The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-10

1t is not the lot of every man to
see Il vast wilderness converted into
n blooming. productive garden within
there s one man in Scranton who has
seen this great change wrought under
his very eyes.
lie is Eugene w. Cleveland of Bran
don. Manitoba.
Mr.. Cleveland is big. powerful
man. Just in the prime of life and
is n distant ireIative of Former Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland. He Ia here to
supervise the construction of engines
now being built at the Dickson works
for the 1nter-C Colonial railroad of Can
ada. The engines are EXPECTED to
make a big stir in the railroad world
and are constructed according to plans
been tested many times on the rail-
roads at his home and found to be
entirely practicable.
Mr.. Cleveland owns extensive wheat
farms at Brandon, which has been
termed the garden spot Of the great
northwest. and got his ideas about
team to q locomotive from expert
used on his farm.
TURNED WESTWARD.
Twenty years ago last June Mr..
Cleveland married at his home in Nova
Scotia and Immediately started for
he vast and then unsettled north
west. His father. through the Cana
dian government. had obtained an idea
Of the vast natural wealth and ad
rantageS of the great territory run
ming from the Red River to the Pa
cific which until about 1878 was the
lands of the Hudson Bay company for
century and half. Vast fortunes
had been made by that company in
the fur trade and it's officials jealousy
guarded the secret of the advantages
of the great territory over which they
held sway.
There We're six brothers of the Cleve-
lands and two of them decided 10
cast their lot in the then almost un-
known northwest. With their wives
they started and after visiting some
of the big cities of the United States,
reached Emerson City in the line be-
tween the States and Canada, which
is the gateway for the traveller who
is destined for the province of Mani
tnba. After a journey of sixty miles
mp the Red River they reached st.
Roniface. now known as Winnipeg. IT
then had population of less than
500 Indians and half bred French and
little suggested the thriving metropo-
lis Winnipeg is to-day. with its $4,000
population.
a FRIENDLY INDIAN.
Tie Cleveland party started west
ward and after journeying for five
days through a painless. uninhabited
country We're accOsted by three In
dians who came to their camp fire.
Eindnesses to the Red men won their
friendship and learning that the party
was looking for a suitable location to
settle directed them to what is now
the far famed Rounthwaite Valley at
the foot of the Brandon hills, con-
sidered the most productive spot of
II wonderfully blessed region. They
were tho first settlers OF the valley
which is 1870 miles from Winnipeg.
There the party pitched their tents
aud there they have since resided.
Wonderful tales of the productive
soil of Manitoba spread. and emigrants
began to pour in. Twenty years ago
Manitoba was practically one vast
Wilderness: to-day it has population
or 5O0.00o. 1t is the greatest grain
raising soil in the world and last
year the exports We're over $4,000 BUSH
els from the Pounthwaite valley.
A fine grade of bituminous coal has
been discovered nearby and the coal
belt is now being extensively devel-
oped.
Mr.. Cleveland says that Manitoba
and four provinces between it and the
Pacific are to be the scenes of the
greatest future development in this
country. The climate is of the hest
and the soil wonderfully productive.
Farming there is attended with less
difficulty than in probably any other
place in the world
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