Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-03-13
PREPARING FOR
THE WORK OF 1878
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
had for 1t 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 double line OF
steel from Lake Superior to the Pa
cific coast. The cost will exceed
thirty million dollars. The Grand
Trunk Pacific plan of building 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 a 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 1918 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, Calgarys, 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 ant
length are but the limits Of its agri
cultural area. It's people are progress
sive, they are strong. there is NJ
excavation there. The country teemi
; with this life, this ambition, THU
fondness to create and to use thu
forces that await the settler II the!
come from the South, and hundred
of thousands Of them have, they ar
now the dominant men of the North
and they have imbibed Of the spiri
of the North. Therefore 1t Is fair t,
: say that no portion Of the continen
will show such wonderful results a
, Western Canada, and the year 191
= will be but the beginning Of a wor
7 derful and great future. And In TIL
future the 100000 Americans VIII
made it their home, and those VIII
preceded them, will be considerabl
). portion of the machinery that will b
t used in bringing about the result
y predicted.
The development Of 1918 will nc
be confined to the prairie provinces
+ Railway building and city building 1
British Columbia will be supplement
ed by the farm, the ranch and tn
v orchard building of that province
Vancouver will make great strides
= building, and Victoria, the staid oil
lady of so many years, has alread
y shown signs of modern ways, and
t the progress made in 1912 may be a
+ cepted as anything like what 1t wi
be in 1918, there will be wonderf'
developments there. During la
year the permits went over the te
million dollar mark and much more
o promised for the year now entere