Scottish geographical magazine . PHICAL MAGAZINE. having proved one of the greatest silver-producing centres of the world,but possessing in its clay belt, which covers many thousands of squaremiles, agricultural areas equal to any in the rich southern half of theprovince. It had been proved that, wherever the long line of the KockyMountains was approached, new and vast mineral resources came tolight. The use of spruce wood for the manufacture of paper and thedemand for timber and pulp wood consequent on the exhaustion of theforests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and the United States generally, hadgi
Scottish geographical magazine . PHICAL MAGAZINE. having proved one of the greatest silver-producing centres of the world,but possessing in its clay belt, which covers many thousands of squaremiles, agricultural areas equal to any in the rich southern half of theprovince. It had been proved that, wherever the long line of the KockyMountains was approached, new and vast mineral resources came tolight. The use of spruce wood for the manufacture of paper and thedemand for timber and pulp wood consequent on the exhaustion of theforests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and the United States generally, hadgiven an increased value to every acre of the forests of central NewBrunswick, Northern Quebec, and the woodland belt north of the tree-less prairie. Experience, too, had steadily pushed further noithward the area overwhich it was recognised that wheat could be successfully grown in theAvest, and the pioneers in the ncAvly settled northern districts clamoured forthe same facilities enjoyed by those further south. These were impor-. FiG. 8. —Fall Ploughing, Ontario. tant considerations, but there Avere still others. Commerce was growingupon the Pacific, and opened up large possibilities. In spite of the difficulties presented on its route across the mountains,the Canadian Pacific had made itself a great passenger route, had openedup an immense mining region, and had competed successfully withAmerican lines in carrying on a large trans-Pacific trade. But a linefurther noith would have no small advantage over all competitors indealing with heavy traffic by crossing the mountains through theYellowhead Pass. The grades on this route are far lighter than anyother on the American Continent, and so the cost of transportation byit would be proportionately decreased. Now the farmer in the extremewest believes that this route offers an opportunity to convey his wheatby way of the Pacific, not only to Asia, l)ut to Europe as well, especiallywhen the completion of the Panama Canal has cut d
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