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RECREATION. 



brush abounds, and in the valleys and along 

 the foothills there is plenty of bunch grass. 



THE CAVALCADE WAS 



With irrigation anything may be raised 

 there except tropical fruits, and I can read- 

 ily believe that the 

 State of Washing- 

 ton has a great 

 future before it in 

 fruit. 



We passed 



through one bust- 

 ed mining town. 

 It boasts the only 

 plank walk in Ok- 

 anagan county, a 

 section as large as 

 Connecticut. The 

 one street is lined 

 on one side for a 

 quarter of a mile 

 with houses, all but 

 2 of which and the 

 hotel are now 

 empty. Three 

 years ago the town 

 had 1,000 people 

 and 20 saloons. 

 There are now said 

 to be 2 men left. 



We spent the 

 night in Conconully, 

 the county seat of 

 Okanagan, and the 



next morning we went on again by stage 

 through the same succession of valleys, 



mountains, divides 

 and canyons, reach- 

 ing Loomistown, a 

 small mining town 

 near the frontier, in 

 the afternoon of 

 the second day's 

 staging. There we 

 outfitted and were 

 met by our guides, 

 Carlos, Edouard 



and Henricus. 

 They came in with 

 the horses, true to 

 appointment, within 

 half an hour of our 

 arrival. That we 

 thought remarkable, 

 as we had not had 

 time to hear from 

 them in answer to 

 letters fixing the 

 time and place of 

 meeting. Our own 

 journey by railroad, 

 boat and stage was 

 upward of 3,000 

 miles, and they 

 came from widely 

 separated points ; 

 yet we met as if we 

 had been run out of 

 pneumatic tubes on 

 schedule time. 

 We crossed the boundary and rode late 

 into the night by the light of a glorious 



AMATEUR PHOTO BY W. B 



IMPOSING. 



GOING UP THE SIMILKAMEEN 



rtuK rnuiu or 



RANGE. 



