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Title: A few facts about the city of Saskatoon : something of its past, present and prospects for the future, a city of opportunities. A railway centre. The hub of the great hard wheat area of Central Saskatchewan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Saskatoon Board of Trade Saskatoon Board of Trade
Subjects: Architecture Railroads
Publisher: Saskatoon : Saskatoon Board of Trade
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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wded with allclasses of supplies to meet the agri-culturists ncccis. The new stocks areof covuse chielly in the way of peculi-arly spring necessities and ^vagonsr.nd Inig-gies, while very soon theliiiidcrs ;ind harvesting implementswill fiillow up and also binder twine. Merchants have a just cause forcomplaint over the lateness of the ar-rival of many lines intended for pure-ly spring trade, and some of thesestocks will have to stand over foranother season, which may mean asacrifice in some cases. They alllook for a good season, however, anddo not seem inclined to grumblemuch over the milk that is spilled. A few words of praise does notseem out of jilace for Saskatoonsbusiness men. XhwIktc will a moreprogressive . crowd be found. Theyhave the courage to look well to thefuture needs as well as meet the re-quirements nf the hour. In no citywill more up-to-date lines of goods befo-and or sounder business methods.The success that they are enjoyingis earned.—Winnipeg Telegram ofMay 25th.
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W. Hopkins Hardware Store. A DELIGHTED RAILROADER It was surely a revelation to Mr. C.).. Stovel, the C. N. R. official of theriglit-of-way department, to drive outfrom Saskatoon to the Goose Lakecountry this week. Mr. Stovel returned this morning and in his possession fles of the wheat pulled froming crops. These samples ken from the farms of C. H.Hickson, H. S. Keyes and John AiJelisle and others. They show the grain to be headed out with a mostgenerous burden of the grain forwhich the district has become fam-ous. Some of the samples brought inmeasure a full 47 inches. It is the largest area of rich un-interrupted wh.eat land I ever saw inmy life, Mr. Stovel told a Phanixrepomcr at noon to-day at the Em-pire before going east. The C. N. R.man was plainly delighted with \i)iat he saw out there. He traverseda good iiortion of ,a flistrict, 30,000.■cres of wliicli in \\,i\-ii;g wln-at.He estimates that lite a\i.ragc yieldin the Goose \.:iki- di^lrict this y.arwill exceed thirty linsl

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