The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-14
MONDAY EVENING, JULY a, 1902.
.WILLSHETAX WHEAT
What England May Do if Canadian
/. Crop Grows.
OVER 7o,ooo,ooo THIS YEAR
Northwest and Possible
3. Result.
From The Journal Bureau, Room A5, Post
Building, WasIlingto7a.

Eseg, z1s yoMnss Bsereau. Roo'. <s Post
Greenaway Of Mankato. tells the public
that, owing to the rapid influx of Amer
ican farmers, the Canadian northwest is
developing very rapidly as wheat coun-
try, and that the yield for the present
year will amount to between 10000, 900
and 100, 100000 bushels, as compared with
about 50,OO0,000 the largest yield IN any
former year. There is suggestion that
this largely increased yield may in the
end point the way for preferential grain
tariff in Great Britain. The reason why
such a tariff has not been considered
seriously in England is the fact that her
colonies never have been able to raise
enough wheat to supply the demands Of
the English markets. Heavy importations
from other countries are necessary each
year Should the yield of Canada prove
| to be an increasing one, it is believed
that the mother country will encourage
| it heartily and also try to stimulate
| wheat growing in her other colonies,
especially in Australia and South Africa.
| There is probably no immediate danger
| that the United States will be shut out
of the English markets by preferential
| tariff On whe at, but the success OF wheat
| raising on a large scale in Canada will
certainly be a step in that direction. The
most practicable offset to such result,
| for the present, at least, would be the.
ratification of trade treaty with Can
ada which would embrace wheat. Cana
dian wheat would be less destructive as
| competitor of wheat grown in this
| country il it could be manufactured here.
| Exported in large quantities to Liverpool.
1t would beat down the price and injure
| the wheat grower of the United States
beyond repair. --!
Smallpox Dying Out.
| Official reports for the last days of
June and the first days Of July show that
the smallpox epidemic, which for a num-
| Der of months has carried terror into
| many parts of the United States, is rap
of 1901 there was but slight cessation,
| and with the coming of cooler. weather
| in the fall the disease renewed its raw.
| ages, which were continued during the
last winter. The latest reports indicate.
4 that the disease is now under perfect
control, and suggest that next fall and.
winter the country will be comparatively
| free from 1t.
On July ii, the date of the marine hos
/ pital service latest bulletin, there were
| ia cases of smallpox in the country, dis
! tributed between twentysix states.
North Caroline leads with 25S cases, and
Minnesota. comes second with Sc, North
Dakota with 6S, New Jersey with So, Mis-
souri, with SO, New York with 40, and
Ohio, with 33, are the next in order. e.,
| In Minnesota there are thirteen cases
credited to Stearns county, thirteen to
Blue Earth county, ten from Mobiles eoun-
ty-seven to Olmsted county, and nine to
| Grow Wing county.
In North Dakota eighteen cases are re-
| ported from Stutsman county, and ten
from idded the others scattering.
The Bicycle Policemen.
The coming Of the automobile has re-
suited in a large increase Of the squad
| of bicycle policemen in this city. Fiji
teen new bicycle men were added to the
force on July L. and have been assigned
| to duty part day and part night, on the
1 leading thoroughfares, with instructions
/ to note carefully the rate of auto speed.
! and make arrests whenever it is exceed
! ed. The Bicycle squad of Washington now
! numbers fifty men. They are said to rem
der more important service in the down.
town districts than the horsemen, because
they get about faster and can slip up un-
seen.
) The Cost Of Irrigation.
There need be no fear that the work Of
| government Irrigation of arid and semi
arid lands will make. any serious inroads
| on the national treasury. That such will
| from F. H. Newell, chief Of the division
. Of hydrography and secretary of the
| American forestry association, who has
made irrigation life study. He says
| that in the next century it will not be
possible to irrigate more than $4,000, 900
acres Of land. and that the assertion that
200, 900, 900 acres can be irrigated within
that time is not we'll founded. If irriga-
'tion is to cost an average of 81 per acre,
the total cost will be S120,000,00 900 in a
hundred years, or $1,000, 900 per year, on
the average. This estimate does not lake
into account the fact that the land to be
irrigated is almost entirely the property
Of the government, and is now worthless,
but when ready for cultivation will bring
anywhere from $40 to 500 per acre, pay
ing for itself many times =