A Trip to Town 



lands have been covered with a network of iron 

 roads, believe the same must follow rapidly in 

 Saskatchewan and Alberta. 



Thus thinking, it seems to them a wise step 

 to look well ahead and secure good land, even 

 if for the present far away, and beyond the ap- 

 parent operations of the railroad magnates, whom 

 one might almost call " the uncrowned kings of 

 Western Canada." 



Also, the homestead laws have recently favoured 

 the proving up of the patent or freehold by the 

 breaking up and cropping of so many acres, 

 rather than by the keeping of cattle ; and as the 

 latter plan means either money or time or both, 

 before remunerative herds are got together, it 

 is not easy to see what the bona fide settler can 

 do but try to grow grain. 



Further, as it seems to him that every load 

 of decent grain that he can deliver at the elevator 

 means to him so much cash, and as he has not 

 much for his team to do in the winter, and is 

 almost obliged to make one or more trips to 

 town, he may as well begin to sow grain. 



In Britain we know something of the advan- 

 tages of having a railway near, not to mention 

 competitive routes, but in these great new lands 

 these advantages are probably increased fourfold. 



In the matter of settlement, as before noted 



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