CANADA'S VAST HARVEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 3

CANADA'S VAST HARVEST.

850 ENGINES AXD 35.000 CAES TO MOVE THE CROP. i , Winnipeg, August 1. I Thirty-five thousand box ears and 850 ( giaut locomotives are waiting orders for: the rush west to move Canada's great'' grain crop. Each oi the cars is four or five times greater than the largest used in Great ' Britain, and the locomotives are the I heaviest type used on the American eon- * tinent. The harvest which lies awuitiii" the binder—the modern machine which 1 replaces the sickle- extends from tlifo ' eastern Manitoba boundary, a few miles ' east from Winnipeg, to the- foothills of I the Kockies, a tract of land approximately 1000 miles long by 300 miles wide. i The main crop, of course, is wheat, which should amount to over 1U0,000.00U bushels. : The preparations for the crop entail immense burdens on the banks, the railI ways, the elevator owners, millers, and 1 others in close touch with agricultural '• I operations. The Canadian Pacific Rail- ! way say that they have 18,000 box cars ready to move the crop, which is 20 per cent, more than last year. To haul 1 these chrs they have 350 locomotives 1 specially detailed. | The Canadian Northern have approxi. ■ mutely 0000 ear<s and 225 engines ready, while the new Grand Trunk Pacific, which will for the first time play au important part in the crop haul, has 175 engines and about 5000 cars detailed for harvesting operations. The Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company, the Midland, and Brandon, Saskatchewan, and Hudson's Bay Railways will provide another 3000 cars between them, with about 100 engines. There have also been great additions to the elevator capacity of the west. A year ago there were 1480 elevators, with a total grain capacity of 00,00U,000 bushels of grain. The number of elevators has been increased to 1700, and as the average capacity is about 30,000 bushels, this means a considerable addition to the storage facilities. The elo- : vator capacity of Winnipeg alone is , 1,415,000 bushels. To bundle the crop the railways run t harvesters' excursions from the east of Canada at cheap rates, which give the r young eastern Canadians an opportunity ' not only to earn as much as 10s Gd per ( day while harvesting, but also to have ; a good look round to see the nature j the country and the chances of getthg . good farms cheaply, or of homesteading j in a good locality.