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This valuable property will be surveyed into town lots, and ottered for sale, as soon as the line of the Canadian Pi;citie Railway upon the ground, and the Railway Station and bridge re- quirements are known and determined. Special provision will be made, on the plan of the city, for saw mills and lumber yards. Due public notice of the sales of town lots in Farwell will be given throughout Canada and the United States. BRITISH COLUMBIA. KOOTENAY DISTRICT. TOWNSITE OF FARWELL. IHE const uction of the Canadian Pacific Railway makes it certain that Farwell, at the second railway crossing of the Columbia River, (going west) will be the chief city of the interior of British Columbia, and, possibly, of the whole of North Western Canada. The solidity of the facts which secure its future will be recognized the more they are examined. GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION. Covering the meeting point of four great lines of com- munication, namely, the Columbia River, North and South, (which flows for 440 miles through the Province) and the Canadian Pacific Railway, East and West, the young city dominates a vast district of proved resources. It is the only 'point between the great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean, where the Canadian Pacific Railway connects with a grand water- way, navigable into the United States. ENTREPOT OF TRADE. The region, naturally subject to this entrepot, consists of the distinctive mineral and forest territory of British Columbia, T % TOWN SITE OF FARWELL. known as Kootenay District, which stretches from the Koeky Mountains to Shuswap Lake, and, also, the extensive, well settled pastoral and aj^ricultural territory farther to the west, known as Yale District, of British Columbia, which is reached through the short railway avenue of Eaj^le Pass. The whole region is larger than England, and has vast and varied resources, timber, mineral, arable and grazing. The Canadian Province of Alberta, and also the Colville and Spokane, United States, country, will look to Farwell as an entrepot or market city. WOOD MANUFACTURES. The topography, waterways and railway lines of the country, mark out Farwell as the sule f)lion tin^ayed in huildiny a rond to connect Bonner's Ferry, I. T., with Miil Slontemher, IHH-i. " I am happy to .state, as one result of my trip, that my doubts about the value of the mountain section of the railway have been entirely removed. In addition to the agricultui'al po.ssibilitie.s of the many valleys of British Columbia and its great mineral wealth, its magnitic"nt forests alone will furnish a lai-ge and remunerative traffic for the railway. Fi'om the mouth of the Kicking Horse River, forty -four miles west from the summit of the Rocky Mountains, to the Salmon Arm of the Shuswap Lake, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, the line passes through a continuous belt of gigantic trees, which increase in size going westward until they reach their maximum in Eagle Pass, where trees 8 and even 9 feet in diameter, measured seven feet above the ground, are com- mon. The timber is mostly cedar, Douglas fir, hemlock, white pine, spruce and tamarac. Other varieties of more or less ^3U. " II -IJUl sss^ TOWNSITE OF FARWELL, value also occur. All the vallej^s near the line of the rail- way through the Gold Range and the Selkirk mountains socin to be tilled with valualile tiniher, and I have nr) doul/L that the supply is practically inexhaustible." Ext met from Report of 8. B. Reed, Esq., C. E., {former} if Siiperlntendiii'j Eihjineer of the Union Pn.clfic Rnlliturij) to the Director.'^ of the Gdnadian Pdclfic Raihviy, doted 9th September, 1884. " From Little Shuswap Lake eastward there is a marked change in the climate. Instead of the dry and almost rainless section extending eastward from the C.ascade or Coast Ranue to the Shuswap Lakes, rain falls here in abundance, and a dense growth of timber covers the country eastward to the suuuuit of the Rocky Mountains; hemlock, white pine, Doug- las fir, spruce and some other varieties of timber growing to an enormous size. Crossties, bi'idge timber, telegraph |)oles and lumber can be obtained at any place between Kaniloops Lake and the main range of the Rocky Mountains at small cost." Extracts from Ojficial Exploratory Report of G. M. Sproat, Esq., to the Government of British Columbia, dated 7th Fehruai-y, 1884. . ■ " The construction of the Cana'lian Pacific Railway must " iinmediately raist the value of these timbered tracts by con- " necting them with the extensive treeless regions east of the " Rock y Mountains, that cannot be very well supplied with " timber from distant Keewatin, or from the northern timbered " reoion of the Canadian North West Territories. The luiii- " berinfj business on the Columbia river will be one of the "oreatest industries in the Province within a few years. " There is an extensive treeless region also in United S<"ates " territory to the southward which, gradually, is becoming " settled. There will be large saw mills in the neighborhood " of Eagle Pass (Farwell)." p i • TOWNSITE OF FARWELL. "American goods, which, always, will be largely in de- " inand can in future be conveyed into the heart of British " Columbia at Eagle Pass (^ whence, also, a considerable part of "Alberta can be supplied) by the Columbia river route with " which no other can compete." Extract from the Special CorreHpondence of the San Francisco Journal of Cuinnierce, December 4, 1884. " I have now described about 400 miles along the railway line. The remaining, Kootenay section, which I looked at from the east end of Eagle Pass, extends between the Colum- bia and the Rockies. Scores of men who have been employed on railway trail-making confirmed in talk what is said of this section, that it is mountainous, with some hay bottoms along and at the mouths of streams, but chiefly a forest and mineral region. The timber is likely to be in great demand far east of the Rockies, and it is very abundant. The main saw mills are likely to be at this point, Eagle Pass (where the railway crosses the Columbia a second time) as there is from that point a command of the prolonged forest- laden Columbia waterway north and south for great distances. The charac- teristic trees of the coast — not found between the Eraser and Columbia, re-appear here — Douglas fir, red cedar, hemlock, etc., with the addition or the tamarac or western larch in great abundance, a tree not found in British Columbia west of Shuswap Lake. I crossed to the left bank of the Columbia at Eagle Pass to visit the town site of Farwell, which an engineer was surveying, a beautiful, extensive, sheltered bench with a southern aspect, fine, dry soil and cool streams ^.t hand. There will be a large railway bridge here. This is likely to be a most important point of supply for the great mining and forest region of Kootenay, as a saw mill town also, and as the only place between Winnipeg and the Pacific where United States traffic can tap the Canadian Pacific Railway by a navigable waterway. The height above sea ..." ■ ULUUSL^i i U 10 TOWirsITE OF FARWELL, level is about 1,400 feet. We are now in November, but the weather is fine. It was the same, I was told, last year, but I fancy the seasons are somewhat uncertain. How noble tlie Columbia looks, already 220 miles fi'om its mother lakes, how glorious in every direction these hills and mountains drawing on their winter caps." Extract from "British Colonist" Newspaper, Victoria, British Columbia, 1st Januai'y, 1885, under head of " The Future of our Trade and Cities," in the " Annual Review" "In the past, everything required in the interior entered the country through established distributing towns on the coast ; in the future, everything won't. A very large part of the requirements of the interior of the mainland, in future, must enter the province in its south-eastern angle, by the Canadian Pacific Railway from Canada, and by steamboat or a railway up the Columbia river or its valley, from the United States. To understand this, the point of view must be shift- ed from Vancouver Island to Kootenay, when it will be seen that imperative considerations dictate these two routes, and these alone. The mass of the imports thus introduced, of course, will require a distributing centre. The most likely place obviously will be where these converging Canadian and United States highways meet, if local conditions are at that point suitable — a matter on which we are not at present well informed. This inevitable change, as regards part of our provincial trade, was early recognized by the far-seeing promoters of improved means of transportation in the south- east region of the province, and its certainty explains the support given to such proposals very generally by ihe people of the interior. They recognize that circumstances require that there shall be another Victoria in the eastern part of the province — a mining, saw-milling, manufacturing, railway city." Extract fn Britis Assem "It is way, runni try in the and Eagle '. and give \ many rich heQii locate of Kootena in the near will be attr ute very m developineii Clause 11 Trans I Leglalo "The C and naviga freight trafl and from tl bia and Ko( to that poir the Canadit cross the st Canadian P the point w to the Colu u Extract frc Facts grants land " The I the Columh TOWNSITE OF FARWELL. 11 Extract from the Speech of His Honor the Lieut-Governor of ' British Columbia, in opening the Session of the House of Assembly, 12th Januainj, 1885. " It is gratifying to knaw that the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, running, as it does, through an undoubtedly rich coun- try in the Kootenay District, between the Rocky Mountains and Eagle Pass, will probably open up extensive mining tieMs and give profitable employment to a large population. The many rich veins of ore already discovered, and which have been located by various mining companies on the west shore of Kootenay Lake, give fair promise of becoming productive in the near future, and it is probable that such a population will be attracted to that part of the Province as will contrib- ute very materially to the wealth of the country and to the development of trade with other portions of British Columbia." Clause 11 of the " Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Transportation Company Act," of the British Columbia J Legislature, 1883. "The Company shall acquire, build, equip, maintain, run and navigate a line of steamers suitable for passenger and freight traffic, and other vessels upon the Columbia River, to and from the point on the Columbia River where the Colum- bia and Kootenay Railway from Kootenay Lake terminates, to that point on the west bank of the Columbia River where the Canadian Pacific Railway shall strike the said river and cross the same near the Eagle Pass; or in the event of the Canadian Pacific Railway not crossing the Columbia River to the point where a wagon road or railway from Shuswap Lake to the Columbia River may terminate thereon." . Extract from Pamphlet "Spokane County, as it is; Solid Facts and Actual Results," for the informuition of immi- grants into Washington Territory, United States, {Port- land Oregon, 1883. " The proposed branch road, 80 miles in length north to the Columbia River, near Kettle River, or at the mouth of the •^m KS" «i«i 12 TOWNSITE OF PARWELL. Neholapilkwa River, will also have exceptionally light grades, and is in every respect an easy and economical road to con- struct. At the above point of junction the road will tap 320 miles of continuous river navigation northwardly into British Columbia, tapping the Canadian Pacific and a rich mineral field several thousand square miles in extent. . . . This will be eventually one of the most important auxiliary branches of the Northern Pacific. . . . Now that the Canadian Pacific route has been changed to a southern or the Columbia River route, its building and completion come not only directly in our neighborhood, but make this part of Eastern Washington the basis of supplies. In all this there is something really solid and hopeful, not only as to the immediate, but to the more distant future." 1.1 !)!*»" ■'*' ' fit}' IH X \ \ I mm con- 320 [itish peral will |cs of 3iti?. in jton ^ally the \ •<, 'c C- r:.- , •^='^<^^% ■V : «; ~ =r O SKETCH ^•:^ ,.>**" c X'f-- J/ ■-■ 'h'ri -\ ■"•. -"*^ ' 'A'-' ..t. ■••.. ...■•••.. ^ The Sa If /fj /^// £'/i TIteCo. Rtrer I Ljg^-n^*^ c v^» Wct^ v-\^ v< ■ >t V c-t q ^v\»>^^a Ai-^ /^ ■ ^wpl**^*" ' - THE SKETCff Shows The CoMM/rjvjomG Fosjrr 'ON OF JtjhJR w. ELL fs /FN Entrepot FOR CfijN/^DifjN /JND /^M ERIC AN. Goods T2xe Columbia is the orip interncit tonally Navigable iRirer hety.-een ManitoAj: and the Pacmc. as: / '\j \ s^ \ \\ iN r 4"-^ w^F