Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-12-31
GREAT STRIDES MADE.
Wonderful Richness of the Soil Of
Western Canada Has Turned the
Tide of Immigration.

The great strides which Western
Canada is making, and the wonderful
richness of the soil, is creating con-
siderable excitement, not only in
Canada, but in the United States and
Great Britain. The large crops of
the past two years, with phenomenal
yields, have enacted a movement to-
wards the west, which will not be
checked until every available home
stead is taken. The Edmonton Bull
Z. letin, one of the "farthest north"
newspapers, in a recent article on
the Northwest as a wide and open
. field, says: There must be fertile
soil, there must be suitable climate,
! there must be the possibility of build
8 ing up a modern civilization; and the
conditions must be such that labor
can reach the land; or in other
words, land must be cheap. The
Canadian Northwest contains the
largest unbroken area of country on
the continent, or in the world fulfill
ing these conditions. In it's thou
7 sand miles of plain which stretches
from the Lake of the Woods to the
Rocky Mountains Canada is able to
offer land to the landless of the con-
\ tinent, aud of the world. This year
3 (1902), the only complaint, over all
the vast stretch of territory, of the
rmers and ranchers, is that the
railways have not sufficient rolling
stock to move to market the returns
OF the past season.
The area under crop in Western
Canada in 1902 was 1,9s7,330 acres.
Yield 1902, 1922, 754 bushels. Wealth
waits on industry in Canada. There
Is Plenty of Room.
Prices have advanced in Western
Canada so per cent. in the last two
years, and the upward movement
seems still on. The migration into
Canada is becoming notable. Some.
body has estimated that $4,000 acres
of Canadian land are sold day to
people from the United States.
Whatever doubts there have been
as to the suitability of the Canadian
Northwest for settlement, those
doubts have been set at rest by the
successive yields of previous years,
and by the browning glory of the
past year (19o2), which gives solid
assurance as to possibilities that
would not otherwise have been be-
Gevede The fact of the grain produc-
tion OF the past season in Manitoba
and the Northwest, 1892 54 bush
els from 1.9s7,330 acres, and that
!, certain number of farmers have pro-
duced greater value of wheat, oats,
and cattle for sale than any other
equal number anywhere else in the
known world, is the best possible an
swer to the question: "Is there
wealth in the Northwest?" Not only
In the Northwest but in the whole
country has there been prosperity.
The Canadian Northwest is not all
alike in its production. Wheat grow
ing is the speciality of one part, cat
tie ranching of another, and mixed
farming-the growth of grain and
live stock together-of still another.
Speaking roughly, the southeastern
parts of the Territories and Manitoba
are wheat growing; the southwest
ern part of the Territories is ranch
ing. and the northern part of the
Territories is mixed farming. Differ
ences of soil. climate, and other con-
ditions are the causes of these differ
ences in agriculture in the various
sections. But it is safe to say tina:
In no other area of the world is there
an equal possibility of the production
OF wealth from the soil, whether by
one branch of agriculture or another