Show Sir William Cahoon puts the great crop in the Canadian Northwest this year at 100000000 bushels Once along I a-long time ago there was a lawyer in the West who had the honor of never thinking In the same channels that any other man ever did One of his great hobbies vas to go to a map and draw a circle around tho country where the Frazier and Saskatchewan rivers flow and explain to ear mortals that when all else failed there would be the great granary of the continent He could tpll the exact number of square miles he made no allowance for swamps or mountains to him It was all flrstclass wheat land and none of II would ever think of producing less I I than forty bushels to the acre And I with that beautiful predicate laid it was easy enough for him to show that nol In Ihls nor the coming twenty generations gen-erations could there be ony scarcity of breadstuffs on the North American I continent |