Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-06


The "a unity Of fertile available Land
me gf0vinoe 10 estimated BY the
mon :. ". Truteh ss l40.OO,O0O acrsa
British ColumbiA has over 1000 miles
o. excellent Wagon roads, which cost for
ooosesuctson NOS leo than 5000. 600
and RECEIVES IN sxpeudisuFe Of S75O0
annually 70 maintain then in repair.
Intending sstajsrs nay ure-emps 1eo
soreo OF land, foe which thew NV ~
0ovssnmsnt 81 pr acre, 10 tour annual
installments.
The Nanailoo coal area ID uesrly 100
square miles. and that Of Comax about
The British Columbia gold fields are
w sxseoSsve, covering an ara of
nual yield Of the Cariboo minss i No.
ward Of 100000.
To give readers An idea of the i'm
menslty Of our timber resources ve
have but TO mention that today ~ have
The finest forest growth Of marketable
lumber 70 b found anywhere. The
aze OF some Of thess trees b incredible.
They are 20 b.. found in tAOusands. A
DooRlas Or, lately felled BY A. G. Fra
esr, on BuHrasd Inlet, out mp into the
following logs: Ono log. 62 feet long,
% inches diameter I log, Sc feet long,
= inches diameter Log, IS fest long,
o inches diameter log, ~ fest long,
70 inches diam0tef-the total feet be-
ing Ob60 board measure. In addition
10 the above other outs could have been
had from The same tree
The total area Of British Columbia 10
90yO0O square miles, or abo7t $50 mil
lions Of acres. II 10 three times ~ large
- Great Britain and ireland, or the
confined Provinces Of Ontario, New
bsunsviok, Nova Scotia, Primes Edward
Island and Manitoba.
British Columbia has Q homestead
Law BY which, under due registration,
real and personal property 10 protected
70 the extent Of mot more than $500
from seizure and sale in Bankruptcy.
Goods and chattels are also free up 70
goo.
The average yield Of grain. roots, etc.,
10 the C0m0x district 10 said 70 be:
Wheat, from 30 to Is bushels per acre;
barley, 10 70 ~; 0ats, 80 70 GO: peas, 10
20 u; potatoes, LEO to 2)O; turnips, 20 to
q tons.
The total value Of gold exported from
British Columbia from 1853 70 date will
b close upon 35OOO,0OO. The heaviest
export was In 1854, the amount reach
ing g, 735,6 $50; the miners employed
being 1000, whose average annual yield
vas tS49.
On the farm Of Mr.. 8. Brighouse, on
she north arm of the Fraser, il IL report
cd that l02 tons Of rcd and white car
rots and mang0lds we're raised from one
acre. In the same district we're raised
40 bushels Of barley from i've acres. or
10 bushels to the acre. On another
farm, in addition TO the first ut of
three tons 70 the acre, there was o SEQ
0nd Of two. making the seasons yield
Of timothy five tons TO the acre.
At the recent Provincial Exhibition
ct New Westminster, punpkins were
exhibited weighing from 50 20 70 pounds,
squash Is pounds. vegetable marrows |
psunds, white carrots 81 pounds, cab |
baRe Is pounds. carrots pounds, i've
early rose potatoes ID pounds, sugar
bests II pounds each. three onions 81
pounds, three Swedish turnips - pounds,
0aulidOwess II pounds, six sugar bests
"a pounds, manaolds 10 pounds each, |
pears 2 pounds each, apples pound
each, oats 8 feet 10 inches in the straw
and ~ inches In the ear, and barley
that yielded 80 bushels to the acre.
Considering shat the season was an ex-
oeedinRly dry one, the foregoing fully
demonstrates the producing capabilities |
Of our soil.