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Show CATTLE FROM MEXICAN BORDER SENT TO NORTHERN PASTURAGE A a "7T S ol Cattle for mew pastures Cattle from the Mexican border,! sent to safety in the north, in many cases have passed through the i regions which were free range a few short years ago, but are changed now to farming regions and even crossed the international line to the prairie pastures of Canada. The frontier of ! the cattleman today has been driven back far north of the Canadian Pacific Pa-cific main line to the northern parts of the western provinces. Two entire en-tire trainloads of "feeders" from Texas passed Portal, one gateway, in a day. A general exodus from the vicinity of the Rio Grande is on. Some of the cattle will fatten on the grasses of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, where as yet the horde of homeseekers has only now begun to plow the virgi i prairie. The cattlemen from necessity have begun to use the millions of acres of lush grasses which still are untouched untouch-ed by the shoe of a plow, the value of which is placed by Canadian Pacific Pa-cific officials at many millions of dollars dol-lars every year. In the northern states the rapid colonization of the ranges has left little territory open for the cowboy who once was king there. This has made a serious problem, for it was imperative for the Texas cattle to be removed from the zone where hungry bandits can make forairinc raids. |