The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-02-13
Go North, Young Man.
 SayS Canada

qua NolbhAdhu 10 OhS VI AuohJ striking phrases taken from a book just off the press on the Dominion's new era of rapid development. A Canadian should have written the work, but it was an American who did so. And perhaps it is better thus. A Canadian author might have been suspected of booming his own country. An outsider writing of Canada may be conceived to have written dispassionately.
 In "Go North Young Man" (Mc- Clelland & Stewart, Toronto), Court ney Ryley Cooper has somewhat al- tered Horace Greeley's advice of two generations ago. After giving much study to his subject, he thinks that young Americans should seek their fortunes in this Dominion and it's steadily marching frontiers. He is fascinated by the big things he has lately seen being done in northern Quebec, northern Ontario, northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories even to the Arctic cir cle and beyond.
 MT. Cooper repeats the forecast that Canada will some day be the dominant state of the British Elm pire, and he proceeds to explain why the new country is making giant strides after being quiescent for so long. The reason, he says, is the New North, crammed with miner als, laundering with possibilities for hydroelectric development, suf- ficiently tillable at intervals to as- sure small fortunes to hard-work- ing pioneers. And everywhere it bristles with the spires of soft woods which return almost ton for ton in newsprint and sulphide papers, to say nothing of the development of cellulose fiber which produces the silky rayon and kindred products. This is the land which lately be- longed only to the Indian trapper and the dog-sled driver, to the wan dering factor of the Hudson's Bay Company and the lone French-Ca- nadian pioneer.
 The area under development rap idly spreads and, says the author, ''As men pour in, so pour the mill lions of dollars, hundreds upon hun dreds of them, money from the United States, from older Canada, from England ..... Twenty-Five millions for this, a hundred mill lions for something else; twenty millions more for a years railroad building, ten millions for the de- velopment of single mine, another million for, prospecting-jus to find out if a piece of ground is worth spending real sum of money upon."
 So suddenly, overnight seemingly, the North Country began to crack wide open. A crevice is extending across the north of the whole Do- minion now, widened more in the last three years than in all the his- tory of Canada. From Labador, across the Ungava country, into northern Quebec, across the New North of Ontario, and through the Patricia district, into Manitoba. and northward into the Barren Lands and beyond, across Saskatche- wan, and Alberta, and British Co., lumbia, and into the Yukon, the northward push is going forward like the skirmishing lines of tre- mendous army. i
 The westward flow of empire in the history of the United States is puny compared to it. In fact, there is no comparison; the dramatics of the Alaskan rush were easier to de- scribe because they were concen- trated. But they were no more prevalent.
 As the writer points out, this northward push, incidentally, is not one which merely quests for gold or other minerals, like the chase of '9S. It includes agricul- ture, and the opening up of farm ing districts, but 1t is not solely concerned with that, as was the opening of Oklahoma and the Cher okee Strip. It concerns railroad building, under almost as many hardships and privations as those of the building of the Kansas Pa cific and the Union Pacific, but that, too, is component. For there is everything in the swing to the North, manufacturing, agriculture, mines, water power, the hope of