Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-08-12

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. II is avery progressive and thor
oughly metropolitan city with fine
business blocks, including sky-scrapers
OF ten or twelve stories. It has nine
teen banks, half dozen railway lines
radlating to all points of the compass,
and is the great wholesale center for
Western Canada, as well as the chief
grain market, as all shipments go
through here. The city has had a
wonderful growth during the past five
or six years, with still greater pros
poets IN the immediate future.
IN CONCLUSION.
EVERYWHERE we went in Canada we
were given most cordial reception.
AT places where banquets were served
American and British flags were in
tertwined, and the kindest expressions
We're 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
talns, each contain two hundred mill
hon 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 mill
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 q 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.
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 a
steadily increasing amount of grain
raised in Western Canada. This in
IN, Will
ing.
Cattle and hog raising is already an
established business in this same ter
ritory. Corn is not grown, but hogs
are fattened Oh barley, wheat and
other grains. Cattle fatten on the
abundant ranges without stall feeding,
and dairying can be carried on sue.
cessfully.
Western Canada has future be-.
fore it which may exceed the dreams
of the most sanguine enthusiast. It
would be difficult to make a predic-
ticn Of future progress that may not
be exceeded many fold in the next ten
years.
The editorial party was congenial
one, good feeling and good fellowship
prevailing during the entire trip. Not
single member was forced to aban-
don the trip by sickness or any other
reason. There was no accident save
that once the tender jumped the track,
hurting no one, but delaying the train
about three hours. The excursion has
passed into history as one of the most
pleasant and instructive trips among
all that have been taken by the Min
nesota editors