Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-04-07
A Comparison.

EDITOR ALERT-After a stay of some
months in Winnipeg, Manitoba, l return
to Dakota, well satisfied to remain Per
haps few words descriptive of the state
of affairs here will not prove altogether
uninteresting. The city of Winnipeg has
now something over 16,o 600 inhabitants, in
addition to which there is very large
transient population and immigrants on
their way further west So large is this
element just now that the city is over
crowded; all the hotels are full to their
utmost capacity; room or house for rent
is almost impossible to find; it is even
said that sometimes a newcomer gladly
pays half dollars for the use of bar
ber's chair over night. Everything in the
way of accommodations is dear IN price
and poor in quality. The real estate
mania seems to possess every one, making
them insensible to the many discomforts
and inconvenience they havo to endure.
Along the chief business street real estate
offices are nearly as numerous as all the
other stores and offices put together. At
all times during the day or evening real
estate auctions seem to be going on, and
yet real estate men say that times are
dull.
Just now, Notwithstanding this, every
one seems to be making money. Proper
ty on the main street, in some localities, is
valued at Sl,75O foot, and other CITY
property is proportionately high. Land
six miles from the center of the city is
selling for s40O an acre. To Judge from
it's situation and present prosperity Win
nipeg will probably be place of consid-
cradle importance "a city of fifty or sew
enty-tive thousand inhabitants, perhaps.
The tide of population, however, carries
up the price of real estate as though it
were second Chicago. That this alb
normal state of affairs should continue is
too much to expect. A reaction must
come which will retard the material
growth of the place, and property will fol-
a time sink below its present nominal
value.
Manitoba, as grain growing region,
has certain advantages over the country
larger and surer, and the loan is deeper
The past season the average wheat weld
reported by farmers is in the neighbor-
hood of thirty bushels to the acre. This,
however, is opposed by the want of a
market, an advantage of which Dakota
can be proud. 1t makes the former to re-
ceive higher price for her grain when
delivered, and he doesn't have to haul it
so far to deliver. Twenty bushels to the
acre, or even less, with market near at
hand where the grain can be shipped east
direct is more profitable than thirty bush
els where it has to be transported long
distance to a market where there is no di-
rect shipment. The best seed wheat can
be had here for seventy-tive cents per
bushel.
In Dakota the railroads lead the way in
developing the country; here they have
rather Jagged behind. At present there
is great deal of railroad activity here,
and It seems as though the completion of
the various lines now under construction
or projected, would give the country am.
pie railroad facilities for its present needs.
1t is to be borne in mind, however, that
the railroad system of Manitoba is mo-
nopoly in the hands of a syndicate who
have undertaken tine completion of the
Canadian Pacific railway. the evil effects
of which are already coming to light. II
is monopoly shutting out all eompeti-
ton, and as such is directly epposc
the best interests of the countrv
allowed to continue, its 80 "a
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