VOLUME 1; KOj 60 ,- y\ , py i ^ off trip. You may g«t lift/ ime to travel I* now. • •''¦ : SOUTH FORT-G'^ORGE^^ ip^iya^^RS per A[Nytrii Though the Mud1 or l^ilako iRivw is a sluggish water-way; it drain* a huge tract of country. It ri«» in Lake Totuk, a small sheet of water on the eastern slope of the ridge which encloses the OotsaLake district, the waterAe^: ojf the Nechaoo. The Mud river then runs slightly southeast for a cbnV ., and'haa compelled the par-t attention of the pre-emptor. If the. Juxurianoa of the wild vegetation offers any criterion, then fanning in this territory presents incalculably attractive possibilities. The natural grasses grow r^va>tropical height and density. Sugar cane grass 7ft., land is covered with poplar and light scrub, whioh can be cleared easily; while the low-lying expanses Are little prairies, on which the timber has been burned off, and are now covered with dense, dank wild hay, averaging in, yield between two. and four .tonal per acre, some of these' -lesser bush-infested been surveyed by the government and are reserved for pre-emption at 4s. an acre. Whether fruit culture, beyond bush and ground fruits will, be possible, o,nly experience can tell, . but it is anticipated that' tree fruits should be successful up to about 3,000 feet altitude line. Wild bush-fruits flourished in profusion; and this fact lends color to the belief that apples, plums, pears, cherries, prunes, and so forth should do equally well on the bench lands. . the temperature js equal, and 'the climate is about the same as that prevailing in Central Europe, which is only natural seeing that the latitude is about the same as that of the south of England. After leaving the Mud Biver, we found tho land reverting to its gravelly nature on the the high ridges, and more or less densely covered with the interminable jack-p'mu. While the -soil in these upper situations is of little value from the farming point of /___ siderable distance, its volume being reinforced by the surplus Waters of Nkltesby Lake and several creeks. Then it describes a slkarp turn and takes a northerly course, {olliisving *a sinuous way uijtii it meets the Nechaco. ' 1" - ' " '¦¦-.. The plateau it drains Has an altitude of red. top at 6 ft^-brome' grass 5 J feet: and wild tTHOthy'topping^S^t., were quite cqm> mon. The vetches are alsonad staked fiome 3,000 acires of excellent meadowland,/about seven miles above th« point where/We camped. '" It is computed that the cream of this valley, suited to agriculture^ aggregates about 36.OO0T acres, of which/1 15,358 acres have. The Nechaco valley proper is in reality an old lake bed. The soil is a tbick deposit of silt, in some places running to a depth of 40 feet with a clay sub-soil. The silt is freely impregnated with thoroughly decomposed vegetable substance. The rainfall is just" sufficient to stimulate growth to perfection, View; yet,, cleared of the timber, it would make excellent grazing, and it can be cleared expeditiously and cheaply by fire, and that the grass will grow thickly when afforded the opportunity iB indicated very convincingly by the rich grasses found in the open spaces where the flames had already accomplished their clearing work. Local andTProvlncIal Reports of the splendid crop yields of the year are being compiled by The Herald, and will prove to be a wbnderfuLadvertisment - from Cluei^ Efl^ g^^ formation to^^'thif ";w^.;wnii^;j^,a;fair, sample of what the past summer- has accompli shed; Mr. Campbell sowed lOOlbs.; of seed potatoes in his garden. He informs ua; that, he had lately dug up one row of the crop. This one row contained 1251bs, and there are. yet nineteen rows to dig. He tells us ulso that he planted seMBd pats, in s ground in the middle of June now ripe. ..¦ , \ ¦ 0. B. N. Wilji, Pv1>; S/>rriv*Htt town from his survey field-this lns[)cctor. of Surveys IW^of^ the PrOr vincini government servi^was amongst the arrivals on'ihelsJfafrin^^ Mr. l)rury wUl reWajn^iere on Oeparttnetital .business for a wee|s or ten days. \ Owing to the^exceptionally low water the sit>. i)lu)at8 are experiencing considerable dif-ficulty in/nayig*tan|j:' some of ./the;, shallow reaches on the run between this point; and Soda Creek. One place in particular, China liapids, about half way between this point and Quesnel, obstructs frel navigation cpn-sidurably. It is confidently anticipated that tli' brand-new government will get busy on this river and cany out the work in which the Laurier aoVninistration; failed in its duty to the people of the undeveloped area of Itritish Columbia's J^orthern Interior, e y>. M. Brown, a brother of Charles Brown of the local mercantile firm: of Close $r Brown, was amongst the arrivals on Pri- New York to visit his brother and parents, *ho are making an extended visit, to their son hero,... .'¦::., ¦ Work is progressing rapidly on the Church °f England here. The building is framed and Jx'injr enclosed and finished externally. 'i'He labor is being supplied voluntarily, by local carpenters, and the material of tfaie building is being supplied by subscription. The Rev. B. rf. I. .Waiitfms is the spirit of entiifry and is i tny.friends here by his commendable work for the Church. The Socialists completing a building and ^ini• room opposit* CsjnpbeU on * EDMONTON DRU Russell Peden, of the Northern Lumber Co. here, who has been on a business trip to Vancouver and Edmontqnr^Xarrived here early in the week from^Teto Jaune Cache by canoe, having ma^e the return journey to this place via tpeu. T. P. line of con-" struct ion and the^Fraser Biver. Mr. Peden INVADE FORT GEORGE SOON trip to tates Koi T1*b Herald, returned7 the^coast yesterday. Mr. ^ that flPeun. all indications South Fort weorge will be^btte of the iive-lieet towns oh the G. T. P.routH^n next springonwards/^v- , yC^,"' - J. 6. Williamson feft this week with a scow load of supplies for his Btore.—This is a fact. .';. * Pete Landry, iP.' L. Si is expected here shortly from tbo Bear Lake country/for the A member of 0. B. N. Wilkie's survey party was drowned in a canyon on the Bear Biver last week. No details are forthcoming at this moment. A. K. "Bourchier left here this week for Tete, JaunexCache With a scow load of merchandise to open a store'at that point. Mr. A. G. Hamilton, of this town, is behind the enterprise. Mr. Bourchier expects to make the trip in thirty days. He is accompanied by Mrs. Bourchier and Mrs. Keith. Ten Indians are tracking (the load. ~ y;-' ¦ From Vancouver comes a plea that The-Herald will not expose the identity of one of the jail-birdsm "George Haanmoio,d's employ on the excuse that the man is 'getting a new. start.-We wou:d suggest that the\ui-: dividual referred to is certainly not moving in an environment that speaks very well {or the consistence of his effort. Some time ago George Hammond called the editor of this paper a blackmailing publisher in the Win-nipeg Post. We are going to choke that statement 'down the bucket-shop crook's throat. When operating in Chicago George Hammond's success was generally accredited to an American adventuress named Eva Small. Hammond should look the lady up again-—she was clever. • x*Atlin the "man from the north" ea^t. In Yale-Cariboo the 109th aganst Martin Burrell is of artificial molars.-The in Vancouver, iB once discredited,, and now well and the Vancouver vain regreta states that tl»/intereitNin the Port George section has increased a great ^eal since the settlement/of the Indian Reserve deal here. In Edmonton the commercial houses are preparing to cater to the tirade of this whoh/district, at present supplied from the t cities via the Cariboo road. Many of the Wholesale houses in the Albert an capital are sending their travellers, into this new* field this fall to accept orders for goods to be delivered next summer, over the G. T. P. from Edmonton to Tete Jaune Cache, and1 thence by way of the Fraser Biver to South Fort George, Quesnel or Soda Creek. The contractors are making good progress with the grade, said Mr. Peden, and steel should be into the Cache by June of next year. J. Stewart, of Foley, Welch & Stewart, the contractors for the line, will make a tour of the route between; here and the Cache ,3k the near future, coming down stream by canoe. Mr. Peden had an uneventful trip down the Fraser from its headwaters, and has resumed direction of the company's milling operations here. VAST COAL DEPOSITS IN REAR LAKE COUNTRY , F. C. Swahnell, P>L. S., arrived in town this week from an extended journey into th* Bear Lake country on government survey work. Mr. Swannell gave The Herald «ome very. interesting information regarding a section of the province of which very little yet been, heard; The Bear Lake country lies near the intersection of the 56th., parallel of latitude with the 127th. parallel of longtitude. Bear Lake forms part of the system of waterways that is the headwaters of the Skeena Biver)xMany years ago, during the Findlay BiVer\and Manson Creek gold excitement, Port Connelly, situated on the Lake was a supply station "en route to. the mines, but the Hudson's Bay post there is now m name. non-existent except. Mr. Swannell was accompanied by Indian Agent McAlIan, who is choosing tracts of land throughout the country, for Indian Reserve purposes, under instructions from the Indian Department at Ottawa. Mr. ISwannell surveyed the reserve at Bear Lake which includes the best of the waterfront age on its shores.xThe route into the country is hard to" travelXStuart Lake is the point of departure northwards, from the trading-post area, and the Journey is thence by way, of the chain of lakes and their drainage rivers, principal amongst which ere Tacla and Trembeleur Lakes and Driftwood Biver: there li On the shores HHBS(S9KMM there lives a tribe of the ancient Sickanee Indiana. y ore aboriginal in the extreme; living the true Indian life, as hunters and trappers. They are meat eating Indians and do not cultivate the soil to any extent, but hunt in the glacier country north-east of the' lake. As an agricultural section very little can be said for the territory owing to its high elevation, but* from the little exploration <#- the country carried on up to the present thne, indications would point to the .fact that it is a good mineral section. Father Cocola of the OWate Mission to Indians, who carries his ministrations even to the meat-eating Indians of Bear Lake, told The Herald that Indians had shown him a splendid, coal area in that section. t A Faithful Employee's Vivid View of his Master's Magnanimity exactly .where they were shown on the maps The bird-of-a-feather flock of promoter* in Vancouver, headed by the president. of the Natural Besources Security Company Limited, are able to pass off the blitherings of their employees, squeezed into the press somehow, as bona-fide material coaming From disinterested parties. When this company was engaged in showing up the get-rich-quick bunch of promoters' in Vancouver last spring tba "interests" headed by G. J. Havnmond sought to exterminate us as a menace to their operations. We were then publishing, besides this paper, the Observer in Quesnel. George Hammond sent in a ten-cent printer named^G.- J. Hutchcroft, witb a ready-printed^'rag to boost his interests and put the. Northern Interior Printing Co., Ltd., out^ of business by advertising that they, would publish land ads., at one dollar each. This man Hutchcroft recently arrived in Winnipeg, afte* having lived in Quesnel for six months. He talkB as though he had nothing to do with the come-on gang, but admired their work; He wae never within a hundred miles of this place, and was a printer on the Observer..which was then edited by a rag-picker from Minneapolis and a stock salesman; who feeds from the crtimbd which fall from the promoter's table. His "dope" handed Out to The Winnipeg Telegram, ran, in part, as follows: ,¦ "My own opinion, said Mr. Hutchcroft, is that On the western half of the Indian Reserve is where the G. T.. P. station will have to go, because the eastern part of the Indian Reserve is low land. I have recently seen the blue prints filed by tho G, T. P. with the B. C. government showing the location of the railroad terminal yards on the Fort George Indian Reserve and they are y p of the Natural Resources Security Company issued over a year ago. 1 don't know how That company got their information, .but I do know that they have done tnore for the Cariboo country and Fort George in particular than all the other townaite people combined. I have observed their policy for nearly' a year and I know they are giving everybody a fair deal." Mr. Hutchcroft's own opinion is carefully based on Natural Resources Company's instilled ideas for employees. As^everyone knows the enterprising, townsiters have carelessly shifted the statkjn around their advertising maps to nresent the proper attraction for the particular land they were selling. When the operators iiaye to fall back upon the blitherings of insignifigant printermen of the Hutchcroft calibre, they are certainly up against it. S . \ safe navigation by steamboats, and the dangerous rocks and shoals that] menace the safety of lives and property should be removed; . ''•••.,--—^vS-'C.';.'''•.¦' .' h FOUR YEARS OF MABBip) LIP|?.~ ' Tl» pretty home- of Mr! an^|Mrs. George McLaughlin on Fourth Street '-%& the scene of a sumptuous banquet on Thursday evening-last: The occasion was the celebration of th«Lpopurat realty-operator's fourth year of marriedi life. There were present a doaen or more¦ gu6st8,;.who' sat down.to an inviting repast. The flowing bowl was also there, and after the banquet music and.cards resorted to. Mr. and Mrs. McLaughlin [the recipients of a present from the as a token of their esteem. ;Th<» -Herald is not given to the chronicling of social events yet in tliis instance the iibovev, gay affair ^too' great. a success to be overlooked, a^d also marks an epoch injthejexistanoj of li:indStpppulai''fanuly so we^rten to add our cjflttgratulations. ' .{..j. , ^ "._ Ashamed to Publish Result of their Vote The Fort George Tribune is ashamed to publish the figures of comparison between polled the votes polled on their Nechaco Biver townsite and that of South Fort George, which wee two separate polling stations. The Hammond organ indulges in several columns of blitherings anent its own good work for the causer If the Conservative party has to stoop to pander to the support of townsite organs, edited by the employees of an ex-American crook, by handing out columns of government advertising, it would seam to be degrading the name of the party. The Fort Georfe Tribune he4 very-little influence beyond the ranks of the CONSTRUCTION CAM?S Beports of conditions existing in the oqib, stmction camps through -the' YelloWhssid Pass show that the sanitary condition tad 4he regulations round there are lax.- The railway eomnUstiont dots not-ap- solicitors" who use it to dress their windows with, as a necessary, adjunct to the reiat of their decoy methods of salesmanship. We owe the Liberals of Hammondville a most sincere apology for an error which crept into our columns last; week. In giving the results of the election at that town, we credited the majority of two votes to the wrong party. The correct result* of the poll in get-rich-qnick-George's townsite was as follows:. '2.']•'¦'-¦' ' ¦ <^*^&\ ¦ ¦ ' Liberala.....;..4. pear to be active in 'the regulation of construction camp conditions, and this is very glaringly apparent-in the\ Yellowbead today. pli>eiRf3