MEMO. AS TO PROPOSED SETTLEMENT IN "WESTLA.ND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 37, 12 February 1874, Page 2

MEMO. AS TO PROPOSED SETTLEMENT IN "WESTLA.ND.

Special settlement of 100,000 acres, of which about 50,000 acres will be set apart for 250 families, say 1000 adults; the balance to be made a Forest Reserve to be retained by the Government. Each adult to purchase 50 acreß, at per acre per annum, for seven years. The Government to offer employment to male adults for two yeare, three days a week, or alternate weeks, at per day, either in making roads or cutting down trees on the Government Reserve; but the Government not to be bound to- employ more than 200 adults at any one time, and no adult to be so employed for more than One year. The Government, after the cutting down of suitable trees on a portion of the Reserve, to offer sites to persons; on wbich to erect sawmills, on con-; dition of their purchasing the logs supplied by the Government at an agreed price. The General Government to advance for roads, &c, not exceeding £ , to be refunded out of the proceeds of the sale of land and the receipts from the Forest Reserves. The cost of sending the immigrants to the settlement to be defrayed by the Immigration Department. The Provincial Government to guaiantee refund in seven years, unless the land be taken under the Immigration ahd Public Works Act.