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T~ A rce".V"~picakd G E N K R A L S T R O K. I-50(.)TS, SflOKS AND KIBBERS, AT LA HUE & PICARl). One Door Wt^st of P. Daly & Co, Gold du!»t, Land scrip and cisii scrip Boi'UUT 1AFEERTY & MOJRB,' ~^T' J Bankfi-a and Fi.');d A an' couver, H. C. C. F. STRANG. iManauyr, Edinontoti. pEOPLE^'S^rK AT market" WILSON & N ORRIS. The best the country aflEorda in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Fowl, Fish and Game in its season. MAIN STltEET, .'. •.• EDMONTON, Fs^abhshed 18S0 THE EDMONTON BULLETIN is published CA ery Si.turday mornins:, at the office, Main street, Edmonton. Subscription -Two Dollars per annum. AdvertiaiJijr ratts- Standinp advurtisen^ents^ two dollars.* Jin** per anr^um; transient advcrtiuemcnts, ton lenfce a line for first insertion and five cents I line for eaohsnbsequentinsertion. FRANK OLIVER, proprietor. IlVERY iSi P'EED STABLES. j EstahilshBd 1881 McCAlJLEY & IBBOTSON Proprietor,. Main Street, Edmonton, Alberta. First class Riys & «ood Drivers. Terms reasonable. ST. ALBKRT. ERAYMtR. , Established 188C. Jeweler arid Stationer. A full line of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware. Stationery, Books and Fa^c^■ Goods. Ail ktnd.s of watches H'ld jewelry repaired and warranted. HW. McKENNfiY, ST. ALBERT. Dry jioods, Ciothinsr, Boots and Shoe.r, Groteries, Flour and Provisions, Hardwai'e, etc. Wholesale and retail. ^ BKOSSEAU, GENEHAL MERCHANT, l, ST. ALBERT. Furs .<»nd Farm Produce taken in Tra Je. FOKT 8A8KA1CHRWAN. 1-^ ERASER TIMS, i , GENERAL MERCHANT. I .\ full stock in all lines. Gold dust. Furs I and Produce taken in exrhanye at current rates. FORT SASKATCHEWAN. THE Kp>i(i>>iT'j>K pj5?TP4t,ai>( r>; Ici riollinj.:: him to roiiios e may he r\ various !h. I-Io iMiiy b(! cnu)ipetl oil too .->rn!ill a . ' of li'Kl, or hu iHuy nol have eiioiic^h : .iui! with Wiiioh to wr>vk th; iatid !;c iuis, liO M.riy lot own his lurid and at iIk- ch;c'> I'l.. ltta.sc must seek a iiev. !(>oation, or ho • i. Ml''?tirou.s of xcciiriiij;' land fov iii-f iirtiH and Miiahlc to purchase it in I'lc iiiiry i.i u'hicli lit" liscv or he \iu\y h;r.i; |(. i-.:t land at too biyli a pike a/id be A)\ti to couiplote Ills iviyiiiiiiti^, An> ui [ii'so ftn«ons n\ay be sufliciont to make it tlisa^'Ic fjr tlK' farmer iKcated in tiie oast o'v * new ln>me; to liiy iiothino- of h;ul ^uinus '. V purnotial ousfortiint-S or i'auits. ;il:c\er maybe tho rtMsons fur removal •ii; is no doubt liiat iluf rvuKival it-O'f i.s a l6s. Tii'j litiio t'lat irt (;;l<(:.i in ro:no\ iir^- to II (»!i(! plate to au'it.hrr, ils'; travoilin;- ||>"iie.v3, the losses :.n>j aeoidcnts bcloro ti-ytlii'iu- laii lie acco'i nir,!! lUv] ti) the new jii ••our^din-s and be ^or. \v '»ikiny u ■..d\'iint- uuil;e it most iier^.-.^nary tliai. th-N. ^;K)u!d Hi leu n-movals .i^) poti.sibK' in a man's KctiUits, if svi:aiCii JM de-arod, Ti.i-ri'foin the Bi«.,n inrondinij to i(n'.vi«« suitable a iiealthy eUmate, tendiiii; to bodily an(! niental vi,;'or; for wealtii with- out health to oiijov ii or siieees-sors to uso it is ot little account? Arc Mu.ro favorable opportumtits for ao- quiiinii- land ••,t alow rate in that roj;ion? Are ihe t.atural con'lition.i favurablo to a setdr s'fartii'^ on a Muall capiLai? Are the soeiiil conditions tlure of ordnaiy civiliza- tion- is life and |.;*'"P'^''fO f>ccure ai d are there educ ition?d and rel';,'iou3 ad\antaK--^ a\ail;iile.V A Sdlj-5fa<-torv answer to these «picst;ioiis is more iinv.ortaiit to the tninkint;', \vv)rkiM,u', s.ivhia- rarnier -the maj. vvho ia .aie producer of tiiu >\ua!th and is tiic back- boiic of the »;ivih/:ation of bolh Canada and the fiiited states; v.din has made these countries what: they nrv -than t6 tiie que.-i- tiouH thatitre ordinal iiy the tirs' one< as-'ted: Is tiiere a ru'jh of injunurati )n, is tho luun- try boomiia:, is niv'iiry t''entiiul, i.s lar.d rir^iiis;' in va'uf-. is r.tiiway ladldinu' ?,''>iii4 >'i'' Witii a coii .iUallv increasin}; population conointiidi V -oekui^j new ii»omes, and v.ith capital cniJtinaahy increasin.:' a;id as contin- uaiiy seokiu-; investniciit, i' thciiatiaal con- ditioi'i of ,'ny ocefh u of 1 u's conthient ai«j dcsiial)!t, i.ouni^ration aiai i'ailwav-. .. i'.l iuid it beiuri' loiiu' — lanor anvi capital n'iU o\er- run it; but it the natural eouditions are uii- ; suital'le, althoui^'h 'l luay be artificially boomed tor a tiniL- a^ lias l".C'n the c;i!so v.'itii '; ))al<<>ia., Malurc v.ill ass' :': itself, und hcrL In'oaLin:;- di.sapointniciir, or disa.-'trous less ! mu^t r..di.'Jl ab thcv have le^ultcd ihcrL, > •• •« ^ _ . . whtift th« iiiituralooD'litioiifl were ho advcrao that tliovooiild nor 1-! ovoi-ooino. In look- injf over tin: j;roiiii(l for a isiiiiaWo [ocRf.i'ni thf iMtoiKiidir rtuttii'i- should In- pai-tidil irl>- raiofiil rf'nfV»''li''">J: ans' liistriof. Miar- i.-. h(i(iii)- liijr, .uul sli.nild caref illv i)i!.u in nii :l th:if, the fact tli.it it i« booin'riir has . jnuccs- nurs rclati )ii to its Huitiil.ilif.v ii« u piaoo for loiiatiiiir Of irivcrrttiiiv c.nin'JiMit. An i;iicr(; was u tiiiif wli'M it did m' boom so th-.MV i>^ Afi «?i>rtain to be a time "vbco it will not bnoiu, tuid wliBii the c.iUidatiotis thiMinve I'cfii tuivl'- (^n a b( oio bartis will as ttertaiiily bidiK Ji;(>«t wilo :.i\o made tin ',i :im t.h • boom itrielt will crrtainl.v breais. The luen who Ti.ake the nioney in a bo >ni a^e the men Mho io'.-at'.:d bufon there \va:- a bcom, or before it. vv 18 tlioiiKfbt of T\\<' men out ot whom tb'V uinUe th.cir loooey nr'- tie- aion ^^ll^ come ill after the buom is started iuid miskak.' tin; bo'wu fv)r pei iJiiiDeut pro«v<-»''fcy- Therefoie if :t i^ d( sired to Iccato or itivofi!-., Uo not tfo to a ])liic(? where a boom \h In V"u^;re»s butt) a jikiee whore thei'.' is ri't boom, n'lcro the natural coiidit'oiiH :ire BiKb »s t" iusiire u la<«tiii;;' pro>si'erh,y us tlie result of iiidud.ry, wbioh i.s the otdy true souiee «i( w^rvlth,. WUKltE nOK8 fAlvMlNO PAY H>:SV? In answer to (lie (luestitm, Wlrit reu'ioti produces those artiel/^ \ hieh arc of the hitrhest and mo?t peMiivietit cominc.Tcial value?: The e^'rifultura! products aliich art. Of fclie hi'/hesl and moat piniianent \uluoaro those which are mcvt miivt.'rs:ir.y lu^xysary to ^ho e.xiatenee of oi'. iiixiid man, toveivihzeii nuih olone lias the Ciin'oereiul facilities to givc them v\ori(l wide (listr\i)Utioii and he alone has nuwitv to pay f.>r th>'iu. Thest. products are wiieat and cattle in their inan-.i- faetured state vf tlour a.i break everyone -juirap-- ed in rro" uv-r rhese prt.xiucfcs. .Men i:rii;;i!red in raisin^;' tluse products n.uy occasi^'iiuily make, laryo prottis eaailv 1 .it they are sub- ject t'' as heavy JoHses from low market!?, (t is not possible for the ei\ ili/ed world t) duwiiboufc tioui-or beef, nor is it possible fur conaumptio!! to be as greatly reduced on account, vi an inereas«. of price, as in th(! case of other products. A lecrcase of prodnc- ti'in or an inoreas'.^ ot demiud luoroascs il-e price ol flour and bref aecordui^; to the bu', er s n<;rc«sit^ , wh'ch is not under hi^ contr )1 to the bame extent as retrardio^ other pro. (Jnets. Therefore tlio farmer eniraued raisin},' wheat and !)■ ••.) for exjiort Iiaa a surer n.arkot f<>r all tinu> than the farmi-r aisiu!,' any other nrtiels of produeo. I'ei not tiion i-u'ijeot to tin losecs friin !'>■ markets t/r from liicK of a market .»s th whf) raise suv ir or coM'ee or toliacco or cott are, and as a conHeciuer'Ce the fa'iiu rs wi depend on raisin;; wh(;at {iv.(\ cattle fi , export are on the average more prosp'r^ ' and the country which depcn'l.s upon tin > pros])erity h:e> mor'.' weilth than the fanoi who depend on K'sa Htap'.e Arti. iei» or t'l country svhich doV'Onds on tli(Mo.' T! • farmer svho iiesirc.^ a permau.'nt ]>ro8]ierii' as the reward of industry shou! I locate in wheat an]>- and pvuducit; lai^cd vvb< n; wheat and cattle t'urivo are isecord oni.\ n importance to these articles themsidve, Tiiest uvi- the products' i 'h'' Northcrii Slt'> and (>f (.^a.Mi.da whiln I ho Southern Stal' ur I West Indies prodoce suy ir and c-fi and tobacco. There is doublo as nnu wc.'ho per h. ad in Canada a;.,l the Nortin.r li Statt-s LIS in tluj NVest Indies oid tlic Soiuherni State.'f, and ir is more i voiil\ di\i(ied. WIIKUK a:• fcction near the fiorihern li'sjir, of th gfrewrh. it is a vvell r ,t:;ihlishei1 f;e't th^,t ii cultivi'tcd i>rain-! and doaiebtic aninnis Kastern Caiiaila atT;iin a 'rfeater ptvfec. ■ than those of the S'; tcf; iiunivdi.iteiy adjc . in;;- to th'!; Mouth. And it is also a wt esiabhsbed fact that altlioi'.L;h Cnt.i!';:. c<,M' tair.s V, very liiuch laru'er prop.')rt/iO"i inferior farming land its yiidd jf wheat jh acre is considerably sTcare • than that cf ti' imme.lia.tely ad ioinio^- and viTy fertile hiti. ■ of New Yorlv, and (..reatci than tha^ of a*v Srat:-ti( animals it need only I pointed out tiuit Oam.dian <;attie are ndni-' ted to tJH! [Jritish eiarketi without »:)nAv;ii. tiiio, while ( attle t'tom tl.e Unitei! States v invati ii)lvi|\iarai'ti;ied, asheivi^'uiore liabb ti 08 Ui3ta:sod The rule regarding the bc'to' ' A< -• >4. .. i. O >) Mitfam'tl i, >v|»');t ii;i8 .t the fiVMiii-r ii»;f). U.ei- ? frcin Ui' kef as t.hu ro or Oi^tti 'i 'IIUI'H Wil . cattle fr; the farv'U I', les Of t' liep>; Ti • loLMtf it: itry rutli. obacco ai' •(•inorubort ' i\>v.} vvIm i' (.id oi(I\ ' thtni Sif ■lorti •S^:l^ r and c"fi • u,<* mill l\e Norriic; lu; So lU hern (lt«l. ■:i;TAiN. jdijors up' fulv •R'l.erii qiie>fci':tii Cti to ♦•'!' the ,i;-re i: t ■ ts s.)ut;\ier or in t' i-t that :• rcii!, ;sf ])' ■ lOt th^,t til. aniiii'vls ' tit CI ti> fortile SU.i, thl^ oi:' hm; ,hi supi-rit': :o(l or,;y i : :if'.: s'.'.lni'.' t! States '.v ■ilie bf'ti,'. ,t!it,y anrpin 1 the Sfuti's applies eninlly hct'Aocn ! while ht I'^hiiontoM tlicro uos no frdHiutI ''\ (.it* rii < 'an.'Ulfi uiidtlie StiOon. .M:tt.it,'ha and I LTiiii andnh nliicr pnl-n.^ on tht^ Saska^'chcw* Hi;' Notthvvoht. raisi' noro lui.h< '.s of Ahcat : 'i"i t.l'cr.- \\.»s vt-iy Ijttif*. 1m iswt i,|n,i,' was It t!ic .ii'inj tl\iit» ^( iiiHsof I and DitKotafind frvit Initio last of May and taiiv pari of |i , vvliftt nuk«iifi and tfu' Honthtj'h \vorl<1 atf )i-d8. Whul" 1^ trne rDuari.iMu '^int of tin- Nor'.hursr and. •ih-olut-ly none iT i . !'•«' iH tnirt »•( L',.r.lii. raisfd i t.i( the Oni. diuo > ilj'>sf inised on tin* less ahund.iid at;d I(;.s8 i Ni>rih\v«'sb in eitlier ;a'tLmlly tindiered or '\a 'Hri'ive Kras.«"s of the noiith. What in tnn; m^aier timber than the prairie .stal»:f< it (■(•vardi'iv ♦h\; cattle theniselvo'-i is O'lnally nm^it havi.- more nioiiture, and certainly has, l^^ine ri-':ird'M!r tiieir pi'vdnctF, Imtter and tlian th. y. Thvrc have tornicrlN' i)e.'n veais of nronth in tht> Stitfs wn*. n ih'j <'.vi'.adiat» SI :i 1-' I iX}\'\ i.-'O rii;ai'ihiin" tiif o thir i.>r-t ftin liini. T1ii« point Oi (tiosviperior j Nortiivxost erijriycd Hutlicient. jroistnrc, ''Ut dii.y of .\'oi'thv.v'>»t products is so'iV hiii^- lastyoarth*; omnth i:;ti tidtid to tin North- p i; siioiiid h'» jiartif^niariy k.pi in .nind, for 'vo.>-t '■'■ Miai it \va« p tffityvar. Tlios(! partf^ : !(.' tin; •.^.;^ld iniv\ e^mpete in raioiiiK i <"d Manitoha uim! the Nindhwest nearest the lo'if and eAtth;, ii'. other part of the world i t'nited Statefl sntfered niOKt severoly anJ Northwest, thero {■^ piaetically no (|an'.-t.r of tl'.e iirst t'tnt.- a partial failnri' from -irusshop; er«, no danger ofdro'itli, u.d less itoiith, but from none oi' th< SI; canoes nav lancer from irof^t than in l»nkot,a, while the in.'s l)et-n a-i fv.pirnt or a,s .",,,' vf re in the ' otoi'v \\;u.at. p(5»t-< prevalent in more sonthrm Hiiun >Jfoio whtro in the Territories therefore eiitle can III. u' into thii (';i?ifidian Norlhnept. Their , '>o rai.stid more easily, I'lunplj' and of 1 etter l( it iv thv' plain:-- and thtv iiovef pr.nvitrat.cd qrialitj tJiiin further south. Jo , irtly wooded r^u'ions alonij- the U'()per i'ku;rh;!\vnn., in Xortliorn Aiborta. Al- I'Ufi'h fi; ihor north, lieina' .at a lower eh va- )n Hi i -Hhehered to soJviO extent by the ? bor,!d ooviiitty of i le nc^rtli, etrun'^e as it V s«««n« it i'j tie S' fthtl ss an estahiished j JitaxVh'anii riri t ti:t>t the Canadian N.>rthvveRt iia>-- not wuH-nK IS r!i(>; •'oii. most i-TitTiiii-; In answer to fhe qiie-r K'luvtl, liuftniK a mov.th oi wild Mi^'t'iuti'Mi j 01 a luMui.inc-ii nvi.i\ i.-j v.o otiifr part ot thu tf rritiirii'!* ini'' indu'cil ^jcMoni -i.'cn iin;. a htr<" 1 outHJdt! tint t.r'»i''^'>*' '^ '^ !M:;nMar to thii gooti'"! of *'oii!;try thar. tho black iiMiuld in docpet on Ih'j knt.llsunil !i(';;t'S titan in t-hc liu.U'\»'i». Till' is ui-coiji tud /orpnnly Ii.> f-lu; fuC 01 till' iiiuuM bnu'^ t\ui ilircot rtisiiH of the dt'uninp'^'fii.loa <'f v ■.!„'• '.Ut mi i ']v\t whirf It grt'W, and tmt a ucposlr. hrou^l't.;'!' Mimomu onhor I.cality ;v"? i : i.ho I'iise uitii t.i)o du'-p soil oi t'u- Uiid i:iv«ir V.illcv; mid partly by tho fuMK v\liiAlra diy H.'.isun,-' iMiriicd away thi' turf in tho loi-alitics wi.ioh .m l)y uood rnltlviition and rr«nrr:hrif to it Ujc ri,i'Mtv\\cii a pi "llijiUI'-' ii'id i.i »jiipi't.Htal>lo iii.(M!;t if'on Tim fano' r *vh< «»:tri M*. )n y ffinu und in u rf.L'ion where th. ill I'lok* di|)t!i n;:iy do V' 11 fnr a time, hul as thf ycniri u > \>y h\^ liirid Mt< r i.'"in,r n)i t a (iti'tun lorrti in %Hlin' nur.riubly d'flliti ■ as4 it b'l'onus worUcd i'iv tbo Nimpl' ttcc<r ferti- lity .f the reu'ion whi if. uiiil-r f)a>-i"»! eir- cai'i taiiLi'S tliree t'eet vl ^.nular soil .. i- Ik en toruicd must bo evident. With a s'»i; of sncli depllj ami fertility it i- not \V(i:i>urfnl that ii. ordinarily u'ood seasons a \ 'eld of Oats of l"U to 11.4 %vei'j;ii('d Ijiishcl-i to the ac.e ha« nob been niicoi-ii.ior, find ' lat less than (M) bii-ibe'..* i8 considnred a pi m* «;rop; that barl(.-v 'viil yield oo bu-shi-lMUii I svho.it < vcr/ortv ami uliat ootatoes of fioni liree to of course, these yit'id.s ha» e no»i boen attai'iei in in' kinv: hou;'■^ on^y to tiud th^it t.heir land iiad beconie worth !• sa t!ir<)n;jh t .\li;;n«tion and that therefore tlifir liveH h:\d been waHt.ed; wiiii'! ot'urn \\!to wejit ( n deepe' hut hiore illicnlt l.uid fo.oid u u' lonr paiiii.i^) wei ;hi. :\re n-.t a raii every year r'or in any year liy ever, farmer, hut t!iey hare been attained withoui ex- traordiimr> txertions, and jMove that fclie oiipaciLy i« in 1 he soil if t!u' tilla};e v- yi.t ' inino whinh l^y keefii.i'/ up its f.rtiiiry wli.l 'wealth and the eoii\ eniriRea of rivili;5aliiMi ! incrousie i around it, and bccauni? of ifc.contin- ! naliy wicroaaod lo value, andniidc \vo;,lfhy ;be oi^\iu:r.s almost in i*pi(<; of ihtMn.^elviN Thi>: in the kind of land tint the l'>iin..nro'. district lui'' 10 olltr t) s..tth r.'i to ^ deu'fet.; t at no otiher part of the ti.'rritovieH he.:. Wher.; a nian may take up .a far.n and i • sati:*flod tliat his eliildren's riiikircn \vill i"..; it f;'i ferilU; as he did, V/lu-io a nmn huvn.. onoe driseii iiid stai. I v^LiilN i.iiia'.^^i \V twe've loct. This i.laj , unl'.ke the Kub-soil oi Ontario, contain:- the elenient,-) of lertiliiy. and a inixturc, of it v it'i the blai k loan; adda to the productiveness I'f too latter in the j cas'. cf vhef;t. Such a Hoil in not only ox- ■ eeiLioiialiy Icrtilo i^■^ coiunioiet with, but I has practically an irieviiaustilile fertility. ! i. .Vj. piiU tl.euj up. To Ket a faiin witu such ot'3 j^|.^j- j^ vvortii iiorc tlian any little e.vl.rn iiiil in n M.'V!i,'v( he-i us o.nonv' itii i)0intji aionj^'- the line of the C. .1'. L wlijch natT'o ha8 not yo favored. .Suijpoain.'j," tn b'ack nio'dd to be worked Ni'UEUR l.S Tiriu .MOST HKAI/fKH'L ILT.M.VTF..' One Of the n"!0:-t important oousideratio;. o t!u3 fai'Viicv seeicina: a o.w hoine is tlv. out there reniaiuf tbi; twelve feet of marloy .j| linuite in itn etYeot U]!.ii. huuian hea'th ai eltiv utidvrneatn, wh IS almost e() r.llv fertile urdX eat? never ne w (irked out. Tl.iir! is j)leii(y t;hac the luid is not the better of good tiil.ue and manure aa w'.'ll; but it in to | f^^^" [^"oonrid.'rable'tii s.-.y that uistead of thero I'eiiit:- a ro'itinued battle ixi in even tlu> host psirts of lltijflan 1 or Ontario ta keep up the (ei-tihty of the soil, ncci'jjsitatinj;- the l>rinj:ri'ti< in oil nianuro fionj the outside, this land can be kept at It is ahtio..''. a !i.reat f'Ttil'ty a^^ di.-^tinuuished fro \\\ rookv- or .-^atuiv tracts. Tnat in to si 5 . KWMArK.' II r ii. c'Mntrr If n\oro apt tc dp iiahcxU'iy ts (i.tuun;! (n)it'iltii)ii tli.'tii ail itif< rtih V. L?iit 111 tliiA parHciiI'vr u,,' r.ik ,1 i fa ui ri'oi'k ami i'.-p.liiiio, wli ih thoir urvatoPt nt»r action lu ir r,',)(.) i.Di liinil" tif til. nil- jrrovvMi, Mp;)IL"» as fo tlr.' huuuui ri'cc, oiiiv in a >r!->thoi rods^n, .1 ..I'Msati nior-' citinliic ivi- toh.Mlth luni »i 'ii 111 llu' om'iitry tiu'f.iitf Hoiitli ill tilt! [r i Sr„it08, riiul thrit. (he new >H.'f.tler in , ni'uiiiiti N'^'iliwi st l»rin the I Hoiitli of M»c line. I'cr t.irn i''.:ii!Ori, ■,i. tl;' H'il of M'.c I'jiliiioiitDii tiistil(!t Im i • md more for^ile Hiim that of any \ •xrt ot the (""ain lian •iorMnvoxt. :is it, i iiio'^t iiorlhtii'ly sfttliMiM'iit in wliat i«* I V ri riH till' fu'Vtili' ht'lt.iHil, iliiimi'/li Un-'l, I . uti J atari i.'lo.vnr.i:)ii of about :i,Oi)0 . . lovr hlio sua, it eiijoy- a fnudoni ti'uni : II -I' (>i any and cveiy iorni tl'nt .-hould full r .1 liu tal .'I into aci'ouul liy the in- i I- scttli-r. ')ii«i lii'linojt on tlio restTVf.'s, | IV, tl) tiio radical ohvinu'') in tlieir ni .'tliod i'i>, do Kn^Ycr frc'in disc'^n of \aii » is lf Uif inosjs , viiithi! lijflitiisl. Iviiid* !iii; almost un- •An, t!ie more sc\ ;^ri' lo^iJi*, indudin;;- ' .I'ioti, avij cutir'.dy uiil ai d ii''\cT in a suvcri* fnrni, v.wn \ wnoti MUoli fin tiu; rocent inflMt-iizu, ! lis. and ,*(;arler fOMV, ivra w.vv li;;ht •nui ruv, an I iiif.int nii>rta'ity, widfi nuke'^ i I'h ;.i I.ir^'o )ir(i])i/Vtion of th'i ioitli rai,'.' ' c 'vtoin |:i -vin-i'/s, do it may bt^ liualUiv without ' |>: i-^l: isant, and it iiio li^-althfui le.'i nf i |i'-di:ioiiton climate is admitted itis-si'iii! siry to ^'ho'.v thnt it is to sonu; extent ! mta^woii. R.'Ufardiny the rowip >,; ative ' .lit 0* pU;.\sure to I'C (I-m ivcd from < ..list- i r.ndi' tliO u)anv ditfincnt. dimatt's of . ■V ,rld therii muvt always bt a very wide ' tu.e of opinion, Init it iiKHf: be evident ' It ':hat olimite vvhi?!i u'^e*' r lu-nith tho sir^Mte> a ptii'^oi I bo > iuor b'la !ui artvnnf.a;/" wiiloh runnot bo cmnt-'rhahnee*! tiy n'!' feuMirM of a cdirnate wbleh detraetrt fi')ni ; idlh and vl/or. Here tbesnort'iniialiy dirtapjH >|H be'Wffn tlu' l«t H»id liilh of April, loavlijtf very little water on tho u'rotuid. The weatlu r rinnitM e • 1 r»t niirhts and warm dMmi).r tiie d.'y until aboiir iht tU'tcctitli of Ma,\ , a''ter v 'hi 'ii dite frost in lui UHual, and plant uron tli be',»:i!iH to 'i«- mtiid. Kain ln'Ufiin to fall i-arly in Jnno, and urrowth contimu s v^ ry lap.d i;iitil ab mt the iniddlo of Ani;iHt. Hayin,' <-f>nniH neo-^ uli'Mit the uiiddle or tn I of .Fnly; nar\«'-it iWom thrt middle or end of An., isr, and is (Mnnpliteci in Se|>teiiiber. Kali frosts b(!},'iii fro n the 10th to the "ifd,!! of S«pt unlt'i-. nfVT vJileh UTo^vth uenei il;\ Ci'ast.:^. ami the jtri^slie'^iris to witln.'r; it .,". ntrally reniiins )i;irtiV i;reeii. hou(vt;r, so that it is jroo.i i''ist! in h t!ie \Vt;.dbor bev'omeii wan.'.-r a id the wnr ',,■ disnpp f>r<« As compared wi'h tlu* clinr.tc of M.uiit dm the \vi;iter s( asson is not so loiii;-, ir stormy or so s^ejidily severe, nut at time:J the *.her- tnoinett r i^-oes us low us in M;ui;'ol>n. The in- fine nee of the w< St or ohimiol^ wiod is >vhati shorten-! tiic winter and from time to time lelifves its sovcidty bv mill spills, while the abv.ndance of timh.;r seittercd in irhinipfi oxer tlio district shelters m im the Htverit\ of the north ^\'.n>\, a« the h;ue pldi.s i,t .M.,t,i. toba and the sonthern i-artof the North »v.;st are not. The, >)li'/wid>« or .severe wi.itoi stomas \vbi« h are tliet(ii-'»r ci the p!,iinB, l)^•ifl■>ilu^ l.iiJiii(>»;,q to a standstill, ei!dfin;:;er- iui;- lif ; and destroyiii|; eattie on tlic nui'.'es, are nntinown in the Ivimonlon district. The weather is i* 'rt-dnly stormy at times, init on aeoimtU", of tho nhnmianoe of shHb.cr 3t',i iUfi no <.n'!vit iiioonveiiicMoe u o\f»'rieneed, there la no ;• hV'-rinj/- !i.nd there is no danger. Tiit^ cllm it'' dllTt-rs from tluat "f Southern Alberta in lis.!-. ii.;inu- farther Cv-nioved P:'oin thi' uRiunt.diis thi <.'i)irjool< is tiot felt .us j-^tr.iiiyly in winter. T^c winter weather is nioro steady iuni tlii-reforc ]»reparations arealwayi ir.a If f'lc it, and tliere is none of the hiss or stiT.'riti'.r th'.ir oe'*uvs in Sou'"hern Aliv-rtrv ,ind Mont.ira w'.nej theihh'ocdv tiiat h i« i>ion depoiidcd on fiils i > iMonOvit. A-i tlic "'inlh- ern enuntry is I'l a hi'/'i.-'- eieVi'.tiou hv at le.'i;)*' a t!;"iis.ind feet and ii^ imdvdt'red bv timii(>r, .-.t'»n;i^ riej.v •vit'-- i.-r-'ater iurv tfiere. 'I , fhwrc \p loBn ralnffti' or a*rrt Manit >hA unHluHMcnaiiiro- iiiilc thafi tiiitt of Soiitlicr:! Alhi.ita Tho , wi-athcf* <»l thi- IcniT'lry Npiln- i\f. (pii'slion ot u Miiovt ttnio: and [ wht-ru thf> .•>;•« nnt.all t'lO ■,'. i)ivltl\ nf dit, ^ worl^i und nil iho appliriiic»'<« of cnUi/afl<»'i cannot provide thcni. Thc-c ar-^ 'iicts 'iial I the i.i'ci'iMiiLf sot.fler wo'iiJ do vvell to I'O'i- j f-iilvr fully hi'torv deciding: o.m I1I9 pcrniautnt iociiiiMi. ^WIKIXB C\N I'Lr.NTY OK T.ANU UK MOUT tASILV SK(.:i'»Kl)? j Any po*->iliU' ad\nnt;,i,<.'f> of soil or olini:itc < in any tii> [ {■tiinjr a';q"i!\;d in sMtiivii'Jiit quuufity or i\t a i ••(••isfin •l,lo rato. Tlie l> mntdon li.nds ixi'l j pr )\id-.b tiiai: a settlor in?y wou'jire K'v? acrtH i of laiid as a honu-gtea.idenci5 j and 0. >n! ill atnojnt of cuUh ;Ui;>M. TIiIm applies ti'e.'iOii .ilrt'rnr.to Hqufvro n;ile or cvi-n tnitiilt'rod section rhrou-'hou" the trrrUo:'irs, ' Tilt; other altoniute square' li'ile or odil nutn-. I hoi'cd .-jcvit'ion is resti vod for sale or to 1:3, f»-;':tn'A'.d as it bonus i-i aid cf railways. In ' thu 80\l^■h«il•n ,ind c '.•■fi;rii parts of th<' Tfrri- tovi.- tl»e,sti "dd nunil>t>r»'d s ■otion?' are h(M ' »tt.92.f»Oan ai'r • in the inn-thorn and western ■ portion at •-•■■' i:i nor**. Ip to the thst, ci thir ifir a uro-«n)iti.'n of 1(10 .u-ra^ ni 'j;lu hi? taUon \\'\[h fch ^ hnnie'^t.'jad to be p»id for in thi'O Y'^ars xi v"-^ o: s^.RO an pvw. Tliia i privileire ia no.v aholi>»hod — ntiwisely as | M>a!iy think, f -r thcv hold that Ks?o .ifre« of land n tittio oootjifh to niaK«» a farm \> pralfif portlniio! !hi' T< rriiuri<'-.. Ihit h ahohnh'd t'n; «:a«t! nini-t I c t.ik'-na*! it^tt(l: find til ' ^' t^'i r niiiMt riMHid'M-, u he in tm to pimhasi- the rtinuindor of what lan< n'.piir»< fri>in tho mn. rnni'i.t., In nhat [ of thf TiMiisniis vill i«'iO :\ '\\M ijial-o n ,-' uit'iit fniMt ind till- n»" r fiirm" Oni" |iec'> of I j.Mui* Ifirm in lln' pniino dHLiirfs Ih a'l fnt.l and fttn^-inv haM' <.» h« p'.^t•ona^< H nlt(ll '.fin;j t»lf e(|nal:t\- with thi> iifthr In partly vvviodid couiiLr>. Anoth-r, th m piivir.i; trop is whctt arid 'n ordi-r tlia» . V Inat may Im' kn.; froo f"oii) "v .(.'dM nir^ ' ?o\\, K- Irilf the t'iilti\nt(al hn.-i f-dhnvt d i-.uh >. A'»ot)i<;r tint if "took is luiscd.as t:i»»trro*' ot ; riHH i« con'p'c.iMvt l.\ ' i' int \- in t'n 1 prairif .uid liay and water very sctirce in n ytiirs, a lirtrf-r a:» a (or pustnra.'f pnrpoM required toan whom thu j-rowih of ara^r niort' h'.Nornnt and hny lUid .v.iti't aldiii'!''! a''' ii. til' pntly tinilii'iT I r''L'iun of .Nor'h Aib'Tta. To cMit the iNittwr short: If; gctthr U resitii<'ted to ItiO acrt's— which aJ' all \votiilied froJil CVei'V otner p^rt of the T<'i ritoi i ' ItjO ncr.s of selected land her^ lit mote vaine to tin- ac ual S( ' tier it will make him a lieller fnni -th.'i SiO on till, hae plaifis, 'md hesides if ho li " the opportnniy to pinenasf fioni the c^i. eruimnt lie Ociii pii.eiiajo at a lo.«s price a' po^siiny on msier ti.rius Win n ti is fi.nl' considevod that th'j choioe is npi •;■ I ween lOO acPv-s at Kdiiionti.n ami .'..:'ton tl plains, hut hets»eon Ihii acru:^ in < jjeh di: trict, i'. ^^ill he hi . mi that the sel.rlpr wh .'li 'OS' H the prairi' lOseH th>' «>pportunt\\ ' his life. The sft'der who conieH in now win; seitlinnenr. is still 'jonip-.J-ativeh »-v-irs-j ha.. tho opportnnity to secure aloction Jov nothiii!;-, h ivinu' rej;ai-il. to i^s -soii, »ituaiion and aurrouii'liii^is, whit.li it vvonid oo«t hin; luanv years nf h aii'''r'i'ti;i. rut Ih.l1 lidti rnil\ -": .r:n l.iek "•'■ any Oi'n r jy eahi' th |Vi or he: r tr.ii nil>^ |a:i N. ai> I 1' Irav from th I, ■•i.u- Like. \i i.hieh ha^ (ihii,, will h .. the pi' li'i ifraiits ii- full;, >nd iihjei |v'» e il'iti;. !>» v\,.\ , tin ji'-' . V. K. ni'tn't? '.ial I h,' from th ipdit lii'ineh k-t u;ru".ilt |iv .t of ihii th-' 0. ft •(. tiielai )'■ s-iMoniei ^ have a t tiio t ■ij helt ted iu M ;:,a adjc i.'t ton ' ive a."* t i 'n.- rt'uic .-, wh'.t.'l' asvay fro ^'.er pay t iutw tSat ■i 1 tint it it m dls jri.-oiiarie: li' ■ Uitici' I I I'l itlii'.ii'!-, WHY IIIKHK IS ^u KAIIiWAV. T'i'> urio f.bjtofl.)!! :« It ••>' 'bi^ m'ttlor to the '■• 'iitoii liirttrict irt tlini, it H without mil- .\ .MiniiiuniiVit.ioii. Tlii-^ \h ail oi>j«'nil!tul it! MO f.4ruv\ay II > r.Ki.ir till' r IV <\.'iil(l t'C'Maitily htve lull tlu\>iii:li it ."Xf ^r-a'-Mlly j.ii\t>'0(l i.i'-ttjail of tnkiiiir Im*- ,fr •iouMilTII l'>!lt<;. I'll' .'.!!•. ^Ml* to Ulf : ofijectioti ii tliuC iilthoii;;!) the n^Neiici' '•.• .w.iVH ih i', 6'( •''•us tti .wh;i 'k, thf iipfr- ti ilur.il «« liavo . r >'tliiiioe i' I', K.,!.f>tli ..liu:li li;iV'' Ivliuoiit.oii f(ir tluir obl'-ctive .;iif,, '\V.{ We niMir nipii' r-jiisii- ictloii dur- ■ the prt.'Kcrit seiiHu,). Hdrii h.:i\<.' lil'cnil ii,.'i Ljr.iiits and i.o "lU' <*iU) i:i Vi!i<.rto»i il«l t'.avo cfiiit! il '■< .\.,y, thf aiHW '1 ii Uiat i lie iii;iiii lint,' of 1" ' . I' II. waH Iniill ;l^ a '-•"iii^v tiiiif tru'i«-- • iiie;iiil line ovr the siimti'st rout.;, ami . ' from the fir-' it wis iiit* iuUmI to Meporiil Inn) hiiiu'ii lino- fof tho 'ii.viifi|imi'iit, i^f the ' lurii'iiUuiiil ui . LS of the Xi I'l.'vtjst. In t I'f ihif" it nm\ ho cin-ii t!i.vt from ili • 1 tho (J. P. 11. jirovi'lod thai, tluiy miuhr, ' 't tiio land mIoiii! rhcir intiin line as uoht s< MloiUtJiit and t:iK<; it whi-re tl. -v cliu"^( . \ hrt'.e iis r. ii.attiT if i >cl ri;ject dal:*!;;:'' i^ i tho niiildli; and wcstc.ri! yuctic)!! of the il \;iy hfdt us iiDtlt for setflcniciit and have teil iji its place an aria <>l Northern i •! it,a ad joinitiii- ;i;!d )>xrily inclnt.'ufl In Vw- ■ !.'( toil distite',. Till!-, shcnld !>•! prov't • vc n.!* select irtav fioii; iheif main line, it. will surely ' 'T ;nv tho fiefcfler ulri wuifs' t.t nso ii. t''* 'W tSat e.\ani!>lc. It .-ihoulii Ik? lK>r!ii' iit I tint it nas on the ret-aldti'-.n of tlio Ed- •< 111 tlishict, as estahii-,h*!d hy Mic early '"-.ii'wie.s, tradL-rs and lra\ti!er.'-, that the Uticii of iho vvhi.lc N'tithvvesC vn? a Held for se».?!oinciit wai* foiiiiHrd. KAptrkMict,, Wii'.-ii w.iH rxpe-'ti'd. to pr<^e the til)M'i iority oi ..rlar diHl|-|»;tN, Ic.-- "II thv fOllll'urv llit.rn iirii I;, nn.l idoarly i ^Ialtll»lh' d tlu« Mi;).irionty 'if thi.-J WlKrt* WU" . oat' d lh»; lUfiinir htittlu. nic»-i in uU l.'eiu va^-t tt'niToricH. AKTti'K lAL CONMTltNH, An ^ite conditioiiH of fh;' Kdnioti* I ton diHtriil fa via al In l.o a v f.tli f -.firtiii'.- on . a ^>ll all ripit.i ; When tin iiiten linu rfottlar ' f^!'^^ hmr-ii that Kdinotifc^n iw •«''» ndhn fron> till ntart)«t r lilwav Htarlnn, hi is apt ;i»|.inip ' to (hneiii-«ioii timt o-* snpplie.i vshieh hy ! ^nnld have Ut fnirehaHr lii\e tn l,' hin.vd Mi fir rl. iioHt l:e vri V dear, (unl hh ih" pro. I *\\\ri- that hu would hive . > t«< II >vnuld have to Ik h lolefl at* fir to n »ieh an exput iiurket ' it inii«t la! vorv cheap, uid lli. .•, f ,ii' tho hn.sintMS of ffniiiiii;; oativ.il In' i\n pro • ' litable at Mieh a di-tiirna, trotn tlir railway ] as on Ih- liiu'. If llio nnruiu' adv.uitaizes of the e'-ii?iM V al-'ini/ the iii.e \Vi n- cjtialt** I ili0-«e nt the r.'>.d«e the ! onniiti'. hiviiitf th- iidxatitejjc nf easy aeoea^ ! to tlio rad«a\ ay a tleld for Sf!i> h ni. "nf. But as tin M.tllei' must rai"!' p;'.» lit' j hei,!. ho I I'an either Imy or •«» d, if is »oov» imp ir'ant I tiiat hib natural h-afronndini!- "-honld hi f.iv- j oniiile- especially in hi-^ Hrst years ot uio- iteerin„ - than tliittlitr<- shoold ))e ahi id- auf n1 sforev crowd. jiJ with cheap ;;.io Hi-lpKo-elt inuy li' Weil t.) point out Ih it, thi disi.nit'O froi'.t the railway ih nit sneli a d^■a\^ hack as thofo unaequdiiifed v.ith iho fiu-ts miiht <3!)jilv supp ■««e, espenallv to the ftriiier wiv HO li'ni!u-.S8 ison his fiuui And not on the railway train. A.-) the cienitry hct.vvec o lid- I loiiton and th- railway H ei'lv;; park or i)r»irje, the "oad m yood all tho vear round, oxvtpt f >r .\ short time In a \\H suir.uiur, and traflii; is mm led on with an niuelt safety ar.d reiru!.!i:v liS if ih-rewa-s r.nhvay eom- iiiunieatiou. 'I'he dtlereiioo is in the 'eM;stal f.icili',ieM and lia:»tol' ur^'phtcooinmuni- catiou as w; .i. The rate < n frel.«:ht is fmin on.' tv^ tAvo ef-nrs a pCiUi <»n hcaxy t,'ood8 suih .iS tfUKur, salt, etc., ihii' adds materially 8 U to tllC cost, '.;Ht on. ,11, lolian- ), f;ii'.cy K^y (ieriis, ilry t-uuds .uul IwioU uml shots, it. will he Mecii t.liat til'' (Ntuiount liy ri-ii-'ni of tlu; a'tiulil from (lalj^aty is vi-ry siiiill. To ('i>|Uil'wl);ilii!u I! the. tiCiyltl, r:;l,t;t», a>; Kihuou- t'lii Is !iii 'jI'I uHtahiisli' il iiiiii imjjiiiliiiit u^itd^t ih/piif toi' tlie im;iieiiHi: tfi-rlU)»y iimludeil in tin; >!i. krn/io basin, tlir,»f •\rn:iCi'iiip'irritivt.- ly i'ln^i; i;Viii:licr ()f sirori;f<'' inpj-f.inji iJll:.iltt'^'S tiiiiw cslAhlHlicd liuio, V Ir, Ijuyii.if in l.ir:;'' .]uantitii8 ill tht bo^fc iiiarKfitiS an 1 oii the lowosi iv rtii.s, aiu tnabkMl lo svll ufdtuls at pricus tin lii.;|Kr (HI Mil' avoia'^i; tliait (iitisc jvvid t(^ th': <'tjUMtr.\ SI. no Iiulj. ;•;•;; in i'.nyouf. i^iii'^ dihtriiitcl Maiiit>diii; for .vhttis jiaid oxti'!!, (Ill i-iij;';u- '.iiiii 8 ilr, is mad.' up in tin- l«>\vtjr tiriCvS -on acoctutd, oixn aK;r (Vdnpi'i- tion-iii dry fu Jii.-t, and otlirr urtioi'-i. To HV.ni Ui> fbih fialiirc dI t.hf . Tlu- Kd- niotiron s :.tk*r alth(HU4ii ywimlf- tiom Uie rail'.viiy ij U'lfc at. iuiysoiious dit.ad\;i.nta«e in tbe M'attie of tfii'^^rapli oi |>^■^l il fa'ililitia or pf!' ■■. nf (Uipplifs nH'Drnii ic d .viLii-st I.M'.jh noar';r Lli.' !.(i;vvh> lim-. A.s lo llu; uiarlut fdrhJHsnrplii.A pru(iiic;c: AMIiouvh Mic pnpnla- ti/;i (il Kdmontun drHMi'-tand tii>' rcijion 'jrilmtary to it iiiimi" is i i.ond man; t lions - ands of )«;upii , cliittfiy I.nlians, filic ]».i,it, oi thi! pfandafion \< Idcii prudiiccw a yoaily huj" pltu of firm pi 1(1, ICO is cfiioparaUvcly nuiull, nnd th': c iii-i> ijUfiicc ih (hit. oniit^ tu Mi. di.'inaud-' oi' oi(hiiary Iradt;, and Mi-- suppiics ri'jiiin'^! i)y Mu;^f*.-d(jral uo (jnnucrt foi {.\\f }»oi;i:o division 8lat!oii(.'d in fclic di^iiict anil tin; triuitv f'l liann fy-.idi!iit in it a-, wvll, w'.Mi a H'.tli! ll:ul)Oi(L'»i to I; itilrd iril ofcijsionly , til- local niaiki:t has taktn, at jm .{;i;k niiich liiiiht;!" than Ihosi; paid alom; .in; miiv^ay hni', all tile Hin plus piodncir ot dl kind.^ that Jias v\'t hcci! iidSL'd. l,'.''«jpT in llu: matter of oat-* and iHca.siO", ally pofiiO'is Liic local U*;- niand lias Mrvcr>»-t 1 vi^n 'ully «nppli'il from iooal sniu'ctiH. The natural rcMult has h(;(!ii that thtj 8i5ttlitrH who ustahlishcd lhf:n:^vlvcs ill t!u.t (Vxiiitry n few ycaie ai;o iiwi- almost. unir'"nniy doiKi utll. Oi' ooiu'r.c if v lai";;'! rninihtr of hutthirs caim- in now thi;y could ridt (txpcct to 'ia\'i' tin; hunio a Ivaid.airc of u local market,, ami womil, aftJer their own wants .'aid the local dmnaiid were -'ipplicd, ha\ ti M) d<'p<;tid on tin.' ■ 'Diis is thKts and iri "'..ill objiers c.nfrijit. Athnu.-. .■ ' doil;;.r.s uortli of "atrje , ivn !)<» niariu . rii'-ro elii'iply from Iviiuon'on iit (/di: tiiaii a t.ho i.<.inil dollar.s worth it \.'i). ' arley or fruit, can be marketitd tiu in, ficiii '.vinu''; if i> ,<;-rov\ii (Jat Mr nri! the iii iuntou ib , trikjt. owiii^; to choiipcr land ami super i advantnir-'s, t,he.reffiri! the I'IUiuoukmi hi; i ; a!'h-'u;.n t'oO mics ir >m tht! railway is nt, i I di-..ul\,inf..ix« rcvurdiny; t,h'! i!N|>ort oil 1 princiji.d and uio-^t prolpal)!'; |iro(lnct j coniparud v\hh tin- M;udt< from t.nc railway Kta !• I llor-cs, tiie most vab.i;i!)! ■ proibua of r I f.irni can l*e marlcctcd at '.i:c r.dlway ■ i cheaply as (Nif.tle, nid nmil thi! riiilwa> i.'- • ] t,(;!nle(i lo I'Mmontoii the f.r.-He.nt frciu^ r-ites will pi-ru'ir, of Mic pr<.lifahiL' OApiU'L ■ d.aiiv produi tr., !<.ieoii ni|(| >,\ool. } NAllUAl, CO.MU ,IoN!--. C'jo.-^ideri d in Mic li'.ilw;',\ is uoi s u'h a • . I f>us matter !tei' a 1, 'ii.'l n-' a set (.!?:'• v 1 ^ prwHohl disuilvai.ta);i there is mu';!, ou . n >id«red the 9Up<-'ri'M nit.ural .ilvaitri' \hichui( ivimoi:i;',i» 'li.^^li.■i:. lias lo oty( i . c'iiupared wit.h other ;iC.'tions nf riu-'lV-nil'. ' les and, |tartie.ularly wit.'i the prairie ref;! ■ ah.iii;- l.hi; (J W b'. line Tin .-^ettbu' on t ' prairie who lof':itei w.l.hin twenty mibsi, r..il\\;i; imirloL tcwn, .'m' who is i.i-t m .i Ml in t\vi:.,ty miles from \\\\ tiod.er, is ta.!., fortunate, iledi/.il not eicpe. t to uret, huiti' \u^ ni.i.terial exccfii fr.ini tin- iailv\.>y an ' rail fimifr for f.JK.in ; in.' doch '.\ itliout. 1 . the Ivlmonroti dMt.ricr, a H-'ttl-T may UiUe ^ i fariii uliieh ei'lier ha-i tjinlier .^s wcli;'-. i prcirii; l.'ind on il or v.i;ieh if;di prairi.- i not. i;ioro th;ui .i mili> (^rt^o drlant Inan a'luud.iiu «; of iuei 'Ui'd r;ii) t iinher m;r moi" I than bitiror liveniileM di;-i nut from a!mi;o I ance ol' > h r .1 -if.v M,u„ i.'li (.h.. fur,, Olll«' .«C(!Di..;i: 'r'l.ii *al| uii > f;ii dairy jm • 't. ^V fluiii,-, . .. *■"" ill. (/iIl Tt'l .1 wii. Uii tfji I,,, l';«rc tin- II, 'I'i'i'.nfoii" (j;- uiid Kupcr : iiio:it(iii Kcii I. '•W.l.V \h ;,(. I, , (!>f)t)/f, Ot i. I'; [•ro(Jiicf, .. wIitMt fjin. ilw.iy Kra 1'^ ., ■('(\nfl tjt (),(. '^ ••i.ilWMV |^■ ■ iiiilwav iV t ■^•imut. '(v<:ii:].i '•i<-' (;:4H.rL . tile f;,'-t.H li I Hll-ll tl '■. t. '■I off;.. V I .1 IViUl.T i.'n l.> oUVi ' nifTfirili,! iruiiiL- ivj^i,'. ''oIMt oil t'' iLy mil, M f 1 o is i...t ru.)!-., ''"•f, i.S tUii I, »■'* U"'!,. huil!. ftiilw.fv an ' ■•^ltll')Ut.. I , 'ii-'i.V Ukf I «■ as WfL ,1 , •' i,,,i^».. „ bov«l would in nianv cft«e» ho a I . n: appropriate iiaino. HifJ fuel ho njUHt y, ui\ many <]ayh in haulioi;, rnniiiriK hiH '...riu's ciovvp ill coii'litioii and rittking lui iwii liff U) die prttjri« HtojniK, and can m-vor ,; ^,llI!• thftt, J)«5 has tn')u|<)» — iiiUHt uiwayH i)e t,ii.tttlet'H Ik^uhc de- pcfidK cliiefiy on the atnotint of lubot and 0kill wrii J Jie in wdli;j(4 t > cxpi ud up(jn it. Lojfn ""' I**'*-**' ^"^' «'Kbily procured, i.i d luiu - bti iu)d HliinKiON of Kiii.ioiitoit luariufactii'*'; irt: ffisonable in prict. The s^cfctlfr can la i- abetter house for loM Uionev in Vhis d.s'ri. t tii.in in c.ny ctLer part of ti«« Terii- oi '. H'H fJU'l naf- •><■ cut and haul«>d in lot ji iiy inor*; hciuT* than hiw prairie neii^h- •vould roti'iire daj-w, without injury to >' tiofhCKor discomfort <>r dan^rer to tdniiiclf, I . ,» vine nee«i uei'tr ho Rti»ii»;d. H« can at }.'.{■ < \nennc of only hiM ow n lahor fence holh ^'ra . and pawturt' U* :1<1h. therehy jfreatly 'I'l I.I.IK' hJM «!\ptMiH» - and cihanceH of Iohh ■i-,:iiMliiiij hoth (T' i ^ and stock Tort-turn v.r i« liiomert to flic niattwr <>t diKtatico Irotn ruii'>:,.v: i'hc «-tt'»r who livcM 2'J n.iicH rom v\i»od and r.'(jniii'S to u-(u iwentv loads ri .1 > t;:ir travrlo earli ye.-ffoi wo(jd 8()0 ml. K. Till' K'ltlcr rrqiurcB «a> one load of |M,'<. -le.s, dry ,ro0 feet, T'.o advatita;f •/(><•>(; w it'-r tho yitar rouiiil canoot beovcr- utiiiiatfd. It niukt'H the ditf»;runoe hulween "itftf.iiivi; and pr. iltahle titook raising ^nd he pnrBiiil of t!; it indiftry under difhiMilticN either ♦'xtorsively or profitably. Second (Uily in innp(»rtHiiee to tb^; ablnre fitoro t.'attle thiiu fi» e acfrea in the southern part of the prairie veK'ion, partly because the jjrowth in more ratther; and in all but the weatern part of the prairie region as niucii hay id required as at Edmon- ton. '!'(' r;on)pensate for the sltifht disad- vantatft of beiii^ fuither from the railway the Heitler in the iCdrtioiiton district K(-t> "^ better houne for b-Mg money, ho Chn iiave plenty of comfortable outbuildinufB.he haa an abundant Hupjdy of fiiel for practically no- tbioi.', be can fence extenBivcly at no caah outlay, he ha^ abijndance of wholesome watfrfor hiaiaelf and iiia utock, h<; baa the most luxuriant paHMira^e, and hav in «uch abundance and ho easily procured as to place hiFH on a t>etter footing to ralae ffood cattle •:beaply than the ahKikman in the beat part of th»! rai cbinjf coutitry, and a hundred times h<:f.tor than the aettler on the more eauterly pra rie« 8OCUI. roNprriONft. After all ({Ue^tionvt refj^ardinH noli, climate, products, prcHent cor'd.tioiiH and future pros- pectHareanHWondthere Mtili remain queations of importance equal to or i^roatcr Dian any of tbene. The peripic art nuire important than the country. Bad ntmhborN, h^d iawn.or bad (covcrninnnt, a lack oi educational facili- tie« or r-ligiouB priviletjev oamiot be mude up to the law abidint,'* iiHuatnoiH, thrift.y. m"* "i -iJKii th ■iJiir- I* ill" 1(1 K hy the inost profliiotive soil or tuoat, jrenial , ciimate. It. i» ^-^eiifrtilly thettrawbuck of iw.^v \ conntrii^b that the ia"-s ure weakls' eiitorccci, j that there is a ruiiiR-ioiis lawlt^sa class, and I that, the man who jfief* into the wiliicniesg to Tpuko a home for himself muHt he (loiitent to j seo his children trow up in iynoranee, and i without the restrmnhicr 'iifint ricei* of reiiuiot) I which wouiii be felt in older and niore derise- ^ ly peopled districts. In these particnlr.rs | the Catiadiiin Northwest is incoii'i/ani'ily srii'erior to any other cnintry iti proeess of i aettlemcnt in "the world. Thnuii^hoiit the lenjrth and hreadrh of these Territories the law i(4 as ri'jfidlv enforced, tlie indu^'trious niun is protected in his person and in the results of his laho's as thorouirhly as in the most populous rural district of Ontirio. There is no la vl.:»8 cl (''s, there is none of that deti- ance of law .rid destrncticn of order that is popularly (Supposed to be an ourjfrowth rf piniH'cr life. The eastern settler coniinsr to The Ciuadian North wnstfint^sKiniaelf amongst ptoplf who are as deeply irnpres.s<'d with the neeessity and ad\antaue of niaintainiiiir law .T.nd order as were liin neiuhlwvs in the east. Where population is scattered as it neoessftri- ly in in the first settlement < f a new country it is of course impossible that educational fn^jilities should hv' as abun.latit as where ih 're i>< a jrreater concentration of poi>ulatioii and wealth, hut as far as has l)een possible I he adv'erse conriitions oxistinif have been made u|» for. Four heads ( f fauiilies may form a school district, and when formed tbn irov('rrm)eiit paN!' from t55 ro T.'. per cent of the teacher'.s salary, thereby reducing- ihe cost on the ratepayers to a merely nominal amount. This i» uncpiestionably the most liberal provision for the support of schoola in the world. With a pop'.ilation of somethinjr over 50, o<)0 exclusive of Im'ians, th0 organized school distiicts in the Northwest. Matters of reliii>ion are a^ well attended to an those of education. Thev* is not a setUfment in the Territories of any eonseijuenre in which reliuiou.s services are nor held, in these particulars, the Kilmon tor. district is not iiderior to any other in the Territories. A division of mounti^d police, with headcpiarters at Fort Saskatche- wan and several outposts, ('usure obedience 10 .he law. Supreme court sits at Edmonton twice a year so that rcdr* ss for wioims dotie is readily available by procfs:- of civil lnw. There are twelve school districts within a rpdius of twenty milesof Fdnionton. Ther(,' are niissionaries of the Church wi Enpfiand, Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Cath rhnr. lies s'alione 1 at K*♦ RPMr,NTON DILVJ'KICT. The KdnioMtoii district occupies the \ western corner of the Feiti'e Belt >f (V.i,: and includes thi: upper poition of tiie '. Saskatchewan vil!t;y. It runs from Battle riv»;r on the .south about lf>0 mil the Athabasca on the north, havioi Saskatchewan near its centre, and e.\ :• from tht' siumnit of the Rocky moun eastward ;»bout 3(X) miles to the meridian, tlu eastern boundary (>f th visiotia! dist ricr of Alberta. T\w t.lwn • f ' il nionton, a little south ano east of the • t of the district is in latitude, TiHJi the same ' ' t^ueen Cliarlotte Islands on the Pai coast which is abo\it 40(^ rniles distant f, the western boundary of Ih.e Kdun i disiriei; as Dublin in Ireland, biverp./Ol .; York in Knyiand, ttie norihrcn jtari Holland, Hauiburij in (Jermany-Her1ini.fi many, is a very little south of 5;}- an-.l >■ siderahly s(uith of the centre of Russia, 1> if>i> miles further south than St. Ptti'VHbi the capital. Eduiotiton is further south tiia| any parr, of Scotland, Denmark, Norwas Sweden. Tne Edmonton district do( s not inc ' any part of the true prainc or Great I'l i' aUhouirh on the southeast it extends nciiil CO the limi's of the plains. In the west 'til northwest, it is thickly timbered with pop'. spruce, tuinarac and birch, a great deal '•■ of lart>e siZ'j. Aoiiff the Saskatchewan ai its tiihutanes above the town of p>im-oiufc tjxteiit its | |)i!ioririp iird iMtit H<'',ai i fit.cts, lior ran i 11 lit ( iiii>U}>h sfttl. rs in tho j ark region of ! .list rid; lo t^huosf tlu; titnbcr nupp^v of j , iiniirtly wo( ded rt.>i:ion. it Im a pciMiliur- ; Iv fif th^^■ district tiiat tbi're is a Iar;^ir | > \tb ot limber cloooao Berries, craniierri'is, Stiskatoon berries and ili'kt cherries are abundant. Cultivated ul currants ;fr(>w remarkably wed and tu id abundantly. The jirowth of other Iri ated varieties ot fruit ha>: r.ot passed « t ;;periniental atau'C. 8T0< K. bive stock of all kinds is raised «^xteneively \>'\ io''8 well in the JCdinonton distiiet. in- fc'uiiiiig (Kiryes of all yraden from he.ivy 9rini/ht to IiidiuH jKjnie*. hormni cattle. sheep, pitjs and poultrj, incliuJinu: turkey «. Native horses do well on the ran^e ail the year round, but i;ood Btook of vvhate\er kind requires yood treatment to iiiii;_ it t(' its !n-!.st, when it is moK proiitab In iN climate and fai'ihties lor raiMun t; ,(^d via.tlt thia district leads the rtHt, of the TerritiorieH. There is a more abundtxit, varie*! and nutri tive pasturage durinjj a longer season in summrr, there is a more abii'idani, ."upnl^y of hay prooural)l uridant yield ot coarse graii:8and roots inaUi! hou' rnising a very profltaide braiioh of the fanner's busi ness. Poultrv thrive txeellently and fresh ; eajrsare plentiful every year early in Marci<. [ TurkeNs were irtroduced in IHSl and are now rai«od in larue numbers. \n experi- ' merit in bee keeping has bcciu carried on dur intr the past two years. Twenty swarms, an I increase from six. are being vvititered this year. The men who are engag-d in the experinu nt are confident that bee keeping ; will be a treat success in this- region owing j to the ub\indanee of honey bearing Covers and the lorig se.TSon of bldoni rt.VMK. The larger wild animals such as nioo^e, I and bertr and the sum!!* r f»iT bearing arii'nal% .'.ucb asbi'aver. otter, fisher, etc.. aro nnni'^r- . oua in f.iie tliickly wnod»*d districts. an( pand ( I:.' I I i*iuaiifc»iik ^<>aU are a urtut attractioti to KportMmen. In the yark rejfjen tljere are jumpinjf deer, a sinall variety, which .vi«l(i excellent t<|K)rt ami f-iir venison. WoWea uffs the only wild aniuiuls which are dani'erous and they ar«' very rare, aot runiii.jKin packs aa in the east. Coyotes- an atiioi;0 between the (ox and wolf • are not daogeroui^ but son.i'iitnes at«al chickens and iambs. Rabbits becoiiie so nuuitrous every Meveitth year as to ulniost amount to a post in winter, but thev quickly decroase. The ffopher, which is such a pest and source of OB8 to the farmer all over the pr,ilrie rf'jfion of North Arnerina is almost unknown In the Ednjoiiton district as he does not like to burrow in such a depth of soft black mould. The loss of crop by gophers in the vjrairis regions in a dry year varii;n from a third to the whole, and to destroy the goj>her« has become an important question to the uovorn- menta of the Canadian provinces and adjoh)- in;; states. This is a question w))jch the seiiUrin the Edmonton district has not to consider. The numerous Ukes and pond'i of the district abfumd in dncks all summer f'lrnisn- Injr exctjUent and never failing; spori The larger lakes, suah as Beavor lake forty miles «a?it of Edmonton, are visited by immense flocks of waveys, ffeese, owans, etc., in their annual flights north and south in the sprin;? and fall re8pectrv«)ly, and thifse are killed in Uvge numbers. Prairie chickens are numer' '1UH in the prairie spacefc, and parttidire^ in the woods. Crani?», very large and hand- tiomv hifdts vvhich frequent the open prairie, are atan found buf. they are not so numerous an Oil the great plains, Ff8». Sturgeoti in the Saskatchewan and white- flsh in the large lakes in the western and northern part of the district are the principal flsh. The latter are particularly ai»undant. and flue flavored, equal to any fish in the world. They are sold in Edmonton in winttt at froo: $r< to $10 (^er hundred f^sh. Salmon trout of large size, pike, pickerel arid gold fy>)s. are the only flsh taken with the hook itful line. ttlKBEALa. Coal of excellent quality is found almost averywhere in the di?«trict at a depth of from ten to 100 feet below the Burfuce In seams firom two to thirty feet In thicknew. The eoai burned in tiii.> town of Edmonton is min- i . n worked to a greater or less extent every y. a si rice I^ast season between fl^.O(X> ii nl ;?'.',0,OvX» worth wa.s nrined chiefly by Hott^n! living along the bankn who Wdtkeil on th- river during tht sl.tck season. '£m- outii*. tiecesaary for niining costs perliap.i • ,, dollars, and the pay is from|2t,. no doubt that others tjxist, Traces of petroleum have been found ;-! various parte of tho district but no satistd tory develofmonts have been made. A lit'!'; over SOOtoiles north of i^dinonton on ihc .\thabasca river, in a region whose trad" •» directly tributary to Edn;onton, begins t TJKst extensive petroleum deposit in '. >« known world, as e.stahli3hfd by the sur\ • •■ of the Canadian government geologi -^ Further north on the same waters is • ii!uneu8fc Btlt deposit, the product of whi 1 has bt-en used for many years throughout ii,<. MackontJtie river basin RCBMXUT. The ecenery of the Edmonton district 'S not iti least attractiveffeata.'-e. The fcentiy unc^ulating surfsvce ehorvinjr prairie and woo -> charmingly interpersed, cut deeply by ' ■■ * Sftsk5.t«h«\*an — a stream 1,0(X> feet wi.lf 4 water — aiJ"} tuiDierinw sDialler trihutary rpRiuH and (jreek*, doUed with laiye and lalMr.iAh water poiidn and lakes, the nurizon itti'kt'1 oti all sidefl hy low h«a\ ily waodod |1U sv.iich 8e«ui covered 'vith a bine hajse, jajw of spruce here and there td >'iiig a tupat color In placuM— thw whole in.ik<:8 a L'tiJie o* cahn bvftuty ttuldom 8een except can' .irt, au! plaiiiH of Uie Houth tor aoive obji;ct of uiilv Of interest on which to rest. jULjra'.atrjjf this reKJon J. B. Tyrrell, of the )iniMi(/ii {feolotfical survey says on pajie 16 hiM rtijiort on Northern Alberta: "More to L.rth'.vard, dumps of willow appear, and Jii'if farther on >f roves of poplar occur \{.<\}<..i f,he la;'.«» and on the northern t*lop«*s |tht; Ui'An, apreadinvf ojt in places •^o an to >ver areas of conHideiuble extent. We have ^w r'Mched the pai tly wo'»ded counUy. ke s''il iiiib become richer and deeper, and ltU:u.'': of the flhort buffalo tfrass <'f the liii«!. (by urasB u lonjfer and mixed with a ick ur ).vc.h of vetch at'd pea vine, forniing ^t!l';nt paiture. This partly wooded couii- ".yuifjf between the Great Plains tw the itli tiud the forcs's of thi' norrh, has for III., veiir.H attracted the favorable notice of |v('MKr3, anU ie even yet bet^l known to li)> by tlie name 'Fertile Belt' which ltIvv!) to it by Dr. Hector in IHHl." )n )«.iuiJ 05 of Tyrrell'H report appears a k:ri|ition of the scenery alonif the Saskat iw;iii where it flows through the eaHtern rt ut the Edmonton district jfiven by a Ikvaller namctl Gabriel Franchere, who ■d down it in 1814: "The river Sasl'at- ■Miie fjows over a bod c^ imposed of Maud liiirl. which contributes not a little to v.]\A\ 'he purity md trani*parency of its l»'r.s, which like those of the Missouri, are fcbii! and whitish. Except for that it is of Lhe prettit-st rivers in the world. The Iks are perfectly charminy, and offer in places a scene the f'lirrat, the most i,;atid the best diversified that can be II or imajrincd: hills in varied forms, ^wnoi? with superb ffrovg; valleys atrr^e t!!iibrowned at eveniniC aiid nior nug i)y trolonjfed shadow of the hills, and of thf^ I'l' which adort) them; herds of litrht llbH avitt lope, and heavj' colossal buffalo Hi former boundinsf alonjs the slopes of hills, tlie latter traniolir.if under their }vy feet the vendure of the plains; all Be chanipaltfn {)eautie8 reflected and Jb(ed, &» U were, by the waters of the river; the melodious and varied sonsr '">' » tliousand birds perched on the tree to|>8, the r.^frenhin>r breath of tb^ zephyrs; the sereni- ty of thc^ky, the purify and Bilubnty of the air; all, in a wortf, pour contentment and joy into the soul of the enchanted spe' tator. It is above all in the morninjar when the sun IS rising- »nd in the evenintf when it is settina' that the upectacle is really ravwhifijf How came it to pass, 1 said to myself, that so beautiful a country Is not inhabited by human ireatures? Tiie sonprs, the hymns, the prayers of the laborer and the artizan, shiiil they never be heard on tnese fine ulitiuh? Wlierefore. while in Europe, ard above all in Kng-land, so many thousands of men do not possess as tiieir own u'l inch of Krnund af;d cultivate the soil of their country tor propriftfors who scarcely leave them whereon to 8npp«»rt existence; wherefore do so many millions^f acres of apparently fat and fertile land remain uncultivated and support only htj.'d-! of .vild ani-nils'' Will men always love better to veu-et^te all their lives on an uncrrateful soil, than to seek afar fertile reetons in order to pass l?i peace and plenty at least a portion of their dav.sV" Th« description is as a;'curafe as vivid, but it is a mistake to suppose that the water of the Saskatchevvan is alwavH muddy. When thff stream is Rwolleti by thaws or rains it he- come* vvbitiih, 'IS T^be trvveller .-iay.i, but for Lhe greater part of the year it flow < past Ed- tiK)ntoti as clear arf the mnst beautiful f rook. SKTTLBMK.N'T. The Edmonton settlf meat xa lhe olde.st in the Territories and dates froju the establish- ment of trading posts by the Hudson's Ray and Northwest trading companies on the site of the present town of Kduionion, prob- ably before the beRiulny of the presef)t cen- tury. 0'.vinj< to t(t otfrapical iiositjon and other nitural causes it was the most import- ant i^ost owned by the Hudson's Bay com- pany in what, iy now the Northwe.'f^'^f>"*. Whitefish lake and Rt Pai'.l. before the transfer of the Territorits to Oiinada in lH7n, chiefly by missiotiary enter- prise, whereby the half brced.s and Indhios w ere Brathered into settled comniMnities All of these are still in existence except St.. Paul. The F.dmonton settlement surroundmj^'- and mcluding the present town in which the H, B- <.>o. fo»*t ;t (*itu*-ed was not commenced u until after tlu; transfer in 1870. Kver sinco that time tlure has Wqu k c(>nr,ti>ut,\y in- ; crRasiny;- popnirition iM(Tba8ii)j>.y dypeiu'tDl j upon a^rriciiUural piirsuits for «upp.)rt. 'D.n early C. P. R. •inrve.vs tlirnui>h the Jasper j pass, for which Edmonton was th«^! base of ; pupijlies, htoniifht the plaCe fnnuewh.it i prnjiunently hefffe the eastern public and in 1480 and 1881, vvhoi! ir. was tiiiallv decided I to build the line there vva'j a hutje 'uHux of Canadian settlers, who expected the railway ] to follow ill a few years. The cliange of route iiv way of the Kickinu: Uorst^ pas-s wliir'h (?arritd ihe line "JOO miles south of Etinioiiton was a severe diiiapp(>it)tnient to them. Noth'vithstandinir t,his, papulation and prosperity bus steadily, tliiuiifii slowly, iucrensed, and Edmonton settlement has | sjjreud su as to include a tract of country , about 2'o miles lontf l)y 20 mil s wine, havintr a population of over 3,000. \V'ithi!i that area i there are scbuolji* and churches, stores and' hotels, shops and iirills, te'e;;:iaph :nid tele- phone iust as in the better and more popul ous betllcmeiits of Manjtnl.a. There ia 5,131 acres under cultivation and 3,t>49 cnttle, 9,');^ horses, 1.48S piu'S, arid T'J7 sIiCl'p are owned. Outside that area there is praclieally no settloment. althouu:h Kj'ial opportunities await the rn- terpiisinii' man, until the outlying settle- iuents mentioned above are reached. TOWN. Tne town of Edmonton is situated chiefly on the North i>ank of the Saskatchewnn oii the 14th base hue bet^U'cn towiifihipH 5:' and .'SH, in ran^'e Ji west of the 4tli meridian, »nd in sections 2 and 3 of ,'>?> and 32 -md l^H of 52. Tht) popolatioi' is a little over 500. It ton- tains the Fiudsoti'^ Bay Company's establish- ment, which is tile supply depot of that con];>riny for it.s various outl'yinf? posts i;i the Edmonton, district and the forwarding rlepot for the Teace, Athabasc.i aiul Mackenzie rivtr districts of the north, which include the whole Mackenzie basin to the Arctic ocean and part of the V ikon rs well; six larvie inerchantile establishments whose «t(H:ks contain everything from sides of bacon to ostrich plumes; hardware, ('ruu, ji^welry and stationerv, furniture, and milliiiery stores: newspaper office, shoe shop, harnees -^hop, tailor shop, four blacksmith shops, four f;arpenter shops, two butcher shops, a bakerv, boat buildinu and curriaue repairing: estab- lishm • t, phoco^'raphpiilerv, four churches, two .<. .iools, four h(ttels porinniou l;u»U aiicncy, rcuji^try oltice, tolcfcruuh office, uost crowu timber '>ti-;,',| office witli III ni.vl toletiruuh oitice, ijosi ( order t*cilities, police station, an extt "i.«„v»| telephone service, lartre srrist atui saw i-iiijl with all kinds of wood dressiui: machine:, and a brick yard. The ^^npremc ooioM s,-«ai Eduirmtori twice a year, and it is at the i^r- sent head of Hteauiboat naxigation u i if; river. VHil AOK«i At Fort Saskatchewan cifhteon n il"* further dovvn the river, i.s the hend(juui-tr' of the mounted police division, two jjCMir stores. ])ost oflice, telejjraph ofTice, licte', blacksmith and carpenter shofi, and bikerv The Saskatchewan \k cros.sed at both Ednu.n ton and T.'ort Saskatclievi-an by niea' • i' larofe ferry scows, which are safely, qm. k.v and easily operated. At 8t. Al'iert, tune miles northwest of Hi. Mionton on the Sturs2-e have saw null^, equipped with ;dl machi. for dres^ina lumber I'he torri.er ): lumber yard in EdiiM)titon; and the !,i fi depend chiefly on the Battleford iwiu ;; ■; which they roach by rafting ilowii tlie ri^r TRADE I'RoSrKOTS. The advautaui'S of situation for the pre . . and future enjoyed by Edraontou .iH a ti ' centre are: The most fertile farnnnu cooii vi by wriieb it is entirely 8urround»»d, suuii 'ifl ill ilie hicbest deyrec for profU/ible si >ik| raiMiiu,' and dair> iuKaswell. The coal depc^'* which underlie the town and extend f' i ii| least one hundred and fifty miles np river, which is large encuyh to jiormit ' draught steamen* to iriuir the coal <1 ■And deliver it at points further down river where there is no coil. The sup)'' vtawing timber on the upper i,)art of the ■ and its tribu^JivvicB, for which n - onUm IT) lafely, qui' kiv miles up ac kxr ti.utig niai'kt't will •>« uiiif tho more opt'ii I'ouiif/y fjirtluT jowii the river, and nf wliicli KJinonuin i^ [ii.l will We the niillinn tl«'pot The ^old iftshini^jH of Ihi^ river which (xtfrid for u :;i;i( e of ;iiiout 80 niiUu below aiul tlu' Isnit. distance abo^e iMluiOiitoii, which will li, i I a small revenue for Mjany yy*r«; Tiif Jrailt' 'f the Mackenzie baeiti, an area of 1,200 piil-js from north to south by h(K) from t-ast lowest, wliich i'uih'*ai.'C8 Inrue ajiricultural Ifay, vaUiabb) f( r'.'srs, iininensie lakes stock- prhith vvijite tifdi, vasldepositHOf petrrd'iuni, )ii,l\ and Hulphur, and doublloss othfr tinner- ilS'f > ul'if, us It i8 believed by yool )i;istp Ibat the if old of the iSiisKutcheaan wa'^ lirvj. 'it l)y iflaeiiil r.etion from flit pnrt of Itht 1/iiirention raiij;e which bounos the ilmkcMZie ba!*in on the east— the v^lx'^eof vhioh trikde is from natural reai^one tributary b Kdnionton. It iu rhr fnr trnriiieipaily done hy the K«iniO:)i.oi' eMli IS and adds ^r.atly to the revenue of |ii«^ ilistiict. Any railroad crosnin/ the Horky Afountams ,. t'lf! Jasper pass, will run either throii^h [irreJir to Kdnifin':<«n; and any railroad strik It^r from south to north to reach the navij^a- jile wa'ers of the Mai:kei)zie at the Ath;iba8ca land. ;■..;, must cross the Saskatclu-'sfti'. at or ;ir Rdmont'iti. There in houiui to be a tri'tt tn.de and railroad centre ? ome place in iliis i!i:nriet and the jiresent town of i-Idmon- li' i . uost likely to be the place. Mails, trnveller«, and i itie tenth-i of the iiijrht resell Kdmoi.ton by trail t>i 190 miles row CaUary. The road is pa -sable at all eas'Mis of the year an.! is gt iurally ^ood. thi-'tti is very liltli.^ settlement alony the trail th;it in summer st'>ck (MIi be driven fre--.ly, |i'a7ui}>- as tliev go, and frei^ht<;rs' cattle and ^ot<<. s CiUi !tri;i enou^rli to eat nithout li«injr -liied. There nre houses about every ten (lilis where travellers csiii be entertained, Icticrully comfoitably but not Iuxuriou,sly, inii ( fTerintr convenient shelter m casfi of tiN'r travellififj;'. Fr.r sivty miles north of '1 "v the cou.itrv is bare rolling prairie, foe Rocky mountains showing- up gfrandly to the west. The partlv wooded co\intry there commences at the Lnuo Tine and (Miritituies tn Iviinon'un. The Ked Deer fciid Hyttle rivers and several larjje en eks are cr<>sNied, but all of importance are bridy-ed except Mtc U* (i i».;i;r upon ^Jiich therein a ft rr\ w Jieij the water is hi:;h eiiouuh to iiermit it';o run, Atother times the ford is <:nod. The stajie fare is i^lSto i^iiS and thefreixht nte rate one t by means « f the S;t>*katche'Min I'v^r and Luke VViiinipejf, and durinu tlie past ten years from otieto five steamers have \isit,pd Kdmoiit »n each vear, exceut last, briMjing passenj^'ej-s and frr!i;j:ht from Winriipetr. But that route is so circuitous, and un(!ert,;)in on account of bad connections and iow w.iter, that the over land route b\ way of Olj^ary is (•referred. As soon as the Reirina & bong lake r,'t,ilway is completed to the Suskatchfiv - an, howo\er, whicli i\iil be not Inter than \utiU-t; of th' present: season, the river route to the oast will lie the most direct and will uo doubt he patronized e.vtcnsively, especial- ly for heavy and unwiijldy freii:ht. The riaska'chewmi sneaiuers will al^o he patroniz- ed '>y tonrist travel. At prcseiit however, the route by Caljiary is the best for e^try one to take. RAItiWAY PROSI'FCTS, Kegarding railway pr^ aspects in the imme- diate future: iMlmonton is the objective point of n do/eti railway .sch'.'ait s.but nf ibese onh two ifive pr noise oi early completion — the Northw(j.st Central and the Calvary & Edmonton. Tht former has a charter to extend fimn Brandon tc the Pacific coast b'. way of the Jusper pass The schen e hung fire for jears, hut last fall a start vsas made, the first fifty miles coin{)leted, a trameervioe established on it, i.nd every a&durance givpn that the road would he pushed to complt 'ion at a rapid rate. Tlii( until by one hand or an()tr)er tK»tli the Orvat .NOrtiiwi-.st Central aiid tht, Cai^fary & Kdinontijn raiUd^H will bt. oon) plcted. nlioini^;- the whole of the Great Sas- katcho*an \aJUy in touch with the re»t of the woild. fWHy LOCATR NOW? The reason for the uettier looatintr at Ed- iiiontou MOW, in idvaiice i>f the railway, when 80 nuich land haviii^f railway fai:ili'tie8 lies open for oecupatiot), itt that by cominjr to Kdnjonton he getH uaX.urai advantag;» winch do not a«id can jias er exist in other parts of the Country; he iias a choice of locaticei within reach of -t money. The settler who comw in before the railway ami by havini,: a surplus of crop a'ld xtook is prei>ared to take advantatte of the temporary boojn caused by 43'>rist ruction, and the consequent InimiKra- tion, has by just ao much the advantav^e over )he settler wh-; comes in after construction .U completed, when all choice locations are taken either by 8ottler« or speculators, when l?ay lands haie been jrobbled and woods cut down, and when the markets ten thous and miles away, less freight charges anr retail dealers' and middlemen's profits irre- vocably rule prices. It in th/e jfrciteit mis- take st.ttlers can make to wait nutil railway construction i^ completed and then flo<'k in- to any district and undertake to farm on principles laid down in the railway company's immi^-ration pamphlets, compiled by ujen who know nothing of what thev writ« ^nd if 10 poBHiblc care less. By oomirjf to the YAv.vi ton district whiK; there is still :ilenty of ••'- of iocationN the new settler has the aii' a^e not o>il> of file opplieriCes of civili.' i which are the result of the enterprise cf ' whose came before him. but also ot 'hs years cf practical experience, throujfh •-■ the upt'cial adxaritatre.^ and drawbacks district have been proven. If he >,'• a station of country- newly opened "' must ^iret alontc without these appliai • civilisation and must ex|)eriaiciit for hi . w,| and niost likely suffer many losttt.s f.\ >• h appointments before the various quali! the soil and tin i^iacy chany'c s of the chu ^i are thoroughly underntoud "filiO 8HOt7l,D C0MK6. Men Used to (arm work who are anxti i- make a home for thoniselves are the-. « horn this di-ntnot offcia the /greatest ifi '.' meiits. Capital is noti so necessary as i't. Uence and enerjry. Any man who ha«i 'i* twi^ qualities in a hijfh decree can r-i » start on very small capital and do wi !, a the fiame time h«borui>T men— that ^s i d who are simply looking for ^vaj^es ani home— are not in demand heri' and cafi ,iri ahiy do as well elsewhere. Tlure is a ; n deal jf work of one kind and another ^.im on from time to time and wapes are ■:, ( but tlure are generally plenty of men niiK.i a start on farm^ and havintf no capital vhi riiquire all the work and watffs jfoinji t- .'ul| them idonjf. The settler should have U -irari with, a yoke of oxen cr upan of hors^'f wa^ron, plow,|and harrows, cash otiou^ i b Mn(>ply iiim with seed and food for at ie .iiti year; :tnd if iic has any more money le: l;iBi put it into youns: .jows. Such an oiit'il Jt be bought in Edmonton probably as t-iaapl as it can be purchased elsewhere, but f thi faruier in the eaKt has such an outfit .a hii own the colonist railway ratei5 arc solos iial t will pay him to brinjjf it through toC.«!j,;iri by train and then drive over land to Ed'noii ton. While this district offers special ad' fn taj,'es to settlers with small c pita!, th' s fl larger cipital will also find advantajre^ •uit' able to their means in the line of stock .ait InK". Stock and dairy farms carrying ;'oi! 100 to 500 head of cattle can l'«j establi.i'ha! in hundreds of l<¥^alitleb throuffhovt, :iH district, specially suited to that indu .j. where it can be carried on with greater *or- tainty and far jjreater profit than or ih« boasted ranges of the south, As the r *t!i are full fed all the year rmjnd t.b<*vu»'' 17 I are anxu )>i; 1 ?.n out'ii ;aii ii> r ti«izi' fttiil have rje^-'cr heff, nitre (Itli- iiA l-i'!ter hrtMl aiiitnnls can V»e rern-trl, n cnrnllcil it, least all \vint«r the) arc >i' ujjiilv t'aclahle, and the cows i^an hr, (I t')'- flawing juirpnsii!" ur iheoxcui broken |»(ii!; witliour <1irt1(;iilt..v, lietf cattln cuti be |\(r, t,» market with les-s riuk and at Itsas jLii'-r u'hI are thiirefnre mnch more \alvj- foiibipineiifc alive to Kuropf, fcr nhich vMli)iir!*s of thft ranfre cattUi mat- illy injurui* them. While etic^reil in ■k iaisintf the farmer muy raise pnv.uoe jlii'h v^;ll lu'lp consideruJily to li^ihltMi his fiiikr ex(»erijie« and at ih.e same tinu; niaV jri.\tMuiit8 in preparation for the time B« II iiicrtivs.Ml sfitlenient will oompcl a ii.;i; finiii stock rnisiiiif purely to unxed ^tiiitiK.by raising the value ol land. KACrS FOR SETTLERS GENKRAli KXI'EKIRNCB. The t" >novvir,sr evidence taken from the ex- •noe -if praotioal men retvarriiM^'- this dis- Ic and its adviintactis positive aod coin- [r.tiw, and alf,(t the opportunities whieh feffcrs in 'ertau lines of enterpnse will be ilridof inteftiht. Tbeuentleaicn whose nanus iivti here may h«' applied to personally Ly letter for the 8iil)stantiat:on of the CIS u'iven and for further Itifornjation: Gel. (iAONoN of St. Albert road was born St, ilciinedinf.DorchesLerCounty, Qmbec. Htfie ro \h;dmoiiton from the mints of ritisli Cuiumhii In J.875 aii<< '>ns>ai,'ed in riii! li.'. Hia total capital wa;. ^200. He iw has 040 aeres of land with 75 acres under |ltiv;ition, houses, outbuildings and farm jrlMiiei). Fifteen horses, i'T hcact horned le, '24'f*ht.ep, 20 hoys. Total value S'(), 000. W' l!Kr.?sEAiT, of St. Alhert, was hoin in kpra.iie, Quebec, was a soldier in the Jion aruiy in the Ainorican A-ar; came fron) ||( aiines of }iritis.h Columbia by way of iee river in 'Tr>. Coiumeneed farming at Ai'iert then and contuiued until ISHH. ij iiii capili! lo start witii. Wh«n leaving larni t,o start store he had 355 acres of ■ i with housert and outhudf'iii^^s lud .CK). He luvcr had a crop fuikui^. lUviiii McKay, of Heln'ont left Huiuir-daUt the North oj .■<<:'.)tiiai!d, in 187J for lien- ?w County, untario, arui ent^a^ed in fartn- ^r. <.';une to Edinonion in iJshl with a total inul ot ri-iO. Now hay 320 aoret, of land within tw t miles of Edmonton, 45 aeres utider cnl' ivatlon, hou^ie and outhnUdiPtfs, 8 horses, U tnilkinjf oows and 14 youis' cattle, aiid 20 sheep. Believes thi- Edmon ton district is S'V.ond to nojie if Canadi for mixed faruiinjf, and advices nuM) Inokin^ for homes to come to Kdmonion lufore taking land elsewhere. ' L. Fii.TON of East Edmonton was be -n near Shuhcnaeadie, Hants county. Nova Scotia, and farmed there for 2.S years. (j4m« tri Edmonton in the wifiter of '83-4 Had no capital. Broufiht part of family in '84 and the rest in, '8.'., which ctM ^(X>. Self arui two e-'fiB have 800 acr-s »>f land and two younircr son'; will take land near hy as soon as the> are of aye. JI 4fc eijiht horse thresher, self binder, and nil other machinery and imphMUent.x lequired ».>n a farm. Seventy head of cattle and 15 hor«es. Couifortahlo houses and outbuildings, Considers the soil at Edmonton very mucii r)iore fertile than in Nova Sconn and more fruitful, and the clinuitemoib pleasant and healthful as well. There is every opportunity at Edmonton fi^r the induKtrious man to make a c»mifortable home fir hiniself; very uiuch hetttr oppor- tunities than exist in Nova Sc/.tia. \V. CvH-"- of St. Albert was horn \n the north of Iceland, emigrfite.d to the United States when t» younu man. Went t-. Cali- fornia in '.'.'.I and to liritish Colutrbia in 'f»8 vviiece he mi iied until '^551. In that ysar, in company with IC.F. Carey, of Norris & Carey, Edmonton, he discovere river, and nnned for t»vo years. H<> then viommenced fur tradini; an;?'/J,400. He at once went intT iarmirnf extensively at St. Albert and als.* on the south side (ff the f-'turtfeon river, and '(/ntinued it ever since, en)ia«in^' in no other enterprise. He now ownnafarm at St. Albert with hoti-sesand out- bu!ldinj(8, another at Sturgeon river also with houses and outtitiilditiira and a cattle farm north of St. Albert, 2,fX)0 acres in all, of whicli SuO arc under cultivation. He has a fuil stock nf farm n-achineiyaiid implements, it.cludinp: thresher and self-binders etc., eostiii)< i;7,O00. over 200 head of cattle and 30 horses. His whole property i-« valued at .f2.'i,u00. John RKNNKnv of I'optar lake, Edmonton, .was rai*,cd at ^f.ratfo^d. Ontatio Farmed ...t-Am l«< . r I ' I 9^ Pd ^roufrnt family and clVactM acr<»w» oountry to Edmonlou, crtwsinif tl»« railway at Gletchen. Found the land better north than flooth of the Red 1>«>er, Took up land at Edmonton. I« satisfied that tb« uoU of Jtdmonton \% the richest he hau seen in th*- Dominion. BeHlden there i;, plenty of Matter, and coal and timber tor all pu)'fK«e«. The siMnmtr irrowth ^ (pood. AlthouKb last wiriter was recki»>i9d aovere, he (wn^ilderod It the niott pleaaatit he had iipt)i>t intholact eleven y^ftrs. winter Wttt^r Cattle v.\uvi through the ^ha« they (k'SDewlly do in Orrtftrio. owinif to the absence of fr«t and of storms. I M. McKrNLAV of Sfcurtceon settlement, Ed- D)»ntor\, was raiHed «i Sf/atbalhan, P. E. iviand. (auM to Bdmonton ki 18b3 and ••ttied on a farm of 8'?0 acres of claar pr^airk. The iiuaUtv of the «oil is unscurpaased and \*. ii cU)tte t(^ tiinibcr and uoa4. The oliiuate is fu^orablr <'o r |f rain and root oropw aiiiel Mj 12 aoTM. Oattie raiswijr U \ety proQtaMe on acoount of thf ^feak growth of wUd urMS for summer pastutatre. Ha8 ( ut a winter huppiy of hay from the same g^mutid over whicJi the c&ttle i^tt^M djirini; the summei. Sowir>if comtn«i»ceH iceiieraily >n the uiirly part ot AP"*; the weather is clear auU dry until i.n\. Kdmonton district in the fall of 1)>7.'">, and wan eny'^kfdd '>n tradiiik 'wM the «pniij,' of 18S0. Th»i. rufik nphlHrr»«(!ni| farm, ab-m^ *\x nillna north of rdii'oi toil Now ha'' 4'.5(» aores Of l..»id w'tli hOiHt iinjl outbuildintrs, 4i> aiTes under OultivAtion \\ hfwA a. j| oiher necesHary farm rwu'.'iint.'ry. Hus i , <( a crop every year Bince 1S80 and t\vi\i:T n,., fiiri'mre (.i' oats or barley, llf^d two p tall failure.^ of wheat in ten yeats. Last ii<-aMiii| had over 40 hushela of wheat to th, %ort[ HIh wheat ban tweras^d 30 bushelH >o ihtl acre elfgfht ysarM out of the ten. IXii 'ii>.l(| bubter and raihod cattle eatensivel> c^pI since Mtartinsr tarmlntr. Goiislderu tbal re^rlon far sup^ rior for dniryin); and A'^- raisins: to his native place in Ontario. '^\h is a lonirer niilkint; Reason,* lar^fer tiowol milk and it is r.i(;htii: in butter. Tff re iJ plenty of lErreen i^raxs au a rule from ttie \;iM of May to the l«t of November. Tht :.tirwj miles. Starts for load of ooal afttii diiintrj dies it and rctturns in time to feed cattK* inj eveniujf. Cuts suffloienr hay on his vnj {arm or w ithin two nilltr.«, and ^.ets 'viiV(| from creek which runs through his farti) o|l from a well about ten f«ct dyep- Ra Ml crap everv year since 1882. In 1383 ha'l \ cUX crop of wheat, barley and oats; In 1K8'.« osul ran 75 bus.hels to the acre, wheat was dauiiitl eii by an Au^u.st fro.st and r«,n abctit m bnsheb*, hurley wft« also dtmaired slitrht"' iiT l!".3f> iiad a pood average crop of all jij-rains; v\ 1886 had a tfood crop of oats and barley v\ wheat failed on account of boiufriiown • ^ early ark^ gettlntf oj^iisrlit b/ a .sprinjr stfa ml but the netchhors all had tJNOfllent wl'.tal:! oais ran SO bushels to th<' a tdl both svhttHt aixi barley; oats ran i5 hiip x\A In tiieaci-c; im i.SSScat; ;i\crat;i'-! 9(i liii%> .• 3| !'.» M' OIlitivAtiop ltd lUr \vre, b.irlev 3.' tn 40; mvf<;<\ no wh«>;»t hi jl tliow'.' wlio Howpil hiiU exV'ullfiit rt'lnrnn; ho 'Sfi < Mat« yltlfle'l 'K> Im^h^ils tr th»! i.crt', H Mii.kli ))i('iw o( f>^rl«»T xit'lfltMl HO '>»nlif'n to [the i«<"re and n siiok ol whit*? r'nb \vh«iit; fvl!'l<»e(l '-iOfcUfkn; r< '1 flft* «avL' iin t'«^iiul!r JfouJ vitlil bat ffM siiiur.tv. Con«i(!i^r tluj Uveruve >ifi''^ 'of ^'h*" i*^**" .v«'Hr8 fully one tbini morp thttti the avtrajfe mi e.istcrti On* >-arn! Hurne• i" <:'as'.«*rn On- t»ri'i, hut the fro8t is i ot hd Vneu theit- There arn morv HtoiniM, howfvt^r, anJ 'licjte ! with winter rain»* moke the "chsop mcue un- uiMixanfc there. Hprinij and f.\ll art- dry and ' plcrtiiHnt hf re while tht;y are alw:>y» •.v;:f, and iiiH>lea«ttit there. I il. S. Yoii.su o( the If. B. Co., Kdmonton, j w»H in (.'harge of th« H. B. Co. poa't !»f Lac la Eifh(« from IS^S to 1»87. Uo, la Pichc is neaily I5tl n»lles nor^heaat of Ednionton and Hiiptits into tbe .Vtlmbasca. Hiid a (f6o'l (fftrden every year, raising all the hardv vtaetablen In perfection and cucinnUers, pniiif)kiTm' and corn as well, the tiittter for us»kreen. The baU breeds of Lac la Bh;h<: ^ of wlrf)ni there are about 100 familiefl, have , j:town wheat, barley and jH^tatoes evet- since; ffic settlement w&tiljrijt estabjial'ed there at>d ; ha .e never 9ij|f ('red iti jury frbni frost. Thin; is due to the influence of th'e'lake, alj ciiltl- j viUion beinjj cloflo to the shore. Jhv nur j roinnlinji' country is timbered und'svva'tnpy a'ld ''onse(|aently'fr'bsty. Bishop Far.iud of ^h' Roman Catholic mlswon ;it Lac la fc V tie rai«(M} tob'ieco every year he resided thore and It jfrew luxiiriantly. Mr. Young- was in oharsre of Lesser Slave luke H. B post fr^ui 1872 to 1888. Slave lake is about 175 mileft n ;rthweflt of Kdmon- tt'» anverv >eaic and grew poriitoes, turniy>«t, carrots, cabbag'e, c»uli- Hovset andsomiethnes j;roen corn. The half hitivd Bottlers rained potatoes and barley, hut wore not as su(»c!* of^ i\lK' pi -t tha* trifltiv VH-A*-* )v/^-> '-.rs-e ■ brfniN nf oat'-le were k»'pt flure. The aniiiials w>r« never fud uft«!r reaibing' the mjc xf two \earN ■iixl Linked ihu W(iod4 as wilu iM mooiie. A Hiiijjrle wuiter of cxcen»iv«l> di'ej* unow killt i off all the tiattle and hfuii»)«, •••"Mje forty or uiorr; years ai^o, and Hinue then preparationii had alvva>sbeen piade to fued h.jy t^'the cat'V, althonph th»'V did ni>t alwu* •» rei^uir*' It. In the winter c! 187'^ 8C the HudHoi/ft Buy Company and nettUrs had over 5()<> horses at ^nvt take. A dlsWkW (fot imonvst t*iem \thi^h klllsd nicie than half vtniiefut. .since that tim«- nothing ha.« 'M'oorred to injure the horsen URAI.N. Ma'.c'^mi >fcLKOD of Ldmnnton nwnx a '^lleani thresher- an:l has threshed during the reasons jf *!»; \')8,'87 and 'He al IMmon- tnn. In 'Rf> ar.d M thrwhed atWol-r aiadstonto.anfl the quality of ^raJn has been equal to th« best *'c has seen anywhere. In '86 and '.^W he thre.ilred no frozen wheat at all. In '87 thAff. was r« partial failure cf wheat frfPi froit, but sHll he threshed tome onM wheat. In '88 the yield- of all urrain wat* very h^aw. A very small proportion of the wh«*t wks in- jured by frost, hut the greater part was un- touched and the yield very h»Avy. Oats have heen » heavy crop of exoel'ent ^rrain i ev^rry y«ir. Berrley ■*'*« InJMreU bv fros* in j '87 but waf \intouchfd in the other tJiree ! ve.irs and yielded well. In 1887 threshed for t. Q. HutehintTH of Bel'»i#>nt 1,500 bMshel btishels of oatft to the acre. ! Took no account of the viulda of bairley, but I flonie ran over 50 busheta lo the aore. I»i '89 I the yield was liyht but threshed 80 basfieh , of oats to the acre fot T. G HutcihInifS and ! A. MoLeod. \\1ieat yIeldp'J over 20 bO.'.htMs I in aonie cases r»n.l ll;e f ample was excellfcnt. j J KtLETT .^ OrrtwBiif, of CIo% er Yfht seUlc - ment, .sotith '•ide of the Saskatchevvun, luth'' season of l*i*fi threshed 684 b!»?rhr;is of oats* f'-mn six ucrea. -x yieVl cf 114 bushels per yore, fb lS8f tbev rhreshtd ^!,6»0 si^lirhed l-udhels ofottfi from irt* meu'srrfd arces, it \ ieid of 1(11 ft bissheU Ui ' the a*.'r^. The oats \vr> ft«'r«9, a yield of f)0biHh.l7 Mm to the acre; four aorcn of \vh«';^tyiolrte the acre. Iti 188M they thrchhed i,500 bunJieh of t»arley tioin 60u«!r«8 of u v<»iantt)rtr crop. l>. K. KuAhKh, of Knmt r iV (.'o , ha« iiiilled Mt Kduioiitoii dinoc 1.S81 and iniM Krotwid Ifond wheat every your. The prnporlioii of jj,';ii)d wlitat in th« quantity ofTt red at the nitll hns st«>Hdily it)ort>aMod, as inethodH at furn)irur hav.' iinj>rovt,(l. Cif t hi- crop of l«.S9 nJTert'd at tlie emll fvo tliirc}'} ^va.i No. ]. A fftfat doftl of IT wan etjual to tlic Itost the world alYorda. The reniuiiider wa* good Kr.'tiri hot wan kept down in lyrade liy »u\\\t anil 'I'oaif front. Sonuj farmers liave jfood KTain .ihnortt tvery year whllo oilient ax i.nariably huvu poor V'lain, but on the A'hole tht quality bus ^rtatly improved «nd rlit^re ia luH^t smut and less frotic lliun in f«;r,iier year*. A. F. Dboa'IXB. of Kdmonton, milled In Wanitoba from 187H t. 1S'<4 in th<.' II U. Co. millg at Wiunipnir and West Lynne and m ttic late .fa.'<. MoKay'8 mill at h't. Anne, on the Northwest AiikIo road. He ran theJI. B. Co. mill ut Kdmonton in 1884 and 18' No. 1 Kdmontori wheat i8 foils equal to No. 1 Alaiiitoba, hut a irnvittr proportion of set'ond icla»8 grain w us nfforod at Edmonton owin„' to poor farminn Hinoe IS^5 the a\ traire • jiiallty of IMnionton wheat lias injpioved. No. 1 EJinoftton whoat weighs over 60 pounds to the bushel and he has seen it weitfh for one year in the fall of 1874 and plowed up to October 2f)th ot that ' «>ftr. In 1S76 raised 1,4, fiMOi need Mt'\».n hi -ipriinf. A bun i » ! oidontt wtfiufhfld IK poundit. HaN i.c :i butihels of potatoes from one .icre a ' i raised potatoes wtiuhloif V pomidi, U- yifid and weijfht haH hi on (•X('eoatIif1owyrs, or.ionr, carrot^ snips, bectH, rtian^^old wnrtrfiJ!*, tiirnip<^, ; h.ttncr. r.tdlshcfl. ccl.'ry aiid all the I,,:! vetfelu!il»'.< « lod nnd a.'* ct rtn.i r turns r\n In any I"*''''' "f the world, to tiem, citrons, pnmokin.'., corn and tlants have come throuuli t* winter well Has not tried other sui.ili fruits. I .\T tl)e exhibition of the fCdnionton 'ii^n, , ! tun»l socifty htld on October 'it^l,I^S^, • ■. j were f.vhibited cabbaK'^e*' which ctrtbcl ; ! inch, CRuUttower 3 ft l\ inch, tu'rdp* J i; , uohes, welKhifii.' 23 prunds, beet.s I f* • I Inches, potatoes 1 ft by 1 ft a uicnrs, .1,'. I onions 1 ft 2 incht-s, red oiii,')t>s 1 ft U f. i ■ pumpkins perfectly ripe 4 ft I inch, S(|n,i' . - ft 3 liKjhes, veif^talile toiirpiw 2 ft 1 iiii.h 'm i j 3 ft 7 inches, celery 3 fi 2\ inclnsi In Iom:"': I par.inip.'i 5 ft 7 irn^hcs in lenu-'th. Ti-i I articles wove all pnuluceo 'vithoMt ii I special effort or skill in the hue of ic:v»| ((aniening, I CATTT.K. RoBRiir McKkrnan, of s«>iith Side, u from of the villaj,'f Utthniotid, Co;im> .i I Carlton, Ontario. Farmed near Hiclri.()i.; I six V'iar.s. Came to Hay laken 3.'i fiiiles .■^^'utii ■ east of Edmonton in '77 to work o-i tbf ,ta I ernnienf, telegraph line. S(Id<'Utin Onuir;. ' for .•?il,700. Moved to Kdmonton in 'M a-ui ' st^artetl farnr.»>if. Ifail fhon Htm^k, ii;iii!> ' nients and cash aniout.tijiu' to ibont.*:{ > ', ' Let the farn> on shares in v-prin^' of 'Hl>. ili1 i then the deed fif a home fartn of ;j'20 a. ..- i mile and a half from town with lUO ;n : - j fenced and 4.5 acres undcrcultivation. ,.v: idA'cllinir house atid oulboiidinu«. .■Mhi^'!- ! deed of IW acrc'^ at Sandy luk?, twch e \ south of K'imonion. with dwfllinv', -^ii I ' and O'.itbuiKiioffH used as a cattle ranch; • 20 years ir'azinir and hay leane of fivcsec: ' i of land adjoininir: lti,'"> head of horiied cir 'and 12 horses be<4ide«« ^hf .-p ar»<« pi>.'.^-- ' \v.i,<'>im, |iio*M, hi\rr'i\v>«, Hr. i| ,hill, m-lf i Mtuier, mower, ari(l viV-, and other "iMipl';- ,i)<>itK v.kluejl at Jtl.fttK) Aw\ oHHh l)isif1«H, Hh-i liftd no ht-'tter \\\r.k or 'hani-eH thu.i i.lli r people anil hh tnuc-li hft'llnck a** other-j. A'lV itifhiHtrlouK Mi'.iii -vlio iiiHiiiigth J.»ri)j»fr1y t-att ilo !»'< we!1, or bitter. Mr. Ml Kwrnari »< fxpcrieiup in ral-^lnu'cattlo II) i*M! •lihtllct, iHthi\l >\itli A iliixctl SuiKt fmii. \t;uruli> up y.ji tons of hiy p-r lioml '.n fttiiji't to winter o". I( looiit. il neiu ^ood ha> Itn.l this can Jh; .•ut.Did jitiok-d f>y coo- tru'"'' for from :if;' to.S< a ton, Init tiniari imlnv 111-, .>.v(i teams aiiJ huati (inrlnjf thti winter. Diiririir tlie tiUinrjHT the cattU: are nof. lookt'd dftif at all, and cont nothin'/. I>oniij( the iiuit winttT h»' li'\» liiid l.'iOhtudon hi-^ rancli. Fro/n 3t) oo^vh lie ha8 an hincaHe of ;M, ttif difference rt)pr«'«entiiiu- tht- totiil lousi s ditrinH: the year. loiiN NoRaiB, HK., uf tht firm of Norrii r.la'id in J86(3 in the iiervire of the Hud- NvMi'* Hav CoM'paiiX , u'ld has bt-eu entraytd ill I'atrle rai-ini: oii.di or ii;ss iiV»:r sint-'i!. Fro.ii 1870 to 1S7S wnitt-red .a Ixml tf hextjral hundred head of ra^tl;; on the ran;fo nc-ui- OMiiHt. river, west oi (!al|;ar>. one of ttio l»e8t, r!iru*"< in Sonlhtrn Alherta. Ilin d |itirieocc K'd hi. II to hiiheve tlnit cattle niihiniif was more profitable in ttiu Kdn)fMilon di^'.riet rhAn at How river. He now h;>8'.i00 heail on a Btook farm near Kdmonton. What is t.tiru li by not putting "P hny in thi' noulh in loHf by the uhnont ceitain lus" oi al! calves vhieh come before spnn^r i« well advaiuvd ill every HeaHon, with the certainty of heavy losses of full {rrowncatile iu he\crt> .sea»oii.K What is spent in Fidnioitoii on tiay is inadv cti thu mort' rapid increase, con8e(|uenl on ther« bein^ no loHHts. Tl.ret- tons ot hav (HT head ii s'lfUcicul and rhi.'r? ean hi' pnl np by contract for ^"2 to $i M u ton, l)nt a man oniplovinjf his own labor ond teams need not, bv at. a co't of more than $1 a ton. Men >vlto8e eapitul will only start t-heni with a he.Hl of from 100 to 50J head can do much belttrat Ednionton tlvin in tin Kouth. TitOH. IIkn'DKRSon of Edmonton, van rais- fi] ifi *'oiuity of Oxford, Ontario, near town 'i InjiersoU. Went to Brititsh Columbia in '?i and settled at Maple Hidije on the Fraser rivcr, New Westminister district. iJou'iiht IftU acres of land ot svhicb 1(J0 wa^ tindured i.i'i .'^lO overfl( w'invr nieadow. Faiiiied for feven vf Km. Th- »i had house ami turn, and "0 acre- choppeil .ind partly cleared, a xmail orchard and n liltb land nndttr culiivrition. Tame t'> F.dinniiton tty wtiv of Jasp.'r Pu««s in 1>i bolter dair>l'i>< dir^trlct than Oxford, Ontario, or aeiy part of British Coiiiniliia. Kej^ardimjf h'-ekeepinij Mr. Henderson and .1. Kiio^vles iniporlod a.»'w,irn» each of Italian h»'eh from Niaj;ari, o.-iiario, in June of 18SS. Tt«>se swirnjs aaw two swarnin each and \iclded 4'"^ pounds of surn'iH hom'v. Ties summer was very wet and honey aliundant. Mr. ^ender^(n wintered his threo swarms in .shelter abo.e j:ronnd Afid Irst one; .Mr. Ktiowb'S WKittrciJ his in a cellar and lost none. The bees betf.in to irither honey on Man h 31.st of ISHP, but the winter had betii mild and fli'.- snrinu was ^oriderfully early. They iirported tvo more «<»v;uni« each in 1389 and tbe«»e with the incre9««e durinjr the seasori ^avi* L'd s'.rfjiisr'' swarms to ^■o into tlie Winter of bSsn 9u. Thrt stniuner of l«89 vmh veiy dr\ Mid ♦h.Te was a ()onr cropcf honey, laitthe be^:^^ral,herod erjoiieh for tbeniselvo>i and u-'i^e a surplus of 100 v>f'i""^lH- They wori; wintered in a cellar and have coiO'! rbrouiih stroni: and with no loss. No dark colored ) (uiey is cathered here and there is ahnndunc-' to be had. The t»ees hejfii. to uather from the poplar and willow buds which come out, from the 1st to the •2.'>tH of April, and coiitinue (.ritiierinjf nniil about Septcaiher F-tli as tbero is such an al'Uiid- ance and \ nriety of honey boariny plant.s. There is a 'in;.er honey season her*; than in Ontario and a more abnu'lant supply. . ; ,c I'.RAI.TII. ^ TiiK following statemetjt r«vrardinj the heilLh of this di»lrict, ban been furinshed jointiy by I'ih. vViison mn\ W'innis vvtio havt: practiced here for eiifht ftn CoiifcrMtod ill this dUtricfc. Wu ha\e Hiieii kewral c>i»ua which, in the vi^ry eariy atA^«K, w«ru BCtit here by their luedic^il advinum in t)M east who are rjow '>njoyintf the Ixisl of I health, ftnd «iv«ry sign of the wtf iiAveit foU(>w<:)(if ». flcvnrtt cold, brit unkno'ivti. tn 8 years ^v^ have had ordv on** kABC, Although thin diHtrict was Us>t winter aiflicied with a tfvere epidemic 'f La Grlppt thvre was not a slntrle <->i8<^ ot luni( couiplica- tior>;s resulting, nor wa» th«re a deuth atnong- the whlt« populAtbu. This is noteworthy cjriilderinjf the tiiiniber o( deaths* foHowinK L'ida. C/0|r>par»» these facts *'ittj the mortuary stilt iBtioH of EaNtcrn Canada, of wiiich Toron- to iH perhaj>ii tho healthiest city, the death rate there per thousand of population l.flnp loWf«r than in Montreal, (Quebec, Hamilton or London. In 1889 578 death* occurred in 'i'oiotito from diseases of tht Irn'/s. which is over '20 per cent, of the Hotal deaths for that yuar. RheuiuaUc fever is almost unknown in lhi« climate. It is seven years wince we have recorded a ca,se of this disease. Diarrixjea, dysentcrv and other Affections of the bo»"el« are o| very irarc (»cciirrence. "Hat a sinj(le deatl) has ever o<.H;u.rred from these diseasf^s durinit our sojouru here, and wo have never heard of a death from these causes before that tiiui\ Theae renuu'ka apply to '.ntants and ctmdreu aA well as to mlults. In Toronto «irht p^r cent of tkW Jeathi are due to these alfeclions, and in Winiiipc'ir 1« p«r oeut In Wimiifieg and OtUvra thi.' death* fioui '.hone dsiw!A-iiiCf 188o, and but ope death front this cauBo. Malarial fever orfevSr and aKuoisupkiuwn ai'ri owinjf i^ the oUmatlc condUlons the miAsn* or poijon cannot b« developed. M\w i^twospiiere is clear, pure and aseptic. tn Hununer warm ple.*Jjanfc davs and .w! rcfri-shintf nl«:Iir,« i^i^re the tired farnicror man of busineaa an oppoftunllyr to recuiiir ate, and t-ain fresh energy and stn.ruft!. fj; the morrow's work. The fact' of the .»ajs bcinK so vvarai and nlahts so cool unriiiir summer is one of the causes nroducini,^ our wonderful and pfoiiflic crops, mu doc-* not cauu! within the scope of the present attiolo The winters are Homewhat colder ticni in Eastern Canada but are not so sv^'ere or try Inx ;« the system. v'Ppe<"iA*iy to thos*' sviti. Hhat la coU)moi,ily called weak lunjrs. W" have no blizzards as In the noithern S<^tv;f In short our winters are very pleasan; arl likewise co!»d^oo to health anvl lnn(fevjt3 Unjukr an ( rdlnr nee of tb^ Northwest, av ieinbly a reKlptry of vital statistic > vs' Op«neecer.il>er 31st, 1881) were 14 b»«"th.), 2 marviftjffs ami ono d^ath. The deafh recorded waw oi n re sident of the district, but occurre■'".»»>v the old diarifH-' the Hudson IJay Con^pany and t;ie re'' v ; at the Fdrnontfin ot>»er«K*ory of \,\\v jft»-,-M' L'.'i .(»iit ^iKrial gervfce. wt>{ch latter .cnvRra a perioii '>( ten ye»r8 The a^'erajyt rainfall 'rom t;h« l*fc of April until the iHt, of Ock'iber luriKk the pAit ten years h«« iteer 10 51B iiichcj! flividtd as foUnwH: 1880, 11.78, 1881, Ittl-i, 1882. 8.85,1888, 1*2.12, 1884, 14.1W, vmb, I" 30, 1886, 8.53, 188t, 10.(i.S. 1HM8, i4.6l, 1889,6.46. Thi- raintail of 188'^ cu>ut Alter tht harvest. The aiiOWfail averayreH ivt'i;einber 18V0, over ton years aifo. A twen- ty flvf niilo breexe is exporien<3ed so seldupi ''i)afc it is r'^^marked upon \y the public. Wnd ducjcs, (reese and swans appear about :lit end of March and beninninn of April anil !ft&vo in Octohtr. The first frost usuajly ooiiii!8 al)out September 7th after which norie \n to be expected until after the 22n.!. Aftt>r May lat a frost rarely vIhHs tiie district unless the situation is low and nio'st. Know leaves about fhe end of March ar;d itsevapor- a^iii is very rapid farnunK operations are iici. delayed wUfeniir for the «■»■ 'ur>d todry. TUf, altitude of Wcttnonton is about '.•,260 feet &bu\e Hea levti. FORKKT VAf.UB. The followinif which appears in the bluf-; book of tiif de]>y the settlers as a buiidintr material, and -is I largely us<» modify temperature, to drtcrea.se cold winds in winter and scorchitiir hUstsin summer, and to increase the raudall. A. M. PuafiK.wj d«i)utv miiiister of interior, who visited l:]dmonton last suiunier, says it. the report of the department of iaterior, ]>urin|^ xiy yitiit to Edmonton last •easor., what i had 'alr^ai"l'!(> as intorei«tintr. Mr. Ogilvie fmtinMiiL"^ the kiMuvn fjctr>leni)j l)';arii:ir ait-a of tlio Atiia- hii8(;a nvr r^i,'ioi) at l;'j(i.(K)0 sqiinre mile-' aiul belif vos that mill this is oolv a >ooisi on hand n ^ in:>de to ordtM- l^jans and estininU's bialdiii;is tin nisbcij. ottioe aj)d shoj: fi junction ot .Jaspor a\i'niieand Main stirt i ; P. O Bov, 107. .Uh Nt-'D.VAM JKN'.)\VLF.iS, Carpeit*^er and Joiner. , S:.,-|> or made to order. Contr-mts taken. Pl.os and estimates ot housts, brid^'-cs and ma.i.n. cry neatly aj;<1 qniekiy e:^eei!tfd at li\ii;( l»rice«. All cn(|iiiri(a re^-irding; EdmoM;.!, district eheerfullv answered. Aildres.s j KNOWLES, BOX I0{i, Kdnioiitoii. Alberta H(.'S1NK»« UIKK<*TC'RY. "|] I) RS. WILSON & MoIN^IS, ^^RASKR k COMPANY. SAW AND GRIST MILL, EDMONTON, ALBTlRTA. Ph\".ioiari», SurjfeotKs and Accoucheiirh. iL C' W1L80N, M. D. H. L. MclNNis, M D. I;>OBEin STKACflAN, Barrinter, Solit'i- '\! tor, Notarv Pjiblic ami (.^oruevam.'er, Ednjoiitoh, AT'crta; Ollice. M r.n Street. Kd- luontoii, between A. Macd^nald li Co. 8 and Rorfs Bros, stores. (.ORK A.vD ) LT'MBER J-. 1. <»' 1 >0 W ALL r \f KRCH ANT.S. Kdnvn'oM and Prinoe AHi<:rt, N. W. T. A roll sf'.ck of all olas^^';^ of !und)er alwav.> of. hai'd. Edmonton Milh- White Mud N«-r;h Su.»kHtchewan. C. V. SUANG, Agent. ^ S. TAYLOR, L L. B. 8. BARRISTER, ADVOCATE, NOTAKY, ETC. Ekmontun, Alhkrta, N. W. T. Office: liSt bnildinsreast of Goodride<.'sHotel. J. WALTER, Carriage liLtker and Boat Builder. Tort EdMionioh Kerry L:i:idinj![, South Side, ( 1 EO. P. SANDERSON, G E N E R A L BLACKSMITH, HORHKSUoKlNa A MJ'KCI Al.TY. Sliopin n^ar cf A. Maedonald .'c (!o 's store HOTEL l>{;CANAnA, Edmonton, gouth -;ide of Main street. P'irNt class weekh- i and daily board at n^nsonable rat< s. Meais [ at all honvK. Ooe.d fm-d sfable ia contiec' i tion. X.ST. JEAN, ]'r<:priotor. ALBEBTA HOTEL. — North side Main vtreot, Edmonton, Alberta, N. W. T. ! This \v«ll known e.stal)!ishntenl- Oi/ntiiuic8 I to furnish first ':]uhh acoonnuodation to trav- ! ellers and the i>ul.!ic <;enerally. Ttie cnisvte j is under the piana.cj-emciit of Mr. F Pajferie, I \v!u;>S(^ sKil) in lii.x (ie]>artnient is wcil known : in Manitoba and the North-West. Good ! .>5tablitm- and livery oilacuod. Every atto'i- ' rion paid to the req\iirenientH of uiu'sts. ' L. KKLLY, Proprietor ,4 F. DEtJAGNE, Carpenter and Contrac- ^\ , f''''- I'latis and Specilicationa furn- isihd. .Mill A riu'ht work a sp< eialty. Doors aii'l 8a«h on hand, Victoria A'- Moie. next Ibjiri-itry Otfico, l''d Edmonton, A'berta. ATHABASCA llOTKL. •^ * Oppnsitf Norrin fi Car<.'v'!5. (;'>od Stabliit;4 ill CeMUieetiotu J. s. GIBBONS, J'ropiietor. EDMONTON MEAT MARKFT Is the place t") bu> iVeHl) Beef & T!orh Mutton, SaiisuKe, }»oultrv Flour and Feed. '.Jountr.\ I'loduce bou^'i't and sold. KOBT. McKERNAN. • t^ ^f n ^f v ^ nj ew ^K Wit ul Contra hand :, li tiniat,."-: f r)'iN-vi.i. Joiner. !pf in sf.ork iiid nmciiin. r\ at li\ir7 A lid ress j. AlberU >Bf!:RTA. KCHANT8. X. W. T ibcr alwiivsi it.o Mnd KANO, Agent. I ton, south ;lass we<'kl' t< 8. Meals side Main N. W. T. on ti> trav- rtie cnisiiif *'■ Pajferif, ivcil know;; ust. Good ery attoi- uosts. •oprietor : MARKKT >UJ I*ou)tr\ id. KKWAN. TTIM>S0N3 BAY COMPANY. Stores at all settletncnts in Alberta district. Stock complete ui all departments. Highest price paid for produce. W JOHNSTONE WALKER, Established 18S6. Has always on hand a splendid aaaortintMjt of Ladies' Gn, Edmoutori' A. MACDONALD & CO., PHY GOODi*. GROCERiES, BOOTS AND SHOES, HARDWARE. A well assorted stock in each line. EEADQUARTERS FOR GROCEillES. NO KRIS & CAREY, Established 1871. Wholesale and Retail dealers in Grocerios. Wd claim to have the cheapest, larvrest and most complete stock of Groceries ever brought into the Northwest. No special cut on any one article, but reduced prices all round. Highest prices in cash paid for furs. NORRtS » CAREY , St. Albert ro ad. -pSTABLISHED 1879. ~ THE BUFFALO STORE, EDMONTON. Keeps constantiy on hand a large and well •lisaortfcd stock of Dry Goods. Groceries, Bootp and Shoes, Ready-Made clothing, Hats and Caps, Genta Furnishings, &c. Dealer in all Kinds of Farm Produce. 3000 ACRES 3000. Of choice farming lands within a disttnce of from three to ten milea of Town for sale. Easy terms. JOHN A. McDOUGALL. TTlSTABLISdED 1881. Jamks Rosg, FuRi). Ross. ROSS B R O ' S., dealer in Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Paints, Oils, Glass, &c. Manufacturers of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware. Edmonton, Alberta. .-^^i i i