The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 25, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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COUNTRY WHOSE SOIL SPELLS
WHEAT ANO OUT OF WHOSE
FARMS THOUSANDS ARE
6R0WING RICH.
WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT AND
OTHERS THINK OF CANADA.
Another Fat
*
Year for the
West.
Canadian
Our Canadian neighbors to the north
are again rejoicing over an abundant
harvest, and reports from reliable
sources go to show that the total yield
of 1909 will be far above that of any
other year.
It ia estimated that $100,000,000
will this year go Into the pockets of
the Western farmers from wheat
alone, another $60,000,000 from oats
and barley, while returns from other
crops and from stock will add $40,-
000,000 more. Ib It any wonder then
that the farmers of the Canadian
West are happy?
Thousands of American farmers
have settled in the above mentioned
provinces during the past year; men
who know the West and its possibili-
ties, and who also know perhaps bet-
ter than any other people, the best
methods for profitable farming.
President Taft said recently In
speaking of Canada:
"We have been going ahead so rap-
idly in our own country that our heads
have been somewhat swelled with the
idea that we are carrying on our shoul-
ders all the progress there is in the
world. We have not been conscious
that there is on tho north a young
country and a young nation that is
looking forward, as it well may, to a
great national future. They have
7,000,000 people, but the country is
still hardly scratched.”
Jas. J. Hill speaking before the
Canadian Cub of Winnipeg a few days
ago said:
“I go back for 5.1 years, when I
came West from Canada. At that time
Canada had no North-West. A young
boy or man who desired to carve his
own way had to cross the line, and
to-day it may surprise you—one out
of every five children horn in Canada
lives in the United States. Now you
are playing the return match, and the
North-West is getting people from the
United States very rapidly. We
brought 100 land-seekers, mainly from
Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last
night out of St. Paul, going to the
North-West. Now, these people have
all the way from five, ten to twenty
thousand dollars each, and they will
make as much progress on the land In
one year as any one man coming from
the gqjit inertt of Kurpne.can make, do-
ing tbo best he can, in ten, fiffgUfl, °r
twenty years.”
It is evident from the welcome
given American settlers in Canada
that the Canadian peoplo appreciate
them. Writing from Southern Alberta
recently an American farmer says: —
"We are giving them some new
ideas about being good farmers, and
they are giving us some new ideas
about being good citizens. They have
a law against taking liquor into the
Indian Reservation. One of our fel-
lows was caught on a reservation with
a bottle on him, and It cost him $50.
One of the Canadian Mounted Police
found him, and let me tell you, they
find everyone who tries to go up
against the laws of the country.
“On Saturday night, every bar-room
is closed, at exactly 7 o’clock. Why?
Iiecause It is the law, and it’s the
same with every other law. There
isn't a bad man in the whole district,
and a woman can come home from
town to the farm at midnight if she
wants to, alone. That’s Canada’s idea
how to run a frontier: they have cer-
tainly taught us a lot.
"On the other hand, we are running
their farms for them better than any
other class of farmers. I guess I
can say this without boasting, and the
Caandians appreciate us. We turn
out to celebrate Dominion Day; they
are glad to have us help to farm tho
country; they know how to govern;
we know how to w'ork.”
Another farmer, from Minnesota,
who settled in Central Saskatchewan
some years ago, has the following to
say about the country:—
"My wife and I have done well enough
since we came from the States; we can
live anyway. We came in the spring of
1901 with the first carload of settlers’
effects unloaded in these parts and
built the first shanty between Sas-
katoon and Lumsden. We brought
with our car of settlers' effects the
sum of $1800 in cash, to-day we are
worth $40,000. We 'proved up’ one
of the finest farms in Western Canada
and bought 320 acres at $3 per acre.
We took good crops off the land for
four years, at the end of which we
had $8000 worth of improvements in
the ray of buildings, etc., and had
planted three acres of trees. Two
years ago we got such a good offer
that we sold our land at $45 per acre.
From the above you will see that we
have not done badly since our ar-
rival"
Prof. Thomas Shaw of St. Paul, Min-
nesota, with a number of other well
known editors of American farm jour- I ulrT.®wn,
nals, toured Western Canada recently, | *!
and in an interview at Winnipeg said ( —---
In part:— i I have lived to kuow that the great
"With regard to the settlement of I secret of human happiness is this—
the West I should say that it is only | uever suffer your energies to stagnate.
wo!l begun, I have estimated that in : ^ KTYadbd.
Manitoba one-tenth of the land has Tv, Red Cr0M Ball Blue and make them
been broken, in Saskatchewan one- rb;ie ygain. Large 2 or. package, 5 cent#
thirtieth and in Alberta, one-hundred i -——— --
and seventy-fifth. I am satisfied that ; A woman isn t necessarily
tu all three provinces grain can be
grown successfully up to the sixtieth
parallel and in the years to come your
vacant land will be taken at a rate
of which you have at present no con-
ception. We have enough people in
the United States alone, who want
homes, to take up this land.
"What you must do in W’estern Can-
ada is to raise more live stock. When
you are doing what you ought to do
In this regard, the land which is now
selling for $20 per acre will be worth
from $60 to $100 pre acre. It is as
good land as that which is selling for
more than $100 per acre in the corn
b6"l’ would rather raise cattle In West-
ern Canada than in the corn belt of
the United States. You can get your
food cheaper and the climate is bet-
ter for the purpose. We have a bet-
ter market, but your market will fm-1
prove faster than your farmers will |
produce the supplies. Winter wheat
can be grown in one-half of the coun-;
try through which I have passed, and I
alfalfa and one of the varieties of
clover in three-fourths of it. The
farmers do not believe this, but It is
true.”
Keeping pace with wheat produc-
tion, tho growth of railways has been
quite as wonderful, and the whole
country from Winnipeg to the Rocky
Mountains will soon be a net-work of
trunk and branch lines. Three great
transcontinental lines are pushing
construction in every direction, and I
at each siding the grain elevator is j
to be found. Manitoba being the;
first settled province, has now an ele-
vator capacity of upwards of 25,000,000 j
bushels, Saskatchewan 20,000,00, and
Alberta about 7,000,000, while the ca-
pacity of elevators at Fort William
and Port Arthur, on the Great Lakes,
is upwards of 20,000,000 more.
Within the provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta there are
flour and oatmeal mills with a com-
bined capacity of 25,000 barrels per.
day, and situated along some famous j
water powers in New Ontario, there,
are larger mills than w ill he found j
anywhere In the Prairie Provinces.
I^st year the wheat crop totaled '
over 100,000.000 bushels. This year j
the crop will yield 30,000,000 more. A j
recent summary shows that on the 1st
of January, 1909, the surveyed lands
of the three western provinces, totaled
134,000,000 acres, of which about 32,-
000,000 have been given as subsidies to
railways, 11,000,000 disposed of in oth-
er ways and 38,000,00 given by the
Canadian Government as free home-
steads. being 236,000 homesteads of
160 acres each. Of this enormous ter-
ritory, there is probably under crop
at the present time less than 11.000,-;
000 acres; what the results will be
when wide awake settlers have taken
advantage of Canada’s offer and are (
cultivating the fertile prairie lands,
one can scarcely Imagine.
Public Sentiment Aroused.
Every state west of the Mississippi j
except Idaho. Wyoming. Utah, Ne- j
vada and New Mexico has now joined j
the fight against tuberculosis. State j
S.anitoria for the treatment of tubercu- j
lositi patients have been now estab- j
lished'i'fl Minnesota. Idaho, Missouri, j
Arkansas. North Dakota, South Da-,
kota and Oregon. State Anti-Tuber-1
cuiosis associations have been organ- j
ized and are at work in Washington,
Oregon, California, Arizona, Montana,
North Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska. I
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louis-
iana. in all these states, strenuous ef-
forts to wipe out tuberculosis are be-
ing taken.
Pathos Out of Place in Schools.
In an address at a teacher’s Insti-
tute Miss Martha Sherwood said that
sad and pathetic stories should have
no place in the public schools. She
declared the pupils’ great need Is hu-
morous stories and the kind that
make children roll on the ground
with laughter. “Anything to make
them laugh, and laugh loudly,” she
said. "It makes them grow, puts
sunshine into their lives and develops
contented men and women.”
State oe Ohio City or Toledo, j
Lucas County. f
Frank J. Cheney malt-* oath that he Is senkw
part in r of the firm of F. J. Cheney A Co., <lotn«
business in the City of Toledo. County and state
aforesaid, and that eak! firm will pay the sum of
ONK HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of
Hall's Catarrh cure. _______
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my priscnew
ttits uth clay of December, A. D.. 1886.
—■— A. W. GLEASON.
) seal > notary Public,
*
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and aeU
directly upon the blood and mucous surface* of Mm
■ratem. Send for testimonials, free. _
F. J. CHENEY A CO.. Tolado, O.
Sold by all DniRKlsta. 76c.
Take Hall’s Family PUis lor constipation.
“Soft and Nice.”
She—George, dear, do you love me?
He—Yes, Darling; very much.
She—Say something soft and nice to
me.
He—Oh, custard pie!—Judge.
good
Desperate But Effective.
Knicker—So Jones has a
scheme?
Bocker--'Yes; he carries a little dy-
namite to blow up any auto that runs
over lilm.
A dealer sold imitation Spearmint.
Ilis customer gave it to a friend. The
dealer lost his customer. The cus-
tomer lost his friend.
What a young man earns in the day
time goes into his pocket, but what he
spends in the evening goes into his
character.—Dr. Cuyler.
For the Remain-
ing Days of
this Week
and all of next week we have decided to
continue the “Special Holiday” and close of
the season prices we have established for the
month of December.—The thrones of eager sat-
isfied buyers in our store from 7:30 in the morning-
till late at night is pleasing evidence that the people
appreciate the wonderful bargains we are giving in
every department of our Big House Furnishing
Store.
Buffets! Buffets!
Here we are for the dining room. The best assortment
we’ve had yet. $18.50, 20.00, 22.50, 25.00. 35.00 and up to
$65.00. Come in and see one for a Christmas gift for the
wife.
Davenports and Couches
These take the place of the folding bed and the regular set
up bed—a combination piece of furniture to fill the need of the
extra bed in each home. See our $22.50, 25.00, 35.00 and 50.00
Davenports. Velour and leather and imitation leather covenngs,
the wood finishes in golden oak, early English and Mahogany.
See this Elegant
Opera Seat
Deep, spacious, roomy Rock-
er. Polished Quartered
Golden Oak. A bargain at
$5.00 for a Christmas flyer.
Special at $2.50. One to
each customer.
Morris Chairs
Wouldn’t one of these
just about fill in where
you want that extra
chair—and look at the
solid comfort you get.
Prices $7.50,10.00,12.50
and up to $25.00.
The Shopper’s Paradise located in our basement. China and Art f
Department. Thousands of dollars worth just the right goods for presents.
Pictures in new subjects, photographic
effects, Medalions.
20 per cent discount on all these goods
except Haviland and Domestic Queens-
ware and dinner sets.
Rosenthal Bavarian China, Old Dutch
ware, Maddox fancy ware, Booths Sici-
lian china, Cauldien Placques, Japanese
tea sets, vases, inugs. steins, statuary
pottery and all the novelties for home
decoration.
Splendid oil lamps, gas lamps, electrics
in wood and metal, Right up to the
minute in style and design.
Trade With us
DOC & BILL Furnishers
The People’s favorite Store
8-10 Cirand Avenue
PHONIC 3*60
You will be Satisfied |
Prayer.
If you believe in prayer, don't pray
to be delivered from your enemies;
pray that you may cevei hear what
your friends eay about you behind
your back—Atchison Globe.
Seriously Injured.
While hunting near Switzler this
morning Edward Sweeney of Knox-
ville, Tcnn., accidentally shot himself
in tho light bbbvbgkqcmfwyanhrdl.—
Columbia University Missourian.
Unnecessary Accomplishment.
Stella—“Here is a schedule that says
’ you can feed a family on *20 a month."
i Bella—“Well, if you have enousrh
j brains to do that you can catch a bat-
: band with plenty of money.”
Motherhood.
Motherhood Is a spiritual relation,
and it should be coterminous with the
kingdom of womanhood. No woman is
worthy of the name who has not in
her the mother heart.—Mrs. Arthur
Somervell.
i
woman isn’t necessarily level-
headed because her hat U on straight
The One Universal Tonic.
Air is the only tonic of which it may-
be safely said that U disagrees with
no one.
Society’s Division. A ,, Uncle Ezra Saye:
Eyron: Society is now one polished Wh«» a nian permits himself to be .-stlck to the farm, bul don't neoes-
horde formed of two mighty tribes- bad»y henpecked it is a sign that his ; sarlly> when you are away from home,
the Bores and Bored. I wlfe could tel1 something if she would* i let the farm stick to you."
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Baker, J. M. The Spencer Siftings (Spencer, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 25, 1909, newspaper, December 25, 1909; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc936650/m1/3/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.