Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-16

Points from n Tourist Just from the
Great Northwest.

An English traveller, just arrived in Detroit
from Manitoba, and the line Of the Canadian
Pacific railway, tells news Interviewer:
The immigration into Manitoba still continues
surprisingly large and perhaps no part of North
America ever received so mixed class of peO-
ple-Russlans, Danes. Germans, Swedes, Swiss,
Italians, French, Portuguese, English, Scotch,
Irish, Canadians, ct al. Many of them enter
via Lake Superior, taking the railroad at Fort
William on its northern shore. The population
of Manitoba is made up off two classes, capital
lists with money to loan at IL to 90 per cent,
and the usually poor, ignorant and hard-work-
ing immigrants. The middle classes, made up
of the moderately well Off, Intelligent and in
fluential, have not yet ventured the difficulties
there found.
Winnipeg has now population of 40. 900.
Property is exorbitantly high. The tents in
which so many lived last winter have disap-
peared and all seemed comfortably housed. Lily
ing is very expensive, and the most ia tdious
traveller is obliged to put up with hotel accom-
mOdatiOns which in Detroit would hardly be
considered third class, and for which he must
pay 81 to S. per day. tirst-cass hotel is. how
| ever, now being built after the general style of
the Windsor at Montreal though it will cost
very much less money-about $4,000. The
Canadian Pacific road is now being built
about 400 miles west Of Winnipeg. and force
of perhaps 1000 men are thence pushing on
west at the rate of three or four miles day.
The company is avoiding the heavily-tinl-
hered country as much as possible, building
through prairie and open lands. Other men
| are building sections both ways yet farther
west. The company has four years more in
which to finish the road, but the probabilities
are that all will be done in IS months. Theroad
is being built unusually well; said to be much
better than the Northern Pacific. The weather
there mich
and the road building will continue during the
winter. The wOrkmen, like the population. are
of many nationalities, including thousands of
Cinnamon employed on the different sections.
bOrers get about $3. Carpenters receive about
50 a day and masOns $40. Board costs dollar
day, or less where the men board themselves.
The settlements are rapidly extending miles
back from the road on either side, even at the
extreme point indicated. The company sells its
So 600 600 acres of land at 90 so per acre, with
| rebate OF 81 after certain improvements have
been made. The government does better. Civ
ing 100 acres of land to every actual settler,
| whether man, woman. child or baby. A hus-
band and wife with eight children receive LOCO
acres. This is evidently one of the rarest in
| stances TN which large families are a paying in
vestnent. AS an illustration of the growth Of
towns out in that neighbOrhOOd, the Manitoba
traveller told of Regina, first staked out eight
weeks ago and now having a population Of
5000, including 81 stores. 80 lawyers and 60 to
20 land agents.
The moral difficulties of the country have to
do chiefly with smuggling liquor sellers, whose
tents travel much faster than the construction
trains, and hOrse-stealing Indians. But the
mounted police prove themselves very efficient
in both cases. The smugglers' wares are con-
fiscated and themselves summarily disposed Of
according to the rigid demands Of Dominion
law As to the ''noble red men of the forest"
the police think nothing Of chasing them down
by twenty-mile run. When caught they are
punished by being tied up by the hands. stripped
to the waist and thoroughly whipped with the
cat-o-nine-tails in the preseeG;rce Of their COM
rades OF :si numiliating things to an Indial.
such legal medicine cures the most thieving.