WEALTH OF THE WEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 353, 2 April 1910, Page 10

WEALTH OF THE WEST.

YEAR OF VAST PROSPERITY IN CANADA.

Ottawa, February 2.

Providence smiled on Manitoba during the year which has just closed-, writes a Winnipeg correspondent The value of crops and beasts produced was £16,913,529. The dairy products are estimated to have been worth at least another £300,000. The value of the wheat market to December 31 is £10,301,806 net to the producers. All this wealth, produced within a country with a popula'ion of less than ' a million, including the urban residents, has created a remarkable commercial buoyancy. Trade is expanding rapidly, credit is good, there is plenty of money for improvements, a spirit of the utmost confidence prevails, the flow of immigrants is steady and of the best class of settlers, and happiness and comfort are found everywhere. What more j could a country desire? i

The immigration from the United States has been far ir excess of all expectations. Over 90,000 new settlers came from south of t)?e boundary line, bringing with them in money and farming equipment an average of £2OO per • head, or over £IB,OOO 000 to add to the aggregate wealth of the West. The existence of petroleum has been established by exhaustive prospecting north of Edmonton. Exp.-rts state that the fields are likely to prove the richest in America. They are about 400 miles • north of Edmonton, and in the vicinity j of Port McMurray. j