Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-22
THE CENSUS
OF CANADA
lTs GROWTH IN TEN YEARS
PAST.

will be made during 1911. It will
show that during the past dscade q
= remarkable development has taken
place, and, when compared with the
population, a greater percentage of in.
grease in industries of all kinds than
4as eve been shown by any country.
Commerce, mining, agriculture and
railways have made n steady march
onward. The population will be con.
fiderably over S%,000,000 Thousands
'of miles Of railway lines have been
! construction since the last census was
taken ten years ago. This construc.
ton was made necessary by the open.
81 Ing up of the new agricultural dis.
tricts in Western Canada, in which
there have been pouring year alter
year an increasing number of settlers,
until the present year will witness
settlement of over 500, 900, or a trifle
less than one-third of the immigration
to the United States during the same
period with its 81, 900 600 of ropula.
ton. Even with these hundreds of
thousands Of newcomers, the great
majority of whom go upon the land,
there Is still available room for hun.
Fdreds Of thousands additional. The
census figures will therefore show a
great-a vast-increase in the mum.
Der of farms under occupation, as well
as In the output of the farms. When
the figures of the splendid immigra.
ton are added to the natural increase,
the total will surprise even the most
optimistic. To the excellent growth
that the western portion of Canada
will show may largely be attributed
the commercial and industrial growth
of the eastern portion of Canada. All
Canada is being upbuilded. and in this
transformation there. is taking part
the people from many countries, but
only from those countries that pro-
duce the strong and vigorous. AS
some evidence of the growth Of the
: western portion of Canada, in agricul-
tural industry. it is instructive to
point out that over 100000 home
steads of 100 acres each have been
transferred to actual settlers in tho
. past two years. This means $4,000
square miles of territory, and then,
when is added the 10000 160.acre pre-
emptiOn blocks, there is an additional
10000 square miles, or a total OF 3d.
600 square miles-a territory as large
as the State of Indiana, and settled
within two years. Reduced to the
producing capacity imperative on tho
cultivation restriction of IS acres of
cultivation on each 1G0acre home
ct,ol ,y;tb;, th,,, ,.,cr, tl,,a ,yill
be within a year and a half from now
upwards of 100000 additional acres
from this one source added to the en-
tire producing area OF the Provinces
of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and AL
berta.
In 1901, at the time OF the last
census of Canada, successful agricul-
ture in the Provinces of Monitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta was an
experiment to many. There were
skeptics who could not believe that
1t was possible to grow thirty, forty
and even fifty bushels of wheat to the
acre, or that as high as one hundred
and thirty bushels of oats to the acre
icould be grown. The skcptics are not
{ to be found today. The evidence of
| the hundreds of thousands of farmers
Is too overwhelming. Not only have
the lands Of western Canada proven
their worth in the matter of raising
all the smaller field grains, but for
mixed farming, and for cattle raising
there is no better country anywhere.
The climate is perfectly adapted to all
these pursuits as well as admirable
for health. The Dominion government
literature, descriptive Of the country,
is what all that are interested should
read. Send for a copy to the nearest
Canadian government representative.