Ideal Canditions for City Making

HE ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS which make a substantial city

are conspicuously present in and about Fort Fraser, B. C. These
features were fully enquired into before the site was decided upon, and
briefly they are as follows:

The bull’s-eye spot in a rich agricultural country.

On the line of Grand Trunk Pacific and branch projected lines.
Almost surrounded by a long navigable river.

On a gently rising upland of rich, soft ground.

Adjacent Fraser Lake, a delightful watering place.

Within easy distance of abundant water-power facilities.

Fresh drinking -water assured, drainage perfect.

City land plotted with eye to beauty and convenience.

British Columbia Government reservations in desirable locations.

Excellent suburban home opportunities on all sides.

History Will Repeat Itself

It is by no means a difficult undertaking to imagine what a tremendous
change will occur throughout this entire region of Central British Columbia
when the Grand Trunk Pacific line runs through it. Beyond question it may be
assumed that in this instance history will repeat itself. When the final gap
in the Canadian Pacific Railway was under such happy auspices closed in
1885, Southern British Columbia at once, and with a bound, entered upon a
new and altogether unexampled period of glorious prosperity. Land values
which had been torpid, advanced with unexampled rapidity. So, too, in these
extensive and richly endowed central districts of this great province, with the
completion of this new transcontinental line, will extraordinary accessions to
the population be noted, with swift rise in land and townsite values. More-
over, in this instance, these changes will occur with much greater celerity
than has ever before been known in any part of this province. This prophecy
will almost assuredly then become true and an accomplished fact: That
within the next ten and possibly within the next five years, yaster alterations
will take place in the character and destinies of the Dominion of Canada as
a whole, and of this province in particular, than have been witnessed since
its memorable discovery by that hardy and intrepid navigator, Jacques Car-

tier, s0 Many years ago.

“The Astors owe their immense holdings almost entirely to timely real estate transactions.”