The Columbia River . sentire mountain area bordering the railroad, to anextent of five thousand seven hundred and thirty-twosquare miles, has been set apart as a park, in chargeof the Department of the Interior. Superb roadsare constructed in available places, and improvementsare continually in progress about the springs andfalls and lakes and other points of interest. TheGovernment, in fact, exercises entire control, butgrants concessions to the railroad company in thematter of hotels and other conveniences. As we bid good-bye to the Canadian Rockies, wemay say that perhaps the world offers n
The Columbia River . sentire mountain area bordering the railroad, to anextent of five thousand seven hundred and thirty-twosquare miles, has been set apart as a park, in chargeof the Department of the Interior. Superb roadsare constructed in available places, and improvementsare continually in progress about the springs andfalls and lakes and other points of interest. TheGovernment, in fact, exercises entire control, butgrants concessions to the railroad company in thematter of hotels and other conveniences. As we bid good-bye to the Canadian Rockies, wemay say that perhaps the world offers nowhere elsesuch a sea of mountains, such knots and clusters andcordons of elevations, as in this strange and sublimeregion where the Columbia and its tributaries, theKootenai, the Illecillewaet, the Wapta, the Beaver,the Canoe, seem to be playing hide-and-seek with theThompson and the Fraser. There are not less thanfive distinct snowy ridges between the head waters ofthe Saskatchewan and the Pacific Ocean. The exist-. Fish River Road, in Upper Columbia Region, B. , by Trueman, Victoria. In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies 299 ence of this immense watershed of snowy mountainsaccounts for the vast volume of the Columbia. Al-though not half as long as the Mississippi, the Colum-bia equals it in volume. Well joined, in truth, are the sublime River andthe sublime mountains. One cannot fully understandthe River unless he has seen its cradle and the cradleof its affluents beneath the shadows of the great peaksof British Columbia. CHAPTER II The Lakes from the Arrow Lakes to Chelan The Lake Plateau—The Glacial Origin of the Lakes—Down the Ar-row Lakes from Revelstoke—The Fine Steamers—Characteristicsof the Scenery—By Rail from Robson to Nelson—Agincultural,Mineral, and Lumbering Resources around Nelson—KootenaiLake and its Charms—On the River from Robson to Kettle Falls—Historic Features around Kettle Falls—On Lakes Coeur dAlene,Pend Oreille, and Kaniksu in
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