Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-06

years ago we hau about oO,DVV people.
Now we have 100000, and we are JUS:
on the edge Of our beginning The city
will grow more next year than ever
before. and within 10 years. and prob
ably sooner, we shall equal Minneapolis
and 81. Paul combined"
wINNIPEG's TRADE.
Look at those wholesale buildings"
he continues. Did you ever see any
thing like IT. Most Of them started
as two and shrea-s:ory structures. and
the huslnear has grown so that they
have had TO be pushed up to six. This
Is one og the great markets OF western
North America, and the biggest market
north OF your western boundary. II
you had pair OF long-distance glasses,
which would enable you TO look from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific you could
see that there IL nothing In the west
that can approach Winnipeg and your
eve would travel eastward as far as
Toronto before any city OF this class
could be seen. II you could look UP
and down the great west with an x
ray ats chmoni Witch would elfble
you to pierce through the snoH down
into the soil, you would know that you
are ut the eastern end of the Greatest
there are i50.000.000 acres or land which
will grow bread with little more than
scratching the ground. We have cul-
tlvatcd as yet but few garden patches
here and there over II, and our crop
last year was about l0D,000.000 bushels,
when It is all under cultivation 1t viii
yield nigh On 10 q billion. We shall
then feed John Bun Yea, We shall
even mn Uncle Sans stomach aud the
crop viii AL 20 through Winnipeg
Don't you think It is getting little
cold?' at this point | timidly said.
well. perhaps no." was the reply,
but when ! begin talking about VIM
nlneg : grow 20 warm that ] could
stand stark naked on the north pole
ana not feel uncomfortable"
Thercupon we turned again to look
at the city.
ON THE RED RIVER.
Winnipeg lies on a plain at the east =
ern edge OF the wheat belt. The coun-
try about Il Is dead flat. The Ned river
OF the north " lnds Its way through tho
city. and here flows IN and joins the
Assinlhonc. The houses OF the city
are spread out like those OF IT. Peters
burg. and. like Washington. II has
magnificent distances. The main
streets are 132 feet wide, and they
stretch on and on out into the coun-
try. Every residence has a yard about
It, and nearly all have gardens and
trees. Even the dwellings of the la
borers stand alone. They have win
dows on all sides, and In most cases
the windows are double, to Withstand
the cold. The business blocks, as In
all new cities. are ragged. The sky
line goes up ana down like the teeth
OF a battered saw, now and then a
building rising high over the others,
The sky-scrapers are just beginning to
come. The Union bank. from which |
make this description, Is the first, but
there will be others next year, and In
time the place will look much like
an American metropolis.
BUILT UP BY AMERICANS.
A large part OF the new city has. I
am told, been built by Americans. The
town was stagnant until Yankee cap
ital and Yankees turned their faces this
way. II then began to boom. Men
from Minnesota and other parts of the
west came here to deal In grain and
the cheap lands. They opened business
establishments of various kinds. and
today some Of the best of the city