The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1892-01-22
MEDICINE AA1,s eARpEN.
Il Blossoms Like the Flowers of sprin,
In Cnnada's Ranch Country.

~ BLOSSOMS Like he Flowers ut Sprtne
In Cnnada's Ranch Country.
AT nearly all the stations on the
Canadian Pacific railroad through Man.
foba there are large glass jars over the
station entrance containing fine speci-
mems of the various cereals raised in
the country. One can see nowhere
plumper wheat or finer rye or oats than
the specimens he is able to inspect as
he jumps from the train to take n turn
Oh the station platforms.
Further west another sort Of exhibit
ton is given at tho 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 sufi-
cient evidence that he is in q country
of Astounding harvests. But when lie
reaches the 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 las started a number of
gardens at the various stations. The
garden at Medicine Hat is q particular
ly fine example, and has been laid out
and attended with especial care, be-
cause all passenger trains stop at Medi-
cine Hat 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 n weekly newspaper, a
neat little church, several good stores
and public buildings, and an important
station of the mounted police. 1t lien
Oh the right bank of the South sas-
katchewan. Many travellers climb the
little knoll covered with graves behind
the town to get a Wow of the surround
ing country. The graves are covered
with stones to prevent wild animals
FROM digging out the bodies. Wooden
head boards, on which are painted tho
names of the dead, stand over the
graves. most of which are surrounded
by picket fences.
Below the knoll extends the little vii
lage, with the swift river beyond, which
is navigable for nearly 500 miles from
this point almost to Lake Winnipeg.
Far away on every side "tretch the
plains, but toward the nc ;thwest are a
line of buttes, perhaps 400 feet high,
which vary the monotony of the land
scape 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
IRE multiplying.
The company desires to prove that
by means of irrigation good crops may
be raised. Its garden at the station,
therefore, il carefully watered, and it
is as fine n garden ~ can be seen any
where. except Oh the Pacific coast IL.
se'f. Cabba!yes, rorasoes, Indian corn,
flowers in great p~rofnsion, and small
trees ais seen in q very tlourisl,ing coil-
dilion. A Aun.her Of apple trees are
growing very we'll.
Tho garden is a most pleasing spec
tac!e to tourists. wearied perhaps by
The unending pr:sirie through which
the train has been passing. 1t is not at
all unlikely that ON day considerable
land in this region will be irrigated by
means of tho streams that flow through
it. and the success of the Medicine Hat
garden seems to show that nothing but
water is needed to produce abundant
crops. York Sun.