Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-01-10
WONDERFUL GROWTH or |
THE CANADIAN WEI
The Cities of Western Canad
Reflect the Growth of the
Country.

AS one passes through Wests..
Canada, taking the City of Winnin
as a starting point, and then keen,
tab on the various cities and tow,
that line the network of RAILWAYS m
cover the provinces of ManjtobA
Saskatchewan and Alberta, and eov.
ing the eyes as the gaze is bent
these it is felt that there must
something of country" behind if ],
Then gaze any direction you like a,
the same view is presented. Ha
after field of waving grain. THOUSAND
and hundreds of thousands of then
Farm hands and laborers are at wmI
converting the virgin prairie viii
more fields. Pasture land in every
rectiOn en- which cattle are feedir
thriving and fattening on the grass
that are rich in both milk and bp
properties, but it is unfortunate Nh
more cattle are not seen. That ho
ever, is correcting itself Here "a
have in large measure, the evidenp
of the wealth that helps to build
the cities, and it should not be forg,
ten that the cities themselves have
citizens, young men who have CON
from other parts, and brought viii
them the experience that has taugl
them 20 avoid the mistakes of easterI
and southern cities. They also a.
imbued with the western spirit Of e |
terprise, energy and push, and
Western Canada has its cities. All
banquet recently given in Chicago !.
number of prominent citizens of VIII
nipeg were guests. Among the spes
ers was Mayor Deacon of Winnipe
In speaking of the remarkable growa
of that city, which in thirty years Id
risen from population of 1000 to OF
of 100000, he spoke of it as being "a
gateway of commerce and continued
Now, how great that tide of cod
merce is you will have some concsl
ton of when l tell you that the whe
alone grown in the three prairie pro-
inces this year is sufficient TO keep
steady stream of one thousand busH
els per minute continuously night al
day going to the head of the lakes
three and one-half months, and in q
dition to that the oats and blda
would supply this stream for anotha
four months
The value of the grain crop alOi |
grown in the three prairie province
would be sufficient to build any OF o.
great transcontinental railroads az
all their equipment, everything CO.
nected with them, from ocean
ocean.
Now if we are able to do th
with only ten per cent. of our arab
land under cultivation what will
possibilities be when 2S8,000,O00 \
acres Of the best land that the Sd
shines on is brought under the ploVH
Do you not see the potent of CRED
vigorous, populous nation living uad4
those sunny skies north of the IA
parallel? And if with our present a
velopment we are able to do az
are doing now, to purchase a miilit
dollars worth of goods from you eyea
day of the year, what will our ira 4.
be worth when we have fully deyeloe
ed the country?
Now, who shall assist us to deT;,
op this great empire that is Their,
Shall it be the alien races of southert
Europe or shall it be men of our oT5
blood and language? In the last thrT
fiscal years no less than 35S,0G0 Ana
!c2a farmers have come into WesteH
Canada, bringing with them goods II
cash to the value of $350,000000 II
want to say here that no man II
sets foot on our shores is more Il
tirely and heartily welcome than Il
agriculturist from the south
So long as these conditions remaA
consider that this is the best guaA
anty that the sword will never agaE
be drawn in anger between the Il
great branches Of the Anglo-SayI
race. The grain crops of Westa1
Canada in 1913 have well upheld Il
reputation that country has for ablI
dant Yields of all small grains 4
yertisement
CoOpar IN, Iafar ~ mans Illusions H