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Show tion down to the commercial bodies of the western Canada towns the coming , ear will witness efforts surpassing any previously put forth, which in less than ten years have drawn over 700,000 Americans across the border. Not only have the reports of a returning tide from the Dominion to the states been denied, with United States custom figures for confirmation, but the Canadian policy of aiding settlers has been broadened. The erection of elevators at townsites where the railways are being extended is calculated to assure a market for grain as soon as the virgin lands are put into crops. The Canadian immigration agents have been supplied with data and maps showing all the prospective or new towns on railway extensions exten-sions and are using these effectively. If any systematic effort is made by the reclamation service to check immigration it will need to be put into working order promptly. Railway extensions in western Canada will total 3,000 miles in 1910. The Grand Trunk Pacific has crossed the head of the Last Mountain valley, which William Pearson of Winnipeg already has colonized and established the town of Nokomis as a priamry market. Other towns in the valley Strass-burg, Strass-burg, Findlater, Sifton, Bulyea and Govan are tapped by other transcontinental railway lines and are growing rapidly. The remarkable remark-able settlement in that locality has required all the elevator and school facilities which were provided, seemingly far in adw"-" of the actual needs at the time. CANADA. TO SUSTAIN EXODUS. Redoubled efforts by western Canada in immigration work has been one result of the reports from Washington designed to check the exodus to the Dominion, according to information of the Chicago office of the United States reclamation service. One novel plan, requiring re-quiring the co-operation of the railways, is that of erecting an elevator ele-vator as well as a station at each townsite on the new extensions, and the government is to follow with school houses. Reports indicate that from the Dominion department of immigra- |
