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storage capacity at the many railroad stations 

 has kept pace with the rapid increase in wheat 

 growing. Western Canada has three trunk lines 

 of railroad and these railroads have built thou- 

 sands of miles of branch lines and new roads are 

 still being built. The Canadian Northern will 

 soon complete a new line from northern Sas- 

 katchewan to Ft. Churchill on Hudson's Bay 

 with the purpose of opening a new water route to 

 Europe. The advantage of this Hudson's Bay route 

 can not be over-estimated. Ft. Churchill to 

 Liverpool is the same distance as New York to 

 Liverpool. 



The thousands of miles of railroads and the 

 ever improving shipping facilities, the vast areas 

 of cheap lands, the remarkably fertile soil, the 

 progressive class of settlers who have taken up 

 these lands, (largely Americans from Iowa and 

 Minnesota and farmers from eastern Canada) 

 and the increasing number of new settlers who 

 continue to come each year give a very promising 

 outlook for the development of the wheat growing 

 industry of the great Canadian Northwest. This 

 development will do much towards relieving the 

 situation as regards the decreasing world's supply 

 of food over which some economists have worried 

 during the last few years. 



