The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-07


WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, December IL.
Stand with me on the top OF the Union
Bank building, Winnlpeg's new sky
scrnper. and take n look ut the city. You
had best pull your fur cap down over
your ears and button your coon-skin coat
tightly about you; for the wind is blow
Ing a gale. The air Is nipping. but the
that we seem to be breathing champagne.
tina TIVE seem to be breathing champagne.
Have you ever felt SO much alive be-
fore?
We are in the wild and furry north
west in It's biggest town. and. on the
top of Its highest building. Were 1t not
go cold the Winnipegger, who stands be-
side us as guide. would ask US IL 1t were
not like heaven. We are sure OF one
thing. the atmosphere by no means sayors
OF the other place down below.
The New Winnipeg.
Take a look over the city! 1t stretches
out on all sides for miles. The new
ahingle roofs shine brightly under the
winter sun. and we can almost smell
the paint Of the suburban additions VIM
nipeg is n grower. Even now. in the win
ter. the sound of the hammer is heard
all day long. and buildings are stu going
up by the hundreds The town prides
Itself on Its newness, and indeed much
of 1t is just built. Over there ut the
north are miles OF new houses. At the
south buildings are growing UP on the
plains and right below us, in the heart
OF the city. the business blocks have
risen from the ground aince last sum
mer. Winnipeg has erected eleven mil
lion dollars worth OF buildings this year.
1t built about nine million dollars worth
the year before, and five million dollars
worth In 1903.
All through the past i've years It has
been Jumping. and It ls now leapIng
ahead Ike an Australian kangaroo. In
1900 the new buildings numbered 6oS. and
IN 1901 there were erected more than
2.cco.
A Business Street -Four Years Old
Turn about and look up Portage Ave-
nue.. That street was practically unbuilt
four years ago. It has now millions OF
dollars worth of new business blocks.
some of which would be credit to
any OF our cities of twice this size
Look At that department store. II is
the largest lii the west. II IL as big as
Wannmnker's establishment In New
York. and II now has six stories. II was
built only last year. but the demands of
the trade are such that three sto-les more
: Will be added next spring.
Turn about and look down Main Street,
There at the end is the new Canadian
Pacific depot hotel and railway Offices
last approaching completion. Those build
lngs alone Will cost as much as two
Siillions, and further up the street are
20 be the great terminals of the Grand
trunk and the Canadian Northern, which
Nil cost three millions more.
Yes. sir.' says the Winripegger at my
Side, THAT shows you how we are grow
Ing. About five years ago we began to
build for all time and eternity. Before
tlIat VIC had not realized that Winnipeg
was bound to be- the greatest city of
the north and our houses were put up for
the time. Most OF them were without
cellars and they had fllmsy foundations.
Since then we have raised them and
made excavations, and we are now build
ing as substantially as any town on tho
continent, Five years ago we had about
1000 people. Now we have 10000, and
we are just on the edge of our beginning.
The city will grow more next year than
ever before, and within ten years. and
probably sooner VIC shall equal Mime
apolis and St. Paul combined
Winnipeg's Trade.
Look at those Wholesale buildings" he
continues. did you ever see anything
like 1t? Most OF them started as two and
three-story structures. and the business
has grown so that they have had to be
pushed up to six. This is one OF the
lea, and the biggest market north OF your
western boundary. II you had n pair Of
long distance glasses. which would cnabie
you TO look from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, your could see that there Is nothing
In the West that can approach Winnipeg,
and your eye would travel eastward as far
as Toronto before any city of this class
could be seen. II you could look up and
down the grt u Wa5t with an X-ray at
fan h ifh IN
pierce through the snow down into the
soil. you would know that you are at the
eastern end of the greatest wheat coun-
thy on earth. Away out there are $780,
100000 acres of land which will grow
bread with little more than scratching the
ground. We have cultivated as yet but
n few garden patches here and there over
1t, and our crop last year was about
100000 600 bushels. When 1t is all under
cultivation 1t will yield nigh on to a bill
lion. We shall then feed John Bull Yes.