Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-04-19
THE TEEMING WEST.
The Prairie Lands of Western Canad
Being Filled with Excellent Settlers.

The Prairie Lands of Western Canada
Being Filled with Excellent Settlers.
The salient fact that presents itself
| in taking a birdseye view of the Cana
dian 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. Il
n. w. district, the southwestern, or
whether it take in the great central
division along the main line of the G.
L. X. stretching away out to the Rock
les and from there bending north and
south to Prince. Alberta and Edmon-
ton, Mcleod and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the examination be made in any of
these directions the same activity,
growth and hOpefulness is observable,
The Canadian West is not only a
GOOD place TO locate permanently. but
IL Is also a good place to invite their
relatives and friends to come to. This
Is the spirit that seems to animate the
west at the present time. and its Of
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
De simply TO give list of the towns
ana villages along the railway lines.
ana this movement has not been con-
nned TO these centers of population, but
III many cases it has been oyershad-
owed by the improvement in farm
buildings.
90 Tar as one can see, this is no mass
ing phrase, no repetition of any tempo
rary Doom 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 burstin0 tho
encompassing bands, has awakened to
period of activity and deyelopment
.nat VIII surpass anything we have
hho"h III the past and which will only
De 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
a thousand schools in Manitoba. and
.ne number going up by leaps and
pouuuS' something Ike Ave hundred
schoois IN the territories, Winnineg nc
representing the gateway of the WeSt
the third cityln the Dominion in reoar5
10 oank clearingS. postal business ana
PROBABLY in regard to customs the c,,S-
TOMS returns at Winnipeg runnin,
aoout thlrty to forty per cent greater
month Dy month than in the fiscal wear
Oh 1898, the largest previous wear fo,.
aooual business entries, when over
9Soo'VOo was paid through the Winni.
peg once Tor duty. The c. p II ana
Oahaua Northwest land sales topetha.
IN o'e. sI,oVO,OOO for the year. These.
sha .nousahd more signs, show how
me ~, " esq mas ieaped into new life,
luis is an inspiring and cbeerino,
spectacie, but it brings with il greaf
The business men roal-
ne TINS, the banks realize IL, and beva
spreau tnelr agencies through every
oustling little town clear ont - az
coast, the churches realize II ana an
denomination alone has opened On n-
erage OF about thirty new stations =,
each OF the past two years. and will
Increase tnls IN the year now enterod
upon the government departments no
sllze IL, ana there is talk of redist,ib,,-
ton and additional members Tba ~
ucauonal branches realize If ana ~.
schools are springing IN evervyrbo.
49, 49, .-'OVV settlers came in from tho
' ollteu states alone last year. and
snese, with the people who came in
,,, the East, prove the most vigorous
W ssterners- They lose no time IN de-
Weeping their farms, in filling their !
srazing lands with stock. and In every
listrlet are 10 be found evidences or =,
thrift and Prosperity. X