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Show INTERESTING TO AMERICANS. H Western Canada Will Soon Become iH the Supply Depot for Wheat for jH Great Britain. H During tho past year about 50,000 jH Americans went from tho United IsH States to Canada. Most of thoso sot. HtlllllllH tied upon farm lands, nnd tho writer Hl Is Informed by agents of tho Cana- (KilllllllH dlan Government that tho greatest SlH success has followed tho efforts of HH nearly all. To their friends on thla Bl sldo of tho boundary lino tho fullest BH assurance Is given of tho prosperity fil I that Is la store for them. Thoro will Bl always bo a splendid market for all HsIIIIIIIH tho grain, cattle, and other produco BaHHIIIfl that can be raised In Western Can- ll I nda, and with tho advantages offcrod H of a free homchtead of 1R0 acres of flUHHIIH laud, nnd other hunts which may bo HIH bought cheaph. an excellent cllmnto. MlLaLH splendid school sjstcm, educational WH advantages of tho beat, what moro SnslllH Is required. Tho husbandman get 4yl moro return for his money than Id ftx4l any other country In tho world. ii'T'illllllH On the occasion of Sir (Wilfred Iau- fliiil Tier's visit to tho Corn Hxchnnge, I.on- BH don, nuglnnd. Colonel Montgomery, V. tFillllH I)., mado several Important state Hl incuts. "Tho function," ho said, "which Mjjfl you havu Just been assisting In con- fH ncctlon with n kindred association hat Sal doubtless shown you tho Importnnco ol fEiHIIIIH tho provision trndo of Liverpool In Its tTtaiiiiifl relationship with tho Dominion, and yikslllH tho enormous possibilities of tho fit- Hilil Hire dovolopmont of that trndo. Well, liiilH tho grain trado of Liverpool has In- IjfaEiiifl forests with Canada tin less Important ittsl than thoso of tho provision trndo. i&fcsHIIIIH When It Is borne In mind that 80 per tmlLI cent of tho broadstuffs of this great tUsl country has to ho brought from ifllillllH abroad, you will readily appreciate wH with what great satisfaction wo vlow iell tho largo and stoadlly increasing bud- tSal lilies of grain which nro annunlly avail- UBI able for oxport from Canada, and I iWlil challenge contradiction when I say lilll thnt of tho wheats wo Import HffH from Russia, India, tho Pacific, iulH and. tho length nnd breadth of EsH tho United States, nono gives more luH general satisfaction, nono is more ifi'fl gonernlly appreciated than that attH raised In tho l'rovlnco of Mnnl- u,lIIIIH toba. Wo cannot get enough of It, irfllllH nnd It Is no exaggeration to say thai IsHUfl thnro aro before us dozens of mlllora ItfflaiiiH who hunger for it. This is not the KJI tlmo to enter Into statistical qttcs- SHiHHI tlons, but wo look forward with con- MJal fidenco to tho tlmo at which, with the' Sll prosont rato of progress, tho Dominion 1 of Canada will havo a sufilclent sur- SalLl plus of wheat to render this country flal Independent of other sources of sup- Ml lily. I think I may, with Justifiable 9 pride, remind you that this Is tho chief Pisil grain mnrkot of tho British Emplro, sisil and through Its excellent geographical iPil position, ns well as through tho enter- iIeIIIIH prlso of Its millers, It, Is now tho boo- SH ond milling center In tho world. HLsH Send to any authorized Canadian SmH Guvoriimcnt agent for copy of Atlas H and Information oh to 'railway rato, Ssl |