Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-12-01
picturesque Country in Mountains of
British Columbia.

picturesque Country in Mountains of
British Columbia
Perhaps in no other country
could one go forth under the open
sky and list to natures teach
ngs" with better results both po-
atical and practical, than in Brit
fish Columbia, says the New York
Herald. The vast arid deserts
lthat Mother Nature sighted, the
Ib0undless oceans she left unpro-
Iportioned and unyielding, she has
made mp for in the favored land Of
/ British Columbia. Nature has
shown Partially to this spot, not
lonly by lavish strokes of indie
scribable beauty but with a lib
eral bestowal of buried wealth
and uncovered resources.
British Columbia has ofttimes
been depicted as a cold and inhOs
pitable country. This is true only
lin measure. There are vast re-
sources 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
practically a newly discovered
paradise of big falls and glaciers.
In this valley is Takakakau fall of
/, 200 feet, the highest in America.
The discoveries" of this land
of wealth and beauty are as nh.
merous as the many legends.
Spain made many explorations,
but the first practical expedi
tions were made by the English.
More recently there has been the
inevitable American invasion
with the camera. While the writ
er cannot produce incOntroverti.
bic evidence TO support the state
ment. Spaniards began exploring
as early rs the sixteenth century.
Very little was known of Van
couver, named after an English
captain, until 1921, although fur
trading was carried on previously
TO that time. There was no pho
tographPr there at the date men
toned, so we must take the word
Of the historian, who tells us that
the first white man to traverse
the jagged bosom of nature was
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who in
1890 followed the Fraser and
Peace rivers to their sources. He
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 little anchovy, the
delectable sturgeon, halibut of
the largest and carloads 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 Il
visionary tale of the most imagin-
atiye Of Ike Waltons look like Il
weak almanac jest. Many trout,
normal and abnormal are taken
from the pretty lakes that abound.
There are seven different species
ofsalmOn, thefOurmOst important
being the quinnant, sOckeye (saw.
quail, cahOe and steelhead. The
sockeye, or red salmon. is the most
valuable. 1t is species weighing
from six to ten pounds. The
salmon canneries are numerous
and hourishing. They give en-
plOyment to many hands in Brit
ish Columbia, for the tins in which
the fish are packed are manufac.
tured on the spot. Many Indians
and Chinese are employed. At
one time a considerable quantity
of salmon was sent across the con
tinent and to Australia and even
to London, packed in ice.
While the metalliferous resour-
ces Of the province may not be
so well known, the country is ia.
nous for it's wealth in coal. There
is an abundance of sulphites OF
copper and iron, silver and lead
ores, copper ore containing silver
and iron and copper pyrites hold
| ing gold. The ores have wide va
! Rama in valua