The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-03-07
WESTERN CANADA'S
PHENOMENAL
Development
frs 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 country 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 it 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 it. IT has an
advantage that Chicago did not have,
for no country in the worlds history
has attracted to it's borders larger
number of settlers in so short time,
or has 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.
The provinces of Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan, and Alberta have the
largest area OF desirable lands on the
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has Just begun.
Even with 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.
, 1t is a simple calculation to 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 tha'
is coming into the country. In l9Ol
1t was 49,149; 1900 being from the
United States. In 1906 it was lS9,064
of which $1,000 were Americans, ant
In 1912 il was about 100000. Of whicf
about zoe, 900 are Americans. In th'
three years prior to 1912, there wer'
358.S59 persons who declared them
selves for Canada, who brought int
Canada in cash, bank drafts. STOCK
implements and effects over $3ooooo
OOO Why have they gone to Canaoa
The American farmer is man Q
shrewd business instincts, and whe
he finds that he can sell his own farm
= at from 800 to 5000 per acre and NOV
o into Canada and homestead 16O acre
- for himself. and similarly for all III
, sons who are adult and Of age, upo
y lands as rich and fertile as those q
n had left, and producing. indeed, Sc
a eral bushels 10 the acre in excess
~ ANYTHING he has ever known, 1t WI
take more than an ordinary e1ort
" prevent him from making the chang
" He can also purchase good lands
rs from s12 to $25 per acre.
d, And. then, too there is the Amel
ID can capital following the capital
Drawn, muscle and sinew, following
so as to keep in touch with the indu
trious farmer with which he has M
is dealings for years back. This capt.
D. and the capital Of farming experien
st ia no small matter in the building
ID of a country
e VIII Western Canada's developme
a continue? Why not? The total ar
Ii of land reported as available Tor G.
ty tivation is estimated as 218,OO0,O
or acres: only fifteen per cent or THIS
i'll under cultivation Nothing is SAID
er the great mineral and forest veal
m of which but little has yet be
be touched Advertiser ment