The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-21

comprises 81 ,34O square miles, or attract
of land a little larger than that Of the
state of Minnesota
Eastern Assiniboia, a beautiful, park
like prairie country, is one Of the finest
general farming regions in the world.
Western A~ssiniboia is more suited
to stock raising. 1t is a plains and
prairie country for the most part, with
groups of hills here and there and a
little timber.
A black alluvium from one to two
feet thick, supported by a rich SubSol
of sandy clay furnishes an almost IN
exhaustible basis for agriculture.
Saskatchewan, which lies immediate
ly north of Assiniboia, is the largest OF
The four provisional districts Of north
western Canada, having an area Of
ia, 900 square miles. 1t extends from
Nelson river, Lake Manitoba and the
western boundary of Manitoba, on the
east, to the 10TH degree Of west longl-
tude on the west and lies between the
Sind and 55th parallels. The south
ern part of the district is prairie and as
a whole it may be described as mixed
wooded and prairie country, Astounding
in water and natural hay and is we'll
suited by climate and soil to wheat
and st~ockraising.
Immense Traot-Fine Country.
It is in these two districts-in the
north-central portion of Assiniboia and
the south-central portion Of Saskatche-
wan, that the Saskatchewan Valley
Land company has purchased immense
tracts of picked land. The southern
boundary of these lands begins on the
east a few miles north of Indian Head,
on the main line of the Canadian Pa
cifc railway and the center of one of
the richest wheat raising districts in
the world, n extends west to a point
north of the fertile Moose Jaw district.
Regina, center Of another notable ag-
ricultural regions, lies just south Of the
middle of this line. NorthWard the
company's lands follow the Qu'Appelle,
Long Lake & Saskatchewan railway to
and beyond its terminus at Prince AL
bert, in Saskatchewan, n on the SaS-
katchewan river. A glance at the map,
which shows that the lands of the COM
many lie principally in the watershed
of the Saskatchewan river and it's
southern branch indicate the reason of
the choice of the name Saskatchewan
Valley Land company"
These two rivers are noble streams,
navigable for considerable distances
/ and will, doubtless, when the beautiful
and fertile country becomes more
bickly populated, be of great utility
in transporting bulky freights.
Plenty of Railways.
The Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Sas-
katchewan railway is operated by the
Canadian Pacific railway and furnishes
ready and cheap communication with
the markets. The Canadian Northern
IS now building its main line from
Erwood In eastern Saskatchewan to
Prince Albert. This is a second Cana
dian transcontinental line and will give
direct communication with Winnipeg.
Trhe Canadian Pacific Is building an
extension from the main line at Moose
min near the eastern boundary Of As
siniboia to Saskatoon OF the Qu'Appel-
IL Long Lake & Saskatchewan where
r. crosses the south fork of the Sas-
, katcheWan river. This will bring much
Few territory including the holdings
Of the Saskatchewan Valley Land COM
many, into direct communication with
markets. Before long, too, the York.
ION branch Of the Canadian Pacific will
he extended from Yorkton in the
northwestern A%ssiniboia to Osler. So
a. is plain hat this splendid virgin
country will soon be well supplied with
railways, the coming of which will
Inevitably hoist the prices as well as
the values of lands.
Remarkable cheapness of Land.
The great attraction about western
Canada to the average settler is the
remarkable cheapness of the land. Land
values are largely made by population.
AS J. ]. Hill puts it, the finest possible
land would be nothing but a worthless
wilderness without people on or adj
dacent to it. The sparseness of the
population of western Canada and its
generally ~undeveloped condition is &C
countable for the fact that land of
unsurpassed fertility is so much cheap