Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-11
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IMMIGRATION ADVhRTISING.

IMMIGRATION ADVhRTISING.
Just to know how a new country
it is only necessary to call attention
may be developed through good ad-
vertising and the bringing of its re-
sources to the attention Of the world,
to the remarkable development of
Canadian lands in the past five or
six years. A recent issue of the New
York Sun conveys some interesting
information with regard to the set
Element Of the great Canadian prai-
ries and the growth of the wheat
traffic in the following article:
1.-THE announcement that forty
three new grain elevators. will be
built in iberia this year in prepare
tion for a great Oriental trade is
especially interesting as indicating
the enterprise of Canadian wheat
growers The additional recent state
ment that new elevators will also be
built at Fort William this year is
another index of the progress of the
Canadian Northwest. The United
States is and has been for many
years the greatest wheat producing
country of the world, but its wheat
raisers, whether in the older and
now less productive wheat areas or
In the state of Minnesota and North
Dakota, are interested in any new
development bearing upon the mar
keting Of the cereal on which the
world depends for its daily bread.
The advance of Canada in wheat
raising has been remarkable. In the
future it may contend with the Unit
ed States for the distinction Of being
the granary gof the world AT any
rate it will probably be close Sec
ond. The best estimate available of
the wheat crop of Canada's prairie
provinces the last year puts the yield
1T about 100,0O0,00O bushels. This,
however, is regarded by optimistic
Canadians of the Northwest as mere
" hint of what these provinces
viii be able to 90 in the near future.
Mr.. F. S. Lawrence in recent ad-
dress before. the Canadian club of
Toronto asserted that there were
65,OO0,O00 acres of land in the Peace
and Athabasca river districts suita-
BILE for grain growing, and that fifty
six bushels of wheat to the acre had
been produced in this region, which
IS more than three times the average
Canadian. yield. Mr.. Lawrence fur
Their declared that wheat can be
grown within fifteen miles of the
Arctic circle. Six hundred millions
q bushels, according to this enthusi-
astic Canadian, "is an easy POSSIBLE
sty in the future an estimate which
il it is even approximately correct
indicates roseate possibilities for the
future of. Canada's Northwest. -
TO find market accessible all
the year for the increasing wheat
yield Of these provinces, or rather to
open up new routes to old markets,
is one of the objects of the builders
Of the forty-three new elevators in
Alberta. The wheat raisers Of the
Peace. River valley naturally look
forward to the time when with the
Port Churchill and Hudson Bay
route established they may be able
to ship the product of their harvest
direct to Liverpool cheaper than it
can be shipped from Manitoba by the
old routes Of today. Wheat growers
further west are turning toward the
Pacific for an outlet. Prince Rupert,
the terminus Of Canada's new trans
continental railway, is expected to
become . rival Of Vancouver as q
port for shipping grain. These far
western growers, like the builders Of
the Alberta elevators, look to the
Orient as the best market for their
wheat, but they are even hooking
beyond that, and already count on.
the Panama canal being opened Ia:
1915. which will give them still an.
ether route to Europe for their,
srsin.
Al the recent grain conference In,
CALGARY the proposed revival 81 the.
experiment 81 shipping Western
wheat 70 Europe BY way Of Vancou-.
.yer HongkonG and the suez canal