trains gratis annually, and giving a general hearty co- 

 operation and helping hand to our people, we have enjoyed 

 and continue to enjoy their esteem, appreciation and 

 patronage. Likewise, in association with the Departments 

 of Agriculture of the Provinces and Dominion and their 

 numerous specialty branches, campaigns are carried on 

 at intervals when deemed to be timely and essential. 

 The "Better Farming" train operated by the Canadian 

 Pacific is called the "Agricultural College on Wheels," 

 and includes instruction in every phase. Specialists in 

 various branches such as grain growing, pure-bred live- 

 stock, dairying, domestic science, horticulture, etc., are 

 provided, and every facility is given for the purpose of 

 education and instruction, with demonstrations, benefit- 

 ing the settlers by practical advice and assisting them 

 toward making a thorough success of their farm under- 

 takings. 



The most recent train operated concluded in March 

 a trip of over 5,000 miles and, in conjunction with a " Dairy 

 Special" operating simultaneously, was attended by thirty 

 thousand interested people. The younger generation is 

 not overlooked, as Boys' and Girls' Clubs exist practically 

 throughout Western Canada, and are fostered in their 

 efforts toward better productions of soil products as well 

 as pure-bred livestock. 



The possibilities of agriculture throughout Canada, 

 but with emphasis upon the newly settled provinces west 

 of the Great Lakes, are unlimited. While Canada has half 

 as much of the arable land as the United States, viz.: 

 400,000,000 acres, only one-tenth of this is under cultiva- 

 tion, yet, notwithstanding this, stands fourth among all 

 nations of the world in railway mileage and first in propor- 

 tion of mileage to population. 



Twenty Thousand Miles of Track 



The Canadian Pacific Railway consists of 19,662 miles 

 of track, including its subsidiary lines, of which 4,963 

 miles are in United States territory. Agricultural and 

 livestock interests are followed closely in this huge con- 

 tiguous territory, and while perhaps more special attention 

 is paid to the western provinces, this, as you will naturally 

 conclude, is due to the greater needs of the newer settlers 

 who, to a greater degree incline to favor the prairie prov- 

 inces, and British Columbia. 



Time does not permit more than passing reference 

 to the latter province, and to do justice to its magnificent 

 agricultural resources the subject would need be dealt with 

 exhaustively. British Columbia fruit and vegetables are 

 world renowned and the volume of production is increasing 

 annually. Our Company, in a similar manner to that 

 obtaining with respect to the prairie provinces, maintains 

 close relations with fruit and produce growers and their 

 needs, also with a view to the increase of cultivated areas. 

 Canada has the biggest ranch of the world, 75,850 

 square miles, for raising caribou and musk-ox, away up 

 in the far North. This leads me to dwell for a moment or 

 two upon the subject of livestock on the farms. We are 

 becoming more interested and active from year to year 

 in the matter of pure-bred stock, and breeders are being 

 encouraged in every possible manner to eliminate the scrub 

 and replace with pure-bred animals. 



The Canadian Pacific operates the largest pure-bred 

 Holstein herd in Canada specializing in combined produc- 

 tion and quality this is on their 10,000 acre farm at 

 Strathmore, Alberta, the finest demonstration farm in 

 Canada. One million dollars' worth of stock has been sold 

 to settlers and the latter still have opportunity of obtain- 

 ing high class sires at reasonable prices for stock improve- 

 ment. On the same farm a poultry plant is operated and 

 holds the highest individual record for Canada in Dominion 

 egg-laying competition. Honors in the home country 

 never satisfied Canadians, so they have been going and 

 continue to go beyond in quest of them, frequently making 

 the rendezvous, either your Kansas City or Chicago. 

 You are all familiar with the repeated winnings of Cana- 

 dian exhibitors in the United States, with the world's 

 records in wheat and oats, numerous individual records 

 with Clydesdales, not forgetting that "Wee Donald" won 



the Grand Championship at the last International, and 

 also the splendid showing of steers from the Alberta 

 University. 



All of these attainments are as deeply appreciated by 

 the Railway Company as the owner and exhibitor. We 

 lend our best efforts toward better production; the Com- 

 pany has built up immense agricultural communities 

 throughout the territory served by its lines, and appre- 

 ciates that the continued progress and success of its patrons 

 means permanent and profitable business as a transporta- 

 tion company. A striking proof of its success is to be found 

 in the comparatively high financial standing of the Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway even at this particular period of 

 financial stringency and uncertainty. 



Industrial Development on the C.P.R. 



By G. W. Curtis, Industrial Agent, Eastern 

 Lines, C. P. R. 



I have been asked by the President of this Association 

 to prepare a paper on the Industrial Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, with which concern I am 

 associated in the capacity of Industrial Agent. By this 

 I understand that you would like to hear something about 

 our methods of locating manufacturers on our lines and 

 securing new business for the road through the develop- 

 ment of mineral deposits, etc. I will not touch on the 

 agricultural phase of this work as I notice our Mr. Acheson, 

 General Agricultural Agent of the Company at Winnipeg, 

 is to speak on this. 



As most of you are doubtless aware, the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway has a mileage of 14,698 miles, and 

 4,963 miles in the United States. Such a giant organiza- 

 tion has numerous ramifications, branches and depart- 

 ments, off-shoots again of these ^o many that it is a diffi- 

 cult matter to tabulate them individual cogs which go 

 to make up the perfectly working mechanism. The major- 

 ity of them are purely railroad activities, but many have 

 as great an appeal nationally and are engaged in the 

 active development of the Dominion whilst indirectly 

 pushing the progress of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 

 National and railroad development must inevitably go 

 hand in hand, and this is the raison d'etre of the establish- 

 ment of certain of the Company's works. 



The Industrial Department, Eastern Lines, with 

 which I am connected, has particularly to do with the 

 location of branch factories of American and English 

 concerns who are desirous of expanding and manufacturing 

 in Canada. When an industrial concern is known to be 

 so desirous of establishing, I immediately get in touch 

 with it, either by a personal call or sending one of our 

 travelling men, and point out to them how they may save 

 both time and money by taking up this question through 

 our Department. Prior to the institution of this work, a 

 manufacturer who was desirous of establishing a Canadian 

 branch plant, sent over a representative who visited as 

 many different Canadian towns as he thought necessary 

 or advisable, inspected sites, deposits, and made all perti- 

 nent inquiries, and prepared a report for his employers 

 accordingly. In so doing he spent a good deal of unneces- 

 sary time and money, hurriedly picked up a lot of infor- 

 mation which might be and might not be strictly accurate 

 and must inevitably be conflicting, and altogether did not 

 get the utmost satisfaction for his pains or the benefits of 

 the most expert advice. The establishment of the Indus- 

 trial Branch has changed all this. By getting into touch 

 with us now and telling us in confidence what his require- 

 ments will be in the nature of labor, power, raw material 

 and other factors of his particular line of manufacture, 

 the manufacturer is able to get the most expert advice 

 from our own general knowledge of the Dominion and 

 its resources and from the information kept on file in the 

 office, which is the result of investigations carried out by 

 men who are specialists in their particular lines. When a 

 digest is made of the whole situation as it affects him, he 

 is given the names of four or five towns which will bear 

 investigating, thus eliminating a great deal of unnecessary 

 travel on the part of the manufacturer or his representative. 



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