was a stump right were he wanted to make
the campfire so he gave it a kick and out
came a swarm of wasps. He gave a yell and
took off for the open field. This, of
course got everyone up. He was stung on
the wrist and hand but suffered no i1]

effects,
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Washed out Trail at Saloon.

\le broke camp and left at 2 pm for
"Hyland's Ranch!', When we arrived at
"Saloon'' we discovered Saloon Creek had
risen during the sprina run off and had
completely washed out the trail so the
kids and | waited in the heat while Bill
and Tony cut out a new trail. Saloon is
also the junction of the Telegraph Trail
and the Jim Town trail which we had been
following to this point. ‘We finally oot
aoina and joined onto the oriainal
'Telearaph Trail" that afternoon and saw
our first insulator which was delight to

everyone,
2 ck PRT eg) ’

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Start of Original Telegraph Trat
(note 4-01 Htghway)

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These insulators are attachea
to the teleqraph line which was built
in the 1800's and was to be the overseas
Telearaph Communication but was abandoned

when it was replaced by the Trans-Atlantic
Cable.

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Detertorated Telegraph Line
The Telearaph Trail was much wider and
was just like trail riding in a park. We
arrived at Hyland's Ranch in the late
afternoon and again the flies were quite
bad. However, we set un camp. Tony and
Mike discovered an old smoke house and
proceeded to put a smoke on our bacon,
ham and kobisa (Czechoslovakian qarlic
sausage). Rick and Tracy found some
rhubarb arowinag beside one of the cabins
which they munched on and Tracy made a
little pot of jam for us. Then the two
of them struck out to find water. They
were gone quite awhile so Bill and |
went to find them. On the way we passed
a newly built cabin owned by two boys from
Victoria, they were aone but had left a |
note on the door saying that anyone could
use the cabin, just leave it in the same
condition as found, \We read their diary
and found they had put in a hard winter.
We carried on and met Tracy and Rick. They
had found a creek but it was about half
a mile from where we were camped and very

hard to cet at. We noticed that the boys
who owned the cabin had tried to put a
pipe line of aarden hose from the creek
to their cabin and we are still wonderina
how lona it took them to pack the hose
from Telegraph Creek as there must have
been 2,000 feet of it.