Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON KNOCK AT THE DOORS OF CANADA FOR WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON KNOCK AT THE DOORS OF CANADA FOR WHEAT.

A Crop of 60,000,000 Bushels of Wheat Will He the Record of 1004. The results of the threshing in Western Canada are not yet completed, but from information at hand, It Is safe to say that the average per acre will be reasonably high, and a fair estimate will place the total yield of wheat at 60,000,(Mjp bushels. At present prices this will add to the wealth of the farmers nearly $00,000,000. Then think of the Immense yield of oats and barley and the large herdjs of cattle, for all of which good prices will be paid. The following official telegram was sent by Honorable Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, to Lord Strathcona, High Commissioner for Canada: “Am now able to state definitely that under conditions of unusual difficulty in Northwest a fair average crop of wheat of good quality has been reaped and Is now secure from substantial damage. The reports of Injury by frost and rust were grossly exaggerated. The wheat of Manitoba and Northwest Territories will aggregate from fifty-five to sixty million bushels. The quality Is good and the price is ranging around one dollar per bushel.” Frank H. Spearman, in the Saturday Evening Post, says: “When our first transcontinental railroad was built, learned men attempted by isotherman demonstration to prove that wheat could not profitably be grown north of where the line was projected; bnt the real granary of the world lies up to 300 miles north of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and the day Is not definitely distant when the United States will knock at the doors pf Canada for its bread. Railroad men see such a day; U may be hoped that statesmen also will see It, and arrange their reciprocities whije 'they may do so gracefully. Americans already have swarmed Into that far country, and to a degree have taken the American wheat field with them. Despite the fact that for years a little Dakota station on the St. Paul Road —Eureka— held the distinction of being the largest primary grain market In the world, the Dakotas and Minnesota will one day yield tlrnir palm to Saskatchewan.”