Friday. 14, THE LEADER THE GRAND CIRCLE MOTOR TOUR A Wonderful Trip for Motorists That Take In All the Glories of the Pacific Coast From Banff South to Los Angeles. ' bmmunify Q dl Lake VTnderrocns, 01 rhe recently co Grand Clrt SLENDER blue ribbon of trail, 5,000 miles Id'u&thrcadiii!,' together the ten finest sci'iiii:Jewels 01 Ilic western continent—ili;tt iso-yhat western mo:or maps \% i'l show by the end of the coming summer. It \s called "Grand Circle Tour" and it will offer the most wonderful variety of natural scenery accessible by motor road in the world. One last link in the chain, only a few miles now in length; remains to be completed. Then the road will be open to the motorists of the .continent This unfinished section, from the Vermilion summit near Banff. .Alberta, in the Canadian Pacific Rockies, down to the Columbia galley. will, Canadian Government engineers say, be ready for traffic by September next. All that remains to be done is the grading and widening of the unfinished portion of the road. Then the great loop,-.dream- of—a-few t'ar-^ visioned men. will be completed, and the stream of tourists may flow along tms^unparalleled motor highway. WhsNsirijl it mean? It will mean •'¦ .1 'lie motorists may start at Cal- pnry, Albertn—as this is a loop highway, of course, start at any other point on • it lie desires—travel" west lli<" I'.rassy foothills to the great front' door pf.tlic Rockies which is. incidentally, the gateway lo the-Banff National Park. At Banff, where there is already a motor cftinp* site as well as several good hotels, lie may lin'ifcr to bathe in the radium hot springs, play golf among the clouds or fish in some of the numerous well stocked lakes or streams of the locality. From Banff the road proceeds westward to Castle, thence by a short detour to the wonderful Lake Louise region and on to Moraine Lake and the rugged sublimity of the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Re-Uiniir.fr. it climbs by easy grades to the Vermilion Pass, 5,264 feet, then drops down to the Columbia Valley through the Kootenay Na--iori'al Park, to Lake Windermere and the village of Invermere oii its shore. -livery mile of tjie way through the Canadian-Paries has been built with an eye'ta.ertsy travelling and scenic grandeur. "' Giant peaks, often hel-metcd \fitii a .-i-tiw cap centuries old. flirarrf the wa'y. vD.ecr. wild sheep, elk and goat may be^ seen feeding fearlessly on the slopes and practically every valley holds a blue, lake stocked with trout. "From the Divide the road runs through hitherto un-oponctl country, which is one of the richest both in scenery and big game in the Rockies. From Invermere it drops south, skirts the beautiful Windermcre and Columbia Lakes.: I the~~latter "youfee ;ot; the mighty Columbia river, through deep-shaded forests to the International Boundary which it cut? just north of Metaline, Washington. From Boririer's Ferry it swings south over excellently con- roads through Spokane. Walla Walla, and Pendleton, where it links up with the Columbia Highway from Portland. Then it dropdown past the eastern entrance. tu Crater »Lakc National Park, to San Francisco and on to Los Angeles. From this point a short detour will allow the motorist to sec the famous Yoscmite as well as Grand Park and Sequoia Park, the home of the gi;mt redwoods • Then, travelling: east, he may visit the Grand Canyon and proceed north via Salt Lake City to the Yejlo\vstone Park", From Veljow-. stone one day's journey will take him north to the United States Glacier National Park and less than two hours more 10 the International Boundary. Following the trail to Cards-ton, he may make a short detour to Waterton .Lakes Park in Souther:1. Alberta, thus completing his truth Xational Park'. Thousands of motorists, it is <-.\ pected will follow this scenic lwgli way as soon as it is thrown open. American motorists will want to conic north to .-^ec th per eent J jj average ex ' fl» d; berries Nicola an,. A hopper plague. is being district, where condition of crop only " ftiir. Southern portion, grain, hay in shape to be occupied, the old building will be removed and the work of installing the new tracks will be commenced. In front of the new depot the, concrete roadway is laid in squares of and has many friunds here The first Indian in «kl and pasturage good. Lethbridge District — Conditions generally favorable. Some localities suffering budly from drought have materially improved by recent rains. ten feet. The city electricians have Unless general rain comes soon crops completed the installation of the two wi|, be be, aVcM.age> Conditions electric light standards at the outer edges of the sidewalks on both sides of the roadway. Gait.—After 40 years of continuous and faithful service as an employee of the C. P. R.f Alex. Me-Kean, city ticket agent here for the past 16 years, joined the list of the superannuated and his place was taken by John Campbell, for many years a permanent resident of Gait, at one time depot and freight agent, but for the past several travelling passenger agent. Mr. McKean commenced his railroad career in the freight audit department ;:t -Winnipeg, was agent at High Bluff, Manitoba, for a couple of years and for 17 years successfully conducted a mercantile business in Mount Forest, handling railway, steamship, telegraph and express services. It was from Mount Forest that he came to Gait in 1906. Vancouver. — Vancouver's .first transcontinental;railway train enter-I ed the city thirty-five years ago, when prophecies were made*which h,jve now reached full realization. I In the address of welcome to Henry ' Abbott, who was then superintendent i of the Pacific Division of the C. P. R., Mayor M. A. Maclean drew a word-picture of Vancouver in the future which is now a fact. Vancouver's first train was drawn by an old wood-burning type engine and included a baggage, colonist s'eeper and pullman and drawing-room cars of the latest type at that date. The engine was draped in evergreens and bore placards bearing inscriptions "Prom Ocean to Ocean" and many mottoes declaring the achievements of the men who vary and are best in northern localities. Little duniage from hail. Regina District—Crops have benefited from heavy rains and conditions are favorable. Sonie losses from hail. Prospects indicate average to good crop. . Winnipeg District — Crops well advanced. Damage from recent violent wind and hail storms confined 1 operates » FW(I an{| [" the week he came down to , friends at llagwilget and to Rtrate to the boys and jjirU is through will, cnyusea Jack is decorated .with , « badge. J Haying is now general in the. en, end of Ominicn. The crop , erally is running about half of »•»!• Prom tht. Kiapj0,, howe« como reports of „ ^(,o(| yield, Mt: the feed situation should not had for this year. Last Wednesday Hagwilget' ulation was materially jncrtj when many waRonlonds of hdj, arrived from points east for the I potlatch. The Indian takes all belongings on these outings, in ing all the family, dogs and e»yu Many Indians have also been con ill by train and from points distant us Prince George. j to -comparatively small part of province. General outlook favorable. Full rye headed out in some places. Province of Quebec, Cereal and root crops arc looking wpII but warm weather is needed. In some districts complaints are heard that there has b'een too much moisture. Hay and pasture everywhere in .splendid condition. ' • Province «f. Ontario. Rains have been general. Warm, dry weather would now encourage large Crops. Fall wheat filing out well and beginning to ripen. Large crop indicated. Spring: wheat, oats and barley in good condition; above average. Very heavy yield of hay promised. Corn a little backward. Fruit, good average crops looked for. Pasture in splendid condition. The King received at Windsor Cattle recently the colors of some (1 moui Irish regiments whose dis-.... bandtnent followed the recogniti on of the Irish Free State. The regiments whose deeds of valor in many lands are famous in British military history are: The Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment (the Royal Canadians). The photo show* the colors and etcortt approaching the Castle. • POSTOFF1CES ARE- LACKING. Wrlglcy Directory Shows That 1499 Centres Are Without Mail Facilities. There are 14U9 centres of population in British Columbia which have no. postoffices, according to Frank )I. Horn^-secretary of the Wrigley Directories, Ltd.. The 1(J22 issue of the directory was brought out recently. These .centres of population, while small, 6till are communities, said Mr. Horn. There are 8.'if> postoffices in \the province. The directory gives the^-names of the postoflices nearest to the out-of-the-way points. The 1922\Jssue contains 1348 pages, the first 3(5 .pages containing personnel of the British^ Columbia government and synopsis of the various government departments in Victoria and throughout the province. The gazetteer portion of thd directory deals with 23.34 separate and distinct cities, towns, villages and settlements in the province,'giving a drcctory of each place, while in Vancouver and Victoria the directory lists the business and professional people. The publishers announce that the 1923 directory, in addition to being a complete directory of the province, will contain a full anng hotels throughout the world^and the Canadian Storage directory. Besides the British Columbia directory, they issue the Allwrta direc- HOW TO MAKE HOME BREW. A sourdough in the north writes to the editor of the Daw.son News forwarding his recipe for home brew, which he says is a sure shot: "Chase, a bullfrog forjhree miles nnd gather the hops. To the hops add 3 gallons of tan bark,, .'{ pints of shellac and 15 bars of homemade soap. Boil the mixture for 30 hours and strain through an I.W.W. banner to keep it from working. Add one grasshopper to give it the kick." /? undertook the construction C. P. R. of the P. Barnhardt was conductor and P. Righter, engineer. The celebration of the arrival of the train was carried on far into the night, the city band serenading officials of the C. P. R. and a toich- light procession through the city. being staged Woodstork. Ontario.—In the death of Charles Garden, €.E., which occurred at the residence of Col. F. H. J. Dibblee recently, there passed away the last male member in his generation, of a family associated with the history and progress of Woodstock for weli-nigh, if not quite, a^century. Mr Garden was connec-ted^with the building of the C.' P. R. through the Rockies. He was one of the ddviince guard of the exploration party, i -^The route of this party was via the^N. P. R. to Bismark. iJ.ikota, up the Missouri to Benton and th -nee by trek to Cal-g;iry and up the Row Only one, party came over the .Rockies' summit. Mr. Garden was transit man and the party consisted of fifteen men. They came through the Ver-m ill ion, south' of Kickinsrhorse and made their way to what is now called "Golden." They built "The Cache" which has ever since remained, with,' of course, extensive restorations and is now known as Moodie's House. In 1R34-5, Mr. Garden worked on C. P. R. construction near Lake Superior on White River, Peninsula liar),or, and (t was at this time that the first throughfCyP R. train went to Vancouver. He^was later engaged on constructqir on the -Deioraine branch to the'Coal Mines Mr the C. ^P R. Re had charge o.f location and construction on Sburis Branch ard ,w'as for some years in office work in Winnipeg. In 1897 he -vat /if. the location of the Crow's Nest branch, locating the loop and tflnntl at Michael Ci Montreal.—For the convenience of Its numerous patrons, the Canadian Pacific Railway Telegraphs has united a neatly-bound list of all iti offices in Canuda and the tariff in eneh case. The pamphlet also includes the principal points in the United States with direct connection, a general tariff sheet and cable rates for overseas countries. From now on Canadian Pacific steamers will dock at Coleman Dock. Seattle, instead of at Pier No. 1 at heretofore. The passenger movement, of the. ,Can«dian Pacific vessels will make the Coleman Dock one of the great est waterfront passenger terminal on the Pacific Coast. Tor -he Canadian Pacific service the south aids of the Coleman Dock' has been rebuilt, a large passenger ramp being Tirovided for the handling of travel-er.3 between the ships and the second floor of the dock, all passengers n form of better ¦ervice and batter value*. Be Loyal To Your Own Community