The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-12-23

Have seen two of these ocean liners
but recently. The principal industry
of the city is the making of lumber,
there being a number of sawmills.
The output is something enormous.
Canning of Salmon.
The next industry of importance is
the canning of salmon, and there is
one sugar refinery obtaining the raw
material from the Hawaiian Island
There are other industries of less
Importance. What impresses WIS.,
itor on coming here is the vast
amount of capital in the banks, many
of them being capitalized for ten or
eleven million dollars with paid up
capital of nearly the same amount
Vancouver has one of the largest
natural parks in the world, situated
on point of land extending into
the sea with an irregular coast line.
1t is certainly a beauty spot. There
is a driveway the entire distance
around it, thus affording a grand
view of the bay and inlet. Only
part of the park has been improved.
the rest being in state of nature.
but there are hundreds of mammoth
trees many of them being two hun
dred feet in height. The collection
of animals in the zoo is another in
teresting feature to the visitor. An
other beauty spot to be seen is Cap
alma canyon, some eight or ten miles
up in the mountains. The writer of
this article crossed this canyon on a
suspension bridge continuing on up
the canyon for two miles until a
ledge of rock is reached two hundred
and fifty feet above the raging noun
tain stream, where the view is I'M
obstructed We saw the canyon and
the mountain side covered with a
dense growth of fir and pine, many
of them being of great size and
height.
Many Superb Buildings
Vancouver has many superb and
costly buildings. The new postof-
flee compared to the one in Mankato
would make the postoffice in Man
kato look Qike box car. But re-
membering that Vancouver has q
population of one hundred and fif-
teen Thousand we can readily see
that an immense amount of mail is
handled. There are some splendid
hotels and they are doing a rushing
business. One cannot but be i'm
pressed by the building operations
going on all of the time as a great
many buildings of large dimensions
are being constructed and others
will be commenced the first of the
year. The contracts for two apart
ment houses have been let, one to
cost 100000 and the other nearly as
much. Work on bridge to connect
North Vancouver with the city prop
er has been commenced and will
cost $2,000,000. Vancouver is well
provided for electric car service and
an interurban line connects New
Westminster with the city. The
work of paving streets is rapidly 60
ing on both tar-macadam and &C.
ment.
Not Enough Frost to Kill.
We haven't had frost enough to
kill vegetation, but there has been
considerable rain and fog. Have
been over to the city of Victoria and
visited the parliament buildings and
the provincial museum, being situat-
ed on a rise of ground they give a
splendid view of the harbor and
shipping. Victoria is very clean
and beautiful city and it has one OF
the best equipped hotels on the coast
The Empress hotel situated near the
harbor on an eminence gives a fine
view of city and harbOr.
| / enjoyed this trip very much as il
was my first experience on a passen
ger steamer and the ride lasting ten
hours on the water was something
novel to me. This short article will
give my friends a glimpse of what
am doing and seeing.