The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-04-19
THE TEEMING WEST.
The Prairie Lands of Western Canada
Being Filled with Excellent Settlers.

The Prairie Lands of Western Canada
Being Filled with Excellent Settlers.
The salient fact that presents itself
in taking Il birdSeye view of the Cana
dian West is that of intense activity
in every department. Whether the
glance he turned upon the district east
of Winnipeg. the Red River valley
south or north. the Dauphin and NJ. Il
y. w. district. the southwestern. or
whether il take i'll the great central
division along the main line of the G..
L. X. stretching away out 10 the Rock
les and from there bending north and
south to Prince. Alberta and Edmon-
ton. Mcleod and ethbridge-whether
the examination he made in any of
these directions the same activity,
growth and hopefulnesS is observable.
The Canadian West is not only Il
good place 10 locate permanently. but
it is also good place 10 invite their
relatives and friends 10 come to. This
is the spirit that seems TO animate the
West 1t the present time, and its eff
fects are TO be seen ON every hand.
To enumerate the towns where hand
some and substantial blocks and resi-
dences have gone up this year would
be simply to give list of the towns
ana villages along the railway lines.
And this movement has not been con-
fined to these centers of population. but
in many cases it has been OverShad-
owed by the improvement in farm
buildings.
So far as one c.rn see. this is no pass
ing phrase, no repetition of any tempo
rary boom following Il period of good
crops and fair prices 1t is 4 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 te
Il 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
4 thousand schools in Manitoba. and
the number going up by leaps anG
bounds. Something like five hundred
schools in the territories. Winnipeg ar
representing the gateway of the West,
the third city in the Dominion in regard
to bank clearingS. postal business ane
probably in regard TO customs, the Gus
toms returns at Winnipeg running
about thirty to forty per cent greateE
month by month than in the fiscal yea!
of 1878. the largest previous year fof
actual business entries. when over
100000 was paid through the Winni.
peg office for duty. The c. Z. X. and
Canada Northwest land sales together
run over 81 100000 for the year. These.
and a 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 it, and have
spread their agencies through every
bustling little town clear out TO the
coast, the churches realize il. 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
ucafional branches realize it and new
schools are springing up everywhere.
Over 12.000 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
yeloping their farms. in filling their
grazing lands with stock and in every
district are 10 be found evidences OF
thrift and prosperity.