. Picturesque Cardston and environments : a story of colonization and progress in southern Alberta. •~5 CO. ^ ^ I FOUNDING A COLONY. 13 by far than that of any instrument was that which was throb-bing in the peoples hearts. It was just twelve years ago in last September that the townof Cardston—the eastern part of it — was laid out by J. A,Woolf, J. A. Hammer, Bishop Ferrill and E. R. Miles, under thedirection of President Card, an improvised compass, devised byone of the carpenters, being used for the purpose. PresidentCard drew the first plan of the town, making sixteen blocks toa quarter se
. Picturesque Cardston and environments : a story of colonization and progress in southern Alberta. •~5 CO. ^ ^ I FOUNDING A COLONY. 13 by far than that of any instrument was that which was throb-bing in the peoples hearts. It was just twelve years ago in last September that the townof Cardston—the eastern part of it — was laid out by J. A,Woolf, J. A. Hammer, Bishop Ferrill and E. R. Miles, under thedirection of President Card, an improvised compass, devised byone of the carpenters, being used for the purpose. PresidentCard drew the first plan of the town, making sixteen blocks toa quarter section of land, the blocks being thirty-four rodssquare, with streets laid out at right angles ninety-nine feetwide. When the town was first laid out, however, it comprised onlythree tiers of blocks, twelve blocks in all, each lot seventeenrods square, with four lots to the block. The first settlers having plowed and planted the ground,raised oats, potatoes, turnips and other vegetables, to sustainthemselves the first winter. President Card raising about onehundred bushels of oats on a patch of land
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