Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — INTERESTING TO AMERICANS. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING TO AMERICANS.

Western Canada Will s=oon Become the Supply Depot for Wheat for Great Britain. During the past year about 50,C0£ Americans went from the United States to Canada. Most of these settled upon farm lands, and the writer is Informed by agents of the Canadian Government that the greatest success has followed the efforts of nearly all. To their friends on this side of the boundary line the fullest assurance is given of the prosperity that Is in store for them. There will alxvays be a splendid market for all the grain, cattle and other produce that can be raised in Western Canada, and With the advantages offered of a free homestead of 160 acres of land, and other lands which may be bought cheaply, au excellent climate, splendid school system, educational advantages of the best, what more is required ? The husbandman gets more return for his money than in any other country in the world.' On the occasion of Sir Wilfred Laurier's visit to the Corn Exchange, London, England, Colon-el Montgomery, V. D„ made several important statements. “The function (he said) which you have just been assisting In connection with a kindred association has doubtless shown you the importance of the provision trade of Liverpool In its relationship with tlie Dominion and the enormous possibilities of the future development of that trade. Well, the grain trade of Liverpool has interests with Canada no less important than those of the provision trade. When it Is borne in mind that 80 per cent of the breadstuffs of this groat country

has to be brought from abroad, you will readily appreciate with what great satisfaction we view the large and steadily increasing supplies of grain which are annually available for ex port from Canada, and I challenge contradiction when I say that of the wheats we import from Russia, India, the Pacific and length and breadth of the United States, none gives more general satisfaction, none is more generally appreciated, than that raised in the Province of Manitoba. We cannot get enough of it, and it.is no exaggeration to say that there are before us dozens of millers who hunger for it. Thj3 is not the time to enter into statistical questions, but we look forword with confidence to the time at which, with the present rate of progress, the Dominion of Canada will have a sufficient surplus of wheat to render this country independent of other sources of supply. I think I may, with Justifiable pride, remind you that this is the chief grain market of the British Empire, and through its excellent geographical position, as well as through the enterprise of its millers, it is now the second milling center in the world.” Send to any authorized Canadian Government Agent for copy of Atlas and information as to railway rate, etc.