Manitoba as I saw it, from 1869 to date : with flash-lights on the first Riel Rebellion . enty-four hours to getout of the country, and further, if after thatyou were taken north of the forty-ninth parallelof latitude, you would be arrested and tried byCourt-Martial, and dealt with according to thefindings of the Court. You say you are a mili-tary man; it will not be necessary to explain toyou what that means. Batice, show this gentle-man out. The Colonel made haste to consult the Hud-son Bay Company officer whom he had firstinterviewed, who said laughingly, A horse, ahorse, my Colonels commis
Manitoba as I saw it, from 1869 to date : with flash-lights on the first Riel Rebellion . enty-four hours to getout of the country, and further, if after thatyou were taken north of the forty-ninth parallelof latitude, you would be arrested and tried byCourt-Martial, and dealt with according to thefindings of the Court. You say you are a mili-tary man; it will not be necessary to explain toyou what that means. Batice, show this gentle-man out. The Colonel made haste to consult the Hud-son Bay Company officer whom he had firstinterviewed, who said laughingly, A horse, ahorse, my Colonels commission for a horse! The Colonel said: My dear sir, it is jest, please. What shall I do? Can youhelp me out? We will see the Postmaster. The mail 106 Manitoba as I Saw It. leaves for Pembina in two hours. He will mostlikely arrange a passage for you that far. The Postmaster sent the old man on his waypresumably happy, but he had the countenanceof the man who never smiled again. The Colonel was supplied with hospital com-forts to enable him to guard the mail as far l> !?; SPB VGl B CHAPTER XXVIII. MR. D. E. SPRAGUE. Lumbering as an industry commenced aboutthe year 1872. Previous to that time the modestrequirements of the settlers were supplied bymeans of the whipsaw or the most primitivekind of saw mill. The first introduction ofwhat may be regarded as a modern saw millwas erected in 1872 by Macaulay & Sprague, onthe banks of the Red River between Notre Dameand Lombard streets; a small portable mill wasbuilt the same year by Dick & Banning in thesame vicinity. At this time only a few millionfeet of lumber was manufactured here, the logscoming from the Roseau and Red Lake bulk of the lumber which was required inwhat was considered the extraordinary develop-ment of Winnipeg came down the Red River byflatboat or raft from Moorehead, to which pointit had been shipped from Anoka, Minneapolis,Duluth and other American lumbering
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