The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-09-23
.CROOkSTON MAN ADVISES
PEOPLE TO STAY IN MINI.
Says Poor Crops and Backward Season
Will Make Hard Times in Canadian
Northwest.

Crookston Times: Alderman Ed
ward Leahy has returned from a.
months stay in Canada, spending
most of the time in Winnipeg and
Brandon, where he investigated
business and crop conditions. The
result of his observations would indi-
cate a trend toward better things
for Minnesota in the next few years
in the line of immigration. In an
interview upon his arrival here Alder
man Leahy last evening said:
About Brandon they have fine
crops some of the wheat fields yield
ing 80 bushels per acre. Business
conditions there are very good in
every way and land values will hold
up we'll.
In Winnipeg business is still
fairly good, but the wholesalers are
beginning to complain about slack
ening orders from the Canadian
northwest. There is decided
stringencv in financial circles, how
ever, and it is getting to be difficult
to secure loans except upon gilt edge
securities and at stiff rate of inter-
est. 1t would appear that a bust
ness expansion had oyerstepped it.
self and that the penalty is being
paid.
1t is from Calgary and the Cana
dian northwest generally, however,
that disastrous reports are coming.
The grain is still green, though
heavy frosts are ripening some of
the fields very rapidly. That the
frost has done an immense amount
of damage is certainty and hard
times are staring the people in the
face. Many came there with moth
ing and have been struggling along
the same as they did here in the early
days. A crop of failure in, the
valley was an unheard of thing in
those days, however, and when they
did come the people were prepared.
In the Canadian northwest, how
ever, a frozen wheat crop means
ruin to many, and hardships of a
pronounced character, and asa re.
suit there will be very sudden stop
to immigration this fall and next
year.
The railroads realize this and
there will be corresponding abridge.
ment of railroad construction plans.
In fact, work is now being stopped
on new lines quite generally and
there will be a general suspension
before the ground freezes, 1t is
useless for the roads to build new
lines to develop new country when
they know that they cannot induce
immigrants to 90 there in the face oil
a ruinous crop failure. While the
crop would not have been so bao
had it ripened before frost, many
fields now will not be worth harvest
ing. Credit will be shut off from
merchants in that section, and they
inturn will shut down on the set
tiers.
Canada has been overdone. Win
nipeg is great city, but she has
been going at too fast a pace. The
reaction has started in and stagna.
ton and resultant decline in real
estate values is inevitable. Winni
peg must pass the same experience
Superior did several years ago.
AS a result the immigrants who
have been rushing madly through
Minnesota for the past few years
will stop here. The result will be
seen next year., when I feel certain
that thousands upon thousands will
begin tilling the vacant lands of the
Red River Valley and the north.
eastern portion of the state tributary
to Duluth. There is an era of pros
perity, the greatest ever experienced,
dawning on northern Minnesota.
This is going to make a wonderful
increase in the volume of the Min
neapolis, St. Paul and Duluth who lie
sale business. 1t is coming as sure
as the sun rises in the east"
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