The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-28
BREAK INTO CANADA
Manufacturers of the U. S. Estab-
lish Plants There.
KENAsToN's. INTERESTING TALK
He Tells Toronto World Why Conn
panies on This Side Buy Ca
madam Threshcr Plant.

In chronicling the purchase OF tho
John Abel agricultural works by the
Minneapolis Threshing Machine company
and the Advance Thresher company, OF
Battle Creek. Mich. the Ioron.o "o s.ith
contains an Interesting interview Win
+. E. Kenaston, president of the Mime.
apoIis company. on the DEVELOPMENT or
the Canadian northwest. The World
quotes Mr.. kenaston as saying:
We have been doing large ana raplalS
increasing business in the canadian north
west, but the 20 per cent duty eliminates our
profts to such an extent that we decided
to come and establish in Canada We Will
double the output OF the John Abel works
this year. and before long will be producing
five times that of the works at the present
time We will find our market for our prod
uots in the rapidly developing and setting
Canadian northwest. Unless every agFlcul-
tural concern gets to work Immediately 70
double and treble its output, this country
will not begin to supply the demand that is
looming up before us. The people in cas-
ern Canada seem to have no conception or
what is coming, and am surprised that SO
little attention is being paid to the perfectly
wonderful Developments that are going on.
Why, In Minneapolis and ST. Paul new
land companies to operates in the Canadian
northwest are being formed every day. The
sales of companies l am interested in and
some others / know of have averaged 90 geo
q day since Jan. l. Just think or 1t ana
what it means! There is no end to the de-
rnand for these good lands, and 1t will only
be matter of a very short time when the
prices are doubled and trebled. .American
farmers have gone in by the tens OF thou
sands this spring. I believe that fully 200. 600
Americans will go in this summer and will
continue going in all summer. -
The Attraction. -,
The reason why there is such q rush is
that the land has been proved absolutely the
best wheat-growing land on the continent
Minnesota is the banner wheat-producing
state Of the union, and she has raised some
bumper crops, but she never had the yield
in her whole history that you had in the
northwest last year. An average of IS to 20
bushels per acre in Minnesota and the Da-
kotas is considered pretty good. Well, you
had whole townships up there that yielded
40 to As bushels per acre. AS for oats, the
yield was truly wonderful, as high as $50
bushels per acre.
look to see such stampede Of American
farmers into the Canadian northwest as will
almost take your breath away 1t is bound
to come, and you must expect 1t and be pre-
pared for it. 1t will be a movement on an
immense scale, ureged by the strongest OF
economic reasons: that is. farmers can sell
land in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Indiana,
the ;Dakotas and Nebraska at from $25 to $50
ter and more abundant crops IN Canada for
s. an acre. When this fact is generally
known by the people of these states-as 1t
will tbe this year from letters sent back by
tens Of thousands of actual settlers-there
will be a rush of immigration to which the
Oklahoma boom was nothing. Canada has
more wheat growing land than the United
States, and we Of Minnesota and the Dakotas
have come to realize it.
I believe before many years you will have
population of from 40 000, 900 to so, 900, 900 in
your western territories. 1t is because we
know that the population will grow very
rapidly from now on, and that the derna nd
for farm implements will he great, that We
are now establishing in Canada: -. -
A Toronto Bankers View.
The World quotes 2. E. Walker, a
prominent Toronto bankers as saying that
dozens of instances can BE- given where
Americans have either established new
Industries in that's cityS and 1eastern Can
ada, to coHtroltlth the traae,l@pr have &C
quired old concerns, .:Rv wifi tasthe idea of
greatly increasing the output. Mr..
Walker says: ~
Eastern manufacturers will have to wake
up An enormous trade <ssscon1ing, but there
will be big fight for /, Industries con
trolled by vast amounts Of AMERICAN capita
will spring up and as thef armies of iunn1i
grants going into the country are Americans
the incoming manufacturers will naturally
best understand their needsyr and will make
big fight against our own manufacturers
to hold the business. Toronto, Montreal
Hamilton and other eastern centers are des
tined to become great manufacturing cities
Winnipeg will in a very short time be the
St. Petersburg Of North America. !.