Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta . the north shore of theriver of seven or eight thousand successful farmers including miles on this side of Peace River the main line of what is ex-pected to be a permanent transcontinental railway system goeswest to the town of Spirit River. The approach to Spirit Riveropens out into an area of farm land which exactly reproduces theEdmonton district. It is strong, heavy, black land with just a 28 little willow and other sc
Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta . the north shore of theriver of seven or eight thousand successful farmers including miles on this side of Peace River the main line of what is ex-pected to be a permanent transcontinental railway system goeswest to the town of Spirit River. The approach to Spirit Riveropens out into an area of farm land which exactly reproduces theEdmonton district. It is strong, heavy, black land with just a 28 little willow and other scrub and with an occasional poplar bluffdressing the landscape. The McLennan-Spirit River line is pro-jected directly west into the Pouce Coupe country. South fromSpirit River a stub line fifty miles long terminates at Grande Prairiewhich is the largest town of the Peace River country. Like SpiritRiver it has very active settlement both east and west. It, at thepresent time appears to be the most active of any of the settlementsin the Peace River country. The Peace River country this yearis expected to yield between five and ten million bushels of Ranching Scene in the Homestead Country, Spirit River On the fringes of these agricultural settlements are a smallnumber of ranch settlements on the Wapiti and Smoky Rivers,south and east of Grande Prairie in occasional stretches, westof Grande Prairie and Spirit River, then as far west as Fort , where there are a number of small cattle ranches. Imme-diately east of Peace River a few ranches are developing and a fewothers towards Fort Vermilion on the north side of the river. Northern Alberta already holds fifty thousand souls—all twohundred miles or over rxorth of Edmonton—and the greater partof civilian and soldier settlement is headed in the direction of PeaceRiver. This country is making rapid advancement in institutionalservices likewise. There are good schools over the whole of thedistrict, and municipal hospit
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