East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-01-16

vancouver. Jan. o.-N EultOr East
oregOnian) THE North Coast Limit
ed. train made up of Northern and
Canadian Pacific coaches. leaves Sc
attic at 10 O'Clock every morning and
makes its way northward to the Cana
dian boundary.
The country passed through is
mostly timbered, with numerous
lakes. Some of them very beautiful
to break the monotony of the view.
Sawmills and lumber camps, little,
old railroads, leading back into the
woods to bring the logs down to the
lakes. Sometimes a 10 or 12-horse
team. with its big load of logs, and
then again, chute built of timbers,
and stretching back into the hills, on
which the logs are placed, and make
their own way down its slippery grade
to the lake, and thence to the mill,
all these have their part in the rapid
ly-shifting panorama and all speak of
the principal industry of this section
of country; to Mexico. Russia, China,
Japan, every quarter of the globe,
where building material is wanted, the
finished products of these mills and
forests find their way
About o'clock p. m. the interna-
tional boundary is reached and passed
without any particular incident, a
milepost by the wayside bears the le-
gend, Montreal. 2S90 miles"
A little later the village of Abbotts-
ford is passed, an insignificant little
way-station, but how the name re-
minds one OF that other Abbottsford
and the wizard of the North who
once dwelt there and created such
store of story and of song for the
entertainment Of his fellows.
City of Vancouver.
Vancouver is city of about 10000
population, and is the Pacific cOast
terminal of the Canadian Pacific
railway. which has been described as
the Canadian government on wheels,
a name which. however. just as il
may have been in the past. bids fail
to lose it's force in the near future, a:
Canada has two other trans-cOntinen'
tai hlghways-the Grand Trunk Pa
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under construction.
The Vancouver. Westminster & Yu'
/ kon Railway Co. is engaged In extend
( ing it's line to the northward, d Lint
which. if the dream of the visionar!
comes true, will some day be section
of the great international highwa!
| from South America to Asia, via Ber
ing straits.
! Stanley Park circled by the water
of Buzzard Inlet and English Ba.
is Vancouver's playground, and
/ handsome playground it is-big trees
/ pleasant drives a lake of 100 acre
within its borders. Across the water
| of the Straits of Georgia Vancouve
Island looming up in the distance ant
to the eastward the snowy summit
/ of the coast range, natural attraction
all of them, the artificial will perhap
come later. but as yet this is a youn
city and has not apparently had mucI
money to spend on parks.
But to the landsman, perhaps. tn
most interesting place is the wharve
and waterfront, of which Nancouve
has one mile. The empress of Japar
a fine looking c. p. r. boat, just i
from the Orient, is discharging a car
go of Asiatic freight. A number O
other ships from various parts of tn
world are receiving or dischargin
cargoes, or being repaired after thei
long voyage across the ocean.
There are regular sailings for Sa
Francisco. China and Japan. Australi
and India, Fiji and Alaska; or, in fac
almost any point of the compass
which the traveller wishes to wend hi
way. Big warehouses, filled TO over
flowing with the varied products {
different parts of the world, until tn
bewildered spectator looking at tn
comparatively small town says, "wh
is going to use all this stuff" {
course, the answer to this riddle is I'll
trans-continental highway which heI
finds its way to deep water and dii
tributes these supplies over big Sc,
ton of country.
Vancouver has quite an Asiatic poi
ulatiOn of Chinese and Japs, but is II
s clined to view her share of the "ye
S low peril philosophically. A loci
n paper, commenting on the situatio
t says that out of 40 births in the clio
n ing week of the year, there was on
one kiyi to 80 whites.
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