rly 100,000 Awe ican, ers have purchased app 3,000,000 acres of land Canada since the beginning of the year, according to a Winnipeg despatch to "The Ca: yary Daily Herald," which goes un' to so that thousands more are expected during the harvest season to spect the famous wheat belt and purchase land on which to settle next year.
This information was given out by L. A. Walch, head of a big American company, organized some tinie ago to handle farm lands, who declared that one of the outstanding features of this great influx of new settlers has been the trend toward British Columbia. There has also been a large emigration from Winnipeg.
Most of the American farmers who purchased land this year will not settle on it until next Spring or laier, the move from their present. homes depending upon circumstances.
Reports obtained frou the Dowinion Immigration Department in Winnipeg show that only about 13,000 Americans who come into Westera Canada made definite de-jon that they were taking up dence in the country this year.
More than $5,500,000 in actual sh was brought into Western Canada by these settlers while their effects are valued at more than—$1,700,000, according statistics furnished by the Imuiii Department. During March 388 cars containing settlers' effects arrived.
Nearly 2.000 of the newcomers settled in Manitoba, the remainder taking ins in Saskatchewan,. British Columbia and Western Ontario.
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