Seven years ago there was only the shack there, Henri.

Two years ago there were eighteen hundred people.
This year, when I came through, there were five thousand, and two years from now there'll be ten thousand.
"On the ground where that shack stood are three banks, with a capital of forty million dollars; you can see the glow of the electric lights of the city twenty miles away.

It has a hundred-thousand dollar college, a high school, the provincial asylum, a fire department, two clubs, a board of trade, and it's going to have a street-car line within two years.

Think of that--all where the coyotes howled a few years ago! "People are coming in so fast that they can't keep a census.

Five years from now there'll be a city of twenty thousand where the old shack stood.