The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-22
A RUSH. FOR CANADA
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Maj. Bitting( >V:~1nl General at
Montreal, Makes Report
on It.
It Is Not Confined to Western Can
ada But Is Also True Of the
Eastern Section.

From, The Journal Bureau, Room 81, Foss
building, Warrington.
Special to The Journal.
Washington, Nov. 22.--Major John L.
Bittinger, consul general at Montreal, in
a highly significant statement to the state
department made public to-day reports
on American Investments in Canada. 1t
Is the first comprehensive roundup Of the
large way in which American capital is
going into that country, and suggests
rapid changes in public sentiment there
which will make reciprocity easy. and
which ultimately will :Americanize the
provinces. Millions upon millions Of
money are being sent to Canada from
the Atlantic ocean to the Canadian north
west above Minnesota and North, Dakota,
and American citizens are em1gratlnS
with this capital by tens Of thousands.
Among the new and highly capitalized
industries mentioned are steel, coal,
sugar, pulp, agricultural machinery, oil,
cereals. meat-packing, pianos, mining,
school furniture, bridge building. alumni
mum, mechanical engineering, coke, cold
storage, canning tobacco, woolens and
paper. .... ~ ;. "..- :,
Portions Of Major Bttinger:s report are
Of local interest to the northwest. For IN
stance the following: .t.
Another large American industry has
decided to evade the duty of IS per cent on
agricultural machinery and establish itself
in Toronto. It will produce threshing
machines and traction engines. The new
firm will be known as the American Abel
Engine Tresher company. It has taken
over the Toronto Abel works. Behind 1t
are two Of the largest threshing machine
manufacturers in the world, the Advance
Thresher company of Battle Creek, Mich,
and the Minnesota Engine q Thresher
company Of West Minneapolis and sew
eral wealthy men of the northwestern
states. Their agents have already pla ced
orders for 100000 feet Of hardwood lum-
Der. The new company is to have
81, 900, 900 Of capital stock, it will employ
about 400 men and next fall will make ex
tensive additions to the present works.
The output Of the company per annum will
be $500, 000."
This same company will erect large
warehouses and a machine shop at Winni-
peg, from which point much Of its bust
ness will be done. The managing director
OF the company says:
In comparatively few years western
Ca1aia will be an immense purchaser Of
agricultural machinery of all kinds" 1t
will not be long before western Canada
will buy more agricultural machinery than
the western Tart Of the United States.
There is more arabic land in Canada west
OF line drawn north and south through
Winnipeg. than there Is west of the Mis-
sissippi river in the United States. This
lrIin!ellSe section Will be developed ra pldly
and it viii lgrow good crops. In estab-
fishing manufacturing business on the
Canadian side of the line we feel perfectly
Independent OF tariff laws that may be
! made in either country. We can do bust
ness ilresI cct1ve O. how the law makers
Of, ORC country treat the products of the
other" Tow ards the close of the report
Major Bittingec says:
| Investments made by Americans in agri-
cultural, grazing and timber lands amount
to many millions of dollars. Only re-
Gently a Columbus, Ohio, syndicate pur-
| hcased 100000 acres in Northwest Terri
tory. A Minneapolis and st. Paul syn-
dictate has purchased a much larger area
and is promoting emigration from the
western states to the Canadian northwest
to, which over $4,000 settlers have gone
during the present year
The vast movement referred to by the
report os now under way and has been
marked during the present year. The
promises for next year are largely in eN-
cess of this years performances. notwith-
standing the fact that the latter. break
all records.
1t is significant that this exodus of
American capital Is not confined OF any
single section Of Canada but covers the
entire country west to the unexpected
regions of the Rocky mountains.
w. w. Jermanc.