Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09
WONDERFUL GROWTH or
. THE CANADIAN WEST
The Cities Of Western Canada
Reflect the Growth Of the
Country.

AS one passes through Western
Canada, taking the City of Winnipeg
as a starting point, and then keeping
tab on the various cities and towns
that line the network OF railways that
cover the provinces OF Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, and cover
ing the eyes as the gaze is bent on
these II is felt that there must be
something of a country" behind II all.
Then gaze any direction you like and
the same view is presented. Field
after field of waving grain. thousands
and hundreds of thousands of them.
Farm hands and laborers are at work
converting the virgin prairie with
more fields. Pasture land In every d.
rection on which cattle are feeding,
thriving and fattening on the grasses
that are rich in both milk and beef
properties, but IL is unfortunate that
more cattle are not seen. That, how
ever, Is correcting itself. Here we
have In large measure, the evidence
Of the wealth that helps to build up
the cities, and II should not be forgot
ten that the cities themselves have as
citizens young men who have come
from other parts, and brought with
them the experience that has taught
them to avoid the mistakes OF eastern
and southern cities. They also are
imbued with the western spirit OF en-
terprise, energy and push, and SO
Western Canada has its cities. At a
banquet recently given in Chicago, a
number Of prominent citizens OF Win
nipeg were guests. Among the speak
ers was Mayor Deacon Of Winnipeg
In speaking Of the remarkable growth
of that city, which in thirty years has
risen from a population OF 1000 to one
of 10000. he spoke of it as being the
gateway OF commerce and continued:
Now, how great that tide of com
merce is you will have some concep-
ton Of when tell you that the wheat
alone grown in the three prairie prov
inces this year Is sufficient to keep a
steady stream of one thousand BUSH
els per minute continuously night and
day going to the head of the lakes for
three and one-half months, and in ad-
dition to that the oats and barley
would supply this stream for another
four months.
The value of the grain crop alone
grown in the three prairie provinces
would be sufficient to build any of our
great transcontinental railroads and
all their equipment, everything con-
nected with them, from ocean to
ocean.
Now, IL we are able to do this
with only ten per cent. OF our arabic
land under cultivation what will our
possibilities be when 2SS,000,000 of
acres of the best land that the sun
shines ON is brought under the plow?
Do you not see the portent of a great,
vigorous, populous nation living under
those sunny skies north Of the 49th
parallel? And il with our present de-
velopment we are able to do as we
are doing now, to purchase a million
dollars worth Of goods from you every
day OF the year, what will our trade
be worth when we have fully develop
ed the country?
Now, who shall assist US to devel-
op this great empire that is there?
Shall 1t be the alien races OF southern
Europe or shall It be men of our own
blood and language? In the last three
fiscal years no less that 35S,000 Amer
lean farmers have come into Western
Canada, bringing with them goods and
cash to the value Of $3.50, 100000. And
want to say here that no man who
sets foot on our shores is more en-
tirely and heartily welcome than the
agrlculturist from the south.
$50 long as these conditions remain
consider that this is the best guar
anty that the sword will never again
be drawn In anger between the two
great branches OF the Anglo-Saxon
race. The grain cyops OF Western