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Kilometres Medicine Hat the supply is all drawn from 

 depths between 400 (122 m.) and 1,000 feet 

 (304 m.). Gas for various manufacturing 

 processes and power, as well as for heat and 

 light, is available. The city has several wells 

 1,000 feet (304 m.) in depth with a pressure of 

 560 pounds capped. Three of these are capable 

 of furnishing 5,000,000 cubic feet of gas per 

 twenty-four hours. Gas is also supplied by 

 several privately owned wells. One owned by 

 the Canadian Pacific railway supplies their shops 

 with 1,250,000 cubic feet per twenty-four hours. 

 662 m. Redcliff — Altitude 2,428 ft. (740 m.). Brick 



1,065 km. and other clay products are manufactured at 

 this point at two separate plants, and the burn- 

 ing is done by natural gas. The clay used is 

 from the Belly River formation. To the south 

 the Cypress hills are in view. 



Between this point and Calgary the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway company has undertaken to 

 irrigate a large area of farm land, drawing water 

 through large irrigation ditches from the Bow 

 river at Calgary and Bassano. 

 722 m. Brooks — Altitude 2,476 ft. (755 m.). The 



1,162 km. top of the Belly River formation is reached at 

 this station. To the west the Rocky Buttes 

 rise in a line of hills marking the eastern edge 

 of the sandy deposits of the top of the Creta- 

 ceous. The dark shales of the Pierre (the 

 Bearpaw of Montana) underlie the country to 

 Bassano. 

 745 m. Bassano — Altitude 2,584 ft. (788 m.). The 



1,213 km. eastern edge of the Edmonton series is crossed 

 near Bassano. To the south is the valley of 

 Bow river. 

 762 m. Crowfoot — Altitude 2,698 ft. (822 m.). Coal 



1,226 km. seams occur in the valley at this place and 

 are mined to some extent by the Blackfoot 

 Indians. These Indians hold in reserve a large 

 block of land to the south of the railway, and 

 the government maintains an agent at Gleichen 

 to teach them farming and to oversee the 

 providing of food and clothes for the aged. 



