Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-19
THE TEEMlNc WEST.

Inc Prairie Lands Of Western canaa.
nsinx fiIied with Excellent Settler
The salient fact that presents ifsa,r
In taking birdseye view of fha Cane
dian West is that OF intense activitv
IN every department. Whethar +ha
glance De turned upon the district east
OF winnipeg, the Red River vaIlav
south or north, the Dauphin and M. 4
n. w. district, the southwestern or
Mnetner iI take in the great central
UNISON along the main line of the G.
n. stfetcnlng away out to the Rock
les anu from there bending north and
south 70 Prince, Alberta and Edmon-
ton' MCLEOD and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
c,ie examination be made in any OF
'nese ulrectlonS the same activity.
CROWN and hopefulness is observable.
Inc canadian West is not only q
sood pace to locate permanently, but
IL Is also a good place to invite their
IeiatlVes anu friends to come to. This
Is tue spirit that seems to animate the
west at the present time, and its eff
Iects are TO be seen ON every hand.
10 enumerate the towns where hand
some ana substantial blocks and resi-
uences nave gone up this year would
pe Simply to give list of the towns
ana villages along the railway lines.
ana tnlS movement has not been con-
nned 10 these centers of population, but
LII many cases it has been overshad-
owed by the Improvement in farm
buildings.
80 Iar as one can see, this is no pass
ing phrase, no repetition of any tempo
fary boom following a period of good
crops and fair prices. 1t is a movement
more spontaneous, more general, more
marked than anything that has gone
before, and seems to indicate that the
great West, like Samson bursting the
encompassing bands, has awakened to
period of activity and development
that Will surpass anything we have
known in the past and which will only
be paralleled by the opening out Of
some of the most fertile of the Western
States Of the Union.
Look at some of the figures. Over
thousand schools in Manitoba, and
the number going up by leaps and
bounds. Something like five hundred
schools in the territories, Winnipeg as
representing the gateway Of the West,
the third cityin the Dominion in regard
to bank clearings, postal business and
probably in regard to customs, the GUS
toms returns at Winnipeg running
about thirty to forty per cent greater
month by month than in the fiscal year
of 1878, the largest previous year for
actual business entries, when over
100000 was paid through the Winni-
peg office for duty. The G. p. n. and
Canada Northwest land sales together
run over $1,500,OOO for the year. These,
and thousand more signs, show how
the West has leaped into new life.
This is an inspiring and cheering
spectacle, but it brings with it great
| responsibilities. The business men real
ize this, the banks realize 1T, and have
| spread their agencies through every
busting little town clear out to the
coast, the churches realize it, and one
denomination alone has opened an av-
erage of about thirty new stations in
each of the past two years, and will
! increase this in the year now entered
| upon, the Government departments re-
alize it, and there is talk Of redistribu-
ton and additional members. The ed
ucational branches realize it and new
schools are springing up everywhere.
Over 1900 settlers came in from the
United States alone last year, and
these, with the people who came in
from the East, prove the most vigorous
Westerners. They lose no time in de-
veloping their farms, in filling their
| grazing lands with stock, and in every
district are to be found evidences OF
thrift and prosperity.