The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-10-17
THE YAHo VALLEY.
a picturesque Country in the RncI,ia.
of Britfah Cn1,,r.hA

a FActuresque Country in the Rockies
OF British Columbia.
ferhaps in no other country couId
one =, go forth under the open sky and
hsr 10 natures teachings" with better
results' both poetical and practical.
IMAM in British Columbia, saws the
new York Herald. The vast arid
deserts that Mother Nature sighted,
Tie poundless oceans she left unpro-
poruoned and unyielding, she has
maze up for in the favored land of
BRUSH Columbia. Nature has shown
paruality to this spot, not only sby
lavish strokes of indescribable beauty,
Dut with a liberal bestowal of buried
wealth and uncovered resources.
BRUSH Columbia has ofttimes been
oeplcted as a cold and inhospitabIe
country. This is true only in a meas
ure. There are vast resources for the
employment Of labor and capital-not
forgetting the poet and the man with
the camera and palette. Yaho Valley,
among the British Rockies, is practi-
cally newly discovered paradise of
big falls and glaciers. In this val
ley is the Takakayau fall Of 1900 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 prac.
teal expeditions were made by the
English. More recently there has
been the inevitable American inva.
sion with the camera. While the
writer cannot produce incontrovertible
evidence to support the statement
Span1ards began exploring as early as
the sixteenth century. Very little was
known of Vancouver, named after ar
English captain, until 1921, although
fur trading was carried on previously
to that time. There was no photogra
pher there at the date mentioner, 81
we must take the word of the histo
rian, who tells us the first white MAJ
to traverse the jagged bosom Of ma
ture was Sir Alexander Mackenzie
who in 1880 followed the Fraser anC
Peace rivers to their sources. He lief
his own name duly tagged to the chic
river of the land
Many things good and useful do W,
get from British Columbia. The ap
petizing little anchovy, the delectabl'
sturgeon, halibut of the largest anC
| lnoHS Of h0 hoe IN,
world are a few of the table delica
cies that come from there The sigh
of the dense masses of fish which
crowd up the Fraser river would max
a visionary tale of the most imagina
tive of ike" WaltOns look like a veal
almanac jest. Many trout, normal AM
abnormal, are taken from the prett,
lakes that abound There are sever
different species of salmon, the fou
most important being the quinnant
sOckeye (saWquaD, cahoe and steel
head. The sOckeye, or red salmon, j
the most valuable. 1t is specie
weighing from six to ten pounds. TIL
salmon canneries are numerous an
nOurlShlng. Iney give employment t
many hands in British Columbia, 70
the tins in which the fish are packe
are manufactured on the spot Man
Indians and Chinese are employed. A
one time a considerable quantity Q
salmon was sent across the cOntinen
and to Australia, and even to Londol
packed in ice.
While the metalliferous resources {
the province may not be so we
known, the country is famous for il
wealth in coal. There is an abunC
ance of sulphites of copper and irol
silver and lead ores, copper ore COZ
tanning silver and iron and cope
pyrites holding gold. The ores have
, wide variance in value.