The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-03-07
WESTERN CANACA'S
Phenomenal
Development
TTs PERMANENcY VERY LITTLE
QUESTIONED.

There have been booms in almost
every civilized country and they were
looked upon as such, and in the course
OF time the bubble was pricked and
they burst. But in no countr. has the
development been as great nor as
rapid. whether in city or in country,
as in Western Canada. There may
sometimes be found one who will say
Can II last?" Winnipeg today, stands
where Chicago stands as far as be-
ing the base of the great commercial
and agricultural country lying a
thousand miles back OF IL. II has an
advantage that Chicago did not have,
for no country in the worlds history
has attracted 10 it's borders a larger
number OF settlers in so short a time,
or has attracted so much wealth in
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.
The provinces OF Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan. and Alberta have the
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has Just begun.
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop less than eight per
cent. of the land is under the plough,
four per cent being In wheat Less
than five years ago the wheat crop
was only seventy-one million bushels.
II is a simple calculation 10 estimate
that if four per cent. OF the available
cultivable area produces something
over two hundred million bushels,
what will forty-four per cent. produce?
And then look at the immigration that
is coming into the country. In 1901
II was 49,149; 1900 being from the
United States. In 1906 it was 1S9 ,064,
Of which $1,000 were Americans, and
IN 1912 il WIS about 100000, of which
about 100000 are Americans. In the
three years prior TO 1912, there were
25S,S59 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 l60 acres
for himself, and similarly for all his
sons who are adult and of age, upon
lands as rich and fertile as those he
had left, and producing. indeed, sew
eral bushels 70 the acre in excess OF
anything he has ever known, il will
take more than an ordinary effort TO
prevent him from making the change.
He c~n also purchase good lands at
from s12 to s25 per acre.
And, then, too, there is the Ameri.
can capital following the capital OF
Drawn, muscle and sinew. following II
go 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 country
VIII Western Canada's development
continue? Why not? The total area
of land reported as available for cul-
.ivation is estimated as 21S,000000 |
acres: only fifteen per cent. of this is
lnder cultivation. Nothing is said OF |
The great mineral and forest wealth. |
of which but little has yet been
ouched.-Advertisement.