The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-01-08
WONDERFUL GROWTH or
THE CANADIAN WEST
The Cities OF Western Canada
Reflect the Growth Of the
Country.

III IA Nc Au w O8kUIn
Canada, taking the City or WINNIPEG
as q starting point. and then keepins
tab on the various cities and towns
that line the network or railways that
cover the provinces Of Manitoba
Saskatchewan and Alberta, and cover
Ing the eyes as the gaze Ii bent ON
these 1t Is felt that there must ba
something Of a country" behind It all
Then gaze any direction you like ana
the same view 10 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 ieldf Pasture land In eyery d.
rection on which cattle are feeding
thriving and fattening on the grasses
that are rich In both milk and beef
properties, but II 10 unfortunate that
more cattle r. not seen. That how.
ever Is correcting itself. Hare We
have In q large measure, the evidence
OF he wealth that helps to build I'M
the cities, and ~ should not be forspt
ten that the cities themselves have m
citizens, young man who have come
from other parts. and brought with
them the experiences that has taught
them TO avoid the mistakes Of sastern
and southern cities. They also are
imbued with the western spirit OF an
terprise, energy and push, and 20
Western Canada has its cities. At a
banquet recently given In Chicago, .
number of prominent citizens OF win,
nipeg guests. Among the spcak-
ers was Mayor Deacon Of WinnipoM.
In speaking Of the remarkable growth
OF that city, which in thirty years has
risen from o population Of 1000 to one
Of Q 10000, he spoke OF It az 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 q
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 id.
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
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Nov, IL we are able to do this
with only ten per cent. OF our arabic
land under cultivation what will our
possibilities be when 288, 600, 900 Of
acres OF the best land that the sun
shines OF is brought under the plowf
Do you not see the portent OF a great
vigorous, populous nation living under
those sunny skies north Of the 49th
parallel? And If with our present do
Velopment we are able to do as wo
are doing now, to purchase "a million
dollars worth of goods from you every
day Of the year, what win our trade
be worth when we have fully develop
ed the country?
Now, who shall assist us to deyeL
op this great empire that Is there3
Shall 1t be the alien races of southern
Europe Or shall 1t be men OF our own
blood and language? In the last three
fiscal years no less than 358,000 Amer
lean farmers have come into Western
Canada, bringing with them goods and
cash to the value of $350,000, 00e. And
I want to say here that no man who
sets foot on u shores is more en-
tirely and heartily welcome than the
agriculturist from the south.
so long as these conditions remain
l consider that this il the best guar
anty that the sword viii never again
be drawn In anger between the two
great branches OF the Anglo-Saxon
race. The grain crops Of Western
Canada In 1913 have well upheld the
that country has for album
dant yields Of all small grainA-Ad-
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