Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . ins,draining the plains on the other side. In the far north are theSkeena and Stickine Rivers, both flowing into the Pacific, thelatter, of course, being in a country valuable for its golddeposits. The Thompson River has two branches, which areknown as North Thompson and South Thompson. The formerrises in small lakes in the Cariboo district, and the latter in theShuswap Lakes in the Yale district. British Columbia, undeveloped and
Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . ins,draining the plains on the other side. In the far north are theSkeena and Stickine Rivers, both flowing into the Pacific, thelatter, of course, being in a country valuable for its golddeposits. The Thompson River has two branches, which areknown as North Thompson and South Thompson. The formerrises in small lakes in the Cariboo district, and the latter in theShuswap Lakes in the Yale district. British Columbia, undeveloped and little known, as it is, isalready an important Province of the Dominion. Its trade,which is ever rapidly increasing in volume, has assumed immenseproportions, and reaches to China, Japan, Australia, Europe,Africa and South America. The principal seaport—Vancouver,the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway—is thegateway of the new and shortest highways to the Orient, theFar North, the Tropics and the Antipodes. The voyage fromYokohama, Japan, to London has already been made in twenty-one days by this route, beating all previous records ; and the. 519 620 BRITISH COLUMBIA. journey to and from Australia, via Vancouver, is speedier andmore pleasant than by any other route. British Columbia attracts not only a large portion of theJapan, China and Australian rapid transit trade, but must neces-sarily secure much of the commerce of the Pacific Ocean, thesteamers of the Canadian-Australian Line touching at theHawaiian and Fijian Islands. Its timber is unequalled in quan-tity, quality or variety ; its numerous mines already discovered,and its great extent of unexplored country, speak of vast areasof rich mineral wealth ; its large fertile valleys indicate greatagricultural resources, and its waters, containing marvelous quanti-ties of the most valuable fish, combine to give British Columbia avalue that has been little understood. Boundaries of British Columbia. The vast Te
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