. Review of reviews and world's work. anadian Pacific, is grow-ing rapidly. Brandon, the second city of Manito-ba, has spent seven hundred thousand dollars inbuildings this year. Portage la Prairie, thethird city in the province, situated in one ofthe most fertile wheat regions in America,shows remarkable growth. WHAT THE FUTURE MAY BRING. All of this rapid material advance raises thequestion, what will the future bring ? Ten yearsago, the maximum wheat crop of western Can-ada was •20,000,000 bushels. In L902, it was(37,000,000 bushels ; the next bumper crop willtake the total yield of wheat t
. Review of reviews and world's work. anadian Pacific, is grow-ing rapidly. Brandon, the second city of Manito-ba, has spent seven hundred thousand dollars inbuildings this year. Portage la Prairie, thethird city in the province, situated in one ofthe most fertile wheat regions in America,shows remarkable growth. WHAT THE FUTURE MAY BRING. All of this rapid material advance raises thequestion, what will the future bring ? Ten yearsago, the maximum wheat crop of western Can-ada was •20,000,000 bushels. In L902, it was(37,000,000 bushels ; the next bumper crop willtake the total yield of wheat to 100,000,000bushels. It takes 117 miles of cars to handle thegrain grown on the Canadian Pacific alone. Tenyears ago, the acreage devoted to wheat was1,000,000 acres ; to-day. it is 3,500,000, and nextyear it will be 4,500,000. With the wholesalebuilding of railways now beginning, the areaunder cultivation should increase fully as rapid I \in the next decade as in that just past. By1915, then, there will be about ten million acres. THE GREATEST IRRIGATION WORK IN AMERICA. (Scene on the main ditch —60 feet wide at the bottom—of the Canadian Pacificsundertaking at Calgary.) 584 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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