The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-04-05
THE TEEMlNo WEST
Western CANADA Prairie Lana.
Filled with Excellent Sen,

Western. tanada Prairie lana.
Filled with Excellent Settlers.
The salient fact that presents 90,
In taking birdseye view OF tn su
madam West. is that OF intense ac,,. "a
ty In every department. Wbetba.',-
glance be turned upon the dis.. .us
east of Winnipeg, the Red River W.. ~
ley south or north, the Daupbin ~
M. 4 M. w. district. the Southwest
or whether 1t take in the great cent,a,
division along the main line Of M -
r. r., stretching away out 70 ~
Rockies and from there bending no.,s
and south to Prince Alberta and IA
monitor, Mcleod and Lethbridvo
whether the examination be mads !,
any of these directions the samo =.
tivity, growth and hopefulness are oh
servable. f
The Canadian West is not only
good place to locate permanent,v
but 1t Is also q good place to inviis
ones relatives and friends to coma -
This is the spirit that seems IN an,
mate the West at the present time
and its effects are to be seen on everv
hand. To enumerate the towns whore
handsome and substantial blocks ana
residences have gone up this wear
would be simply to give list Of tho
towns and villages along the railway
lines. And this movement has M,
been confined to these centers OF popn.
lation, but in many cases IL has been
overshadowed by the improvement in
farm buildings.
So far as one can see, this is no pass.
ing phase, no repetition of any tenn
porary boom following a period OF
good crops and fair prices. It is n
movement more spontaneous, more
general, more marked than anything
that has gone before, and seems to in
dictate that the great West, like Sam
son, bursting the encompassing bands
mas awakened to 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 a
thousand schools in Manitoba, and the
number going UP by leaps and bounds;
something like 500 schools in the terri
tories. Winnipeg AZ representing the
gateway of the West, the third city
In the Dominion in regard to bank
clearings. postal business and proba-
bly, in regard to customs, the customs
return at Winnipeg running about 80
to 40 per cent greater month by month
than in the fiscal year of 1878, the
largest previous year for actual busi-
ness entries, when over 100000 was
paid through the Winnipeg Office for
duty; the G. p. II. and Canada
Northwest land sales together running
over sl,500,000 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 1t brings with it great
responsibilities. The business men
realize this, the banks realize IL and
have spread their agencies through
every bustling little town clear out 20
the coast; the churches realize It, and
one denomination alone has opened an
average 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
realize IT, and there ia talk of redis-
tribution and additional members. The
educational branches realize 1t, and
new schools are springing up every
where. 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 rig
orous westerners. They lose no time
In developing their farmr, in filing
their grazing lands with stock, and in
every district is to be found evidences
OF thrift and prosperity.