The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-08
FIFTY BIG -
FREIGHT iIG CARS
Are Carrying Harvesting
Machinery From Chicago
To Winnipeg
To Help Save the Great
Canadian Harvest Now
Whitening, For the
Reaper.

Chicago. Sept. s,--Guarded and
watched over az carefully as q train
load of fat steers going to market,
a special train of iifty Dig freight cars
Of harvesting machinery is speeding
from Chicago to Winnipeg to help
gather in the enormous grain crops
Of Manitoba. Saskatchewan tand
Alberta, estimated at 2OOOOO,OO0 bush
els of wheat and 2OO,OOO,OOO bushels
of oats. barley and flax. yi..l ti
In the central sections of these pro-
vlnces cutting has progressed rapidly
and time is Of such importances that
the trainload Of threshng machines
has tcen given the right Of way over
other freight, straight from the fac
tory of NJ Rumley e. Co. at La Porte
Indiana, through Chicago and Gem
ada. Special men have been assigned
10 accompany the train the entire dis
tance. II came from La Porte over
the Lake Shore to Chicago. IL has left
for Duluth over the Canadian North
ern through Fort Frances to Winni-
peg, From Winnipeg, the machines
viii, be distributed ass rapidly as pos
sibfe. Between tvfhty and thirty
district cutting Of an unusually big
whest.'erup. hos sibeen,snearlv complete
ed with not enough threshing outfits
to handle IT,
The following estimate of the grain
crops of these provinces shows the
magnitude OF the harvesting and
marketing problem. that western can
ada is facing. The figures are admit
tedly conservatiyesf
Wheat -. .......-.. 200 000. 900 bushels
oats ...... ....... 110,000,000 bushels
Barley .... ....... 10000. 900 bushels
Flax ......... u.... 100000 bushels
HI
Totals ... 49,. 400. 900 900 bushels
This will mean big demand up
on the railroads as we'll as upon the
resources of the farmers to harvest
the crop, II will require 100000 cars
TO transport the grain out of the
country 'fnf r! ii' r'n y
That these total estimates are MT
too large is indicated by the first rd9
ports received from Edmonton In Az
berta after cutting was started,
Wheat standing six feet high ana
showing II prospective yield or forty
BUSHELS per acre was waiting FOR tho
reaper in the Glover Bar District east
Of Edmonton. Prospective, oats ,yields
~ that, ! district, average nearly taq
bushels. ,i....,, .is..,.'a II
This big crop is due TO two causes,
a good growing season with d. ample
moisture and rains 'at the right time,
aud the great influx of new settlers
which has increased the acreage undr
er cultivation by at least a million
acres over last year. .,sta.,t., q
j, Bruce Walker. the Commissioner
Of Immigration, at Winnipeg, recently
estimated the total immigration into
western Canada for this year at 400 900
which, is &, an increase. Of $1,000 over
the last fiscal year. Many of these
100000 immigrants settled on the
land and Immediately began to culti-
vate 1t. The gain in cultivated land
- Central Alberta alone amounted TO
more than 100000 acres.
The bankers of Western Canada arc
hguring that this years wheat crop
alone will bring into the country
from $20O,OOOOOO to s235,OOO 900. and the
other grains will add another hundred
million dollars to that figure.
This will mean that the western
Canadian farmers Will have 100000. 900
with which to settle their accounts
with blanks. farm equipment dealers,
and renilers. Practically all of this
money viii be put in immediate cir-
culatlon, h