Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-02-14 | Page 1 | Ask for 7,000,000 Acres.

ASK ASI FOR FOrt ACRES Claim Po lo lOSS o lons in ill Ab Wore cie Willed It to tn Winnipeg Man ManS Feb 13 etl Retired of the Hudson Bay Day company find their theil descendants have petitioned the Government for it s aers of land which was willed to them h by Lord Lor Selkirk In iS 1811 1 1 This land Is In the district of anti and Is rapidly becom becomIng becoming be be- com coming In very cry valuable and antI already alread portions por por- lions of It have been sold h by the thc Government Coy Gov at g good prices At the conf confederation of Canada III In 1870 the n Government purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased fi fl from mn m the Hu Hudson son Ba Bay company some acres of land and OWIng owing ow ow- ing to tho the fact that the title wax was not properly looked into on tenth one of the tho estate of Lord Selkirk passed Into tho the hands of the Government Go with the tho rest It Is Iii to tu this land that tho the present pres Pres- ent cut movement ha has he been m started and the petition presented to the the- Government The Hudson Day Bay company is lord of tho the north and reigns ov over avast it a i n vast t territory from front which it guts gets several soy sev eral ui-al million dollars dollars' worth of or furs yearly yearly year year- ly Iy in tru trade l from the Indians Of late hite this company has hus boon been doing doln a large l' l business In fl freighting supplies to settlers set sot tiers tiel's In off far portions of oC the Dominion Domin ion ton and a lar large c revenue Is Js derived from Crom rota this source