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Les diagrammes suivants iilustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 > .'- r'4. \r ■M! ^y L"' ua;^ ■•Wtp JC3. Jrl iniirlL •>' « c ss':'* ■ ' FpE THE E /V^a L Y D e V E L O P M E N T I WIIsTNlPEa, MANITOBA. Kenny & LuxTON, Free Pbess Printing House 1873. -r- itr .5^. ' |^w^yl»flf,■(;^'*^w*H^i•.sw■^?^llL«lm^^,^H!'''■w'* w' t A PLEA FOR THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF OUR RESOURCES. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA. Kenny & Luxton, Free Press Printing House 1878. ipp wmmm 'ii&llli.ik, "-.,1. ^i -.1. "P^WF^f^ 'i';HW'!*«"l'W."'"'4l'Jn«'"' " !-, HIIPIHIJU .1 PLEA I' Oil THE KAIILY DKVKLOPMENT OF OUR RESOURCES. Thri*' is ijo ncc-cssily so clearly seen, nor any the iiiiporl ol' wliicli is more lully r('coanis«'(l ))y the people ol ihis Province, ihaii the necessity of devt'lopiny, with- out delay, our avaihihh* natural resources. It is conceded u|)oM every hand ihat prodiictioji in the main hranchen ol' natural iiuhistry is essential, not only to any perman- ent prosjierily which may characterize the future ol" this couniry, hut lo our very and immediate existence as a Province. The disjiarily which exists at present between our exj)orls and our im])orts is striking- in the extreme. The latter may well ))»' considered excessive lor a much lari»-er population than we can numlx'r, while the form- er, consisting- chielly of raw furs, a])pears almost insigni- hcant. It need hardly ])e remarked that the dill'erence between Ihe sum we pay for goods br(mght into the country, and that which we leceive !'or goods sent out of the country, is almost so much nu)iu'y lost to the Province, and, U]) t(' this time, the drain of money llowinii' into the hands of our iieiu'hbois across the line, for provisions, freights, etc., and to the Provinces of Ontario and Que- bec, for dry lioods, uroceries and hardwar<\ has]>oth be(!n inci'ssant and on tin* increase. This state ol' matters is, no doubt, characteristic of all new countri(»sat the outset of ihi'ii- care<'r : but if Manitoba i.s to become the i»'reat and proNjx'roiis Province which nature seems to have intended, and wiiich itisthe hope and belief of those who ar«' best alfected to the Dominion, she shall l)ecomi>, this drain of our lil'e-blood, so to s[)eak, must speedily C(nise, — the a(lv«'rse balaiic*' of trade must lirst be reduced, and linally turned in our fav(U', and in order to achieve this desirable result it is plain we must hav- recourse to the deveiopnienl of our principal mitural resources. The pecuniary requirements of the Province have hitherto been supplied chielly by the money taken into the country by immisTuiitN, und by Ihf lam*' (lisbnrsc- ments by Govenimout in connection with Hie nulilfiry and pivil services. While we nniy reH^'onublv ho])e Ihal the amount ol' money which will How into the country, by the channels just indicated, enpecially by the ibrnier. will not be less lor some time to come than it lins been in the past, and while we have every reiison to expect thai an immense and permanent addition will be made to the capital of the Province, and a ccnreKpondincr ijupetus ffiven to its commerce, by the Canadian Pacilic Railway, both while that gig;antic undertakini^* i« under construc- tion, and after it has been completed ; it muKt be remem- bered that all these sources of income are more or less adventitious and uncertain in their nature, and it would be consummate folly in us to depend too much upon external aids, no matter how promising and valuable some of them may be for a time, and to allow our natural resources — upon the due development of which our ulti- mate prosperity must be based — to remain in abeyance, A more fitting time than the present to begin the great work of our material prosperity, has not hitherto occurred, and may never occur again in our annals. It is extremely improbable that such a conjunction of auspicious circum- stances, as at present smile upon the career of our younff Province, can ever take place again ; and the object of these remarks is to impress upon all who have a stake in the country, and who have its true and lasting prosperity at heart, that advantage ought to be tak'>! Manitoba — a source of wealth which is practically illimitable and exhaustless lies in her soil. The Prairie Proviiice is essentially «n agri'jultural Province, and we believe that the development of this resource is likely to b(^ of more value than that of all the other resources of the country ])ut toi>'ether, and in this belief we would urg'e the attention of all parties interested to the subject. Let us look for a little at the natural advantages and facilities which this country offers for the successful pro- secution oi' affricultural operations. II' we institute a comparison between our condition in the above respects and that ol' the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, or even the most fertile and best farmed counties in England and Scotland, the results will all bear witness in our favor. In Ontario the progress of the farmer is impeded, first, by forests which have to be cut down, and then by stumps which have to be eradicated by a slow and ex- pensive process. In many places the soil is of indifferent (juality, and the roads leading to market are often of the worst possible description. In Quebec, especially along the north shore of the Hi. Lawrence, and east shore of the Ottawa, the general character and aspect of the country is rocky and sterile. In many places the soil is quite unsuitabl 3 for agriculture, being poor and thin, and the farmers in that Province, have, in addition to these disadvantages, all those which are encountered by the I'armers of Ontario. In certain counties in England and Scotland farming may be said to have reached the highest development it has ever attained, and there is no other department of industry pursued in G^reat Britain to which the people of that country can point with so much well-founded pride, as to their agriculture. The high degree of excellence, however, to which English and Scotch farmers haA''e attained is not to be attributed to the native fertility of i.t J.US J!' its principles. Now, in Manitoba we have ji eountry which presents none of the impediments jiiid (lr:i\vl)!u;ks whieh harass the farmers in the other Provinees of the Domin- ion. Our soil is rich and deep — d<'Void niike oC stones and stumps — a soil which, if broken in one season, is ready to receiv^e a crop in the next — a soil which, when fairly under cultivation, will show results su(th iis British farmers can scarcely show, after devotinu- hnlf a century to the scientific practice of auriculture, aiid that too, with every appliance which science and art could suiiu'est, or money procure. The fertile soil and level surface of this country oiler unrivalled facilities for th(» pursuit of imricnltui\' on a large scale. Nowhere on this continh our own territory, and by means of communiciition ol' our own, to the leading grain mrrkets of the word — an outlet which, for cheapness and speed, will probubly be unequalled. Our distance from the nearest point of the great water hiifhway to Kurope is but lour hundred mih's, and the coHHtructorH of the Pacitic Railway have underliiken to complete that portion of the road by 1H7(). With all theHe facts in view: the necessity oldev»'l- opin«|' our atrncultural resources, in order t<> turn the balaiUM' of trade in our favor, and to prevent the Province from becomiui? perpetually poverty-stricken ; tht> unriv- ull«d facilities we possess for em))arkini»' in this threat branch of human occupation, on a larufe und profitable scale ; the certainty of an immediate local demand, at remunerative prices ; and the further certainty that, before tlie Province can have much produce to export, we shall have cheap and speedy communication with the leiidinii' urain markets of the world, ouuht surely to stimulate all who possess the .juisite facilities to t'liuaiie, without delay, in developinjir our main resource to the fullest possible extent. Those w^ho are most conversant with the character- istics of tht' climate and soil of this Province predict that it, and otl • portions of the fertile belt, will, in a few y«'ars, bee Mne the i^arden and •'•raiiaiy of the Dominion ; and, without consideriniif themselv(\s too sany-uine, they i)ulul«»e in the pleasinj^ prospect of yet beholdinjj^ our rather bleak-looking plains divided, by hedifes and fencos, into rei^ular fields, interspersed with i^roves of trees and dotted over with homesteads — the comfortable and sub- stantial dwellings of a prosperous and numerous populc- tion. We can say a fervent Amen to both the prediction and the prospect, and we trust that all who have the true interests of the Province at heart will, without delay, do what they can to insure the commencement of so desira- ble a consummation. KktimituJW -■•.--.<.. '3 *S-i