Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-17

and selling them again, will do " hat they
can 10 increase that number IN the future.
This IS q matter of vital interest 10 the
United States. 1t means the loss of some
of the best OF our farming population. and
in addition the actual carrying away into
Canada Of millions OF dollars of good
American gold.
Uncle Sam Will Lose SS0,Ooo,o 900
in 1906
The most of the Americans who go to
Canada are skilled farmers. They are
men of means, and nearly all OF them
carry some money along. ! am told that
the average. SO far, has been at least
thousand dollars per head. which for the
100000 immigrants who have SO far gone
there would mean an actual loss of some
thing Ike S2O0.VOOVO0. IL the average Is
. kept up It means that Uncle Sam VIII
lose 100000 from such emigration this
year, and that 10 say nothing OF the en-
ergy brains and muscle OF $1,000 good
American citizens. 1t is generally esd-
mated that "a nTst-clasS man without
cent in his pocket is worth at least thou
sand dollars to the country in which he
settles, and our enigrants are certainly
worth that to Canada. They are worth
more IN the building up OF this country.
Tor they know Just how to handle H. Ihey
are valued at something like million
dollars a year by the railroads as traffic
producers James j. Hill estimates that
every new family which settles along the
Great Northern Is worth at least hun
bred dollars "A year in additional freight.
Now 90 900 Americans at even I'VE 10 the
family means 10000 families and, at Mr.
HIS estimate this equals an annual IN
crease OF at least S,Voov00 to the re-
ceipts Of the Canadian railroads.
Do you wonder that the Canadians are
anxious TO get us?
The Movement Started by Yankees.
nrip q
In the combined forces Of the Dominion
government and Yankee spectators and It
has been carried on by those forces from
the beginning until now. Indeed. | might
say that our real estate men were the
real discoveries OF the new Canada Inc
Canucks have long known that they have
n vast area Of good soil. but they had no
idea how II could be developed until the
strenuous American crossed the boundary
and planned out the way.
To begin with. the movement is the out
come of the filling UP Of the United States.
For years the American railways, which
are always figuring after possible traffic,
have known that they were carrying about
300 900 emigrants to our great west every
twelve months. This army has been scat
tered over our country, and IL has rapidly
filed the vacant spaces Il has eaten up
most OF the homesteads given free by
our government and has swallowed about
All the cheap lands that could be had in
large blocks. About 1900 the fact that
the most OF such lands were gone be-
came well known, and the American pio-
neer farmer who had settled in Ohio and
there made money by selling out and buy
ing cheaper lands in Illinois. and again
made more by moving from there on 70
North Dakota, found himself at the END
OF such speculation. Lands everywhere
had risen and in the far west they were
worth from SIS and upward per acre.
At the same time the big land operators,
who had been buying large tracts In Mime
sofa and the Dakotag from the Northern
Pacific and other railroads and selling them
out TO the farmers. found that there was
no more land 70 buy; and that they would
have to have new territory or Quilt the
business The farmers began TO wonder
what kind OF lands there were In Canada,
and our real estate men TO search far and
wide for new worlds TO conquer
A Million Acres Sold by Americans.
Among these real estate agents were two
who had made quick fortunes by buying
our railroad lands and selling them Their
names were Robertson and Lynch. Rob-
ertson had started life a country school
teacher at $50 a month and Lynch had
begun as land surveyor at a few dollars
per tract The two discussed the situation
and Robertson was sent TO Canada to spy
out the land. He came here In the winter
and took trips from Winnipeg out over
the different railroads Visiting the small