Arizona republican., 1904-09-23

Minnesota and the great Winnipeg district, including the wheat growing regions of AssinebOia> and Saskatcha- wan, and that the crop would approach a failure The country from Minneap- oHs to Winnipeg is one vast wheat neld. Now and then there would be small acreage of corn and flax. Word | had been sent ahead of the train ask | ing that samples of wheat from each locality might be brought to the sta ton, together with general descrip- tions of the crop. In all cases the re- l quests were compiled with. The same plan was pursued throughout the Win | nipea district and it was found that while there was some rust it affected only small areas. It was also found that there was less rust than in the average year. It was the opinion of the experts with the train that tae crop would be greater than that of .ust year.
 At the close of the inspection the rx- perts made up estimates of the volume of wheat in the Winnipeg district alone. The estimate was based upon what had been seen and government reports as to acreage. The average es- innate was 43,CO1, coo bushels.
 The party travelled along the Cana dian Pacific. zigzagging through the wheat country on the many branches of that road. They visited Regina and followed one of the branches to it's end at Prince Albert, the great lum- bCr center.
 Spea king of wheat, Mir. Kirkland said that when he was going through Kansas on his way east a couple of months ago the wheat in that country was being threshed. Tn Tlionis a week later the farmers were getting ready to thresh. Tn Wisconsin and Minneso- ia they had cut their wheat and were engaged in stacking it and in the Win nipeg country in the last week of Au- gust the harvest had just set n.
 There Is just now a great Influx from the states into Manitoba. Thousands of acres are being sold daily to peo- pie from the states. Uncultivated land along the road say 200 or 300 miles from Winnipeg, brings s10 an acre. One Englishman told Mir. Kirkland that he wished some people would come there from "the other side" adding that there was a hustle about Americans that did not belong 10 any other peo- pie.
 Winnipeg is a beautiful and well
 built town of 75,00O, having grown from a settlement of 700 half. breeds in a lit tie more than a quarter of a century
 It is a moral town, too moral for the
 Americans, who are increasing in num-
 ber and hope in the course of few years to obtain control Of the munici-
 pality, when things will be made lit
 tie wider open. There are no saloons ! there If one wants to engage in IT,
 quor selling he must first go into th. hotel business. If his hotel contains , i sufficient number of rooms he will D'
 allowed, after a proper compliance with the forms. to put in a bar. Moth ing is bought or sold on Sunday il .. Winnipeg. One cannot get his shoe shined and the street cars stand stil all day.
 Mir. Kirkland was asked if he hal felt of the political pulse in the cOurs
 of his extensive journey. He replie,
 that he did so on every occasion am he had reached the conclusion tha !. either the whole country had suddenl turned republican or else there wer few democrats travelling. The few h met did not seem inclined to talk pol 70 itIcs.