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household goods, and farming implements to the value
of $18,848,891, and $25,000,000 in cash. These were
not guesses, but ascertained facts. Of these 123,000
persons probably 25,000 were heads of families, and it
was within the mark to say that on an average in their
first full year of operation they would extract from the
soil $2,000 worth of products, or a total of $50,000,000
added to the wealth of the Dominion every year.
“As to general results, the total immigration in 1900
was 42,500; in 1go3 it was 128,900, of whom 49,408
were from the United States, and 41,702 from Great
Britain, During the present fiscal year there were
135,000. All these people, except about five per cent.,
settled direct upon the land, as was shown by the
homestead entries in the North-West Territories,
which were 8,000 in 1901, 14,633 in 1902, and 31,383 in
1903, each of which represented a farm actually taken
up. The result of this increased immigration is that,
whereas in 1898 the cost per head of securing settlers
from the United States was $7'77,last year it was $325.
«In the five and a half years preceding last June,
143,000 Americans had settled in Canada, at a cost
of $701,000, an average of $567 per head. They
brought in $18,848,891 worth of settlers’ effects, and
some $25,000,000 in cash, a total return of $43,848,891
for the cost of getting them. Of these there were
25,000 farmers, heads of families, used to extensive
farming. At a moderate calculation, after six years’
settlement, they would each produce $2,000 worth a
year, a total annual addition to the country’s wealth
of $50,000,000.”

TESTIMONY OF SETTLERS.
SEc. 32, 3, Tp. 6, RGE. 21, W. 18T. M., Souris.
Souris, MaNITOBA.
Mr. F. T. GRIFFIN,
C. P. R. Land Commissioner, Winnipeg.
Dear Sir,—I came from Hope County, Durham,
Ontario, in 1880, and took up my homestead in the