Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-03

people IN the New Cuieuon,an Wiids o
, British Columbia which are now beins
reclaimed by them. SO the wilds o
Britain were reclaimed In the last 20Ot
, years. You are witnessing the progress,
J OF reclamation begun and completed in
our own short life time, and lees than hall
, OF II, over q larger area, on the opposite
side of the globe; upon the shores OF the
great south sea forming hemisphere oil
world nearly all water; at point where
the presence and nurture by Mother Ma
tsre of people OF nautical predictions
is as significant of the English speaking
supremacy of the globe IN the next thou
sand years as the role OF England has
been significant to Europe in tie past.
The process as you see it has heen a
hard and realistic one in the extreue, to
those who are engaged in it. To them
however it Is all matter of course. They
put up with their circumstances. Whether
hard, tragic or Romantic they never ques
ton.
To catch the lights, shadows and color
ing, you must become an atom OF human
ity, and drop, as HIS Excelloncy mas done,
successfully upon different localities and
personalities, each time exercising the
power 10 reeede TO distance 10 get the
effect.
AT Yale in October, 1899, crossed over
the Fraser to look at the mining in pros
gress at half a dozen different localities
worked (since the introduction of water
by the citizens) on Yale Flat. In one o.
the pits or minss l found at work a 70.
bust, rosy loooking man OF about 55
years CT ag', who very politely answered
me with o slight foreign accent. though
in good English, a question tHEching the
distribution of the gold, and by way Of
demonstration volunteered to wash, and
very skillfully in about two minutes
washed, a shovel tull of dirt, displaying
several dozen colors He was introduced
to me by my guide who came up just
then AS MIR. Stout" one of the lucky dis
coverers of the famous Williams Creek
placers Of Cariboo. BILLY Stout" was
his familiar title, among the miners. and
others Of his acquaintance, nickname in
lieu of some unhandy German pstronymic.
found him unusually observant and in
te!ligent upon questions of practical
1 not val. IN, IA. fxntI Tho al io
distributed in fine particles in the bed,
bars and benches OF the Fraser, the lat
ter fanking the mountains ricturesquely
at many different levels 10 great altitude.
He was young looking old man with
with kindly. CHEEKY manner which inter
ested me from the following circumstance:
He would have accompanied me ~ an
other locality to demonstrate a point,
but said he, ~ would feel uneasy in
leaving the cabin SO long cut of my sight
/ have two little girls over there keeping
house tor me- and they are too young to
Iva lett alone"
Glow old are ;hey7"
Eight and ten. They have los, their
mother"
had noticed the cabin in passing, q
solitary board box house, very rudely
constructed like any other miners cabin.
about 10xI2 feet in dimensions, nesting
in thick grove of little fir trees which
Covered tbs fat, and one hundred and
| fifty yards or so aside from his field Of
labor In front of the fat was the wide
rushing river; behind it were the noun
tains " hose gullies and lower slopes were
all that was familiar of the great wide
world to the feet and comprehension OF
the girls
On my return from my exploratory
journey took care to seek the acqlaint-
ance of the miners daughters. Mr.. Stout
came up and nile held further eonver-
sstion with him about the granite gold
and the slate gold. "Emma" and "La>
vinia Stout" having told me their names,
irlsked about like kittens Whereas
they were invisible before, when the old
man was at his work, this time they were
simultaneously everywhere. They were
pretty, and winning, but poorly clotbed
IN ragged and patched together yet warm
enough materials. of varied antecedents
such as the old man had found time to de-
sign and manufacture for theml They
| wore cowhide boots which looked to me
az il the old man had made them. He
apologixed to ME for not inviting me in
the house. It's exterior, exhibiting over
turned buckets, mud puddles and general
confusion, sufficiently betrayed the defect
iveness OF the motherless housekeeping.
To the eyes OF the housekeepers them
selves, however, everything was regular
and complete. Unconscious, likewise Of
any shortcoming in the fashion and mates
rlalial of their clothing, their merry fea-
lures, betokening 4 happy childhood,
proved that they were right.
Stout put into his wide mouthed bots
tie every day little spoonful Of gold
and he had only one care. The burthen
Of this he conided to me. He did not
see how or when he could put the girls
to school. BY next summer he thought
no mi ,tbt I'm Va oolI ouopuh eaved IN 70 Y A.