Path Finding in the Kootenay Country, &c. 297 



railways, with two or three more coming in, a score of river and 

 lake steamers, telephone and telegraph lines that connect the 

 remotest camps, electric lighting and magnificent electric power 

 plants that rank among the largest on the continent, roads and 

 trails up every creek almost, while ladies career through the 

 country on book writing bent, these are the truly wonderful result 



A SNOW PLOUGH AT WORK ON THE C. P. RAILWAY IN THE 

 KOOTENAY COUNTRY. 



of ten years of Western activity, in which the Yankee has again 

 given us a lead. Without it Kootenay would probably still be the 

 wilderness in which I found it in 1882-3. True, nature has suffered 

 to a corresponding degree. Vast areas of fine forests have been 

 burnt with the ruthlessly wasteful haste of the pioneer prospector, 

 to whom nothing is sacred. Rivers and creeks no longer flow -clear 



