. Partout au Canada : guide annoté via le canadien Pacifique, le plus grand réseau de transport au monde : lignes de l'Ouest vers l'est . pour le transport vers les villes à transformer en engrais. Pratiquement les seuls remainderdes énormes troupeaux de buffles qui ont fait la rodomie des Prairies il y a cinquante ans sont à Banff et à Wainwright, dans des enceintes gouvernementales. Moose Jaw (population 25,000, altitude 1779 pieds). Moosejaw est le centre d'un riche dé-trict cultivant du blé, et un point divisionnel important. Son nom inhabituel est l'acontraction d'un mot indien signifiant le-ruisseau-où-le-blanc-homme-mended-la-charrette-avec-un-moo

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. Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound . for transportation to thetowns to be made into fertilizer. Practically the only remainderof the huge herds of buffalo that roamed the prairies fifty yearsago are at Banff and Wainwright, in government enclosures. Moose Jaw (Population 25, 000, altitude 1779 feet). MooseJaw is the centre of a rich wheat-growing dis-trict, and an important divisional point. Its unusual name is acontraction of an Indian word meaning The-creek-where-the-white-man-mended-the-cart-with-a-moose-jaw-bone—an illumi-nating sidelight on an episode of pioneering days. The city issituated in a fine agricultural country extending from the elbowof the Saskatchewan on the north to the Dirt Hil-S on the south.The finest stockyards on the line between Winnipeg and the coastare located here. Mills and elevators indicate the districtswheat-producing qualities, Moose Jaw being oneof the largest milling points in Saskatchewan. ADominion government interior terminal elevator, with a capacity of 3, 500, 000 bushels, lies just. Moose Jaw 66 Across Canada west of the city. The city is an important wholesalecentre, and has cheap electric power. A new station is underconstruction to handle the increasing business at this point. MOOSE JAW TO GOVENLOCK: 263 miles Moose Jaw From Moose Jaw a branch runs south-westerly towarduCrestwynd the international boundary to Assiniboia, and then turnsExpanse abruptly to the west. The region through which we pass Assiniboia is settling up fast, and is already a heavy-producingone. Near Expanse is Lake Johnson, home of thousandsof wild duck and the Mecca of the sportsman every fall. Assiniboia(population 1400) is a divisional point with large elevator capacity, abundant lignite coal within seven miles, clay deposits, sand andgravel in the immediate vicinity, and the centre of a rich grain-growing district. From Assiniboia a branch runs east to Weyburn, o

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