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

Vancouver, Jan. S.-(Editor 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
iy-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,
milepost by the wayside bears the le-
gend. Montreal. 1880 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 it
may have been in the past, bids fair
to lose its force in the near future, as
| Canada has two other trans-continen-
tai highways-the Grand Trunk Pa
cific and the Canadian Northern
under construction.
The Vancouver, Westminster & Yu-
kon Railway Co. is engaged in extend
ing its line to the northward, a line
which, if the dream of the visionary
comes true, will some day be a section
of the great international highway
from South America to Asia, via Ber-
ing straits.
Stanley Park circled by the water;
of Buzzard Inlet and English Bay
is Vancouvers playground, and {
handsome playground it is-big trees
pleasant drives, a lake of 100 acres
within its borders. Across the water!
of the Straits of Georgia Vancouvel
Island looming up in the distance anC
to the eastward the snowy summit
of the coast range, natural attractions
all of them, the artificial will perhap
come later, but as yet this is a youn!
city and has not apparently had mucl
money to spend on parks.
But to the landsman, perhaps, tn
most interesting place is the wharve
and waterfront, of which Vancouve
1 mas one mile. The empress of japan
l fine looking c. p. r. boat, just i
from the Orient, is discharging car
i go of Asiatic freight. A number
s other ships from various parts of tn
?, world are receiving or dischargin
cargoes, or being repaired after thei
D long voyage across the ocean.
There are regular sailings for Sa
= Francisco, China and Japan, Australi
and India, Fiji and Alaska; or, in fac
o almost any point of the compass I
: which the traveller wishes to wend h
\, way. Big warehouses, filled to ovel
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 tt
II trans-continental highway which hel
IS finds its way to deep water and oil
e tributes these supplies over big SCI
/ ton of country.
l. Vancouver has quite an Asiatic pol
uIation of Chinese and Japs, but is II
Is clined to view her share of the "ye
Is low peril" philosophically. A loc
n paper commenting on the situate
1T saws that out of 40 births in the clio
N ing week of the year, there was on
one kiyi to 80 whites.
- C. E. MLELLAN.
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