Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-19
THE YAHO VALLEY.
A Picturesque Country in the Rockies
of British Columbia.

From the New York Herald.
Perhaps in no other country could one
"go forth under the open sky and list to
natures teachings with better results,
both poetical and practical, than in British
Columbia. The vast arid deserts that
Mother Nature sighted, the boundless
oceans she left unproportioned and I'M
yielding, she has made up for in the favored
land of British Columbia. Nature has
shown Partially to this spot, not only by
lavish strokes of indescribable beauty, but
with a liberal bestowal of buried wealth
and uncovered resources.
British Columbia has ofttimes been de-
picted as a cold and inhospitable country.
This is true only in a measure. There are
vast resources for the employment of labor
and capital-not forgetting the poet and
the man with the camera and palette. Y aho
valley, among the British Rockies is prac-
tically newly discovered paradise of big
falls and glaciers. In this valley is the
Takakakau, fall of 100 feet, the highest
in America.
The "discoverers' of this land of wealth
and beauty are as numerous as the many
legends Spain made many explorations,
but the first practical expeditions were
made by the English. More recently there
has been the inevitable American invasion
with the camera. While the writer cannot
produce lncOnVerIDle evidence TO support
the statement, SpaniardS began exploring
as early as the sixteenth century. Very
little was known of Vancouver, named after
an English captain, until 1921, although
fur trading was carried on previously to
that time. There was photographer
there at the date mentioned, SO must
take the word of the historian, who tells
US the first white man to traverse the
jagged bosom of nature was Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, who in 1880 followed the Fra
l,a;,,
left his own name duly tagged to the chief
river of the land.
Many things good and useful do we get
from British Columbia. The appetizing lit
tie anchovy, the deleetable sturgeon, hall
but of the largest and car loads of the best
salmon in the world are a few of the table
delicacies that come from there. The sight
of the dense masses of fish which crowd up
the Fraser river would make a visionary
tale of the most imaginative of Ike Wal
tons look like a weak almanac jest. Many
trout, normal and abnormal, are taken
from the pretty lakes that abound. There
are seven different species Oh salmon, the
four most important being the quinnant,
sockeye (sawquaD, cahOe and steelhead
The sockeye, or red salmon, Is the most
valuable. 1t is a species weighing from
six to ten pounds. The salmon canneries
are numerous and f1ourishing. They give
employment to many hands in British Co
lumbia, for the tins in which the fish are
packed are manufactured on the spot.
Many Indians and Chinese are employed.
AT one time a considerable quantity of sal
mon was sent across the continent and to
Australia, and even to London, packed in
ice
While the metalliferous resources of the
province may not be so well known, the
country is famous for its wealth in coal
There IS abundance of SulphiteS of cop
per and iron, silver and lead ores, copper
ore containing silver and iron and copper
pyrites holding gold. The ores have wide
variance in value.