. A few facts about the city of Saskatoon : something of its past, present and prospects for the future, a city of opportunities. A railway centre. The hub of the great hard wheat area of Central Saskatchewan . rain to be headed out with a mostgenerous burden of the grain forwhich the district has become fam-ous. Some of the samples brought inmeasure a full 47 inches. It is the largest area of rich un-interrupted land I ever saw inmy life, Mr. Stovel told a Phanixrepomcr at noon to-day at the Em-pire before going east. The C. N. was plainly delighted with \i]iat he saw out there.
. A few facts about the city of Saskatoon : something of its past, present and prospects for the future, a city of opportunities. A railway centre. The hub of the great hard wheat area of Central Saskatchewan . rain to be headed out with a mostgenerous burden of the grain forwhich the district has become fam-ous. Some of the samples brought inmeasure a full 47 inches. It is the largest area of rich un-interrupted land I ever saw inmy life, Mr. Stovel told a Phanixrepomcr at noon to-day at the Em-pire before going east. The C. N. was plainly delighted with \i]iat he saw out there. He traverseda good iiortion of ,a flistrict, 30,000.■cres of wliicli in \\,i\-ii;g estimates that lite a\ yieldin the Goose \.:iki- di^lrict this exceed thirty linslirls lo tlu- will be above the average of theordinary season, speaking for thewest generally, but not partictdarly ofa district where the average is al-ways high. .Mr. .Stovel will lav the evidencesof his highly favorable report beforethe official:-: of his line.—The Dailyrh(rnix, July 28, 1907. [ (.life Thirty.) S A S K A T O O N—T HE HUB OF T 11 F, HARD W H I, A T P. I- I. T \\ F S T F R X C A X A D A. A- 1 THE FINE CROP OF 1907 Carefully compiled reports fromthe immense hard wheat area tribut-ary to Saskatoon justify the conclu-sion that the acreage imder seed inthe summer of 1907 is 30 to 50 percent, greater than in wheat in 1906,and in oats and barley 50 to 60 percent. The severity of the past win-ter and the exceptional lateness ofthe spring gave rise to fear for thecrop of 1907. But while the seedingwas late the weather has been mostprcpitious^—warm weather, absence otfrost, regular periodical rains—sothat now old timers and all personsinterested declare the conditions andpiospects to be the verj best pos-sible. One way in which the increasedacreage is accounted for is that lastyear saw a lot of new breaking donein addition to summer fallow and fallploughing. The wis
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