The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30

|erily, enviable Is the vlri!ity and the
Inisui Of youth!
Forces Behind the Boom.
~ chief factors IN producing this as
.|shIng thrush OF settlement into a
.ufry where thousands of buffalo trails
4 aflll visible from the car window
g been the land itself the railroads,
a Companies and the Canadian gov
mont AS for the land. it is far from
"a. the perfect agricultural country it
c{fen represented. Except where there
4 enough, but the rainfall is Scanty
e The summer short, In the cnthusi
ID Of. the moment great stretches of
|ntrY have been homesteaded that arc
| IL for farming at all. Still there are
||Ions OF acres that will grow splendid
|<af and oats. And thousands OF men
Ne been found hardy enough to brave
. rigDrs Of an Arctic winter for the
ke Of free land"
he longer ono remains In the country,
T more he Is impressed with the worth
ness of a great deal or the land. In
+ connection a personal experience will
N point. Late In August / set out
NJ friend from Boston OH a trip into
Tern Alberta. We travelled by rail
d Edmonton to Edison. the present
minus of the Grand Trunk Pacific.
4 for farming and we saw good wheat
oatB. Then the country became more
rem. and, where 1t was level, was
1est Invariably muskeg swamp, And
M fhc land under tho sun the most
'elesB Is the muskeg. The town of
|pns advertised in two continents.
nds IN muskeg and is surrounded
mnskeg country Even II it were
RQcaole TO drain such land, which il
0ot. the elevation is too great for sue
:tu farming. Six inches Of snow fell
Huson on the 23rd Of August,
. Eoson, We engaged an outfit OF ten
- and three packers. and set out
|tnvestward. toward the head dwaters
ne BraSeau. In nine days travel we
no land that could be called agrl-
|:ptI with the exception of an oc-
'.unai small meadow along a stream,
- All either hills or the trying mus.
For four days our way led through
LAZY region Of burnt-ovcr jack pine,
pnstratc trunks OF which made a
roie tanElc. through which our poor
[1ses round their way with difficulty,
~ teN almost every day. and at night
aver IN our cooking pots froze solid
LOT LOT tne muskegs. only the DEVILS
.sn OF hardened packer could de-
~ mem. Occasionally we saw small
"a o. isirly Good spruce. but in gen.
+. me timber 10 as worthless as the
4 Mineral Wealth.
E5e region we trapersed, covering tens
<as9,ubHnds OF square miles, is almost
tmess except for mining. In places
~ arc vast deposits OF good bitumi-
coal' AT one place on the Mcleod
a We saw a seam eighteen feet in
Hnoss. There are even thicker veins.
sns places, however tho veins are so
- tnat II Will be difficult, in some
mpossiole, TO work them. This is
tIue everywhere, On the Pembina
re visited the location OF the Pa
rass Coal company, which controls
oHmare miles OF coal. mostly work
thelr engineer estimates the total
rs ~ eighty eight million tons. or
-, this is only a wild guess. At
this mineral wealth is so re-
rom civilization that the cost OF
se"s In FOOD and other supplies IS
pound; last year II was 20
branches Of the Canadian North
IS au OF the Grand Trunk Pacific will
IN year OF two
|,ss is great mineral wealth else
az Edmonton, / met a gentle
ro mas just returned from q trip
% sno Athabascn to Lake Athabasca.
'ftss lnusiasm over the mineral posi-
me, VI the region was unbounded.
|fSss' Sas made the rivor boil like u
a, ~ In one place well is SO pow
a enII II cannot be controlled. and has
~ aau.nling for years. Certain springs
nc,.a ~ aampregnated with minerals as TO
.,,'h,;ouo- S,sgnouo- In places, a sort OF tar.
7nnling asphalt, is present in almost
quantities, Such n region
.[e future. t'o''' III 'i'e iiol 10
10 INC railroads, each Immigrant
Ijed 1iualtionm iu fares. more goods 10 be
a hs,,,naiy,o ni,o inc country. moro wheat TO
u ha"Sa out Some OF the railroads
a Tn immense tracts of land for
INDIVIDUALS and to real estate
nan NJ, each immigrant means a
IA price for land. To rngrchants-
bis means better demand
Ma so2ds: Little wonder that the
<o,sp sp1puiation OF the northwest Is In
ora 10 paint the country rose
fhcir little wonder that they throw
1llfs fo nais LIS and split the walkin with
In fl,a .'c last best west
4 endop past. The Dominion government
"a bs%reasorcd ~ to assist in the develop
faI,ua.n .n" country by grants OF land
|rl,In companies. Tho Canadian
|Ili,n'u, railroad still owns about eirhi
h been aer's thus received, The rest
"y,d 10 Individuals or To land
b now largely American. The sys-
Il incrna'o W nave been a mistake,
ne indivihneu Speculation. tended to
s'uaiiy retarded settlement.
rbo oncS Of Small Holdings.
4, ifiyyVetmlnents TX policy is now differ
INK peciG,s nee to tho new Grand
onelary 1o,lI , has been almost wholly
nnlreay and moral. The companv ns bas
hi OF npasactlcally no land except ifs
Fy n ray way and townsltes. Tho terri.
seryed d11ogFses 1oS Except certain SECTIONS
q Tor scboo,,h me Hudson Bay company
Ifgie possossIp',' 'Poses) can come into
.oain2 or on nr only through home
fer Gun, vr prr-emption In ihe Eem,,
LILY There Will DC no land Tor