The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-07-14
Reaches
Land of
Promise
Blackwater. June 16.

Blackwater, June 10.
| We are at BlaekWtter tonight W.
left Quesnel the 14th and arrived
here tonight a distance of 40 miles.
We can only travel certain distances
on account of water and feed FOR our
! horses. Tomorrow We viii have to go
| / miles to find water We could
make six or eight miles mole day
only that we have 10 stop where
l-e.e Is water.
We only passed TWO farms in our
last 40 miles travel 1t is all jack
pine and scrub poplar. We are ON
what is called the Telegraph Trail
1t Will take us five DAYS longer To
,et to Frasier Lake.
We have company on our trip now.
rs there is pack train of II horses
packing provisions To the store at
! Frasier Lake. Flour is $l400 per loe
pounds up there HOW, spuds t cents
,ei' pound.
This is bum country so far, net
even a stock country. as there Is M
grass. We have travelled 305 miles
with our pack horses SO far and
have not seen more than a dozen good
iarms. We saw several large horse
and cattle farms. We saw one good
MO 7qL 'LeAIL Je!sGJ4 7ql no 7Jgla
ner held $500 acres he took up some
Il years ago all the good land is
taken long ago. We have frosts
NEST every night now.
i Fort Frasier b. c. June -
We found the land Of promise at
last We have seen some very good
land the last day or two We travelled,
but it is most all taken up and II
Will all have to be cleared. There Is
) a heavy growth of poplar trees on
all the good land. We are camped at
an Indian village today
Met Herbert Berkman formerly of
LINDEN. and Van Preston of Bellins-
ham. There are four other men from
Washington camped with us. so We
feel as though We owned the country.
We may file on some land mere.
This is going to make a fine place
in a few years. there is no heavy
| clearing like We have IN Washington.
5 The average sized trees are three to
eight inches.
d Gardens look fine. We only passed
) or 6 farms in the last five OF SIX
n days travel and they had all the land
II that was any good-all the Test is
q hills and jack pines.
6 But, here and all day yesterday We
e saw good land. but it has beef
IS staked by large real estate firm IL
Vancouver.
We travelled all day yesterday in
e the Nechacca River valley. and it Is
a certainly fine farming land. The mail
a goes out of here every two weeks, so
e don't know when | will get to send
Il another letter. There ae two or
S three white women here. There was
5 white baby born here a few days
:. ago. We were il a telegraph cabin
= when the father wired to Quesnel tn
: the Doctor for Instructions We
don't see any game. as there is so
mueh travel on the trail now, all
the time that the large game Is scared
off. The trail is lined with pack
| horses. Every night when We camp
there are two TO four parties camped
in the same place. This way of travel
is no snap-ride all day and cook
half the night for the next day and
! fight mosquitoes the rest of the
night but it is the only way to see
i the country. | am very glad We came
: but wish | was nearer nome right
u now. Don't know when We viii start
), back. My go further in today.
Later:-l may start homeward in a
few days either by way of Hazelton.
which is 225 miles from here, and
take a boat to tie coast, or down
the Bella Coola country which is the
same distance.
This may be the last letter you get
before YOU see me--W. r, Ferguson
Nr. Sebring. formerly publisher of