The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-08-19

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especially farm machinery and sup
| plies. We took dinner here and
looked over the town, then turned
southwark again, stopping for a few
| minutes at the six-months-old town OF
| Guernsey, with 100 inhabitants, most
| ly Americans. They haven't even a
| depot yet, but met US at the track
with fruit and hearty greetings, and
showed samples of fine crops grow
| ing about the town Supper was
taken at Lanigan, another new town
further down the line, with 500 peo-
| pie. The town was decorated in honor
| of the visitors with flags and bunting.
The train left Lanigan about pm.
! and next morning we were at Virden,
located $50 miles west OF Winnipeg.
It Is nice little city of 5000 peo-
pie surrounded by a rich and old set
| tied agricultural region We were
driven about the town to see the
sights This little city is in the pro-
vince of Manitoba. Our next stop was
at the metropolitan city of
BRANDON, MANITOBA,
well built town OF $4,000 people,
surrounded by a fine and thrifty
farming country, well settled and dis
playing fine crops. There is no va
cant land around Brandon, but the
city seeks manufacturing establish
ments and wholesale stores, as it is
natural distributing point for a large
territory. 1t has now three railroads
and another one coming 1t is the
largest city in Manitoba, outside Of
Winnipeg. 1t Is the former home of
Will J White, the popular representa-
| tive of the Canadian government, who
accompanied the party on this trip.
A nice luncheon was served to the
visiting editors at the fair grounds
adjoining the city, which are well i'm
proved with large buildings. Very
successful fairs are held every year.
Just across the Assiniboine river.
which winds through a picturesque
valley at the foot of the city, is the
large experimental farm and Indian
Industrial school. which was visited
through the courtesy of the city in
providing carriages. This farm has
been in operation some eighteen years
and is spot of beauty, presenting
| splendid demonstrations of the won
derful agricultural possibilities Of
this rich section Of country.
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE.
This is the last town visited by the
party before reaching Winnipeg, and
has 5000 population. Il has a well
settled country around 1t. Carriage
drives to its popular resort, Island
Park, also to the fair grounds, were
taken. followed by course dinner
at the opera house. Portage is a fine
little city, well improved. and one Of
7 the agricultural gems Of the dominion
WINNIPEG, THE METROPOLIS.
| From Portage to Winnipeg is about
| go miles. where we arrived about mid
! night, and breakfasted at the Royal
/ Alexandra. The city had arranged
/ for auto and street car tours over the
/ city, and this diversion, varied with
/ shopping at the stores by the ladies,
and banquet at the hotel at noon,
| served to make the day pass very
/ pleasantly.
Winnipeg is the largest town and
! the great gateway of the Canadian
/ Northwest, having about 100000 peo-
! pie. It is very progressive and thor
/ oughly metropolitan city with fine
! business blocks including sky-scrapers
| of ten or twelve stories 1t has nine
/ teen banks, half dozen railway lines
radiating to all points of the compass,
/ and is the great wholesale center for
/ Western Canada, as well as the chief
i grain market, as all shipments go
| through here The city has had a
wonderful growth during the past five
4 or six years, with still greater pros
| poets In the immediate future.
In rNMcItIeIoN
Everywhere we went in Canada we
I were given a most cordial reception
\ At places where banquets were served
1 American and British flags were in
/ tertwined. and the kindest expressions
1 were voiced, showing the good feel
ing toward the Americans as people.
A word In regard to the extent OF
/ this Canadian country would not be
out of place The three provinces of
/ Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta,
] extending west to the Rocky Noun
tains. each contain two hundred mil
! lion acres, or six hundred millions IN
! all So far as we could see the most
| of this land Is tillable, though but five
! million acres are at this date actually
| in crop with grain, and this small
area is expected to produce this year
a hundred and twenty-five million
bushels Figuring the tillable area
in the three provinces at half the to
tai, and we have three hundred mil
lion acres Of possible wheat fields
! The government statistics show that
the average wheat crops In the past
In Western Canada have yielded q
/ bushels per acre Three hundred mil
lion acres and 81 bushels per acre
would make total that is staggering
/ One years crop would food the mar
kets OF the world and feed all the
! people on the earth for several years.
Such a stupendous result will never
| work out In fact, but it shows the
possibilities of this vast region for
/ the production of grain.
i During the entire trip we saw very
little poor grain. No doubt the crops
| there are shortened by the lack OF
rain and by frosts at times and in
\ places, but the fact remains that one
year with another, there will be q
steadily increasing amount Of grain
raised IN Western Canada This In