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Show . - i-"" UNOCCUPIED LAND IN CANADA. The accompanying illustration tells moro convincingly than would many columns of lettor-press why tho oye3 of tho land-hungry nil ovor tho world aro turned to tho Canadian west. Tho Illustration Is from n nowly-lssued history his-tory of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, by D. M. Duncan, M. A. oC Winnipeg, Collegla.o. Tho square, C C, represents tho total area of tho province prov-ince of Manitoba, and tho torrltoriea or Asslnlbola, Alborta and Saskatchewan Saskatche-wan 270,000,000 acres In all. T.io haded souare, B B, bhows tho area of land good for forming 135,000,000 acres; whllo tno black square, A, is the land at present undor cultivation 4,000,000. Tho black center of cul-tlvated cul-tlvated land Is but a dot on tho great expanea of land sultnblo for tillage. Troni that little black dot over n - I s c liurdicd million busholu of various sol ts of grain woro reaped la3t year. |