Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
FREEPKESs: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER

large immigration from tho Western
States into Canada. great deal of
very effective missionary work has I'M
doubtedly been done for Canada bv her
immigration agents in the United states
during the last few years. But apart
from this the increased price of land
in the Western States and the low price
at which equally good or better land
can be had in the Dominion, have had
much to do with divcrting attention to
the Canadian Northwest, particularly on
the part of Western American farmers,
who have sons DESTROYS of acquiring
farms and homestcads ~ their own.
The increased value of their old proper
ties has enabled them to purchase
enough land in the Canadian Northwest,
both for their sons and for themselves,
ana sim have enough of u surplus to
give them a fair start in their new home.
They have almost all been successful
farmers in the States, and have been
tempted by the hirh price of lands at
home to dispose of their farms at from
$40 to $50 per acre and to go to the
canadian Northwest. where they take
| mp homcstcads of free government lands,
or purchase cheap railway property.
| Having Just sold their lands these set
tiers are well supplied with money.
very fow of them having less than 5000
in actual cash, while the large majority
| of them carry in the nighborhord of
t'o,W0 to their new homes. ono set
| tier who came from Gage codntN, Nch.,
and has gone to Alberta. carried a bank
account of $4,000. Altogether the sum
taken from Nebraska alone to Canada is
enormous. while the aggregate of moneys
] taken to that country from the trans
Missouri States is exceedingly large.
! Then again n number of Nebraska s.
! cattle kings. grown weary of the contin-
uil war between themselves and the
sheep mon, and bound in on all sides
by the constantly increasing wire fences
/ OF settlers. have sold their ranches in
that State and have gone to Alberta
and the ncGhboring territories, whore
they expect to build mp u larger trade
than they enjoyed IT, Nebraska In view
of the number of cm,grants to Canada,
| a number of Omaha capitalists have
purchased large tracts of farming lands
in this country, and nave placed it on
the market in Nebraska, at substan-
tial advance over the purchase price,
whore they found ready purchasers.
If farmers and men of small capital
from Iowa. Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas
| and Missouri continue to flock into ca
NADIA they are now doing the time
cannot be very far distant when Western
Canada will have a larger population
than the East and many people think
that when that time comes. it will be
n difficult matter to hold tho Dominion
together. Even now it Is very nearly
divided into two separate countries both
physically and commercially. North Of
Lake superior there is comparatively
speaking hut a narrow neck of inhabited
country for some hundreds of miles con
Meeting the great East and the great
| West of the Dominion. In fact, the
greater part Of the Dominion may be
described as narrow fringe OF ter
ritory hanging on to the northern bound
airy Of the United states. The Canadians
themselves say that in the event Of
trouble with the United states nothing
would be custer than for an enemy to
sever All their existing means Of COM
muujcati4' between the East and the
West. and a big struggle il now going
on at ottawa to cndcaVor to compel thu
Grand Trunk Pacific. which is seeking
the right to build a new transcontincntal
railway. to- construct it farther away
from the international boundary.
Indications are plentiful, however, that
the Canadians need not trouble them
selves about American invasion 10y force
of arms The Dominion is becoming rap
idly Amoricanizcd by peaceful means.
The great Industrial enterprises of the
dominion are already very largely under
American control. Sir William Van Horn
and Sir Thomas ShauShnesscY of the
Canadian Pacific railway. and Mr., Hayes,
general manager Of the Grand Trunk
railway, all came here from the United
States General AlGcr and Sir William
Van Horne control one Of the largest
pulp mills in the Dominion Mr.. Whitney
of Boston is one of the leading spirits
in the Dominion Iron and steel COM
pany of sydney. Cape Breton. Millions
of American dollars are now invested
in Canadian timber lands and pulp mills.
Only a short time ago tn" prime min
lister of the Province of Quebec received
from Philadelphia man named Roberts
an offer to purchase Wild lands in the
far north of the province. for syndi-
! cate. Which WAS ready to pay 81 % per