The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-02-01
PREPARING FOR
The WORK OF 1918
CITY BUILDING, RAILWAY BUILD
ING AND FARM OPERATIONS
IN WESTERN CANADA
BIGGEST EVER.

The machinery, the money and the
men for carrying on the big works in
Western Canada in 1913 are already
provided for. The splendid harvest
which was successfully garnered, and
by this time mostly marketed, re-
sponded to the big hopes that were
mad for it early in the season, and in
spired capitalists and railroads to
further investment and building
From lake ports to mountain base.
there will be carried on the biggest
operations in city building and rail-
way construction that has ever taken
place in that country. The Canadian
Pacific railway has everything in
waiting to continue their great work
of double tracking the system and by
the time the Panama Canal is open to
traffic there will be a double line Of
steel from Lake Superior to the Pa
cif1c coast. The cost will exceed
thirty million dollars. The Grand
Trunk Pacific plan of building a first
class trunk line and then feeders at
various points will be carried forward
with all the force that great company
can put into the work. The Canadian
Northern is prepared to put into mo-
ton all the energy that young giant
of finance and railroad building can
put into various enterprises of provid-
ing and creating transportation facili-
ties.
Building operations in the several
cities, that have already marked
themselves place in the list of sue
cessful and growing cities, will be
carried on more largely than ever.
Schools, public buildings, parliament
buildings, colleges, business blocks,
apartments, private residences, banks,
street and other municipal improve
ments have their appropriation ready,
and the record of 1913 will be some
thing wonderful. Other places which
are towns today will make the rapid
strides that are expected and will be-
come cities. There will be other Ed
montons, Ca1garys, Reginas and Sas-
katoons, other places that may in
their activity help to convince the
outer world Of the solidity and perma-
nency of the Canadian West. The
country is large and wide and broad
and the ends of its great width and
length are but the limits of it's agri-
cultural area. It's people are progress
sive, they are strong, there is no
excavation there. The country teens
with this life, this ambition, this
fOndness to create and to use the
forces that await the settler. If they
come from the South, and hundreds
Of thousands of them have, they are
now the dominant men of the North,
and they have imbibed of the spirit
of the North. Therefore it is fair to
say that no portion of the continent
will show such wonderful results as
/ Western Canada, and the year 1913
will be but the beginning of a Won
/ derful and great future. And in this
/ future the 100000 Americans who
made it their home, and those who
| preceded them, will be a considerable
/ portion of the machinery that will be
used in bringing about the results
] predicted.
! The development Of 1913 will not
! be confined to the prairie provinces.
/ Railway building and city building in
/ British Columbia will be supplement-
/ ed by the farm, the ranch and the
/ orchard building of that province
] Vancouver will make great strides in
/ building, and Victoria, the staid old
lady Of so many years, has already
| shown signs of modern ways, and if
the progress made in 1912 may be ac-
cepted as anything like what it will
be in 1913, there will be wonderful
developments there. During last
year the permits went oyer the ten
million dollar mark and much more is
promised for the year now entered
Acknowledgement