Identifier: albertasurveyoft00mcca (find matches)
Title: Alberta : a survey of the topography, climate, resources, industries, transportation and communication, and institutional services of the Province of Alberta
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McCaig, J Alberta. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Edmonton, Alta. : Issued under the direction of Minister of Agriculture
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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ds on unwatered land were taken up throughout the wholeof this southern district. Barbed wire fences were erected through-out Southern Alberta. In the year 1903 the Canadian PacificIrrigation Company was inaugurated with the aim of wateringlands along its main line east of Calgary from supplies drawn fromthe Bow River. About the year 1907 the Southern Alberta LandCompany with headquarters at Medicine Hat was inauguratedfor the purpose of watering land west of Medicine Hat. The area of land owned by the irrigation companies of SouthernAlberta makes up a total of nearly three million acres of whichthirty per cent, is actually irrigable land. There are four maintracts or sections included in the large enterprises. The CanadianPacific Railway Companys western section lies east of Calgaryand north of the Bow River. It is about forty miles from northto south and runs sixty-five miles east. In this area water is appliedto 678,000 acres, of which there are actually irrigable 223,000 acres. 23
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24 .Practically all of the irrigable land in this section has been sold.Lying south-east and adjoining this is the eastern section of theCanadian Pacific Railway Companys Irrigation block. Thereare about 1,245,000 acres in this tract of which 400,000 acres areactually irrigable. There are still about 30,000 acres of this landunsold. In addition to this the Canadian Pacific Railway Companyacquired in the year 1908 the interests of the Alberta Land & Irri-gation Company originally known as the Alberta Railway and Irri-gation Company at Lethbridge. This tract included 499,000 acresof which about 120,000 acres are irrigable, and this irrigable landhas practically all been sold. There is available for purchase inthese areas still some dry land. Another large area which has been converted to irrigation isthe property in the Suf!ield district of the Canada Land & IrrigationCompany, formerly called the Southern Alberta Land Company,with headquarters in Medicine Hat, and another area a

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