Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-06
NEW PASS IN ROCKIES
Discovered Last Year Among the
 Canadian Mountains.
The Expedition Under Distinguished British Explorer Succeeds in Locating New Gateway
 to the West.

Dr. J. Norman Collie, a distinguished man of science and mountaineer of Great Britain, has in the past few years made four expeditions into the Canadian Rocky mountains to the north of the Canadian Pacific railroad, wher the mountains were very little known. With great ability and perse- verance he has explored this difficult mountain region from a geographical point of view and has ascended lofty snow-clad peaks for the purpose of adding to his route-maps all the top ographical details in sight from these high points of observation, says the New York Sun. #at.<
 He has rendered distinct service to American geography by making these mountains and the drainage among them better known. His excellent maps are helping atlas makers to im- prove their mapping of the mountains of this continent.
 On his last expedition he found 6 new pass over the mountains. He was looking for it, for on one of his previous expeditions he conceived the idea that there should be a practical pass across the water-parting in this region between the drainage systems or the Atlantic and Pacific. This was one of the problems before him last summer and he solved it successfully.
 He found the pass where he believed it to be, among the headwaters of the northern fork of the Saskatchewan river in about 51 degrees 46 minutes north latitude and IF degrees 3 min utes west longitude. The pass is 500 feet above the sea. At it's east end rises Shingle creek, which is fed by the melting glaciers and empties into the middle fork of the North Saskat- chewan.
 At its west end is another valley through which flows a stream to the south fork of Bush river, which emp ties into the Columbia river and flows to the Pacific. He named this gateway through the mountains Bush pass, be- cause 1t leads to the Bush river
 From thetop of the mountain reveal ing to him wide area of topogra phy he saw the pass leading over the valley of the Bush river in the very position he had thought it must occupy. It
 
 tant pass will ever be turned to eco homie account as the route of a, rail- 1 road or wagon highway across the mountains. At any rate another in- portant pass has been added to those already discovered among the Canadi- an Rockies.
 It will be remembered that the scheme Of the Canadian Pacific rail- road was laughed at as impracticable until the great gateway through Kick 1 ing Horse pass was discovered. It was some time before the pass through the mighty Selkirks farther west was dis covered, but it was there, just where 1t was needed for the extension of the railroad to the Pacific coast.
 Another great pass has been discov- cred on the upper waters of the Peace river, where two lakes lie practically upon the summit of mountain range, This pass leads to the Skeena river, by which travellers may reach Port Simp. son, the finest port of the Pacific coas st of Canada, with great shipping facili. ties and large coal fields close at hand One of the railroads recently planned in Canada is to cross this pass to reach Port Simpson.
 The great significance of these gate. ways across the mountains north o1 the Canadian Pacific railroad is thai they lie directly west of the vast north, ern wheat belt of Canada, in which scarcely sod has yet been turned The day is not far distant when many thousands of square miles of this re zion will be devoted to wheat growth Q and it will be a great advantage te Canada to be able to ship the harves, both across the Pacific to the orien, and across the Atlantic to Eurone
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