Arizona republican., 1907-06-23

adding to the geography of Canada and this year will pat startling num- Der of lines criss-crossing it in almost every direction.
 And still another sort of story lies in what the great, rich, wonderful country that is being opened up is go- ing to mean to thousands and thou sands of men and women discouraged with the unequal conditions in the old CT countries, coming with their faith in their hands to the opportunities of a new land. That is the story that has the heart interest in it. I like to think of the homes that are waiting to be materialized. and of the beef and bread and milk and honey that are latent in the great stretches of the prairies. Surely when they are made ready there will be something less of hunger in the world. That is good work-the adding to the food supply of the nations, quite aside from the per sonal element of a livelihood and q home.
 Though this new road is going through many a mile of mysterious wilderness, it is not an ice-bound wilderness but a rich and rare domain If it had not been for the Hudson's Bay company. they say, who chose to Keep its charms a secret, We should long ago have found and lost this. our last wilderness. And if it were not for the new Grand Trunk Pacific, it would probably be many and many a decade yet that there were vast, unexplored, unsettled tracts too vague. too mys- n of nd if,oa er;, a.l dangers for any homesteader to seek out and claim. The other trans-conti- mental roads keep near the edge Of things. This one will take it's direct, almost unbending way straight through virgin territory.
 One is apt to think first of the ag- ricultural wealth perhaps because the marvel of the wheat belt has so re- gently burst upon us. The country was known for its cattle and horses long before it's wheat possibilities were discovered. The uninitiated probably have very inadequate idea of the ex- tent of the stock raising. Then there Is the timber, a quarter of a billion acres of timbered land, and the mines; gold. copper. silver, lead. and nickel, and the fruits of British Columbia, and the fish of the lakes and the seas. And-greater than ever, the old. old old trade. the one that kept western Canada so long unpeopled-the fur trade. The Hudson's Bay company sells more raw furs now than ever be- fore-though it shares with other com panies now the rights formerly held alone.
 he ern division found almost immediately that just north of the Height of Land there are several hundred miles Of level land. wooded with spruce, birch and cedar; having numerous lakes in its extent; and fertility that promised much in the way of crops This discovery made known, there were those who stood not upon the or der of their going. but went at once, and now some three thousand settlers are already there. And the first crops proved that the. land had kept it's promise.
 It is such a little time since those who thought of western Canada at all thought of it with a shiver, but the temperature of Winnipeg, which is the central point Of this new transcon- tinental line and of the other trans continental lines as well, is on an av- craze like the temperature of Chicago.
 As the Grand Trunk Pacific goes farther west, it bends to the north. where the future of Canada lies, but the climate instead of growing colder. becomes less cold. Away north of Ed monton they raise melons and cucum- bers. and speak with compassion of the half-frozen denizens of Minnesota At Price Rupert, the western terminus, the average of heat and cold is about like that of Detroit The dry air. the sunshine. the shelter of the mountains protects the region through which the Grand Trunk goes. and the settler finds conditions almost ideal for suc- cessful farming.
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