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Show GOOD PROSPECTS IN CANADA. m From Salt Lake City to Raymond iu m Forty Hours. PLENTY OF GOOD LAND AND WATER. H Oood Opportunities for Settlers to H Secure Land nud Grow Up H with the Country. H" Tho following description of tlio H provinco of Alberta, in Canndn, was H obtained by our reporter from ono of H' our business mon who took advantage H of tho recent excursion rutoa to that H country to soo tho pluco for himself. H Tho company loft Salt Lko City H fit 11:15 p. m., and urrlvod at Ray- H tnoud, about 1,000 miles distant, In H about forty hours. Eu route thoy H Kissed through Idaho and Montana, B"" both of which, along tho lino of tho H railroad, looked dry und uuluritlug H particularly tho latter. H As soon as tho lino botweon tho Ht Uuitod Statos and tho British Doni- H inlons was passed the aspect of tho H country changed and a rich, luxuriant H .growth of grass cororod tho country, H which consists of a level or rolling H plain, dostituto of timber. H Tho town of Raymond was first sot- H tlod about throe years ago, and is tho H -contor of tho boot sugar industry iu H that section. It possossos n sugar Qv factory that has cost a million dol- M Jars, and Is second to none iu its H -oquipugo. Tho soil there is well M adapted to tho growth of tho sugar H boot, with an abundance of water for v irrigation, whon noodod, but thoy ilnd M irrigation uunecosary. Tho farmors M aro guarautood 64.50 por ton for their B boots, and thoy can raiso from flight H; to ,flf toon tous to tho. acre EL fr-TaCttlta' can bo 'bought' from 'tho f air-' Hp' road company at from four to eight H dollars por aero, and purchasers aro M allowed tan yours in which to pay for M it. As thoro Is no wood iu tho coun- H, try tho settlors uso coal for fuol, H which thoy got at Lothbrldgo, about H twonty-ilvo or thirty miles distant. H Oity lots in Raymond cost 820 each, H but nono aro for salo, oxcopt to por- sous who actually lutond to dwoll on H thorn or erect buildings thoroon. H About tho samo conditions obtain at H Stirling, sorcu miles from Raymond H us thoso dosoribod above, oxcopt thoso H pertaining to boot-culturo. H' Tho laud produces most oxcollout H crops of grain and potatoos, as high H as eight hundred bushols of tho latter H having boon raisod thoro on ono ncro H of laud, and that, too, without Irri- H gatiou. Thoy aro having what thoy H call n drought thoro this your, und H' tholr crops, thoy say, uro consider- H ably below tho avorago iu consoquon- H co, but our informant said that to H him thoy appeared to bo fine crops. H It takos a four-horso team to plow tho H sod that oovors ull tho country, tho H first timo. Tho farmors plow it H about throo inohos deop und turn tho H sod complotoly over. It is allowed H to lio iu this condition until tho fol- B lowing spring, whon tho frost and H snow of winter will havo disintcgrat- H od tho grass roots und mellowed tho H ground so complotoly that it cuu bo H plowed to any depth dosirod for tho H putting iu of crops. H Tho soil thoro is a rich black loam H and novor bakes or hardens us our H clay soil does hero. H Auothor foaturo of tho country H seems to bo that tho soil iu nil vory H much nliko iu charactor that is, it . H ull sooms to bo good land. H Tho sottlors might put up thousands M of tons of hay, but as their stock H winter on tho rnngo nud koop fot, H thoy cannot soo tho nood of putting H up. hay. M Our informant called upon John II. H Adams, who moved to Stirling from M this pluco lust May, and found him Hj moro than ploasod with tho country. H Mr. Adams has put up a neat houso 1 since ho got thoro, und has soourod M u largo pioco of laud, upon any part m of whioh ho can out grass that pays m to muko into hay, if ho wants it. ,M IIo Is getting land reudy for a crop B uoxtyonr, and although ho could take H his toam and go to work for othor M pcoplo, cloariug throo or four dollars H por day, ho cannot afford to do it us M thoro is more inouoy iu uttoudiug to his own work. IIo showed our in formant somo of tho gardous iu tho town, which is but rccontly settled, und ho was astonished at tho lino vegetables that woro to bo soon, nil raised without irrigation. In ono gardon Mr. Adams Bhowod him n patch of turnips growing, and upon examination exam-ination of tho roots thoy found ono that was a foot iu diumotor. Good drinking wutor is found nil over that part of tho country at n dopth of from oight to flftoou foot bo-low bo-low tho surface Farm products nil find a reudy mnrkot at good prlcos, us tho railway goes right through tho country, and buyers como in us soon us tho crops uro harvested, nud often boforo, and buy up tho grain und othor products, so that tho fnrmor thoro is not dopoudont upon tho locnl domnud for his prico of products, but cnu sell iu tho markets of tho world, at world's prlcos, loss tho cost of transportation, whioh Is reasonable. Whon asked about tho drawbacks, wo woro told that thnro aro cold wnvos that puss over tho country iu tho winter season, which sometimes last two weoks and that somo pooplo complain com-plain of, but that most pooplo say that thoy do not feel tho cold any moro thoro than thoy did iu Utah. In somo parts in tho summer timo tho mosquitoes aro vory annoying, tholr season bolng about six weeks. Our informant attended a fuir at Lothbridgo, which is tho coal mining contor, nud ho wns struck with tho prosperous apponco of tho pooplo, of whioh thori.gro about ton thousand thou-sand prosout, niul ho was also impressed impres-sed with their law-abiding charactor, which ho attributed to tho oillcioucy of tho mounted police, who uro n lino body of officers and show neither fear nor favor iu tho dlschurgo of their duty. IIo wa swoll convinced that Canada is tho country for energetic, ambitious ambi-tious young mou to begin lifo in, and that thoro Is room for groat numbors of thorn to etnrtfWoll in thin country, "Vrhich' is f'toiiiHIntoutH'niul'iairpofces a now ono. |