Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1914 — CANADA'S PLACE AS A PRODUCER [ARTICLE]

CANADA'S PLACE AS A PRODUCER

Canada Is Getting a Great Many Americans. “Three young provinces, Manitoba. Saskatchewan, and Alberta,” says a New York financial Joun&l, “have already made Winnipeg one of the greatest primary wheat markets of the world. In 1904 they, raised 58,000.000 bushels of; wheat. Five years later they produced 150,000,000 bushels. In 1913 the crop approximated 200,000,000 bushels. At the present rate of progress Canada must soon pass France and India, and stand third in the line of wheat- producers. Ultimately it will dispute with Russia and the United States for the first position. Wheat has been the pioneer of our development Undoubtedly it. will prove the same with Canada. In the last calendar year our trade with Canada amounted to 497 million dollars. Only with two countries—the United Kingdom and Germany—ls our trade greater. No vivid imagination is needed to see what, tie future development of Canada means to the people of the United States. The Influx of American settlers to the Canadian prairies is now in full swing. Within the past few days over 80 of those arrived at Bassano carrying with them effects and capital to the value of SIOO,OOO. Fifty settlers from Oregon arrived in Alberta a few days ago; while 15 families of settlers from the state of Colorado arrived at Calgary on their Journey northwards. The goods and personal effects of this party filled 20 box cars. Of live stock alone they had 175 horses, 15 cows and 2,000 head of poultry. Another class of settler has arrived at Peers, 110 miles west of Edmonton, where no fewer than 200 German farmers have taken up land. These are from good fanning families and brought with them a large amount of capital. Then in South Western Saskatchewan, there are large numbers settling, these from the United States predominating, while in, the northern and central portions <4f all these provinces, the settlement of new people ie going on steadily. Early In April, Peter Goertz arrived in Cardiff after a sixday journey from McPherson, Kansas. Mr. Goertz who had purchased land here was in charge-of a party of 38 people from the same part of Kansas and they came through with a special train which included all their stock and implements. The equipment w?ro all Rock Island cars, and was thd first full immigrant train ever sent out by that railroad. The farms purchased by the members of the party are amongst the best in the district. When the Panama exposition opens next year any of the three transcontinental lines in Canada will make convenient means of transport for those going to visit, and in doing so agricultural districts of Western Canada can be seen, and ocular demonstration given those who have heard but not before seen, of that which has attracted so many hundreds of thousands of American settlers.—Advertisement