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Date 1912-10-02

From 591

3 be Key FOURTH AVENUE Anything North of * MEDICLN ee A aeeP ars OK LOOK LOOK We Would Give. 1 ,000 in Cash If the people of Medicine Hat could be made to realize that the greatest offer that has ever Been made-in Real Estat is embodied im our proposition to sell for a short time only Lots in at 125 Per Lot . Because if the situation NORTH OF THE RIVER were actually understood by every person, there would not be one singls foot of property left 24 hots 5 knowledge was brought to their attention. the River, within a reasonable distance, is a Sure Winner. Royal Heights is All Within the 1 Mile Circle Every lot high, dry and level. DUGGAN DUGGA eo PRICES with adjoining property sub-divid fore the choicest lots are sold. s PRICE 125 PER LOT 10 per cent extra for Corners. TERMS: 25 PER LOT CASH; months.;; ; balance monthly, or to suit purchaser inside of 18 a, . * are * FINANCIAL BROKERS gt; os led or acreage. N, OWNERS POLLO No eee hio Co lip oleeteodey after this *PHONE 527 - ore 420 MAIN ST. Don t wait*until prices HERALD TOWNSITE the business section. listing. CENTRAL PARK ALTAWANA HOUSES REDCLIFF TOWN terms. termi HILL DIVISION 208 lots at 165.00 each, terms, 98 lots at 165.00 each, terins. KIPLING PARK SUBDIVISION Tm Capital Investment Co. Blotk 24, four lots. 1680.00, cash2y Block 77, two lots on Broadway. Block 43, four lots on gas, Water and sidewalk. 275.00 each, PHONE 799. BUY NOW are 100- per vent. higher. The fall boom is just starting. Lots 1 and 2, block 23, corner, 1150. COUSINS AND SISSONS j Block 2, four lots, 450.00 cach, terms. Exclusive Usting Block 5, 50 ft. om Main St, 100 ft. from City Hall. Best buy in 36,000, terms. lusive listing. Block B, 100 ft. on Montreal St. 5500.00, tel 2 Exclusive Block 5, 23 lots. 16,100.00, terme Block 5, two lots corner. 1650.00, terms. Lockwood Street, modern, seven rooms. 3700.000, terms. Two houses under construction, modern and up-to-date in every way, will be sold at practically cost of construc- tion. Small retainer asked until construction corhpleted in one month according to plans. Block 108, 3 lots.corner. 1950.00. - Block 84, four lots. 600.00 each. Block 107, two corners, 75 180 each. 1950.00 -per cornet, 1550.00, terms, 7 HARRISVILLE DIVISION The finest sub-division in South End. Level and adjoining industrial alte, 210 per acre if sold at once. This is the snap of acreage propositions of Medicine Hat. See us for good subdivision buys in west and south ends of city. See us for cheap acreage adjoining the city. GIVE US YOUR LISTINGS. HUSTLE THAT'S THE WORD; NOW IS THE TIME Come in for some good lots in COUSINS AND SISSONS that will make you good money. 1,000 for 50 feet. Townsite The best corner 100x100 ft., 3,500, H. W. IRELAND, The Medicine near the High School, North Yuill Block 2, Lots 19 to 21, 2,500, Terms. Redcliff Block 76, Lots 12 to 14, 3,000, Terms. LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH US. H. 8, ELLIS. at Sec A,.T. CLAXTOR, world. FROM THE WEST 10 THE EAST; THE INTERLAND Being the Average Experi- ence of the Big-Little Cities of the Plains. HATTER ON TRAIN GAVE HAT S GAS A BOOST. Got Kidding Him on Name and Also Swift Current Traveller. The following is from the Van- couver Province: As a rule the newspaper man who comes wisely out of the east, judging y the character of the stuff he writes to, the great family Journals he repre semts at home, doesn t bother about the Hinterland. The Hinterland in gina. There are a score of good towns along the main line of the 0. P. R., but they all look 80 much alike to the impressionistic scribe from Toronteal, that he relies on seeing One of them and varying his pen pic- ture 6 the rest. They have about the same sgtatistics. If Moose Jaw claims 25,000 for a population you an gamble fat Medicine Hat will also publish ref and blue pamphlets advertising that she has that number. Swift Current will yield nothing to either. Dunmore and Broadview ate 4m another class. They are looked down upon by their more husky brothers of the prairie and: Regina 4s so far ahead of them all that sh will soon be in'the Calgary class as to poulation, although the cyclone advertising three hundred killed was hardly the way to publjsh it to the Smoking Room Banter. These might be rash remarks but let me explain how I got the impres- sion. There were five or six of us in the smokiig room of the observation car soon after leaving Calgary. We had all seen the prairie before and tunes had no attractions for us. There was no way of telling at first where four of them came from. I Was the other, but after experiences in Calgary, I wasn't shouting out that I came from the coast. The man from Medicine Hat started Hit When he began telling of the ad- Yantages of natural gas. Medicine Don't misunderstand me. It ts of the combustible kind and really a great asset to any city. Medicine Hat has Galned notoriety in another way too, American weather experts all charge that the town Is to blame, for the bad this case is between Calgary and Re- The gas fs 66 cheap we don t have to put out the strect lights, sald the man from Medicine Hat. They burn all the year round and the city conn- cil saves the wages of the lanp- Aighter. have a lamplighter in laughed the man from aWitch.tt on from the capital. Touchy on, Names. Then the conversation somehow or other got round to that delicate ques- tion of names. It looked to me as if they. baited the man from Medicine Hat nad he fell for it. His only de- fence was that Kipling had written, them to stick to Medicine Hat and that Medicine Hat would be the name of the town for all time. The Swift Current traveller got his share of the good-natured banter when he tried to justify the naming of that. prosperous city. There is a mid-choked stream which ambles slowly through the town and is dammned mildly den t misunder- stand the expression for an electric light works. That stream never was healthy im the first place, but Swift Current has visions of ynlimited pow- er to be got from its waters. It is something to.have a river or creek at all when you live in the Praitie: Bassano, got its start trom an irrigation canal which a fatherly railway company dug at great ex- pense so they could put up signs along their right. of way, pointing to. the advantages of water dict for growing crops. Many towns seem to be proud of the big tank at which the ngines lake their unholy thirst. interlind Just Growed. H The Hinterland, like Topsy, Just growed, and it has suffered by the rapidity of its growth. The towns, many of them, are financially healthy and support three or four banks, might have been put in better places. When the railway first pushed its way through the prairie it seemed as it the surveyors had stopped for lunch at certain points and at each lunsh Place they decided to locate a town- site. As the steel was laid and the supply cars began fc g to the end ot construction, the superinteadent woufd:locate these spota by the empty tins that used to be dumped outside the cookhouse door. Then, after a sort time, he would ditch a bor car and hoist a semaphore on its root the gleaming corn and the poetic pic- ana call it flag station. Later the tures of the earth giving up its for- car was named, Moose Current oF Swift Jalv, or some euphonfous ttle that had nothing in common with the environment. Just as soon as they were certain they could get their mail addressed came the settlers. A rough timber stockade where the cattle of the pioneer could be un- loaded, grew up on the other aide of Hat is founded on a natural gas fietg. the line. The old, minus wheels and paint, tender tank that used to con serve the watcr for the greedy en- gines gave place to. the tall wooden reservoir that is still 4 landmark on the prairie. Fixed on Main Street. weather which gos over the States. that are supposed Hat reidue to the tne it fw drd to tell. pas * Somebody with a: blue print next decided Where the main stroot was BAT DAILY NEWS, The richest rancher in the district figuring out possible subways ani bridges years abead. A rough lum- ber, two-story hotel, the Majestic or the Palmer House, stew out of a chaos of two-by-four timber, After the first winter t got a veneer of tin imiitation bricks aid a platform call- ed Veranda, where the first comers would tilt back in reinforced wire armchairs and try to think of the future, In their most optimistic mo- mente they dreamed of a population of thousand and predicted the com- fog. of an elevator and banks tn the next decade. They were right as to the elevater and the bank, but they were wrong in thinking the vigorous West was going to wait ten years. First came the hardware store which soon put On an annex and car ried general groceries -moatly cann- ed. Later it was called the Moose Cur- rent Department Store and put in a side line of shoes. Following close-on the heels of the store came the con- yertible barber shop, which in the long summer night was transformed nto pool parlor or a bowling alley. donated a corner of his property ad- Joining the townsite and a collection was taken up for a church, They had building bee and even the bar.endger at the Majestic lent a helping hand. Tt Was all ready when the young par- son come. Now the rancher takes up the collection on Sundays and weara frock coat and is sent back Heast ag delegate to the missionary conven- tion. Then More Stores, More stores began to crowd out the dwelling houses. The municips coun- ell decided to borrow 5,000 and grade a street or two and line them with a two-plank sidewalk. The richest rancher, who had been elsdted reeve some time before, got the political bug and was elected to the legislature. Then he told the railway the town needed a real station:and the com- pany s Carpenters swooped down and reared it Nke an Aladdin's palace. The municipal policeman arrived and felt himself as important as the red rider of the plains who had hitherto, in lonely greatness, represented the majesty of the law. The sidewalk wasn t long enough for him and the counci put-in others. Somebody sug- gested a census and counting the section man and his family of thir- teen, there were 700 odd souls, The Weekly Paper. It was a proud day for Moose Cur- rent when the first drummer had the express flagged and stepped off with his grip. He landed on virgin soll and his sales were 0 good he wrote back to his brother who was a printer back in Ontario. The brother ar- rived with three cases of type and a hand press and the Moose Current Times proudly flashed a front page of locals, a back page of the new Big Store advertisement, and dis- creetly- hil the boiler plate inside. In swift succession came the cem- ent sidewalks and the campaign fore municipal hall. The rancher thought there was more glory in being a may- or than a member he cut 2 wider swath in Moose Current than he did at the capital. Another census-was- taken 1508 was the count of souls and the section man s family had only grown to fourteen. More cement sidewalks and more civic loans and even a city hall was the record next year. Three thousand was the count when the government took the postoffice out of the Big Store and erected a brick building on plot the rich rancher sold them. There was quit a settlement on the other side of the line over by the Stockade and they boosted South Moose Current as the place for the elite to live. The real estate agents multiplied in direct ratio with the population, Somebody went back to Toronto with the statistics and sold an annex to the townsite. The rich rancher pulled down his barn and put up row of cottages, It was 5000 be- fore the townsmen knew it. Raiway Helped Town, Carefully fostering the develop- ment, the rallway decided that Moose Current was the place for a divisional point and joy was unconfined, A 500 payroll came with it and two more banks after the payroll. The hotel was rebuflt and renamed the King Edward There were ten rooms with hot and cold water and tho bar was twice the length and had plate glass mirrors, By careful boosting the 10,- 900. mark was reached and the first automobiles cams into town. South Moose Current came in also and the doint couneil began murmuring for a bridge over the five tracks, There was a rival line worming its steely way over the prairie in the direction of the city, and the Moose Current Times cook advantage of the fact and blossomed out as a dally. Tie pion- eer company began looking up ts Miles and studying statistics. Then tho council got a letter that the rallway would) make 2 subway, under the tra e to the south instead of the bridge, Fifteen thousand population was chalked up nest year.and some one suggested municipal tramway: It lost the town 11,000 the first year, which reckoned out at about 3,000 per car. They needed the 11,000, too, for a big milling company was of- fering to put up a mill if the town would back their bords and exempt them from taxation for several years. Tha taxpayers. grumbled but paid up and,the mili now has 300 men work- ing. Solng to run. Gengrally with an eyo to brs fwtures it ran Darailel to tha metal / habit. of East Became Interested. hates DOMINION/ eV Leh 3) eerie 7 tee SUMMER SERYICE Montreal, Quebec, Live Teutonic, St, Oot, 5; Sat, Nov. 2 Laurentic, Sat, Get, 12; Sat, Noy. 9 Canada, Sat, Oct 19; Sat, Nov. 16. Megantic, Sat. Oct. 26; Nov. 28. CHRISTMAS SAILINGS Portland, Halifax, Liverpool From From Portland Halifax Dec. 7, Dec. 8 fil; Bat., Laurentic Teutonic . Canada WHITE STAR New York, Queenstown, Liver- ADRIATIC, BALTIC, CEDRIC, CELIO, sailings, Thursdays. New York, Plymouth, Cher- bourg, Southampton 8. 8. Olympic, tons, Largest in the world. OCEANIC, MAJESTIC, THUT- ONIO, sailings every Saturday. Boston, Queenstown, Li CYMRIC (One class cabin) ARABIC, sailings, Tuesdays, (fortnightly, AMERICAN New York, Plymouth, Cher bourg, estamate ST. PAUL, ST. LOUIS, YORK, PH ex, Antwerp. Baturdays to Oct. 19, afterwards: Wednesdays, Berthing lists for Fall and Winter Sailings are now open. Book early and secure best 1o- cations. Sailing lists, plans, etc, on application to railway houes were put up. The East was interested and capital came in,so fast somebody suggested it was a boom, But it wasn't. It was just the ordi- nary development of the West, and now with the 25,000 mark reached there is not a more prosperous com- munity between Calgary and Winn - pes. Moose Current is but an example. There is plenty to write about in all of the towns.along the line-and even when the Gritleal scribes from the East come out they have to let Op- timism with a great big O stand out in every line. It ts the West's growing time and the pestimistle one can not, no matter how careful his search, point out a single awful ex- ample, The middie West's experience in the past, the present and the fu- ture, spells nothing but prosperity. R. HH. To Europe WITH SAFETY, SPEED, tian 4 Days at Sea) One Cabin Ships (Second Cabin) LAKE MANITOBA OR LAKE CHAMPLAIN GREATEST COMFORT AT LEAST EXPENSE Reserve Berths Now For Christmas Ships Early Applicants Get Greater Choice. Rates, Details, Literature from -any Railway Agent, or write. J. S. CARTER, General Agent 210 Portage Ave, Winnipeg. . TENDERS Sealed tenders addressed tn the un- dersigned, marked Tenders tor haul- ing brick, cement and steel, will be Tecsived at the office of the City En- sineer, Medicine Hat, up to 6.00 o'elock p. m. on Wednesday, October 2nd, 1912, for the following team work: A Price per thousand for hauling brick from Alberta Clay Products Co. plant to th site of the city s new Bower house. Approximate quantities between 260,000 and 350,000 brick. B. Price per barrel for hauling ce- ment from C. P. R. tracks and city werehouse to eit of city s new pow- er house. Approximate quantities 1600 Darrels from each place. C. Price per ton for hauling steel from . P. R. tracks and Alberta Rol'- ing Mills to alte of city's new power house. Approximate quantities 125 tons from . P. R. and 50 tons from Rolling Mill essarlly accepted. an A. K. GRIMMER, City Engineer, From ihe 15,000 to the 20,000 were golden days. Factories: snd were- Medicine Hat,/ Alta: Sept. 30, 1912. 69-3, ply Rwerside Park and can de- CENTRAL PARK 6 ft. corner, Block 23, 1600. Terms. 50 tt. corner on Highland St. Rear school, 2650, HERALD Tots 21 and 22, Block 10, 1000. Terms. 10 lots in Block 1, 450 each. Terms, 80 ft, in Block 14, 1200, Terma, lots in Block 2, 850. per pair, Terma, : ROSEDALE 100 ft. in Block 3, 4000, Terma 100 ft. in Block 8, 8200, Terms. TOWNSITE SL ft. near station, 26,000. T-have 160 acres of nico level land near Redeliff at a bar- gain. Call and see me about this. Other property: in all parte of the city, BRING ME YOUR LISTINGS. Donald Currie Room 1, Becker Block. Phone 776, WRIGHT DAY ooa ALTAWANA As stated in our ad. last week, all lots Usted in Block 5 have been raised to 1450 a pair. Only 7 pairs left, on First Ave. A:fine corner, 50 ft, in Block 5, facing the river, this week only, 1750. HERALD 50. ft, Ottawa St, Block 16, 1125, BENDING Lots 20-21, Block 15. 525. A snap. RIVERSIDE PARK Four good ones on a corner at 1400, 7 We are making a specialty at this time of Altawana and liver the goods. Rental Agents for Hull Block, Phone 790. Over Assiniboia Music Store. MAIN STREET. SPLENDOR Via lt; lt;. GENERAL EMPLOYMENT AND Cc. P. RY. LABOR AGENCY See Harris Olson if you require help or if you are look- ing for work. Real Estate and Insurance. 3 386. TORONTO ST. : Over Mitchell s Butcher Sho. Special Sale cial. Sheepskin Coats Cloth Overcoats Now open with a complete new stock of Clothing, Gents Furn ishings, Boots and Shoes. Great Bargains all Opening Week, MEDICINE HAT CLOTHING CO. Corner Toronto ond North Ballway. 87-16t R. B. Taylor's Transfer Light and Heary Dra Prompt Attention to all orders, f Plano Moving with Piano Van Speciality, Parcels Dellr rea, HONE NO, 349, The lowest or any tender not nec- ivinfelefefnlafefelnininintofninfniated Loose Leaf System The News Job Department has every facility for sup- ing the most satiafactory, Ce: Sees MAKE W PULL CANAL Some Resu tigations J, McKe GROUND CLEA: NEW I Important the Vex be Hear RS Vietotia, Oct Kenna, Dom sioner, upon b ment recently by his lordshi in favor of ar icy, had the fc subject: Tt makes r than I did wh stances which Pleasure of mi net. His state accord with th

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