The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-09

dian Pacific and other land grant COM
panies disposed Of 4,229,O11 acres Of
land for S14,651,757. During the
same year, the government parted
with 5.15S.560 acres.
1t is announced that T. Eaton Of
Toronto, Canada's greatest department
store manager, has secured options on
lots having a frontage of 266 feet on
Portage avenue, Winnipeg, and a
depth Of $40 feet. It is said to be Mr..
Eaton's intention to erect large de-
partment store on this property.
Inexhaustible Soil.
1t is the popular impression among
farmers in Manitoba that the fertility
of their wheat lands is practically In
eXhaustible. This impression Is now
Endorsed by scientific opinion. Pro-
fessor William Kittell Shertzer, geo
logical specialist Of the Smithsonian
Institute, who was in Winnipeg last
week, said that the wheat lands of
Manitoba are the most fertile and the
most durable and lasting that nature
can create.
Speculation as to where the Grand
Trunk Pacific will have it's Pacific
ocean terminus continues. The latest
guess is that instead Of Port Simpson
it will be Katimaat at the head of the
Douglas channel
In round numbers, the new assess
ment of Winnipeg makes the city
worth $67,OO0,000. Land is placed at
$25,000,0O0, buildings at S16,000,O00,
and personal property at s7o,ooo,ooo:
which American capital is largely in
terested, is just completing one ter
mina1 elevator at Fort William, and
will probably be compelled by the
great expansion in wheat production
to erect another one next year.
mt /, to1, Tho 10
dian territories are settling UP is illus
trated by the fact that it is consid-
cred great hardship because in
southeastern Assiniboia the distance
between two railway lines is sixty
five miles. Settlers have taken up all
the public land in this region, and are
now asking the government to assist
the Canadian Northern to build its
Harvey branch through to Regina.
The curious International dispute
, between the company that Is 1mprov-
. ing the water power on Rainy river a.
, International Falls and the company
: that seeks to develop the water power
5 Of the st. Louis river at Duluth con
, tinues. The International company
f composed Of Americans, asserts tina
= the Duluth company seeks to diver
3 water in northern Minnesota that be
longs to the natural watershed O
8 Rainy river. The portion Of the Rain.
= river watershed affected is ABOUT IL
t per cent Of the whole. Is The 1nterna
Y .tional company has appealed to tn,
: Canadian government and the British
government, and the matter has beef
c taken up by the British ambassado
t at Washington.
The customs collections at Winni
: peg for the fiscal year ending June 8
); amounted to $2,600,000, as compare
q with $1,9s3,000 for the preceding
. year.
5 Winnipeg bank clearings for tn
: first six months Of this year wer
$124,S55,147, as compared with SLOT,
3O9,74O for the corresponding per1o
r. Of the previous year.
The unparalleled prosperity of tn
Canadian West causes many ambition
:. schemes to hatch in the fertile mind
~ of the promoters. The Great Lake
and Northwest Transportation Com
pany, for example, has asked parlia
1nent to authorize it to construct an
operate railway from Lake Superio
= to the Saskatchewan river. Such
10 grant of power would practically Civ
- the company monopoly over all e1
- listing routes Of water transportatio
20 along it's route. Needless to say tn
~, ~, company will never receive the al
N thority it asks.