Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-03-31
LAKE. kAML0OPS.

interesfing Taik with q Gentiema n
frsin the laterier Of British Co
lumbta-
Hello, Viii. what are yo1 doing in
Seattle 2 said q Posi- ISTELLIGESeEs
reporter to W b. lacking, on meeting
hiu for the first time liz sixty days.
Well, Mr.. Curiosity" be replied,
come with NE TO ihs Arlington Hotel.
where We can sit dovn and I'll tell YOU
ali about L.
After lighting a fresh cis ar. be said
81 IN company WITH J z. I. Mitchell
and twenty o.b~r Seattle mechanics,
went up "a Lake kamlOops. in the inte-
nor of British Colambl8. for the pur-
pose Of building Q large stern wheel
steamer on that lake for A. Oaderdonk,
contractor On the British Columbia
division of she Canadian Pacific Rail-
road. Like Kanl -ops is $50 miles from
Yale, md is aboat Is miles in length,
and connected with the Little Shuswap
and Big Shuswap lakes, thus forming q
steamboat route of 100 miles in length.
there are
FIVE STEAMERS
On Lake kamloops, eli owned BY Brit
ish Colnm0iAns, except the one We ere
noE Completing.
First In the list OF these boats is the
Peerless. q stern-w heeies about the size
of the W. X. Mefsin. bat much faster.
She can ruu 10 miles an hour. Next
comes the Lady Duferin, little side
whesler. much like the steamer Pearl,
only larger. Then there is the Sanil-
kaueen, stern wheeler about the size
OF ths Josephine, and J. 4. Mar.s's new
steam sccw, stern wheeler similar 80
tue James Mcknight.
TIE ''skuzzY."
An Indian word meaning sparkling VA
tiers. is the name of the steamer VIC are
bullding for Mr.. Onderdonk. She is
lt0 feet long. - feet beam aud Az feet
depth OF hold. and Is very much such a
loaf As the Casslar, built in Hammond's
yard several years ago to run on the
Stiekeen river. J. F. T. Mitcheil il the
builder. He emSloyed twenty ship ear
penters and loiners from Seattle on the
job. She WAS to have b.en launched
yester Jay. Hsr cylinders are II inches
10 diameter and I feet 8 inches stroke.
She IL not expested TO be a very fast
runner. and will be used principally in
transp orting railroad material aad snp-
plies. The SkuzzY has her machinery
AL 10, exeep. two or three steam pipes
which | had to get in Victoria, and
While they are being made ready took
run over to ses tue folks. Tha steam
ar sil, be ready to make her trial trip
on Monday next. barring accidents.
TIE SEATTLE MECHANICS.
Who worked on the steamer are JET,
Mitchell, experimenting builder; Jas
Laylor, foreman; Thomas Taylor. John
McMillan. Frank Borzone. Robert Ross,
Hugh Mciinnis. Shuab Smith, Vim
Bufhug. j. Lamont, Patrick MeInnis,
Wan. copeland. j. W. Warner. l.. NJ.
kobb M, John Allen, Richard Bulr and
Z. Mckay. n. M.Duane. late first assist
ant engineer on the stea nship William
cite, and myseif placed the machinery
in the new boat"
How has tae weather been during
your solo1rn in British Columbia -
asked the reporter.
We have had splendid weather; only
one and a half hours has rain fallen
since the l0sh OF February. Frem S
o'elock IN the morning to half past 4 in
the afternoon, the therm 1m ter ranges
fro u IS 60 degrees. Toe evenings are
usually frosty and the nights cold. Toe
country Is generally mountainous, bot
around kamloops lake there IL rolling
bunch grass prairie, on which large
bands OF horses and cattle grazs and
grow fat. Mr.. 0aderionk Is pushing
the eofk 90 bis section Of the Canadian
Paeiflc. There 10 now a distance of PA
miles between either end of toe roasa.
onderdonk's men are paid regularly
on the l0th Of each month. They
are also well fed. aSd furnished with
shelter. Stragglers who waIk from the
eastern section Of the road complain
bittetly OF the treatment they receive
there. but whether their stories are trne
OF not. sm unable 90 say. Many of
those wh0 cOus ON foot aoruss the Sea-
kirk mountains, through Kicking Horse
pass, reptEt deep snoS and heavy slides
sen the eastern section OF the road. Mr..
Onderdoiik runs regular trains over the
completed sectioa % the road, and Dies
q good business In both freight and pas.
seneer tnsffie. LaboFens Whe 80 20 work
fer the company are passed 10 over ths
road frotn Port MOODY to ksnIloops,
oat on their return they are charged
full fare.
Mitchell and his party will return ia
Seattle ss sOoa e. the steamer makes
her trial trip and 10 turned over 90 Mr..
Ondegd0Bk, they may aii be lacked for
By the end Of next week II not sooner.