The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-18
WESTERN CANADA IS
BEING EXPLOITED BY
7 H T GOVERNMENT
Development Will Have In
fluential Relation to the
Growth of U S.
MANY ATTRACTED
TO NEW TERRITORY
New England Is Particularly Inter
ested-Publicity Campaigns In
the Dominion Are Found
Advantageous
BY HOLLAND.

New York, August H. Especially
Every one who has followed the va
rious steps taken by President c. s..
Mellen of the New Haven Railroad COM
pany in the direction of creating an
organic system covering entire New
England has not failed to observe that
his thoughts have frequently been CEN
tered upon Canada and not so much
the Canada which is the neighbor of
New England as the new Canada-that
region in which empire building upon
a magnificent scale is now in progress.
President Mellen on the one hand and
his associate in railway management
scale in railway management in the
far west the late President Hayes of
the Grand Trunk, on the other hand re-
garded England and imperial Canada,
especially the western part. each as sup
plementing the other in commercial re-
lations.
Probably the broad minded vista of
railway opportunities which has been
characteristic of Howard Elliott since
his management of the Northern Pacific
will not fall to impress upon him the
the value of the mutual relationship
which can be established between the
New England section of the United States
and Canada.
President Elliott must have been inn
pressed with the remarkable movement
OF American farmers into western Cana
da. They were tempted there by oppor-
tunities to secure virgin land peculiarly
adapted TO certain grades of wheat, and
fortified in their purpose to emigrate
from the United States by the certainty
that railroad transportation in Canada
was keeping pace with pioneers, and in
some sections was a little ahead
The government of Canada has been do
ing what New England as a section has
never thought of doing. For the imperial
government began some 50 years ago, a
most comprehensive and far reaching
method of exploiting the wonderful re-
sources of western Canada and the trans
portation facilities by which these re-
sources could be made available. In the
south, there are evidences that the method
adopted by the minister of the interior
of Canada will be initiated. Work of
this kind on an extensive scale has been
planned by public body of Louisiana
and it undoubtedly will lead to increase
ON large scale in AGRICULTURAL activi-
ties in that state The plan has also
baen Initiated to some extent In Florida
and with wonderful results.
Campaigns of Publicity
If publicity is the eNpedient policy for
the great industrial corpora tions of the
United States theirs is no reason why 1t
should not be expcdient policy for the
people of each-of the states as it has
ben found to be a highly advantageous
policy for Canada Publicity in its broad
est meaning is nothing but advertising.
IT may not always be paid advertising.
but the very full reports of the United
States Stel corporation and the wonder
fully clear exposition which the latest
reports of Theodore N. Vail are, from one
point of view at least, nothing but adver-
tising. The Canadian policy of publicity
brought into Canada in a few years about
100000 of immigrants and great many
million dollars. 1t has been officially
stated that these results were secured.
in part at least, by an expenditure of
about $2500,000 in publicity work.
The empire building which is now in
progress in western Canada and which re-
fcts to some extent the plans of Presi-
dent Melen for creating an organic rail-
road system in New England and the
purpose of the late President Hayes of
carrying his Grand Trunk system across
New England. with terminals at Provi-
dence and Boston, compares favorably
with any work now in progress any
where in the world involving the OPEN
Ing up of new and hitherto uninhabited
regions and cultivating the prodigious ma
tural resources which have awaited culti-
vation Inevitably the growth of western
Canada within the next % or 30 years
is to have very influential relation to
the growth of the United States. Canada
is now tho largest market for some OF
the American products. Canada is begin
establish their plants within its boun-