The Carlisle independent., 1909-05-13
DOLLAR WHEAT HAS COME TO STAY
IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS GEN. TRAIL CANADA WILL BE CALLED UPON TO SUPPLY THE
 UNITED STATES.

nouncement was made in these col umns that dollar wheat had come to stay, and that the time was not far distant when the central provinces of Canada-Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta-would be called upon to SUD- ply large part of the wheat con- sumption in the United States, there were many who laughed at the predic- tions and ridiculed the idea of wheat reaching the dollar point and staying there. Both of these predictions have come to pass. Dollar wheat is here and it is not only here, but is here to stay; an5 at the same time, whatever unpleasant sensations it may arouse in the representative American, Gen. tral Canada is already being called upon to help keep up the bread SUD- ply, and within the next five years will, as James J. Hill says, literally become the breadbasket of our in creasing millions"
 There are few men in the United States better acquainted with the wheat situation than Mir 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- tially lower than it is today"-and when it is taken into consideration that at that time wheat had scared to S1.20, well above the dollar mark, the statement is peculiarly significant, and doubly significant is the fact that in this country the population is in- creased at the ratio of 65 per cent, while the yield of wheat and other products is increasing at the rate of only 25 per cent. For several years past the cost of living has been stead fly 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 a great grain man recently, If United States wheat main- tains the dollar mark, Canada wheat will be well 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 a 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 a grain pro- ducer. It must be conceded that great deal of the actual truth about the richness of Canadas grain produc- ing area has been kept out of sight as MT. Hill says, by the strenuous ef- forts of our newspapers and maga- zines to stem the exodus of our best American farmers into those regions It is a fact that up to the present time, although Canada has already achieved the front rank in the worlds grain producers, the fertile prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewa. 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 inces several times, laughed with oth CTS of our people at the broad statement that Canada was bound to become John Bulls Bread Basket" Now, after last trip (and though he is stanch American) he frankly be- lieves that not only will Canada be. come John Bulls bread-basket, but it will within the next decade at least BECOME THE BREAD-BASKET OF THE UNITED STATES Perhaps this may be hard truth for Aemricans to swallow, but it is truth, neverthe- less. And it is at least partial com. pensation to know that hundreds of thousands of our farmers are profit 1 ing by the fact by becoming producers in this new country.
 The papers of this country have nat l urally made the most of the brief pc riod of depression which swept over Canada, but now there is not a sign of | itNeft from Winnipeg to the coast | Nsr>have the three great wheat rais- | ing provinces been more prosperous. | Capital is coming into the country from all quarters, taking the form of | cash for investment, industrial con- 1 cerns seeking locations, and, best of | all, substantial and sturdy immigrants | come to help populate the prairies | Towns are booming; scores of new elevators are springing up; railroads | are sending out their branch lines in | all directions; thousands of prosper i ous farmers are leaving their prairie | shelters for new and modern homes built by wheat" everywhere is a 1 orxyir, h.r1 r1r,iy oy,d