Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11
THE YAHo VALLEY.
A Picturesque Country in the Rockies
of British Columbia.

or BRUSH GoIumDld.
Perhaps in no other country could one
go forth under the open sky and list TO
natures teachings with better results,
both uoetical and practical, than in Brit
ISL Columbia. The vast arid deserts that
Mother Nature sighted, the boundless
oceans She left unprOportioned ana IN
yielding. she has made up for IN the
favored land Of British Columbia. Ma
ture has shown Partially to this spot
not only by lavish strokes Of indescrlb-
able beauty, but with a liberal bestowaI
of buried wealth and uncovered re
sources
British Columbia has ofttimes been de-
picted as a cold and inhospitabie country.
This is true only in measure. Ihefe
are vast resources for the employment OF
labor and capitaI-not forgetting the poet
and the man with the camera and
palette. Yahc valley, among the Brltlsh
Rockies. is practically a newly dlscoY-
cred paradise of big falls and glaciers:
In this, valley is the Takakakau fall of
1900 feet. the highest in America.
The "discoyerers' of this land of
wealth and beauty are as numerous a.
the many legends. Spain made many ex-
plorati0nS, but the first practical eXpedl-
tons were made by the English. More
recently there has been the inevitable
"a
While the writer cannot produce incon-
tr0vertible evidence to support the state
ment, 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 no photographer there
at the date mentioned, so we must take
the word of the historian, who tells us
Aha ffpst VxybifA fra the
ged bosom of nature was Sir Alexander
Mackenzie. who in 1890 followed the
Fraser and Pease 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 few of
the table delicacies that come from there.
The sight of the dense masses of fish
which crowd mp the Fraser river would
make a visionary tale OF the most
imaginative of Ike Waltons look like a
weak almanac jest. Many trout, normal
and abnormal, are taken from the pretty
lakes that abound. There are seven diff
ferent species of salmon. the four most
important being the quinnant sockeye
(sawquai), cahoe and steelhead. The
sockeye. or red salmon, is the most valu-
able 1t is a species weighing from six
10 ten pounds The salmon canneries are
numerous and dOurishing. They give
employment to many hands in British
Columbia. for the tins in which the fish
are packed are manufactured on the spot.
Many Indians and Chinese are employed.
At one time n considerable quantity of
salmon 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 an abundance of supplies
of copper and iron, silver and lead ores,
copper ore containing silver and iron and
copper pyrites holding gold. The ores
have wide variance in yalue.-New
York Herald.