The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-03-06
WESTERN CANADA'S
PHENOMENAL
DEVELOPMENT
IRE 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 rs great o az
rapid, whether in city or in country,
% In Western Canada. There may
sometimes be found n who will say
'Can It last?" Winnipeg, today, stands
where Chicago stands as far as be.
ing "a base of the great commercial
and agricultural country lying a
thousand miles back Of it. 1t has an
advantage that Chicago did not have,
has attracted to it's borders a larger
number OF settlers in SO short a time,
or has attracted so much wealth in q
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 rea of desirable lands on the
North American Continent, and their
cultivation has just begun.
Even withNa 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 I'VE years ago The wheat crop
vas only seventy-one million bushels.
It Is a simple calculation to estimate
that II 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
In coming into the country. In 1901
It was 49,149; 1900 being from the
United States. In 1906 it was 1s9 ,064,
Of which $1,000 were Americans, and
In 1912 1t was about 400, 900, OF which
about 200, 900 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, 000I-
600. Why have they gone to Canada?
The American farmer is a nan OF
shrewd business instincts, and when
he finds that he can sell his W farm
at from 800 to $500 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 those he
had left, and producing, indeed, sew
eral bushels to the acre in excess OF
anything he has ever known, it viii
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 It
30 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
Ii no small matter in the building up
of a country. - g.. &c
VIII Western Canada's development
continue? Why not? The total area
OF land reported as available for cul-
tiyation is estimated as 21S,000,00O
acres; only fifteen per cent. OF this il
under cultivation. Nothing is said of
the great mineral and forest wealth,
OF which but little has yet been
Observation-Disclosures.