10 MANITOBA AND THE NORTH-WEST.
Park. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company have here a mag-
nificent hotel, capable of accommodating over three hundred gtiests.
Hot sulphur springs flow out of the mountains at several places,
and they effect marvellous cures to bathers. Many people affected
with severe rheumatism have gone away in less than a week's time
completely cured.
CALGARY.
At Calgary I spent about a fortnight on my return from British
Columbia, and again after I had visited the Edmonton country.
The population of the town is 4,500, and its altitude is 3,388 feet
above the level of the sea. It is the important centre of the trade
of the ranching country which surrounds it, and is also the chief
town of supply for the mining districts at the Rocky Mountains.
Its buildings are the most substantial of any town between Winni-
peg and Vancouver. The town is prettily situated, surrounded
with high bluffs and hills, and the peaks of the Rocky Mountains
are in view from most parts of the town on a clear day. The
buildings are chiefly of good sandstone, which is found in abund-
ance in the neighbourhood. The principal banks of Canada have
agencies here. On my arrival I called on Mr. T. Stone, to whom
I had introductions. He is the manager of the Canadian Agri-
cultural Coal and Colonization Company, and also of the North-
west Trading Company. The Canadian Agricultural Coal and
Colonization Company was started ten years ago under the manage-
ment of Sir John Lister-Kaye, but did not prove a paying concern.
Under the management of Mr. Stone it is rapidly gaining ground.
The company have ten farms of IO,OOO acres each along the main
line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The number of stock on
these farms are : I,ooo horses, 7,ooo cattle, 20,00ooo sheep and I,500
pigs; 5,000 acres of the company's land are under cultivation. The
North-west Trading Company do an extensive dead meat trade in
Calgary, and they also export to Vancouver and Victoria. To
enable them to carry on this business successfully, they have built
a slaughtering and cold storage establishment about a mile from
Calgary. The trouble in shipping live cattle was the falling off in
weight and quality during transit. The cold storage building is
capable of holding carcasses of 250 cattle and 2,000 sheep. Here
they can be preserved for several months. Ranchmen can bring