Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-27

about Battleford, while l.. l.. Kline
felter the agent of the dominion gov
ernment at Mason City, Iowa, has set
tied 10 sections In the Bates district,
near Carman, and Is about TO send out
another train load Of settlers and their
effects from Iowa
The movement is now so great that
the transportation companies engaged
IN the traffic from the northern states
are able to handle only a part of the
business Offering. Every day the west
ern ports of entry report an increasing
number OF farmers from the north and
middle west passing through, and,
since the immigration figures show
that one ear Of stock or goods Is
brought into the country by every three
persons making entry, the congestion
Of freight may easily be imagined.
NEBRASKA REPRESENTED.
The number Of immigrants from Ne
brngka alone during the last year Is
said to be In excess OF 5000. Most Of
these have gone to Alberta. Iowa sent
quite as many, while Kansas, Missouri
and South Dakota have each sent large
quotas OF their most successful farm
ers. The South Dakota contingent
Travelled for the most part overland,
while those who came by rail were In
sufficient numbers 10 cause a famine
IN the rolling stock OF the railways run
Ming TO the north, and the roads from
Minneapolis TO Winnipeg and Moose
Jaw have had their hands full TO take
care OF the travel TO those cities.
A variety Of reasons Is given for the
large immigration from the western
states into Canada, A great deal Of
Jery effective missionary work has
undou' tedly been done for Canada by
her Immigration agents in the United
States durns 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 diyerting atten"
ton TO the Canadian northwest, par
ticularly on the part of western Ameri-
can farmers, who have sons DESTROYS OF
acquiring farms and homesteads Of
their own.
MAY DISRUPT CANADA.
II farmers and men Of small capital
from Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois. Kansas
and Missouri continue to flock into
Canada as they are now doing the
time cannot be very far distant when
western Canada viii have a larger pop
ulaiion than the east and many people
think that when that time comes II
Nill be a difficult matter TO hold the Do
mlnion together Even now II is very
nearly divided into two separate coun-
tries both physically and commercially
speaking, but narrow neck OF in
hablted country for some hundreds Of
miles connecting the great east and the
great west Of the Dominion.
In fact the greater part Of the Do
mlnion may be described as narrow
fringe Of territory hanging on to the
northern boundary Of the United States.
The Canadians themselves say that IN
the event Of trouble with the United
states nothing would he easier than for
an enemy to sever all their existing
means Of communication between east
and west and a big struggle Is now
going on at OTTAWA 10 endeavor 10 COM
pei the Grand Trunk Pacific. which
Is seeking the right TO build new
iranscontinental railway. to construct
Il farther away from the International
boundary.
Indications are plentiful, however,
that the Canadians need not trouble
about American Invasion by !
force Of arms. Tho Dominion Is becom-
ing rapidly Americanlzed by peaceful |
means, The great industrial enterprises
Of the Dominion are already very large |
~ under American control. Sir William !