The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1899-09-23

river being 500 miles. A station of th,
Mounted Police is also located there.
From Medicine Hat eastward severa
hundred miles, is great grazing
country, and hundreds Of thousands O.
horses, cattle and sheep are marketed
from 1t every year. To the southwark
Is a low range Of mountains called Cy.
press Hills, and streams from them
flowing down across the prairie. fur
nish an abundant supply of water, not
only for live stock but for irrigating.
There are also numerous lakes in that
stretch of country, some of them man y
miles in extent; and old buffalo trail !
worn into the prairie sod lead down to
the lakes from every direction. The
Canadian Land and Ranch Company
has several ranches in that region, one
of 700 acres all under irrigation.
Wheat, oats and flax are the principal
crops raised. The Company's ranches
in that and other districts aggreat no..
coo, acres
We reached Brandon at l. p. M, and
halted for the remainder of the night
Shortly atterward terrific thunder
storm swept over that region, and the
downpour of rain on the decks of our
cars sounded like the roar of a mighty
waterfall.
Next morning the storm had sub
sided, and after taking breakfast up
town, carriages courteously provided
by an entertainment committee, took
the excursionlsts to the Government
Experiment Farm, a mile or two out of
the city. 1t comprises several hum
dred acres Of we'll titled land, and tests
are made there from year to year to
determine what products ale best suited
to that latitude, and the best methods
of cultivation. Then we were taken to
The Brandon District Fair, which was
then in progress.
At Brandon we set our watches ahead
ono hour, to conform to Central Stand
ard time.
We left Brandon az p. m. for Win
nipeg, 1873 miles eastward. The country
through that region is quite we'll set~
tied, the unoccupied portions being
mostly held by spectators. AS a rule
the farm buildings are substantial and
of good size, and there is an air of
thrift and prosperity almost every
where.
Winnipeg is the Chicago Of Manitoba
and the Red River Valley. It is situ-
ated at the junction of the Assinibolne
and Red Rivers, both navigated by
for long distance, and it
has about 5000 Inhabitants. Its .busi-
ness streets are we'll paved, and its
business blocks are large and substan-
tial, many Of them six and seven
stories high. Its people are much like
The Yankees, and their conversation
liscloses but little of that dialectic
brogue peculiar to the Inhabitants of
places futher west. Conspicuous among
Winnipeg's big business houses is the
Hudson Bay Company's mercantile
monster department store,
in fact, where customers can find any
hing wanted, from paper Of pins to a
steam engine. The Hudson Bay Com
pauy is a gigantic mercantile corpora
.ion-probably one OF the largest and
strongest in north America-and it has
. big department store in every town Of
my Importance in British America.
As our train didn't leave till 3p. m,
here was ample time for dinner and
or strolling about the city and shop
ping, which was improved by most Of
he excursionists, many Of them buying
and notions. In visiting
stores we found that quite a number
II the proprietors and clerks were
ormerly residents Of the United States,
Ind there we're other evidences that
many Yankees have gone up into that
country to live. We heard a Canadian
immigration Commissioner say that
Turing 1893, no less thah Il, 600 people |
from the United States To the |
Province Of Manitoba.