The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-10-30
MEDICINE HATS GARDEN.
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At nearly all the stations on the
Canadian Pacific railroad through, Man
itoba there are large glass jars over the
station entrance containing fine speci.
mems Of the various cereals raised In
tile country. One can see nowhere
plunper wheat or finer rye or oats than
the specimens lie is able to Inspect as
he jumps from the train to take a turn
on the station platforms.
Further west another sort of exhibit
ton is given at the stations. 1t is not
necessary through Manitoba to have
gardens alongside the railroad track to
convince the traveller of the remarkable
productiveness of the soil. The great
fields of grain along the road are sufR-
cient evidence that he Is in q country
Of Astounding liarvests. But when he
reaches tue western Assiniboin or Al
berta, where the country is dryer, there
are very few wheat fields to gaze at
through the window, and the Canadian
Pacific road has started a number of
gardens at the various stations. The
garden at Medicine Hat Is a particular
~ line example. and hos been laid out
and attended with especial care, be-
cause all passenger trains stop at Medi.
cine Hut a half hour, and passengers
have plenty Of time to wander through
the grounds Just across the track from
the station.
Medicine Hat contains, perhaps. 400
people. 1t has a weekly newspaper, a
nea: little church, several good stores
and public buildings, and ON important
station Of the mounted police. It Lies
! ON the right bank Of the South Sas.
katchewan. Many travellers climb the
little knoll covered with graves behind
the town to get a view of the surround
ing country. The graves are covered
with stones to prevent wild animals
from digging cut tine bodies. Wooden
head boards, OH which are painted the
names Of the dead. stand over the
graves. most of which ore surrounded
by picket fences
Below the knoll extends the little viii
lage, with the swift river beyond. which
is navigahle for nearly 500 miles from
this point almost to Lake Winnipeg.
Far away on every side -tretch the
plains, but toward the netthwest are q
line of buttes, perhaps 400 feet high,
which vary the monotony of the land
sclpe with their grim. bare and per
pendicular fronts. Beyond the river
are farms where some grain is raised,
but the chief industry of this country
is stock raising. An ocean of grass
covers the prairies, and cattle ranches
are multiplying.
The company desires to prove that
by means of irrigation good crops may
he raised. Its garden at the station,
therefore, Is carefully watered, and ii
is as fine a garden US can be e e any
where, except on the Pacific coast it
self. Cabbagcs, potatoes. Indian corn,
flowers in great profusion, and small
trees are seen in u very f1ourishing con-
dition. A number of apple trees arr
growing very well.
The garden is a most pleasing spec.
tacle to tourists, wearied perhaps by
the unending prairie through which
the train has been passing. 1t is not at
all unlikely that some day considerable
land in this region will he irrigated by
means Of the streams that flow through
it, and the success of tie Medicine Hat
garden seems to SHOW that nothing but
water is needed to produce abundant
crops. New York Sun.