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CANADAS CARIBOU COUNTRY 50000000 Animals Wait for Hunters in a Paradise for Game Hunters paradise is the caribou country of Can ¬ adian Northwest territories On the barren lands up around Chesterfield Inlet and Baker Lake more than 50000000 caribou roam waiting for the hunter to come There is enough deer meat there it is said to feed a hungry world for years and years yearsCanada Canada will soon throw open the door to this hunters paradise by laying the last seventy miles of steel rails to complete the government railroad from The Pas in Manitoba to Port Nelson on the shores of Hudson Bay Then hunters can go by way of Winnipeg to Port Nelson thence to Chester ¬ field Inlet and Baker Lake and stand iu the heart of the caribou country And those who know say there are more caribou there than there ever were buffalo on the western American plains The cari ¬ bou country is probably the greatest natural game preserve left on earth And it is soon to be invaded The last railroad bridge and embankment have been completed Soon trains will be running into Port Nelson NelsonCaribou Caribou range the cold bleak wilderness from the Arctic Circle southward Sometimes they drift away down to Saskatchewan and Manitoba but the millions are to be found in the Chesterfield Inlet region regionCaribou Caribou says Osborne Scott of the Canadian Northern Railway travel in such numbers that it often takes days for the herds to pass a given point They move in solid masses wedged so tightly that they often rub the hair off their sides The noise of their march is like that of any army on the move moveThe The caribou country is one of clear atmosphere level plains and few obstructions to sight Hunters there will stand in far less danger of being shot in mistake for a deer than in the north woods of Minnesota or Michigan Hitherto the country has only been accessible to the few because of the long tedious and somewhat dangerous journey When the new rail line is in full operation access will be less difficult for thousands Caribou veni ¬ son will soon be on the menu card of Canadian and United States hotels and eating places and many ladies will be wrapping themselves in caribou skin coats
