The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-05-06
DOLLAR WHEAT HAS
COME TO STAY
IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS o.,
TRIAL CANADA WILL BE CAIIrn
UPON TO SUPPLY THE
UNITED STATES,

umns that dollar wheat" had come ).
stay, and that the time was NOT ~
distant when the central provinces
Canada-Manitoba, Saskatchewan ana
Alberta-would be called upon to CIV
ply a large part of the wheat coa
sumption in the United States tbos.
were many who laughed at the pradio
tions and ridiculed the idea of wboa.
reaching the dollar point and stavirn
there. Both of these predictions baye
come to pass. Dollar wheat is here
and it is not only here, but is here -
stay; and at the same time, whatevor
unpleasant sensations it may aropso
in the representative American Go,
tral Canada is already being calIad
upon to help keep up the bread SIM.
ply. and within the next five wears
will, as James J. Hill says. literallv
become the breadbasket Of our in.
creasing millions"
There are few men in the United
States better acquainted with thu
wheat situation than Mr. Hill and
there are few men, if any, who are in.
clined to be more conservative in
their expressed views. Yet it was this
greatest of the worlds railroad men
who said few days ago that the
price of wheat will never be substan.
TALLY lower than ii is today"-and
when it is taken into consideration
that at that time wheat had scared tn
Q dol
statement is peculiarly significant
and doubly significant is the fact that
in this country the population is in.
creased at the ratio of 60 per cent.
while the yield of wheat and other
products Is increasing at the rate OF
only % per cent. For several years
past the cost of living has been stead.
lily increasing in the United States.
and this wide difference in production
and consumption is the reason.
This difference must be supplied by
the vast and fertile grain regions Of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
There is now absolutely no doubt of
this. Even the press of the country
comedies the fact. Results have shown
that no other country in the world can
ever hope to equal those provinces as
wheat producers, and that no other
country can produce as hard or as
good wheat. Said great grain man
recently. If United States wheat main.
tains the dollar mark. Canada wheat
will be we'll above a dollar a bushel,
for in every way it is superior TO our
homegrown grain"
With these facts steadily impinging
their truth upon our rapidly growing
population, it is interesting to note
just what possibilities as wheat
grower" our Northern neighbor pos.
sesses. While the United States will
never surrender her prestige in any
| manufacturing or commercial line, she
must very soon acknowledge. and with
as much grace as she can, that she Is
| bound to be beaten as grain pro.
| Queer. 1t must be conceded that a
great deal OF the actual truth about
the richness of Canada's grain produc.
ing area has been kept out of sight,
| as Mr. Hill says. by the strenuous eft.
forts Of our newspapers and maya
zines to stem the exodus OF our best
American farmers into those regions.
1t is fact that up to the present
time. although Canada has already
| achieved the front rank in the worlds
grain producers. the fertile rairles
of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Al
berta have as yet scarcely been
scratched. Millions of acres, free for
the taking still await our American
farmers; and when these millions are
gone there are other millions in re-
gions not yet opened up to immigra'
ton A few years ago the writer. who
has been through those wheat prov
inees several times. laughed with ON.
ers OF our people at the broad
statement that Canada was bound 10
! become John Bulls Bread Basket
Now, after a last trip (and though ne
Is a stanch American he frankly De-
/ ieves that not only will Canada De-
come John Bulls bread-basket, but II
Will within the next decade at least
/ BECOME THE BREAD-BASkEI Of
THE UNITED STATES. Perhaps THIS
may be a hard truth for Aemricans 10
swallow, but it is a truth, neverthe'
less. And 1t is at least partial com
pensation to know that hundreds Oh
! thousands of our farmers are proht
ing by the fact by becoming producers
in this new country.
The papers of this country have nat
urally made the most Of the brlef pc
riod of depression which swept over
Canada, but now there is not sign Oh
it left from Winnipeg to the coast
Never have the three great wheat rais
ing provinces been more prosperous
Capital is coming into the country
from all quarters, taking the form d
cash for investment, industrial con
Germs seeking locations, and, best O
all, substantial and sturdy Immigrants
come to help populate the praiiies
| Towns ara hnap,ipu. cpnrag OF new