Identifier: acrosscanadaanno00cana (find matches)
Title: Across Canada : annotated guide via Canadian Pacific, the world's greatest transportation system : Western lines east bound
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Montreal : Canadian Pacific Railway
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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albrite deposits wi h many operating mines and very Midale extensive clay areas supplying material to Macoun numerous brick plants. The country is some- Estevan what rough, and is drained by the Souris North Portal River. Investigation has been carried on forsome years with a view to improving the valueof the coal measures of this district, and a briquetting plantis under construction to be followed by by-products plants.This will enable a better class of domestic coal to be sold. Este-van is a flourishing centre with a population of 2500. Hereconnection can be made for the southern Manitoba lines lead-ing to Winnipeg (see page 69). From the same point a branchruns west to Neptune (54 miles). North Portal is on theCanadian side of the Boundary—Portal on the American side—and in a few minutes we are also on the Soo Line. SOO LINE Portal to St. Paul and Minneapolis: 562 miles Portal The country along the Soo Line running through Flaxton North Dakota and Minnesota may for convenience
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Indicates Double Track MOOSE JAW AND WINNIPEG TO ST.PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS 74 Across Canada Ken mare be split into three divisions. The first, t: veilingMi not eastward, is that newly opened land area which is Harvey now aptly called Flaxland. During the past few years the production of flax has increased prodig-iously. It is the crop particularly adapted to the newly brokensoil of the Dakota Prairie. Frequently the production runs ashigh as 20 bushels to the acre. From Flaxton a line has beenbuilt westward into Montana through a splendid wheat country.The present terminus of the branch is Whitetail, Montana. Buteven here the lesson of diversified farming is being applied.Considerable attention is paid to stock and sheep raising, andwheat produces immense crops. Fessenden The second division into which the country Carrington along the Soo-Pacific Line naturally divides Valley City itself may be called the great wheat belt of Enderlin the Northwest, running from Harvey, in the Hankinson nort

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