that the difference will more than pay the cost of transportation. Cows in Assiniboia are worth $30 to $10 ; all other stock in proportion. On. my claim there are forty acres of nice bush; the soil is as good as is to be found anywhere, and this is proved by the enormous growth of oats, barley and roots grown on breaking in the colony this year. Next summer, I believe, a railroid will run through the colony to Prince Albert. The settlers will then have a railway at their doors. I tell all my friends in Brule county that I have settled there, believing it to be just the place to make a good home. Mixed farming pays splendidly, and as a stock country I never saw the equal; hundreds of steers sold this fall right off the grass for four cents on. the hoof. Next summer there will be lots of work on the building of the railway. Every- body I met there seemed contented. Money was plenty, and there are no two per cent a month fiends there. Taxes are very low, and money only eight per cent per annum— no bonus. Yours truly, FRED. MOHR. Chamberlain, Brule County, S.D. What two well-known South Dakota Farmers saw in the Canadian North-west. To our Friends and Neighbours of Brown County : We left Aberdeen, S.D., 9th September for the purpose of examining the agricul- tural resources of the Canadian North-west. After crossing the boundary we saw magnificent crops of all kinds, all the way to Winnipeg. We found Winnipeg the most substantial city of its size we ever saw. Between Winnipeg and Yorkton, a distance of 279 miles, we saw the finest crops that we ever saw in our lives—oats, wheat and barley. Vegetables and small fruits of all descriptions. From Yorkton we drove into the South Dakota colony, a distance of 45 miles. We examined this country carefully, and found it a very fine grain and stock country, and plenty of wood, water, hay and grass. We met the greater number of the South Dakota colonists, and failed to find a single one dissatisfied. We returned from there to Portage, and from there we went west to Regina, passing immense fields of wheat along the route, with evidences of prosperous farmers on all sides. We spent two days in the Regina district, and pronounce it a first-class soil for agricultural purposes. Saw some of the finest cattle and sheep that .we ever saw. lhree-year-old heifers that would weigh 1,300 to 1,400 pounds, selling for $32.00 each. From here we went to Prince Albert, a distance of 247 miles, a prosperous town of 1,100 inhabitants, contain- ing saw-mills, grist-mills, schools, churches and steam-boat landing. From this place we drove sixty miles south-east in Carrot River settlementfound everybody prosperous and hard at work securing their immense crop of grain. Mr. Beattie stated that he helped Mr. Cameron, one or his neighbours, thresh 517 bushels of oats from six acres, and from thirty-three loads of sheaves he threshed 900 bushels of wheat.