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is unequaled. All that is needed to develop these
wonderful resources of the territory is settlers
who will work out the problem with persevering
labor. The water is uniformly good, and no lack
of it, winter nor summer. Whether taken from
the mountain spring as it bubbles from the hill
side, drank from the brook, drawn from the well,
dipped from the river, or caught Irom the eaves,
it is always pure, sweet and palatable, and the
supply equal to the demand. The timter con
sists of fir, cedar, spruce, maple, Cottonwood,
hemlock, and alder, with underbrush of cherry,
vine maple, crab apple, etc. The land tributary
to the Snohomish and Till Chuck rivers are marsh
and low lands. Such under a per led system of
drainage and dyking are making fine lands
Aliout forty miles of ditches are built, and they
are now making a ditch frm I-owcll to Snoho
mish City, ten miles in length, with a width of
sixteen feet. When completed it will drain 75,000
acres of good land. The county has a population
of 2,000 which is now being rapidly augmented by
immigration. Snohomish City has a population
of 400, and contains four hotels, five large stores,
a saw mill, a weekly paper and monthly maga
zine.
westward to Englih bay and southward to False
Ray creek. It must here be remarked, that, fm t
long time, Granville was the rival of Port Moody,
as the terminal station and depot of the Canadian
racific. Even vrt there nrc nunv who sloullv
maintain its claims. The objections to it are,
that the anchorage for a considerable distance in
front is bad, there Wing a rocky bottom with
but a few inches of mud, so that ship moored
there drat their anchors upon the slightest provo
cation. Next, it is maintained that nothing like
a sufficient supply ol good, wholesome fresh
water, sufficient for the wants of a small town,
much less a large city, ran there be provided
except at an enormous expense. Ily the way,
the indention upon the margin of which Granville
is situated, is secially known as Coal bay, owing
to the certain indications of coal found In it
vicinity. There can he little, if any, doubt In the
mind of any geologist that the Nanaimo coal
beds, on the western shote of the Gulf of Georgia,
opposite the mouth of llurrard Inlet, underlie the
whole breadth of that gulf, and crop up on the
mainland in this vicinity.
Close by Granville, on the same southern shore
of the inlet, are the extensive mills of the Hastings
Mill Company, surroundcM by the lively village of
sand flats, which is covered by the tide, but be
comes bare at low water, No doubt, at an early
day, this space will all he tilled up to a convenient
level and built upon. This could U done there
hi much Icm eaiente than such operations usually
rctpiiie 1 for the hills to be tared for the filling in,
commence at the very water's edge. On the
southern side of this harbor, the Canadian I'acltic
tfgini or ; as you please. Here t terminal
wharf has been erected t and here the town of
Port Moody has len laid out In streets, npiarra
and building lots, according to the uual mode In
such cases. There ran be no doubt whatever as
to this Mug the terminal station of the Canadian
Pacific railway. It was selected as such by the
Canadian government Wore the first blow was
struck In the construction of that great work and
it I but a few weeks since the Minister of Kail
ways, in hi place In the Canadian House of
Commons, solemnly declared that government
had no intention whatever of changing the locality
of the terminus. It may l olwervcd that Port
Moody Is alKiut five miles from the nearest olnt
on the Fraser river, just on the bounds of the
city of New Westminster, and by a road which,
it must be admitted, would well Iwar re -making.
Here, then, by whatever name to be hereafter
BRITISH COLUMBIA Hastings, composed mainly of the residences of known, Is the embryo city which ! to he the per-
rOHMimiCATKD
Port Moody is the selected western terminus of
the Canadian Pacific railroad. What more can
we say about it? Let us see. Port Moody so
named for Colonel Moody, of the British Koyal
Engineers, who was once a celebrity in these
parts and who conducted most or the surveys
upon the lower Fraser and vicinity, just after
British Columbia was declared a crown colony-
is the inner, or headmost, harbor of Burrard
inlet. It may be observed that the name of this
inlet, like those of most of the lands and waters
about the Northern Pacific coast having an
English sound, was bestowed by Captain Van
couver, in the course of his three memorable
voyages to these parts. This inlet was named In
honor of General Sir Harry Burrard, who was
the predecent of Sir Arthur Wellesley afterwards
Duke of Wellington as commander of the British
forces in the Peninsular war.
We have srioken of Port Moody as the Inner
harbor of Burrard inlet. That inlet may be con
sidered one continuous harbor from its mouth to
its head, a distance of about fifteen miles. Even
English lusy, outside of the first narrows and of
what we assume to be the inlet proper, is a good
roadstead in any ordinary weather. These first
narrows are very narrow ; and the tide runs through
them with creat velocity so much so, that, with
either a head wind or a bead tide, sail vessel
had better not attempt to pass them. Practically
they never do. but are always towed in and out
by steam turn. Once within these narrows, the
visitor finds himself npon a magnificent slieet of
water the surrounding of which will look not
unfamiliar to any one acquainted with Puget
sound. These consist of lofty, wooded foothills,
U-kl ti miHintains for the most part capped
and streaked with snow at all seasons. Upon
those employed by these mills. Almost directly
opposite, on the north side of the inlet which
here attain aliout Its greatest width Is the large
milling establishment of the Moodyville Company,
surrounded by the thriving and beautifully situated
village of Moodyville. It may here lie observed
that the Moody for whom this place was named,
had no connection with the Colonel Moody referred
to above. On the contrary, he was, we believe,
an American ciliten, and the founder of the ex
tensive mills just mentioned. These two milling
establishments those of Hastings and Moody
ville are the largest In the Province, with one
possible exception at New Westminster,
About six miles above the first narrows, we
enter the second narrows. These are wider than
those below, and the tide runs through them with
much less velocity. We pass upward and east
ward, through another great basin of about five
miles In length by an average width of a mile and
a half. This Is all a harW deep enough lo ac
commodate the largest ships afloat, and with good
holding ground throughout. Wc then enter the
third narrows, which open Into Port Moody
proper. Hut before reaching this point, we pas,
on the north shore, the outlet of what is called the
North Arm. This la a deep, dark fiord extending
at nearly right angle to the main Inlet, (of many
mile inland, between snow-capped mountains
manent terminus of that gigantic woik, the Can
adian Pacific railroad. It seems a most seemly
place for the purpose. No Utter harbor could
be desired. It Is one which could berth t fleet of
Crtitl F.atttrMi, yet one in vhlt h a child might be
trusted with the management ol a boat, being
habitually as smooth a glss and never troubled
by sipialL The surrounding are picturesque In
the extreme 1 and the immediate shores are, In no
case, so steep or rugged a to cause serlou dim-
cully In building operation 1 whilst, a to the
greater part, they are admirably adapted to that
purpose. Finally, It Is the receptac le of numeious
spring-fed streams of delicious water, affording a
supply sufficient for any of the largest cities of the
Pacific low.
We cannot say that the nuh and ttcllement
alxiut the purchase and sale of lands, In and about
Port Moody, amount a yet, lo wh.il I popularly
called "boom") but already lli't ha Iwen a
lively IranV In town lots. When once the rail
road, or even the 'western section of It, attending
hark to Kamloops I owrwd, the stream of popu-
lation pouring Into Port Moody, and the building
operations and other business there carried on,
will I Immense. It cannot be otherwise. Its
climate, unsurpassed fur sgreeahillly and health-
fulness by that of any other spot In the world) lis
site, combining fare plcturesquenes wlih equally
with hore so precipitin to lie in great part ! rare conveniences a I town sltei It fortune In
inaccessible,
Now as lo Port Moody proper this beautiful
sheet of water Is between three and four mile In
length and from hslf to three-quarter of mile
In breadth, owing to a tlight curve la the general
course of the inlet, just at the third narrows.
Port Moody, when once yosi are fciily within it
appear lo be entirely land-locked. Indeed, sur
rounded as It seemingly b by steep, wooded bill.
backed, especially cm the north, ly lofty and pic.
entering the ha-in within the tint narrow, intra 1 fr-pie mountains II seems mote line a mosinisiB
appears immediately upon the right, the hit' UrB 4iatrouons thin an inlet flora the
village of Granville. II is Piry suus, . M tbt(, k u ,,, ,
water edije, and upon ine noruer ,
'.TI .1.. L. . ..J. tj Us-1 Und Boon over two thousand acre so H has been est i mated.
the snores 01 twrsua war.
fhi tract extend I bat the estimate appear to ail large owe -of
having been selected a the western terminus of
that most gigantic work, Ihe Canadian Pacific
railway all definitely and determinedly point to
a great future for Port Moody, and Indicate that
it must soon become one of the first titW upon
Ihe shore of Ihe Pacific. P, H. II.
The ChllleoHlej valley I a larg, well watered
are of rolling hills covered with bench grss,
with sufff Unt twsmpy ground to snake it valuable
for graiing purpose. The surrounding uwiinlaln
art said lo cuMala gold, sllvef and cinnabar,
though but little tifiispecting ha Ikwoj done.
There are m the valley large arras of good ("
usf Wnd, brt owing so the Ud that H Uo the
wo stde of rrsstn, ve we trwte is ao btklg