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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
7
John Bull Sells Immigrants Good Land for 1 dollar an acre. Farmers lure 10 to the Northwest, hoping golden wheat harvests will bring record prosperity this year with 100,000 acres likely to be cultivated.
Winnipeg May 10 The American invasion of Canada boosts settlement with 100000 newcomers expected to build homes in the northwest this year and twice that next year. Wheat belt districts in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta attract contractors small business men and farmers selling U S land at 40 to 100 dollars per acre. Canada gains 100000000 in wealth from Americans last year and plans to triple it this year. Recruiting stations and agents abound. settlers trek across the border to homestead 160 acres and raise 15 acres or keep 20 head of livestock for three years. The railroads expand land grants and cities spring up. fuel issues appear solved with new coal mines. cattle sales exceed 100000 abroad. Public lands offer vast free acreage. the Bluewater Reservoir project details and corporate charter information follow in the document.
Dominica reports a craze among Barbadians toward the Panama Canal migration with about 1800 leaving Barbadoes aboard the Solent. Some women reportedly joined men in disguise, while others pursued permit wages, and white settlers were said to avoid the canal’s eastern terminus. The piece also notes sensational diversions, a stranded whale sighting, and local industry matters including telegraph cables, high canal wages, a street railway project, and clergy appointments.
Territorio New Mexico record confirms filing on May 16 1907 of Bluewater Irrigation Company articles. Statement lists Sidney Worthy Edwin Rows Gangales Merak W Clancy as organizers and intents to purchase improve and develop real estate and to engage in mining manufacturing and related industries within the territory.
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