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INDUSTRIES 167also valuable mines of building stone,and splendid areasof brick-clay; but has it coal? We have, it is said, fullysixty-five thousand square miles of coal-bearing lands.Commencing with south-western Manitoba, where thereis a considerable area of inferior coal country, coveringFig.111. — Coal mine at Lethbridge.south-eastern Assiniboia and extending to the Rockies,and northwards in a broad belt from the southern boundaryof Alberta to the Peace River and even beyond, thereare stretches of coal-bearing land of wonderful value(Fig. 111). Indeed, coal is procured so readily that incertain places in Alberta the rivers, by wearing theirbanks, have uncovered the seams (Fig. 112), and theresidents of the neighborhood have only to drive to the