Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-04-20
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The Frairic Lands of Western cor,s,
BEING Filled with Excellent Settlers.

The Frairic Lands of Western Canaca
IseiIi1 Filled with Excellent Settlers.
The salient fact that presents itself
in taking Il hirdseye view OF the Cana
liam West is that of intense activity
in every department.. Whether the
glance be turned upon the district east
OF Winnipeg. the Red River valley
south or north, the Dauphin and NJ. l.
y. w. district. the southwestern. or
whether ii take in the great central
division along the main line of the q.
T.. II. stretching away out to the Rock
les mt from there bending north and
south to Prince. Alberta and IIdmon-
Ton, Mcleod and Observation-Disclosures
the examination be made in any of
these directions the same activity.
growth and hopcfnlncss is observable.
Inc Canadian West is not only Il
soou place to locate permanently. but
IL is also Il good place to invite their
reiatiNes mt friends to come to. This
~ 'he spirit that seems to animate the
West AT The present time. and lis Of
lects are to be seen Oh every hand.
TO enumeiate the towns where hand
some ana substantial blocks and resi-
uehccs nave gone up this year would
ne SIMPLY TO give Il list of the towns
:hu villages along the railway lines.
.ald t!is movement has not been con
iiilcd 10 tsese centers OF population. but
Ill many cases it has been ovcrS!a,i-
owed by the Improvement in farm
buildings.
80 laf as one can sec. this is Tic pass
ing phrase, no repetition of any tempo
faf! poom following II period OF good
crops ana lair prices. lit is II movement
more spontaneous. more general. more
MARKED than anything that has gone
pelore. ana scems to Indicate thai the
great West. like Samson bursting the
ehcompassing bands, has awakened to.
!: period of activity and development
!iiat VIII s:upass anything we have
known in the past and which will ONLY
he pal'allelcd by the opening out of
some of the most fertile OF the Western
States of the Union.
Look mt some of the figures. Over
IL thousand schools in Manitoba. and
me number going up by leaps and
bounds. Something like five hundred
schools In the territories, Winnipeg as
representing the gateway of the West.
I'M" third cityinthe Dominion in regard
To bank clearings. postal business and
probably In regard to customs. tho Gus
toms returns at Winnipeg running
about thirty to forty per cent greater
month by month than in the fiscal year
OF 1925, the largest previous year for
actual business entries. when over
S9uo,ooO was paid through the Winni-
peg office for duty. The c. L. Il. and
Canada Northwest land sales together
run over $4,000 O for the year. These.
and II thousand more signs. show how
the West has leapcd into new life.
This is an inspiring and cheering
spectacle, hut it brings with it great
responsibilities. The business men real
ize this. the banks realize it. 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 he past two years, and will
increase this in the year now entered
upon, Ii Government departments re-
alize 1T, and there is talk of redistribu-
ton and additional members. The ed
ucational branches realize it and new
schools are sprinsing up everywhere.
Over $4,000 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
W~esterncrs. 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.