CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 692, 17 December 1909, Page 8

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION

LIBERAL TERMS, CRK. WILL PENCE, BUILD, -AND.'-SOW. (By Telcgraph-Prcfi! Assoclallon-Caiiyrlsnu •, London, December la. Sir. Thomas Shauglinessy, president of tho Canadian-Pacific Railway, has arrived in.England, with the object of extending emigration to tho Canadian-Pacific Company's . lands. The Company proposes to build houses, fence holdings, and break and sow the soil, ready for the immigrants. This will enable anyone with JEIOO capital-to make 'a start. "

: FARMING IN THE CANADIAN WEST. Mr. P. A. M'Konzio, who has .been'"doing" the Canadian West, remarks that it is amazing that Britain, with her exportable population, has allowed tho American immigrant to get so far ahead. Ho quotes the following conversation ;of farmers in a Canadian Pacific Railway car: ■ , . ''Givo me horses," said one. "I mado as much.out of my.horses as out of my\wheat this year, and I had twenty times more fun with them.. ' Prices are going to better every year for.five, years to come. "Let'us do "what we like, we cannot breed enough for all the new people coming here. I sold a nice pair today for 400 dols. (.£80) apiece. I could sell every, beast I have on my ranch ten times over and name my own prices for them." "Wheat is good enough for me,",6aida second. "I have averaged thirty-five bushels ah acre this season, and I" farm two sections (1280' acres). I shall get over ninety cents a bushels. That is all right '■ for. land I bought five years ago for 12 dols; an acre." "A banker from Spokane down in my district has beaten you," said a third. "He bought .two sections two years ago for 8.50 dols. an acre. He got land cheap, I suppose, because ho was a ■ banker. He knew nothing about farming; so ho had everything done by contract—breaking, ploughing, fencing, seeding, and reaping. Prom his first.season's crop-he paid for the cost of his land, and every expense, and had a clear profit left of 8 dols. an aero! That is what I call a record."