The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-06-08
GREAT GOLDFIELDS.
THE EXTENSIVE TREASURE AREAS or
THE NORTHWEST.
Dhipping ol,SO0.0o0 Worth Of Ore .
Month to the smsitsrs- Mining Corpora
tions Organized Last Year with Cap
ital Of ~ 400. 600, 900.

Month to the smsitsrs Mining Corpora
tions Organised Last Year with Cap
itsi Of ~ 400. .ooo, 900.
Colonel Pat Donan, the gonial. ubiq-
nitous and entertaining Patrick, was
In st. Louis recently. Some 20 years
ago he wrote fiery leaders and birthstone
paragraphs for the st. Louis Times.
Mr.. Donan has Just returned from
tour Of the far northwest. His mental
veriscopio observations wers given to .
Globe Democrat reporter az follows:
II have just come from one of the
new worlds true wonderlands. with q
big, big w blown in the bottle. and Je-
hovsh's simile signature on every label.
Oh, yes, know Wonderland are a.
common-in railroad and summer re-
sort literature-as ignoramuses and dis
reputable blatherskites In the degener-
ated United States senate. Every little
one horse region that happens to have .
few typographical warts or wens on Ito
face, one or two exaggerated molehills
like Mount Washington, duck puddle
like Minnetonka. hole In the ground
like Mammoth cave, or half dozen
mud squirts like the Yellowstone gey-
sers, floods creation with gorgeous ad-
vertisements of itself az wonderland
q garden of the gods, or some other
such hifalutin humbug. But 1000 Of
them, all rolled into one, would dwin-
de to nothingness compared with the
realm of crystallized fairy yarns have
recently wandered over.
lit is tho Kootenai region Of British
Columbia. You do not know where 1t
is? Well, you are not whit more ig-
norant than 90 ont of every 100 of the
alleged statesmen who daily shake the
mighty dome of the oapitoline whited
sepulcher at Washington with their
maudlin howls of sympathy for few
skulking gangs Of half niger banditti
and incendiaries in Cuba and bastard
slaves and braggarts in Greece. Not l
in 100 of the SO called great journalists
and magazinists Of the benighted Amer
ican orient has ever heard or dreamed
that British Columbia, with its B83, 600
square miles of territory, is more than
three times as large as all Great Brit
ain and Ireland, and within trife az
big as Maine, New Hampshire, ver-
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 magnif-
cent forests. Its climate, in all the
coast regions, Is as mild az that Of
Maryland or England. It's soa yields
bounteous crops Of all the most valua-
BILE 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 . $4,000
acre farm ON Okanogan lake, far up to-
ward Alaska, where he raises immense
crops Of grain, hops, nearly all vari-
eties Of fruit and as fine yellow leaf to-
bacco as is grown about Durham, N. O.
Figs flourish at Agassiz, in the Fraser
river valley. Yes, that sounds like an
Eli Perkins statistical statement for the
New York Sun or Press, but il is not
It is absolute truth. Figs are grown in
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, 600, 900 in gold, sill
|ver, copper, lead and other minerals
Two miles of gravel on Williams creek,
in the Oariboo region, panned out $780,
900. 900 under the most primitive work.
ling, with the crudest implements, and
|prospectors ON Wild Horse creek, near
Fort Steele, washed out SO, 900, 600 in
gold dust in few months, with old
fashioned hand made rockers and riff
flies. These diggings are nearly 800 miles
|apart, and recent discoveries seem to,
indicate that the whole vast, interven-
ling region is an almost unbroken miner
|al bed. Eminent experts, in fact, de-
clare that from Washington, Montana
land Idaho to Alaska every mountain
|range and spur in all the Columbian
|dominions of the Widow Victoria will
probably be found ribbed and scanned
with royal ore, and every stream and
|streamlet bottomed with golden sands.
Think Of $4,000 square miles, with o
possible bonanza In every acrel
"In the southeastern part Of this vast
realm of infinite possibilities is the
new found gods treasury of the Koote-
hai. 1t stretches from 40 to 50 degrees
north latitude, and from the Rocky
Inountains to the gold range west Of
the Columbia river, and has an area of
about $4,000 square miles, or 10, $780,
300 acres. Let him who enters here
leave-not hope-but all his past ex-
periences. Impressions and standards Of
estimation behind. He treads enchanted
|ground. He Is in region whose whole
history is romance, where all the gor-
|geous dreams of the ARABIAN Nights"
beem every day realities and the widest
fairy tales become tame and common
place.
"A region, rugged beyond all descrip-
tion or imagination, nm endless maze Of