Mexico Missouri message., 1914-01-08
WONDERFUL GROWTH OF
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, 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 it is felt that there must be
something of 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 it is unfortunate that
more cattle are not seen. That how
ever, is correcting itself Here we
have in a large measure, the evidence
! of the wealth that helps to build up
the cities, and it 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-
| terprlse, energy and push, and so
| Western Canada has it's cities. At a
banquet recently given in Chicago, a
number of prominent citizens of Win
nipeg we're 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 population of 1000 to one
of 100000. 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 fol
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 province
would be sufficient to build any of oul
all their equipment, everything con
nected with them, from ocean t
ocean.
Now, If we are able to do thi
with only ten per cent. of our arabl,
land under cultivation what will ou
possibilities be when 2SS,000,000 O
acres of the best land that the SUI
shines on is brought under the plow
Do you not see the portent Of grea,
vigorous, populous nation living unde
those sunny skies north of the Act
parallel? And If with our present dc
velopment we are able to do as W
are doing now, to purchase a millio
dollars worth of goods from you ever
day of the year, what will our trad
be worth when we have fully develoI
ed the country?
Now, who shall assist us to deve
op this great empire that Is there
Shall it be the alien races of souther
Europe or shall it be men of our ow
| blood and language? In the last thre
, fiscal years no less that 5000 Anne
lean farmers have come into Wester
, Canada bringing with them goods an
j cash to the value of $350,000,000. An
l want to say here that no man wh
, sets foot on our shores is more e.
. tirely and heartily welcome than tt
agriculturist from the south.
$50 long as these conditions renal
| consider that this is the best qua
anty that the sword will never aga
be drawn in anger between the tN
great branches of the Anglo-Saxc
race. The grain crops of Westel
Canada in 1918 have well upheld IL
reputation that country has for abu
dant yields of all small grains. "A
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