Evening star., 1905-11-11
large part of my writing during the
New Things in Canada,


I want to tell you something about the
new things going on here. The country is
being opened up by railroads and there
are all sorts of new lines of transportation
proposed both by water and by rail. Can
ada has now more than $4,000 miles of
railroad track In proportion to it's popu-
lation 1t has done much more than the
United States in building canals, and it
has some of the greatest of navigable rivers
of the world I shall go along the line
of the rail and water routes from the At
lantic TO Manitoba, and shall mention the
schemes proposed for fast ships from Eng
land through Hudson strait and Hudson
bay.
Canada's new mines and the great man
ufacturing developments now going on will
form the subjects of other letters. Canada
has the greatest nickel mines of the world
Enormous copper mines have recently been
discovered; it is now turning out SIS 000, 600
worth of gold every year. and It's mineral
products sell for S3S 100000 per annum.
The manufactures are also growing. Cap
ital is combining, and it Is question
whether the trust octopus viii not
eventually hold the country in its myriad
arms.
In the Granary Of the Northwest.
Among my letters will be some from the
granary of the northwest. ! shall go
through the new Ontario, which is rapidly
on to the great wheat fields which are now
opening up to settlement. In a talk that 1
had with the Canadian worlds fair commits
sioner at St. Louis he told me that there
were 173OO0,00O acres in that region which
had been surveyed, but not yet taken up,
and that large part of 1t would prob
ably be settled by Americans. Three-fourths
of that land is wheat land. The wheat belt
is tract 400 miles wide and 1000 miles
long; SO large that Canada claims she will
eventually be able to supply the mother
country with food She is doing this more
now that ever before. and is competing
seriously with us In our best markets. Ag-
ricultural Canada extends between the At
lanic and the Pacific for a distance of
about $500 miles. We already know that
the farming belt is several hundred miles
wide. but the recent experiments show that
crops can be raised farther and farther
north. and no one yet knows where the
possible farming regions of Canada may
end.
Americans in Canada.
The Americans who are rapidly coming to
Canada are creating new political condi-
tions here. At present the great west Is
tail of this new empire, but the tail
grows and grows. and with It's vast wheat
region yet to be opened up it may in time
be heavy enough either to wag the dog or
10 Dreak off and have an independent ex-
lstence of Its own. i shall tell how Cana
n
teryiewing the people of the new colonies
In different parts of the Canadian west .
There are hundreds of Americans who
have settled in Canada and become promi-
nent here. The great trunk lines of rail-
road are managed by them They have
opened up the biggest iron mines and they
have all sorts of investments in the way OF
factories, lands, pulp mills and forests
w hat Americans doing and what they
can do should be interesting reading The
same Is true of our trade with Canada. We
are spending vast sums sending commits
sioners to all parts of the world to look up
trade openings while we pay but little at
tentfon to the big possibilities near home
Canada is one of our best customers. We
sell her twice as much goods we buy
from her. She has commerce worth half
billion dollars every year, and it grows
like a green bay tree. 1t is more valuable
to Uncle Sam than his trade with Japan.
China or any other country outside Europe
but he takes little pains to cultivate it.
What that trade is and how it may be bet
tered is worth the consideration OF our gov
ernment and business men,
Montreal in 1905.
1 came to Montreal from Boston 1t is
only a night on the sleeping car but that
night brings you into John Bulrs dominions
and into the New York of his Canadian
possessions Montreal is like New York
and not like IT. The chief resemblance is
in location Both cities stand upon dia-
mond-shaped islands, and both are sur
rounded by great rivers. The st. Lawrence
and the Ottawa here flow together. embrac-
ing the town. Montreal Island is thirty
miles long and the city rises from the
shores up the slope of Mount Royal.
woods-covered hill from which Montreal
has its name
One can ride to the top of this hill on an
inclined railroad and have one of the finest
Views of the North American continent.
Standing upon the lookout, the Ottawa and
the St. Lawrence wind for miles below you,
the latter filed with great steamers and
other craft. Looking to thet tsoutheast and
southwest, you can see the green mountains
of the Adirondacks kissing the sky and
marking the existence of Gods chosen coun-
try, while right under you is Montreal with
its wide streets, Its many trees, its mighty
churches, its myriad factories, its enormous
grain elevators and new docks and wsiarves.
The city covers. Judge, between ten ana
fifteen square miles, and 1t has numerous
suburbs which are now coming in.
Montreal Is substantial city with plain,
business-iike English bIocssx II has M eiv