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52 THE CARIBOO TRAIL

were very hardin Canada. The East was hard
up. Farming did not pay. All eyes turned
towards Cariboo; and no wonder! Many of
the treasure-seekers holding the richest claims
had gone to Cariboo owning nothing but the
clothes on their backs. A season’s adventure
in a no-man’s-land of bear and deer, above
cloud-line and amid wild mountain torrents,
had sent them out to the world laden with
wealth. Some ran the wild canyons of the
Fraser in frail canoes and crazy rafts with their
gold strapped to their backs or packed in buck-
skin sacks and carpet-bags. And some who
had won fortune and were bringing it home
went to their graves in Fraser Canyon.