Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-20
New Relation of
Canada Toward
us. NotedHere
Floating of $4,000, 1000 Bond
Issue in This Country In
dicates Dominion Looks
To Yanks for Market.
By HOLLAND.

detailed information respecting Lana
Ga and Cuba surprising that which
any other man was able to secure.
While staying for few days in New
York before taking what proved to
be his last trip to Cuba, Sir William
spoke of the unsupported agricultural
resources of the far northwestern
provinces of Canada. He also re-
ferred to the fact that while Cuba is
an independent nation, nevertheless
she is rapidly becoming economical
ly and commercially almost an in
tegral part OF the United States.
Sir William was able to speak by
authority because his achievements
in railroad construction in western
Canada justified placing him in the
rank of the first six railroad builders
of the world. He also ventured from
the far northwest and the almost un-
explored Canadian provinces to un-
dertake other great railroad construc-
tion in the tropics, for he built the
chief railway of Cuba and was pre-
pairing at the time of his death for
the cultivation of sugar cane and the
manufacture of sugar for the markets
upon a much large scale than there
tofore sugar cultivation has been car
ried on in Cuba.
Predicts Big Wheat Crop.
When referring to the Canadian north
west, Sir William said that the day was
not distant when the virgin soil of the
province of Saskatchewan would be yield
ing millions of bushels Of very Eigh
vgrade wheat and that ultimately this
wheat cultivation would match in the
amount and quality produced any one Of
the great wheat belts of the United
States On the other hand he thought
there should be reciprocal rela tions be-
tween the United States and Cuba of a
kind which would stimulate increased
sugar cane growing and sugar manufac-
ture In Cuba while at the same time not
seriously interfering with the cultivation
of sugar cane in a comparatively small
area in the United States,
1t is a somewhat strange coincidence
that at this time the great wheat grow
ing province Of the Canadian northwest
and Cuba's relation to the United States
1t will be affected by the new tariff
law should be brought conspicuously into
notice, Cuba earnestly protests against
sugar into the United States. The appre-
tension is great that If a tax of this kind
be- levied Cuba Will be seriously affected.
Not only that, but she will be unable to
years she has almost exclusively bought
in the United States.
Asking S3.Go0,OC0.
The wheat growing province Of north
western Canada is now seeking a market
in the United states for S3.o00,000 In
bonds. These bonds are to be payable in
gold and are to bear 6 per cent interest.
The province did not so to London seeking
to market this loan 1t has followed the
example of other Canadian provinces in
trr tl,y No Ivnitn ta&n
VIXEN Sir william Van Horne was
there immigration was just beginning.
Now some is years later the province
has fully justified his prediction. In six
than n 81, zoo 0000 600 bushels OF wheat
and that too upon only one-third of the
land OF the province which is as well
suited to wheat cultivation as any land in
the world. When England's man of SCI
ence DR.. Crooks, predicted in 1895 or
1896 that within 20 years tEere would be
a world shortage of wheat because the
wheat belts were then almost fully oc-
cupied while population was rapidly in
creasins. he apparently had no knowledge
of this empire-lihe province In far north
western Canada He would have modi-
= lied his statement had he known that
beginning with 1914 the province would
be harvesting considerably more than 200,-
100000 bushels of wheat each year and
that the total value of all the crop there
harvested in 1919 would be $500. 100000.
Cuba May Seek Loan.
Cuba may be seeking by and by loan
in the, United States perhaps 10 times
greater than the amount. of the bonds the
Canadian province now offers for sale in
the United States If Cuba obtains the
loan and if the tariff be SO written as not
to impair the sugar industry IN Cuba that
little republic will compare favorably
in its relations with the United States
with the vast Dominion of Canada which
stretches from our northern boundary to
the arctic Cuba bought and imported
commodities purchased in the United
States in 1920 of approximately $50o.oOo,-
900 in value
On the other hand our trade import
and export with Canada for seven months
was of the value of nearly $1,000, 600.
But when II is remembered that cuba Is.
Ia comparison with Canada republic Of
trfling area, then it would be fair to
say that Cuha's trade with the United
States is, relatively speaking, as great
the trade of Canada.
New Relation of Canada.
Carada is assuming something like the
relation of Cuba to the United States.
The dominion and the provinces have
placed almost all their loans In this
country since the war began This un.
doubtedly Is partly due to the fact that
the London market has not been fayorably
disposed towards the floating of loans.
But 1t Is not loans solely that reflect
modities imported into Canada for the
year which ended on June 80 were
bought in tho United States. OF course.
that in part is explained by the fact that
Great Britain does not produce or manu-
facture many of the commodities of
which Canada has need.
So also the United States has been for
some time the greatest market for Ca
madam products. Therefore it may be ac-
curately said that the Canadian domin-
ton on the north and the Cuban republic
on the south are commercially upon a
y most intimate, even paramount relation
with the United States. American capt.
tai is going into Canada rapidly and II
Nhe oil resources under the arctic circle
)rove to be as great some of the
= leaders in the oil industry predict they
will be, then many millions more of
American capital will be invested in Ca
madam resources