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(i.S: i.i., .Imv N I >i'u \ i. m /\^^ ) 2Z.v^FQ. hi ^^ » :^ :k «:; »» v-« -OF THE-. BENTINCK ARM AND FRASER RIVER ROAD COMPAMY, LIMITED. Tars COMPAVY /9 OBGAXrZED V^fDER mu t.tv.. o Limited LiABiLiiv Act, 1860. "^ ®^°^'' Company', ffiated at the BriUah Coloni.t Ofllcfl. 1862", ^ r *f^ « ■.,,». ' k. JM :,v! , 1 V • ; I di ly * . ■' '* ■i-.i ■' •( V i. litaM R R O S P EC T US . 'Thk 6b.jo'Two Ilujulrwl and Forty ishuros, of Two Hundrwl and Fifty Dol- lars each. The Con^pauy having ,pow(ir to inerease that amount to One Fliindred and Twenty Thousand Dollars, provided at any future time it Shallbo deemed expedient to construct a Waggon Road over the Route. Twenty-live per cent, of the amount, suhs(!ribed will be called in ill once, the balan(;e being subject to call a/ the Company may require for the prosecution of the work. The Government of Rritish Columbia has granted lo Mr. Ranald McDon- ald an agreement fora Charter, aijUiorizing him to levy a toll of One and a Inilf CmLs per {)ound upon all goods transporter! over the Road, ami a hxlf (lilfar per head on all cattle, for the term of five years from the coniplction of seventy miles of the Road. This agrccnient, which a1«> j)rovides for the conversion of the Trail into a Waggon-Road — in which event n new (charter will be granted, giving an increased rate of toll and an extension of time — has been assigned to the Company by the said Riinald McDonald. liy relVrenc(> to the Report of Messrs. Barnston & McDonald, annexed to this Prospectus, it will be seen that a saving of inori' than one third <>/ Land TrdH-siiodallou is obtained by this Route over the present road by Port Douglas, which is conHi R( 8l er b( Be thi tJK pi! ha \^, 1 •♦'u » (t. i J .1 • t .1 .!•,■■, R E: R O R "T - I, ■ t B' ^ .' >:■ • . '- ' ■ ■n* t *j", Ik .' ,..( f. J- ,•. Victoria, V. /., January Ut, 1862. RDWARO QRKUN, E8q . Dbau Sir:— > • • ' . In compliance with your rf>i|iiest we beg leave to submit the following remikrka a« a Report upoli the pro- poaed Road from the Bellacoula Inlet, or North Bentinck Arm, to the Northarn Mines of British Columbia: ■ • . i The road would be about two hundred miles long, that is to pay, from the head of the Inlet to the point required on the Fraser lli»cr. The present trails run the whole diataneo from the Fraacr River to the Coast Range on an ele- Tated table land, which is studded in every direr- lion with sinati prairies, belts of timber, and lakes and meadows. Thi! food for animals is good and plentiful ; the streams arc numerous, bu^ small and shallow, in fact, with one or two exceptions, being mere brooks. With the exception of a part of the de- scent through the Coast Range the trail is decid- edly of a level character. This descent, or rather slide, la really the only obstruction, and could easily bo overcome or avoided — a fact that must b<;come evident to every one vjhen informed that WQ passed and returned packed horses over it dur- ing our trip last summer. From the place where the trail first strikes the Bellacoola River in the Coast Range (that it at the foot of the slide traveling from the interior to the coast) ic runs along its bank the whole way to the head of the Inlet, through a deep gorge or pass in the mmntains, which varies In width from half a mile to Ave miles. As regards the practicability of the road all we need say it this— that at eigtit different times dur- ing the last summer parlies consisting of two, three, or more persons, have been over the route. Alt of these parties succeeded in getting through without difficulty, and agree with us in saying not only that a good practical Road, or Mule Trail, (that is to say, ten feet wide as required by Oov- urnnient) can bu made at a comparatively small cost, but that when made, a very great saving in the cast )f transportation will be effected. Tlicre would be little difficulty, even now, in the present unimproved state of the Trail, in taking a train of horses or mules, lightly packed, from the Bcllacoola Inlet to the Fraser River. Tiie Harbor m pronounced by seafaring men to be very safe and commodious. The site for a town at the head of the Inlet is all that can be desired. The facilities for building wharves, docks, &o., are of the very best kind. The timber on the Buie7i»n(l the Cariboo Island, on which valuable copper niinee havu bten ,.,,,11, try, ju a noithweeterly direotion ; Itw furthn diecovered and are now btliiij worked. iliey extend in tbit iiirev''wn the better fur those ' lo order to show the advautaj{e» po»«ettcd by interested In the propostd route. this koad over those how m existence, it Will be j^ j^ almost noeUless for us m mention that necessary to make Ai coihiiarisOn with one of them, j^nh the txcupiiun of the Naas Uivcr this is the say the Oouglas and LilluouHe Koiitc, which at pres- „„iy route by wliiuli p.iriiei have been able to cnt is te favorite one. Tiiklng Port DxUgUs as penetrate into the interior of Hruish tJoluaibni an equal eUrlihg point \*ttli BelUcoola they will ir„m the coast. compare in point of distance as follows : ide ym^, ini^t cxpcditiims have all proveri _ „ 1 . I 11 .. ina ~;i..., fuilures, none ol tliuni huvnig boiii able to uit- Fort Douglas to Llllooctte, Ujo milcii. ' '" ' ' Lillooet to .Uouih of Uuesnellf 2.Jl>, " vau,.u more thun liJ miles IriMU tue coast. rr!| Muas Kiver is ultuguiner too lur nortb. and m „ ,, , . . .1. v, . . also liUUe luipiacucuule, Bellacoola to somo point onthetraser » » >« v near the mouth otUui'snelle, say.... 200 miles. I ihe opening ot the proposed route and the building of a town at UwlUcoola, would have tuo lollowuig ettecl upou lliu liadu and coiniiierct- tietweeu Victoria and the iNuriuurii IMiii'* ol Besides this gam in the distance, the detentions liiiti^li (JulumOla : and transhipments arc su numerous on the Uiver! The tor n ot jUcllacouiu would become Uiu dcp^t Route that they have been a must serious cause of lor the supply ot the Nurtherii Mines, anU wuulti complaint to traders and passengers in and to the also be a starting point lui pack iiams. upper country, and what is more of (jreat pccu- Un the Uiver Kuutes there arc uu Depots at all. uiary U's. The irunsbipment of goods carriediAU the towns or ataliuns bt-.ng only calling or from Victoria to Cariboo Via the Douglas route iloi warding places. NeilUer >iew VVcstmiuster, (by far the best) amount to no fewer than tliir-j Douglas, Vale, Hope, Lillooeite, nor Dyltou, ar« teen Vi.) On the Coaol route they will amouiil tojwliut arc properly called commercial depots. The no more than three (3), VIZ. : two latter places (the ot-st of the lot) are mere Igt, at Bellacoola ; {starting points for pack trains. 2d, On reaching the Fraser ) j Victoria is, as it always has beeii) the only De- Sd, On the other side of the Fraser. pot for British Columbia. ,. For the completion of the bellacoola Uoute we 1 Bellacoola thus becoming a depot for mcrchau- consider that no more than .^'36,01)0 will bcre-idize, packers and traders from the Noithern quired. This route otici't, many and great advun- Mines could always supply themselves there from tages over all other routes for passengers, trad-, the original importers; whereas, by the other «rs, and paclseig. Persons leaving Victoria, routes, .Uey have to buy from the traders of the and going tiia Bellacoola, will be able to teach j interior towns, after the goods have passed through the Cariboo mines at the least seven days sooner, | many bands, and, of course, the ex^ieniea mate- and at lets cost, than if they had gone ky the '•■ rially increased thereby. Thus, leaving a gain of 158 miles on the total distance in favor of the proposed route. -» a*n-« an« r^^mm ni ^ Builntd homo* would bo ottabliihcd at Uelli' itt down, aa a raodtraU cjleulation, fonr hu<%- eooU, Ooudt would bs bought thtrt by tiadiri druL and Jifty toni p*f month, and taking lis tnd packer*, carrlud over tlic route in ('Aribun, montli^ at the pacl(ini{ period, at the rale of on* and lolil thoie by tlie vrry mni* men wiiu hnd cent and a half per pound, »u have a result nf boufjhi ihom ut Utrllcauula, eigliiyonu thoumnd dollari (o'Ht.OUO) \ from thi« This ayateiii tbow* at n qlanoo the great advau* di'duct annual rxponsea fur oullcotiona and re- tag js timi a liiiiiir UHtabllslivd Ht ndlaooola will pairs, oay flftecn thoiiiaiid dollarn (:jl5,U00), leav- pusseci, (ivir and above any <>l must! uu llin Uivtrr jng-u gain on ilic >ix mouths or diaty-aix tboU' Kuut(!«. eand duUara (iSOd.UOU). The proximity of thi town of Btlliiooola to Ikfore concluding thie report wo may mention thu Cariboo wuulU be nt immcnac advantdgi 'o that it haa also occurrid tj ns that at aonio period inurchants >n Vtuiurlu, iiidiuiuoh as by usidulish- nut fur distant a road will be made nocosa the Ing branch houses or nguncies at bt llacoola, Continent, couneciing the Hrlti '\ "roviucea of tliey would be ablu t>j uuiuuiunicute muiu quickly ihe Atlantic Coust with the Coloi i ' on the with ihc'ir puruh.kntrn, and ul>o reccivu their re- paculc. Such road there is cVcrv re. son to be- turn payments mure speedily. UevF will pass through the Red Uiver and 8u- They would in fact, in tlils way, deal DUiECT- katiliewan country, and thro jh the Rocky Moun- LY with C'lriboo iiudera. tuina via JastpLi's Uousu, iind 'i'ctc Juune C&che; Bcllauoola would thus 'ii- )!"e a branch town thence down the East branch of tho J;' rase r to of Victoria for the supply of the Northern Miues, ' j.'o,t Qeurge ; thence, provided the Coast Uuute nnd Victoria utill .; ihi- depot fur llio river trade, ,,, opened, there is no doubt that U would go to anil aUo the main depot for tliu co'mt trade. ' the North Ueatinck Arm. Mo tiiat it appears to ihe discoveiy of ricli diggings extending far to | ut probable enough that the future town of Delia. the iiunhwiira nnd westward of Cariboo is a power- puy^ „ill yet be thn terminus of the much talked- ful and convincing argument in favor of the open- of Paiitic Uoad through Drituh lerritory. ing ol this route. ; Trusting that these remarks will sHtisfy you Supposing there should be a rush of miners to i that the proposed road from the Ilelluconla Inlet these new localities, it will actually be impossible (North Uvutinck Arm) to the Fraser Kiver is a to supply them with provisions by the preaent perlcctly feasible project, aud will provo a remu< routes, except in a very limited manner, and at a uefniiye enterpriae, we remain, air, fearfully exorbitant price. y„u, ojj't. servanta, It is difficult for ua at present to give tven an j RANALD MoDONALD, approximate estimate of the amount of goods JOHN O. BAKNSl'ON. likely to paai over the proposed road, but we bavt> r4 ■a «f-i- .fi'll ■ ^# I 1^ r-7^. ■4 "»« •►•■fe(| # I 4« I [~ii>nffiJt*'» tW»»i *lwi«S»*tf^«-**'*»«»»-"J*' *I ''■"^"- i 5?ettiiig into Cariboo, even at tliis late seas^on of the year, owing to tlie frozen state of the Lakes, wliich from all accounts may continue two or three weeks longer. Tlie temperature is no colder than at Victoria. fl>ikinig- the distance fioni Vi<^torJalrt) IJo^itiUck 'Arm'tto lie ^tOlntles, Thence to the terminus on the Fraser (at the very most) . 200 miles. We havt a tliiitunce of (UO miles. Victoria to Carilioo. In- the Frasel- River routes is . (\i)1 liiiles The distance l>y each route thus comes out about equal — l)ut coniimro the advant4\go.-^ offered by the Coar^t Route : A saving of ti«fe to "pftsseiigers of 12 'days. A saving of cost do do $4Q to $50, A aaving in time in transportation of goiid's. . . .15 ddt^, A Raving in cost of do dio ^:|00 ^et toil. The Bcllacoola Indians urc of the most friendly kind, ready to give every aseistanec in packing over the road, and very anxious for the settle- ment of white men at the Bentinck Arm. , .. r Pack trains can start from the Terminus on the Fraser two monthtt earlier in the season than they can by the existing routes, to proceed to Cariboo. c f .vrr^ A R r s N : Goods conveyed by the Fraser River Routes have never yet bedil' plfMjed iti Cariboo under at the least. 39' di^s. Goods by the Coast Route can be ',. laced in the heaVt'dif' the Cariboo region in 20 day.s, including all delays ; Victoria to Bellacoolii (at the mdst) 3 days. Bcllacoola to Tenninus on Fraser (at th'fe lAost) 12 " Thence to Cariboo (at the most) 5 ■ .20 days. Showing a difference in favor of th<^ Coast Route of 15 days. The. time required by the Express to arrive in the Cariboo from Vic- toria by the Fraser River Route is at least 15 days. The time by the Coast Route will be at the most U days, vi;;. : Victoria to Jicllacoola 3 days, Thence to Cariboo S "' 11 days Thus ; leavhig a gain of four day.-* izoing 4 'days and four days returning, ecpial to . . .' 8 da^rt ' in favor of the Coast Route. VtOTORfA. V! 1.. Aj^rill;!,' 18^2^. COLONIST PRIHT. -^r- 1