The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23

vicinity of Calgary-the largest irri-
cation plant on the continent.
eff you don't see what you want,
ask for it. It's here, sure' That is
the. attitude Of Calgary today. Whether
1t IS health or work, Calgary can give
he happens to be doctor. There are
frankly says there is no room for more.
With an altitude of $500 feet and a
climate guaranteed to give 35l sun
shiny days year, it is hardly to be
wondered at that doctors, like Othello,
tind their occupation gone:
monument compared with What the
native Of Calgary becomes when the
subject Of climate is preached. Cana
dams in general anathemize Kiplng
for coming the phrase, "Our Lady of
the Shows but out here in western
Canada they charge with the ferocity
of the light brigade when, on the
strength of the phrase, the tenderfoot
even hints at snow. -.
Almost anybody is willing to take
day off in order to tell the stranger just
what the winter climate in southern
Alberta really is like. He will talk
reams at the rate of 100 words min
| ute. and then, when he has finished,
all his arguments and assertions can be
epitomized in exactly these six words:
! "Calgary's baseball season opens in
February" g..
I To the American nor 'westerner moth
ing more need be said. ~
| It is all owing to the chinook'
wind, of which one; hears everywhere
in western Canada within a hundred
miles east of the mountains. Where it
rises, how it all happens, no one knows.
It merely sails over the mountains and
in it's sailing "balmifes'' the climate
farther east, even, than Calgary. It
seems to be a composite Of the wind
that is tempered to the shorn lamb,
and the wind that blows nothing but
: good. Snow is rare in Alberta, and
e when it does fall its stay is short, for
/ lat the first breath Of the warm, dry
! chinook wind it melts away as at the
: touch Of a magician IS wand. 4
!, The "Dairy Station Gold Mine.
= The way the government helps the
a railroads, and the railroads, in turn,
/ work for the settler, is something to
t make one think there may be some good
in paternal form of government.
4 after all.
= The rafting prosperity of Calgary is
e nine-tenths the work of the people
: themselves. The other. tenth. repre-
/ sents the helping hand Of the govern
d ment They call it simply the dairy
o station, +" and do not even dignity it
t Prosperity, PalaceV for every man,
: woman and child in the Calgary district
e who is interested in butter, poultry and
n eggs. This dairy station has a., per-
l. fectly Unsuitable appetite for all kinds
t Of dairy, products. It swallows them
r by the hundred thousands Of dozens,
|, pints and pounds, and still calls for
g more. It is. a guaranteed market at
| VIZ ~ I'll los
e products that are brought to it's doors
S and holds them in cold storage without
e charge until suitable market demand
s is created.
Every woman in the Calgary district
J. who needs pinmoney; every boy or: girl
! eager? to accumulate money for an edu-
q cation or for clothes; every man, even
. small-siZed gold mine in this same dairy
n station. There is no hawking about OF
!. the wares; no beating down of prices
4 no glut of the market by overproduc
" ton, no matter how busy Biddy anc
e Bossy may get. Everything is taken
IS everything is credited at market prices
J. and 10 per cent cash advanced at once
l When the season closes, a check for the
d balance due each patron is sent by the
IS department of agriculture
n The government pays the experts il
r charge: 1t pays, too, the expenses Of
r. running the station; not only content
e that each pound Of butter stamped will
l., the government seal should stand fo
q absolute cleanliness in its manufacture
i it sends experts out into the highway
% and byways among the producers, t.
j. teach the proper sanitation that mean.
is pure milk. 81 r. e,
is With eggs at IS to so cents dozen
butter from IS to so cents pound; AM
le dressed poultry never less than Is cent.
e. pound, there is cumulative incom
e. between crops for every one who take
le advantage Of the opportunities afforde,
is by the government dairy station.
Opportunity by the way, is /;
Is word to coniure with in Calgary. Al
d old saw says, Opportunity knocks blu
n thrice at a mans door," That may b.
,e true elsewhere, but here in the Calgar,
D. district Opportunity keeps up cease
le less tattoo at all doors, and no matte
M where man turns, he finds somethin,
j. worth while ready to his hand.
To Mae Harris Arson.