The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-03-06
YOUR CHANCE HERE
Unbounded Prosperity Ahead Of
Western Canada.
Opportunity eeekons Settlers Of All
kinds-"With the Golden Wake
That Marked the Way the Happy
Reapers Went"-James Whiteomb
Rjley.

The war having been brought To n
favorable conclusion more attention
can now be given to the agricultural
and Industrial development of Western
Cnnndn. which were checked by the
%trOubluuS times of the past four years.
Now that these are over, the proper
development of the country will be
continued.
True, much agricultural progress has
been made during this time. Crop pro.
ducti"n has been greatly increased. the
number of live stock has steadily
grown, and with each succeeding year
the dnirying and wool Industries have
bocOm" more important. But despite
this forward march. many phases Of
development have been held In check.
The activities Of farmers. too, have
been greatly hampcrcd by shortage Of
labor, and, under the circumstances.
what they have achieved can only be
described as marvellous.
Excepting those Industries closely nj.
Fed To agriculture. such MS butter Ind
cheese manufacture. Industrial activity
In the Prairie Provinces has been al.
most at n s%tandstill. And even In
these branches extensions hive been
strictly limited To those Of urgent ne.
cesslty. Building has been consider.
ably curtailed. especially In the towns
and cities, though many councillors
and u%p.to.date dwellings. barns and
other buildings have been erected by
farmers In the country. Indeed, the
amount Of building farmers have done
Is n of the outward signs OF their
prosperity; but considerably more Of
II would have been done had not the
more important work of food produc.
ton received priority In the labor
available. Railway construction work
has been almost entirely suspended.
With more help available, and the
use OF the labor-saving devices that
have been adopted during the last few
years great advances In the ngricul.
tural development of Western Canada
might he looked for even If no new
settlers were expected hut the com.
Ing of thousands Of prospective set
tiers who have hitherto been deferred
only by the unsettled conditions from
making their homes in this last great
West VIII give Il considerable Impetus
to every phase Of agriculture In these
Prairie Provinces.
Hand In hand with the development
Of agriculture, there will be n renewal
Of Industrial activity. For the cstab.
y llShmcnt Of such industries as sugar
rciincries. %cnnncrlcs. aud many other
Industries for the utilization OF the
products of the land. MS we'll rs for
the extension of the already impor.
tnnt Industries Of butter and cheese
manufacture, are splendid nppOrtuni.
ties. Mining, numbering, quarryiug.
the manufacture of clay products are
ul>o a few Industries capable of con.
sidcrahl" growth. ana to which great.
or attention can now be dcvntcd.
To provide accommodation for pres.
ont business requirements alone would
keep the building trade busy for n
long time. but with further develop.
mont in the cities Il is impossible to
f]urc~rr amy %SlackuoS- IN any branch al
this trade. And the number Of farm.
rrS whose needs have outgruwn their
present accommodation ana who have
been awaiting an opportunity 10 re-.
place their building, 10y larger and
more ,lndcrn ones, Is considerable and
constantly increasing. Municipal work
will b" gradually resumed. and the
railways have much work in contcm.
| plution.
All this points To n period of great
prosperity in Western Canndn--ugrl.
cultural and Industrial prosperity. The
former is the more important. for on
II til" latter depends. I;ciug prima.
rIly IN agricultural country. Western
Canada viii probably pas, through the
rcudjuStmcnt period with little dir.
Guilty.
There Is no reason IN believe that
farming will be less r~cnuncrativc than
II has been In the past; there are, on
the other hand, many good and sound
reasons for believing that the returns
will be as large ms ever. one thing Is
certain: Intelligent farming IN the
fertile p%rairicS Of Western Canada. re-
qulring rs II does the smallest posi-
BILE capital outlay compared with that
required to get u starr Ia Older set
tied countries, VIII continue to be on,
Of III" quickest and snrest ways to In
dependence that can he followed by
the average man.-AdvcrtiSpment