The Washington times., 1901-07-31
DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA.

Canada's Increase in population Is quite
out of proportion to her increase in pro-
duction and commerce. On the 1st OF this
month she celebrated her thirty-fourth
'lirthday as the Dominion of Canada
Within that term CT thirty-four years her
population has increased. approximately.
so Or cent. Her foreign trade. import and
export combined has increased upward OF
$50 per cent Figures for comparison OF
her increase In domestic trade and pro-
duction are not Immediately available. but
the evidence Of It is on every hand
Our northern neighbors appear to have
some faculty for doing a good deal with
out making much fuss about 1t. In this
connection II is OF interest, rather than OF
Importance to note that in the matter Of
foreign trade Canada's exports and i'm
ports are about twice those. per capita.
of the United States. Her recent census
returns are not yet submitted. officially.
in full. but her population will probably
be not far from $500 900. Her export trade
for the year ending June 80. 1900 is given
as s19l. .s94. .723; her imports as sIs9. So sl3:
total of $aSi. i.5i7. .23s. This gives a foreign
trade of. approximately. so per capita for
Canada as against an approximate so per
capita for the same period on our side OF
the line.
There Is no question that. financially
and industrially. Canada Is In an excel
lent condition Her banks report legi-
innate necessity for an increase in cap
ital, and the idea, held by some, that
Canada is eating herself up by a denuda-
of her vast forest areas Is wholly errone-
Gus. The notable increase in her product
FIVE industry has occurred along the line
of agriculture and its allied interests. Her
forestry and lumber interests have shown
little increase and no marked fuctuation
for a number of years. Her exports in
that department.. manufactured and I'M
manufactured. swing between S5.50o.eOe
and s6.50o.0o0 a year. In the products Of
the farmer and the stock raiser her ex-
port trade has more than doubled during
the last decade, and fair half Of all
her exports are raised. grown, or made
on the farm. A country which exports
SIS. COCO worth of cheese IN the course of
a year, 100000 worth or cattle. $1,000
900 worth of bacon. $1,000. 900 worth of but
ter. $,0e,OO worth, each. of oats and ap-
pies. and raises from 50O0o.Oo0 To 50. oao0OO
bushels of wheat is very long way from
eating its head on.
In all, Canada sells about sso.6O00o0 a
year of the products of her fields and
farms That is about one-tenth of our
own exports in the same department.
though her population is but little moro
than one-fifteenth OF ours. In the ex-
portation of fish. Canada leads us in
abort the proportion of SO. 900. 600 to 81, co.,.
900 year. In the transportation OF
these and other products. Canada enters
and clears an average of upward of LOCO
seagoing vessels a month. For foreign
and inland navigation, there are some 700
steamships of Canadian registration. She
mas some lS,UUJ miles OF railway, and more
than 2. .1O9 miles of canals; % 900 miles of
telegraph lines. and more than 5000 miles
of telephone wires.
Development is evidenced in both tangi-
BILE and intangible forms. The one is seen
in the extension of commerce. the expan-s
sion of cities, and the general introduce
tion of all those appliances and institu-
tons which come into the class of what
is known a$.modern improvements
The other appears in a multitude of plans,
projects, and schemes both sound and
visionary, which are encountered on all
sides. 1t takes but a few days in Cana
da to convince the observer that our
northern neighbor easily digest a
large and varied collection of the man
with the hoe. and that she is a little
overstocked, perhaps, with the man with
the scheme. Probably her percentage of
these latter gentlemen is no greater than
it Is in New York or Chicago, but in the
smaller community they become more
prominent.
Many of these schemes are excellent and
many of them are feasible. There is the
dream of the great financier of a day
when the Traveller will be rushed across
the Atlantic, from Liverpool. in a great
white steamship. to be landed on Cana
dian soil alongside waiting train which :
will whirl him across 1000 miles of Can
adian territory TO the dock of another
great white steamship. which will carry
him to Hongkong- There is the idea Of
the Georgian Bay Canal, whose ultimate
development would load millions of BUSH
els of wheat at Chicago, Duluth. and Fort
William, and take them to Europe via the
lakes. the canal, the Ottawa and ST. Law
renee Rivers by the shortest Of
routes. without breaking bulk There
are two or three plans for canals
of suitable depth TO open rea-
sonably speedy waterway via Lake
ChaInplain and the Hudson River to New
York There are schemes and plans for
country and there are projects of consol-
idation and combination in hardware cot
ton manufacturing. wood pulp mills, and
other lines of trade and commerce.
The Canadians are vastly hopeful OF
the future of their country. and have
ample reason to be so. Canada's govern
ment is good. her people are thrifty, and
her resources are endless. She has vast
areas yet untouched, of the finest wheat
land in the world, vast areas OF rich
grazing lands, and vast mineral area,
in her western mountains, the possibili-
ties of which are as yet but little known
A few more millions of Industrious work
ers would make Canada one of the best
of fields for the investor and the capital
list.