The Taney County republican., 1900-04-05
THE TEEMING WEST.
The Prairie Lands of w Western canaan
Being Filled with Excel
lent Settlers.


In taking bird's-eye view of the
Canadian West, is that of intense ac-
tivity in every department. Whether
the glance be turned upon the dis
trict east of Winnipeg, the Red River
Valley south or north, the Dauphln
and NJ. & N. w. district. the South
western, or whether it take in the
great central division along the main
line of the c. p. r. stretching away
out to the Rockies and from there
bending north and south to Prince
Alberta and Edmonton, Mcleod and
ethbridge-whether the examination
be made in any of these directions the
same activity, growth and hopeful
ness is observable.
The Canadian west is not only
good place to locate permanently, but
It is also a good place to invite their
relatives and friends to come to.
This is the spirit that seems to ami
mate the west at the present time
and it's effects are to be seen on every
hand. To enumerate the towns where
Handsome and substantial blocks and
residences have gone up this year
would be simply to give list of the
towns and villages along the railway
lines. And this movement has not
been confined to these centers of pop
>uIation, but in many cases it has been
overshadowed by the improvement in
farm buildings.
So far as one can see. this is no
passing phase, no repetition of any
Temporary boom following a period
of good crops and fair prices. 1t is
q 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 a period Of
activity and development that will
.surpass anything we have known in
the past and which will only be par
.alleled by the opening out of some
of the most fertile of the western
states of the union.
Look at some of the figures. Over
q 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 city in the Dominion
In regard to bank clearings, postal
business and probably in regard to
customs: the custom return at Win
nfpeg running about thirty to forty
Der cent. greater month by month
than in the fiscal year of 1878, the
largest previous year for actual bust.
ness entries, when over 100000 was
paid through the Winnipeg office fol
duty. The C. p. R. and Canada
Northwest land sales together run
ming over $1,5OO.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 mel
realize this, the banks realize it, ant
have spread their agencies through
every bustling little town clear ou'
to the coast, the churches realize 1T
and one denomination alone hai
opened an average of about thir
ty new stations in each of tn
past two years. and will increas
this in the year now entered upon
the government departments real
fxe it. and there is talk of redistribu
tion and additional members. Th
educational branches realize 1T an
new schools are springing up every
where. Over $4,000 settlers came
from the United States alone las
year, and these with the people wh
came in from the east prove the mos
rigorous Westerners. They lose
time in developing their farms.
filling their grazing lands with stoe
and in every district is to be foun
evidences of thrift and prosperity.