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Show A MESSAGE FROM THE FAR NORTH A paper comes to ihe Standard from Fort Fraser. British Columbia Half of the little weekly is taken up with reports of railroad construction In that far northern country. The Pc-lfic & Great Eastern railway Is building through that region. Pacific coast pioneers will recall the Fraser river excitement of the early seventies, when placer gold was discovered dis-covered on that stream At that time the Eraser river country was looked on as the outer fringe of the Arctic and a land of perpetual snow, where no oue would think of going except to search for gold or to trap fur bearing bear-ing animals. The paper before US tells of the farming and livestock possibilities of the Fort Fraser dis trlct. Fort Fraser is near the headwaters of the Fraser river and 700 miles (north of the Canadian Pacific railroad rail-road When the Canadian Pacific was built: the average American looked on ihe venture as one In which the battle bat-tle with Ice and snow would test the endurance of the railroad forces during dur-ing the long winter months, and no one thought of a transcontinental I 'route still nearer tho frozen regions But later the Grand Trunk was start-, start-, ed, and now this line, passing through 1 Fort Fraser. is being built. Fort Fraser i6 as far north of Yan-! Yan-! corner as the Canadian south-i south-i rn boundary Is north of Ogden. and yet that region is being settled, not ; bj pold hunters, or trappers, but bj larmers and stock raisers. rn - |