. Dry farming in western Canada . Tig. 82.—Float Levelling Land for the Border System of Irrigation. ;i(li;m Pacific Railway Company, in the vicinity of Letb- bridge where approximately 130,000 acres of land have been brought "under the ditch". Water was first carried by Ibis ditch in the fall of 1900. Five or six years later the Canadian Pacific Railway Company inaugurated an irrigation project east of Calgary, diverting water from the Bow River, to irrigate, approximately. 880,000 acres in their block of 3,000,000 acres of land extending from west of Strathmore to east of Brooks. P
. Dry farming in western Canada . Tig. 82.—Float Levelling Land for the Border System of Irrigation. ;i(li;m Pacific Railway Company, in the vicinity of Letb- bridge where approximately 130,000 acres of land have been brought "under the ditch". Water was first carried by Ibis ditch in the fall of 1900. Five or six years later the Canadian Pacific Railway Company inaugurated an irrigation project east of Calgary, diverting water from the Bow River, to irrigate, approximately. 880,000 acres in their block of 3,000,000 acres of land extending from west of Strathmore to east of Brooks. Previous to this time there were a number of small projects taken out by private individuals, the greater number of these being in the southwestern pari of Sas
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