Show HOPE FOR MANITOBA A man thinks it will tot B aes th the gra arbry ary of the world it if the horse could stand it said a well known resident of winnipeg manitoba to a reporter for the th washington star a man could leave winnipeg and ride one thousand miles west and northwest vest over a level prairie before he would be obstructed by the mountains this given fives an idea of the great territory ly jug ivy west of winnipeg which to the eastern man seems way out of the world the toil soil of this prairie produces the finest spring wheat grown anywhere I 1 and the enormous enor moua plain ive just mentioned will in a few years year be ba the great granary of the tha w world orld eastern people have a misty id idea e adf of our appall alve aiva territory wo we are just commencing to grow wheat comp compared tarea to ft a decade hence though our oui crop two years as thirty million bli bushels els we aw abbt nali 11 ta j years I 1 resided in manitoba I 1 never saw caw the tops of the bright prairie grass gram covered cattle fairly rou roll in fit fat and wa a are ara becoming a great cattle country while most of our settlers are from across the water yet the number from the western states is yearly increasing we have hava no wild west frontier scenes there are no settlers sett lors killed oyer over disputed claims as has been an everyday story in the west for years our homestead laws require a three years residence of six months each cach land may be preempted too gold his has been discovered in wonderfully rich quartz deposits a few miles milea east of winnipeg and paying wills mills have just juat been erected by minneapolis capitalists I 1 predict a rush to the lake of the tha woods district next year winnipeg has thirty 11 five ive thousand inhabitants and is a thriving city our winters are cold but we wa do not mind them the atmosphere is dry and the tha days are clear murky weather bein being aalmo almott a tu unknown uku 0 wn |