The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-09-16
TdG, ement From the United States to
the Northern Plains.
WHY DO THE YANKEES TREK
Last Year 10000 Crossed the Bound
airy Into the Candadian Northwest.
Over Sixteen Million Acres of
Choice Lands Owned by the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad.

Mr.. Cy Warman, the well known
railway reporter, has contributed an
article to The Review of Reviews for
September of extraordinary interest.
Under the caption Migration to
the Canadian Northwest" Mr. War
man asks the question: Why do the
Yankees trek?" And proceeds to
answer it his own way. In the course
of the story, Mr.. Warman says:
But yesterday the stream of mi
grafton flowed the other way-and
the people of Canada trooped over
into the United States by the thous-
ands every year.
"But now the trek is to the north
the balance of trade is with the Can
adams. This is not through any an
tipathy to American institutions, but
to take up new homes in the sparse
ly settled lands of the great north.
And they leave their old homes in the
United States with regret.
"This is not true of the thousands
of foreigners who come to this coun-
try from the old world. They throw
off the shackles of militaryism and
autocratic rule, and welcome the
United States with pleasure.
THE persons who leave the United
States for Canada, however, go to a
land equally free, if not more free,
in all that affects the lives of ordin-
airy individuals.
Social and industrial reasons alone
dictate the immigration. The desire
of the immigrants is to better them
selves-and though there is yet
much to be gained in the United
States, the opportunities in Canada
one vastly superior.
"A hundred years ago the develop
ment of western Canada was begun.
1t was known to select few that
the territories lying beteween the
Red River and tn Rocky Mountains
on the one hand, and the United
States and the great Mckenzie river
on the other, were marvelously fer
tile. But the handful of men who
were cogniZant of this fact were Off
GERS of the Hudson Bay and other fur
a monopoly of the land for the pur-
poses of their industry, and who for
generations had fostered the impress
sion, which became world wide, that
this enormous territory was wilder
ness, cold, inhospitable, and unfit for
Of SNf
use as a stamping ground for fur
bearing animals.
"The settlement of Canada's vast
vacant lands is, nevertheless, barely
begun. There are, it has been as
certained, in Northwestern Ontario,
in the province of Manitoba, and in
the territories of Alberta, Assiniboia,
and Saskatchewan, at least 200, 000,-
600 acres of farm lands; over 100000
square miles of habitable territory, of
which probably seven-eighths are as
yet unoccupied. The possibilities are
great, the outlook captivating to the
adventurous American. Take Mani
toba as an object lesson.
1T has within it's bounds 1882, $40
acres, of which 6,329,000 are lakes
and 100000 in timber reserves, leav
ing 25,000,000 acres of cultivable land
Though last year only 2,952,002 acres
of this territory was under crop, sc
great was the yield of wheat, barley
and oats, and other crops, in the pro
vince and neighboring territories that
the railroads were blocked fol-
months, and every available means
of transit by land and water are YET
busily engaged in carrying the pro
ducts of the phenomenal harvests tC
the worlds markets.
'The Canadian Pacific railway, tc
head off similar prospective condi
tons this season, has just obtained
power from parliament to add $40,
100000 to its capital stock of which
one-half will be devoted to purchas
ing rolling stock and the other to pro
viding new lines.
''Now that land can no longer be
had in the United States for the
squatting on, and when even railroad
lands bring big prices in the oper
markets, the temptation such
country as We have here described
offers to the progressive American
farmer is very great.
IF he has money he can buy {
good improved prairie farm in west
ern Canada for very much less thar
his own holding will bring. If he has
wealth of grown boys, he can oh
tain free of cost to himself, and fo
every boy over IS years, a farm o
100 acres ready for the plough, anC
by united effort they can double thu
yield of their labor in two or three
years.
This statement is not made at ran
dom. have been over the territor!
and have met with numerous in
stances of success in this regard.