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Show John Tanner and His 220 Cardston area where the settlement beginning L.D.S. membership upwards of 50,000 people." * Additional impetus unexpected mining man from source an * to formed in 1887. From this has taken root and has grown was humble to Family * * in Canada came from "Uncle Jesse Knight," a wealthy colony planting in 1901. Utah who was an unusually public spirited person, message of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the world. It read in part: read a Men and women of wealth, use your riches to give employment to the laborer! Take the idle from the crowded centers of population and place them on the untilled areas that await the hand of industry. Unlock your vaults, unloose your purses, and embark in enterprises that will give work to the unemployed, and relieve the wretchedness that leads to the vice and crime which curse your great cities, and that poison the moral atmosphere around you. Make them happy and you will be happy yourselves. 12 the many propositions that were brought to Knight's from Apostle John W. Taylor and Charles McCarthy telling of the rich land in Alberta, Canada, and urging Among attention of was one Alberta, buy." him to interesting, and he sent his sons Ray investigate. The boys were duly im with the luxuriant grasses and other vegetation suitable for pressed Within a short time following their report, Knight purchased stock. acres at a price of about $2.50 an acre with the intent of 30,000 with cattle. This was done and the ranch was known as stocking it The suggestion sounded mond and Will to Canada to It was located about fifteen miles east of Cardston, "where a large house with bunkhouse, sheds, corrals, ice house, cellar, "H coops and other equipment were erected. the Bar-K-2. This but the Later in the year, July 10, 1901, Irrigation Company and the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Company to purchase an additional 226,000 acres of land, and to build a beet sugar factory."?" The purpose of these vast purchases, together with their de velopment, was to furnish employment to a large number of men who was "he entered into a could not find work. in Utah. beginning. contract with the Canadian Most came from the Mormon settlements |
