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

AND ITS GREAT RESOURCES. 27 Edmonton. The number of my land is sect. 34, tp. 53, r. 21 ; if you have a map you can see how far I am from your section. I have built a log house on. my place, but no stable yet, as I have no stock. I am not staying at home much. If Robert comes, he will bt? welcome to live in the house. I think, however, they would be foolish to come before spring or 15th March, as they could not do much, and they would have to pay high for 1:ay, $5 a ton, and some at least would have to rent houses to live in Mid I notice that rent in Edmonton is very high, in fact newcomers will have to pay high for everything, potatoes are going to be high and scarce in the spring. Settlers should bring some with them when possible, also their hens as it is almost impossible to buy hens here. The greater part of the winter has been very fine, but we had three or four weeks of very cold weather, but not stormy. I have not seen a severe snow storm this winter though we have two feet of snow, it fell a few inches at a time. There is very little wind but it freezes intensely hard, but upon the whole I would rather winter here than, in Neb- raska. I will close this ; if there is any information I can give you or anything I can. do for you, let me know. Will be glad to hear from you soon. My respects to Mrs. Swan. I remain your friend, ALLEN MONROE. (From the Richford, Vt., Gazette, of 2nd December, 1892.) A Productive Two Acres. Mr. B. C. Gallup of North Sheldon was one of the party who accompanied the party last summer from this section to the Canadian North-west. During his stay in Winnipeg Mr. Gallup visited a nephew—H. A. Chadwick—who keeps a hotel at Silver Heights, about five miles from Winnipeg, and on his return, home told such marvellous stories of the productiveness of the soil there that Mr. D. J. Waggoner, who was in charge of the party, wrote Mr. Chadwick for full particulars, which are given in the following letter, under the date of Nov. 24. Mr. Waggoner :— “ Dear Sir,—Your letter to hand. I would say in reply that I had a field of about two acres in it that the corn gi-ew on, so will tell you what I raised on this field. I sold my corn to market gardeners at 8c. per dozen, and they sold it in the city for green, corn. I sold $133 worth, and we used all we wanted in my own hotel, and I now have about 25 baskets on hand. I sold 65 bushels of onions at $1.25 per bushel; 20 bushels of pai-snips at $1 per bushel; two hundred bushels of potatoes, which are worth 35 cents per bushel here now; 10 bushels of turnips; and I sold $27 worth of pumpkinsand Hubbard squashes besides a lot that I fed to pigs. So think this crop paid me very well. We can beat the world on raising onions or any root crop. I had as fine a crop of tomatoes this year as I ever saw anywhere. Had 50 pails of red currants in my garden, this year, and they sold readily at $1 per pail. I also raised plenty of plums and gooseberries. It is only a matter of a few years when there will be plenty of apples grown.” Yours truly, H. A. CHADWICK.