Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1916 — IDE REVIVAL IN WESTERN CANADA [ARTICLE]

IDE REVIVAL IN WESTERN CANADA

Not a Myth but an Actuality Shown in the Returns of Agricultural Statistics and Every Department of r Trade and Commerce. The trade revival in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta is an actuality and not a myth. There is today a spirit of optimism in the air, just as two years ago there prevailed the opposite spirit of pessimism. A general trade revival has been felt in every department of business in the Prairie Provinces. The agriculturists are in better shape than they have ever been before in their lives. No farmers of any country are in better financial condition and in a more general state of prosperity than are the farmers of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, j The farmers have harvested a record crop—a crop which enriches them to the extent of something over $400,000,000. In the cities the prosperity of the country has been reflected. Everywhere business is on the hustle. The whQlesalers and the rethilers and the implement dealers find business good. The banks and other collection houses find collections satisfactory, and financial men declare that westerners are paying up their debts. In Winnipeg the bank clearings have been the largest in history, exceeding some weeks the flgures of Montreal and Toronto. The grain shipments have been the biggest in the history of Winnipeg and in the history of the twin ports, Fort William and Port Arthur. The mail order houses have had a big year, the rush of fall orders exceeding all previous years and taxing the capacity of these establishments, whose most sanguine expectations have been exceeded by the actual business done. The tide has turned in western Canada. The people of the West age fbrglng ahead, forging ahead in actual production and in creation of wealth, giving generously to charitable and other funds, paying up their back debts, while going along carefully as regards any creation of new debts. They are economizing but not scrimping, acting cautToußly but not miserly.— The financial heads of eastern Canada, of the United States and of Europe are no longer criticizing western Canada; rather they are unstintedly offering their praise and their compliments. The financial press recognizes that the tide has turned in western Canada, and it has been published to the world. The condition of western Canada at the close of 1916 is one of optimistio prosperity, backed by the same determination of western people to go on increasing their productiveness and maintaining th% records which they have already established. The traderevival of western Canada is the happiest feature in the business survey of the whole Dominion for 1916 and in the outlook for 1916. —Advertisement