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Show il. -T"1-- - j IN A PRAIRIE LAND. , IFdltorlivl Cnrreapon.tani-B I I Moose Jaw, Asslnlbne. ' Farmers' Itevlew, I Chicago. July it. in. Moot of tli prairies In tho United Blsta hsv ccaac.l tn eilat. Han has ) brokea them up with orchards, for- and farm buildings. Hut In I Western Canada the prairie ttlll r trton grandly from hnrlion to horl- .j aoa as yet unniarred by the hand of man. save where th Iron roa I haa bN laid. To a city wan thei la f aomethlug deliriously restful about ' h vail greasy solitudes. ' r ' Numerous rlurnpa (if Ircos mark th f emirs of the AsslnitMiIno rlvor, whlrh I , keep In sight of the railroad for aoma ! distance. ' Ores la ona of the notable things 1 about nil the landscape of Western Canada. It la a remarkable fact that . the (tntlro Ifnc'h of the Canadian Pa- olfio railway from ta eastern torml- , sua to the Murky Mountains la over I iilalna wh.fn graaa grows. Th eaga v brush piesrs nl aoma polnta. hut ) never to tlm exclusion of grss. There fla thus not a mllo of thla country that eaneot ba uaed for Mima agricultural . purpose--either for tilling or ranch- tag. . I "Mooa Jaw la a town of over 1.000 a tnhahltnnta, and ona of the most lm portant plarea In Asslnlhula. being Ilia - cantor of a very good farniliiic conn- i try and a great (rain and Block ahlp- J ping polnL I "Near Mooao Jaw agriculture and ? ranching go hnnd In hand; for near tha town wna seen a herd of biiof eattle several hundred in numlier. On j another shin waa Been a good slsed ? herd of dairy cowa. the property of , the rttliens In the town. "In rid I in over l he pralrlea wa aaw J manr kochI fields of alfnlla. The groat J oeod of tho country la timber, whlrh frown readily where planted, aa waa I demonstrated by the ahelier belto on j aomo of the farma, and the trees on j the residence lota In the towu. , "Btorles wore told tho writer of I men who Itiat year cleared from their ' wheat crop more than the land on i wlilnh It waa grnvo originally coat ithem. Thla la eaay to believe. In view of tha large crop mil hlKh price for wheat laat year." Henry F. Thurston. ' By sending your address to any j agent of the fai.sdlnn Government you will have mailed to you a copy of i an allaa, railway rates, etc., living $ fullest Inlormallon rcgsrdlng Western Canada. |