Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
WESTERN CANADA'S IMML
GRAFTON.
Rapid Settlement of the Wheat
Fields Lying North OF the
48th Parallel.

Canada has anticipates very heavy
INNING grafton this year, and she now has
figures to show that she is actually
getting 1t in a way to meet all her
expectations. In the first four
months of this year the doors of the
Dominion opened to 40.672 persons,
according to report prepared by
the committee on agriculture and
colonization of the Canadian parlia-
ment. This is almost twice as large
as the immigration in the CORE
spending months last year, and fully
three times as large as in 1901. the
respective figures being 22.4S2 and
1888.
''MSt of these newcomers have
been attracted by the wheat lands of
the Northwest territories. They
have moved direct from Winnipeg
and they have turned that city into
great camp. in. which they have
been fitting themselves out for the
last stage of their adventure for
new homes.
'Of the immigration of this spring
| little over third has come from
Great Britain, the figure being 16,
| 457. This is three times as large as
the British immigration of the cor
responding months of the preceding
year. and it is within $500 of the
number of immigrants that the
United States attracted from Great
| Britain and Ireland in the same
period this spring. AS to the re.
| mainder of the immigration into
Canada. 1870 settlers came from the
United States, so per cent. increase
over the preceding year. and l0.445
| from Continental Europe, 40 per
cent. increase.
These 4O,672 immigrants into
Canada may appear trifiing in com
parison with the 297070 persons who
entered the United States in the
same period. but they are proper
tionately more important to the
country. Canada's population is one
fifteenth of ours. but her immigra-
ton is now two-ffteenths as large as
ours. 1t is worth remembering also
that Canada's immigrants are almost
entirely of Anglo-Saxon and Teuton-
ic races, while our immigration is
now two-thirds made up of Romance
ana Slav elements.
Speculation is natural as to the
future of Canada in her relations to
the United States when her. North
west territories are filled up but
the one absolutely certain fact of the
near future is that the United States
is TO have a great competitor in the
grain markets Of the world
The above editorial article taker
from the columns of the Chicago
Record Herald Of Maya Goth show:
the condition of the Canadian I'm
migration, which as pointed out, ha.
had a constant growth-a marvellous
ly increasing growth-for the pas
six or seven years, until this year, i
is confidently assumed the increase
to Canada's population. by way Of
immigration, will exceed 100000
This is accounted for by the grea
agricultural resources which abount
there. 1t is no fairy tale, but tn,
matter-of-fact experience of the tens
of thousands bear ample testimony
to the wealth and riches in store fol
all who choose to accept of the op
portunities offered.
Those who wish to learn more o.
the country can secure illustrated
aliases, pamphlets. etc. giving full
and reliable data issued under Gov
eminent authority, by applying t,
any of the authorized agents of tn,
Canadian Government. These agents
whose names appear below will quot,
you the exceptionally low rates tina
take you to the free grant lands O
Western Canada and render you an.
, other assistance in their power:
j. S. Crawford PA West Ninth ST.
Kansas City, Mo.