12 RANCHING IN THE CANADIAN WEST 



The two plans on p. 11 wiU more clearly illustrate 

 my explanation, and are those of a township and 

 section (the latter with the quarter-sections of 

 160 acres marked on it). 



With the exceptions which I wiU point out, the 

 even numbers (2, 4, 6, etc.) are sections owned by the 

 Canadian Government, and (unless already taken 

 up) are open for occupation by intending settlers on 

 payment at the local land office of the district of a 

 registration fee of $10. At the end of three years, 

 provided you have fulfilled the conditions laid down 

 — viz., residence upon your quarter-section for at 

 least six months in each year, and improving it in 

 the form of buUdings, fences, or placing 15 acres of 

 it under cultivation — ^you apply to the District Land 

 Agent for your patent. Having received this the 

 160 acres are your own property to do as you like 

 with, but there are certain reservations in regard to 

 minerals found on them, as in the case of all Canadian 

 lands. 



The odd-nimibered sections (1, 3, 5, etc.) are 

 railway lands, and the property of the Canadian 

 Pacific Company (within a prescribed distance of 

 25 miles each side of the railway track) from whom 

 they can be purchased outright, or on an easy instal- 

 ment principle, at from $3-50 to $10 an acre, 

 according to the part of the coimtry in which they 



