Information at Winnipeg can be
received about homesteads, lands for sale by railway companies, lands
for sale by private companies, near Winnipeg aud in all parts of the
Province. This information can be obtained free of charge. The
settler, being advised by government agents regarding any locality in
which he may think of settling, must after thorough investigation, use
his own judgment in making the selection.
GRUND SETTLEMENT.
The country north Baldur is settled chiefly with people from Iceland. A
people who by reason of their intelligence, their industry and their
thrift, have prospered exceedingly in the land of their adoption. They
have more over adapted themselves to the political and social
conditions of the country so readily that they are now in all respects
Canadians. Many of them occupy positions of trust and
responsibility. For example in this district, Christian
Johnson who was for two years reeve and one of the present councillors,
S. Arason, are both natives of Iceland. Many other instances might be
given in proof of the statement that the Icelandic people are the
equals of any other, no matter what their nationality, in ability and
enterprise.
Price of Land.
Lands are available for purchase in nearly every township. The
prices range from $3.00 an acre upwards, according to location. At
$3.00 some very fine land can be bought within six to ten miles of
market. At $4 to $5 per acre locations more convenient to the railway
can be secured, and it is hardly necessary at the present time to go
beyond the latter figure in order to obtain some of the choicest lands
in the district-—choicest both in quality and location. These lands are
held, for the most part, by private individuals and loan companies, but
whether held privately or by one of the companies there is generally an
agent in the nearest town to the land, who is able to complete the
sale. Nearly every non-resident owner is represented by
someone residing in the district, and it is an easy matter to close a
transaction of this kind once a selection has been made. The terms of
purchase will, of course, vary under these conditions, but a small cash
payment is usually required, the balance being spread over a number of
years at a low rate of interest.
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Manitoba
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE Province of Manitoba is marked by the increase
in population, in products, in railway mileage, in schools, as well as
by the prosperity of cities, towns and villages and the general
business transacted.
During the last twenty years the area under cultivation has increased
from 50000 acres to 2,500,000 acres, and yet this area is only about
one tenth part of the fertile lands that may be cultivated.
At present there are 32,000 farmers in the Province, and there is room
for 100,000 more. During 1898 an unusual number of setters came to the
Province, men of means, in many in-stance, purchased land in settled
districts.
There is a rush of new settlers the present season, and as there are
mil¬lions of acres of the very best land in the province that can be
purchased at reasonable prices, $3.00 to $10 per acre, on easy terms of
payment, it is only necessary to say that new settlers with sufficient
capital to make first pay¬ment on land and to at once bring land under
cultivation, can make future payments from proceeds of crops.
A carefully compiled statement shows that there are 1,000,000 acres of
land unoccupied and for sale in the Red River Valley.
The population of Manitoba is now 230,000.
The total grain crop of 1898 was 47,354,664 bushels.
Expenditure on farm buildings in. 1898 was $1,469,740.
Total value of dairy products, $409,455.26.
Average rainfall, 14.69 inches.
STOCK IN PROVINCE.
Horses.............101,896
Cattle...............227,097
Sheep................32,053
Swine................69,643
Breeders of pure bred stock and dairymen are specially directed to
Manitoba as a field for investment. Everything points to the fact
that Manitoba will in the near future the centre of supply for
pure bred stock for the ranches of the Northwest Territories.
The success of the Agricultural Exhibitions at Winnipeg and
Brandon, as well as of the forty-eight local exhibi¬tions
throughout the province, at which over $36,000 were
awarded as prizes in 1898, is an index of the pros¬perity
of the farming community, and where farmers are prosperous
all other classes are also prosperous.
FREE HOMESTEADS are still available in many parts
of the Pro¬vince. Full information Maps, etc.; may be had on
application to
THOS. GREEN WAY, Minister of Agriculture and Immigration,
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.
Or to: C. H. JEFFREYS, Manitoba Immigration Agent, 30 York St.,
TORONTO, ONTARIO
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