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These Lands Comprise the Land Grant of the Canadian Northern Railway
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JHE FAMOUS SASKATCHEWAN VALLEY
The Carrot River Valley and the Great Saskatchewan Plains
This land is open prairie, free from brush and stone. The soil is a rich deep black loam with clay sub-soil. This district produced last year the great
est crops in Western Canada. Last year (1905), the average yield was from thirty to fifty bushels of No. Al hard wheat. These are not idle statements,
as we can give the actual facts, data, etc., from hundreds of American farmers now operating in this d istrict. This land is the last great tract of hard wheat
land on the American Continent, and has no superior in the world.
Read What Prof. Shaw Sayss
St. Paul, January 6, 1906.
Davidson & McRae, Oen'l Agta.,
Canadian Northern Land Department,
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Gentlemen You ask for my opinion as to the
value of certain lands for agricultural uses which
lie along the lines of the Canadian Northern Ry.,
and which I visited at harvest time last year. You
designate more particularly the lands in the Sas
katchewan and Carrot River Valleys and in tho
Great Saskatchewan Plains. I most cheerfully
comply. ' I like to talk about such a country.
From Dauphin, 167 mile, northwest from Winnipeg, to
Kdmonton, a distance of 635 miles, lies a stretch of coun
try extending back from 20 to SO miles on both sides of
the C. N., the larger portion of which I regard as emi
nently adapted to mixed farming, that Is, the growing of
both grain and live stock. Its adaptation to growing
wheat, oats, barley, spelts, rye, peas and flax most assur
edly ranks high. I have seldom ever seen such crops
grown anywhere aa were then being harvested In these
scattered settlements.
The evidences of high adaptation for live stock produc
tion are found not only In the exceptionally high yields
from all tho coarse grain named, but m the luxuriance
with which wild and wine grasses grow.
The land In the Carrot River region, reached by a
branch line of the Canadian Northern, has been found to
be possessed of extraordinary grain producing power.- It
embraces a large area lying north of the Canadian
Northern railway. The country known as the great Sas
katchewan Plains, also covering many miles square and
lying south from the Canad lan Northern and In, nat
ural fertility. Is a garden spot of the Northwest.
Nowhere elue In all the North American continent can
so large an area of high class farming lands be found.
Much of this land Is yet unoccupied. The question 'of
the character of the winter climate Is well answered In
the fact that winter wheat and red clover can be grown
over much of this area.
Yours Truly,
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Read What B. W, Snow Says:
Chicago. 111., Sept. 12, 1905.
Davidson & McRae, Gen'l Agta..
Canadian Northern Land Dept.,
Winnipeg, Man., Canada.
Dear Sir
During the past twenty years I have visited
and carefully examined the wheat fields of the
principal producing countries of the world.
Through this experience I believe I am Qualified
to express Judgment upon the grain growing ca
pacity of wheat land. I have just completed a
trip over the main line of the Canadian North
ern R. R. from Portage la Prairie to Battleford,
making a careful study of the capacity of the
country tributary to the line, and In my Judg
ment I have never before seen so large a con
tinuous area of consistently high class wheat
land as during this trip.
Here and there are a few spots where there
has been settlement long enough to furnish data
of actual performance, and the yields this year
are running an average of close to thirty bushels
per acre, with many exceptional yields reaching
forty bushels and even higher. The vast part
of the area in question is unsettled, but in char
acter of soil, and, what is still more Important,
In quality of sub-soil, it in no way materially
differs from the fields from which the yields I
have quoted were obtained. .
I am firmly convinced that within a very few
years Northwest Canada will produce a larger
surplus of wheat for the world's market than caa
be grown in any other country.
Yours truly.
HARVESTING SCENE IN 1905 ON THE DESCHON PARM NEAR DAVIDSON, SASKATCHEWAN
This was the second crop harvested on this farm. The land was purchased by Mr. Deschon in 1903, the cost of the land being $?.00 per acre. It was
broken and put into crop the follrwing year. On this second crop, Mr. Deschon had 4,000 acres in wheat which yielded an average of thirty 'bushels to
the acre, which brought 725 cents per bushel on tract. The cost of operating the past season did not exceed $6. 00 per acre. In other words Mr. Deschon's
proceeds from this amounted to $22.7 per acre, the cost of operating being $6.00 per acre gave him a net profit of $16.75 per acre, and a total net profit on
this farm for 1905 crop of $67,000.00. These facts certainly ought to make every investor or farmer sit up and listen.
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Wo now," offer theso Lands In Largo or
small tracts at, from
Three years ago vre advised the people to buy "Western Canada farm lands located in these same districts; we sold hundreds of thousands of
acres. The men "who bought these lands at that time have become more than prosperous, in many cases rich. To the average person Western
Canada was at that time an unknown quantity. Today, it is a country of great cities, prosperous towns, thriving farms, attracting the eyes
of the world by its enormous yields of hard wheat. 45,000 American farmers settled in Western Canada in 1905; more than 100,000 will settle
there in 1906. The cause of this great immigration to Western Canada can be explained in three words "Money in Wheat." These lands
will advance more rapidly in the next three years than they have in the past five years. This is your opportunity. Act now I
to $10, Per Acre
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