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

i 34 WESTERN CANADA. ' / “ By the Chairman : “ Q. You have travelled very extensively1?—A. I have been in. every State in the Union, I think, except in the Pacific States. “ Q. And for a settler to make a comfortable home for himself, you would prefer Manitoba to any other place ?—A. The soil in the Red River valley is, to my mind, the richest farming country that I have ever seen. It is not only rich, but it has also bright prospects.” After speaking at some length upon the superior quality of the flour made at the Minneapolis mills from the wheat grown in Minnesota and Dakota, Mr. Hill said: “ The same statement applies to Manitoba, but only in a greater degree, because a superior quality of wheat is grown in Manitoba, it being further north. You have seen, the samples, and you know if you have tried it in the hand, or between the teeth, that it is hard wheat; and Manitoba is a country which is peculiarly adapted to the growth of that quality. The quantity raised will not make any difference; the whole country might go to the growing of this wheat, and it would not even, affect the price, because there is always a demand for good flour, and this is a locality that must raise it. “ Q. Do roots grow very successfully there, such as potatoes, turnips, beets, &c. ?— A. I do not know that there is any country that will surpass Manitoba for the growth of roots of all kinds—potatoes, turnips and beets especially. I think that potatoes do better there than in any other place that I have ever seen.” THE KIND OF MEN WE ARE GETTING. I-------- ( Winnipeg Free Press.) “SOLID NEBRASKA SETTLERS. “ THE LATEST ARRIVALS HAVE CAPITAL AND STOCK TO WORK NORTH-WEST FARMS. “James Gadsden, of Schuller, Neb., U.S., arrived in Winnipeg Saturday last, having in charge ninety persons, all from his vicinity in Nebraska. They are principally early settlers of that state, who have recently sold their farms at prices ranging from $30 to $41 per acre, and have with them $30,000 in hard cash, besides seventeen car- loads of effects, consisting of sixty-eight fine large horses, and household goods and farming tools, worth $1,000 a car. In. addition to this, their cattle and some horses will be driven northward as soon as grass starts, this last-mentioned stock being worth $10,000 to $15,000 more. Eighty of this party go to Old Station, fifty-eight miles north of Calgary, on fine lands they have purchased of the Calgary and Edmonton Rail- way Company, through their agents, Messrs. Osler, Hammond & Nanton, of Winnipeg. A large number of the best class of American farmers and Canadians coming home, Mr. Gadsden says, may be expected from Eastern Nebraska the coming summer. The quarantine regulations are not looked upon as so great a hardship as at first, owing to the Government providing for the stock free of charge for ninety days. After placing these parties on their land Mr. Gadsden exj ects to return to Nebraska and remain there until May 20th to assist in. starting the settlers’ stock northward which has been left behind.”