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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-25
CITY OF WINNIPEG, THE HUB
OF THE CANADIAN NOR TEWEST
Handful
Business
Office Reeipt-A Wonderful

visible link between the bristling CONNER
cial activity of the present, and the prim-s
tive times and institutions during which
they We're built: It's Fort Garry gateway,
which every visitor to the city can see
and what sharper contrast can be madeoE
from an electric car Here bargained and
fought, and ruled, the Lords of the
North for Years the autocrats and arbit y
tiers of territories long since transformed
to one of the granaries of the world The
outlines of the wall can still he traced,
WIIHipeg,s Exposition.
The growth Of the Industrial Exposition.
is characteristic of the rapidityl Of vest
elm development. Zen years ago it was
non existent to-day ESits owns property
valued at conside bly, over 500, 900. The
few dollars spent on what were then called
pale into insi gnificance when
compared with the $1S 200 paid.for the mag
nificent entertainment-for which the most
costly and novel items were secured from
the amusement centers Of the new and old
world-Which was last years attraction.
when nearly 900 was paid out in prizes,
more than $4,000 in improvements and
aboutathe same amount in advertising the
resources of the northwest. During the
week of the fair more than 100000 people
passed through the turnstiles and the re-
;ceipts from this source alone aggregated
$26, 900.
The Industrial has had to compete
against itself-one Of the most trying and
difficult situations in which any person or
any institution could be placed. It's long
record of unexampled successes has each
year set a pace more difficult for its di-
rectors to$follow, and no higher" praise can
he given its management than that they
have acquitted themselves well OF their
task.
Public and Private Buildings:
Pages might be written about the city S
fine public, or semi-public, bulldlngs-the
legislative buildings, the courthouse, the
city hall the hospital the schools, the
splendid colleges, the magnificent univer-
sity building opened last year by the
Prince of Wales, the handsome churches,
the new system of parks-some of which,
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MANUFACTURERS GROWING.
Of Electric Power From TIT
WInnipeu River.

But fe years ago 1t was gem
orally accepted an axiom that
Winnipeg would never be q manu-
featuring city, said Mr.. Russell.
but experience is proving that,
as the consuming population of the west
increases, many articles can be manu-
featured and as fact are now manufac-
tured in this city.5I will not attempt here
to name in detail the factories and work
shops already established, bnt investiga-
ton will prove to any member Of this
board, or other person interested. that a
wide range of manufactured goods are al
ready produced in this city, and that the
list would be largely increased were power
available at less cost than it is at pres
emit; and this leads me to comment upon
the announced intention of the company
now constructing the works for the de-
veloping of electric power from the Winni-
peg river, to furnish power in Winnipeg at
not more than one-half the present cost.
1T is most satisfactory to know that
these works are being prosecuted with
great vigor. and that probably within a
year the company viii be prepared to de-
velop electrical power here up to a maxi
mum of ten thousand horse power, and
that it will be prepared to increase this
almost indefinitely as oeea sion requires.
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s III vieWstof this fact Il am we'll within
the mark in saying that there are very
bright prospects ahead for the establish
ment OF manufacturing Industries in Win
nipeg in the not distant future"
pleasing feature in connection with
the grain trade this season was the great
increase of the storage capacity in: the
form Of elevators erected throughout the
grain producing districts in the interior.
The total storage capacity Of the present
elevator system. including the terminal
elevators at Port Arthur and Fort VII
liam is now 34.S5O.0 900 bushels, as against
q, 29S, 900 at this time last year. 1t is to
be noted that several grain firms of the
United states have opened in business
here, and in most cases they have erected
a number of elevators at shipping sta
tons. s
Immigration. ..
The rapid settlement Of the west is well
evidenced by the great numbers of immi-
grants continually arriving, the govern
ment immigration statistics indicating
that about $4,000 emigrants arrived and
settled in Manitoba and the territories
during 1902. 1t is noticeable that an un-
precedented movement is taking place
from the United States in our western
districts, and although some pessimists
| appear afraid Of the west being American
lied, the United States settlers arriving
are of the most desirable class, and are
SO well pleased, not onlyawith the Cana
dian laws, but with the admirable system
of their administration, that they would
on no account return to their allegiance
and I would gladly see redoubled efforts
made to secure as many as possible OF
| this very desirable class of settlers.
The number Of homesteads< taken ur
during the past year was some %, 900
showing a gratifying advance! and 1.-The
increased quantity Of land sold by the Ca
| madam Pacific railway and other compa-
MES all indicate that the coming year will
be a phenomenal one SO far as settlement
is concerned. and it becomes the duty Of
the commercial community Of Winnipeg
to continue to be prepared. as it has
been in the past, to meet the great ex.
pansion Of trade that must in due course
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casion, supplemented their stocks and en-
larged their premises or built new ones.
t'The number of buildings erected in the
city, according to official returns was 973,
with an aggregate value of $2,265,325. In.
1901 the total assessment was S28,305, 200,
and in 1902. $35,173.870. The amount ex-
pended by the exhibition board was, over
$500 These figures, without referring in
detail to the general city improvements,
are in themselves eloquent.
In NUtSheII.
The total assessable property OF Winni-
peg amounts to s2s615.St0; total exemp-
tons, s6.55S,o6 taxes 1902, 2SA mills on
the dollar; area, 20 square miles; macadam
pavernents, * miles; wood block pave
ments, 16A miles; asphalt pavements, 9A
miles; plank walks. 176 miles sewers. Sd
miles; graded streets, 123 miles; grano-
lettic walks,1 10 miles; boulevards, A miles;
water supply, "a miles of mains; number
of arc lights. 240; number Of hydrants.
400; parks area in acres, 2S1a; assessed
value, sos, 50O.''
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result from increased population and con
sequent increased production.
MODERN PROGRESS

"cyclc in cathay" outWeighed by Results
of a Few Fleeing Years.
Instances such as these could be null
tipliled ad infinitum to show the contrast
existing to-day between the west of
Lieutenant Governor Archibald and the
west of Lieutenant Governor Macmillan
History has been made quickly here. To-
day the fame of her agricultural re-
sources Is known almost everywhere
where bread is eaten, and itSis at
tracing yearly thousands Of strong; earn
est, sAilfu workers. who willSstilI further
develop the wonderful riches Of her SOIL
From the gateway of the prairies to the
Pacific coast, where the Occident and the
Orient stand face to face-in all that vast
intervening territory the work of nation
building is going on. Ten years of mod
ern progress have outweighed in results
centuries Of the remote past
Instead OF the feeble throbbings of a
primitive trade, to-day the blood of the
worlds commerce flows steadily through
the arteries Of a new and mighty nation.
In the forest and prairies of Western
Canada, industry has found congenial
home. Here are to be found the hardi-
hood of character that conquers difficult
ties, the climate that stimulates exertion,
and the advantages tllatreWard enterprise.
Naure has marked the west for exalted
destinies. and her people are proving
themselves quick at Selling and improv-
ing every opportunity youchsafed them by
"a beneficial nature.
& Links With the Past Disappearing.
So rapid has been the evolution of the
west, that many of the links that bind it
to its historic past have disappeared.
Where is Fort Gibraltar. the headquarters
Of the North West Trading company, and
the plague of "The Gentlemen Adyentur-
ers" trading into Hudson Bay? OF 1t
there remains not trace. It's site is now
occupied by the boathouse Of the VIM
nipeg Rowing club One dark night athe
boatman on the river, the huntsman on
the plain, saw pyramid of flame where
the Assiniboine joins the Red. TWAS the
funeral pyre of Fort Gibraltar, the home
of the hardy trapper and trader, the
headquarters OF the reckless and pic
turesque bois brules.
Across Main street in Winnipeg, a quar-
ter Of a mile distant, are the ruins of a
massive bastion. This is now fenced i'm
and cared for by the City It. is. the
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ness has expanded with the development
of western Canada and it possesses all the
equipment of a. great and growing center
of population Within the limits Of its
business districts and in it's most popu-
lous residential quarters, its clean. we'll
paved, well-lighted, well-graded and we'll
watered streets, its parks and boulevards
are not unworthy of it's position as lead
ing and progressive city. and every year
is extending the area of these improve
nlents. Last year the city council spent
no less a sum than 1911 900 for these pur-
poses.
In this field of matchless endeavor the
men who deal in land have played no in
significant part. Prominent among these
are Mares, Robinson & Black, Oldtield &
Gardner Crotty,sLove & Hunter, Car
ruthers, Brock g. Johnsons Cavanaugh q
Mackenzie. Dalton s. Grassel and Fry &
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only the geographical, but the commercial
center Of Canada.
CIearances.
If other indications of the coming COM
mercial supremacy of Winnipeg were
needed, it would be furnished by the mar
vellous expansion of the clearing house
returns. These are eloquent and indisput.
able evidence of the Importance OF the
city as 3 trading center. The confidence
OF bankers in the city's future is attested
by their heavy Investments of real estate.
The movement begun by the Bank Of OF
taWa years ago, in building handsome Off
ces, has since that time been followed
by the Dominion, the Commerce. tho
Hamilton and the Merchants. Seven OIL
the twelve banks operating in Winnipeg
now own their own offices. and the aggre-
gate value Of this property is much in ex-
cess of a, million dollars.
In an address this month before the
annual meeting of the Winnipeg board of
trade, John Russell, the retiring president
said:
"A fair index of the city's steady and
substantial growth is found in the state
ment of the bank clearings, which in 1895
were s64,o46,43S; in 1901, s132, 200, 900, and
in 1902 $18S,370, 003: and this advance was
marked by no unusual circumstance, but
caused solely by the substantial increase
In the value of the products Of the coun-
try. and the consequent increase Of trade.
"A comparison OF these figures with
those of eastern cities may be Interesting.
the aggregate clearings az eleven other
Canadian cities having shown an increase
in 1909 over 1901 Of 2s.1s per cent while
Winnipeg for the same period showed an
increase of 1923. Notwithstanding this
remarkable progress. have no hesitation
in predicting a still greater advance for
the coming year. The statistical data
given In the report Of the council will in
dictate steady increase in the value OF the
products of the province. The cash value
Of the grain raised In 1902 in Manitoba
and the Territories total approximately,
| $50. 000. 900. while the cattle and dairy
produce, actually available for export, will
add another oooo."
Field for Investment.
Continuing Mr.. Russell said:
gs'In order to meet the rapid developm ent
| Of the country and expansion of trade,
to induce the investment of capital the
most perfect security must be attained.
| The Canadian West now offers as fine a
field for investment as any part of the
world and the number of monetary in
situations established in Winnipeg is an
| Indication that a most satisfactory bust
ness has been transacted in the past. The
/ financial companies doing business here
are as follows: Twelve chartered banks,
| with branches throughout the province;
| forty one fire insurance companies; thirty
! two life insurance companies; fifty six
! loan and investment companies; four trust
companies, and twenty two other sguaran-
| tee and insurance companies. All of these
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report business ! as satisfactory; the
amount of capital readily available for
! immediate use Is almost unlimited.
Postal and Customs Receipts.

report business as satisfactory; the
amount of capital readily available for
immediate use Is almost unlimited.
Postal and Customs Receipts.
1s ''The gross postal revenue Of the Winni-
peg postoffice for the year ending June
so, 1901, was $126,1 for the year end
ing June so, 1902. $156,734. Surely now
that one of the ministers has inspected
the accommodation provided, we may fair
be made, especially in view of the very
great increase OF revenue and business
transacted.
THE customs returns while not always
conveying a correct idea Of the imports.
yet are to a certain extent an index of
the volume of trade-the total duties col
lected at the port of Winnipeg for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1902, were
$1,504,932. tits we'll tosnote that a large
percentage Of the dutiable goods actually
consumed in Manitoba pay import duties
on arrival at eastern seaports, and the
goods arrive here in the ordinary course
Of inter-provincial trade.
Education Not Neglected.
"a few words on educational matters
may not be out of place as education
and trades are closely connected. There
are nineteen public school buildings in
the city, valued at $4,000. with an en-,
rolled attendance Of over 1000 pupils, and
employing 1876 teachers.
There. are: also five well equipped col
Eleges in affiliation with a provincial uni-
versity, the university having the mag
nficent endowment of $50, 900 acres of land,
worth close on $1,OO0,0O0. There is yet
lacking, however, provision for technical
and mechanical education. . ~
Lake Freight Traffic.
According to public statements of c.
P r. officials, which may be presumed to
be correct, there was last year an in
crease of 80 per cent in the lake freight
traffic. A corresponding increase in the
productive and consumptive powers Of
the west forced an expansion which had
to be met, the business was there to be
done, it had to be done by some one, and
Winnipeg business men rose to the oc-
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From the beaver skin as the unit of
value to an aggregate bank capital OF many
millions; from two mails a. year by dogsled
and birch bark canoe to many mails a
day; from oXcart to Pullman; from mud to
macadam; from the primitive grinding
plant of the first Selkirk settlers, turned
by man or OK power, to the largest and
most complete flour mill in the empire;
from a collection of forty or fifty log huts,
Including stables and groggeries, to long
rows Of business palaces and costly man
sions; from a handful of trapperS, hunters
and Indians to q present-day population OF
63,000--these are some Of the contrasts In
the evolution of Winnipeg, the capital Of
Manitoba and the commercial metropolis
of all the Canadian northwest.
&. All that these wonderful changes repre-
sent has been accomplished since the Civil
WARM sthesLInited States was brought to
"a close. In fact, large part of the build
ing Of the city has been done since the re-
action in 1882 following the boom, when
city, and, country went through their
period of STRESS With the elasticity OF
youth. the city recovered and its progress
has been almost phenomenal.
Surely some modern-day wizard with
the lamp of an Aladdin has summon ed
the genii as in times Of old to build pal
aces and commercial marts, to found cities
of the earth. One will say with the grand
vizier and sultan, 8 it can only be en-
chantment.',t ~ .-te ~
A Wholesaler without Competition
AS wholesale center Winnipeg has the
largest directly tributary country Of any
in America. It is the distributing point
for wholesalers from all points between
the great lakes and the Rockies, and its
sphere Of business extends almost as far
north as the Arctic circle. In all this
vast stretch of territory, the wholesale In
terests of Winnipeg are without a compel
dtor in their own field, and the competi-
ton from elsewhere is diminishing with
each succeeding season. This enormous
trade rarnifying to- every country store
over a tremendous tract of territory, has
practically been built up within the la
fifteen years 1t grew slowly at first, but
western energy overcame all obstacles
and has succeeded in building up business
institutions that worthily reflect, In mer-
camille sense, the northwest's agriculture
pre- -eminence.
The stately homes Of commerce thai
edorn Princess street and Bannatyne ave.
nue. would do no discredit to the whole
sale centers of cities like Chicago or st
Z Louis. The Canadian business center OF
+ gravity has moved westwards with its
population. For centuries 1t was Quebec
Then it moved to Montreal and later still
to Toronto. But it is rapidly moving will
& the sun. The course of trade, like the
= star of empire, is sloping slowly to the
weHt and Winnipeg will ere long be, no
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WILD WORK or WIND
Five Persons Killed and Prop
erty Worth S2,0OO,000
DESTROYED.
(By the Associated Press

Streeter, Ills, July IA tornado killed
i've persons, injured a score of others
and caused, property loss of $2,0OO,OOO
here tonight
All except one were killed at the race
track. A new building had just been
erected and the races were to have been
given week after next. Not building is
left standing. All of the buildings at Case
Electric Park were destroyed and the
fence and amphitheatre of the ball park
were blown away. Stauber's clothing fac
tory, a two-story brick building, was
blown down and all the stock was ruined.
The Vulcan Western Company's plant
suffered heavy loss. The Illinois, Indiana
and Iowa bridge, costing 1000, 900, is
nearly half gone, the hosting works and
buildings at Spring Rill shaft were ruined;
many buildings in Kanglwy, four miles
west of Streeter were blown down and
several persons were injured. Many houses
were unroofed and otherwise damaged
Telephone and telegraph lines are nearly
all down and details are meagre.
Bloomington, Ills, July ia wind
storm swept Central Illinois tonight and
caused damage in Mclean county to wires
and buildings. Many small buildings were
blown down. Near Gardiner poles and
wires were blown down, destroying COM
munication and an entire train OF freight
cars on a siding was blown over
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MONEY IN CUCUMsERs.
A ClarktOn Man Tells Of $1,000 Week Paid
for Them,

visitor here yesterday from Clarkton
said at the depot while waiting for his
train:
There's money in eucumbers, and We've
learned it at Clarkton."
"How's that" said the reporter, as he
borrowed the Clarkton's man lead pencil
and fished out his note book.
We've got a pickle industry Heinz, OF
Pittsburg, you know about him. He's got
plant of sixteen watts there, each hold
ing a thousand bushels OF cucumbers, and
the capacity of preparation there has been
5000 bushels a week for the last two
weeks. The plant can handle more, but
that's what the planters have brought
in. Heinzs people pay 80 cents bushel.
That's 81, 500 a week turned loose for GU
oumbers and it amounts to about one hun
dred dollars an acre. tell you, cucumbers
is the thing"
Amy berries raised about Clarkton,'
said the man with the borrowed pencil.
Eyes, Stree. We've raised plenty of
berries. They pay too. and just around
Clarkton the acreage has been increased
by over 300 acres
The Clarkton man was ready to talk
more, but his train came in just then.
and he went in to find a double scat on
the shady side. The reporter kept the
pencil and uses it to boost" Clarkton.
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The Seizure" Of the Seven Islands Tearing
ofthe Blanket,
(By the Associated Press.)

London, July 17.-According to authori
tatiye dispatches received here, an Amerl-
can warship visited a number of the
islands on the northeast coast of Borneo,
some weeks ago and hoisted American
flags on seven of the islands, all of which
are said to be British
The affair is regarded here as being Ca
pable of easy adjustment. being, it is as
serted, without doubt the result of a mis-
understanding on the part of the com
mander of the American man-of-war.
Washington, July lit is learned at
the State Department that there have been
no representations recently from the
British government touching the owner
ship OF any of the small islands in the
South-of the Philippine archipelago and
adjacent to the coast of Borneo. Nor Is
anything known here of recent naval op-
erations in that corner of the world It
is believed here that there is no possibility
of trouble growing out of this incident.
The Sultan of Jolo possesses both tenn
poral and spiritual power over the Moham.
medan inhabitants, not only of his own
group of islands, but of the north coast
of Borneo and the adjacent islands, and
the assertion of spiritual power over such
of the natives as live under the British
flag in Borneo and the nearby islands, may
have led to the supposition that the
United States government has improperly
asserted sovereignty over British SOIL
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NEGRO WITH A WIG.
he Looked White But His Company Told the
News

A visiting negro from Richmond was
about the union depot yesterday.
He was not an ordinary negro, Tor he
had gone into the effete civilization that
requires a wig
This was not from age, for the 'wigged"
negro was a youngish man. He had
shaved his head SO that more brayely he
Ioight wear the wig, meant to conceal an
Anglo-Saxon bald head.
Smith is the name of the negro, and
Smith is nearly white in complexion. He
Is high light in the ''True Reiormers,
benevolent society, and had dropped INTO
Raleigh from Richmond
People at the depot thought Smith was
white man, but Smith walked over to
the colored waiting room and possessed
himself of seat. As he leaned over the
shaEen head beneath the white mans wig
was seen, and the mystery of negro man
III white mans wig was seen
why does Smith wear the wig the
readeh may desire to ask. Well, smith
says because he wants to. That's all
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IN WAKE FOREST TOWNSHIP
The Sunday School Convention ct Rolesville
Tomorrow.

The program of the interdenominational
Sunday School convention for Wake For
est township, which is to be held at Roles
vile Baptist church, beginning at $3.50 to-
morrow is as follows:
Thirty minutes with the Sunday school
lesosn enrolment of delegates; address,
Sunday School Opportunities, John e.
Ray; "Organized Sunday School Work, ;"
]. M. Broughton; township organization;
election of officers: address, Foundation
Principles of Sunday School Teaching" N,
Y. Gulley; round table, Home Depart
ment;" Primary Teaching illustrated"
by 10 H. Weathers; How About Your
SCHOOL," to be answered by verbal reports
of delegates from all schools represented.
This will be an all-day meeting in the
interest of Sunday schools. All white Sun
day schools in the township are invited to
be present or send delegates. A collection
viii be taken for State and county Sunday
School work