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     station, realized, and with continued inspiration and assistance 
     
     from the Dominion dairying and horticultural experts, agriculture 
     
     in all its branches must rapidly advance, and concurrently 
     
     with such progress, will the “Garden Province” enter upon 
     
     an era of prosperity unprecedented in its history. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As a Field for the Farmer Emigrant 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although Prince Edward Island cannot expect many new 
     
     settlers, since there is now comparatively little room for such, 
     
     yet it is a desirable place for a certain class of immigrants in 
     
     search of improved farms with buildings, and within easy 
     
     reach of the social comforts of life. Good farms of this kind, 
     
     some of which are vacated by those who turn their faces to the 
     
     “Golden West,” can from time to time be had at from $20 
     
     to $35 per acre. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Improved Winter Communication 
     
    
   
   
    
     The problem of continuous winter communication has not 
     
     yet been solved, and the Winter Ferry and Georgetown-Pictou 
     
     Routes are still uncertain. In the distant future, communication 
     
     may possibly be had the year round by tunnel or subway (as 
     
     was advocated some years ago), or perchance by balloon which 
     
     may be one of the possibilities of the twentieth century; but 
     
     in the meantime, the new winter steamer “Minto,” that is 
     
     expected to begin its work in the season of 1899—1900, will 
     
     greatly improve the existing state of affairs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As a Summer Resort 
     
    
   
   
    
     The spot that was described in the latter part of the last 
     
     century by a prejudiced English writer (William Cobbett) as 
     
     “a rascally heap of sand, rock and swamp, occupied only as a 
     
     military station, and producing nothing but potatoes,” is now 
     
     designated a great garden, and is admitted by those who are 
     
     fortunate enough to visit it, to be unexcelled as an outing-place 
     
     in summer. A beauty that is unique has drawn many to its 
     
     shores, but its strong attractions still remain comparatively un- 
     
     known. What Tourists’ Associations and first-class hotels have 
     
     done and are doing for other places, that would they accomplish 
     
     for this Province were its people and capitalists alive to their 
     
     own interests.