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lakes and the progressive policy of the Company ensures admirable local
facilities as well as for through traffic to outside points. In this way the
prosperity of British Columbia has been developed and built up, remote
mines and timbers limit being brought into touch with smelters and lumber
mills by means of branch lines. New territories of considerable extent
are also being opened up, notably by the Nicola, Kamloops and Similka-
meen Railway, from Spence’s Bridge southeastward, and the Kootenay
Central Railway from Golden on; the Canadian Pacific Company’s main
line to Jukeson on the Crow’s Nest Branch, opening up the fertile Winder-
mere Valley.

In addition to passenger and freight steamers operating on the Koote-
nay, Arrow and Okanagan Lakes, the Canadian Pacific Railway maintains
a large fleet of ocean and coasting vessels of considerable size, plying
Eetween North British Columbia, Queen Charlotte Islands, West Coast
of Vancouver Island, Alaskan ports, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Nan-
aimo, Ladysmith and Comox.

The Princess Victoria and the Princess Charlotte, Clyde-built boats,
ply between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle, and during the summer season
make the triangular run daily.

The Royal Mail Empress Liners, world-renowned for safety, speed
and comfort, make regular voyages from Vancouver and Victoria to Japan
and China. Canadian-Australian liners from the same ports to and from
Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia give a service leaving nothing to
be desired. All of these fleets are being constantly added to by up-to-
date vessels.

On Vancouver. Island, the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway runs
from Victoria to Cameron Lake, 108 miles. The Esquimalt and: Nanaimo
Railway Company’s land grant comprises 1,200,000 acres, requiring the
extension of the line to Comox and Campbell River and the building of
branches to Alberni and Cowichan Lake. The E. & N. Railway is now
operating from Victoria to Alberni.

DISTRICTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

British Columbia is at present divided into the following districts.

Square Miles. Acres.
Iootenayic ee oe ee 23,500 15,060,000
Wallen esa es ee A eee 24,300 15,850,000
Pilloge te ier cree ante eerie 16,100 10,300,000
Westminster: 25. <2 8 ae ee 7,660 4,900,000
LSE Tal biota ghee amit Nar neta ope epee Serie er ey 150,500 96,350,000
RICE EY Sarat sane tomas hea oecctenll, ON nen Set are 150,000 96,000,000
Comox (Mainland) en ee on ee 7,100 4,550,000
Vancouver Islander ts ee ae er 16,400 10,000,000

395,560 253,010,000

The foregoing figures are given approximately to approach round
figures as near as possible.

THE KOOTENAYS.

Kootenay District. or ‘‘The Kootenays” forms the southeastern
portion of British Columbia, west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains,
and is drained by the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers. East Kootenay
contains a large extent of agricultural land, some of which requires irriga-