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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 4, 5 January 1910, Page 9

The Americanl invasion ■of Canada- i» steadilyi increasing, ':■ and .each : -summer'* figure, show a big increase on the last. This is because settlers :in the Canadian I West-write to their old homes describing , the new land-and their prospects.in such terms that : many' others follow. These American trekk'ers..ara just.the".right sort of men, possessing energy, experience, and capita 1. They change their domiciles with: ' the certainty of 'improving theif fortunes; Mr. James J. Hill, the "great-railway, builder,? advised the jp'ublic of' Western Canada "not' to -try -.to get: people who will have to be fie noted with approval the remarkable develop-. ment of the Canadian North-West, and. thought' that the country was to be congratulated on the class of men coming into till its -fer tile acres. -, He warned those concerned, however, not to be too anxious to .obtain; more' numbers. "It is a long, hard jdh,? said, Mr.-, Hill, . H tiL assimilate- a foreign population." Ha. called attention to the fact that large numbers of men from the Western States are entering'•"the .Canadian' NorthtWesi. with from £10ieO:to £4000 -each; 1 "men .who ..will make as;much.progress: in orar year as the average."European'immigrant would in ten years." ' : ''-'