THE COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES OF CANADA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6435, 6 January 1900, Page 2

THE COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES OF CANADA.

[bv habby fobxiss.] Iu the Christmas numberof the Windsor Magazine, Mr Harry Furniss writes at some length on tho subject of out Canadian Empire. With regard to the commercial possibilities of the country he says:—" The maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island are rich in fertile soil, with large areas of yaluate timber. They have great deposits Wi coal, iron, and other minerals; millions of tons of granite, marble, and choice building stone can bo quarried from their hills; the waters which wash their shores teem with every variety of marketable fish. Quebec and Ontario have, yet vaster forests of hard and soft woods, In their temperate climate all kinds of fruits, grains, and vegetables are grown in great quantities j they are rich in valuable minerals, and thousands of streams furnish abundant motive power for manufacturing industries. Fremantle West is tho prairie provinceof Manitoba, with its illimitable expanse ol rich soils, which are yielding each year many millions of bushels of wheat, oats, barley, and other grains. Iu the newer territories between Manitoha and liritisb Columbia there, are millions and more millions of acres of the finest wheat-growing land in the world, where the quality known* to American and English millers as "Manitoba No. 1 hard," which is superior to the wheat of all other countries for breadmaking purposes can be ■grown, in unlimited quantities. Iu these reiejous, too, are line grazing lands, where great herds of cattle can beiattd and fattened at little expense. BrfSu Columbia has most of the resources of the other provinces, and some peculiarly her own. Her coal mines furnish tho only bigh-grado coal found on the Pacific coast, Her riyer sands yield rich returns of gold, and in the newly developed Kooteimy district, iu the southern part of the province, some of the richest gold and silver deposits ever worked iu America have been discovered. Gigantic pines, firs, and other trees cover the greater part of the province, and furnish an inexhaustible supply of lumber for export. The salmon fisheries are a neyer-failing source of profit, in which largo numbers of men are employed. This is but a mere hint at tho immense resources, or, in othor words, opportunities for the production of wealth iu tbe Dominion of Canada."

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