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easy work, for the future value of the various twenty-nine estates 

 would, I knew, largely depend upon a judicious selection. 



When winter obliged us to shut down work in the mill we 

 had already cut a considerable quantity of the lumber required 

 for the lock, which was commenced at the first possible opportunity 

 in the following spring. 



The season of 1888 brought also lots of work for me, for the 



SUNDAY REST. 

 The Managing Director's " Palace " at Grohman, B.C. 



contractor had put a couple of hundred men to \\ork on the 

 excavation of the canal, and Grohman, now boasting a post-office, 

 was a lively little place. 



The post-office was in the store I had started. The latter, as 

 well as the hotel which ( built close to it, and which was licensed 

 to sell whiskey, did a roaring business, and as the nearest general 

 shop was at Golden, 100 miles off, we had not only the custom 



