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WINNIPEG CLIMATE.
Nothing to Surpass 1t on the Con
tinent-A Healthy CITY.

Nothing to SurpasS 1t on the Con-
tinent-A Healthy City.
There is probably no finer climate in
the world than that of Manitoba. Tray
elers from all parts of the globe invari-
ably stop over at Winnipeg as they
journey across the continent and the
great national highway, and they all
unanimously pronounce Winnipeg's eli
mate to be the healthiest they ever en-
joyed. Just like the Northwestern
states. the cold is sharp for brief time
in the winter months, but its clearness
and the brightness of the sky are a long
way more preferable than the dizziness
of more southern climates. Tile
best evidence of the ihealthiness of the
climate is the Tact that the death rate
has, taking an average of the five years,
been only 1880 per annum. When. it is
remembered that the worlds average is
22.00, this. statement will carry all the
more force with it. The rate in Chicago
was 1924; Boston, 20.43; Brooklyn,
2l.61: Detroit. HOO: Milwaukee, 1854:
New Orleans, 34.S3: New York, 243e:
Philadelphia, 1902; San Francisco.
1886; st, Louis, 11,69; st. Paul, 11.72.
With a complete sewerage system, with
a satisfactory scavengering system, and
with capital supply of artesian water
flowing in abundance from natural
wells it is no wonder that tie
city is so healthy. The city is we'll fur
nished with live newspapers, always a
criterion of the progress of any city.
1t has also plenty OF amusementS, the
leading actors and vocalists always pay
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country at the time of its being en-
braced in the confederation should
receive a free grant of 240 ACRES
OF land. Thus, every man, WOnl-
an and child was entitled to
this grant. and so eager was
the Ottawa government to secure the
peaceful possession of the country that
the grant was unconditional beyond
their being residents at the time stated.
The bulk of the lands thus granted
were located near the city of Winnipeg,
or Fort Garry, as it was formerly called.
and in the days when people looked for
ward to long years of waiting for rail-
way communication, it could not be eX-
pected that they would be considered of
great value. There being no conditions
of cultivation attached to the land
grants, and the recipients being largely
people whom generations of isolation
from the outer world had deprived of
incentive to enterprise, might be eX-
pected, very little in the way of cultiva-
ton was done, and thus the virgin
prairie sod was but little broken when
railway construction connected Winni-
peg with the eastern world.
Besides this, all the volunteer soldiers
under Gen. Wolseley engaged in quelling
RieFs first rebellion were each granted
IOO VI lduO,
they secured their grants about
Winnipeg. few, if any. settled down to
farming operations, contenting them
selves to hold their claims for specula-
tive purposes. In the interval crowd
OF far-seeing spectators had been grad
ually gaining possession of the lands
which their first owners did not culti-
vate, and the prices they sold at were
never very high. There are those here
who remember of many half
breed claim of 240 acres being
traded off for pair of bl ankets.
BY the year 1880 the majority of these
lands were in the hands of Spectators
living in this province and the East, and
when the ''bcom" of 1881 was at its
height, no class were more greedy in
their eXtortions of high figures for these
lands than the men who had secured
them for the price of song. In fact,
they overreached themselves, and all
the immigration of 1881 and 1882, which
was larger than during all the balance
of the history of Northwest settlement,
passed on westward where free lands
could be had from the government, or
where improved farms could be bought
at reasonable figures.
Towards the close of 1888 the specula-
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ITS RAILROADS.
Something About the City as
Railway Center.

SOInetninS ABOUT the Clby as q
Railway Center.
1t was August in the spring of 1879
that this city had railway communica-
ton with the outer world, through a
line connecting with the American sys-
TEN of railways, which was built by the
Canadian government as part of the
great Canadian Pacific railway system.
The city of Winnipeg erected the iron
bridge which spans the Red river at
the north end of the city at a cost of
S250,000, and gave 1t as contribution to
the work. 1t was not till the winter of
1888 that the opening of the railway to
Port Arthur-knOWn as the Thunder
Bay branch-gave the city an alterna-
tive route to the markets of the East
and South. Among the railways that
terminate at Winnipeg are the follow
ing:
The Canadian Pacific trunk line. which
stretches from ocean to ocean; the &.
p. r. Southwestern, controlled by the
Canadian Pacific railway, extending into
Southern Manitoba from Winnipeg a
distance of about 22O miles, with a
branch running down to the interna-
tional boundary to connect on the
west side of the Red river with
the American system of railways; the
Manitoba Southwestern railway, also
controlled by the Canadian Pacific rail
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-19
WINNIPEG G.
It's Past, Present and Future
Facts That Cannot Be
Overlooked.
The History of it's Marvellous
Progress Unparalleled
on the Contin emit.
How It's Building Figures
Compare With Those Of
Other Cities.
The City Has the Start, and
Must Maintain 1t Against
All Corners.
One of the Best Fields For In
vestment--A Remarkably
Healthy City.
Manitoba as a Wheat Country
--SiXty-Seven Bushels to
the Acre Sworn To.

1t is just about a decade and half
since the now flourishing city of Winni-
peg, with its busy thoroughfares, with
its wholesale streets, with its public
buildings, with its palatial residences,
and in fact with all the concomitants
of progress and wealth, was known in
history as Fort Garry, and as such was
read about in dime novels. The won
ders that can be wrought in ten or
fifteen years by the Transforming
hand of civilization could ask no
better illustration than that re-
vealed in Winnipeg. Little more
spot where the busy rush of commercial
business is felt was the home of the
red man; here he built his tepee, here
he lighted his smudge to keep away the
mosquitoes; here he dried his buffalo
meat, made and manufactured his
pemmican for which he secured ready
sale to the Hudson'S Bay company,
whose intrepid officers penetrated the
country to the Arctic circle in quest of
fur. 1t is safe to say that history
FURNISHES NO EQUAL
~ W AlllllIOS Apl pApSiNOo anu quiz
stantial improvement in 50 brief time.
Within ten or twelve years after the
idea first became prevalent that Winni-
peg was destined to have a future
among the cities of Canada. the popua-
ton increased from about :, 900 to -, 900,
and to-day the city is holding its own
with the live cities of the great North
western states in its onward march
of progress. Its citizens have I'M
bounded confidence in its future,
and with true Western enterprise are
seeking to advance its interests in every
form where capital and foresight are the
requisites. No Western city possesses
a more enterpriSing, vigorous and far
seeing class of citizens than does Win
nipeg. From all parts of the Do
minon, yes, and from many points
in the United States, the clear
est and brightest men came, anxious
TO push their fortunes in a city which
offered such exceptional advantages for
the investment of capital and the ell
ergy of hard working, honest men. The
substantial progress made by those who
east in their lot with the city which
forms the distributing point to the great
Canadian Northwest, coupled with the
onward march of the metropolis, are
ample evidence of the foresight of these
people.
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tive holders of land around Winnipeg
began to discover they had been killing
the goose that would lay the golden egg.
Many of them were in bad fix finan-
cially. Mortgages on these lands were
falling due, and to sell in time to meet
these was found to be impossible. 1t
was scattered broadcast over the east
ern provinces and in Europe that lands
around Winnipeg were held at fabulous
prices. Offers to sell at reasonable fig
ures were futile, and would not bring
any one to make inquiry about such
lands, and it has taken years to clear,
even partially, the result of the evil
work then carried on.
Extremes always bring a reaction,
and one came with vengeance in con-
nection with the price of lands around
Winnipeg. In 1SS4-5 and the fOreclos-
ing of mortgages, and other proceedings
for closing out margin land spectators,
went on at lively rate, and those I'M
able or unwilling to hold longer had TO
let go and lose heavily by so doing. The
consequence is that at the present time
lands in the vicinity of the Manitoba
capital are now as far Tor almost as far
below their natural value as they were
above it six years ago, and to agricult-
ural settlers they furnish at the pres
ent time probably the best opportunity
to secure what can in few years be
made a valuable farm, that ever was
offered in the history of any new coun-
try.
The inquiries of the committee of the
Winnipeg board of trade and the COM
mittee of the Winnipeg city council,
working with each other, bring out the
fact that within twenty miles of the city
nearly 100000 acres of the most fertile
land in the world can be had by settlers
at unprecedentedly low figures. At
least 250,000 acres of the lOW-lying and
wet portion of these lands can be bought
for s. an acre or less. Another quarter
of a million of better quality, compris-
ing mixed prairie and grazing lands,
can be bought for S. an acre or lower,
and another quarter of million of the
very best of lands, where settlers can
commence breaking sod at once, can be
had at from So to IS an acre.
Thus it will be seen that probably
nowhere else in the world are such eX-
ceptionable advantages offered for Sc
curing cheap and fertile lands, and
which rarely if ever yield less than
thirty bushels of the finest wheat to the
acre.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-19
VAN HORNS THREATS.
He Demands the Purchase of HiS
Road by the Government,

Wy Viz
Special to the Globe.
WINNIPEG, Man., May lS.-The legx
islature was prorogued by Gov. Atkins
this afternoon at 6. No business of i'm.
pOrtance was transacted to-day. all mat.
tiers being cleared up at last nights seS.
sion, when Premier Greenway laid on
the table the correspondence between
the Canadian Pacific railway au.
thorities and the government respecting
the lease of the Emerson branch. Il
shows that Vice President Van Haine,
in several communications during the
past week has, through Supt. White,
threatened that if the government did
not purchase the branch and abandon
the Red River Valley road he would not
construct any branch lines in Manitoba
this year. Van Haine's last threat was
by wire from Minneapolis. Yesterday
Hon. Greenway replied as follows, ad.
dressed to Supt. White, through whom
all correspondence passed. "You can
say to Mr.. Van Horne, in answer to
telegram of 18th inst, that his PROPOSE.
ton to govern the policy of this govern.
ment by threats must be resented and
met by the government and people Of
Manitoba in the same manner as similar
communications were last year. 1t is
exceedingly unbecoming, in the face oa
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FIELD FOR INVESTMENT.
Exceptional Advantages offered
by the Prairie Capital.

ny thC oiAiS SopItois
There is probably no Western city in
existence which offers to the capitalist
better field for investment. With an
assured great future, with the monopoly
i'll railways removed, and with the GER
tain knowledge thatit must in the nature
of things continue as it now is the dis
tributing point for such vast country
as lies at its back, what better evidence
could be offered of the exceptional adj
vantages afforded in the direction indi-
Gated? The depression in prices
of real estate which succeeded
tanned during 1SSl-S2 has brought
| able terms; and building lots in the
| best portions of the city are now held
at such figures as will enable to realize
| handsomely when the gradual and sta
bic growth of the city shall have caused
real estate to reach its maximum.
| Hence property commands a fair
| rental at from II to Is per cent
upon investment for medium class of
| houses, and stores and warehouses in
good localities are always in-demand.
| The loan and investment companies are
doing an excellent and safe business at
and 9 per cent upon a third
valuation, and it is only fair
to suppose borrowers find good
| use for their money at more advanced
rates. More capital is, however,
needed to properly develop the re-
sources of the city and country. More
elevators are needed, and would I'M
doubtedly pay large dividends. The
manufacture Of flax, both into
paper and linen. would util-
ize what is at present waste
product-as flax, which grows in such
abundance i'll Manitoba, is now grown
for seed only. The manufacture of
building paper an builders boards
from straw and poplar-pulp would util-
iZe an another waste production. Tan
nerieS would work up hides now
shipped to other points for man
ufacture; glue works, the horns
and the hOofs: starch factories
| the potatoes that are so prolific in crop
and so excellent i'll quality, while there
are openings for many other industries.
Our great lakes abound with the finest
/ fish that run in Canadian waters, and
all that is required is the capital to de-
velOp the industry. The country in the
| vicinity of Lake Winnipeg aboundS in
the finest iron ore to be found in the
| world.
! IneXhauStibie veins OF iron ore, mag
netic, kidney and hematite, are TO be
/ found. The time must soon arrive when
! vast iron works for the manufacture of
! iron and steel must be located in OF near
/ Winnipeg, utilizing coke made from the
/ Saskatchewan Cascade, or Souris coal to
reduce the ore. Nor will the iron in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-19
WINNIPEG.
Country Tributary to It---Its
Waterways.

Great Advantages of Its Location
Country Tributary to It---Its
Waterways.
The city of Winnipeg is situated at
the confluence of the Red and Assina-
boine rivers latitude so deg. north, Ion
gitude 81 deg. wesD, occupying the site
chosen by the Hudson'S Bay company
for its administration center in the
Northwest, known in history as Fort
Garry. The fort, with its Fashioned
walls, memorial of many stirring and
Interesting events with which it was
Identified In the early history of this
country, has passed oIt of existence, the
only remaining relic being the archway
at the northwest angle. Many years
previous to the establishment of Fort
Garry an enterprising French discov-
erer reached this point, establishing
Fort Rouge on the south side of the AS
SinabOne river about the year 1885,
For over century, therefore, the adj
VantageS nature has afforded for the
site of great city have been recog-
niZed, although Only recently availed of;
and at the present time, as regards gen
eral trade and the development of new
country, Winnipeg occupies the same
relative position to the great Northwest
that Fort Garry occupied during the fur
trading days. With the increase of
population new wants have arisen,
and new channels of trade have been
developed, but the foundations of
the city have been too firmly established
10 change, and to-day Winnipeg occupies
the proud position Of being not only the
capital of Manitoba, but the distributing
point for the entire Northwest The
junction of two such important rivers as
the Red River of the North and the
ASsinabOine is an important factor in
the future prosperity of the city. The
Red river drains about $4,000 square
miles, $4,000 of which are in Minnesota
and Dakota, the remaining 10000 miles
being in Manitoba. 1t is navigable for
about 200 miles of its course, and its
valley contains what is known to be the
most productive
SOIL IN THE WORLD,
producing larger yield and better
quality of grain than any known similar
area. The ASSinaboine river drains an
area of about $4,000 square miles, ell
tirely within British territory, the
greater part of which vast area may be
described as rolling prairie, the soil be-
ing unsurpassed in richness and fertil-
n.y. IL 10 nav lGoDlS lOI Vi 1OO
tons burden for 600 miles from Winnl-
peg. With such waterways, natural
channels for the transport of grain, coal
and iron, flowing past her doors, coupled
with network of railways radiating
from her as common ceenter,
Winnipeg is bound to become
to the British Northwest what Chicago
or st. Paul are to the American North
west. With a territory at its back
larger than the entire United States, the
larger portion Of which will yet be in
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The total annual assessment since the
incorporation of the city is as follows:

The decrease in the assessment in
1884 was due to the wise action of the
sy GGenf from Doom figures snf sca to the E
more reasonable and stable rates at
which city property is now held. This
policy has been pursued steadily since
that date, and although steady progress
has been made year by year, and the
city property has increased in value,
the same wise, conservative policy has
prevailed and the assessment has been
Remission of taxation has been allowed
the Canadian Pacific railway and GER
tain large manufacturing industries,
which serves to decrease the total sum.
From the figures given it will be seen
that the population doubled and the
city's wealth trebled within period Of
three NparS.
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though there has been decrease from
1882 in the annual expenditure, still the
amount expended yearly has been very
large and the class OF buildings erected
has been away beyond that of previous
years. In 1SS1-2-3 living was high in
the city, and hundreds kept their families
in the East. But a change has come
over the scene. Consequent upon the
magnificent crops in cereals and roots
and the development of the cattle and
dairy industries, living has become as
cheap here as in any Eastern city,
and as natural consequence the hun
dreds who kept their families
East have built houses here
and are now living with them in
ease and comfort. The greatest build
ing year that Winnipeg experienced
was in 1882, when s5,0O0,00O worth of
buildings were erected. There was
big falling off in 1888. but still the fig
ures compare well with those of other
cities for that year, as the following
comparative statement for 1888 will
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marvellous capabilities of the soil of the
province for growing wheat. There is
probably no better grade of wheat in the
world than No. hard and red Fife wheat
of Manitoba. That it produces such an
enormous yield per acre is a matter of
very great surprise. That 15,OO0,00
bushels of wheat were grown as
surplus last year with such a
small farming population as Man
itoba possesses, astOniShed the
would, as it did the farmers themselves
and the Canadian Pacific Railway COM
pany, which was quite. unable to cope
with the traffic and was obliged to allow
the grain to remain in piles about the
stations, being unable to move it. This
fact, more than anything else, resulted
in forcing the Dominion government to
relinquiSh its monopoly policy in this
country and allow free trade in rail-
ways. The statements about the yield
of wheat appear so remarkable that in
order to establish their authenticity
some questionable figures and state
mentS are given:
AN OATH TO FIFTY-ONE BUSHELS TO
THE ACRE.
Thomas Tapp, of 81, II, 26, Dennis
county man, makes oath that his brother
William, on the same section, grew in
the summer of 1887 ITO bushels of wheat
On Is acres, or 81 bushels to the acre of
grain, weighing over 90 pounds to the
bushel, and that the quantity of seed
sown was "a bushels to the acre.
SIXTY-SEvEN BUSHELS TO THE ACRES.
Councillor Pocock, of West Lynne,
who is running threshing machine in
the Mennonite reserve, has made the
following statement, which he is further
willing to indorse by his solemn declar-
alton, and also to produce the declara-
ton of Jacob Loappke and others. Mr..
Loappke, Mennonite farmer, living on
section 3, township2, range west, near
the village of Krongsgard, sowed on the
2Sth of April, 1887, field 1913 yards by
23O yards, containing little over nine
wheat. On the sth of October last Mr..
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province. The establishment increases
when the fact is learned that among all
the fertile lands of the Canadian North
west none are richer, from an agricult-
ural point of view, and in few districts
are they SO fertile as are these same
sparsely settled and almost unbroken
prairie lands around Winnipeg.
1t requires little study of the history
of Manitoba to learn the reason for this
SparSity of settlement around the Mani
toba capital. 1t is necessary to go back
to shortly after Manitoba and the North
west territories were added to the Do
minion of Canada. One of the con-
ditions upon which the government at
Ottawa assumed control of this vast
country and its lands was that every
white and half-breed resident of the
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dustry alone afford means for invest
ment of capital, as works for the reduc-
ton of silver and copper ore will like
wise be necessary. Then the countless
islands of Lake OF the Woods, 100 miles
distant, abound with veins of the finest
gold, and all that is required is the cap
ltal to develop the industry. The build
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STATISTICS.

Actual Figures About the Growth
and Development of Winnipeg
Facts That Speak.
In no way can the progress of city
be better traced than by statistics. Nor
is this material progress to be traced
solely by its increase of population, but
rather by the increase of its invested
wealth, together with its increased pop
ulation. The following tabulated state
ments shows the estimated population
and assessment for municipal purposes
each year.
The population has been calculated as
follows:
Year. Population
Observation-Disclosures. ....... 300
1871 ............ .............. 0oO
1872 Observation-Disclosures. ........ 1000
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ing of cheap railways, which in this
country must at least be contempora-
neous with production, will utilize vast
capital in profitable manner to invest
ors-while to those who simply seek
safe investment there are hundreds of
enterprises which afford good security
in the manufactures and industries at
present established.
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w Ihhipeg has large numbCr Of man
ufacturing establishments, large p0r-
ton, of her Inhabitants being thrifty
mechanics. All the provincial builsi-
ingS are located in the city. which is the
capital OF the province. She is the col
legiate and school center of the North
west. In addition to three colleges
there is a university for the comforting of
degrees, etc.
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WHEAT FARMING.

Some Marvellous Yields in Mani
toba---Fifty-Six Bushels to the
Acre.
A sketch such as this would be incom-
plete without some reference to the
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WINNIPEG'S BUILDINGS.
Progress in This Direction-How
its Figures Compare With Those
Of Other Cities.

Of Other Cities.
There is no better index to the prog
ress of a city than the amount of
buildings erected from year to year. as
this represents the amount of capital
invested, and displays the confidence
the public has in the future of the city.
The number, therefore, of costly dwell
ings and stores that have been erected
in the city III recent years furnishes in
contestable evidence of the solidity and
substantial progress of the city. 1t
was thought by many that after
the great boom of 1882, build
ing operations would tlatten out;
but such has not been the case. Al