Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 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 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 it is felt that there must be
something of a country" behind it 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 di-
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-
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 100000, he spoke of it as being the
gateway of commerce and continued:
Nov, 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 n 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 oul
great transcontinental railroads ant
all their equipment, everything con
nected with them, from ocean tt
ocean.
Nov, if we are able to do this
with only ten per cent. of our arabl'
land under cultivation what will on,
possibilities be when 1850 0 900 o
acres of the best land that the SUI
shines on is brought under the plow
Do you not see the portent Of a great
vigorous, populous nation living unde
those sunny skies north Of the 49tl
parallel? And if with our present de
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 develop
b ed the country?
d NOW, who shall assist us to deve
op this great empire that is there
k Shall 1t be the alien races of souther
Q Europe or shall it be men of our wv
blood and language? In the last thre
l. fiscal years no less that 358,000 Anne
lean farmers have come into Wester
e Canada, bringing with them goods an
t. cash to the value of $3.50, 100000. An
D l want to say here that nc man VIII
e sets foot on our shores is more el
It tirely and heartily welcome than til
|, agriculturist from the south.
b $50 long as these conditions renal
l, l consider that this is the best qua
g anty that the sword will never aga1
a be drawn in anger between the tN
n great branches Of the Anglo-Saxc
L race. The grain crops of ,Westel
q Canada in 1918 have well upheld Il
d reputation that country has for abu
dant yields of all small grains."-A
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