Arizona republican., 1903-11-30

make first-olass citizens, yet the old stock American longs for other com panions and neighbors.
 Many of the men who are going in to Alberta and As7inibcia are Of a type who feel crowded in a state like Montana, for example, where there is a density of populat!o of almost two to the square mile. They like to be in the front of movements Of people, where they can look out and not see too many about them. One man re- gently complained that he felt as though people were getting too thick about him when a family moved in and located three miles from his cab in.
 While eastern Assiniboia attracts the agriculturist; the western half of the district and the adjoining dis trict of Alberta apreal to the stock man and the dairy farmer. From Texas, western Kansas, Wyoming and Montana gC both cattle and horse men, some by trains and some moving slowly overland, into Alberta. Great companies are being organized ia Den yer and Salt Lake to gather bands of cattle. take them from the plains and fatten them about Calgary and Mac leod. Sheep also enter into the situa- ticn. In Wyoming and Montana the long feud between the sheepmen and the cattlemen seems to be going in favor Of the former. The time was when there was no sheep on the great grazing grounds; now they are everywhere, fer the wool pays well. And wherever the sheep have graZcd. the ground is worthless for cattle; there is nothing left for them and even the next year they will starve on the trail of the sheep Horsemen and cattlencn have fought the sheep invasion with firearms and fences; but the gentle lamb is never thcless the present possessor of the benches and feeding grounds No word can convey the disgust of a true cattleman or a cowboy for a sheep
 
 it; and so he puts his cattle or his horses on the train and takes them north to Edmonton and turns the bands loose there.
 Mir. Cope discusses the misconcep- ton which prevails in most parts of the country as to the climate of the far northwest. Horsemen and cattle men, he tells us, who have been up in to Alberta with bands Of their beasts have come back enthusiastic over the country, while visitors have been charmed with the climate, delighted with the people and almost weaned from their allegiance to the Union by the marked courtesies cf the railroad and the government. A winter spent in the district will generally lead to a revision of ones conception of Canada in general and of the North west in particular. Most people imag- inc Our Lady of the Shows as pre- siding over great barren and deso- late immcnsity Of white, snow and ice
 
 cannot arrive at an estimate of the cold-by which the east means dis cCmfcrt-by reading the thermometer on these western plains. MT. Cope rode thirty miles in a "jerky" with it 40 degrees below and suffering less than in crossing the street in gen ial southern New York, and he has ridden many milos on horseback. with the mercury hiding down under the 20 degree below mark, without the least thought of it's being really very cold. The sky is 60 clear and deep a blue, the sun s2 bright, the air so dry that a man seems to breathe in wine he feels as strong as an OK and as vigorous as a mountain lion: and to the full-bloOded man these things count as much as the opportunities of making fortunes in that new coun- try.