IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. ] ^> ^ % % > v'' ^ "# '/ Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN S'REET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ^^\ lO 1«« ~l Kii»%lM<' I II III ■i»»«ywy»»#iyi> shown on^W^'y , • *BIRTLE--For land East 4 |Pl^ ♦ SALTCOATS— For land Wcslof iHKl "*^ North of Township 2%* REGI N A -^ For land Wesf?, ofl it^ South of Township 24^,, ^ .1 .» I « i1^ Itnd i-anG mmmW' III t 'il ll l H" 1 How to make Homif: [See last i^j^J, I ■iii ' i I r T i i I ' l l iii n i n . 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Tin- inilway was constiiu'tt'd to tills point in iH.Sd, anil Lani^cnliur;; rt'inanii'(| tin* trniiiniis until last year, when tlic furtluT construrtioii of 'J.'» niiirs carricMJ thu roud to Saltcoats, its present tcnninus. (Sim> map ) FV'sidcs tilt! station lM»ust' and warehouse tlnrc is a ^'«'in'ral store, with postotfit'c. and a ^jrain huycr was stationrd tlitTc durin liiilrH Wi'st nf I^iili;;)'!!))!!!-^, in iIm- mitrf of a ( 'liuri'li ol' Kii;;;liUlil ^cttlt'inrMt nill<ry, itiiilt Wy Hi«' Society, iiml in tli«* nIIIm^^m' tliri'i> is u j^nirnil Mtorc iuhI pOHtntriCC, lillK'kMllit ll mI|o|i il||(| <«to|t|iin;^ |iliU>i>, ItcsiiifS t)|«> Mtlltinii lMlililili;^'<4. 't'llis sliolllii lifi'UilM' II ^^ooil vil|il;;f, HM tllr tr'ii'lr t'ntiM llic KiiilM'iK* M'ttli'iih'tit to tlh* »oiltli-NVcHt t'oincH in to tl lis r iMtlt. Tlu' lainl to the nortli-fust is wril s«'ltl« <1 liy IrdiuidiTM, hut to till' lioltll tin rr lU'i' soiiM' vrry j^'ood s(>ctiol)S still t»|M'H t'ol iniii(>>t) ll•llll:_^ iiiiiiifiliutt'lv Miiitli of tlw station IImmt is ii ;jotnl <|t'ul of Imii'I o|M'ii I'or llollu•st^•u any part of .Manitoha or the Noith West Territory, the soil ^^eiierally heiti;;,' compos*-)! of a ;;oot|, fairly deep, hiack loam, with a siih-soil of vellow pliahle clav, formiiij' r a warm. (juick ami well diviiiied soil, pi*(»ducitii,' ;^ood yields of any of the staph' crops -wheat, oats, harley, peas and roots- all of which have ln-cn 'Town here to advantaj^e. The country is studded with hlutl's of timher, which, hesides «rivin;r a tine lark like appearance, form ;^ood wind hreiiks to the arahle ands and shelter to the live stock. At the present time there is a lari:e amount of tine i;razin«j land, on which horses and cattle tind a variety of the very hest pastui'e. A.s a dairyin;^ district it oui^ht, with, its ahundance of rich pasture an«l xt'<| t'lniii iuiinmls «' locality I'rrritory «'p, Idnck a vvanii. tt' any of ts -ail of auitrv is \;f a finr «' aniMc iiic there )rse.s and airyiii^f lure and le soil of L(ood as aces tliat I liiivr Mi»i»n It i-* dotte«l ovi'f With tiiiili. r helfs. and wahred hv a tint* rrrek, which niakcw it iiin<«t dcMirnl»h' inr Mrtth'» 'I he climate in ^nnd, (SimhI health artd a Ion;; Ijf*' may In> found heir if desired. The winters an* l••n^^ hnt not too siiiv Sprin;; and Himinirr are iM-aiilifnl, lait the fallrelip SI'S theiii all I know of Mcveral petiplr who came here in pool health, lait are now well an*! ahle fur any amount of lalHU*. As lepinls the produi'tion * soil more it wniild Im- hrtter for theiiisi>|yi.>.s. Tli»*re are some as line farms here for homestpadini; as an\ in the North-West. Anyone desiring; a home can make oiif here in two or three years, ihit it hikes toil and liihor and a * little money to niiike thiiij^^s plc;isant. i came lure from Michi;^'an to nink*- a home for m\>elf aiwl faniiU, and have sIK '(•ceded j like the countlN M y oiiiiiion is that if iiiii' L'rants desire to ni/dxe homes they can do well out here if they mean laisiness and really want a home. Il is no use for la/v • » men to come. Wf want setth'rs, lait they must he men who like work and they will succe«'d." SK(. m:.. Tr. 22, l{. I, W. 2. This station is ei;;lit miles west of Chmclihi-idne, and i^Ju^t west of the .second meridian. It is on the southern houiidMiy of the land l»elon'>inay well. We are all in the best of spirits, as we expect a lirit;ht future not very fnr distant. We do not reyret leaving; the old country, only wish we had come sooner Wm. Wilson 1 am perfectly satislied with the eountry. Any well-to-do settler no duuht has a jjood prospect before them, either in farming or >tock raising, and one of the healthiest countries in the world Alex. Moore I have no regret in coming to this country ; I only wish I had come sooner Thomas Mars I like the country well, only sorry I did not come sooner John I'aterson I have no doubt of getting a good living here, and my family have been healthier than in England ; winter is better able to be borne than represented . . Wm. Cross The soil is excellent, crops grow well ; a better country for farming and stock-raising than England Thomas Prown I like the country well, and if I went back I would make the people in Northumberland jealous. I would not stop in England John Dunn Mr. Charles Ritchie, one of these settlers from Scotland, soon after his arrival writes to the Orkney Hcndd as follows : "The country here, so far as I have seen it, far surpasses all my expectations. The people are kind-hearted and obHging, and very fond of the new settlers. Everywhere you go the land is good, and yields fine crops of some sort or other. A great deal of it is pasture, and that of excellent quality. There are great stretches of good woods, every kind of wild fruit, and water in abundance, both from springs and lakes. The cattle here are of a very superior description, and you can judge of their capabilities when I tell you that one cow will yield ten pounds of butter in a week, and if I had the money I could keep a hundred beasts— so far as feed is concerned — part of the summer and winter. Meat of all kinds is cheaj), labor is well paid, and tradesmen of all kinds make a comfoi table living. We have never felt the heat to be uncomfortable, but quite the reverse. It is, m fact, very agreeable, and we are looking forward to an abundant harvest. I have twenty acres under crop, and am breaking more for next year. We are all, as 1 said before, very highly pleased with our new hoine." Already three school house.« are being built within a radius of six miles from Saltcoats, and including the school district of Saltcoats there are now four districts formed and two more beinij arranged for. l^iU i -i v/ Manitoha k' Nohtii-VVksteun Raiiavav LotliiuM, tlic now Crot'tn si'ttlcmt^nt, is situfttod in townsliip 2."), I'jitif^cs 1 and -, six miles lun-th of Saltcoats. Altout fifty fiimiiics, asHistofl liy the Jnipcrial (lovcrruncnt, arc now luiinii plar-i'd on tlu'ii' Iioincstcads in this colony. Sii" ('liarlo Tupper pcrsonnlly inspcctt'd this location, and expressed him self MS heinji; very highly pleased with the selection. The country around this j)oinb is well suited for mixed farmino-. The jjji'ain brought to Saltcoats last wintt^r was of a su[)erior descri))tion. Ahout twenty miles n'»itl» lies the well-known settlement of Wallace. And thei'e are manv t'roe homesteads within a comparatively short distance of Saltcoats still opcuj for home- Nteattl<*ni('nt within a i'or honit> ottloiiu'iit ;nt, aV)out " Yurktoii ie country lakes, an dispoeed of or reserved, are to be held exclusively for |ioine8teads and |>re>emptionB. HOMR4TEAUIII.— Homesteads may br obtained ' upon payment of an Office Fee of Ten i>llar>i, subject to the following conditions as to residence and cultivation, in either of the thrM lluwing methods : — 1.— llie homestender shall begin actual residence on hit) homestead and cultivation of a reason- le {/ortioii thereof within six months from date of entry, unlesx entry shall have been made on or kfter the ist day of Septemper, in which case residence need not commence until the ist day of June polluwing, and continue to live upon and cultivate the land for at least six months out of every twelve Diunths for thref years from datt of homestead entry. a — The homesteader shall begin actual residence, as above, within a radius of two miles of lis hometitead, and continuie to maKe his home within such radius for at least six months out of every kwelve months for the three yoars next succeeding the date of homestead entry ; and shall within the first year from date of entry break and prepare for crop ten acres of hi* homestead quarter pection ; and shall within the second year crop the said teh acres, and break and prepare for crop Sfteen acres additional — making twenty-five ; and within the third year after the date of his home- stead entry he shall crop the said twenty-five acres ; and break and prepare for crop fifteen acres Mlditional, so that within three years of the date of his homestead entry, he shall have not less than kwenty-iivc acres cropped, and shall have erected on the land a habitable house in which he shall Qave lived during the three months next proceeding his application for homestead patent. 3.— The homesteader shall commence the cultivation of his homestead within six months after the iate of entry, or if the entry was obtained after the first day of September in any year, then biforti khc first day of June following'; shall within the first year break and prepare for crop not less than nve acres of his homestead ; shall within the second year crop the said five acre:., and break and brepare for crop not leKs than ten acres in addition— making not less than fifteen acres in all ; sh^ll nave erected a habitable house on the homestead before the expiration of the second year, and on or before the commencement of the third year shall have begun to reside in the said bouse, and shall liive continued to reside therein and cultivate his horoestea<^ for not lesr than three years pext |>rior to the date of hit application for patent. In the event of a homesteader desiring to secure his patent vrithin a shgrter^ period than the khree years provided by law, he will be permitted to purchase his homestead on furnishing proof that pe hiis resided on the und for at least twelve months subsequent to date of homesteai* entry, and in pase entry was made after the asth day of May, 1883, has cultivated thirty acres thereof. PRE>KMPTTONf4.— Any homesteader may, at the same time as he makes his homestead ptr)', but not at a later date, should there be available land adjoining the homestead, enter an addi- |i<)nal quarter section as a pre-emption on payment of an Office Fee of Ten Dollars. The pre-emption right entitles a homesteader, who obtains entry for a pre-emption, to purchase |he land so pre-empted on becoming entitled to his homestead patent ; but should th;s homesteader til to fulfil the homestead conditions, he forfeits all claim to his pre-emption. niles of any other Railway, pre-emptions may be obtained for two dollars per acre. Payments for land may be in cash, scrip, or Police or Military Bounty Warrants. TISfBKR.— Homestead settlers, whose land is destitute of timber, may, upon payment of an Office Fee of Fifty cents, procure from the Crown Timber Agent a permit to cut the following uantities of timber free of dues — 30 cords of wood, 1,800 lineal feet of house logs, aooo fence rails, id 400 roof rails. In cases where there is timber land in the vicinity, available for the purpose, the homestead Ettler, whose land is without timber, may purchase a wood loi, not exceeding in area 20 acres, at the rice of Five Dollars pei acre cash License* to cut timber on lands within surveyed townships may be obtained. The lands covered such licenses are thereby withdrawn from homestead and pre-emption entry, and from sale. INFORBfATIOBI.— Full information respectitjg the land, timber^ coal, and mineral laws, and ppies of the regulations may b< obtained upon application to The Minister of the In^'-rior, Ottawa, |ntario ; The O mmissioner of Dominion Lands, Winnipeg, Manitoba ; or to any of the Dominion and Agenu in Manitoba or the North- West Territories. •;V f^ ^-o< It' • •