The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-15
LONG PASSED OVER
Southeastern Assiniboia Has Only
Recently Been Appreciated.
WORLDS BEST WHEAT REGION
1t Is Now Considered Such by Some
AuthOrities-Lnnd Being
GOhbled Up.

Those who are acquainted with the his
tory of the settlement OF the Northw est
ern prairie states can readily realize that
like causes will have like effects in the
settlement of the similar prairie prov
inces OF the Dominion of Canada. How
ever. for The benefit OF such as have
not previously been interested in that
wonderful movement-the peonling of the
west-it may be permissible here to quote
from the New York Herald the cores
pondence of a missionary bishop OF North
Dakota:
Language cannot eXaggerate the rapidlty
with which these communities are built up.
You may stand ankle deep in the grass OF
an uninhabitated wilderness-neXt month a
mixed train will glide over the waste and
stop at some point where the railway has
decided to locate a town. Men, women anu
children jump out of the cars, and their
chattels will be tumbed out after them.
From that moment the building begins. The
courage and faith of these pioneers are some
thing extraordinary. Their spirit seems tU
rise above all obstacles. | have ridden into
a Dakota valley and pitched my tent After
my supper i have seen nothing but wolf
that looked from a hill into the valley to
see who the intruder was. When ! visited
that same valley the next year saw long
line of Pullman palace cars In that same
trip camped on the flat bottom land neal
the Missouri river. There was no sign OF
civilization there but log hut with muu
roof. 1t was the home Of Frenchman who
had married an Indian woman. Within the
year l revisited the spot and town. II
has increased since to 1000 inhabitants. a
district now without name and only de-
signabe by numbers Of township and range,
may in the course of two short seasons Ct
settlement contribute to the worlds food
m n finest grade
of wheat. -,
1t has taken many long year and many
O long argument to dispel from the minds
of many people the prevailing impression
that any place In any part OF country
called Canada" must necessarily be one
in which the pioneer of the first genera
ton must devote the time and toll of a
lifetime in hewing with ak in hand from
a prmeval forest, unprovided with roads
a farm for his children. Even when
Canadian farmers, emerging from the
eastern woods and forests, threw down
the ak and took hold of the pillow instead
as the first agricultural implement, their
first efforts on the prairies were frequent
ly failures from want of experience of the
methods required to meet local cOndi-
tions.
southeastern AssinibOia.
A .)table example of a large vacant
area especially adapted for wheat grow
ing long furnished with railway transpor-
tation, through which thousands of Amer
lean emigrants have passed on their way
to more distant fields, his right at the
entrance to the Northwest territories, is
along the Canadian Pacifics 500 line from
Portal on the boundary to Moose Jaw or
their main transcontinental line.
That district is within the southeastern
division Of the territory of Assiniboia
and includes portions Of both Alameda an(
Regina Dominion lands districts. 1t il
bounded on the south by the United
States frontier of North Dakota, on tn,
southeast by southwestern Manitoba b,
the Moose mountain district on the cas-
and northeast by the Indian Head ant
Qu'Appelle districts, on the northeast b.
the Regina and Moosejaw districts on thu
north, and all along it's southwestern side
by the range of hills known as the Mis-