The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1920-09-30
''LAND OF PLENTY
Western Canada a Country Of
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds Of Miles Of Wen.
derful Grain Fields Delight the Eye
Yields Will Run Well Over q
Billion Dollars

A trip through the wheat fields Of
Western Canada may lack the inspira.
ton, such as one may find working in
sidiously through his being as he
raverses the mountain areas Of
Canada, rich In the variety Of color
and depth Of shades that they cast,
wonderful In their magnitude, their
grandeur, restful, even although the
streams that low from their sides
come down with swish and swash
creating a noise that makes ones ear
drums beat their last beat. Then a.
We rest beside the lakes In the clouds
and see the calm and peace which
they enjoy In the midst Of nesting
bills, we wonder II there's another
world. Care has vanished; al We
want Is to dwell upon the scene. But
L was not the intention to speak Of
mountain scenery, roaring torrents,
placid lakes, and restful haunts.
Rather. We were about to speak Of the
other kind Of inspiration that 10
aroused a. one traverses Western
Canada's immense plains. gridironed
with railroads and splendid highways,
along whose borders and away back
are to be seen the most wonderful
grain fields The crops Of wheat, oats,
barley, fiax, and corn-yes, corn-have
Just been harvested, the threshing ma
chimes are busy. the elevators are
ready-the thirty and forty thousand
bushel elevators, with three, four, and
6ve and more at nearly every station
along the thousand miles Of railway
that serve this immense new area Of
agricultural land. There 10 not a more
inspiring sight than these grain fields.
They lead one to pause and reflect,
get one into . mental arithmetic
strain, and the mind wanders as 1t
gathers the great length Of figures that
represents the Western Canada grain
crop Of 1920. A pencil and paper
arc needed. for the value will run int
and over a billion dollars. At least,
that is what those who profess to keep
themselves posted as to values
believe.
The wheat crop alone will run over
26O.0OO.000 bushels, and II you figure
this at $3.50 per bushel, the price It IL
selling at rs we write, there you have
100000 alone. Then there is the
Oh crop, with yield Of one hesitates
to say the quantities In bushels, for
the threshers are reporting yields Of
ITO and 120 bushels per acre, where
but 80 and 90 bushels were expected,
but their value, apart from that Of
barley and rye and fax, win carry
. ever the billion dollar mark.
OF course all this means-but We
had almost forgotten to speak Of the
cattle and horses, the sheep and the
plgD, the dairy and many other farm
products, the increase and production
Of which this year will bring In many
more million dollars-all this means
that there viii be a rush Of buyers to
Western Canada this fall. during the
winter, and next spring.
A certain amount Of satisfaction 10
derived By those back home here"
whose friends are writing them In
dorsing the statements that are ap-
pearing In the press Of wheat yields Of
thirty, forty, and fifty bushels to the
acre; Of oats yielding anywhere from
sixty to 120 bushels per acre. Dis
tricts have not been specially favored.
Travel anywhere, eight hundred miles
east and west four hundred miles
north and south, and It Ii the same
story, splendid yields. good acreage,
excellent prices, easy marketing, but
labor Z little scarce.-Advertisem