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■on one occasion about a mine, and he ^vent and found this mine and afterwards sold 

 it for $500,000. From all I could learn he scenib to be a man with large capital who 

 takes a great interest in the Mormon settlement in Alberta, and is prepared to help 

 them in every way he can. 



Bii Mr. Davis : 



Q. He has purchased lands for raising sugar beets ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. He is going to start an industry i 



A. So I was informed. 



By Mi: Clancy : 



Q. Has he made that country his residcnee now ? Has he left Utah ? 



A. Xo ; but he visits there occasionally, one of his son's is said to live on the 

 ranch and managing the cattle on the 100,000 acres, and I understood that the other 

 yon will remove to Kaymond and be made the manager of the sugar beet factory which 

 Mr. Knight is to build. I was told there that he had contracted for the bricks and 

 that he was about to contract for the machinery, but was waiting to learn whether the 

 arrangement for importing machinery for the sugar beet factories free of duty would 

 be continued for another year before making his contracts. That I understand is 

 tinder the consideration of the House, and is likely to be granted. 



By Mr. Davis : . 



Q. I saw a variety of wheat sent down by a party in that district, a sort of goose 

 ■wheat, with a very large long berry. 



A. This is probably a variety called Polonian wheat which is chiefly grown in 

 ]j(.'t countries in Europe. I saw a small field of this at one of the Mormon settlements. 

 It produces a very large head and a large kernel, but is not productive with us. We 

 have tested it for several years at all the experimental farms. 



Q. What do you call it ; 



A. The Polonian wheat. 



Q. A hard wheat ? 



A. Yes, quite hard and transjiarent ; much like goose wheat. It does not, how- 

 ever, compare favourably with Ked Fife as to quality or productiveness. I am 

 sending quite a number of samples to the different settlements I have spoken of, in- 

 cluding Red Fife, so that they may begin to grow pure seed. The settlers have found 

 great difficulty in getting seed true to name and clean, and they showed me varieties 

 of wheat they were growing which I was able to tell them were not the varieties they 

 thought them to be. They were very anxiinis to have the best varieties and to have 

 them true to name, and they assured me that if they could once work in a supply they 

 proxjosed to keep them clean so as to grow them to the best advantage. 



By Mr. Davis: 



Q. Do you know anything about the varieties of grass up there, have they tried 

 growing hay '( 



A. Not to any extent. They are testing Brome grass in some i)laees now, but the 

 water has only been available to them this past year and I think very few of them 

 have yet used much water for irrigation. Last year there was rather an unusual rain- 

 fall and they were able to raise crops without using much water, but where they had 

 used water, it was very evident that it was a great advantage. The crop was much 

 Biore thrifty and had a much more vigorous growth. 



