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R E S O U R C E S L E S S E R S L A V E L A K E R E G I O N 79
stretch of imagination to foresee i n future years a continuous
line of them from Edmonton to the lake, along " the three
hundred miles of country intersected by the trail laid out
by the Territorial Government.
As for the wheat problem, it is not at all l i k e l y that the,
Roman Catholic Mission would put up a flour m i l l , as they
were then doing, i f i t was not a wheat country. Bishop Clut
assured me that potatoes i n their garden reached three and a
half pounds' weight i n some instances, and turnips twenty-five
pounds.
The kind people of both this and the Church of England
Mission generously supplied our table with vegetables and
salads, and we craved no better. Chives, lettuce, radishes,
cress and onions were f u l l flavoured, fresh and delicious, and
quite as early- as i n Manitoba. Being a timber country, lumber
was, of course, plentiful, there being two sawmills at
work cutting lumber, which sold, undressed, at $ 25 to $ 30 a
thousand.
The whole country has a fresh and attractive look, and one
could not desire a finer location than can be had almost anywhere
along its streams and within its delightful and healthy
borders. And yet this region is but a portal to the vaster
one beyond, to the Unjigah, the mighty Peace River, to be
described hereafter.
The make- weight against settlement may be almost summed
up in the words transport and markets. The country is
there, and far beyond it, too; but so long as there is abundance
of prairie land to the south, and no railway facilities,
it would be unwise for any large body of settlers, especially
with limited means, to venture so far. The small local
demand for beef and grain might soon be overtaken, and
though stock can be driven, yet three hundred miles of forest
t r a i l is a long way to drive. S t i l l , pioneers take little thought
of such conditions, and already they were dropping i n in
twos and threes as they used to do i n the old days i n Red
River Settlement, lured by the wilderness perhaps to priva-
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| OCR | R E S O U R C E S L E S S E R S L A V E L A K E R E G I O N 79 stretch of imagination to foresee i n future years a continuous line of them from Edmonton to the lake, along " the three hundred miles of country intersected by the trail laid out by the Territorial Government. As for the wheat problem, it is not at all l i k e l y that the, Roman Catholic Mission would put up a flour m i l l , as they were then doing, i f i t was not a wheat country. Bishop Clut assured me that potatoes i n their garden reached three and a half pounds' weight i n some instances, and turnips twenty-five pounds. The kind people of both this and the Church of England Mission generously supplied our table with vegetables and salads, and we craved no better. Chives, lettuce, radishes, cress and onions were f u l l flavoured, fresh and delicious, and quite as early- as i n Manitoba. Being a timber country, lumber was, of course, plentiful, there being two sawmills at work cutting lumber, which sold, undressed, at $ 25 to $ 30 a thousand. The whole country has a fresh and attractive look, and one could not desire a finer location than can be had almost anywhere along its streams and within its delightful and healthy borders. And yet this region is but a portal to the vaster one beyond, to the Unjigah, the mighty Peace River, to be described hereafter. The make- weight against settlement may be almost summed up in the words transport and markets. The country is there, and far beyond it, too; but so long as there is abundance of prairie land to the south, and no railway facilities, it would be unwise for any large body of settlers, especially with limited means, to venture so far. The small local demand for beef and grain might soon be overtaken, and though stock can be driven, yet three hundred miles of forest t r a i l is a long way to drive. S t i l l , pioneers take little thought of such conditions, and already they were dropping i n in twos and threes as they used to do i n the old days i n Red River Settlement, lured by the wilderness perhaps to priva- |
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