Silverton B.C.
1908 Westaward Ho Magazine
For peerless, scenic beauty, awe inspiring in its magnificent grandeur,
Lake Slocan has always been conceded to be without a
rival, by those favored few, who have tasted the exquisite pleasure derived either from a short sojourn amidst its wonderful attractions, or who in the pursuit of both pleasure and wealth, have found here the pathway leading to both, and are helping to push the "Wheel of
Development," now in rapid progress, through this section of country.
But not until very recently has the public realized that this beautiful laive
with its unsurpassed climate, its boating and fishing—surrounded by vast timbered areas—is "The Hub" of one of the richest sections in British Columbia, as to natural resources.
Located about midway along its eastern shore, and having the finest harbor on the lake—at the very nerve-centre of this most promising country, is the beautiful and progressive town of Silverton.
Here the hand of the Creator seems to have been especially lavish in not only storing up riches for the benefit of mankind, but also in providing natural avenues of access to them from this centre, from which a progressive people are extending either wagon-roads, trails
or tramways to every important point. Over the rugged mountains have
passed hundreds of hardy prospectors, exposing for the exploitation of capital, most promising leads of gold, silver, lead, zinc and other minerals, often in nearly a pure state, and in combinations most valuable commercially.
Today, some of these showings have become well developed and paying mines ; others are being exploited steadily with best of prospects, and many more of a most promising nature only await the advent of capital to make them an apparent commercial success.
Within the last three years there has been an average annual increase in both tonnage and values of ore shipments from this point of more than three hundred per cent., and yet development here is in its infancy.
But as if to make it a still better field for lucrative investment, a new asset of great magnitude is rapidly assuming a front place in the eyes of both the homeseeker and speculative public.
Here, are thousands of acres of choice land suitable for general farming, fruit and truck gardening, with a steadily growing home market for all that can be produced.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamers give this place a daily service each way, and a double service three times a week, always connecting with trains for the main line at Revelstoke, and east over Crow's Nest branch. To see this country, is to believe in it ; and bona fide intending settlers or investors will find themselves well repaid
after a careful investigation of its resources.
