The Keota news., 1922-02-03
LAND CROWS RICH
Wonderful Development OF Can
ada in Forty Years.
-Four Decades Ago Little cens'esrse'
Today Ore Of the Greatest Gran
aries and Oairyine csr'srs.

The recent announcement thai
the sale of the FIRST section OF Sahs
dian Pacific land VAS sold forty Year,
ago. and wlcn you read that tbs
nrst carload Of wheat Was shipped
from Wihnip~s forty years ago. 'he
change. tha. have taken place siner
then are matters OF rrminiscrhsr. but
yet Of interest. What forty years as"
Was an unknown quantity. barren be
cause but little production MAS st'
tempted. ia today On. ot th~ greatest
sranari~s in the world. Then thcss
was scarcely any farm live stock 10
the Nest. baissIns MAS mot engaged
in at all. To-day thrrr arc S4ssysi'
farm animals on the praisi~ss of which
Ssh $50 afe nileh eo~s: aud aaisyihs
IL eaiy scc"ad in Importance to grain
growing. in the Nest.
Forty years esS the shipment of one
carload Of grain VAS a notable ra'
ptcit.
To-day Canada ranks az tho second
largest whsat'pfuelueihs country in tbs
Wosli. with a.9.is5sscc bushels. 80 p-s
cent Of which Wa. grown in the shs~s
prairie Provinces Of which the pro
vince Of Saskatchewan produced sscf~
than half. The poinIaioa IL today Tho
second largest producer of oats will
aS.;tOWO bushels OF which uo p~s
cent uas grown between Winnipeg and
tho Rocky mouhtsia.: and tho nth
largest producer OF barley with ti5il.
." bushels. OF which tho pfaifi~s
yielded 6 per cent.
Forty Seass ago scarcely any Of tbs
rich sod had b~~h brought under cui
usatioa. The farm machinery Of ths
tissse vas crude: there wcfc no com
tctcas advisers. government expert
mental farms ~cse = blessing shsI
came years later.
Yet th~sr hardy pioneers stuck I,
out. and in forty years numbers o'
thcss afc csI",ins their declining day.
In the communities they wrvstcd fsum
tho wilderness. prosperous. cuatcascsi
with their chiltfva's families sathcscs
about them or scvkins ,hcir own tus
tunes stiil further westward os north
~afd. They have s~vn ctvillssttoe
step In TO tho West aud si,c wilderness.
swept out. Today arc thriving cities
and towns where bleaching buffalo
bones marked the OF trails Of fostJ
ycafs ago. Today arc mighty frcish
trains. each with its thousand.soa car
So Of wheat or merchandise. suarih,
down the roads where the old cart,
ercakcd. Today arc scheols withit
walking distance Of every farmhouse
churches within driving distance o
every home. Today arc telephone,
and every modern convenience linkin,
communities over vast distances by tn,
common bond OF the spoken word.
Forty years ago the Rockies wcr,
practically an impcnctrablc barrier
the Pacific coast being reached from
the cast by ships sailing round Can.
Horn. The province Of Manitoba ha,
. population Of e., ,cO. compared wit,
6l3.09s In 1921. Winnipeg was the,
. frontier town with 1881 people, an,
brandon. which was regarded ss ,
far-hung outpost of the West. bcas,c,
OF a few hundred In population. I,
1891 II only had 3.7Ss. Such p,acc,
as Calgary aud Edmonton were mcr,
trading posts in The Northwest teri,
tories. Buffalo roamcd the prairie I,
their native state.
Today on these plains are 10 b,
seen herds Of cattle. bands Of horyc
and droves Of sheep. from any o