| Show How ow the Canadians Are Developing Their Great Northwest I If i The Biggest Bigg st Irrigation Scheme on the Continent it HK Jm middle aged Ameri American i i can 1111 why hl tool took Jr his hili geography IIo when hell It L i wan considered con L dent to denominate all 1111 ot or tho territory In Inthe II the thc great Canadian northwest i f Possessions P and let Id It go 0 at III that has t perhaps hoard 11 little ot or Alberta j I Tho rho average public boy hoy and of ot the tho present day Ia probably not julto wi Ill uninformed d an nH to the th of oC the thu territory but It Is 11 not likely that they the are 1110 In It Yet Tot U It tsu fact that this frontier section of or ortho tho Dominion Is now attracting much attention and that It hlll a 1 future Cutillo of very co well ThIs ThU Is due to 10 fact that the th possibilities pOI I of ot the tho district have hao been made apparent It has lIus been shown that thai un under del der proper treatment and Intelligent adaptation of ot means to ends this groat stretch ot lit country until re IU recently an a northern continua continuation lion tion of or the tho grent can bo ho made to II as the rose rOllO U la Iii A 1 great enterprise the tho irrigation now under WilY way on tile the American continent From care 1110 careful ful Cui U It has hall been found thaI there thore arc 10 no nil less le than 70 In this comparatively un 1111 undeveloped developed region which may be made unit productive by h a I system of oC Irrigation came competent have decided Hint wilIer water ti II from the alone ho he to tl over O acres m The work Ix IH already well under WilY way Tha Tho 1 has obtained possession Ilon of or acres in u II soll 1 block lying on nn Hide of lr Its It I lino and has proceeded to put halt half of oC It II un under der leI water and will sell lIell the other othur half to This tract of o Irrl 1111 Kute lOuled l land lanol U I t at as large us as all 1111 tha tho 1 t 11 t 1 I It territory treated similarly In California or Colorado and more than twice that thaI of Idaho or 01 Wyoming Ono One hun hundred tun dred and IIII ton Ion thousand acres are 1110 now for tOl use Ill and line I that area wilt will be bl open ope II for rOI occupancy before the dose clone of tho present season This means nn addition to the Dominions population n nor ot or at lit least persons when the tho tracts shall have been dis lis disposed lisot posed of ot ofU U lt looks luok now ns nl though new coun country countr try tr were to derive Its population almost entirely from the tho United States An n American syndicate has hall acquired the first acres ready for tOI settlement ami has already done dono u 11 thriving busi business l ness In selling sellinA tracts of ot spring wheat lands to emigrants from rom tho States enterprising real 1111 estate opera operators tors hun have established t colonization uni ces COli at ul Calgary und and they thc aro preparing to 10 canvas M the Irrigated districts In tho State with tho purpose at ot Inducing readouts In those tho o localities to go 0 north northward ward wald These e railroad lands arc nr Irrigated by bywater water obtained from Haw Boll a 1 beau beautiful mountain stream fed CE by b numerous other lither mull rivers which How lIow north from tho United States and 1111 on Into tha tho SlI and Hudson bay In connection with these Irrigated Irrl lands 1 I of or Alberta a 11 rather serious sellous him hilI arisen un The rite St HI Marys river Ilver which supplies water for COI Home of oC the Irrigation tion now done In III certain parts of the thc territory has haH Its It t In St Sl Marys hikes which are situated In north Montana about twelve miles from the tho boundary line These pie pic picture ture bodle bodler of ot water are high up In Intha the tha Hocky noell mountains and lire arc fed by b heavy snowfalls glaciers They an abundance of water for Cor the th ISO of or Irrigating which thc thu have hll built builtA A short hort distance from St Ht Marys lakes ake l I tho north fork of ot the tho Milk liver W It runs northward Into Calla Cana Callar r tf B tf ri M W Mill S ERS P w wI I Sl f r v vr 5 r rw r p r i 4 3 4 V y 1 y i cry r jf V 4 3 SS da und and then turns and Hows for Cor hun hundreds drell of ur miles through United States territory and Dually empties Into the Missouri By 11 tho comparatively easy expedient of 01 digging a n canal within tho boundary line between till the lakes I ell and Milk III river lands In eastern and north northern ern eln Montana could be 1 and the citizens of ot tho state stille claim hat this should be done They contend that thEll tho water comes from tho United State and should not nol he ho need u In Canada Canadians retort that thaI there thelo Is no evi evidence dence that the tho water dill did not belong originally to tho Dominion mused lIl e tho boundary by hy evaporation Them Is no doubt that wilt will require International adjustment I American authorities have hl already et el aside for Cor reclaiming acres along tho Milk 1111 river and Intend to use uso tho water In the St He Marys lakes It II was the thc Mormons who first began to Irrigate these Canadian lands Un lIo tween Calgary tho American boundary lino there at al least leli t of thello on Ir lands laHd They hc have havo built several e town I und hav established a 1 beet beel plant with a 1 capital of and a Hour mill that Is I turning out n carload of o Hour dally II Utah col produced more than bushels of tit last year ond are shipping lour bur direct to Japan occupy of eighty acres each cadi on such farms they Ial twice us 1111 much wheat as III can I un bo be pro produced If on lands Those Canadian Mormons it II seem germ arp not Some of or them hud plural I wives In but bul they th Canada us monogamists After they hJ become I established application II 1 made to the tho Canadian authorities fr Or permission to bring In the tho plural of oC tho u who hud left them behind Tho petition was deeded and there has been hr 11 no III further effort to 0 revive the matter mailer Tho arc oro law abiding ami thrifty thrift and the tho Canadian government has hall a n opinion of ot them Western Alberta U Ii exceedingly pi Tho long stretch of ot versified prairie risen rl ei Into gradually ending foothills and at III last ends a 1 lofty mountain peaks Tills foothill II country l contain th largest In III the tho northwest Tho product is Ii It f fa a 1 superior duality ami the supply i practically The iVi Ca lIal and Its It II till far west n branches obtain their thell coal from rom th region and thero Is III a II and g gIng Iro Ing In trade with tho great Montana re Ie reduction worl gL lIm O 0 ALWAYS VS RAINING Is III n ot Islands 1 to tho th south sonth of or New W Zealand culled called the tho SI 81 tI or ur Seven Sisters which ar re to bo hll subjected ted to n practically constant rainfall The sam samo may b paid of the ho Islands 1 and mainland ot or del luego saving for tho differ difference difference ence that tho rain often tokes takes the tha form torm C snow On Oil a lino running round tho world orld I from 1 4 to S or degree which rain sel hero tholo are patches over called th t tolie This Is fall dorn ceases C to zone olie of ot constant oh precipitation nut but lit tho samo time them are several local thero Is very ll tlc along It rainfall |
