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This will show the magnitude of the work already under- 

 taken and accomplished. As is well known this company 

 proposes to supply electric power not only for local purposes, 

 but also for places at as great a distance as Winnipeg. 



Looking at the resources of the Lake of the Woods dis- 

 trict, we may well v/onder at the richness of our North- 

 western heritage. While discouraging all booming and un- 

 natural development of our resources, it is but right that we 

 should encourage legitimate work in making use of the 

 treasures of nature belonging to us. We shall be glad if Rat 

 Portage and Keewatin grow to deserve the name already 

 given by some, of the " Minneapolis and Denver of the Cana- 

 dian Northwest." 





