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Show TREK OE SAINTS TO DDMHCMiA Heavy Migration From Utah to Take Place During This Year. ALBERTA IS THE MECCA FOR HUNDREDS OF UTAHNS Several Mormon Separate Schools Are to Be Established in That Province. A trek of the Saints from Utah -to Canada is to be made in the nenr future. fu-ture. In fact, it is said that it will be an invasion of the Dominion. Canadian Ca-nadian papers received here Sunday disclose dis-close this fact. The hierarchy must have seen the handwriting on ihe wall. Since the American control of Suit Lake the influx of immigrants to Zion has been unusually heavy and the development de-velopment of the oil fields in southern Utah has brought in a large number to that region. All these immigrants came from states , where church and stnte are separate, where a band of twenty-six does not rule, where religion does not dominate politics, but where individuals exercise the rights giveu them under the constitution. Hence the heavy immigration into Utah is largely comp'oscd of American citizens. True, the hierarchy is, through its missions, bringing some people to Utnh, bur, the percentage of Saints as compared com-pared to Gentiles r as one to five. The band of twenty-six who for so long have ruled Utah know what this means. There must be a hew kingdom established, must be a place where they can live their religion. There are but two places to go Canada and Mexico, in both of which countries the hierarchy has large colonies." Hero is what, the lust, issue of the Winnipeg Free Press What Winnipeg Press Says. That a largo portion of the population of the State of Utah will Immigrate to Alberta Is the statement made by a well known real cste.te man in a letter sent to Mr. Nola,n of High River. The writer states that the influx from that State will surpass all expectations of the Ca'nadian Immigration officials and will be composed of the verj' best class of settlers. Already the Utah people have started to come into the province', a large number of good settlers having located lo-cated In Ihe Claresholm district this early In the season. James Winn, the local 1m-migralioii 1m-migralioii official, stated yesterday that the coming year would be a record one In ihe history not only of Alberta but the whole of western Canada In the matter mat-ter of Immigration. Toronto Telegram's Advices. In the Toronto Telegram tho following follow-ing telegram from Cardston, Alberta, appeared in a recent issue. Here is the dispatch: CARDSTON, Alia. March 'H, A very heavy movement of Mormons from Utah is hi progress in this section, the population popu-lation of the town being temporarily doubled and all accommodations exhausted. exhaust-ed. The season's trek from Utah promises prom-ises to assume the proportions of an Invasion In-vasion and It is threatened that shortly there will lie more TJormons north than south of the International boundary. It Is likely several Mormon separate school will be established in Southern Alberta this year. Two Stakes in Alberta. These two stories speak for themselves them-selves and show that a heavy immigration immi-gration is expected this year. There are two Stakes now in Alberta, one, the Alberta Stake, comprising southern Alberta, Al-berta, with Elder Edward J. Wood as president, whose headquarters are at Cardston. This St,ake comprises eleven wards. Then there is Ta.ylor Stake, also in southern Alberta, of which Elder El-der 1L S. Allen is president, his head- j quarters being at Raymond. This Stake comprises four wards. Down in Mexico there is .'Juarez Stake, comprising tho States Chihuahua and Sonora. Here is where the hierarchy hie-rarchy will ultimate' move, for in Mexico the band of twenty-six. and those who so desire, can live their religion re-ligion with a multiplicity of wives j without molestation, and the Canadian Stakps can be frovernpfl as well f mm Mexico as from Salt Lake. The trek to Canada is the beginning of the end of hierarchical control 'in Utah. Development of the resotircos of this great state is proving too much for the prophet, and a migration is the result. |