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which to expect favours.* So you betake yourself off to more 

 genial regions with the knowledge that you have to pay some 150 

 freight for each car-load, and your heart is filled with gratitude that 

 the great line, built with the people's money, deigns to handle your 

 poor little freight at all. 



By the time those capacious freight cars reached their 

 destination at the primitive little "siding" at Golden, the 

 completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a year or two 



GOLDEN CITY, B.C., IN 1886. 



previously, had peopled the Columbia valley with some scores 

 of whites, all more or less connected with or dependent upon the 

 railway which had so boldly pushed its iron way into absolutely 

 uninhabited and heretofore entirely unexplored regions. They 



As this story may not be known to all, it is worth repeating. In the town 

 of Portage la Prairie there lived a lawyer of a rather nervous and exacting 

 temperament. He had ordered some articles shipped to him by freight. There 

 was some delay in their arrival, and he went a number of times to the station, 

 with growing impatience, to inquire why they did not come. One day the 

 station agent was busy and worried with more important matters. Two trains 

 were coming in, and there were a lot of things to be attended to ; so when the 



