The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-25
GREAT GOLDFIELDS.
j, EXTENSIVE TREASURE AREAS OF
'n' THE NORTHWEST.

ms organized Last Year WIZ" mp
~, Of 81 200, 100000
colonel Pat DOMAIN, the genial ubiq-
ooion ond entertaining Patrick, was
uitous his recently. Some 20 years
in d. n ,rrote fiery leaders and birthstone
ago ~ nbs for the st. Louis Times.
p pa noaan has just returned from
MI Of the far northwest His mental
lou i.conic observations were given to
yeri so democrat reporter as follows:
ui ~ have Just come from one OF the
arld,s true wonderlands, with
new w. w blown in the bottle, and Je-
pls' S,s smile signature on every label.
G O% yes. | know wonderlands are as
on ,S1on-in railroad and summer re-
p4' l;terature-as ignoramuses and dis
SUI .ahIe blatherskites in the degener-
ieP u Trrited States senate. Every little
a'e' horse region that happens to have a
WV geographical warts or wens on its
ssoo one or two exaggerated molehllls
, ,'v.o Mount Washington, duck puddle
I'm, I'M Minnetonka, hole in the ground
Inv Mammoth cave, or n half dozen
I'M na scnirts like the Yellowstone gey-
H. Aoods creation with gorgeous ad-
49, Elements of itself as wonderland,
garden of the gods, or some other
"rc5 bifalutin humbug. But 10000 OF
,hor all rolled into one, would OWN
Sio 70 rothingness compared with the
raolr Of crystallized fairy yarns | have
recently wandered over
.tIt is the Kootenai region of British
co,nrbia. You do not know where it
;sp Well, you are not whit more ig-
swami -, than 90 out of every 100 of the
auorod statesmen who daily shake the
"igbtv dome of the capitoline whited
sornlcber at Washington with their
Mandolin bowls Of sympathy for few
sInIking gangs of half niger banditti
aud incendiaries in Cuba and bastard
slaves and braggarts in Greece. Not l
IN 100 Of the so called great journalists
and mapazinists of the benighted Amer
;can orient has ever heard or dreamed
that British Columbia, with its 1888, 600
SQUARE miles of territory, is more than
three times as large as all Great Brit
ain and Ireland and within a trifle as
bir as Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont. Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia. North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Georgia, all combined.
1T is a land of glacier crowned
mountains, fertile valleys and magnifi-
cent forests. Its climate, in all the
coast regions, is as mild as that Of
MARYLAND or England. It's soil yields
bounteous crops of all the most valua~
bic grains, grasses, fruits and vegeta'
bles. The Earl of Aberdeen, whose bril-
liant and accomplished wife recently
delivered the commencement address at
the Chicago university, has a ID, 600
acre farm on Okanogan lake, far up to-
ward Alaska, where he raises immense
crops of grain, hops, nearly all vari-
cites of fruit and as fine yellow leaf to-
bacco as is grown about Durham, n. o..
Figs flourish at Agassiz, i'll the Fraser
river valley. Yes, that sounds like an
Eli Perkins statistical statement for the
New York Sun or Press, but it is not.
1t is absolute truth. Figs are grown III
the open air in British Columbia. But
all its other marvels sing small beside
its Aladdin's lamp surprising riches OF
mineral.
British Columbian mines, accord
ing to official government reports, have
yielded over 500, 900, 900 in gold, sill
yer, copper, lead and other minerals.
Two miles of gravel on Williams creek,
in the Cariboo region, panned out $50,
600, 900 under the most primitive work
ing, with the crudest implements, and
prospectors on Wild Horse creek, near
Fort Steele, washed out So, 200, 600 III
gold dust in few months, with ole
fashioned hand made rockers and riff
fes. These diggings are nearly 500 miles
apart, and recent discoveries seem tC
indicate that the whole vast, interven
ing region is an almost unbroken miner
al bed. Eminent experts, in fact, de
clare that from Washington, Montana
and Idaho to Alaska every mountain
range and spur in all the Columbian
dominions of the Widow Victoria vii
probably be found ribbed and scanned
with royal ore, and every stream anC
streamlet bottomed with golden sands
Think of $4,000 square miles, with
possible bonanza in every acrel
In the southeastern part of this vas
realm of infinite possibilities is TIT
new found gods treasury of the Koote
mai. 1t stretches from 40 to 52 degree
north latitude, and from the Rock.
mountains to the gold range west o
the Columbia river, and has an area
about 10000 square miles, or $500,
OOO acres Let him who enters her
ieave-not hope-but all his past eX
perlences, impressions and standards
estimation behind He treads enchante'
'und. He is in region whose Who'll
is romance, where all the gor
se,s sN~ms of the ARABIAN Nights
r,-a S,pv~.x,y realities and the wildes
ane tame and common
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