APPENDIX I. 147

I left Ontario in 1878, with a team of horses, a
wagon, a barrel of pork, a few tools, and $165'00 in
cash. The nearest railroad point to Winnipeg then
was Fisher's Landing, Minnesota, 100 miles or so up
the Red River. My cash was all gone on reaching
Winnipeg, so that I was obliged to peddle my pork to
pay the boat company their fare. Now we have a
railroad station but two miles off.
[ drove west from Winnipeg about 130 miles and
homesteaded on the eastern slope of the Riding Mountain,
 on heavy scrub land, and by using plenty of
elbow grease and sticking plaster, have as fine a farm
as there is in Manitoba. My crop this year off 150
acres of wheat was 3,965 bushels, all No. 1 hard;
40 acres of oats (2,600 bushels), and go tons of native
wild hay, and §-acre potatoes gave 125 bushels, My
stock consists of 11 horses, 39 head of cattle, 28 hogs,
and over 200 head of poultry. Implements: 2 binders,
2 mowers, 1 horse-rake, 2 gang ploughs, 2 ploughs,
3 set harrows, 1 seed drill, 3 wagons, 3 sleighs, &amp;c.
I own five } sections (8oo acres), which I bought
at odd times when I had money to spare.
The house I live in cost me $2,000; stables,
$1,400700. At a moderate estimate I rate myself as
being worth $20,000'00 or £4,000. I attribute my
success to a determination to have a farm of my
own, to the help of a good wife, to keeping sober and
jut of debt, and last, but not least, to the excellent
soil and climate of Manitoba.
This is as healthy a climate, I believe, as can be
found in the world. We have a family of eight, and
the four eldest are all heavier than their parents, their
average height is 5 feet 9} inches, weight 158 1b., and
three of these are girls, We have never needed a
doctor.

Yours truly,
Joan Grover,
In 1900 Joseph Glenn, of Indian Head, Assiniboia,
bought a quarter section of land (160 acres) for $200,
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