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Show ISHIS CONDITIONS IN OA 1 BETTER j Montreal Man Declares ! War Has Encouraged Economy and Thrift. Business conditions in Canada, somewhat some-what dull for the first year of the war, are now very much improved, says J. B. Rubinovioh, of Montreal, who is returning re-turning to his home after a trip through the Canadian northwest and to the California Cali-fornia expositions. Last night he said: Crops are wonderfully good, and the high prices for grains make business universally good throughout through-out the dominion. Yor several months after the outbreak of the war there was a business depression in Canada. From this ive nave almost al-most completely recovered. One effect of" the war was to encourage en-courage economy and thrift. The savings of tho people have greatly increased. The banks have really more monev than they know what to do with. 'Much of it is being sent into the United States. The people of Canada are Tory patriotic and confident of success. They have sent 100,000 troops to the front and they have 80,000 m training. train-ing. All parrs of the dominion are furnishing their quote. |