| Show 1 ALBERTA REGION IS PROSPEROUS People in Northern Country Are Contented With Condi Conditions Crops Bountiful b Richard Bridge the State street t drug druggist dru i gist returned yesterday forenoon from southern bouthern Alberta Canada whither er he went lent In response to a telegram announcing announcIng ing the sudden death of his elder broth brother brot er cr James Tames Bridge who met his death by b being thrown from a horse causing con concussion conI of the brain which was the direct I cause of ot death Mr Bridge was a widower his wife wite having baving died fifteen years ago He is sur Bur survived survived by two daughters Both married marrI and two grandsons grand who lived at homo home with their father He was among amonI the earlier settlers of Magrath Alberta Concerning the condition of the country and the people there Mr Bridge said that he never saw a happier lot of peo pea people people pie than there are now living in south southern southern southern ern Alberta Albertn They are Just closing the greatest sea season season season son for tor crops in the history of ot that coun country country country try he said The little town of Ma Magrath Math Magrath grath th for Instance has a population not exceeding 1300 and threshers can be seen and heard In every direction There are not fewer than ten or a dozen ma machines machines machines chines going The yield Is s ranging from thirty to bushels to the thc acre and that without Irrigating It looks as if Ie they would have more grain than their capacity for The beet crop also Is good Prices for their products are keeping up In good shape 76 6 to 83 53 cents pee pec bushel for grain and 50 W per pcr ton for t l beets Land Is aston cheap Most of it has been bought at 4 per acre with ten annual in instalments Instalments Some have bought land hired men td to t cultivate it tend the crop harvest and thresh it and from the first crop leave have paid for the land and hired help hell and had money mone left It IB is a country that offers advantages for land l nd investment ahead of anything an I It t know of The people have come to the conclusion that the cause for failure In crops TOPS In years ears past was due flue to not know ing in how to cultivate the soli soil The Can adian government Is s very ery friendly toward the th farmers When crops hags failed ailed officer Rave have been sent to the Sufferers rr them seed grain In building budding Si schoolhouses planting trees etc the jr hoe has tome tomato to their assistance agriculturists were ere sent lent among the t e instructing In them how h to t cul t the soil BOil to insure good crops cropF crol The trials Incident to pioneer life seem to be d to a minimum In addition to farming there is plen c ty h t of at work A Aman man with a team receives S j i a day There did not appear to be an anI I idle falle man in southern Alberta Tile The people n wAtt y fit bd rock when they the went up there but they are Retting getting upon their feet in nice shape They are lue building good homes About very every house Into which I went ent contained an nn organ or n they love music |
