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CREW OF BR1TISII FR EIGITER
SAFELY RESCUED RESPITE AC'C SEA
One of the' Worst Storms in History of Shipping in North
Atlantic—U.S. Liner President Roosevelt Makes Gad
lent Rescue. Of Twenty-five Exhausted Setu- ie;r.
A,despatch from New York says:- they were too weak to ride jumping
The, sea and human heroism have! into the sea."
broken even in the latest renewal of Captain Fried had stood by the An -
their age-old battle, tinesince Sunday. Early Thursday
The President Roosevelt, her fun- morning he got'a "blinker" code ines-
ne.s beaching defiance of the gale she sage from the 1$ left aboard, 'saying
the ship was listing 50 degrees and
• has fought four days, had resumed her
way yco Cherbourg, with'the whole could not stay up much longer
drew of 25 men from the mangled and Though the gale had abated a :•-tile,
lielplesii.••. British freighter Antinoe heavy swels were running, and the
aboard; waves were high, Nevertheless, the
Their rescue was the seaman's vie- Roosevelt launched its sixth lifeboat.
tory. A few hundred miles to the It succeeded. ,'
north and west, bits of wreckage on A little later her wireless a office
the still turbulent Atlantic give evi -Sputtered a message to the home office
deuce of the battle the sea won. They of ',the United' States lines, saying they
i are all that is left of" the Laristan, a erg "on the way to.Cherbourge
also a British freighter, which went gain, regretting the Ioss of two of the
down with' her captain anil25 men.,. crew who weied'rowned in en earlier
attempt to reach the Antinoe and aeav-
The Roosevelt 'completed her task ing the freighter still afloat, "a ser -
early Thursday morning, by the light ions menace to navigation;"
of a moon which came out propitiously
during a brief lull in the 90 -mile gale.
An open bort from the Roosevelt com-
manded by Chief_ Officer Miller took
the last 13 men off the Amines.
They were exhausted from hunger Was in command of the President
-`and battered by the waves. Earlier, Harding, a sister ship of the Roose-
Captain George Fried, of the Roose- yelt, two months ago when she effected
velt, had wirelessed of the rescue of a similar rescue o8 the captain and
the first 12 of the crew,,but said the crew of the Italian steanier Ign:azio
others had to be left aboard "because 'Florio.
The general manager of the United
States lines in New York immediate-
ly sent the captain a message of con-
gratulation. So : did Captain Paul
Gran ig, from London. Captain Grenig
PRINCE OF WALES -
IN SECOND ACCIDENT
H.R.H. Has Collar -bone Frac
tured When Horse Turns
Somersault.
A despatch from London says:—In
his second hunting accident within
two days, the Prince of Wales suffered
a fracturefl collarbone on Thursday
whenthrown from his, mount while
hunting with the Fernie hounds, at
Little Shelton, Leicestershire. On
Wednesday his favorite hunter fell
dead under hint, but he escaped with
slight bruises.
"It's my collarbone. I've had a
taste of that before," said the Prince
as he was helped to- his feet.
An exciting chase was under way
and the Prince tried to take a tall,
stiff heldge, at which most of the rid-
ers balked. The horse turned a somer-
sault in the air and Wales was thrown
heavily. Other riders dismounted and
, ran to the Pryice, helping him to his
motor car, 1t'1, feet away, in which he
was taken to Market Harborougb.
The fractured left collarbone was
set by the local doctor while the Prince
waited fox' a train. When that was
finished he telephoned his secretary at
York House in London, making light
of the accident,,
An epress train was stopped for His
Highness, and he was brought to
London. He walked to his car and
reaching York House, retired to bed.
Says Music in Church Has
Important Place.
Music as the handmaiden of religion;
• waegtho theme of a sermon delivered
by Rev. Caton Plunptre in St. James
Cathedral, Toronto,` at a service held
In commemoration of St. Cecilia's Day..
The Church, he declared, was built on
music. It was a power• which might
lift man to the throne of Gel. It had
been said that If we could not answer: •
atheism with argument we could
Smother it witless, song.` Special music!
d
was arrangefor the service, the'
Choir, under the direction of Dr. Al.;
-.bert .Ham, singing Milton's' 'ode to
voice and verse, "Blest Pair of Sirens,",
' set to music in 1887 by Sir Hallett
•' Parry.• 1
In honor and in loving Memory of
the' late -Queen Mother, a servicewas vas p
e n James concurrently with
WHILE BLIZZARD RAGED
SOO BLOCK BURNED
Loss is $40,000—Fie Chief
Injured and Tenants Had
Narrow Escape.
-.:,A despatch from Sault Ste. ii1a'rie,
Ont., says:—Shortly after thre
o'clodk Thursday morning, when th
temperature was hovering around 21
degrees be'aw zero, a fire of unknown
origin completely' gutted the business
and residential Noble Block on Queen
east, destroying everything in its
wake, and causing approximately $40,-
000 loss. Capt. Robert D. Clarke, of
No. Two Fire„Haid, who sapped off the
roof at the rear of the block, faliin
one storey to the ground, is in' the
General Hospital suffering with
broken leg and a broken arm.
The block, occupied at the time
the fire by C. Cliffe, bookstore; Joseph
F. Bruder, harness company, the
Miron Cafe, William Greer and fam
ily, and W. Gordon Greer and fam-:
was owned by Mrs. 'Ruth Noble, of
Toronto, and Mr. William Greer. Its
value Was estimated at 518,000. There
was 514,000 insurance.
The- Cliffe loss will be 59,000 stock,
only $4,000 insurance. Bruder 'had a
stock valued at 56,500, on which he
carried 53,000 insurance.
-- The Greer families, occupying the
upstairs of the block, suffered total
damage, as they carried very little in-
surance. They escaped in their. night °
clothes. :-
Three firemen narrowly escaped -be-
ing seriously injured, and probably
killed when the brick wall en the east
side of -the block -collapsed.
Prime Minister of Japan
TIDE WEEK'S MARKETS
- TORONTO.
Man. , wheat—No. 1 'North., 51.69;,
No. 2 North., 51.65; No, 3 Northern,
51.62.
Man, oats—No. 2 CW, nominal;
No. 3, 51%e; No.1 feed, 493'ac; No. 2
feed, 48,,ica; Western grain: quotations,
on.track, bay ports.
Ant. corn, track, Toronto -No. 2,
yellow, 94e; No. 3, yellow, 92e.
Milifeed-,Del, Montreal freigh,.s,.
bags included; Bran, per ton, $30.25
to 531,255; shorts, per ton, $82.25 to
538.25; middlings, $39.26 to 540.25;
good feed flour, sr bag, 52.80.
Ont. oats -43 to 45e, f.o.b. shipping
points.
Ont. good milling wheat—$1.42 to,,
51.44, f.o.b, shipping points, according
to freights,
Barley—Malting-66 to 67e.
Buckwheat—No. 3, 70c,'.
Rye --No. 2, 90c.
Man, flour—First pat„ 59.10, To-
ronto; do, second pat., 58.60.
Ont. flour—Toronto, 90 per cent.
pat., per barrel, in carlots, Toronto, $
$6.20; seaboard, in.bulk, $6.20.
StrawCarlots, per ton, $9 to 59.50.
Screenings—Standard, recleaned, f.
Tc rolls, 22c; cottage, 25 to 27c; break
fast bacon, 32 to 36c; special. bran
breakfast bacon, 38 to" 39c; back
boneless, 37 to 45c.
Cured meats=Long clear bacon, 6
to 70 lbs„ $22; 70 to 90 lbs„, 520.50
20 lbs. and. up, 519.50; lightweigh
rolls,' in barrels, ,$43.50; heavyweigh
rolls, $39.50 per barrel.
Lard—Pure tierces, 183, to 19c
tubs,. 19 to 191c; 'pails, 20 to 201%
prints, 21 to 211/Zc; shortening tierces
141/2 to 1401c; tubs, 15 to 15%c; pails
151/2 to 16c- blocks, 163 to"17c.
Heavy Steers, choice, 57.75 to $8.25;
do, good, $7.25 to 57.50; butcher
steers, choice, 57 to $7.65; do, good,
$6 to 56.65; butcher heifers, choice,
$6.75 to 57.50; do,good, $5.75
to 56.26; do, med., $ to $5.50; do,
corn., 54.50 to 54.75 • butcher cow.,
choice, 55 to $5.25; do, fair to good,
$4 to $4.50; butcher bulls, good, 4,75
to 55,75; bologn-aa, 53.25 to $3.75;
canners and cutters, $2.25 to 58;
springers, choice, $85 to 5100; good.
ranch cows, 570 to $80; medium cows,
46 to $60; feeders, good, $5.75 to
$6.50; do, fair, 55 to $5.50; stockers,
good, $4.75 to $5.50;' do, fair, $4.60 to
a
5,
0
o,b. bay ports, per ton, $20. 54.75; calves, choice, $13 to $14.50;
Cheese—New, large, 21c; . twins, I do, good, $11 to $12; do, grassers,
211c; triplets, 22e; °Stiltons, 22c. Old, j $5 to • $5.25; good light sheep, 57'to
large, 28e; twins, 29c; triplets, 30c. $8; heavies and bucks,. $4 to $6.50;
Butter- 3 inoct creamery,
prints, 1 food Iambs, 518 to $13.50; do, med.,
472; No. 1 creamery. 46c.; No. 2, 44 10.50 to 511.60; do, bucks, $9.50 to
to 45c, Dairy prints 41 to -42c $11; do, culls, $10 to $11• hogs thick
A movie picture g I ctal'e nig
chine concealed in ,
the court c whil non
e Judge las 46 to resh fresh extras, lc; et46 tof.o.b., $13; do, country points, $12.75;
of Detroit, announced that Irene Przylryia, aged four, would go to an liistitu- 46c; fresh firsts, 39 to 40c store a do, off cars, 514; select premium 52.67.
extras, 36c; storage firsts, 83c; stor-
age
age seconds, 29c.
Dressed poultry—Chickens, spring,
Eggs—Fresh extras,. in cartons
smooths, fed and watered $13,36; do,
tion,'cbeoided' for him that the`ehild should be awarded to its foetal. parent,
Mrs. Irene Goosen, rather than to its natural.mother, The film showed.that
Goosen (,shown with the child)''teaoted more to the announcement than
Mrs.
sb., 32c• hens o er 4'
26c; do, 3 to 4 lbs., 22c; roosters, 18c; Flour, Man. spring wheat pats., firsts,
ducklings, 5 lbs. and up, 30 to 32c; 59.10; seconds, $8.60; strong bakers,
turkeys, 35c. $8.20 to $8.90. Bran, $30.26 to $31,25.
Beans—Can. hand-picked. Ib„ 6c; $
primes 5 to 61/2c.
Maple produce—Syrup, per Imp.
gal., $2.40; per 6 -gat tin, 52.30 per
gal.; maple sugar, lh„ 25 to 26c.
Honey -50 -lb. tins, 111/• to 12a per
ib.; 10 -Ib. tins, 111,2 to 12c; 5-1b. tins,
12 'to 121/2c; 21,2-1b. tins, 14 to 14/c.
Smoked.
mea ts—Hams+, med., 27 to
MONTREAL.
Oats, Can. west., No. 2, 62c; CW,
did the mother. •v rr to 5 lbs., 24 to No. 8, 58c; extra No 1 feed, 55c
a shapeless mass of scrap -metal. He
could take it out on the inanimate ob-
ject, but he could not stir the implac-
able churchman, his inveterate foe.
The apology for which Von Bissing
ciambred never came, though he in-
voked all the resources' of Germany to
obtain it.
Naturally, the man who wrote this
chapter of history for his land and for
mankind was honored by the world.
The Cardinal vaunted not himself. He
remained to the end the patriot, the
-public servant, the devoted shepherd
of the flock that lie had been from the
start of his career," Of such men no
country has a monopoly. - They belong
to the race.
Too Much 'Statistics.
The head of au Oriental town, a Mo-
hammedan, being asked by the gov-
ernm•ent to reply to certain questions
relating to his city, sent in the follow-
ing paper: '
Question—What is the death 'rate
per thousand In your city?
Answer—Ili my city it is the will of
Allah that ail. must die; some die old,
somte young,.
:Question -What Is the annual num-
ber of births?
An•ssver—We don't know; only God
elm say.
Question -Aro the supplies. of drink Charlottetown, P.E,I.—Touristtrade ber products exported to the United
iu:g water sufficient, and of good was worth over $800,000 - `to 'the Pro- States from: the Saint John eonsu,ar
quality? vine of Prince Edward Island during'
Anewer-From the remotest period the year 1925, according to the annual
no one has ever died of thirst report of the Island Tourist 'Associa-
Question - What is the general tion. The traffic, the report states,
hygenic;condition of your city? is. rapidly growing.. During the 1925
Answer—Since Allah sent us Mo• summer holiday' season about 47,000
hammed, his prophet, to purge the people visited:the Island, compared
world with fire and sword, there has. with 36,000 people during' the comes -
been great improvement. And now, pending period of the previous year.
my lamb of the West, cease your clues. Twenty-one hundred cars'crossed. to
tioning, which can do no good`either
to you or anyone else. •
Cardinal Mercier.
Cardinal. Mercier • became a world'I
figure when he issued Itis fatuous
Christmas pastoral of 1914, denounc-
ing the Germans for the burning of
the Louvain library, the dtstruetion of
Malines, the defiance of Belgian sov-
ereignty and the denial of personal
freedom. The country was stirred to
e the depths , by this document, which
e Von Bissing and ..his aides spared no
effort 'to•suppress. They made the
Cardinal a prisoner in his palace for
four, days, though the Kaiser had the
effrontery to deny to the Pope that
this was done.
To the day of:the Armistice the
Cardinal personified Belgian patriot-
ism and was the voice of democracy
g militant against* all that German auto-
cracy represented. He won the devo-
n tion of the 'land, the admiration of the
world, without reference to creed. It.
of was in the Teuton' interest to show
that he far exceeded the traditional
concept of pastoral care and the • "cure
is. Taken -by Death
A despatch from Tokio says:—Vis--1
count Takaaki Kato, the Premier; is
dead. . ,
Viscount Kato was taken ill last
Saturday with influenza. While his
$hysicians said his condition was not
serious, they watching him close-
ly and would not permit him to attend
the sessions of the Diet. On Tuesday,
in view of the likelihood of"his pro -
tonged absence from the Diet, the.
Cabinet appointed Reijiro Wakatsuki,
Minister of Home Affairs, to act a
Premier temporarily. I
The latter is leader of the Kensekai
arty.
• the royal - funeral. In' making this an- •' '
nouncement Cacn Plumptre said "Tho
CARDINAL. MERCER
-of souls"s
-Of course he did; it; -was
his glory and that of his flock, which
Was all the nation, that he did so. One
can imagine the blind fury of Von
Bissing when, in a pastoral letter of
the, Lenten season, 1916, the Cardinal
advised: "Prepare your plans, place
9 your batteries, co-ordinate your move-
ments.” In apoplectic rage, the Kai-
ser's ,shadow in Brussels threw his
helmet on the flood and kicked it into
' Empire is in .morning for one greatly
honored and beloved, who has -passed
from us, the Queen Mother. This service,
will be held in an effort to exprats
the deepness and reality of our loyalty
and affection for her who has- so silt-
deny been taken from Our midst."
Taking; bis text from the Psalms of
David: "I will open my dark sayings .---...-.-•.._ .,,.,__._..-.•....._ .-.,_,_ - _.-..,, __ . •_.._._.._--._..
upon the harp," Canon Pluniptre des-
cribed music as a medium whersbywe
.might tell those things of the heart.,,;
Which otherwise wouldbo untenable. 45�' 1` 1
It was at once the most human and the
most divine of ail the arks It express-'
ea rhothe
se subtle intouat' s - k w �, s .„s. .c +„tb• 'w•• r '-c . w> ' i`s, ymP:, t
lore...:._ .-A.r, -..: _... ...•�.... ,,ca?ZSs. v'.s _... .. xr .,,...., ... .... .. ,,.. _. �`+ ,r .;,utu..�n.te. _`�`.: w a[jO�.�• . .
Shorts, , 32.26 to $33.25 Middlings,
589.25 to 540.25.
Cheese—Finest wests, 21 to 211/2c. •
Butter No. 1 pasteurized, .431/2 to
48 c.
Eggs -Storage extras, 85e; storage
firsts, 80c; storage second's, 24c; fresh
extras, 48 to 45c; fresh firsts, 40c.
Potatoes, Quebec, per bag, car lots,
29c; cooked hams, 42 to 45e; smoked unchanged.
Black Cat Ludt.
There is no "good luck" portent more
generally believed in'than that con-
nected with black eats. If ono enters
the house it must be driven away. If
we meet one in the street the omen le
good, and if it should come and rub• it-
self against us our luck is right in.
Promptly we stoop and stroke it—to
make quite certain.
If that is your custom, do you know
that you are propitiating the Evil One?
Your anoestors in the Middle Ages
hated blank cats. They regarded
then- as being inhabited by Satan him-
self, or, at any rate, by one of the evil
spirits. So when they stroked a black
cat it wse not to bring" gcod luck but
to avert ill -luck. By pleasing the cat
•
they turned the devil from his wicked
purpose. If You condemn the notion
as silly and superstitious, why do you
continue it?
Sentence Sermons.
If You Have --Friends no financial
panic' can make you poor,
—Money, you have not yet achieved
happiness.
—Work, you have an opportunity to
prove your divinlhy,
—Misfortune, do not pity yourself
for then no one else pities you,
Enemies, learn to treat them bet-
ter
et
ter than they treat you.
-tar%ties perhaps they can teach
you something.
g
—Faith in Ged, you are strengthened
against any disaster.
Canada from Coast to `Coast
Western Fossil Said • , ;
to be 60,000,000Years 'Old
A despatch from Winnipeg says:—
Experts at the 'University f M
the province in the summer of last
year,' compared with 1,400 in the sum-
mer of 1924 and 800 in the summer
of 1923. -
Halifaxy N.S.—An " entirely. new
market for the consumption of Nova
Scotian fish in its fresh' state has been
opened up in England, and already
sa -y; c 0111- several largo shipments have gone
toba who have exantined'a'fossil dis- forward by various ocean liners sail -
covered' at a depth of 20 feet in the ing from this port. The fish' are being
Tyndall Quarries, Manitoba, estimate ,hipped in chilled air space and they
its age at 60,000,000 years. The fossil, are stated to arrive in England in
which is known as the "tribofite," is excellent condition. Accordingt the
a long -extinct water creature some o '
thing like a crab, that crawled at the exporters alters is an excellent demand
bottom of the large sea that covered to .... Country for these fish end
the price received is consideredvery
the prairies millions of years ago, satisfactory.
Saint John, `N.B.—Lumber and luta-
,
say.
district during the quarter ending De-
cember 31st, 1925, showed an increase
or more than' 5200,000 over the cor-
responding period of 1924. The total
for the period was $948,828. The com-
modity shipped in the largest quanti-
ties was wood pulp, with soft wood
and laths well up in the standing.
Montreal, Que.—Over six hundred
British families are waiting to sail for
Canada in the spring, having been'
accepted by the Canadian Director of
Migration as suitable settlers under
the scheme to establish 3,000 families
in: the Dominion, according to word re-
ceived here'from the Overseas Settle -
Ment Committee. The Canadian auth-
orities in London confidently antici-
pate .that 300 more British' families
will be ready to leave for 'Canada by
the middle of June next.
Toronto, Ont.—During the year
1925 a total' of 1,342,742 United States
automobiles entered the Province of
Ontario through sixteen ports of
entry, of which over 200,000 remained
for 'a period of from one 'to thirty
days. I1 is estimated that this traffic
resulted in 540,000,000 worth of new
business for Ontario.
Winnipeg, Man,—Great progress
has been made since the' establishment
of the Manitoba Provincial Savings
Bank. The number of depositors has.
increased from 2,241 to 80,412. De-
posits have increased from 634,220 at
November 30, 1920, to 511,908,459 at
April 30, 1925, states the annual re-
port recently issued.
Moose Jaw, Sask.—Experiments
carried over a number of years by the
Mowchenko Brothers, of Ardili, Sas-
catchewan, in the growing of selected
seed and crossing "one variety with
another has result
•ed in the-produe-
ion of a very fine type of water melon
arid: musk melon, which can be grown
human mind which ton o
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realms of speech. Music was -more . ... •>, . e
successfully anyseasoninthispro-
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( wince
.Experiments along
thesel
anes
velarion. Not �Y were the deepest have been carpied out in the irrigated
aspirations of the soul regarding mgGod sections of Southern Absria
during.
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on music. We are a singing people
and our way is the way .of song. In
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keeping this- day consecrate 1 • • �; .. .. � r ,. ;»:�. .- u.yh .. x<..
g ay we conscetoto. our- h � .�< ,,.,,.,.,�...;'..�'°'_ ..-., �'� �..,.:.. ?�`: ;' a
selves; to all that is best In music. We
look forward to the day when earth's
feeble melodies may; be -joined to the,
adenous chorus of the choirs in Iieav-
61n) above.<,
recent years and have been temper-
tively successful,
Lethbridge,
Alta—The oil refinery
at Coutts, Alberta, close to the Mon-
ana boundary and the Sweet grass
it field, will soon be operating with a
tall of 15 men, and with a handling
opacity of 2,000 barrels of crude oil'
ally, -
Port Alberni, B.C.-Tho joint organ-
ation of King -Farris Lumber Co.
id B"-oedel, Welch and Stewart, which
is back of the. big limbering venture, fail'].
at Great Central Lake, :has started Co
operations on the new milli It is situ-
ated
ituated in eleven thbusand.a
cies of virgin'at
thither. Over 2, million dollars have vice
already been invested. Otto.,
i.i;n• touting Scotland r, the guess of the Royal Casedoni,an Club were
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Natural Resources Bulletin.
The Natural Resources Intelligence
Service of the Department of the In-
terior at Ottawa says:,
In a handbook of Saskatchewan, re-,
cently issued by the above Service, a
very interesting summary of the land
situation in the three Prairie Prov-
inces ,• is given. Under the heading
"Opportunities for Settlers" is the
following, and it applies equally to
each province:
"To the land" seeker three different
opportunities aro presented. He may
select a free homestead, or purchase
either an improved or unimproved
farm.
Free Homesteads—The free home-
stead policy, whereby a qualified per-
son may acquire a quarter -section of
land by the performance of certain
residence and, improvement duties,
still applies to the public lands in the'
province except in the southern por-
tion of Saskatchewan. With the ,ex-
ception of the northern' and central
portion of the province, suitable lands
available for homestead entry are
,practically exhausted. There is very
little free land left that is clear, open
prairie. Practically all the free land
now available is wooded, the forest
cover being mostly poplar and willow,
At the same time a lot of it is too
heavily timbered to permit of economic
clearing at the present time.
Purchased Farms—With improv
agricultural conditions, better tran
portation facilities, rural telephone
and good markets, the opportuniti
for success in grain growing, mike
farming, dairying, and poultry-rai
ing are better than ever before, eve
if free prairie' homesteads are alm
a thing of the past. The greatest op
portunities lie in the vast areas -
unimproved vacant land held by ab
sentee Iand-owners, railroad sampan
les and others. These are scatters
throughout the whole province an
have the advantage of being sand
wiched in between the improved land
hus giving their purchasers the ad
vantage of roads, schools, markets
and the like enjoyed, by older settlers
he average man who has ' home
teaded will tell you that, provided h
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ad enough means to warrant th
ndertalcing under present conditions
e would buy vacant land rather that
epeat his homesteading experience
were he called upon to decide again
n such locations as these the new
orner finds himself launched at one
nto the midst of a flourishing settle
went and his pioneering is free fro
hardships and loneliness. `" Neighbor
ssist him in erecting a house and get
ting a start, in return for which the
re glad of his help in harvest time
ore he has a crop of his own. In
ke manner his land is quickly broken,
reps are soon being harvestharvested;*anti
o ten such men pay for a farm before
homesteader gets his patent. Prices
for vacant lands are very reasonable,
things considered, and will never
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There are many millions of acres
of these fertile lands lying idle in set-
tled districts and within 10 and 15
miles of existing railways.' The total
acreage of privately owned, unoccu-
pied lands is estimated at 14,000,000
acres. The Natural Resources Intelli-
gence Service of the Dept. of the In-
terior, Ottawa, issues ,:lists of such
lands, giving brief particulars, such
as location, prices, terms and owners'
names and addresses. These lists taxi
available to the prospective home -
seeker and, purchaser.
School lands, purchasable from the
Dominion Government, offer special
inducement to the settler. Sections
eleven and twenty-nine in every sur-
veyed' township in the Prairie Pro-
vinces are set apart as an endowment
for the purpose of education, and are
designated school lands. The area of
school lands surveyed in Saskatchewan
to Jan. 1, 1923, was 3,942,000' acres, of
en
which area 1,500,000 acres have be,
sold at the average price of $17.50 per
acre. This leaves about 2,440,000
acres of surveyed school lands unsold.
-In addition to the homesteads and
vacant lands, further opportunities are
afforded the hotneseeker in many im-
proved farms which can be purch.sed
at a price that in the opinion of miitiy
laud authorities is better buying than
is that of vacant land. During- the
period 01 high grain prices there was
a tendency on the part of many farm -
•era to go extensively, into cereal crops.
Within the past few years, however,
there has been a decided change in
this respect. The farmer is now.seek-
ing to diversify= Itis production, going
more into live stock and dairying,
with a consequent reduction of his
land acreage, As e result, much im-
proved land may be purchased in well
settled districts, and close to markets,
at •very reasonable prices.
The history of development in the
Prairie Provinces is replete with the
remearlcable successes attained by her
settlers. s. Homesteaders who have set-
tled on their "quarter" without means
or capital, save -an optimistic spirit
backed by a -stout heart, have found
themselves in a few. years financially
independent and in possession of an
enviable farm home in the midst of
smiling plenty. Ih like prosperity are •
those who have purchased farms and
paid for them out of the proceeds of
the: first few crops. Testimonials are
freely submitted from delighted mit.-
chasers who have made peynnento in
fro ma singe crop,
pies of the handbook are avail -
to adults upon request from 'the
ural Resources Intelligence Ser -
of the`Dept, of the Interior at
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