Arizona republican., 1907-06-23

! ton sit before their open doors enjoy 1 ing the glorious Indian summer when a thousand miles further south there ! are snow blockades and blizzards. Ed | monton's climate is tempered with the
 warm Chinook winds, and her people | in winter have reason to pity the den- ! izens of Minnesota, the Dakotas and i Colorado.
 The Grand Trunk Pacific, some 3600 | miles long, will reduce the time of travel around the earth by two sleeps because it is to be the girdle at the
 earth's smallest circumference. Presi- dent Charles M. Hays of the govern ! ment backed company, and formerly
 of the Wabash system in the states. conceived the plan. Now. after some six years. trains will actually be run
 ming on the badly needed branch in a district where the golden flood of grain flows so wide and deep that last year two railroads were unable to haul it fast enough and thousands of bushels were left for months on the ground in great pyramids. The gov ernment section of the road, from Winnipeg to Superior Junction is un- der construction, from Lake Superior to. Superior Junction a firm of Chica- go contractors is building a branch. The main line. from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert. in British Columbia, is being built under the immediate super vision of General Manager talso vice. presiden) Morse. Last fall the grade was practically finished from Portage la Prairie to Saskatoon and 400 miles of steel was stored at Portage.
 Further west. in the less explored parts, the pathfinders are again this year ferrying their outfits over the Athabasca, polling and padding up the Peace river and climbing the crest of the continent, thence to set their pegs down from the sunset slope to the sea The pathfinders bear the brunt of the hardships of the great project for they find some times that their caches of food have been burnt by a forest fire; then only an occasional bit of game, with wild berries must serve them as food, but their work of running the line' and setting the pegs goes merri- iy on. This year the survey will be entirely finished from ocean to ocean and the work of plating out the city of Prince Rupert will be done Work at Prince Rupert can be continued all winter. for the climate is delightfully."- mild.r There are cradled the chinook winds which modify the climate of this Last West" and which upset old theories about it. Streets will be staked for the city of the future. which will be planned even to the last de- tails, as to drainage. sewage and wa ter in accordance with the most mod sern ideas, in readiness for the coming O: the railroad and the thousands it will bring
 The rush for lands in 1907, partly because of the completion of the Sas- katoon line of the "G. T. F." will eclipse even the records of 19O5-6. Along that line farmers have found that land will pay per cent even at S1O0 an acre, though it is cheap land" new. Last year fields in Saskatche- wan yielded fifty bushels of wheat to the acre; two were known to have yielded 5 bushels and one man in Northern Saskatchewan reaped an av- craze of 45 bushels to the acre from 250 acres. These figures are official and they do not bear out the words of London Truth that the country is bar ren. The Province of Manitoba that was given such a hard name 25 years ago. now has 3.0O0.O00 acres under wheat. 1,50O.00O acres under other