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The depreciation in the price of stock was also
felts. Pork could be disposed of st a profit, the farmers
hauled their hogs to Grande Prairie from which place they
were shipped out in car load lots by a lecal organization.
Very little market could be found fer cattle.

HOGS OF A PARH NEAR POUCE}=COUPE

fhe district feels acutely the lack of rsilway
transportation. Although 2 railroad from the east is
desired, the country will cevclop fully only when conn-
ection is made to the Pacific coast.

fhe settlement in range 12, in the western por-
tion of the Grande Prairie district, is of even more re-
eent date than that of the Pouce-Coupe district. In this
area some 215 quartersections are held as homestesds or
leases for stock raising purposes. Some & quarter-sections
or thirteen per cent of these lands have been proved upe
The small amount ef improvements noticeable in this part of
the country shows that few of the settlers have been in
cccupation for any sreat period. Many of the settlers
are going in for stock raising, a few are engaged in dairying
and manage to make a living therebye Cream is taken to local
stores, from which it is collected weekly by a truck from

he Grande Prairie branch of the EKémonten City Dairy. Grein

growing hes not been altogether successful; the country is
not eultiveted to any Large extent, there being but 2,660
acres of the lancs which are plewed or under erope Poor seed
has been largely responsible for crop failures; much of it
faileé to sprout and some was so delayed that the grain was
injured by frost before it matured. Many of the settlers are
éissatisfieé an@d some are Leaving the country. ‘The soil in
these parts is mostly good and when the present depression is
past there is no reason why this part of the country should
not thrive as well as the district immediately east.

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