Agriculture -- Prairie Provinces; Northwest, Canadian -- Economic conditions
=David R. Forgan.=--"Nothing can check a country which can
raise the amount of wheat which has been raised in Western
Canada this year. Any checks which the country may have had
as a result of the world-wide money conditions are entirely
beneficial to the country. Numbers of young men, the sons of
farmers in the States, are now coming to Canada, and are
taking up land much cheaper and equally as good as they could
get in the States."
=Lord William Percy= of England: "The possibilities and
opportunities offered by the West are infinitely greater than
those which exist in England."
=Colonel Donald Walter Cameron= of Lochiel, Scotland, Chief of
the Cameron Clan: "We cannot blame our people for coming out
here, where there are so many opportunities as compared with
those afforded in Scotland. I thought possibly a trip through
Canada would give us some plan as to how to stop the
wholesale emigration from Scotland, but, after seeing this
wonderful country and the opportunities on every side, where
one man has as good chances as his neighbor, I have come to
the conclusion that nothing more can be done."
=Speaker Clark=.--In commenting on Speaker Clark's remarks
expressing regret at the number of Americans who had gone to
Canada in one week, the _Chicago News_ says: "The appropriate
sentiment for the occasion would seem to be a God-speed to
the emigrants. They are acting as the American pioneers did
before them, and are taking what appears to them to be the
most promising step for improving their fortunes. The bait is
wild land, and it is not affected by national boundaries."
=Mayor Deacon,= Winnipeg: "No man who sets foot in Canada is
more entirely and heartily welcome than the agriculturist
from the South."
An eminent American writer after a recent visit to the Canadian West in
speaking of the American immigration to Canada, says:
"Any country that can draw our citizens to it on such a scale
must have about it something above the ordinary, and that
Canada has in many ways."
[Illustration: Figuring out the result of the year's crop. The yield of
which he estimates at over forty bushels per acre of wheat.]
=Dean Curtiss= of Ames Agricultural College, Iowa, says:
"We of the United States think we know how to get behind
agriculture and push, but the Canadians dare to do even more
than we do in some respects. They have wonderful faith in the
future: they hesitate at no undertaking that offers prospects
of results. More significant still is the wide co-operation
for agricultural promotion, including the government, private
individuals, and corporations and the railroads.
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