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The President brought under the notice of the Board, a letter which he had received from the Board of Trade in Montreal, enclosing copies of some letters which had appeared in English newspapers, containing serious attacks upon Manitoba and the North West, as regards its climate and adaptability for agricultural operations, and also stating in effect that Win- nipeg was a failure, and that the accounts which had been circulated as to its progress were baseless and untrue — that it had, in fact, collapsed, and that its doom was sealed, &c., &c. The President stated that the letters forwarded to him ;from the Board of Trade in Montreal were only samples of what had for several weeks been appearing in certain newspapers in London — all apparently arising from some singular concert of action — and intended to depreciate the North West parts of Canada as a field for emigration from Great Britain and Ireland. The object of these various newr^paper articles and letters appeared to be two-fold — the one to " bear " certain securities for purposes of stock- jobbing speculation, and the other to aid certain railway interests in Canada, and the United States, to injure the prospects of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way and to prevent its completing financial arrangements in the money markets of Europe. This last object is made unmistakeably plain in a late article which appeared in the Money Market Review of London, England. The President further stated, that he had thought this whole matter so important that he had called the Board of Trade of the City of Winnipeg together, in order that the attacks made upon the country as a whole, and upon Winnipeg in particular, might be fully considered, and such a state- ment of facts made public, as would shew the utter falsity of the attacks that had been made. The President then submitted the following statement, which had been prepared by the Council of the Board as a reply to the statements which had been so ii dustriously circulated in England by parties who had special objects to serve in doing so — as follows : i • %♦*•< Of THE UNIVERSITY f OF AlBERTA J >.Mt< V^a.'^ The assertion that the climate is too severe for existence or comfort is completely dispelled hy the fact that year after year increasing numbers of people come into the country and rapidly become prosperous and contented residents and agricultural settlers. In fact, THE CLIMATE is about the same as that of the northern portions of Dakota and Minnesota, and in which, during the last twenty years, between one and two millions of people have settled, being attracted thereto by the great fertility of the soil. The isothermal line, in which the great wheat-producing belt of this continent lies, passing though Minnesota and Dakota, advances in a north- westerly direction through Manitoba, and beyond it in the direction of the Peace River valley, upwards of 1200 miles west of Winnipeg, and through- out which immense distance, it is now established, lies the greatest extent of wheat lands, largely yet untilJed, and which all authorities agree, must be- come the great grain yielding territory of the continent of North America. Taking advantage of this remarkable provision of nature, Manitoba, which five years ago had but a few sparse settlements on the borders of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, has, by the rapid growth of population, been compelled to double the extent of its area, until it now reaches, in ever- increasing continuous settlements of people, engaged in successful farming operations, a distance of two hundred miles west of the Red River, on which Winnipeg is situated, and stretching beyond the western confines of the Province of Manitoba. Population is now pouring along the lines of railway in operation or in course of construction, and has already reached the shores of the two branches of the great Saskatchewan river. Again, beyond that to the westward,, settlers are still pressing onward, and are peopling and stocking with herds of cattle the gr^at ranche lands on the rich plains to the eastward of the Rocky mountains, and where the warm chinook winds of the Pacific ocean come through the depressions in the mountains and by their warmth allow the vast herds which feed upon the rich grasses to remain out during the months of winter, without any necessity for providing shelter for them. • It is in such a country that already is to be found a large, prosperous, and contented agricultural population, whose numbers are increasing year after year in an ever increasing ratio — a population which finds no such fault with the climate as is so untruthfully depicted by " bears " who want to de- press the price of stocks which they have sold but cannot deliver except at a loss, and by rival railway undertakings, which seek to injure a great national undertaking- the Canadian Pacific Railway. The best proof of the success which this rapidly growing agricultural community is unquestionably achieving is to be found in the wonderful growth and rapid strides which are being made by the City of Winnipeg, whose prosperity is ,' m^ 8 Winnipeg are the most irrefragable proofs of tlie prosperity an«l constant increasi! of the agricultural population throughout the country west of it. What, then, are the facts as regards Winnipeg, which, according to some of the letters referred to has " collapsed," and " whose doom is sealed " ? THE POPULATION OF WINNIPEG in 1872 was 1,000 ; in 1875 it was 3,000 : in 1879, 7,000, an.