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ALBERTA TIMBERLANDS 

 Lumbering in the foothills west of Calgary 



The following statement from the 

 Government Crop Bulletin for 1905 

 will be of interest as showing the 

 average yield of grain in the Calgary 

 district: 



Wheat (spring) 33.92 bushels per acre 

 Wheat (winter) 32.18 



Oats 4341 " 



Barley 32.01 " 



Flax 28.64 " 



Southern Alberta is favored in the 

 matter of markets for its produce, sit- 

 uated as it is alongside the great min- 

 ing and lumbering districts of her sis- 

 ter province of British Columbia, and 



having the shortest and most direct 

 outlet to the great markets of Yukon, 

 Alaska and the Orient by the port of 

 Vancouver. A steady and never fail- 

 ing market already exists for its gen- 

 eral produce ; and prime beef for many 

 years has gone eastward across the 

 continent to Great Britain. 



Nature has done much for the roll- 

 ing mesas of the Canadian foothills. 

 It needs but man's enterprise and 

 initiative to convert into a region of 

 happy homes these erstwhile sites of 

 Indian raids and old wallows of the 

 buffalo. 



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