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save a full rs miles, making the dis
s,ance at 445 miles instead of $40. The
road is a ~well-graded dirt road-as
good as you'd want in dry weather.
but well to be avoided when it rains.
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But back to the crops. Going south
from the city of Prince Albert one
soon finds himself in one of the most
picturesque as we'll as the most pro-
ductive regions through which you
could hope to cross. Dotted with wood
land hills and verdant valleys, there is
still abundant space for vast fields of
ripened grain. And what a sight! We
are informed that much of the wheat
will go from 30 to 40 bushels of num-
Der one. Little wonder hat farmers
from "the states passing through give
vent to calculations of delight on the
n hand, while on the other cannot
hold back a regretful sigh OCCASION
ally when his thoughts move back to
the grim reality of barren p%rairies he
must face again upon returning home.
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Competition may be the "life of
trade" but if articulated as we saw it
on our trip to the north woods last
week, it may easily prove the undoing
of the trader" Situated about mid
Way between the International line
and Regina on number 6 two filling
stations stand on opposite corners of
what, in good times, would be fertile
manifestations of wheat land. We
stopped between them on the thorofare
not out of gas, but merely to satisfy
the longing of an empty stomach for
an ice cream cone So quickly did at
PENDANTS from each of the s~tations
show up at opposite sides of our car
that we all thought to ourselves, here
IS a demonstration of real curb SER
VICE. Not for long, however, were we
deceived over the enthusiastic greet
ing. With a lady attendant on the one
side and a man representing the OPP
posite bailiwick, we found ourselves
listening to epithets of equal force
hurled at competitors who would
stop at nothing to ruin me-" Then,
just to appreciate the full extent of the
argument, we divided u forces, two
going on one side and two on the 9TH
err to make a small purchase. One of
the dealers had been established some
five or six years, and was doing
good" The other, when successive
crop failures came, took advantage Of
ekeing out a living some way and
erected a filling station on the corner
of his quarter. The familiar method of
getting business of this latecomer, ac-
cording to the man across the road,
was to rush to the highway when cars
stopped and associate her place of
birth with the state which had regis
tered the license. Her husband was
"away today" she said. The across
the-street neighbor, however, declared
he was serving time in the Regina Jail
for assault, having hurled stones at his
competitor who exhibited well-deter-
mined scars as proof that the missiles
had not missed their mark. Whotta
life! Well be surprised to find both Of
these prosperous" oil dealers have
survived when we return to Prince
Albert next year-as we've already de-
termined we shall do.
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Living as we do, nearer to a city
Of $4,000 souls, than to either Glasgow
or Minot, and only thirty miles farther
than Williston, it is really surprising
that so few of our people ever cross
the line to visit that beautiful metrop-
oils that has, by every right, earned
the title given it-"Queen City of the
Plains" l doubt if there is a city in
the world of equal size where more
beautiful foliage is grown for SO short
q season. Blossoms do not reach their
richest beauty before the early part Of
July, and the extent of the blooming
Is materially shortened by the early
frosts. In the Parliament grounds is
seen by far the most gorgeous Guilt
walton in the city, where hundreds Of
varieties, laid out in beds with the
most careful geometric proportions,
could we'll occupy the time of observ-