The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-18

visited this Mormon country. 1t is reach
ed by the line of the Alberta Railway
and Irrigation Company, which Is USED
largely TO carry coal from Lethbridge
down to Montana. The lands are almost
dead flat, and are cut UP by canals leu
by the ST. Mary's River.
Seventy-five thousand acres are already
under cultivation and the railway and
irrigation company above referred to has
altogether almost a million acres yet 70
redeem. The company received q conces-
sion for part of these lands for open
ing up the coal mines and building the
railroad. and looked upon them as fitted
only for grazing until the Mormons came
in and proposed to irrigate them. As II
Is, the Irrigation works are only five
years old, and they have the town OF
Raymond, which has a population of 1000,
situated in the heart OF them and small
err settlements along the line OF tho
railroad.
1 talked with Peter L. Naismith, the
manager of the company, and c. A.
Magrath. the land commissioner, about
Its character and possibilities. They tell
mo the lands are excellent and that they
are being rapidly settled. Mr. Magrath.
while not a Mormon hmself, has repre-
sented these people in tho terrltorial lesis-
lature, and has known them from the
time they came to Canada. He says they
make excellent citizens and are conform
Ing to the Canadian laws In every re-
spect I asked him how they acted in re-
gard to plural marriages. He replied:
No Polygan1y in Canada.
4''The Canadian Mormons are monoga-
5mists. We have some citizens who were
spolygamists In Utah. but they brought
but one family each to this country.
Shortly after their arrival they sent dele
gates to Ottawa to ask II they might
bring their plural wives provided no flIr-
Their plural marriages were made. Sir
John Macdonald. who was then premier,
replied in tho negative saying that.
while no was glad to have the MormonH
come to Canada, they could not live
there unless they obeyed the laws. As a
result, the extra wives remained where
they were t r. & &
II DO not believe there is any polygamy
In Canada continued Mr.. Magrath.
The mounted police keep close tab on
the Mormons. and II there We're plural
marriages we should surely know. Now
and then some person In eastern Canada
denounces the existence OF Mornon!sm
In Utahnnd alleges that polygamy ex-
lists. 1t may be SO In the United States,
hut It Is not 80 here. AS for mo, I can
got certificate from my church that
| am staunch Episcopnlian, hut
flnu the MorHlonss good enough for mo
Z to 1.-Two among. They nra Interested In
politics, although they have no union
of church md state, They are thrifty
md nltosether they arg excellent citi-
zens. = yi34 4 81 &
a Mormon Sugar Mill.
visited the Mormon sugar mill 1t ID
situated tust outside Raymond in tho
midst of beet fields, covering hundreds
OF acres II is now making 10000 pounds
of sugar daily. and is paying dividends
y OF per cent. #
The company has altogether about 200.
\ 900 acres upon soma OF which heels
#nro raised. Other PARTS arc devoted to
cattle ranches, and 1900 head OF stock
Enre now feeding upon them, The factory
las tho best modern mach!fery. Tho
beets nre cnrried l,v w.te- t,,-n, tic shed
whore they arc. unloaded, bcins wash d
on the way. They are next lifted to the
top OF the factory In buckets running on
an endles chain, and fall from there into