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MANITOBA Ai W CANADIAN NORTH-WEST, 
 
 LETTERS PROM ACTUAL SETTLERS. 
 
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 Alcxaniler Hfgt;, KiK]., (Jentrul Kiiiijjra- 
 lioD A);<>ijt of the CunadjBii i'licilic liuil- 
 way Cotu|iBny, Iiuh Ik'hi the reoipient of a 
 luge miiiibcr of letter" from (irac'tical 
 faruiefH in the Canaiiiuii North-Went 
 which contain u creal ainoiiiit of ini|Kirt- 
 SDt anil iiilere«tin({ inloiination witli re- 
 gard to the agricultural cupahililies of the 
 country. Um correH])onileulH are ncalter- 
 «d all over Manitoba ami the Car.a<tiuii 
 Territories. A i)eruHal of lhene letters 
 will satisfy inoi-l pernoiiH thai the Cana- 
 dian North-WeHt is one of the bent coun- 
 trieN in ilie worM for farinerH to eniijirale 
 to. Appeuded are HuniniarieH of the 
 etatenieiitM of a ntimlier of Mr. liefrg'M cor- 
 reRpondentH, nelected at random fronj 
 «tn6nu«t about live hundred letterH. 'J'iie 
 factH are conclu.xionn of these correspond- 
 «ntH are given in their own lajijiiiafre and 
 present a reinarkahle body of ununimous 
 tegtiiuony on this interi'slin,! subject ;^ 
 
 K. McKNIGUT, ESQ., | 
 
 CariiiBii, Manitoba, states hin experience 
 as follows :— He went from U.\ford Coun- 
 ty, Ontario, into the Canadian North-Wesl 
 ID April, 1871), having purchased a, lioine- 
 stead and pre-empted (140 acres of Govern- 
 nienl land. His capital amounted to $5,- 
 000. He has now ICO acres under cultiva- 
 tion. His lirst house was of lutfs, built at | 
 a cost of $200, and he now values liis pro- 1 
 perty at $10,000. His crop for the present 
 year is 55 acres of wheat yielding 20 bush- 
 els to the acre, 20 acres of oata yn-'lding 55 
 buehels per acre, 17 acres of barley at 43 
 Ijushels per acre, besides roots and vegeta- 
 bles. His potatoes yield from 200 to 400 
 bushels per aci'e, his turnips from 400 to i 
 600 bushels |.er acre. He slates that 
 "jegetables grow with very I, die trouble 
 and he can raise almost all kinds, includ- 
 ing rhubarb, beets, corn, onions, parsnips, 
 caubage, tomatoes, carrots, pens, beans, 
 caulillower, asparagus, cucumbers. 
 melons, citrous, pumpkins, and otiiei 
 varieties. The wild auii cultivated fruits 
 .igrowu are strawberries, raspberries, cur- 
 ra«ts, cranberries, plums, blueberries and 
 wild cherries. Oftlax, he remarks that 
 ■it growe splendidly The soil is a clay 
 loam from one to three feet deep. Manure , 
 ia not required for the first few years, 
 tut It will be necessary after a while.] 
 He has any amount of liay ami his cattle i 
 itlirive well on llu' wild gr:isses of the prai- 
 rie iu summer, and he has no troulile 
 in keeping them fut in winter when they ■ 
 run out in the uiiy lime and are stabled al ; 
 night. His stock consists of four horses 
 «nd iweuty-nine head of cattle, In'sides 
 eheep and'hogs. He has sutlered no hard- 
 «Uiporlossin winter from the climale,' 
 which he considers very healthy. The 
 winter extends from the tirsl or the tenth 
 of Noveinlwr to the lir-t of April. Plow- 
 ing ooiliii.cnces at the earliest about ihe 
 11th April and harvesting about the 12th 
 August. The fencing he uses is mostly 
 
 Irarbed wire of three wires, costing flO'* 
 (ler mile for [.Kists and wire, lie uses' 
 mo.'.lly w(««i for fuel, which is easily got. 
 as he has 50 acres of timber. He h*s 
 plenty <'f water, namely, the Huyiie river' 
 and u well 12 feet deep. The cost of' 
 breaking land he places at $2.30 per acre,, 
 when lalsjr is hired, and $2 for backsetting. 
 He lias Millered no serioii" loss from I 
 storms in winter or summer, he linds that ! 
 the sheep do well anil are paying slock, 
 aiiil III' linds stock raising, combined with | 
 grain fanning decidedly prolilable, even 
 wherecatlle have to be housed <luring' 
 winter. The necessaries of lite area little j 
 higher in some things than in Untario. i 
 Siiinmer fronts are entirely exceptional. 
 The bes; t me for breaking the virgin soil 
 is from Ihe Isl of June to the Isi of July, 
 Imckselting in the fall. He estimntes that I 
 a man with oxen will break an acre a dayi 
 with hor.-es one bikI a half to two acres. 
 In harvest, cutting and bulling co-t one 
 dollar and a halt an acre. He is per- ' 
 lectly satislied with the country and the ' 
 climate, and his prospects are as good as ' 
 can be. Mr. Mcknight tays : "1 would i 
 advise anyone with a small capital { 
 to come to this counlry. I have made 
 more capital ii, five years in this country 
 than in twenty years in Ontario, and have 
 not to work so hard. Here all the work is j 
 done with machinery. It is a great deal 
 easier to sit 1)11 a binder than to swing a 
 cradle." He advises settlers coming from 
 (ire.it Hritain to bring good warm clothing 
 and bedding in the case of families, atA if ^ 
 single men, as little as jiossible. 
 
 S. HANNA, KSQ., 
 
 Reeve of Whitehead, resident in Griswold, 
 Manitoba, gives the following as his ex- 
 perience : He went inio tlie Canadian 
 Norlh-West from Oil City, Pennsylvania,: 
 in the summer of 1881. He homesteadiii 
 the eastern half of section 12 of township 
 10 of K 2:), and purchaKsd section 7, T. 10, ; 
 range 22 and 4(J acres of wood lot. He i 
 owns 1,00G acres, of which 450 aie tinder 
 cultivation. He values his property at $10 ' 
 per acre. His tirst house is a frame • 
 liuilding costing f.l'iO. Tills i ear's crip 
 includes 170 acres of wheat, yielding 25 
 bushels ])er acre, 70 acres of oats at 45 i 
 ipusnels per acre, and 15 acres of barley al 
 30 bushels pe ■ acre. Flax grows well, 
 vielding 16 I hels of seed lo Ihe acre. 
 The .soil is blacK loam, two feet deep, willi I 
 a yellow clay subsoil. Tlie cattle do well 
 on the wild grasses, and they are stabled 
 in the winter. He has plenty of wood and \ 
 water, havi"g two wells on his properly, 
 one 21 feet iid the elher 62 feet deep. He 
 expresses himself satiafled witii the coun- 
 lry and climate and ihe prospects ahead 
 of him. 1 
 
 PHILIP DICKSON, ESQ., \ 
 
 lives in dialer, Manitoba, and has Wen 
 
 iliere since 1879. He hail previously re-, 
 
 sided in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and 
 
 Ontario. He owns H20 acres of land,| 
 
 , which he values at$4,U00. His wheat this 
 
 sett-on yielded 25 bushels to the acre, his 
 
 barley 40, and his potatoes 400 bushels. 
 
 ; He is thorougiily Stili'-iied with his new 
 
 i home and its surroundings, and considers 
 
 I the climate of the Canadian North-Went : 
 
 the iiiost healthy of any counlry he has 
 been iu. 
 
 MK. JOHN B. DAVIS 
 
 lives at McLean, Assiniboine. He went to 
 theCanailan North-West in April, 1H«2, 
 from Ontario. All the money he hiul was 
 |I5. lielween homesleading anil purchase 
 he has ttcipiired 480 acres of land, which 
 he vttliiej at $5,000. He lias Imilt a frame 
 houne which cost him $400. He has 
 raised this vear 000 bushels of wheal, be- 
 sides oats, Larley a. id a great variety of 
 routs and vegetables. He has nol hud to do 
 any fencing so far, lu^r lias he any use for 
 manure. He liii'ls plenty of gixid water in 
 a well ^ix (eel deep. He estimates the cost 
 per acre, of prejiaring Ihe land and sowing, 
 including the price of seed grain and har- 
 vesting, III $10 per acre at lirst. Mr. l)avin 
 says, " 1 would sooner be here now with- 
 out one dollnr than have $2,000 iu Ontario 
 and have . .--lay Uiere." 
 
 Here is what an Englishman Ihinks 
 about the cou'itry ; — 
 
 W. C. KNIGHT, ESQ., 
 is from Eiisilanij. He settled at Oak Lake, 
 Manitoba, in 1870. He commenced with a 
 capital of $2,000. He homesleoiJed and 
 purchased 800 acre.s of land, and devoted 
 his allention chiefly to stock raising. His 
 tirst house was of logs, built complete by 
 liilf-breeds fiir$25 — certainly nota palatial 
 residence. Wheal yielded with liim forty 
 bushels to the acre and potatoes 100 
 biuhels. His garden supplied him with 
 an abundance of vegetables of all kinds, 
 and without manure. His cattle tiirive 
 well on llie wild gras.ses. This is what he 
 says oil ihat subject: — "My thoroughbred 
 shorthorns have nuthiny but the wild 
 grasses of the country, and they are in 
 "pi iidil condition — iu fact, ipiite tat. I 
 should lake a prize for Christmas beef ia 
 England. The beef cannot be beaten." 
 The cattle thrive well m winter on hay 
 only. He considers the climate wonder- 
 fully healthy, the exceeding drynes.s of 
 the air in winter being very favorable to 
 the healthy and vigorous sclion of the 
 lungs. He has nol sutlered loss from early 
 frosts, which he regards as altogether ex- 
 ceptional. He has enough lo do in the 
 winier atlending lo his cattle, hauling 
 wood, hay, logs, fence poles and visiting 
 his neighbors. He, iu tact, regards the 
 winier as a very enjoyable season. He is 
 satislied with the counlry, as it comes 
 quite up lo his exuectalions. He ailvises 
 any one who is able and willing to work, 
 and has a capital of some i.'200 to slarv 
 with, lo settle in the Canadian North-West. 
 He says : " There is no doubt the counlry 
 has a brilliant future before it, and there 
 is room for uiillions of independent happy 
 homes lo he eelablished. I would strongly 
 recommend," he continued, "a mw 
 settler to lake up land immediately on his 
 arrival, and get on it without delay j it 
 will save no end ot trouble and expense." 
 
 THE HIND BROTHERS, 
 are Englishmen, and Cockneys at that. 
 I'liey settled in Assiniboine in April, 1883, 
 and give their lirsi impressions of the coun- 
 try. Tliey h.ivp taktm up a large quaati- 
 ty of land, 1,040 acres, and have evideully 
 gone to the Canadian North-West to stay 
 
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 living' here fork iiiuii if he will Keek it. I 
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 intlvo yenrn olil,ari,| I hid (..•iI.t nil to .Uv 
 llmii wli»ii I oaiii. Jierc, iIm.iikIi I ImvV 
 iiiiilf <mr livitiK l.y ^l•anMll^^ (,r wliuieviT 
 iflwl coil 1,1 «el 1(1, i„. Th.i.. IS III* .Hii,e 
 ' cli.ince for nnv inun if hr nri|| b,,|j ,, ■• 
 Wliili- liKikiiiK "»<'r the IfittTf ffueiveil 
 
 _-J urow tip Willi tlie country." Tlif vir. iweutytiv* cfnt« .. 
 
 ■gin «oii yifMiMl them irood croiiH of iiulit- luimii NortliWem m IM/O Il^ti....^ ...i "i v " .TVi- -"""■ lor mr vnnaiinn 
 
 toe- ,....„ol,N »n,i ..%,.. ll/eir ,Uu i. "l' a ."n.,!::"' lot . ' „ ^p e . ^ U^ av '"" Therrar'r.7, ""' TV'' 
 
 tooliasilone well will, ilie ino«l pninilive iii..re, an,l alt^r. ar.ln he UiUi/liL. ,, Iri^I ...!..! "I i "«'">"«• UMlnce,! to 
 
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 denluxuneHin KSundanoe-lettuce. pja,, luLav He Tow owih a "?,» r ]S ' ? ' « ""'" 'K""™'"^" "f •«noi.|. 
 
 cuci.inl*r., uielon., oitronn. v.«e^l,i; acre, ./r «,k" Li^ U itk. te ..her ■ 1. ^-ullnr:;! iT'/T' ""'" •'"• <='»"• "^ 
 
 niarrow-, onionn, oahba«ee, cunlitK.werH, .etilerM, l,a.i lo rouU , f ,r a ii e ml ' '^W,, v 1 l-l'^Trrn «„u M.mll h.rn.er-.. 
 
 Ac 4c. The^e sentlenien Kave l.en lir.t plu'ee of HU^na;; a |40 ri-- • " IT: to w. "k m' ' -" "' """"" '-'^ 
 
 eighteen month- m the i;«„a,|ian North- K,.t he p.t al„„«. Thi- vear he h», "jli 
 
 Went ami are nillv »ati«lie,| wilh their .icre« u.i.l.r cro.V. hut he.*! lear he exmrt- 
 
 |.r««|*ct-ari,l witU the country. Ihey ^ay : to have 150. i/e ownn a pair of luul,., a 
 
 Welia-Mio ie«ilalion in ntatiiiK that a learn of oxen, t»o cowe ai„l four l,e.,l ot 
 
 man who m willing! Ui work aii.l lo put up youiJK cattle. Altogether Mi' lUi.l hv his 
 
 with a few lucoi.venienceH at lir«t, cannot , imliiHtrv ami thrill .lunn,< the lu«t live 
 
 help hii Huccee, We have foun,i the cli- vearH ha< .i,a.ie himself mil family very ' 
 
 mateall we could wi,h. 1 he summer very comfoitahle. The account that he uive' Wtiiie looking. „..., 
 
 j^m wit,, cold m^hU,, the winter -M , of iiimjelf . . inter.tu. U.^ 
 
 «,lhonlyt2.2o I had neither turniture ac,|uire,l wluU, , n.hr the .■ir in, Z'- 
 ..--.- - .„., .„,„ „^„, ''»""v>-.l'Ulll.et,meHwerego(xl liien. I mun I* considered very lU'Z^^^^^^ 
 
 uaHtin«, couiiiy, Un.ario. lie ^ui 3 :;;i;'i'','; i^'^'^rj^r'-vr^'"'^ '""-i ^ re,„i:i,:r;r;.r;'i:a!':' :,•; 
 
 butpluckv. lie Mivslhat afier ei.ierinir ■ T, h <-«l'ilttl K" times are hard they were improving th.ir farms, er.rtin^ 
 
 for his homes.eud he ha,l »ol one ,ffi ^^ririmmTto" ?:i;i^ '"''T' '""'''■■■»?".'•"' '"K ."uchinerV ll nu-r « 
 
 ■" • ■ ■» '' ■ -- I wuM iiittii, vniiiiin lu roiiKli It, tttii (;t't n niir their iv»» ki<.<-^ il.<.., t .. i . 
 
 start here heller Ihan uf the' ol,ier' pro Iht^.r h.mi! . Wit'n tfis , "CT'' 
 
 vmce- 1 never ,ii.l any farm work unlil I mmd, the ri.pidity w, h wl ic p , , ^ ,v 
 
 He iiadr.his'\ear;-ei;^;r";;;ver;;:;:r wi^^^*^^"" "h^",''"" » ca„a,.,an ...i,:.:^!:;;; ''r:.i'frr"- Kl^r:,,;::;';;,:: 
 
 wheat, twenty ajren 'nn,ler oat^, aii^ ie : k 'TlTT "'"' h'"'""' ""-' ''■'''^''""' i """ ^"""^ "^^ *'^- H-*!*!'^ co res i .^.S 
 acres under barley, lie had alio a con- ' 7^" '"''«•• "[ "tjr'culti.re or any txperienee o-. erestimate the value of iheir "am s ami 
 Bideruhle biea,llh of lan,l under p^tat^l f ""'" """^ """'a>!i'J, rom a very small '■ mak.n^; every allowance nexio-Lera'lion 
 and turnips, and a l'.h^I kite lei Ci^ S^Tw'^' ,'" ^'''i,"" '" "','' l-'"""'!'""! U will t seen that theVeai.™ "f Z 
 His wife, he sav.., values his farnf a ten f^Y'.'-^^"' i «"■ will now .see how an Kng- Uettlers have ,h,ne U'lter in I he C» im,! an 
 
 thousand dollars. Whether he re';a:r^ '^ ^rau^wh" he U.iXof '^u';''"'^ pros- ! Nor.h-West t , they couM'hirveZ e 
 
 •ow he, aH I ^ ' '■ ''^ "'°'"' "' "'* country. | the same time, and engaged in the same 
 
 Mil. QEORGK VANDKHVOOUT. 
 
 of AlexBiiilria, MuniUiha, went lo the Ca- 
 
 nailian North- West in June, 18711, from 
 
 lelttotake liiin to the Cana,lian North- 
 West. Thi.s was in Is,s2. He 
 liai4 now a farm of ;t20 acr.-, with a 
 hniig house ujHjn it built by his l»b,jr, ami 
 worm, according lo Iiih calculation, flUO. 
 
 that esliniale as t,x) high or too low he, as 
 a ilutilul husbaii.l, does not say, but m'ost 
 people will conc;u,le that the country in 
 which a man who commenced worth fortv 
 dollars le^s than nothing two Years ami a 
 half ago, can ac(|uire such a snug little 
 property as M . Trover possesses, cannot 
 be a very bad one. Naturally this settler 
 
 MR. OEOUOE DICKSON 
 
 settled in the Canadian North-West in 
 A|_ril, I8H2. lie wa.s not bv any means 
 rich. After he got his family Irom 
 lui-onto he had $000 to commence life 
 with in the Caiiiulian North West. Jt ,;,,hi 
 him ,«200 to gii a house to live in. He 
 
 , . ' - *"fe">;",* 1,1 iiie same 
 
 (JCCiipation, many of the eastern proviiue., 
 
 «• '?! *"i* "' """' '^"1"""'''' "f the Old 
 World. ).ct u.s take a few examples at 
 random. 
 
 MH. WM. M'KEaiyiICK, 
 
 l>e a v.Tv bad one. Naturally this settler , ' ^m U>7 
 
 tliinks a great deal of the couutrv in which i . i^ ,.m - 
 
 he ha« done so well in so short a lii e He s^l i '^l ,'" I,", ' •'^^ "",""' "^ ''""^- '^'1"- 
 
 However, a,lv.»e« settlors to be cautious , ^'"'i'' ""'" 'Ti''' " ''"'"■"'I of ,x,r- 
 
 and to husbaml their resource/. ZTe i a;!,1 1? f'"' "'"I'l"' "," ""^" «""■ **<■"' 
 
 ooncludeH his letter by saying that "as 1 f , ""'Collected a nice litlle her.l of 
 
 claim to be a successful N,^ .wester '"■'"" '"''"' V,'^'^'"'^"- ^'"' "''i'"''!" ''"v<- 
 
 would be pleaded and mo.t I . to Le '1"'!' "'' "''" "? "*'' "'^"1'' '" '•^''^■'''"d 
 
 advice and information to i_, ',,. ,iL set- ".I .'i 1"^ '"u"' '"'"^1'" ."^ l'^ can provMe 
 tiers free ' 
 
 now of llosebank Kami, Crystal C.ly, left 
 t.,ml,ll,urn. ii. the County of Carle.on 
 Unlario in llie spring ol IKSO to try his luck 
 in the Cann.han Norih-West. He broiikdit 
 with him $M00. He hoiiiesieaile.i ai„l r,re- 
 emi.led ;i20 acres. He ha.s now 100 a'les 
 under cultivation, a snug house, three 
 h.-irses and other sUnik, an,l allogellier he 
 advice an^ iufo'rmaliorto 'i_, ■." r,^1.'eV^ "'"', '"^ ""V,"^' '■'■elter a^ l,e can provi.i; "''"'■.'^ '"- l"-"l>'".v m *4,0«0, or li>e tiii,e« 
 
 'g «'''• lor them. He can get plenty of hay, and ' """■«"'^' '^"P""'- -Mr. McKertnck has 
 
 MR D N niirMMM-T .Ihe cattle do as well on it is tney do on 'T'" «■■"""'« '"^'' "i ",""•""■"' "f |800 a 
 
 Pin, VMM I ^' failure in England. The climaEe suits : rj'"' "'"«* ''» «-'H'='l i" the Caiiadiau 
 
 Elm Valley, Manitoba, formerly of Blan- '"'"i" every wav. His health is e'xll '^"'•^''-Wesl. 
 
 don, Uxou. Englaad, after four and ahalfi»"J he ,loe.s not feel the winter to be verv MR THOMVS ni TViM* 
 
 years residence m the back woods of On- ' «""«■ U« "avs he travelled twenty imlei „ tlUMAS OLIVER. 
 
 ■ ■■ " !*'"'»? ox 'earn in the worst blizzard that I V ■^'i!"''^' '■""'='''"'*■'' ''J ""' t:ana,lian 
 
 I came aM winter, when the thern.omeier f;'^';"':West from Dumfries Township, 
 showed 4, degrees below zero. He has ^.^i I'j" J""" "'" capital amounted to 
 plenty of >vater on his farm, but wood i.-, *.,:i ,"'« f""" iJonsjst.s of , ■120 acres, of 
 
 but he will beabh' ^ 
 
 I has lo-t 
 
 tario, emigrated to Manitoba. He had 
 very little money to make the fresh btart 
 with, only two hundred ilollars. In 18H' 
 
 he settle,l on a farm of IGO acres w:..ich ho . . - ..,.. 
 
 values now at a $1,200. He has ha,I many : ''« ""V^ . getting scarce j but he wi 
 ditticulties to jiicet but he has surmounted '" K'"' ""»' before il is gone. He 
 
 ^.....-,.,t.^n uo lueci out ne uas surmounted '" Ket cjai i;etore il is gone. He has lo-t 
 
 tliem all. He i.< well pleased wilh the ""''V'*? ^-y *-uiiiiuer frost, and he does not 
 
 quality of the land and believes that at i ''""'"'"« ibere is auy danmr from frost 
 
 present manure would do it more harm ' ^ copa sown reasonably" earlv He re- 
 
 tliangood. He believes that, with industry V'"'"'"^" having seen frost in K'n,'laud in 
 
 anil economy, a settler cannot fail to do : J,"'y. but no one thinks of lud^iui: the, MK I W PAWivn 
 
 well. If a p.^,r man now wants to earn : "'""""e of tiiat country by such a"n e1,cet Uft n^Jn i ^^■„^^^.^^^^ 
 
 money he can always get employment at t'onal occurrence. A,,' acre of lanJ ran ("i^ v ... ""^ County, Ontario, on the 8tli of 
 
 I ■ I , — ^^...i.r-i,.-, o, ,jiu acres, Ot 
 
 which he has now 150 acres under culti- 
 
 l'*""'»,;nn '"?" !""'^ " ''0''^''. "I'ieh CBst 
 him $500, an,i he has two horses and 
 twel eheadof cattle. Mr. Oliver values 
 his farm at $0,000. This is an extraordin- 
 ary increase in seven years. 
 
 MR. ,1. W. FANNING 
 
 money he can always get employment at t'onal occurrence. A„"ac"re of Fan,! canTe 
 from $25 to $.15 a month. He thinks that ^'"c^f^u in eight hours by a team of oxen 
 a man from England or anywhere else ''V"'S " »t early morning and evenini?' 
 would do well to bring out with him a,'',"'"*? "f l'"" l"'"^ with gar,leninL' ic' 
 good eel of curpKiiter's tools. . There is no lack of employment in win* 
 
 Kill liriV mt-rtwm-, Ullll I liuviu ■> atn I • 
 
 MR, WM. REID 
 
 and ihere are 
 
 iiit 
 
 nter. 
 
 April, t,ut f,.rgets to say m what year He 
 lia,t with him $.400 lo commence with He 
 sellleil on .T20 acres .,f land. He built a 
 bouse and purchased two hors"s. He 
 values his farm now at t'^.OOO. It U evi. 
 
 .r«..o;^j:i;r-.„..:=~izS.H^ 
 
♦.<■ '*'( 
 
 doinfulii! hlr, (or tie coiicIuiIch Inn lrll*r 
 with tbin inolfHt, and, iindfr (lie circiim- 
 »l«ncep«, »ery natiirtl rerjiiFiit : "Ifjron 
 havp ariir iirowii-iip (lkti|{lit<-r», nend them 
 i«Jon){." Perlivpn wjtiie jrouDff Imly in the 
 EacI, where elijiilile young men are becoin- 
 inu HI lainentalily ccaroe, mar take pity on 
 Mr Fanninjj'H military and CMtiifortleM ixin- 
 dition anil Ix-uoine the iharer of bin rapidly 
 growing proHperity. 
 
 MR. RODEttICK McRAB, 
 
 of MiniittloHa, Man,, emigrated from Briioe 
 CouMly, OnUrio, to the Canadian North 
 WeKt in April, IHHl. H in capital amounted 
 to the magnilleciit nuni of ten dollarH, He 
 liuiiie«teailed ItiO acres. lie hm now foity 
 acreH of hin farm under cullivation, 
 twenty-live of which are tinder wheat. He 
 built a log houHo, and he owub h yoke of 
 oxen anil two cowh. He valued liin farm i 
 at two thou-and dollarn. For ten dollar- 
 to Kwell lu two tliDU-Hnd in little lietter 
 than three yeiirH HcoinH to lie an iiiii)OHni- 
 •■ility, liul, ft" .Mr. Kmlerok Moltae hIiuwh, 
 there in nolliinf; iiiiiKi^Hihle ulioul it— in the 
 Canadian Norlli-W eHt. 
 
 Mil. A. R.8TEEU3, i 
 
 who livfH in Oriswolil, Manitoba, and who 
 caiiio there froiii the tciwn o' Alexundrin, 
 in the Slate of Miimenota, savH about tiie : 
 Canadian North- WeHt;— 
 
 " I i;on»ii|pr Ihii the grandest grain uro- 
 ducing country ill the world without any 
 exoepiion ; nnd a" I have haniiied cos- 
 dilerulile utock here 1 know that thcv pay 
 well. Lii,«t upring I noM one Htalile of 
 ciUlle f .r jllOO per head for bulcheriug. 
 My sheep Imvc paid well, milch cowh iFo 
 very well, iinil also [Hiultry, and in fact 
 everything I have tried. No man need 
 fear this coiifltry for producing anything 
 except tropical fruit." 
 
 Yet Mr. SpeerH oumiiienued with a 
 capital urtfi,000 and hecoonldera hix farm 
 at the end of the year after he eettled upon 
 it worth |.1,H40. Mr. Hp«erii' iitock con- 
 iiirtn of 6 humee and 2fi heail of cattle. Ht 
 addii, " I winlereil HO cattle and 60 nheep 
 lakt winter. They did well, and realiseil 
 "even centu per pound live weiglit for 40 
 h«ad. I fattened on th« Ifit June lact." 
 
 MR. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, 
 
 who came from Reetrouguet Farm, Hylor, 
 Cornwall, England, in 1870, to Ontario, 
 where he reinaineit nine ream, and then 
 went farther went to Clear Water, Manilolia, 
 thuH conrludeH his letter to Mr. llegg: 
 
 " I might my, in concliin'on, there ha« 
 been a lot xaiil about thix country thin part 
 year that might sound very etraoge to an 
 outMiiler, but It d»e« not eeem strange tons 
 : here, as there are men in this countrv as 
 in every other iMiuntrv who are tim fazy 
 to work, and lind it much easier to slander 
 the country witli llieir tongues than follow 
 the plough for Iheir daily briad. I hope' 
 to see miiiiy of my EnaliBh friends out 
 here next vear, as there is any amount of 
 Caniiilian I'acilli' lundn yet if the Canadian 
 I'uoific Railway would only put it on the 
 niiirket for sale." 
 
 Mr. Lawrence hut not done badiv at all, 
 consiilering the short time he has been in 
 the Canadian Nortlj-West. He came to it 
 with a capital of $3,000. honiesteaded, ' 
 pre-empted, and purchased 1,540 acres of 
 land, built a house on it al the co-t of 
 |1,000. and has 200 acres under culliva- ' 
 lion. Ilis stock roni-ists of live horses and ' 
 iKinies, thirty head of cattle, and 40 pigs. 
 He esliiiiales his farm worth from $12,000 
 to $15,000. Taking the lower esliniale as 
 the true one, Mr. Lawrence has increased 
 his capital just four hundred per cent in' 
 four yeiirs. 
 
 MR. THUMA8 BOWER 
 
 who hM Ueo a resident of Moocomin, 
 AuiDniboia, since April, 1883, aayn — 
 
 " I consider every man eecureo a hom« 
 in this country iawell off. The la«t yearn 
 I spent in Ontario I farmed and grate!) one 
 thousand acres of land, and 1 was raised 
 on a farm of 700 acres, and fariiie<l all my 
 life, and I have never ti'en so well pleaeeil 
 I with crops as I am in the Canadian Norlh- 
 I West I and as far ax the soil is concerned 
 I never saw itH rqual in any countrv." 
 
 Mr. Bohier Is from El«m County, Onl. 
 He and his two sons settled in (heCinadian 
 Norlh-Wesl with a cipital of 17.000 ii) 
 cash. They took up in all 1,2N0 acre*. 
 He hail this year 170 acres under crop, 
 lOOof which is wheat. He built an ex- 
 cellent house, and has a large stock. The 
 old n. rifleman values his own half section, 
 stock and in.plenienls at $6,000. 
 
 MR. TnOMA.S ROOEItS, 
 
 who went to the Canadian Nortli-West 
 from Ixindnn, Ontario, eighteen months 
 auf«, and who seems to have kept his even 
 anil his wits aliout 'lim, says ; — 
 
 " 'J'o any intero.,tini! settler or to anyone 
 wishing to make a cninforlable Imme for 
 himself to live a life of freedom from hinil- 
 lorilism the CaDadian Nortli-\Vei.t otlerfl 
 such a home. We work hard seven 
 months of the year, but we plav the re- 
 mainder. What is required is a man who 
 will wirk during the busy months, and he 
 will not fail to reap his reward. The agri- 
 cultural prospects or the countrv lire not to 
 be suriift-sed. The more the 'land is cul- 
 livnleil the lietter it will he. I have been 
 in the Dominion of Canada seven vears. I 
 emigraled eleven years ago from England, 
 but 1 only wish I had been here (en vears 
 liefore this. There is bitter yet in (-tcre for 
 
 UH." 
 
 The Settlers named above, and hundreds of others, may be 
 livritten to for further particulars. 
 
 For further information, Maps and Pamphlets, apply to 
 
 J. H. McTAVISH, 
 
 Land Commissioner 
 Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 
 
 MANITOBA. 
 
HI Kit 
 
 of lluoaomJa, 
 
 Hi, »ty» — 
 
 Riirfii 4 home 
 
 The IkJit rr*ni 
 •nd Kniril one 
 
 1 wkK r»i»fd 
 
 rariiiH nil my 
 
 K> wfll |ilr»f<><l 
 
 kntdiku North- 
 
 i» eoncerneil 
 
 country." 
 
 Ooiinly, Onl, 
 D llirC'tiiRiljan 
 
 or t7.0U0 ii) 
 1,2H0 kcrfn. 
 iimler crop, 
 
 liuilt %a ex- 
 (f ptoclc. The 
 n hdlf iectioti. 
 000. 
 
 1 North-WMt 
 lilfcn iiionlhd 
 kept hJN evM 
 
 r or to anyone 
 iblf Imnip for 
 am from laml- 
 h-WcHt otiera 
 
 Imrd Hfven 
 ' play tlie re- 
 Ih a man who 
 oiithn, uuil he 
 ni. The agri- 
 itry lire not to 
 p land JH ciil- 
 
 I have heen 
 Bven vear". I 
 mm tingland, 
 Pre ten Vfar'i 
 et in (-tore for 
 
 nay be 
 
 OBA.