Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-02-06
YOUR CHANGE HERE
Unbounded Prosperity Ahead Of
Western Canada.
Opportunity ecekons Settlers OF Al.
kinds-"With the Golden Wake
That Marked the Way the Happy
Reapsrs Went"-James Whiteomb
Riley.

The war having been brought to a
favorable conclusion more attention
,an now be given to the agricultural
aud industrial development OF Western
Canada. which were checked by the
troublous 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
f'een made during this time. Crop pro-
1iction has been greatly Increased, the
plumber of live stock has steadily
gown. and with each succeeding year
tic dairying and wool industries have
pecotne more important. But despite
tliia forward march. many phases OF
development have been held in check.
Tue activities of farmers. too, have
oeen greatly hampered by shortage of
labor. and. under the circumstances,
What they have achieved can only be
described rs marvellous
Excepting those industries closely al
Ted to agriculture, such as butter and
cheese manufacture, industrial activity
IN the Prairie Provinces has been al
most at q standstill. And even in
these branches extensions have been
strictly limited to those of urgent me-
ceSsity Building has been consider
ably curtailed. especially in the towns
mud cities. though many commodious
aud up-to-date dwellings. barns and
Other buildings have been erected by
farmers in the country. Indeed. the
nmount of building farmers have done
Is one of the outward signs Of their
prosperity; but considerably more of
1t 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
yenrs great advances in the agricul-
tural development of Western Canada
might be looked Tor even IL no new
settlers were expected; but the COM
log of thousands of prospective Get
tiers who have hitherto been deferred
only by the unsettled conditions from
making tlleir homes in this last great
West will give considerable impetus
to every phase of agriculture in these
Prairie Provinces.
Hand III hand with the development
OF agriculture. there will be renewal
OF Industrial activity. For the estab-
iistsment of such industries ms sugar
retineries canneries, and many other
Industries for the utilization of the
products of the land, as we'll as for
che extension of the already impor-
taat Industries of butter and cheese
manufacture, are splendid opportuni,
ties Mining, numbering. quarrying,
the manufacture of clay products are
also a few industries capable of con-
siderable growth. and to which great
er attention can now be devoted.
To provide accommodation for pres
ent business requirements alone would
keep the building trade busy for a
Tong time. but with further develop
Ment in the cities it is impossible to
f0resee any slackness in any branch of
this trade. And the number of farm
ers whose needs have outgrown their
present accommodation and who have
been awaiting an opportunity to re-
place their buildings by larger and
more modern ones, is considerable and
constantly increasing. Municipal work
will be gradually resumed. and the
railways have much work in contenl,
ptation
All this points to period of great
prosperity in Western Canada agri-
cultural and Industrial prosperity. The
former * the more important. for on
1t the latter depends. Being prima-
riiy an agricultural country. Western
Canada will probably pass through the
establishment period with little diff
Guilty.
rhere is no reason to believe that
farming will be less remunerative than
1t has been in the past; there are, on
the other hand, many good and sound
reasons for belieyinp that the returns