Thursday. May 13, 1954. THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Page 3 . Niquidet Transport Williams Lake Horsefly R. M. Blair’s office, Wms. Lake, phone R66 Horsefly Phone, 3 short 1 long HOCKEY PLAYERS GUESTS Members of the Stampeders and Pontiacs, local senior and junior hockey clubs, will be treated to a dinner tonight under the sponsor- ship of the War Memorial Arena Society. The dinner is in the way of a formal ‘thank you’ to the players as the main drawing cards for the arena during the winter season. MAY 15th The purpose of this sale is to provide a means for Ranchers and Farmers to sell surplus equipment, tools. Saturday etc., and to. buy second hand articles they may want. The auction is limited to farm and ranch contributors. Only livestock such as gentle horses, milk cows, chickens, weaner pigs, pets, are permitted. General Sale Will Follow Bailiff's Sale Second Annual Farm and Ranch Exchange Auction Sale at War Memorial Arena 1 p.m. Sharp MAT HASSEN, Auctioneer -Sponsored by Williams Lake and District Board of Trade introducing Bella Coola The western outlet for the Chileotin country, the famed Bella Coola road, has been prominently in the news for the past two Years. In the belief that our readers might be inter- ested in the people of Bella Coola, whose energy and purpose has resulted in the road being built, we have asked Cliff Kopas, president of the Bella Coola Board of Trade to do a series of articles on the district and its people. the series. ~ The tiny community of Bella Coola, 60 miles east of Ocean Falls, 300 miles west of Williams Lake, three hundred miles north of Van- couver and two hundred miles south of Prince Rupert is like a youth ready to step out into a big, strange, For decades the district has been hemmed in, both restricted and protected, by the. en- cireling Coast Range which rises in savage grandeur from the valley floor. Last year the Bella Coola Dis- trict Board of Trade, working on the piemise that if you want it done you wonderful world. imust do it yourself, punched a gate- way through the Coast Range. This year a road will be made through that gateway, and Bella Coola with its beauty of forest and field, glaciers and gorges will be a part of rushing British Columbia. Like the youth hastily looking over his home life before he starts out into the world, Bella Coola recalls that it was the first valley in British Columbia to.be visited by white man. In. 1793 Alexandra Mackenzie, fol- lowing Indian guides and Indian ad- vice, dropped from the central pla- teau into the Bella- Coola Valley, floated to the sea (down the the stream that to-day produces the best Steel-bead fishing) and was thereby the first white man to reach the Pa- cific Ocean across the North Ameri- can continent — eight years ahead of any“other explorer. In 1860 Bella Coola was a port of entry to the gold fields of the Cariboo. About the same time the Hudson’s Bay Company established a post in Bella Coola. In 1894 the valley was the scene of a This is the first of Cattlemen Elect Officers For Yeur (delayed) The local Cattlemen's Association met in the Community Hall on the 30th. Grazing permits, and hay‘per- mits were discussed, also permits to colonization effort by a group of Nor- wegian settlers under the Key. Christian Saugstad, and in 1912 au mnglish company surveyed tor a railway to the coast at Bella Coola. ‘The allect of these elforts us a 1904. are “varied. Muckenzie left fo. ella Coola an anchorage in history. the gold-fielas effort left behind a pack-trail that was gradually broad- ened out (except tor forty miles) imto the Chilcotin Road; the Hud- son's Bay Company and their trad- ers established a bridge with the pasc and a foothdld for subsequent de- velopment; the Norwegian settle- ment persisted and the descendants of these settlers form the back- ground of today’s population; “and the English railway-company, whose money and personnel went to war instead of to railroading has passed without trace except for dusty sur- veys, a few overgrown slashings. Like any youth, Bella Coola has had its sports and its spankings. The price of Sockeye Salmon has meant either boom or depression. The re- wards of agricultural effort have glided and grayed. In the last few years logging has been the weilder of the magic wand. Today cats and donkeys and heavy trucks are taking out the fir trees that looked upon Mackenzie's passing, on the gola- seekers of the 1860’s. The accom- panying boom, with its increased population, has brought new schools, new home, more roads, but also an enlarged necessity for accommoda- tions, more services. When the tour- ist breaks through the gates and dis- covers beautiful Bella Coola, it will be like a young man caught awk- wardly on the stage before he has been dressed for it. But the hints are being heard, and plans are being laid. Some plans wiil purchase land were put before the meeting for their approval. Repre- senting the Forestry was Tom Wal- lace, Kamloops. Joe Walsh, district agriculturist, and Art Newhouse, brand inspector, Williams Lake, also attended the meeting. It being the annual meeting of the association, they held their election of officers. Fred E. Jones was ro- alected president, L. Long vas elec ed vice-president. After being secre tary-treasurer for six years, J Wynstra was returned to oifice acclamation. He was presented with a gift of cash whereby those present tried in a small way to show their appreciation for his years of devoted service to the association. The ques- ton of an agricultural school was di: cussed and vetoed by the meeting. A.W. ALARIC, pole buyer for Hume and Rumble, Vancouver, ac-_ compianed by Max McSweyn, repre- senting Continental Company, were luncheon guests of the M. L. Gibbons on Saturday. THE WM.J.WALKER a ily + business visitors to Williams last week. FROM all accounts, the dance » on by the Community Club on the 1st was a jolly one. MR. and MRS. KBR DUNLOP and family spent Baster/holidays in, Bea- ver Valley where they were the guests of Mrs. A. Nieve, Sr., mother of Mrs. Dunlop. Keithley News MR. and MRS. J. S, CRITTENDEN from Eugene, Oregon, are staying with Mr. and Mrs. Conn at Cariboo Lake Lodge for an indefinite time. MR. ERNIE McBURNEY returned from Kamloops, where he spent the a develop, others will grow, and it] Winter. . might be that.the shadows of coming] MR. ALBERT MacGREGOR. came industry and importance will over-|in from Quesnel where he spent the i cast those that are going on. winter working. ; ae 2 ¥ ~e * se Bella Coola.is a husy-placg, and it] _ MR..GEORGE STENGLE has re- is our hope in succeeding sues of| turned from a motor tri = this paper, to tell you just how it couver where he has been vy = i being busy. friends for the past two weeks. Inland Natural Gas Company . . Ready to Bring Gas to i i { e | B.C. 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