Pioneering De Luxe.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 May 1910, Page 4

Pioneering De Luxe.

The announcement cabled recently that thy Canadian I'aeilic Railway Company eon templates expending soniethin*; liko two and u hall' millions sterling upon the extension of tlio irrigation system in the Calgary (Alberta) district, and upon tilt* erection of houses »nd the preparation of the land as part of a re-.idy-imule farm .vheine, lends interest to details of the remarkable revolution in British-Canadian iniiiiiiii'ation to hand by a recent mail. Them are only three general qu-ali-fi(j:ition.s for eniigi'ants who wish to take advantage of tho Company's offer -a guaranteed capital of 1:200, knowledge of farming, and a wife. A parity of thirty men (some of them had a ranged to get married on the eve of departure) had been made up in England just before the mail loft, .and it Was , anticipated that they would all lie comfortably settled on their farms, •"5700 miles away, within two weeks of the .sailing date. On arrival each couple would find only the routine work of an 80-acre readymade farm to take up. Each holding is fenced; fifty acres .are ploughed and sown in wheat, and all hrnisi\s, bams, stables, etc., are ready for occupation. The settlers will liavo .the advantage of travelling lecturers on agricultural science, and experimental farm and dairy, the use nf stud animals for breeding purposes, ,aml over and above all the railway company is to collect and purchase tho milk I'rc-m the dairy herds. The actual pnoe. of each 80-acre irrigated limn and appurtaiic.es will be about KC'7BO, the payment being spread over a period of ten years. The first instalment docs not fall due until December next, by which time the settlers will have harvested their wheat, estimated to return them £;"> per acre. It is hoped to have 500 additional ready-made farms available for immigrants next spring. The thirty settlers recently chosen were selected from more than 10,000 applicants, and mesfc <;!' them are sturdy yeomen farmers, they should experience no difficulty .11 establishing themselves comfortably in the spacious West. All of the terrors of pioneering havo been carefully removed under the tenderly paternal settlement plan that the Canadian Pacific Company has evolved. Only the romance is loft untouched. Tho wilderness has beon subdued, and nothing remains for the fortunate nominees of a heueficient system f:i ;-p ( "d : h- y' !htli a'ong the <• \>< to