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Government Street, Victoria, B.C.

Junction the river passes throught a narrow gorge and forms ‘‘the Pool.”
On the banks of this celebrated fishing spot, the Canadian Pacific Railway
Co. have built ‘Creel Lodge,’’ a hunter’s home open to any fisherman or
traveller who chooses to make application to the game-keeper in charge.

At Slocan Junction one line of railway branches to the north up the
rich valley of the Slocan River to the famous Slocan Mining District of
which Slocan City, Sandon, New Denver, and Roseberry are the chief
centres, and ends at the southern extremity of the beautiful Slocan Lake,
while the main line turns south along the Kootenay River and at Castlegar
again sends out a shoot, this time to the south, in which way it runs down
‘stream with the Columbia River and passing many a ranch reaches the
city of Trail. Here it leaves the river and by a corkscrew passage reaches
Rossland, its terminus. The main artery from Castlegar continues west
from Robson, but at West Robson a further cut-off to the north is made
by the line of Canadian Pacific Railway steamers plying on Arrow Lake.

Trail, on the Columbia River, 14 miles by rail from Rossland is an
important industrial point. Here is located the immense_ plant of The
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Ltd., including
a lead and silver refinery and a lead pipe factory, the only establishment
of the kind in Canada. The population is between 2,000 and 3,000.
Trail is supplied with water and electricity, has good hotels, churches and
well-stocked stores, being a supply depot for the numerous mines in the
vicinity. It is a terminus of the Rossland Branch of the Canadian Pacific
Railway.

Rossland is important as being the shipping point of some of the most
important mines in southern B. C., notably the Le Roi, Le Roi No. 2,
War Eagle, Centre Star, Grant, Jumbo and Velvet. The town has all
the modern requirements, including a live newspaper.