Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-20

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lsf' home July 10 for Toronto
, canhdh. from which place wc startc
upon July ~ for a tour Of the Cana
dun Hockey aud 10 Alaska. We wen
BY the canadian Pacific railroad. II
self almost a marvel. proclnlmIng evel
on the paper hat-baes' supplied 4
passengers on It's trains. that II ha
5000 miles of railway. nearly a scor
OF hotels ami moro than three-scor'
stenmshiIs. with all OF which II span
the globe" And the Canadian gov
eminent aids Instead Of hindcring II
Indeed, At one point In the mountains
when the tourist asked the driver o
a coach whether The road was kept II
order ~ the gorefnment or the Z. y
H.. he replied in matter Of fact tone
the Z. 7. Il. Is the government here,
It's grant Of hand for building the rail
way. practically worthless until Il wal
buiIt. cxtepded---I will not venture I,
say how far on each side OF Its tracks
north and south lest he suspected ol
cNnggeration.--but Il was far enough
TO make domain beside which The
patches Of land over which Europe II
now In arms ARE OF Insignificant size
Aud along this belt which, runs
through the wheat country Of the Ca.
madam northwest have sprung up cit.
les whose names were unfamiliar OF
wholly unknown dozen years ago
Winnipeg, with population Of 2o0,-
oeD, claiming more. OF course; Cal
gary. with 10000. Regina. Medicine
Hat, the latter confident OF great fu-
ture from Its natural gas. lately
tapped. and at the coast. Vancouver
with more than hundred thousand
people--and these only the most
prominent. not by any means all
which give promise OF future import
ance.
Government Aids Railroads.
The Grand Trunk Pacific has also
crossed the continent and has also its
government aid. its hotels. steamships,
etc, and on Its line other thriving
towns. The Canadian Northern has
likewise secured government aid and
penetrated the wheat country further
north than the other two railroads.
whose methods II will, no doubt. ini-
tate. A big job of "unscrambling'
looms up In Canada's future, II seems
TO me.
But | am ahead OF my story: In
stead Of going by rail north of the
lakes from Toronto. VIC went 10 Port
McNicoll. on the Grcgorian bay, and
then upon the c. +. X. boat which
took us past 4 succession OF low wood
pearance and 50 ON towards the 500"
where next morning we passed
through the Jocks on the Canadian
side aud on into Lake Superior. In
due time We arrived Ut Port Arthur.
and then. near to it.s Port William.
where we left the boat
Those two cities, 50 near together
that they can hardly fail TO grow into
one. have population now Of up
wards Of 10000 From there TO Win
nipcg is a distance of over 400 miles.
For the first and greater part Of the
way there is a growth OF dwarf ever
greens so dense ass.to suggest the
way In which the corn is grown for
ensllage. And for much OF the way
too, lakes abounded. most of them
small. but Some quite large. This
feature was surprise to me, as or
binary maps of Canada issued for rail-
road purposes. do not show IL. I'm
I'll we were we'll towards Winnl-
peg we saw very few signs of human
habitntion. even the government and
the railroads being apparently unable
or unwilling to induce immigration to
region so bleak and inhospitable to-
ward man as this Is said to be-
Great Wheat Country.
But toward Winnipeg the prairie
wheat country begins. Of which Win
nipeg has become the exponent as the
seat OF the Canadian wheat market.
II IL situated on plain where stood
Fort Garry In the days Of tho Hudson
Bay company's supremacy, about sixty
miles from Lake winnipeg and some
thing like a hundred miles, think,
from the northern end OF the Lake OF
the Woods. which we passed ON oar
way to Winnipeg. II Is said to have
ten thousand islands. nearly or quite
all wooded. whence suppose the
name comes, aud II appears, where
we saw II. not like lake In the or
dinary sense, but narrow channels OF
water, bent round wooded masses Of
land II Is 4 favorite resort for VIM
nipcg people for hunting, fishing and
rest.
From Winnipeg. we went on to
Runff. a Journey % about twenty-four
hours. The mountain scenery about
'Iianff Is certainly magnificent. 1t has
the Rocky mountain characteristics in
what is. | suppose. their highest de-
velopment on the continent,
Looks Like sandals.
The view of the Sandals from Bcr-
nblillo and vicinity might be taken as
a sample az what appears at Banff,
In lavish abundance. The color Of
the bare rock In the mountain passes.
] Thought to be somewhat lighter than
that Int our southwest. more like drab
or gray in daylight. but az sunset It
had the pink tinge. which Is so beau
tiful at times on the Sandals. A cas-
cade near the c. 2. r. hotel. added to
the mountain views, makes the pros
pect from it superior in the opinion
OF some to the famous prospect from
ANdklr.