Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-03-07
WESTERN CANADA'S
PHENOMENAL
Development
IT'S PERMANENcY VERY I,rr, !.
QUESTIONED.

mere have been booms in aluo..
every civilized country and tbav No.
looked upon as such, and in the course
Of time the bubble was prickad ans
tney Durst. But in no country has the
oeVelopment been as great nor &c
rapid whether in city or in conntrv
as In Western Canada. Tbero 49,
soinetimes be found one who will saw
IAN II Iast!" Winnipeg, today, stands
"nere Chicago stands as far as he.
ing the base Of the great commercial,
and agricultural country living a
thousand miles back of it. tt has an
advantage that Chicago did not have
1or no country in the worlds history
mas attracted to it's Borders a larger
NUMBER of settlers in so short a time
or mas attracted SO much wealth IN a
period OF equal length, as have the
canadian prairies. Never before has
pioneering been accomplished under
conditions SO favorable as those that
exist in Western Canada today.
me provinces of Manitoba, Sas-
KatcneWan, and Alberta have the
largest area of desirable lands on the
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has just begun.
Even with a two hundred million
Dushel wheat crop less than eight per
cent. of the land is under the plough.
TOUR per cent. being in wheat Less
tnan i've years ago the wheat crop
was only seventy-one million bushels.
1t is simple calculation &c estimate
that II four per cent. of the available
cultivable area produces something
over two hundred million bushels,
what will foyCy-four per cent. produce?
And then look at the immigration that
is coming into the country. In 1901
1t was 49,149; $4,000 being from the
United States. In 1906 it was 1S9 ,064,
of which $1,000 were Americans, and
In 1912 it was about 100000, of which
about 100000 are Americans. In the
three years prior to 1912, there were
35S,859 persons who declared them
selves for Canada, who brought into
Canada in cash, bank drafts, stock,
implements and effects over $3.50, 000,-
900. Why have they gone to Canada
The American farmer is a man of
shrewd business instincts, and when
he finds that he can sell his own farm
at from 500 to 5000 per acre and move
into Canada and homestead 100 acres
for himself, and similarly for all his
sons who are adult and of age, upon
lands as rich and fertile as the he
had left, and producing, indeed, sew
eral bushels to the acre in excess Of
anything he has ever known, it will
take more than an ordinary effort to
prevent him from making the change.
He can also purchase good lands at
from $12 to $25 per acre.
And, then, too, there Is the Ameri-
can capital following the capital OF
Drawn, muscle and sinew, following, 1t
SO as to keep in touch with the indus
trious farmer with which he has had
dealings for years back. This capital
and the capital of farming experience
is no small matter in the building up
of a country.
Will Western Canada's development
continue? Why not? The total area
of land reported as available for cul-
fivation is estimated as 218,00O,000
acres: only fifteen per cent. of this Is
under cultivation. Nothing is said OF
the great mineral and forest wealth,
of which but little has yet been
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