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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-14
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Improved.
Continued.
FOR sALE--HoUsE AND LOT, NO. s4os HAR.
heim his1 1fo15 aath owes s Nord
FOR sALE--s1x.RooM COTTAGE, GAS, BATH
and sewer, etc., east front, good location.
Address 2247, journal.
PORTLAND AY NEAR 26th. EIGHT.ROoM
modern, $500. Hanford Rental Agency, $40
and two lots and barn; owner going east.
:, Unlmproved.
LAKE OF THE ISLES
Lots are % especially those
! est proposition. to be had In the locality
Seven lots, all laying good, close to car
schools, right in kenwood, for 200. Think
Of it. Lots at $Aso each Two Of them Of
on Oliver. All east fronts and among nice
homes. Don't wait until these are sold ant
then say you want them. Buy now; never 81
cheap again
! Crocker Il Crowell,
| 31b Bank Of Commerce Building.
FOR QUICK sAIE-WE OFFER THE BEAU
| tiful large corner on Kenwood parkway ant
Penn av, surrounded by beautiful homes, GOV
rs feet wte aeep to ey ip Price ess1
| The best offer before Aug. 1S buys the fol
| lowing separately or together lot H. block i
Miller Miller,s subdivision - Irving ay NJ near M 21th
sSxl26 to alley; at 1Ht big block as. g. Riyersid ad
| 10, can be used for trackage.
! $3NCrCo!fax av S. near '3Sth, east front
421ax12e, nice trees; bargain. Yale Realt!
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wANTED-To RENT SEVEN OR EIGHT-RooM
house: must be west Of Lyndale av 81 state
price and locations Address, 140e, Journal.
WANTED TO RENT-=HQUsE, 25 TO Sc
Address A. A. -Beltz.r r:3os1 Corn. Exchange.
WANTED-FoUR nr rUNFURNfsHEDW ROoMS
all modern, 3guod o,deatton, NOT over SIS. seeAd
dress 2170, .Journal!q a'cs,!a,+ar 81 r0T s7AH
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FOR RENT-ENT1RE SECOND FLOOR, s1-5s
4th st S; will make long time lease; space
Is 2, 700 square feet. Call Charles "A. Tuller.
Journal office
THREE WINDOWS FOR RENT ON CORNER
of 10th and Nicollet, second floor, So win
dow. G. Lyons Benson. 931 Nicollet av: = I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-10
BRITISH NORTHWEST
Canada Coming to Be Uncle
Sans Competitor.
TALK WITH WILLIAM WHITE
Opening of the Great Wheat Belt and
Its Future.
THE SIBERIAN GRAIN FIELDS
Educational Movement to Show Farm
ers How to Make the Most
Of Their Lands.
TALK WITH WILLIAM WHITE
HE SIBERIAN GRAIN FIELDS
Copyright, 1905, by Frank g. Carpenter,

Copyright, 1905, by Frank @. Carpenter.)
NEW YORK, 1906.
I recently had Xix with one of the big
gest men of the British Northwest. This
Is Mr.. William Whyte. the second vice
president Of the Canadian Pacific railway,
and manager of ats many enterprises, be-
tween Lake Superior and the Pacific ocean
The Canadian Pacific is developing COM
pany as well as a transportation company
1t not only has the longest continuous line
of roads under one management on this
continent but 1t owns millions Of acres of
lands great tracts Of timber and valuable
mines. which it operates itself. 1t has I'M
der way by far the largest irrigation prof.
ect in North America and, in addition, has
steamship lines on the Pacific which con-
meet 1t with Japan, China, Alaska and
Australia and the South seas. and steam
ships on the Atlantic which connect It with
England. The company operates its own
now building here in Winnipeg one of the
biggest hotels in Canada at a cost Of some
thing like million dollars and 1t has great
summer hotels in the RockiD and at the
larger cities along its line. It has the
chief telegraph company Of Canada, and
1t operates its own express service
The Canadian Pacific was the first rail-
road to open up this northwest and its
position to a certain extent Is a paternai
one. 1t gives special rates Of transp6rta-
ton for fine stock in order to help the
farmer. and not long ago when the lum-
Der lords were overcharging the settlers
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probably have to call upon u.s. Among
other competitors Russia and Siberia will
probably lead, but Russia is still very poor
iy farmed. Argentina will always be a
competitor and India and Australia like
WISE
New Railroads for Canada.
"Can Canada handle her big wheat crops
when they Gomez
Il think so,'' replied the railroad vice
president. The march Of railroad build
ing Is rapid in this part Of the world. The
wheat belt is being opened up by trunk
lines and branch roads will be constructed
to meet the demands Of the farmer We
expect to build a great deal of new track
this year, and we shall double our tracks
wherever needed. We have been sending
800 grain cars day from Winnipeg to
Lake Superior, and by this time next year
we shall have a double track between
those two points. There are other rail-
roads being constructed in addition to ours.
The Canadian Northern Is building line
through the wheat belt above US, and the
Grand Trunk Pacific will have its route
through the same region. Our explorers
have surveyed that country to ascertain
where the most fertile of the wheat lands
are. and we shall have our own tracks. with
branch lines. Railroad building in the
wheat belt will go steadily on. keeping as
far as possible in advance of the settle
ments. Such construction is not matter
OF experiment. We know that we shall
arc built. Indeed. they begin to buy be-
fore the tracks are laid. and We are finding
that our branch roads pay from the very
start The farmers know that they will
get the roads and they are going ahead and
taking out their homesteads on faith
The Government and the Railways
IT see. Mr.. Whyte. that both the Domin-
ion and the provincial governments of
Canada are going into railroad building.
Ontario Is pushing a line northward to-
ward Hudson's Bay. and the Grand Trunk
Pacific. from Winnipeg to the Atlantic, Is
to be built by the federal government. Will
It pay the governments to own and operate
their own railways?
IT think not" was the reply. Railroad
ing is a profession, and it>takes trained
men to manage the business successfully.
Politicians cannot make good railroad
operators. They are dependent upon the
people for their election and continuance
In Office. and they must take their con-
stituents into consideration in making rail-
road appointments. Bad men may, there
fore, through political influence retain rail-
road positions. and good men may lose
their jobs. Indeed, do not see how a
railroad can be successfully handled by our
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giants, in order to regenerate the human
species. The candidates were to be medi-
cally examined and the healthiest couple
chosen. The ma tural heirs of the count be-
gan litigation. which resulted in an agree
ment that the city should spend 1000
francs in founding institute for the pro-
pagation of giants. Should keep 100000
francs in reserve for expenses, and should
give the balance of the fortune to the legit-
innate heirs. 1t was arranged to maintain
a score or more of giant couples. to eStab-
fish workshops for Them and to so arrange
that scientists might observe and study the
resulting progeny.
Present Experiment in Russia.
NJ. Raschatnikow. wealthy landowner
of Perm. northern Russia has for several
decades been carrying on a series of inter-
esting experiments aimed at the propaga-
ton of fairer race of men. From among
his many laborers he selects a number hav-
ing the most perfect beauty and physiques.
He selects them in pairs for marriage,
choosing only those promising the most
perfect offspring. He has gradually formed
a colony of the selected specimens, and has
undertaken a veritabe stockfarm for the
Improvement of the human species He has
already united in marriage forty selected
couples, and these have produced up to
date 100 children described as having really
extraordinary beauty.
One recent marriage is the first from the
ideally propagated generation, and from
this will now commence the third genera
ton of superInen. 1 recently saw an ac-
count of the wedding in a German scientific
review. which stated that the bridegroom is
peasant-"an actual Antinous in youthful
beauty.
The BRIDE" the account went on to
state lis a charming maiden of eighteen.
The pair was driven to church in the land
owners own carriage, and received from
him a dover consisting of handsome
house and rich farm. The landowner also
paid for the wedding feast, and himself
proposed toast for a third generation of
his proteges.''
The American Breeders Associations
committee on eugenics. now to pry into all
of these fascinating problems, might con-
slider these further words of our friend
Bernard Shaw, extracted from his Man
and SUperman:'
THAT may mean that we must esta blish
a state department of evolution, with seat
in the cabinet for it's chief and revenue
to defray the cost of direct state expert
men:s and provide inducements to private
persons to achieve success I'll results. 1t
may mean a private society or chartered
company for the improvement of human
live stock"
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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carios and tea rather than of the heavier
rs Canad. sending much wheat to
mot as yet We are having some ship
ments from the province OF Alberta, which
lies just east Of the Rockies. That province
is beginning to raise winter wheat. 1t pro-
duced something like two million bushels
this year. and its possibilities are very
great. The wheat Is the turkey-red variety
which comes from seed imported from Kan
sas. II Is superior to the Kansas wheat and
win make more pounds of bread to the bar
rel. With the growth of this product we shall
probably have a large shipment to Japan,
not only on account Of the quality, but be-
cause of the low freight rate which we
can make from there to the Pacific and to
the orient
The Siberian Wheat Fields.
do you expect much competition from
Siberia in your wheat raisng?" I asked
YES" replied the vice president. ISL
IBERIA. outside of Canada. is about the only
country which promises tn form a new ele-
ment in the wheat markets of the world.
For a few years before the war Siberia
was producing about 30.0O0.OOO bushels of
wheat. That was its average during the
years between 1898 and 1902. In 1903 the
crop amounted to 60oO0.OO0 bushels and it
viii probably exceed that. now that the war
is closed. There is a vast tract of land
adapted to wheat raising between the Us
surf and Amoor rivers extending from the
Pacific westward. That region Is being
settled by Russians. They come across
from Europe on the Trans-Siberian railroad
or by sea from Odessa on emigrant steam
efs subsidized by the government. That
region can produce millions of bushels of
wheat 1t will probably furnish a large part
OF the supply of Japan and China There
are also wheat lands in Manchuria and
farther west in Siberia. Indeed. il is hard
to estimate just what northern Asia will
do in the wheat markets of the future
Uncle Sam and Canada as Wheat
Farmers.
The conversation here turned to Canada
as our chief competitor in the foreign mar
kets. Mr.. Whyte said:
Your people do not appreciate our posi-
bilities. Your wheat lands are well defined
You had something like 5000. 900 acres I'M
der crop last year. and your average was
about thirteen bushels per acre. Canada
has 250, 600 acres upon which wheat can
be grown. 1t has five times as much
wheat land as is now cultivated in the
1000 acres on the account Of swamp, mos
key and other bad lands. we have three
times as much good wheat land. left as
you have. AS to our acreage crop. II is
twenty bushels and upward per acre, in
stead Of thirteen. When our land is all
under cultivation we shall be able to supply
the greater part Of the European demand
and aid in feeding you"
"Who are to be your chief competitors In
the wheat market Of the future?'
The United States will compete for a
time. said Mr.. Whyte. but your popula-
ton Is growing so rapidly that 1t will
eventually consume all you raise and will
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for building materials this company
brought them to time by threatening to
to open coal mines when the coal dealers
charged exorbitant rates. and 1t now pro-
poses to send out education cars to teach
the farmers grain raisingp
The head of all these movements Is Mr..
William Whyte, and he has been at their
head for years. He has gone over the most
of this great northwest on horseback and
In wagons, examining the soil and studying
the resources with a view to increasing
the traffic of his railroad system. 1t is he
who has been largely instrumental in push
ing out branch lines into the wheat belt.
and as the head of the land grants which
originally comprised as much land as the
whole state of Ohio, he has laid out many
of the towns and aided in populating the
country.
AS I talked with Mr. Whyte we looked
over some maps OF the New Canada and
discussed it's relations to the lands across
the Pacific. Mr.. Whyte has been several
times to Japan and China, and he has
Travelled over Manchuria and Siberia ex-
amining into these countries as possible
traffic producers My first question was as
to the effect of the Japanese-Russian war
upon the trade Of the Orient.
The Future Of Japan.
Said Mr.. Whyte: II think that the war
will greatly benefit the japanese. Those
people will exploit Manchuria and Korea,
and they will then turn their attention to
China The Japanese already have many
investments in China. They do a large part
of the carrying trade for the celestial en-
pire. and they have lines of steamboats, on the
Japanese rivers. They are good organizers,
and they realize that their future Is to be
Industrial and commercial. They are TAX
ing the best elements of our civilization and
making them their own. We are already
trading largely with Japan. and expect
to see a steady increase in that trade. The
Japanese are largely rice eaters. but we
are now sending them wheat. and they will
In time be wheat eaters and meat eaters.
It is this feature Of their development
which interests us, for We expect to sup
ply large part of those products"
How about the tourist travel 20 Japan?
Is IL increasingly?
Eyes. we are having heavy passenger
traffic between Vancouver and Yokohama
We have a shorter route than any of the
steamers from the United States as we
are higher up on the globe than you are.
We are making q speciality Of our passen-
ger service. and we expect to put on faster
steamers and better steamers even than
those we now have. We shall carry some
freight, but ours will be more of an ex-
press than a HEAVYWEIGHT business. Our
freight at present consists largely OF silks.
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1871 rising from the sea near ST. Michael.
accompanied by smoke and ashes.
The Azores were once on the verge Of
becoming a power in the world. Discovered,
or rather rediscovered. toward the middle
Of the fifteenth century. by Wander Berg,
Flemish merchant. stranded by accident
on one of the islands Lisbon fitted out an
expedition and took possession of them.
Under the rule of Pombal. wise Portu-
guese minister. the Azoreans ''were taught
that they might become people. and Por-
tugal that she might cease to be q despot."
But that happy time did not last long. The
islanders were forbidden to trade, except
with Portugal. and the western isles grad
uaily sank into sullen sloth under the rule
Of ''bigoted. ecclesiastics." There came a
time. however. when the Asorean wine and
oranges and the magnificent wood were
allowed to pass freely TO England and
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along their sides are nurseries for weeds
and trash. Some of our farmers are not
careful in their seed selection: they Will
sell their best wheat and save the poor
est to sow for the next crop. Indeed.
have known men who have shipped their
good wheat and kept that which mas been
frosted for seed"
Teaching the Farmers.
I'VE have much to learn about farming"
continued Mr.. Whyte land we are making
new discoveries every day. The latest is
that to which 1 have already referred as to
the winter wheat for the dry lands. We had
no idea that we could produce grain in tho
semi-arid bet. One of the settlers tried
II and succeeded. Then the Canadian Pa
cific railway brought two car loads of
turkey red seed to Alberta and gave them
to the farmers at cost. This was planted
and it was largely from that seed that we
got the 2,O00O00 bushel crop last year. We
are doing all we can to improve the farm
ing conditions; for the greater the crops the
greater traffic. We have now what I
equipped with different kinds Of seed wheat.
We expect to send them from station to
station and have lecturers who will explain
the different seeds and show the farmers
how to make the most out of their lands.
understand a similar educational movement
has been going on in the United States
Mixed Farming in Canada.
Tell me something about the Canadian
west, Mr.. Whyte. Is 1t dependent entirely
upon wheat for its SUGGEST
by no MEANS" replied the railroad vice
president. IA large part Of Alberta and
Saskatchewan is adapted to mixed farming.
There is a great dairy country right near
Edmonton which is now producing butter
for British Columbia and the western mar
kets. That region is adapted to mixed
farming. and a great many of your Penn
sylvania and Ohio people are settled there.
They have big barns. just as In the United
States. The land there produces the finest
cats. know farmers who grow from so to
100 bushels per acre and the oats will
weight forty pounds to the bushel. 1t grows
timothy tall as a man and also barley
and other grains. 1t is not so cold near the
Rockies as farther east, and In many re-
spects 1t is more desirable for settlement
than the wheat belt proper.
british Columbia promises to develop
somewhat like your states Of Washington
and Oregon 1t has many small valleys
which can be irrigated and which will pro-
duce the finest of apples. pears. peaches
and prunes. That country is just opening
up and we expect II to have a great In
crease in popula ton in the near future"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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government with our present political ma
chlnery. II will not pay"

government with our present political ma
chinery- II will not pay"
Lines to Hudson's Bay.
What do you think OF the plan OF maxi
ing the future wheat route to Europe via
Hudson's bayy
That matter Is yet to be settled. We do
not know how far the bay or the straits
which lead into II can be navigatei. Hud-
sons bay Is said to be free from zee but
II Is uncertain how long the straits can
be kept open. III clear channel can he
maintained there for a good part OF tho
year much OF the wheat may go u Eu-
rope that way. The haul from the Sas-
katchewan valley to Hudson's bay would
De much shorter than to Lake Superior:
and Hudsons bay is much nearer Liver
pool III the straits are to be opca for
only short time the grain would nave
to be stored until the year following its
harvest. and that means elevator charges
and heavy insurance Indeed, there are
many questions entering into the prob
lem. We ought to know exactly what We
can expect as to the navigation OF Tho
straits before building roads or project
ing them"
Americans in Canada.
rs the Canadian Pacific railroad bring
ing in many Americans?" asked.
Yes. We are getting your people from
all parts of the United States. They are
wheat belt. They are the most Jcsir;lb
immigrants that come to Canada rhey
understand our conditions and make more
Roadway than any other class. Many OF
them are well to do and they are bring
ing stock and money with them. they
buy lands and go right to work. often
putting in a crop the first year"
What size farms do they purchase! ?" I
asked.
The most of them begin with sections
or half sections. A farmer ought to have
about 800 acres to operate successfully.
He should let his land rest at least one
year out OF three. and this gives him
about 200 acres to put in wheat o. oIher
crops. So far We have but little boa lhza
farming In the northwest. Several Amer
lean companies have bought large tracts,
a few having purchased millions of acres.
Such land companies buy to colonlze and
sell again. The most of them have dis
POSED of their lands.
Tn addition to the land purchasers"
continued Mr.. Whyte. I'VE have the home
steaders. The government is still giving
100 acres of land to actual settlers Many
farmers take up homesteads and ouy the
quarter sections adjoining"
Poor Canadian Farming.
What kind of farmers have you mere In
Canada?"
I'VE have all kinds-some wise and
some otherwise At present much 81 the
land is poorly cultivated. Right here
about Winnipeg are farms which 10 not
yield more than twelve bushels Of wheat
to the acre. They are so filled with weeds
that the wheat grown Is almost worth
less. Our country roads are twice as wide
as they should be. and the waste lands
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The King Angry.
From the London Truth.

From the London Truth.
His majesty Ia said to have been greatly
annoyed by the numerous and fragrant
blunders In the heraidy which is displayed
on the roof of the new chapel of the
knights Of the Order of St. Michael and
ST George in st. Paurs Cathedral. There
are mistakes of the most glaring character
in the representation of the arms OF the
king, the Prince of Wales and the late
Duke of Cambridge. 1t would be interest
ing to learn who Is responsible for the
miserable muddling which has taken place.
for II Is understood that the officials of
the Heralds College were not consulted in
the affair.