The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-02-24
BOOSTERS WORK
IN COLD CANADA
The Magic Enthusiasm That is
Building Up The North
west
How Cities Are Built and Farms
Are Developed

sparsely settled country where it
was mighty cold in winter and the
future held little promise. He had
a hard fight and his pessimism came
naturally.
Today every Canadian in the great
territory that stretches from Lake
Superior to the Pacific and Arctic
Oceans is the widest kind of an
optimist. He thinks his country is
coming into ITS own. Likewise he
%conceiyes it to be his duty to make
everybody else think so, and every
man of the two or three millions
maybe more, maybe less-who lives
in Manitoba. or Saskatchewan, or
Alberta, or British Columbia, or
farther north, is a booster who can
give points to our own American
promoters of population and pros
|perity in the West.
1t makes no difference where he
lives. He may be in a little village
fifty miles from a railroad. If he is
he has the grandest climate, the
crops, the greatest mineral resour-
ceS, the finest advantages. and,
presently somebody will stroll along
and leave a railroad in his place, and
then: Watch us grow! If he lives
in Winnipeg, or Vancouver, or Cal
! gary, or Edmonton. or any of the
other larger places he sings the same
song, necessarily louder, perhaps.
but with no more enthusiasm. They
think they are under way at last.
and, to hear them tell it., it won't
be long until the United States is a
mere suburb of this crormous and
fruitful empire that is just now in
It's earliest stage OF development.
In the Land Of the Booster
Ona recent "Trip across Canada,
from Montreal to Vancouver, a man
sat down by me in the observation
car. He took out a printed pros
pectus of a lighting, heating and
power plant to he built in a certain
town on the road. 1t twas to be cap.
italized for one hundred thousand
dollars and was to pay great divi-
dends as soon as the thing was built,
or the wells drilled. or something
like that. | said | wasn't taking
any, and he moved along. Present.
lv we came to the very town where
his power plant was to be located.
1t was a little, straggly place and.
from all appearances, wouldn't
burn a hundred dollars worth OF
electricity or use a hundred horse.
power in a year.
| called the mans attention tc
that. "Ah" he said, 1T Is small
now, | admit, but that place is q
potential metropolis. We are build
ing for the future Of all the places
on this railroad there is no place
with so great advantages as ours
and we are building for the future
That is the spirit and the plan
Every place is a potential metropo'
lis. If Calgary car grow to thirty
thousand from a scant five thous-
and in six or seven years; if WInni'
peg can grow from four log huts tc
a wonderful city of one hundred and
~thirty-five thousand in forty years;
if Edmonton can get its OF
more of thousands in five or six
years, why not any other place,
Wherefor, boost everything, ano
boost everything good.
Every train carries its boosters
Every man who lives in canada
takes it on himself to tell the strang
er of the advantages of the country
As a whole and in detail with partic
ular reference. Of curse to his owl
section, but with no jealousy anC
with a perfect Willingness to boos'
another section if he finds thu
stranger has his mind set on that
they are broad about it. First, tn,
Northwest is the greatest place i,
world: second. the boosters section
is the finest place in the finest plac,
in the world: but. third. if YOU wan
~@rrsccssxesisre'Sss' afcef afp0
ments for his own section are ex
hausted. the place you want To g,
TO is the second finest place in tn
finest place i'm the world.
The hotels swarm with these ell