The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01

which for years failed to favor Canada, |
has at last turned her way. Thousands !
of Americans will become producers of
breadstuffs in the western provinces.
They will favor American made goods
and educate others In the same direction.
This will insure a reciprocity sentiment
in western Canada for years to come.
But the Canadian statesman who locks
ahead and sees what great benefit reel
procity can be to both countries, notes
that retaliation sentiment is growing in
other sections. Sir Wilfred Laurier is
among those who advise Canadians not to
cultivate that kind of sentiment toward
the United States. but the people and the
average business men do not regard the
dilly-dallying with their reciprocity pro-
posals by the United States with the pa
| thence OF a far-seeing diplomat. Con-
sequently John Charlton's warning to the
American business world is both interest
ing and timely
Paper Railroads.
| Promoters of paper railroads have had
busy year. Where rights of way are
cheap and hundreds Of farmers are anx-
| ious for n new line there are plenty of
chances to work UP enthusiasm. The
| northwest has three Of these improbable
lines charged to it. A star promoter is
at work on line several hundred miles
| in length for which he recently announced
that surveys would soon be made. An
usually quiet and inoffensive butter and
egg town in northern Minnesota was awak-
ened from its dreams short time ago to
find tself on the proposed route of a
great transcontinantal Inc. The may or"
had received letter from the president
Of the road suggesting that If the people
| of the ''city'' showed the proper amount
Of enterprise the company's shop would
be located there. At the present time the
town is experiencing a wonderful boom.
Corner lots ON the main street have
doubled the price, and the man who want
ed to sell out but couldn't, is congratu-
lating himself on his good judgment in
staying by the town. In the meantime the
president of the road, who is q real estate
agent in Iowa, IS drawing more lines ON
paper and making more towns happy.
This boom" is an exception in the north
west now. There were days when
blooms" were in full blast every ten
miles on proposed Ines Of roads The
} country is twenty years older and knows
better hut nearly forgotten town is to
| be EXCUSED If it gets excited over the prom
Use Of railroad shops and grabs at straws
Investing Near Home.
, Arizona lands, Texas townsites, and
Florida Bay front real estate are win
ming little money from the northwest
| Bankers say that northwestern people
with money to invest so thoroughly appre
ciate the. opportunities at home that the!
are. seeking no "long shot speculation
in the land and town lots of other sections
of the country. Much northwestern none!
is going into the cheap lands of Canadi
, but the south and southwest are drawing
: blanks, comparing their receipts Will
: what they were receiving from the north
I western states in the early nineties
) Many of what appeared to be magnifcen
D InrODOSitiOnS in the south were bOlStere
t up long after they deserved financial as
a sistance by contributions from the north
e west. Irrigation in Arizona which is nov
: being discussed by the federal govern
: ment received large appropriation fror
: the pockets of several hundred industriou
Il people in Minnesota and the Dakotas, an
e Ereturned no results. Towns in TeXa
n all of which were destined to be eithe
e wonderful harbors or great railway cen
s ters won the faith of men from variou
t sections of the northwest Money an
f energy were spent on propositions des
d tined from the first to be failures Pine
d apple lands and orange groves in Florid
h as we'll as town lots-at the bottom {
e the bay in some extreme cases-have ha
: their turn at the wheel and drawn frol
d pockets guarded by men usually sound o
: business propositions. All this tim
d northwestern land, now being sought b
thousands of buyers, was without hone
among its own people. Quarter section
of choice soil well located were dru
= on the market at $400 and $500 each. Sine
l. 1894 these have grown in value thre
n and four times over. The lesson hs
= not been lost and much of the surply
g wealth Of northwestern people is goin
y into the land which once they scorne'
e city real estate, and home industries
N various kinds.