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settlement. We continued to keep our own counsel, fearful
of what our friends might do with scrip.

As we intended to make further investigationj and
oer friends were leaving for home the time for parting arrived.
when they asked father if he intended to buy land at ‘mmdqrn,

he replied that he was going north to inspect the Carrot River

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and Stoney Creek eemat-I-y which he had heard was the finest in

the  a.nd into which settlers were already moving.
Messrs. De Wolfe, Kent and Jeffers left for the south and we
for the not-th.where we immediately communicated with I-Er. Cope-
land. Several land sorippers in Saskatoon were very inquis-
itive as to whether we would locate in the Dundtu-n district and
we knew well what they were after.

Wequietly returned to Dundarn and asked Archie Wilson
to again drive us arming thet district. Later we hired a rig

from Mr. Richardson and did our own cruising, making field

notes of the sections we intended to buy or take options on,

if this could be arranged. Mr. Sinclair the M. L. A. from

Saskatoon tried to obtain information through Mr. Potter the
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section boss at §u%ns::.regarding us and whether or not we

were going to buy land at Dundqrn. He, however, was put off

with discouraging remarks.

Mr. Potter drove us through Bright Water Creek to the

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