The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
TRAVELOGUE BY THE EDITOR.
A Brief Description of Things We
Saw on the 10, 900 Mile "Vic-
tory Tour" With The N.
E.A. Through Canada
and the Northwest.
Continued from last week J


Our next stop was at Medicine Hat,
the city which Kipling said was "the
town that was born lucky, because it
had He'll for basement" We arriv-
ed at this city at p. m, and were
met by a band and then taken for an
auto ride about the city, and then
were served an elegant dinner in the
curling rink. After dinner gas well
was shot, and while the crowd was
invited to gather in close, 1t was quite
an amusing sight to see them back a.
way when the we'll finally popped off
shooting solid fame into the sky
several hundred feet. There Is no
question but what Medicine Hat is
destined to become one of the great
est, if not the greatest manufacturing
center In all Canada, because of its
apparent inexhaustible natural gas
supply. Medicine Hat has also gain
ed considerable fame in the States
as being the place where the billiards
are made, but the citizens of that
city Indignantly deny the charge, and
claim they have real decent weather
there. The city owns and operates
its own gas well and they are furnish
ing their residents gas for fuel and
lighting at 20 cents per thousand Gu
bic feet and to manufacturers for in
duSrial purposes at sc per thousand
cubic feet. These rates are not rival
ed or eQualed by any community In
either the United States or Canada
They now have four large mills, three
making -four, and one making oil pro-
ducts from flax seed, besides num-
Der of other industrial enterprises.
Crops in the immediate vicinity Of
Medicine Hat this season are practi-
cally failure on account of dry wea-
ther. Sunday morning the Editorial
party attended church services in a
beautiful park, and our train left at
II o'clock noon Sunday. We spent
one hour at Swift Current, our next
stop. In talking with some of the
people there we learned that they had
had crop failures there for the past
four years, and while some Of the in
habitants were somewhat discouraged
others expressed their unbounded
faith in the future of that particular
section.
We arrived at the city Of Moose Jaw
at eight o'clock in the evening, and
there it seemed as If the entire popu-
lation together with the band had
turned out to greet us. We paraded
around the main streets of the town
for an hour or so, with the band i'm
the lead, and then returned to our
train to retire for the night. The
next morning we were taken for an
auto ride through the country and
saw some nice farms and some very
good grain fields, and were then
brought back to the city for a good
lunch before boarding our train at
l:30 p. m.
We arrived at Regina. the capital
of Alberta at 3 p. m. Monday, and
were Immediately taken for an auto
ride about the city and the surround
ing country. We were served an ele-
CANT banquet in the Westminster
Presbyterian Church. At Regina we
were also taken out to the barrack
and grounds of the Royal Mounted
Police of Canada-the Red Coated
Guardians Of the Peace Of the Domin
ion, who entertained our party with
number Of military evolutions and
stunts for nearly an hour. We also
attended a reception at the Parliment
building in the evening rendered by
the Governor. Crops around Regina
are very good this season. They grow
wheat, oats and barley quite exten.
siyely. Our train left at midnight
for Brandon.
We arrived at Brandon at $50 ir
the morning spd Immediately board