officials at Regina and Yorkton, about 2,000 families have taken up land 

 in the district during the last year. All these new-comers will be cultiva- 

 ting their land this year, and, as they are all practical farmers, will make 

 the district one of the most prosperous in Western Canada in a very short 

 time. New settlors are mostly from the United States (North Dakota, 

 Minnesota and Wisconsin supplying the largest number). A large number 

 from Southern and Central Manitoba and the Winnipeg District have also 

 located there, knowing from their past experience in Canada that, as soon 

 as railway facilities are provided, the Last Mountain District will become 

 one of the most valuable in the West. All these settlers are extremely 

 pleased with their lands and very confident of the future In a petition 

 totheC.P.R. dated Sept. gth, they say: "\Ve have no hesitation in express- 

 ing our belief from what we have seen of this district, that the Last 

 Mountain Valley, when fully developed as a wheat growing locality, will 

 be easily equal to the Indian Head country or Portage Plains." It should 

 be mentioned hen-, perhaps, that the Indian Head and Portage Districts 

 are considered the most fertile in the whole Dominion of Canada. 



CROPS IN COUNTRY TRIBUTARY TO 

 LAST MOUNTAIN VALLEY 



Alex. Wilson, of Pioneer, had 8,000 bushels of wheat and 2,300 bushels 

 of oats. His summer-fallow wheat averaged 40 bushels. 



N. T. Alcock, of Eastview, threshed 4,000 bushels of wheat off 150 

 acres, and 50 acres of a volunteer crop yielded 500 bushels. Off 50 acres 

 he had 3.500 bushels of oats, six acre.-> of which was summer-fallow and 

 yielded 720 bushels, or an average of 120 bushels per acre. This is the 

 largest yield per acre yet reported. Part of his wheat went 25 bushels 

 per acre and part 40. 



Robert McCartney had 5,160 bushels of wheat off 180 acres, an 

 average of 28 bushels all round. 



Andrew Moffatt, of Clinton, has 6,900 bushels of wheat off 170 acres, 

 an average ot over 40 bushels per acre. One strip of ten acres yielded 

 exactly 500 bushels the best yield reported. Thirty acres of oats 

 averaged 80 bushels. His brother, John Moffatt has 5,080 bushels ol wheat 

 off 1 20 acres, an average of over 42 bushels all round. Off 16 acres of oats 

 he had about 1,600 bushelsanother loo-bushel per acre field. Last spring 

 Andrew Moffatt sowed i| bushels of pure Red Fife wheat (obtained from 

 the Indian Head experimental farm) on two acres of land. This was very 

 light to sow and only a light yield was expected, but the two acres threshed 

 40 bags, or 80 bushels. 



Andrew Dalgarno, of Pioneer, threshed 6,708 bushels of wheat off 172 

 acres, an average of exactly 39 bushels. Off 30 acres of oats he had 2,400 

 bushels. 



James Coventry, of Drinkwater, had 2,200 bushels of wheat off 75 

 acres, and 2,200 bushels of oats off 30 acres. His son, Robert, had 1,200 

 bushels of wheat off 35 acres and 1,000 bushels of oats off 14 acres. 



James W. Smith, whose farms are situated from four to seven miles 

 northeast of Moose Jaw, had probably the largest yield in that district last 

 year, having threshed 18,000 bushels of wheat off 500 acres, an average 

 of 36 bushels all around. Three hundred acres of summer-fallow averaged 

 40 bushels, and some must have gone 50 bushels. Eighty acres of oats 

 yielded 5,000 bushels. 



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