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ter of the Interior has just established
the biggest buffalo haunt in the
world, comprising three-fourths of the
buffaloes in existence. The acquisi-
tion of this herd from under the nose
of the ‘‘Mighty Hunter,’’ from the
very fields through which Mr. Roose-
velt romped up from his riotous
youth—from a cow-puncher to a Pres-
idential possibility—will stand as one
of the smoothest tricks ever turned by
the quiet secretary. It is also an-
other argument in favour of ‘‘still-
hunting.’’

By the time the last spike is driven
in the western section, there will be
a splendid array of interesting feat-
ures along the line that leads down
to the sea at Prince Rupert. Along
the Yellow Head, I have been told,
are lone peaks whose glinting glacial
spheres pierce the very clouds. So
perfectly isolated are some of these,
that engineers, seeking an easy grade,
have walked quite around, as a farm-
er might encircle his hay-stack, com-
ing out at the starting point. Al-
though rooted in the Rockies, many
of these cold white cones are as
separate and distinct as if they had
been melted, molded, cast and set
down upon the finished hills.

At one point there is a sheer drop
in the newly discovered Jones River

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of 210 feet—greater in depth than
Niagara Falls. At another place a
river disappears, dives under a moun-
tain and emerges from the other
side. Shooting these sub-mountain
rapids will afford pleasant pastime
for Peary and Wellman when they
have secured and parcelled out the
Pole. But weird, wild and attractive
as are these new wonders, the greatest

interest centers about the city by the

sea.

Prince Rupert, looking down the
mile-wide harbour to the open sea, is
sure to become one of the attractive
towns of this continent. Already the
announcement has been made that
plans are out for the construction of
the largest cold storage plant in the
world, costing $250,000.

Not far from the mouth of the har-
bour are the world-famed halibut
banks, which alone would make Prince
Rupert a great fish market.

All the growing trade of Alaska
and the far-off Klondike will be
brought 500 miles nearer the chief
Canadian, American and European
ports by the completion of the Grand
Trunk Pacific, which is to be one of
the best built and best equipped
railroads in all America, and it’s
greatest creation will in all probabil-
ity be Prince Rupert.