The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-08
LAND OF PLENTY"
Western Canada a Country Of
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds OF Miles Of Wen
defui Grain Fields Delight the Eye
Yields VIII Run Well Over a
Billion Dollars.

A trip through the wheat fields nf /
Western Canada may lack the inspira. !
ton, such as one may find working In /
sidiously through his hcing as he !
raVerses the mountain areas uf
Canada, rich in the variety of color
and depth 81 shades that they east.
wonderful In their magnitude. their
grandeur, restful, even although the
streams that flow from their sides
come down with swish and swash
creating noise that makes ones ear
drums beat their last beat. Then as
we rest beside the lakes In the clouds
and see the calm and peace which
they enjoy in the midst of nesting
hills we wonder II there's another
world. Care has vanished; all we
want is 10 dwell upon the scene. But
II was not the intention to speak OF
| mountain scenery. roaring torrents,
| placid lakes, and restfui haunts.
Rather, we were about 10 speak Of the
other kind of inspiration that Is
| aroused as one traverses Western
|
with railroads and splendid highways,
along whose borders and away back
are TO he seen the most wonderful
| grain fields. The crops of wheat, oats,
barley, FAX, ana coru--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
five and more mt nearly every station
along the thousand miles of railway
that serve this immense new area Of
agricultural land There Is not more
inspiring sight than these grain fields.
They lead one 10 pause and reflect,
get one into mental arithmetic
strain, and the mind wanders as II
gathers the great length OF figures that
represents the Western Canada grain
crop of 1920, A pencil and paper
and over a billion dollars. At least
that Is what those who profess 10 keel
themselves posted as TO value,
believe.
The wheat crop alone will run ovel
250.0O0,000 bushels, and II you figure
this at $3.50 per bushel, the price II Il
selling at as we write, there you have
sT0O, OOO,0 600 alone. Then there is III,
oat crop, with a yield of one hesitate
to say the quantities In bushels, 70
the threshers are reporting yields o
40 and 100 bushels per acre, wher
but so and 90 bushels were expected
but their value, apart from that O
barley and rye and fax, will carr
US over the billion dollar mark.
OF course all this means-but W
had almost forgotten to speak of tn
cattle and horses. the sheep and tn
pigs, the dairy and many other far
products. the increase and productio
of which this year will bring in man
more million doliars-al this NEAR
that there will be rush OF buyers
Western Canada this fall, during III
winter, and next spring.
A certain amount of satisfaction
derived by those back home here
whose friends are writing them Il
dorsing the statements that are n
pearing in the press OF whent yields
thirty. forty, and fifty bushels 10 Il
acre; Of oats yielding anywhere fro
sixty 10 100 bushels per acre. III
iricts have not been specially favore
Travel anywhere, eight hundred mil
east and west. four hundred mil
north and south, aud II Is the san
story splendid yields, good aereal
excellent prices, easy marketing. b
labor little CONGRATULATIONS