Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-06 | Page 8 | Ripened Grain Canadian Gold

GAfiADIMJ GOLD Vast Resources of Big Tract Shown in New Way 1 ' HOT SPRINGS. Ark.. Aug. !,--Cn. ada eomniise an area of s.7Zt.M( aur mile, one-third of th British empire, thirty time a large as tha United Kingdom King-dom of Great Britain and Ireland, with eighteen Oermanya added for good mea-sura; mea-sura; twice th alse of British India, eighteen times large aa ' ranee, aad thirty-three tlmea aa large a Italy. Dewltt Foster. In charge of the Industrial Indus-trial and reeourcee department of the Canadian National rallwaya In Chicago, mada this statement In aa addraaa here bafora the convention of International Liona dub. 'The two outstanding Industrie of Canada." Mr. Foater continued, "are agriculture and manufacturing. Our maximum agricultural production for one year haa reached two thousand million doilare and our manufacturing produc-tloa produc-tloa three thoueand mill boa dollars. The valua ef Ita wheat, oata nad cereala la lull waa twelve hundred aad fifty million mil-lion dollar. "Th greatest gold producing area Me wtthta lx Inchee of the urfaee, oa th great prariee of west era Canada. This gold b ripened again aad the prairie sarveeta average tn value something like an thoueand million dollars a year. "Americana have shared la this bountiful boun-tiful gift. Already more than half million mil-lion son and daughter of thia republic hav found Indewendeac aad preeperlty et the prairie provinces. Tor years tba tide of migration wae from Canada to the United Statee. ajid H la claimed bv eome that more than a million Canadlane from the eaaleea prevtnceo alone kave aettled la tha manufacturing man-ufacturing town, of Naw England aad oa farma la the ml (Ml West. This M. chaas haa made for a better under-atanding under-atanding ef tha two eountrle aad ba materially aided ha bringing about that aolrlt of frlendahlp that elel todav bbe-tweea bbe-tweea the United Statee aad Caaaoa."