The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-08-18
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The next day was Sunday, July a.
We breakfasted at Swift Current and
took dinner at Medicine Hat. During
the day we passed through a hunters
paradise" and saw all kinds of wild
ducks, pelicans, &c.
Swift Current is at an altitude OF
| 2, 400 feet. A railway divisional point
on pretty stream of the same name.
At Swift Current is the principal sheep
| farm of the Canadian Land and Ranch
company, from which during each year
large crop of wool is shipped. From
this farm and outlying stations within
% miles. the company annually round
up 10000 sheep. The we'll appointed
farm buildings can be seen on the hills
Immediately south of the station. Close
to them the governmentshas erected a
Meteorological Observing Station.
Medicine Hat is in the center of
magnificent ranching district and has
churches, hospital and other public
buildings. An important station of the
mounted police is established here.
There are several coal mines in the
vicinity, and the river is naYigable for
steamboats, for some distance above
and for 800 miles below to Lake Win
nipeg.
We reached Calgary, $40 miles west
of Winnipeg, for supper, and here de-
cided to take side trip north l92
miles to Edmonton, the most northern
railroad point in the world, Here in
the middle of summer one can read a
book without lamp all night long,
and although being about $40 north
latitude the summers are long and hot
enough to raise fine wheat and other
products. The town is situated $50
feet above the Saskatchewan river,
which divides it. We ferred across to
the old part of the town where the
original northwest station of the Hud-
sons Bay Co. is located. The soil here
is at rich as any we had seen and coal
is abundant, coming out to the surface
in the side hills and sells for $3.50 per
ton. About $4,000 in gold is taken
out of the river which washes down
from the mountains yearly.
We returned to Calgary for supper
Monday evening, having taken twenty
four hours for the side trip. and con-
tinued our journey westward.
We woke up at a. m. on Tuesday,
July rs, at Banff, surrounded by snow
capped mountains. Banfs is the Scotch
for rock and the place is correctly
named. 1t is 1850 feet above the
ocean. Station for Rocky Mountain
Park and the Hot Springs "a medicinal
watering place and pleasure resort.
This park is national reservation, rs
miles long northeast and southwest by
10 miles wide, embracing parts of the
valleys of the Bow, Spray and Cascade
rivers, Devils Lake and several noble
mountain ranges. No part of the
Rockies exhibits greater variety of
sublime and pleasing scenery. The
railway station at Banff is in the midst
of impressive mountains. The huge
mass northward is Cascade Mt. (9,875
ft.); eastward is Mt. Inglismaldie, and
the heights of the Fairholme sub
range, behind which lies Devils Lake.
Still further eastward the sharp cone of
Peechee lin that range) closes the view
in that direction; this is the highest
mountain visible, exceeding 10000 #.
To the left of Cascade Mt, and just
north Of the track rises the wooded
ridge of Squaw Mt, beneath which lie
the Vermilion lakes, seen just after
leaving the station. Up the Bow,
westward, tower the distant, snowy,
central heights of the Main range about
Simpsons Pass, most prominently the
square, wall-like crest of Mt. Massive.
A little nearer, at the left, is seen the
northern end of the BOurgeau range,
and still nearer, the Sulphur Mt, along |
the base of which are the Hot Springs. |
The village of Banff is short distance
southwest of the station, on the hither
side of the Bow. and the G. P. r. Hot
Springs hotel about mile further on.
A steel bridge takes the carriage road |
dCIUSS w Ou0 dSulAOOAo AoC0l1 OulAo
by the railway company, near the fine
falls in the Bow and the mouth of the |
rapid Spray river. This hotel, which
has every modern convenience and
luxury, including baths supplied from
the hot sulphur springs, is kept open
from May 18th to October LIST, and
thither people from all lands flock in
numbers. The springs are at different
elevations upon the eastern slope of
Sulphur Mt, the highest being 900 feet
above the Bow. All are reached by
fine roads commanding glorious land
scapes. The more important springs
have been improved by the govern
ment, and picturesque bathing houses
have been erected and placed under the
care of attendants. In one locality is a
pool inside a dome-roofed cave, en-
tered by an artificial tunnel and near