IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-S) &^ {./ ^li^ ^%^ ^>^ 4sr %^ 1.0 I.I URM 125 mmm22 Iff L£ 12.0 L25 nil 1.4 mi I ik 1.6 ^ '/ Photographic Sciences Corporation 33 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. MSSO (716) 873-4S03 iC ^ .^\^ \\ ^ Q.^ ,■• f- V'. ;^' / ^. -.-- REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF LANDS OF THE y Tlio Canadian Pacific Railway Comi)any ofler for sale'some of tlie finest A«;ricultural Lands in ]\Ianitoba and tbo North-West Tlie lands bolonjjjing to the Company in each township within tliG Kail way l>olt, which oxtends twenty-four miles from each •side of the main line, will be disposed ot at prices ranging FROM $2.50 PER ACRE UPWARDS. vf TJtesc Itegidatiovs arc .mbf^titntrdfor^nid crnxvl Uiof^c IdOurto in force) TERMS OF PAYMENT. If paid for in fidl at time of jnircbase, a Deed of Conveyance of the land will be iriven; but the purchaser may pay one-tenth in cash, and the })alance h\ payments spread over nine years, with interest at six per cent, per annum, payable at the end of the year with each instalment. Payments may be made in Land Grant Bonds, which will be accepted at ton per cent, pre- mium on their par value, with accrued interest. These bonds can be obtained on application at the Bank of Montreal, or at any of its agencies in Canada or the United States. GENERAL CONDITIONS. All sales are sul^ject to the following general conditions : — 1. All improvements placed ujion land purchased to be main- tained thereon until final payment has been made. 2. All taxes and assessments lawfully imposed upon the land or improvements to bo paid by the purchaser. 3. The Company reserve from sale, under these regulations, all mineral and coal lands; and lands containing timber in quantities, stone, slate and marble quarries, lands with water- power thereon, and tracts for town sites and railway purposes. 4. Mineral, coal and timber lands and quarries, and lands controlling w^ater-power, will bo disponed of on very moderate terms to i^rsons giving satisfactory evidence of their intention and ability to utilize tlie same. Liberal rates for settlers and their eJQTects will be granted by the Company over its Railway. Detailed Prices of Zianda atid all information relating thereto tan he ohtained'on application to the Z.and Co^nmissiofier, Canadian iPactfte Hy., Winnipeg^ rt^ rilE rilAlRIES OF MANITOBA AND WHO LIVE ON III KM. Deloraine — Journeying Across a Prairie — The Servant Difficulty — A Few Specimens of Successful Emigrants. From the Montreal Star Special Correspondent. It is difficult to explain to you the extreme interest taken by everybody here in the journey upon which you have sent me, but I must attempt to do so in order to exhibit the reason for the break in the continuity of my letters. The ftict of an English cori'espondent being here who does not simply rush across by rail and then send home an account chiefly imaginative, but is pre- pared to take all the time and trouble necessary to see everything of importance, is so striking and so welcome to Canadians, especially to those who are in any sense of the word still pioneers, that they second his efforts so cordially and so completely as to embarrass him not a little. My experience throughout has been that no sooner have I set foot in a new town than a dozen people turn up at the hotel, each intent on carrying me off then and there to investigate the aspect of the country in which he is most interested ; the mayor or some other public official sends a polite invitation to drive with him through the neighborhood ; the railway places every facility at my diypot^al, and as a result of all this, it becomes the most difficult of tanks to hide one's self for a sufficient period to write a 1^ ter. No sooner had I returned to Winnipeg to concl e this series, than I found it necessary to leave immediately, in order to have the advantage of the company of several particularly well informed persons and officials over the next pai't of my trip. Consequently, it is useless to date this letter from anywhere, because I have no means of knowing when or where it may be finished. AT DELORAINE, the terminus of the southern branch of the Canadian Pacific railway in Manitoba, my experience of the g I .line prairie began. Until one has visited the Cana- dian and i\ merican West, Nature has only two great im- pressive aspects — when she takes the form of sea or mountains. After a journey like this, however, the prairie has to be added to these, and one's first sight of it is in every respect as memorable as one's first glimpse of the ocean or the Alps. It is a sensation, however, difficult if not impossible to describe. One feels one's self to be the centre or focus of a kind of indescribable vastness or emptiness. One's house, or one's sleigh, or one's own ])erson projects from the surface of the earth in complete solitude. There is simply nothing else but surface. Life on the prairie must be a realization of the mathematician's illustration of existence in two dimen- sions of space. If the day is dull and the sun happens to be obscured, one may travel for hours without noticing tho leant ditVoronco in wliiit must bo callod, for want of a bettor term, the landscape, in any direction. Tho trail, whether it is wheel-marks on tho grass or sleigh-marks in tho snow, is lost sight of 20 yards ahead, and one passes on and on until the journey becom.os almost dream- like, and tho jinglo of the bells in fj'ont grows as weird as tho imagination of the Polish Jew. By-and-by one ceasos to talk to one's companion, and, as the powerful little '* Montana Cross " horses are trained to trot for fifteen or twenty miles without stopping, there is nothing except tho occasional appearance of a wolf or a prairio chicken to break tho extraordinary monotony. I shot a good number of those prairie chickens, and in queer places sometimes. Mr. Whyto told me that u day or two before my trip with him he was dictating to his secretary in his pj'ivate car on a siding, when ho looked up and saw a chicken on the track twenty yards away, ^' Fred," he said, "get your gun, and we will have it for dinner." The gun was fetched, tho door cautiously opened, tho chicken shot, handed to the cook, and two hours alterwards was on the table. Naturally it is very difficult to lind one's way on tho praii'ie in the absence of a regular well beaten trail, but few people would imagine tho extraordinary performances of a " tenderfoot " trying to get from one place to another. If he attempts to strike a bee line for himself, he probiibly ends the day a few miles behind the point from which he started ; if ho is more war}^, and guides himself by the sun, ho invari- ably walks round and round in increasing circles. How tho man experienced in pi'airie craft, which is wholly different from wood craft, gets along, he is quite unable 6 to tell, but without compass or mnp, or anything beyond a pigeon-like instinct, he goes straight from point to point, perhaps hundreds of miles apart. Thei'e are the farms to guide the stranger, it may be said, but a farm on the prairie consists to the eye in winter of nothing but a little log house. In most cases there is no attem})t whatever to fence the land, and when the snow covers the stubble there is not a trace of husbandry beyond occasional haystacks, which at a few miles otf look like sparrows or crows. Curiously enough the con- trary is true, for small objects close by appear to be largo ones a long way otf, and it is the commonest experience to start out for what you take to be a farm house and find it a bit of rail fence, or to drive towards what looks like a barn and see it iiy away as you approach. Hos- pitality is a right, not a virtue, in these far otf climes. When you have driven perhaps 30 miles, and mid-day with its corresponding hunger has come, you simply make for the first house you see, unhitch your horses and make them comfortable in the stable, and then walk into the kitchen and ask for dinner without so much as " Bv your leave." Whatever the house affoi'ds is spread out before you, and if you are a stranger you offer to pay, and the offer is generally accepted, especially if the house is on a fi-equented trail and half way between two towns. At our mid-day rest we found only the young wife of the settler, a woman of perhaps 25 years, and as she had cooked for a dozen men at breakfast time (they had come over from other farms to help her husband do his threshing), and as she would have to cook for them again at supper time, she had nothing whatever prepared, and wo wore rocliu-cd to nuiUo a Hiibstaiitial, th()M»;h iiidi- g08til)lo racal upon largo (luantitios of bi'oad and much- boilod ioa. Tho liursos farod bettor, and in lialf an hour wo wore jogging along again, and did not Htop till night fall found us at the little town of Souris, or, more pret- tily, Plum Crook, halfway between Doloiaino and Bran- don. A MANITOBA FAMILY. A friend in Toronto had given mo a letter of introduc- tion to Mi*, and Mi'h. Kirchortor, tho member for the dis- trict in tho Provincial LogiHlature, assuring mo that a visit would be a remarkable oxpoi'ionco and that I should tind myself the guest of "the most delightful and witti- est of women." Tho superlative, as Kmerson used to say, is the weakest form of speech, but my visit to Plum Crook was an oasis of charming home life and literary talk in the desert of continuous travel and politics. If I could onlyrepeat half tho things Mi's. Kii'chotfor told mo about life on the prairie, they wouM make a capital book. I hope she will do it hoj'solf some day. I must try and! remember some of thom higgoldy-piggoldy. One day, several of her husband's political friends, including the Minister of the Iiiterior, wore sitting with them, and half in earnest and half to tease him she pretended to find life on the prairie quite unbearable, and pictured it& discomforts and its privations for an educated womai/ fond of good company, in a distressing manner. " My dear," said her husband, chidingly and wishing to give the conversation a more cheerful tendency, " you will admit at least that there may be worse places than 8 Manitoba." ' Iliohanl," hIic ropliod, " I liopo you don't think I am an inHdol." Mrn. Kirchoffor keeps no 8or- vunt, lor tljo simple reason that there are none to bo had. They come out fi'o home krjovvin<( abHohitoly nothing, receiving wages of 815 a!i an acre. " J. R. Neff— Three miles north of Moosomin. Had lio acres of wheat, averagmg 37 bushels per acre. ** G. T. Cheasley— Four miles north-east from Alexander. Had an average of 45 bushels per acre on 100 acres of wheat " A. Nichol — Four miles north-east of Alexander. Had 150 acres wheat, averaging 40 bushels per acre. " H. Touchbourne — Four miles north-west of Alexander. Had an average of 40 bushels per acre on 100 acres of wheat. " W. Watt — South-west of Alexander. Had 80 acres wheat with an average of 40 bushels per acre. " Robt Rogers— Near Elkhorn. j[Had 10 acres'of wheat'aver- aging 45 Bushels per acre." HOMESTEAD REGULATIONS. All even numbered sections excepting 8 and 26 are open for homestead and pre-emption entry. ENTRY. Entry may be made pp^ionally at the local land office in which the land to be taken is situate or if the homesteader desires he may, on application to the Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, or the Commissioners of Dominion Lands, Winnii:)eg, re(;eive autho- jrity for some one near the local oflice to make the entry for liim. DUTIES. Under the present law, homestead duties may be performed in three ways : 1. Three years' cultivation and residence, during which period the settler may not be absent for more than six months in any one year without forfeiting the entry. 2. Residence for three years within two miles of the home- stead quarter section and afterwards next prior to application for patent residing for three months in a habitable house erected upon it. Ten acres must be broken the first year after entry, 15 acres additional in the second, and 15 in the tliird year ; 10 acres to be in crop the second year, and 25 acres the third year. 3. A settler may reside anywhere for the first two years, in the first year breaking 5, in the second cropping said 5 and breaking additional 10, also building a habitable house. The entry is forfeited if residence is not commenced at the expiration of 2 years from date of entry. Thereafter the settler must reside upon and cultivate his homestead for at least six months in each year for three years. APPLICATION FOR PATENT may be made before the local agent, any homestead inspector, or the intelli- gence officer at Moosorain or Qu'Appelle station. Six Months* Notice Must he Otven in Writing to the Commissioner of Dominion Lands by a Settler of his Intention Prior to Making Application for Patent. INTELLIGENCE OFFICES are situate at Winnipeg. Qu'Appelle Sta- tion and Medicine Hat. Newly arrived immigrants will receive at any of these offices information as to the lands that are open for entry, and from the officers in charge, free of expense, advice and assistance in securing lands to suit them. A SECOND HOMESTEAD may be taken by anyone who has received a homestead patent or a certificate of reooBtmendation countersigned by the Commissioner of Dominion Lands upon application for patent made by nim prior to the second day of June 1887. All communications having reference to lands under control of the Domi- nion Government, lying between the eastern boundary of Manitoba and the Pacific Coast should be addressed to H. H. SMITH, Comnisgioner of Dominion Lands, Winnipegi Man