Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . NO. 1 LOCOMOTIVE COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN AT WINNIPEG. manys submarine activities became sovirulent, we have been made to realizethe full meaning of the foregoing state-ment. Food, by nature is the primalneed. In a country such as ours, withits prodigal endownment of not onlythe wherewithal to raise food crops inabundance, but of natural resources inthe spheres of lumber and minerals, allof which pertain to national as well asindividual well-being, and because of theincrease, the problem of transportingthe surplus naturally arose, a
Canadian machinery and metalworking (July-December 1917) . NO. 1 LOCOMOTIVE COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN AT WINNIPEG. manys submarine activities became sovirulent, we have been made to realizethe full meaning of the foregoing state-ment. Food, by nature is the primalneed. In a country such as ours, withits prodigal endownment of not onlythe wherewithal to raise food crops inabundance, but of natural resources inthe spheres of lumber and minerals, allof which pertain to national as well asindividual well-being, and because of theincrease, the problem of transportingthe surplus naturally arose, and throughthe medium of our railroad installations,same was and is being solved. It is, ofcourse, realised that our magnificent. jacent to and well removed from thesphere of ships and shipping. Railways have been built in territories,the only product of which had beenLuffalo skins, through forests, the onlydenizens of which were moose, caribou,and other more or less wild financial burdens have beenshouldered, and seemingly insurmount-able natural obstacles have been brushedaside, as a result, Canada has becameto a larere extent ^elf-sufficient and self-supporting, in addition taking her placeas a world provider. Where the buffaloranged, there are now to be seen thous-ands upon thousands of acres of wavinggrain each season, and when the harvestis in full swing, wheat alone, flowsthrough the citv of Winnipeg-, Provinceof Manitoba, at the rate of over oneand a quarter million bushels per day,equal to a solid train of cars ten mileslong and more. Production is increasingwith each succeeding year, all of whichhas been made possible by the railroadbuilder. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE BUILT IN THE C
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