Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1913 — PREPARING FOR THE WORK OF 1913 [ARTICLE]

PREPARING FOR THE WORK OF 1913

CITY BUILDING, RAILWAY BUILDING AND FARM OPERATIONS IN WESTERN CANADA, BIGGEST EVER. The machinery, the money and the men for carrying on the big works in Western Canada in 1913 are already provided for. The splendid harvest which was successfully garnered, and by this time mostly marketed, responded to the big hopes that were had for it early in the season, and Inspired capitalists and railroads to further Investment and building. From lake ports to mountain base there will be carried oh the biggest operations in city building and railway construction that has ever taken place in that country. The Canadian Pacific railway has everything in waiting to continue their great work of double tracking the system and by the time the Panama Canal is open to traffic there will be a double line of steel from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast The cost will exceed thirty million dollars. The Grand Trunk Pacific plan of building a flrstclass trunk line and then-feeders at various points will be carried forward with all the force that great company can put Into the work. The Canadian Northern is prepared to put Into motion all the energy that young giant of finance and railroad building can put into various enterprises of providing and creating transportation facilities. Building operations in the several cities, that have already marked themselves a place in the list of successful and growing cities, will be carried on more largely than ever. Schools, public buildings, parliament buildings, colleges, business blocks, apartments, private residences, banks, street and other municipal Improvements have their appropriation ready, and the record of 1913 will be something wonderful. Other places which are towns today will make the rapid strides that are expected and will become cities. There will be other Edmontons, Calgarys, Reginas and Saskatoons, other places that may in their activity help to convince the outer world of the solidity and permanency of the Canadian West The country is large and wide and broad and the ends of its great width and cultural area. Its people are progressive, they are strong, there is no enervation there. The country teems with this life, this ambition, this fondness to create and to use the forces that await the settler, if they come from the South, and hundreds of thousands of them have, they are now the dominant men of the North, and they have imbibed of the spirit of the North. Therefore it is fair to say that no portion of the continent will show such wonderful results as Western Canada, and the year 1913 will be but the beginning of a wonderful and great future. And in this future the 200,000 Americans who made It their home, and those who preceded them, will be a considerable portion of the machinery that will be used in bringing about the results predicted. The development of 1913 will not be confined to the prairie provinces., Railway building and city building in British Columbia will be supplemented by the farm, the ranch and the orchard building of that province. Vancouver will make great strides in building, and Victoria, the staid old lady of so many years, has already shown signs of modern ways, and if the progress made in 1912 may be accepted as anything like what it will be in 1913, there will be wonderful developments there. During last year the permits went over the ten million dollar mark and much more is promised for the year now entered upon.—Advertisement