Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-07-29 | Page 2 | Utah Colony in Canada

UTAH COLONY IN CANADA. Goorp; M Cannon Tells of Conditions Condi-tions at Alberta. Oeorge M Cannon returned sesterdas from a ten da)S" trip to Alberta, Canada, where he found condltlona unusual!) prosperous and the Utah colony contented content-ed and hspp). The crops are looking line, and the farmers are cheerfully anticipating anticipat-ing a large harvest ' Tho onl) discouraging Incident of the summer,' said Mr Cannon 'were two disastrous floods one of which occurred early in the season and the other in Jul) A )0ung man named Jordan was drowned and the body of an unknown man was seen floating upon the water, but never wis found Although the Hoods were destructive, de-structive, they enme at an oiportuno time Many people were preparing to build In the lowlands along the river, and the high water enmo Jut at tho right time to convince them of tho unwisdom of chnnslng such a location The floods wero worst at Cardston, and many persons who became easll) dls-courageei dls-courageei left the town for other loca tlons In generul, however, the community commu-nity waa not disheartened by the clrcum-stnnre, clrcum-stnnre, and although 1 met scores of people trom l'tah I found not one who wanted to come back here and leavo Can. ada '