. 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 . nstable, but when the rightspot is struck they grow and flourishunchecked in spite of all hindrances. Such has been the manner of thegrowth of Saskatoon. She is the lat-est addition to the cities of the west,but in the race, though handicappedby youth and the lack of old associa-tions, bids fair to eclipse them all. Saskatoon is essentially the citycalled into being by the building upof
. 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 . nstable, but when the rightspot is struck they grow and flourishunchecked in spite of all hindrances. Such has been the manner of thegrowth of Saskatoon. She is the lat-est addition to the cities of the west,but in the race, though handicappedby youth and the lack of old associa-tions, bids fair to eclipse them all. Saskatoon is essentially the citycalled into being by the building upof the greater west. It is at Saska-toon that the tide of present day im-migration broke and spread in broadstreams out into the fertile plains ofcentral Saskatchewan. It is on Sas-katoon that the great railvyay systemsare converging, recognising in herposition the essentials for a greatcentre of commerce and industry. The merchant notes the promise ofthe future, the manufacturer measuresthe noble river with his eye and cal-culates its capacity for work when put1 harness, and the lover of the beau-tiful sees in Saskatoon a home withsrreat natural attractions and withboundless scope for artistic adori)mcnt. Power House of the Saskatoon Public Works, Electric Light Plant andWater Works Pumping Station. And, moreover. Saskatoon is essen-tially an Anglo-Saxon centre. Foryears the current of immigration hadclung closely to the skirts of railroadbuilders and settlement of variouspeoples and tongues was only aroundthe fringes of the territories. Thatvast wedge shaped land lying be-tween the two Saskatchewans andreferred to vaguely as the GreatPlains was still untrotldcn and com-paratively unknown. But simultaneously with the schemeof a new transcontinental which de-signed to pierce this vast prairie fromeast to west, htmian interest was awak-ened and centred there. It happenedat a time when immigration from theynited States and Britain had started to flow in earnest with the result that
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