CHAPTER XI 



British Columbia — Mineral products — Dr. Dawson's report 

 — Development — Gold — Vicissitudes of mining — Copper and 

 zinc — Percentages — The "Lucky Jim" — Marble quarries — 

 Portland cement — Petroleum — Demand for a government — 

 — Constitution — The Kootenay district — Lumbering — Yale 

 district — Railway extension — Lillooet — The climate — Through 

 the Yellow Head Pass — The Athabasca River — Brule Lake — 

 Roche Miette and Roche Suette — Sulphur springs— Pyramid 

 Mountains — Geikie — Moose River — Selwyn and Rainbow 

 Mountains—The premier of the Rockies — Lake Helena — A 

 steamboat on the rapids — The Naas Valley — The Skeena 

 Valley — Vancouver Island — Comox district — Minerals and 

 timber— Saw mills— Homesteads — Land Clearing and Irrigation 

 Companies — Gold medal award — Fruit. 



THE area of British Columbia is estimated at 

 285,000 square miles. There are four chains 

 of mountains traversing the country in a northerly 

 direction with extensive valleys between. It is 

 proved that each of these ranges is rich in minerals, 

 whilst the valleys immediately to the west of the 

 Rocky Mountains contain gold, which in some places 

 is being worked with prosperous results. 



The Rockies seem to the traveller to be the 

 presiding deity of the place. Around, above, 

 beneath, they are ever to be seen frowning, smiling, 



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