Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-17
AMERICAN MOVEMENT into CANADA
BY WILLIAM e. CURTIS
ence Of The Star and the Chicago Record Herald.

than in the United States Any person.
man or woman. who is the head of
family, or any unmarried person, man or
woman. over eighteen years old. may
take up quarter of q section by apply
ing at the nearest land office. Entry may
be made by proxy. Six months continued
residence. the cultivation of thirty acres
each year for three consecutive years.
and observation-disclosures worth of i'm
provements are required. A homesteader
may get eighty acres additional along
side of his entry by the payment OF So
an acre, In which case he must reside
six months in each of six consecutive
years and cultivate fifty acres.
Nearly all Of the immigrants from the
United States are men Of substance. The
immigration officials at Ottawa estimate
that the 6JO.719 arrivals from the United
States during the last fifteen years have
brought with them an average Of 81 900
in cash. cattle, machinery, household ef-
fects and other property. thus adding
x7O,OOOOO to the wealth of the country.
IN addition to their annual contribution
by the cultivation OF the ground.
1t is estimated also that citizens Of the
united states have at least $3.50 900, 900
Invested In timber. mines. speculative
lands. sawmills. packing plants. ware
houses and other buildings. manufactur-
ing and mercantile. establishments and
Times of Toronto which Is recognized as
high authority, estimates that $685.
100000 OF American money is invested in
coal mines. copper mines, timber and
lands, and manufacturing and mercantile
establishments
The Monetary Times says: I'm Regina
and Saskatoon. more especially, the in
vestment of United States firms is large
~ in the shape OF distributing warehouses
for agricultural implements. Nearly every
important United States implement firm
is represented in those cities by its
agents. The International Harvester
Company. for instance is now erecting
a seventy observation-disclosures building
while the John Deere Pillow Company has
completed arrangements for the construc-
ton of similar warehouse. Among the
implement firms located in Regina are
Wisconsin. Indi r a. Michigan, Minnesota.
They do an immense business in har-
vesting machinery. binder Irvine and
thrashinR outfits. The Saskatchewan
flour mills, located at Moose Jaw. are
| IL interesting to note that the telephone
system in the same city was purchased
by q United States company. and four
| months ago was sold to the Saskatche-
wan government.
"In British Columbia the chief invest
ment Of the United States capital has
been in mining and lum-
American boring. including timber
n.., This is natural. since
OdPAIaA. United States men in the
| middle west and the Pacific coast have
made much money In mining and lumber
ing, and since minerals and timber are
the two resources of British Columbia 1t
was stated at the recent session OF the
forestry commission In Vancouver that
| Is per cent Of the timber licenses are held
by United States interests. A timber
man told the Monetary Times that there
are say 1900 licenses. with $1,000 against
each, which makes S51 100000 Added to
this are crown grants and leases. and
half OF these are controlled by the United
States AS to lumber mills in the In
| terror, two-thirds are backed by United
States capital. and on the coast one
third. While on the coast the proportion
is that the United States controlled
ate Investment may be little larger
Conservatively, the value Of the United
States holdings in British Columbia mills
and lumber today. at present valuation'
is placed at. say, little less than $lo;-
100000. The investment in actual cash
| might be about half that sum.
I'm mining the proportion can easily be
placed at one-half United States capital
and the rest Canadian, British and for
eign The figure could be placed at $780,
100000. Nearly all the big propositions,
such as the Nickel Plate recently ae-
ouired by the Steel Corporation for mil
. lion, the Crows Nest Coal Company and
, other companies in the same districts. the
British Columbia Copper Company. the
! Dominion Copper Company, the Britain
mia, near Vancouver. the Marble Bay
: mines In Texada. James Cronfn and
Heinze in the Buckley. the Guggenheims
In Atlin, and Ruffner in the same dis
| trict are backed exclusively by United
States capital"
! During the agitation Of the reciprocity
| ARRANGEMENT between the United States
and Canada there has
Four Hundred been great deal OF
. discussion and conjec-
MIIlIUAS. ture as to the amount
OF United States capital invested in the
Dominion. Mr.. F. w. Field. subagent OF
the British board of trade, published an
estimate last May in which he placed
the total at $417, 3,221, and itemized 1t
as follows:
200 companies average capital
| Investments in British Columbia