The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-13
MIR. WARMAN TELLS
WHY YANKEE Tricks
He Knows Good Thing When He Sees
1t and Is After the Rich Lands
of Canada.

Cy Warman the well-known writer,
in an article to the Review of Reviews,
has $50! some i Interesting eA facts under the
i Northwest. SWhy d. do tn the Yankees
trek?" asks Mr.. Warman, and proceeds
to answer the question.
But yesterday the stream of migration
flowed the other way-and the people Of
Canada trooped over into the United
States by the thousands every year.
But now the trek Is to the north
the balance of trade is with the Canadi-
ans. This is not through any antipathy
to American institutions, but to take up
new homes in the sparsely settled great
land of the North-and they leave their
old homes in the United States with re-
gret.
This is not true of the thousands of
foreigners who come to this country from
the Old World. They throw off the shack
les of militarlsm and autocratic rule and
welcome the institutions Of the United
States with pleasure.
States for Canada, however go to a land
equally free, If not more free, in all
that affects the lives Of ordinary indi-
viduals.
Social and industrial reasons alone die
tate the immigration. The desire of the
immigrants is to better themselves-and
though there IS yet much to be gained In
the United States, the opportunities in
Canada are vastly superior.
"An hundred years ago the development
Of Western Canada was begun. 1t was
| lying between the Red river and the
Rocky mountains on the one hand, and
the United States border and the great
Mackenzie river on the other, were mar
velously fertile. But the handful of men
| who were cogniZant of this fact were Of
| fcers Of the Hudson Bay and other great
fur-trading companies, who had secured q
| monopoly of the land for the purposes of
| their industry, and who for generations
| had fostered the Impression, which be-
came worldwide, that this enormous ter
| Eitory was wilderness, cold, inhospitable,
| and unfit for the settlement OF man, and
| only of use as a stamping ground for the
| fur-bearing animals.
1.-The settlement of Canada's vast va
| cant lands is. nevertheless, barely begun.
There are it has been ascertained, in
Northwestern Ontario, in the province of
Manitoba, and in the territories Of AL
berta, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, at
least nearly 100000, 600 acres Of farm
| lands; over 100000 square miles of habit
able territory, of which probably. seven
eighthS are as yet unoccup1ed. The pos
sibilities are great, the outlook captivating
to an adventurous American. Take Man
itoba as an object lesson.
1t has within its bounds 47,332. $40 acres,
in timber reserves. leaving rs, ooO,o 600 acres
Of cultivable land. Though last year only
2,952,002 acres of this territory was under
crop, so great was the yield of wheat,
barley oats and other crops in the prov
ince and neighboring territories that the
railways We're blocked for months, and
every available means OF transit by land
and water are yet busily engaged In car,
| harvests to the worlds markets.
| 1.-The Canadian Pacific railway, to head
| off similar prospective conditions this sea-
ment to add 500, 600, 900 to it's capital stock,
of which one-half will be devoted to pur-
chasing rolling stock and the other to
! providing new lines
"Now that land can no longer be had
In the United States Yor the squatting
on, and when even railroad lands bring
big prices in the open market, the tempt
alton which such a country as we have
here described offers to the progressive
American farmer is very great.
If he has money, he can buy a good
for very much less than his own holdings
will bring. If he has a wealth Of grown
boys, he can obtain free of cost to himself,