And it is precisely here that the railway lands are selling at a higher price for the moment than anywhere else, and that settlers are rushing in.

Look there!" Elizabeth peered through the gloom, and saw the gleam of water.

The train ran along beside it for a minute or two, then the gathering darkness seemed to swallow it up.
"A river ?" "No, a canal, fed from the Bow River--far ahead of us.

We are in the irrigation belt--and in the next few years thousands of people will settle here.

Give the land water--the wheat follows! South and North, even now, the wheat is spreading and driving out the ranchers.
Irrigation is the secret.