THE PATHFINDERS.

GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY PROSPECTORS SEARCHING

FOR THE YELLOWHEAD PASS

Prince Rupert:
November, 1906—
josie days, .3
fair days; 1 cold
day with snow.
December, 1906—
14° fime days, 95
fair. days, 2 clear
and cold days, 2
snowy, days, 8
rainy days.
January, 1907—
9 fine days mild, 20

clear and

days, 3 snowing

days.

February, 1907—12 fine days, 4

fair days, 4 clear and cold days, 8
rainy days.

March, 1907—17 fine days, 8 fair
days, 1 rainy day, 5 snowy days.

April, 1907—23 fine days, 3 fair
days, 4 rainy days.

May, 1907—22 fine clear days, D
fair days, 4 rainy days.

June, 1907—21 fine clear days, 4
fair days, oO rainy days.

From these reports it would seem
that in eight months Prince Rupert

eold GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC TEMPORARY
BUILDINGS AT PRINCE RUPERT

had but thirty-four
rainy days, for 109
at Vancouver, and
185 fine days as
against 62 at Van-
couver.

Asa result of his
wanderings in the
wilds during the
summer. of 1907
M r. Earnest
Thompson Seton,
in his next book,
will tell you that
much of that emp-
ty land lying north
oi ake Athabasca is far from
being barren. All along the val-
leys of unmapped rivers and on
the margins of the many unnamed
lakes, lymg to the south and a
little west of Great Slave lake,
are vast reaches of meadow
lands, where the wild grass grows
hip-high and affords feed for count-
less caribou herds that contain mil-
lions of this northern kine. One must
vo far north of Great Slave lake to
find wood-buffalo and the real bar-