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LEWIS, ON THB ■ / Resources of the Country along the Columbia River, ■ ^m the Boundary Line to Galena Bay. 't'''^." WITH appi;ni>ix. CONTAININn REPORT OF A. T. PINGSTONE, And Extracts from Mobef(LY's Diary, &c. *" , SAN FRANCISCO: BlCON & COHPANT, PrINTIRS, CORNER ClAT AND SaNSOMK StRKKTS 1884. #■' THE LIBRARY Till UNivr.Rsnvoi HRlllSH COLUMBIA % ^-^ . • Ml ,S '4u _J5!^ ,>\ ,'f i' ^■ ■^ \ 1 t-^- li i< riMMMMi ■ 13' ^^^^ .1 ,. •■.'.iiic }l .•■*\.<- %> X. A BO*T ENCAMPM In-, \ <: C..>> A* 0^ .V* .0^ '",',','.•,■.••.'•■■.■• '•.*;'.v^'/'.'.:i.. ■■ WILLSO UNOlNE ' -■■■-■^. ,...t^^^=" ■■"**€- r-.-^-,. .,•;•■■■ >•/''". ^ r'rr.." .■ ...\0- ■■■ .1'':"'.',. ■rr>^ fli'vE'^ COLO B , \1 ',/.■. 4/v N \ M ^^ .^ ,-^:^\tf-: ^,'#^i hf- .""A)'}i ■im. /0>>- ^'3^' '^' <:>' \^" >V^- »gfef.,:''*'iv;j^'"^ #■ m^'/-'. ■,4'^'- •,VN> ■,•■ >•" -■■CJy ^■% M"'^'P. ■K f:^c9-. 'h iyx^ & Cfo, '^fi :%: C« ■'•¥?:.;'#• •.,;,-■' KNOB CT .-€^1 '/-,. ''^^- o , ^ y^ ■■:■:-:■.:■■ ■:. >^^^H5i;y^.„ ■:.■■'. 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"'*i!-' -■? -' ■•■' .'uh- .■■ ■'•■ • ■ • '■ o^ /' A^ '■/;- •S'" FT SHBPHURC .■■ . ■-■ ;;: ,■■-.■• ■ *,:■■ • '..a!^ kC >'"■•*?; '-\ ^:^ airru daucs \^^A li».'cl'04Si!ye,> o m ';:■■■••;.' v"€ii .« ■^/a- I Columbia and Kootenay Railway TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. REPORT OF D. C. LEWIS, ll\ TIIK Resources of the Country alonc^ the Cohimbia River, from tlie Houndarv Line to (ialena Bay. WITH A IM'KN 1 )1 X, REPORT OF A. T. PINGSTONE, And Extract:-, from Mcp.f.rly's Diauy, &r. SAN FRANCISCO: lUCON & eOMl'ANV, PlilNTKliS, ('(IIINKI! ("l.AV AND SAN.'illMK SlIlKKl- I S84. San FRANciscr). ncc. i5tli. iSS:;. Cajt. J. C. AINSWORTII, President of I lie Colnmhia and koolenay Raihoay and Transfyorfatioti Company: Dkak Sir:— 1 ben- leave to i)reseiit my Report of I-:xj)Ior- ations made by your direction, and covcrino- a small portion of the Land (Irant oiven your Company by the I'rovjice of British Columbia, along the line of the Columbia River; and lo present also a Map accompanying the Report. ' Yours respectfully, <^'.^'"^'^''> D. C. IJ'AVJS. REPORT. f .# AflLi- i)assinj; the boundary line between the United States and r.iitish Columbia on the steam launch " Alpha," belongint^ to your Company and under command of Captain A. r. Pinj^stone. my attention was directed to the resources contained in the timiji:k. Commencing near the boundary line and extending to lli-ah-kin Creek u]> the Columbia River on either bank, there is an immense quantity of yellow pine timber from 20 inches to 40 inches in diameter, and from 75 to 100 feet clear of knots. Although it occurs throughout the distance mention- ed, there are thick bunches of forest in it that will run from 10 thousand to 20 thousand feet to the acre, and it is all per- fectly accessible. As we approach the northern point men- tioned, this yellow pine timber grows less and less, and final- ly ceases altogether. As it disappears, however, tamarack and hemlock increase, and belts of dense growth of these are seen— all of which are remarkable for their accessibility. This timber covers a very large portion of the country, and the amount is so enormous as to be beyond computation or estimate. It varies in diameter from 10 to 36 inches, and the forests are often of extremely dense growth. About the mouth of Hi-ah-kin Creek (some fine cedar be- ing found at Pass Creek) white pine and cedar timber begin ^" ''^i^P^*^'-. 1/ic cual the k Jia. "own uorlcl. (Sc '"'"")■ <>r uhieh h, ;i.s n ^c.) :iiisj c page ()2, "p " ■^I'pciior (111 OUfr), ^"■^^"tary streams, and lesin belts con '•"vinccoflintishCol (nit i'oo '•^ as access ibl f'SiioiKs to th '""ch cannot be tofo the whit th c as that nn ^' nver. and al 11 m- 'onL'^ *-' PJ'ic runnino- f,. said ''uioned h ere- t( "1 praise of th ' over loo feet IS limber, \vith( lit a ^"^'^'•a River to Kettle F,ir'" '' '" ^^''''ches, (see - Th e largest! ever spection. 'Ph w to be perfectl P- 'D vvhile theced g'-eat majority tovverin.. ^^^•varyin diameter fro '■''^^^"nhasf found by m :6 ir', « . ;.. „i ars arc P'"<-'^nclc«la,- will ,,,„ fro white •'^and feet per acre as u-e u'cnt north. a hundred feet with .36 to No inch m- and "Improved in '■•1 'o thousand cs, and a oi'talimb. The to 103 thou- th Owi ^^"''^"tity and si.e as f. ese "Sfo the lateness of th Galena lia passed o -^■p'orations, J c season in crett 3'. and t): ^^•as unable to proceed furth orou"" ^^''•— wh ■hly '<-'! covers examine and expl J»g" started ei- north th ;ir on an '■"" '"fonwd by ivhat I '/"•;">titya„cl.skeoft|,e„.;, c a very small portion of ore the rout e consider good a:ith your «fant. ^o iniprov ■Q as which I ha 3-ou 00 north, and if th pine and cedar timbe onty that th e •■continue a'onewill much '"ost sanguine. [S ve no doubt) tl ^^ value of you ;' '''"^^'-^ ^o be a fact (of 111 e small 'r'"-^ ^'^- -tisfy the expj^t; ee extract from Moberly '* ^^^'-ant in timber ions of [I Uc a'"ine J would jud 'j^''- land. V '»■■'-" of ehog,..n„. , 1,7 r"'""'---'^''™'''-! ^,,1.1 ;.. , "aa the 0Di)f»rH,«.v.. . J^di^o to co\'er ^ opportunity t( o^"-S'-antand thatto 50,000 acres of e.xcell ^^■'-^^'^^'over practically all th the C ) ex- en t tim- section of the P anadian Pacific Kail- available timber in th ealion of the value of th ""■'"^^ -Hiritish Columbi at the C anadian Pacific ese timber lands, I P'-opose to immediately As to 'i-eat an indi "nderstand that g'-ade the.r land in values, placinL,^ $2.50 as tlic lowest price per acre for any land except to settlers, and limiting thern to 160 acres. Before leaving this subject, I would call your attention to the fact that this timber in your grant, and in the grant of the Canadian Pacific Railway west of the Rocky Mountains, is the only available timber for over one thousand miles of country along the line of the railway immediately east, and that its demand over the line of the Canadian Pacific will be such as to place a ready market at your service for your entire grant as rapidly as you feel inclined to dispose of it. Another market quite as extensive, and open now without even waiting for the Canadian Pacific, and covering a coun- try with an already large and rapidly increasing population, and traversed with lines of railway and steamboat navigation, is that portion of the United States known as l^astern Wash- inoton Territory, Idaho, and Montana, [See report of Capt. A. 'i\ 'Mngstonc, a))pendi.\.] At a nominal cost, conijjared with many eastern streams, the Columbia would carry a drive, or any number of drives, directly to the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's lines, besides floating jxist a vast and fertile section 01 the country known as the Great Plains of the Columbia, situated in the bend of the Columbia in l<:astern Washington, and now be-oH,.,,,;„e,...,,,- ■^ Kood deal if „;e , ' '""""« "-''-i-'m Cre f' '' 'Tici from n,...„„ '^'^ "'" isinolnc. ., . . w and fn nppea ects WQf ■■an CCS IS "'■ 'S'noJa.ss ii^^^ J ^"t- TheJncI e vcrj' free f, "ot iMfenor to 1 titles. The si 'ans report ft oni bl '■ench <-'misli ^1*0 ni a fe vefns hav ate formation h on th es and ^'of^-ed fair, '"^i^ortations. ^' '"ountai quite tra ns 'eal of cral \v inches to tw aJth3- as niiniei ns in la, par- en <-' a hi iy feet ous 9^'art/ sea «e quan- aaiena on th '"'"^"'■al-bearinc j 'Mv.dth. AlJof th 'lis in it '" ^i^''i'-t^- /n a fe ^' 'iiountaii g look, i ese quartz ound tu o u- instances it sides of Gal Ound a o-i en a /j ood ^V'nijr's edi dred fe et. -inu ^^'^'H-defined Jed ai'^o up (j^ and .k^cs of oaj \^as associated ^;"''^-- '^oth traced '^y> mostly •Aith linie. ^' 'fountain side f to a Hi-ah-l< 's found '"■ -^cveraJ J) le iin- "1 Creek '" a varietN- of fo in ''i^'iesia h"me. w •'°'^'^' /^ure carh '■'"s in th found two Ji f>nate of | e re of on a bo \e line. ot soda and al ■^pnn.qis— ft' -one so a on th( :l o southern tributary of South Granite Creek, and the other about three miles below Cedar Hay. We had no means of testing their temperature, but found them uncomfortably warm for our fingers. Found some float oxide of copper ore at the mf)Uth of the Lardo Pass Creek ; also found evidence of co])per on Grave Creek. \^'e prospected the top sand on several creeks for placer diggings, especially on Fort Hall, Pingstone, Incu-woop-plux and Lardo Pass Creek, and found gold at all of them. We had no means of going down to bed rock. I have no doubt that there are extensive placer mines in several of these streams. There were large deposits of free gold found on creeks several years ago, but as the rich pockets were worked ut, the miners were obliged to leave in consequence of the high price of provisions, tools, etc., and the difficulties attend- ing transportation. When you complete your enterprise, thereby giving miners and business men the benefit of your transportation facilities, these placer diggings wilt be devel- oped, and w 11 give employment to thousands of laboring men. Your grant on Kootenay Lake covers immense depos- its (jf argentiferous galena ores whose value is beyond com- putation, and no doubt from the indications that came under our notice on the Columbia, for the small part of it on your grant that wc traversed, there will be found additional miner- als of great (piantily and value, which your grant gives you absolutely. The value of your mineral grant cannot of course be estimated. I observed enough to knew that it will be very great, and it is within ihe possibilities of reaching a fabulous sum. The extensive and rich jilacer diggings recently disc(n'- vvv(\ in the Cour dWlene mountains in Washington Terri- 1 i i \ 8 tory, the extensive argentiferous galena deposits on Koot- enay Lake, and the tlattcring prospects on the Columbia Riv- er (rich placers being reported in the vicinity of Kicking Morse Pass also) will soon give that country a large popula- tion. The completion of your enterprise and of the Canadian Pacific will open up a country whose richness will greatly as- tonish even the promoters of the enterprises themselves. (Sec ])agc 77. "Province of British Columbia"; "Canada, its Cli- mate and Resources."' etc.) AGRICIM.TITRAI. ANM) GRAZING F.ANDS. Tlie acreage of this kind of land in comparison to the acreage of your timber and mineral lands is small — it cover- ing but a few thousand acres until the head-waters of the Col- umbia are reached. ( Page 65 of " Province of i5ritish Colum- bia " ; "Mainland Interior, or East Cascade Region"; also page 67 of same entitled " Kootenay,") As the Columbia is navigable to its source, large amounts of these magnificent lands may be located if desired. CIJMATF. The climate of this Columbia region is very mild com- pared with the same latitudes elsewhere, e.vcept on the Pacif- ic Coast. The warm winds from the south known as " Chi- nook " melt the snow almost as soon as it falls. (Page 11, " Province of British Columbia," &c.) By examining a weath- er chart of this continent, the isothermal line will be noticed to make a long elbow, the northern point of which reaches in the vicinity of the northernmost point of tlie Columbia waters. J ts on Koot ''"mbia Riv. ^^ Kicking '"t^c j)ojiuIa- ' Canadian greatly as- elves. (See Lcia, its Cli- on (o the -it cover- f the Col- 'h Colum- )n " ; also Ii^imbia is gnificent Ifl coni- e Pacif- ^s " Chi- *'\gc ir, I. vveath- ticed to ches in Iiinibia coNti.rsioN. Hcfore concluding, allow r.ie to call your attention to the Pass Ci-eek that flows into the Columbia River just north of the mouth of the Kootcnay River. I'rom what I had an ojDportunity to observe, and from what information I could procure from the Indians, 1 think your railway can be brought from Kootenay River through a natural pass, and down the Pass Creek Vailev at a great saving of cost without increas- incr the lentrth of the railwav line, and reach the Columbia River above the rapids spoken of in Mr Linton's report to your chief engineer, M. M. McCartney. Es(|. And now, in concluding, I would say that I look upon vour enterprise as a most extraordinary one. The necessary expenditure recjuired to comply with the terms of the Act and acquire a crown grant from the P)ritish Columbia (iov- ernmcnt is so small, and the value of over seven hundred thou- sand acres of the land you will obtain is so great, that- aside from the good-paying transportation business you will un- doubtedly receive— tl-.e profits that must necessarily accrue from the sales or other disposition of the lands of this grant will be fabulous : and I congratulate you and your associates upon this most flattering outlook for your property. Yours respectfully, 1). C. IJ'WIS. 10 KKPORT OF CWIT. A. T. PIXGSTOXE. :1P.; Four CoLViLLE, W. T., Oct. 24tli, 1883. CaI'TAIN J. C. AlXSWOItTII, I'OUTLAND, OUEOON: |)i;ak Sn{ — Tii yoiir letter to me of June 18th, von ask me to ijive yon my views about the timber ou the niivigable waters of the Columbia J{i\'ei', in British Columl)ia; also, tlie feasibility of running logs down the Columbia to some point above the mouth of Snake River. First: A large amount of very fine timber, sneh as White Pine, Cechir, Fir, Spruce, Cottonwood, ITendock and 'I'amarack, may be selected from a point twenty miles below thelioad of tlie lower lake, thence to the extreme head of the u|>per lake. Tlie most of the good timber is to be found on the streams making into the lakes. From the mouth of the r[ii)er Columbia River to Laporte, a dis- tance of sixt^-four miles, the country is a douse forest; cedar abounds, tlierc is also licmlock, tir, tamarac'k and some wliito pine; the qual- ity of the timber is excellent. Second : there is nothing to [ircvont logs from being (h'iven down the Columbia River, from the lakes to White Blutt's, where a good and secure boom coulil l)e ]iut in that would save all the tim- ber. At White Blutls there i^ a large eddy where rafts could be easily made, and run from tlien<;e down to the Nortliorn Pacific l\ailroad and tlie Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's Steam- boat and Railway lines. A< to tlie time when a drive should be started down, experienced raftsmen state it should not be started until aftei- the top of high water, so that the driftwood will not in- terfere with the boom, floating bodies following the center of a fall- ing stream; or, if you wish to use your boom during high water to catch driftwood, a large amount of valuable timber coulil be secured in that way. As regards the cost of placing a suitable boom in at tills |H)iiit, in my estimation it would not cost loss tlian ton thousand and may l>e twelve thousand dollars. 1 believe that in from two to tiiree years enough driftwood cotdd be cauglit to jiay for the cost of the boom. From Wliito Bluti's down to the railroat be started I will not in- |t«i'of afall- igh water to 1 he secured hoom in at oil thousand f'l'oni two to I" tlie cost of I'iifts could •^ i(:e in the 'ONK. LpyPTKR FKOM SENATOR NELSON OF HKITLSir COEUMBIA. Ottawa, 13th ,Iime, ]XH:]. //i ;•///'> /^/Vn;-/, 18tjt!.; Thursdav, September Oth. — Ivan down to the mouth of Kicking Horse River,' where 1 took latitude, which is hV IS' 10' X. 1 then proceeded down the stream, and camped at the mouth of a creek that falls into the Colunibia liiver on its easterly side, about i] miles be- low the mouth of Blaeberry River. The Indians tell me that the valley of the Blaeberry Jiivei' aifbn.s the best pass through the mountains to the eastward (^see Dr. Hector's Rejiort). They say the mountain shec^) aiiound on the mountains south of this river, and the cariboo on those north of it, but that the latter is not foun(l south of the montli of Kickim'" Horse River ; also, that the large salmon (white) do not go further uii stream than the Kicking Horse River. The banks of the river are now covered with a dense growth of jiine, cedar, spruce, fir, birch, &c. Road building alongtlio right bank of the Columbia River, from its source to this point, will be comparatively easy. Friday, September 7th. — Left camp at 7.30 a. m.. and almost immediately got into a canon where the stream is in many places very rapid and narrrow, and the rocks of a slate formation. I think '" '';^' ^''li^o (Ik, 12 ' •' ■•■fi'iliiior i"■ i'lilCOS «f()|.J.C(I J,f <"' it.swes- t''i'il IV(,ni his creek, "I (lum iC tliiit tlie •^'1' of tlio o.strfuiiis 'M ii trail "f"l>iji, it Novo tlio I ill i-ivei- Tiiiiljtr 18 ilii' ii|i|ifr or suiitli cijil (if it: we did not piiss atiy l>iiil ia|iiel()\v the (.'iiiioc River, tlio ('(iliiiiiltiii at tlio.so two points l>ciiitj ahout 120 and 175 foot in width ; tliiclc i^rowtli of timUer on ImjIIi sides of river. The easterly l>aiik of river hest for a road, as with the e.\('e[)tion of two short [luiiits of rork, a ro;ul (!an he carried over low flats and henelics tlio wiiolo distanee. 'I'lie oiiposite side (hjes not offer anv serious oljstaclus to road hnildinn', hut to constrnet one aioni^ it wonid i>e much more expensive. Thnrs'hiy, tSepteniher 18tii. — lian (h)wn to Wilson's Landing, a distance of ahont 7 or 8 miles ; passi'd several rapids, which would lie had for steanihoat navii;'ation, and lines would hi' recjuired toilet steamers over them. There is a s'ecp, rocky hlulf'on the left hank of the river, a short distance ahovo Wilson's liaiidiiii^, and would lie expensive to take a ro.id ai'oimd. 1 took the latitude of Wilson's Fjandiui^, which I made ol 40 X. 1 here learnt that the OfHcer ad- niinisteriny; the (Jovernment. the Surveyor-CJoneral, and Mr. Ball would camp this cveninn* at Kirl>y'3 Landniu;, I thorefoi'e ran down the river to that point, where I met them. ( Exlrid-l from Ifr/iorl of Mr. Molnrl'/ on JIUeiUciCdul Jiircr, DfL-emlirr 18/A. lH(jo.; On ieavinu; Mr. Tiii'nhiill at the mouth of this >tream, I [iroceed up its northerly or ri^ht liaidc, for a distance of ahout forty miles, at which point the river divides into two streams of nearly equal si/e, the i>;eneral hearim:; of one valley ahove the forks, as far as can he seen from that point. I»einti," north 14 east; that of the other nearly east. The latter valley was I'vidently the olie that, judging from its general hearing, would lie most likely to atf'ord a jiass in tlic direction wislied for. I therefore tried to induce the Imlians I had with me, hy every pos-ihle iiersiiasion, to accompany me all the way across tlie [Selkirk Ivange, and make for Wild Horse Creek. (The Cohimhia liiver Indians would from the first oidy engage to go as fai' as the head waters of the lllecillewaut. ) All my ett'orts were, however, unavailing, as they atlirmed that if we went on wc shoulil he caught in tlie snow, and never get out of the mountains. .\s 1 now fourid it would not lie jiossihle to complete the explora- tion of the easterly hranch so as to arrive at a definite eonelusion as to its suitahleness for a line of road thi'oughout to the Upper Columhia, and as a partial exploration would only he a waste of time and money, fur should it he explored throughout at any future time, which I would recommend, the same ground would have to he traversed again, 1 decided to explore the northerly fork, and accord- ingly contimied my Journey, still keeping on the riglit hand hank until I reached a jioint ahout seventy miles from tiie mouth of the rmun river. The valley, which had heen continually turning more and more to tlie north, took a decided turn at the ahovc point, its In boimnpr then I.eiiig nearly \. W., aii.l as the snow, wliidi lia.l h.-en falling on tlie monntauiH for sovoral days, was l.nt a sliort dirttance above tlio nvor bottom, I roneliidod to retiirii, it being (iiiite appar- ent that notliing eoiild \nt gained by a longer contiinianfe in tlieso mountains. I tberefore turned back on tlie 30tli of >Septeml)or, and readied tlie bead of tlie (Iroat Shiiswap Lake on tin; lUtli of Octo- l)or. At a distance of about four miles aiiove tiie forks before men- tioned, I enti-red the slate range, and continued in it tlie rest of tlie distance traveled up tliis stream. Tliese slate moi-.ntains are inter- sected in all directions by innumerable veins of juartz, and on tlie river banks and bars much hard l)|iie gravel, intermi.xed with clay, waH seen. We hastily washed a few pans of '-dirt," which we scraped from the surface of some of the bars, and obtained prospects which _Mr. Terry (the .Nhaintaineer) who was with me, pronounced to_ be ."> cents to the pan. f examined some of the " eolors " ob- tained through a magnifying glass, and when viewed in tiiis manner they appeared to be thick, coarse, and with rough edges. It is my inipression that good and extensive diggings will be di.seovered on this stream, and that there is every in'obability gold-bearing rpiartz also exists in the slate mountains, tliroiigh which it tlows. In passing a very clearly defined vein of cpiartz about five feet in width, 1 noticed traces of what 1 thought was silver; I therefore lvno(dve(l oft' a few pieces of the rock, wliidi have been assayed at the Uovernment Assay OlHce bore by Mr. F. (i. Claiidet, and he re- turns the following result : JJescription of Mineral. i Itesiilt of Assay. Argentiferous (Jaleiia. Lead — 7!).2'> per cent. Si I ver— ,'^4ozs. per Ton of 20 cwt. (iold — 'I'races.