The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-19
scripuon. Here, too. rs, . paradise for

scription. Here, too. .~is, paradise for
sportsmen with rod and gun.
From Pembroke the road follows the
Ottawa valley through 2 good farming
country settled by English. Scotch and
German farmers. We are not In
French country now; the farms are
larger and the modest cottages have
given place to farmhOusas made Of
brick and stone, which have q well-to-
do air about them. The towns are
larger, there are more factories. more
hurry and more noise. All the way
along large clear streams come rush-
ing down the hills at the west into the
Ottawa river. where maskininge, trout.
and bass are found. We pass before
reaching Ottawa twenty Of these bright
busy manufacturing towns and IRE
quent saw mills at favorable water
powers along the river bank, surround
ed by vast piles Of lumber. Among
these towns are AlmOnte, Parkenham.
Arnprior and Renfrew. having popula-
tions from $500 to $500 each: At Arm
pdior, fifty miles west Of Ottawa,
are medicinal springs. At Renfrew. a
branch road runs to Kingston, at the
mouth of Lake Ontario. At Casleton
Place Junction. twenty-eight miles
from ottawa, a branch line runs south
ward to Brockville on the st. Law
renee river Carleton has population
Of 5000, and contains immense saw
mills, railway and other workshops.
LOG BOOMs.
On the wide stretches Of the Ottawa
river all along, are enormous quanti-
ties of saw-logs held in "boOms" Tor
the use Of the mills as needed. The
river is literally strewn with strand
ed logs for miles and miles. There are
also drives or floating shanties" or
A. .La,, he nj iNsar kaPn
the logs floating towards the "booms.
These floats or camps are manned by
lumbermen who thus secure their own
floating logs. They number some elk
ty or seventy men, who live on board
using their boats to release the strand
ed logs. Each log Is marked with q
hammer Of the owner, leaving the Off
cial stamp, and Is easily separated
from the rest at the booms along the
made to catch the floating logs as they
pass.
The traveller may look out from the
car windows upon vast stretches or
logs which enchained in the long cir
cults of the booms, almost hide the
water. Sometimes it takes two seasons
to float the logs from their sources in
the upper waters Of the Ottawa. as
they often get hung up" In these
drive" started in these upper waters.
that pour into the Ottawa in May. and
for four months, has been reaching its
destination. 1t was a. novel sight to
witness hundreds OF them floating or
laying in bOoms in the Ottawa river at
Hull. WOlfe's Cove, and even down to
Quebec. wv. -a
On the broad flats at ottawa and
Hull, opposite. are acres. perhaps miles,
| of great square piles of deals" Oum-
ber), estimated to contain 500, 100000
feet, while the cloud that rises beyond
comes from the Chaudiere Falls. where
the whole volume OF the Ottawa river
takes a tumble and Is utilized in fur
nishing power to q host Of saw mills
and manufactures. This Is our intro
duction into the so-called "early Arc
| tic lumber village" up to 1857, Let us
now see what its .develoDement has
been since 1t became capital city.
THE DOMINION CAPITAL.
Ottawa is picturesQuely situated al
| the junction of the Rideau river with
| the Ottawa at a point where the wat
| ers of the Rideau hurl themselves over
the Chaudiere falls into the seethine
| cauldron below. This cauldron Is OF
unknown depth; the sounding line has
not touched bottom, even with length
| of several hundred feet. The site fol
| grandeur Is only second to that OF
Quebec.
| Though Ottawa is the capital OF the
| great Canadian dominion it is as yet q
T, city only in embryo. Its importance
| Is mainly political, though the center
Of the lumber industry of the Province
of Ontario. Like Quebec. 1t is divided