Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — WONDERFUL GROWTH OF THE CANADIAN WEST [ARTICLE]

WONDERFUL GROWTH OF THE CANADIAN WEST

The Citiss of Western panada Reflect the Growth of the Country.

; As one passes through Western Canada, taking the City bf Winnipeg as a starting point, and then keeping tab on the various cities and towns that line the network of railways that cover the provinces of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta, and covering the eyes as the gaze is bent on these it is felt that there must be “something of a country” behind it all. Then gaze any direction you like and the same view is presented. Field after field of waving grain, thousands and hundreds of thousands of them. Farm hands and laborers are at work converting the virgin prairie with more fields. Pasture land in every direction on which cattle are feeding, thriving and fattening on the grasses that are rich in both milk and beef properties, hut it is unfortunate that more cattle are not seen. That, how-, ever, is correcting itself. Here we have in a large measure, the evidence of the wealth that helps to build up the cities, and it should not be forgotten that the cities themselves have as citizens young men who have come from other parts, and brought with them the experience that has taught them to avoid the mistakes of eastern and southern cities. They also are Imbued with the western spirit, of enterprise, energy and push, and so Western Canada has its'cities. At a banquet recently given in Chicago, a number of prominent citizens of Winnipeg were guests. Among the speakers was Mayor Deacon of Winnipeg. In speaking of the remarkable growth of that city, which in thirty years has risen from a population of 2,00 b to one of 200,000, he spoke of it as being the gateway of commerce and continued: “Now, how great that tide of commerce is you will have some conception of when I tell you that the wheat alone grown in the three prairie provinces this year is sufficient to keep a steady stream of one thousand bushels per minute continuously night and day going to the head of the lakes for three and one-half months, and in addition to that the oats and barley would supply this stream for another four months. “The value of the grain crop alone grown in the three prairie provinces would be sufficient to build any of our great transcontinental railroads, and all their equipment, everything connected with them, from ocean to ocean.

“Nojv, if able to do this with only ten per cent, of our arable land under cultivation what will our possibilities be when 258.000.000 of acres of the best land that the sun shines on is brought under the plow? Do you not see the portent of a great, vigorous, populous nation living under those sunny skies north of the 49th parallel? And If with our present development we are able to do as we are doing now, to purchase a million dollars’ worth of goods from you every day of the year, what will our trade be worth when we have fully developed the country? “Now, who shall assist us to develop this great empire that is there? Shall it be the alien races nf southern Europe or shall it be men of our own blood and language? In the last three fiscal years no less £iat 358,000 American farmers have come into Western Canada, bringing with them goods and cash to the value of $350,000,000. And I want to say here that no man who sets loot on our shores Is more entirely and heartily welcome than the agriculturist from the south. “So long as these conditions remain I consider that this is the best guaranty that the sword will never again be drawn in anger between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. The grain crops of Western Canada in 1913 have well upheld the reputation that country has for abundant yields of all small grains.”—;Advertieement.