Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

WESTERN CANADA CAME INTO EVIDENCE AT THE CRUCIAL PERIOP FOR BUPPLY OF WORLD'S FOOD- — STUFFS. The present demand for foodstuffs in all parts of the world, and the expense of producing it on high-priced lands, would make it seem that western Canada came into evidence at ths crucial period. There is to be found the opportunity that will be a large factor In meeting this demand. With its millions of acres of land, easily cultlvatable, highly productive, accessible to railways, and with unexcelled climatic conditions, the opportunities that are offered and afforded are too great to be overlooked. There have been booms In almost every civilized country and they were looked upon as such, and in the course of time the bubble was pricked and was burst. But in no country has the development been as great nor as rapid, whether In city or in country, as in western Canada. The provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta have the largest area of desirable lands on the North American continent, and their cultivation has just begun. Even with a two hundred million bushel wheat crop, less than eight per cent, of the land Is under the ploughs, four per cent, being in wheat. Less than five years ago the wheat crop was only 71,000,000 bushels. It is a simple calculation to estimate that if four per cent, of the available cultivatable area produces something over 200,000,000 bushels, what will 44 per cent, produce? And then look at the immigration that is coming into the country. In 1901 it was 49,149, 17,000 being from the United States; In 1906 it was 189,064, of which 67,000 were Americans, and in 1913 it was about 400,000, of which about 140,000 were Americans. But why have they gone to Canada? The American farmer is a man of shrewd business instincts, just like his Canadian brother, and when he finds that he can sell his own farm at from SIOO to S2OO per acre and move into Canada and homestead and pre-empt half a section for himself, and similarly for all his sons who are adult and of age upon lands as rich and fertile as those he left, and producing indeed several bushels to the acre in excess of anything he has ever known, it will take more than an ordinary effort to prevent him from making the change. And then, too, there is the American capital following the capital of brawn, muscle and sinew, following it so as to keep in touch with the industrious farmer with which It has had dealings for years back. This capital and the capital of farming experience is no small matter in the building up of a country. Nothing Is said of the great mineral and forest wealth, of which hut little has been touched. No country in the world’s history has attracted to itß borders a larger number of settlers in so short a time, or has attracted so much wealth .In a period of equal length, as have the Canadian prairies. Never before has pioneering been accomplished under conditions so favorable as those that exist Id western Canada today.—-Ad-vertisement.