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In the foregoing sketches we have but imperfectly outlined the
great. natural wealth and unequalled advantages offered to settlers
and capitalists in the great North West and Southern Manitoba,
and we now come to the city of Emerson, whose industrial growth
it is the object of our work to record.

The traveler bound for the North West, after making his“ jour-
ney either by the lake route or overland via Chicago and St. Paul,
crosses the international boundary line on the Canadian Pacific
Railway, and makes his first stop at the Gate City. Here he
stands at the door of the great land of promise, and like Ali
Balie in the story of our childhood, repeats the “Open Sesame”
that he may enter further and view the hidden treasures of this
long-wished-for land. Here he can cast and shape his future
course through the great land of his adoption, and here learn
more fully the rewards that await the thrifty and industrious in
this great land of illimitable possibility. To such, and to all in-
terested in the future of the Great North West, a record of the in-
dustrial progress of this city, which forms the key to this whole
territory, may not be uninteresting. If, however, any readers'may
be looking for a fairy picture and magic growth, they will be sadly
disappointed. Cities of the North West have no mythical origin,
and the history of their growth is merely a record of patient toil
and well-judged enterprise. Nor shall our record be one where
Scientific research will be the motive in view, but shall be confined
to the progress of commerce, manufactures, and matters connected
therewith. ' '

 

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