The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . from the great counti vin North-Western Alberta. It is knownthat this country contains coal, iron, micagold, oil, natural gas, tar sands, marl formaking cement, and much timber. At present, there is no adequate means oftransportation, and such prospecting as hasbeen done has not determined the exactvalue of the mineral deposits of the GreatLasl West ; it is not known, for instance,whether the iron ore is there in large enoughamount to make mining profitable, orwhether the percentage of bitumen in the
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . from the great counti vin North-Western Alberta. It is knownthat this country contains coal, iron, micagold, oil, natural gas, tar sands, marl formaking cement, and much timber. At present, there is no adequate means oftransportation, and such prospecting as hasbeen done has not determined the exactvalue of the mineral deposits of the GreatLasl West ; it is not known, for instance,whether the iron ore is there in large enoughamount to make mining profitable, orwhether the percentage of bitumen in thetar sands—about 20 per cent.—is enough tomake these deposits highly valuable foipavement purposes. lint it is a determined fact that Albertais a province immensely rich in agriculturalresources, and that only a small part ofthese resources has been turned to is, of course, possible to lose money inAlberta, possible to fall short of success ;but the likelihood of failure is far slighter inAlberta than in older countries of whichthe natural resources have been ELEVATORS, CARNDUFF STATION. 402
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