The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-08-04
CALGARY, Alberta. july 25.

CALGARY, Alberta, July 25.
The Canada Land and Rancho COM
pany have many cattle ranches along !
the line of the Canadian Pacific. That
they are multiplying in number suffi-
GENTLY artests their success. One
finds it impossible to reconcile pre-
conceived notions with actual coadi |
tions In this region. There are better
lands In Canada In the longitude of
the great plains of the United States
than are to be found in the great
plains The lands are more produc
tive and are cultivated with great
er industry and more intelligence.
There seems to be no northern limit
to the wheat belt. Edmonton is
town 100 miles north of Calgary, the
latter being city on the main line of
the Canadian Pacific There are yav
ing wheat fields in the neighborhood
of Edmonton. 1t is an old town and
has good roads leading from it to the
surrounding country. 1t is the site
of an old fort and is the most north
ern city in America having a railroad.
1t is said to be in higher latitude
than any point on the Siberian rail
way. This the reader can verify or
disprove for himself as 1 have not the
means at hand for doing either. 1t
is said there are settlements 400 miles
north of this town where wheat is
grown successfully. Edmonton is a
substantial city and is the point where
expeditions leave for the Klondike
when the overland route is taken. Pc
tatoes and all kinds of vegetables are
raised. Barley and oats dc we'll here,
The summers are warm. / suffered
as much from heat in the valley of the
Saskatchewan today as I have in Wis
consin except in days of unusually
high temperature. Stock raising is
an important industry of this section
near the extreme north. Horses are
not housed IN winter and do we'll pro
viding for themselves People tell
me the winters are not so severe that
people cannot work out doors with
but few Interruptions. The tempera
ture sometimes sinks to SO degrees
below, but not during the day, and
during the brief day the sun is seldom
obscu,ed
Medicine Hat is a city to the east of
Calgary. 1t is in basin shaped de-
preston and on the day of my visit
was oppresslvely hot. Those who
give attention to weather reports will
frequently see the name Medicine
Hat, as it is the originating point of
the winter storms which reach us.
Looking from the rim of the bowl in
which this town is located one can
easily fancy it caldron in which
weather witches concoct evil to plague
mankind. At this place as we'll as
| at Calgary are stations for mounted
police. These are the men who with
the aid of the cowboys suppressed
| the Indian instructions. The Indl.
ans fear them as they do an evil spirit
and to threaten them with the mount
| ed police is to awaken within them
| apprehensions which will then beg to
be spared. These police are a fine
body of men, 1.-the. muscular and
young. They are always booted and
spurred" and are said to have the ut
most contempt for danger.
Calgary is not much more than II
years old. Its main buildings are of
a peculiar clay which is cut into blocks
and indurates when exposed It re-
sists the action of the weather Man
| itowoc has no such fine blocks as this
frontier city has. The outlines of the
Rockies can be seen from this place,
though they are 100 miles distant.
They are more jagged than they ap-
pear to the traveller from the plains
in the states. The Chinook warm
wind from the coast, sweeps through
the passes of the mountains occasion ,
! ally during the winter and the snow
melts before it as fogs drift before a
wind. An hour is sufficient to remove
every vestige of snow and to give the
landscape the appearance of spring.
The place is subject to sudden
changes of temperature because Of
| this visitant.
One is struck everywhere by the
entire absence of conduct supposed to
be inseparable from the outposts of
civilization. In the western towns of
the United States the saloon with
western accomplishments obtrudes it
self with disagreeabl5 frequency be-
cause OF the staggering manner of its
habitues. Here it is different and
even the laborers seem to be given
with polished manners and fine sense"
Perhaps l magnify this feature be-
cause Of its unexpectedness. But it
has impressed me because of its sd
Hence.