. Canada; a descriptive text-book . of the country a bear hasoften been seen to go down into the shallow rapids, seize a large fish inhis claws, drag it ashore and eat it on the bank. The canning factoriesare built by the streams and the beautiful fish that are flung in at oneside by the thousand, very soon come out in cans at the other. CANADA. 33 We turn naturally to mining next, for British Columbia is the chiefmining province. Best known are the gold, silver and coal minesof the Kootenay district. It is but a few years since the firstlarge mines were opened, but development has been exceed
. Canada; a descriptive text-book . of the country a bear hasoften been seen to go down into the shallow rapids, seize a large fish inhis claws, drag it ashore and eat it on the bank. The canning factoriesare built by the streams and the beautiful fish that are flung in at oneside by the thousand, very soon come out in cans at the other. CANADA. 33 We turn naturally to mining next, for British Columbia is the chiefmining province. Best known are the gold, silver and coal minesof the Kootenay district. It is but a few years since the firstlarge mines were opened, but development has been exceedingly rapidand mining towns have sprung up in all directions, while Rossland, thecentre of the gold country, is almost large enough to be called a this country the metal must be separated from the quartz in which itis imbedded and the process is so expensive that only wealthy companiescan work the mines. In another part of British Columbia is the famousCariboo district where so much gold was found about fifty years ago, in. Mining Scene. the earth and the sands of the river beds. These mines were for a longtime partially abandoned, but men are finding that with proper workinggold can be got in the Cariboo district still. The country about LakeAtlin also promises to be very rich in the precious metals. In theEast Kootenay country are the coal fields of the Crows Nest Pass,which are believed to be the largest undeveloped coal areas in the are just being opened up, and it is found that they containimmense deposits of the finest steaming coal. Already this coalis largely used by the steamships on the Pacific, and by the people .{4 CANADA. of the plains to the cast. It is also specially well adapted for use insmelting. A railway lias been built from the east through the CrowsNest Jass into this district ant 1 gives an <-asy entrance to the mining region of Southern British Columbia. Prospectors say that there is plenty of iron in the < Vows Nest, ;m<l if
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