CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 5, 1969

THE ANNUAL

‘The following article — on
the Kootenays -- has been
supplied by the provincial
depariment of travel indus.
(ry and is cue of eight stories
which will appear in hs
newspaper encouraging B.
residents to Toliday” at home
this year.

The articles will tie in
with a province-wide cam-
paign by the travel bureau to
encourage citizens of this
province to “sce ourselves as

. jothers see us" with the slo-

HIGH ARROW

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* OF TOP VALUES!

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HARD HAT!
G.W.G. Texas Ranger

gan: “B. Cee-ing is Believing.”
By Barry Broadfoot =~

There was a time not so

country was a place of aban-
doned mines, ghost towns,
small and quiet cities, dusty
roads that wandered Row hess,
into the hills, and a

through.

The main plan seemed
to be to ge: through this vast
bloc c€ south-central British
Coiumbia as fast as possible,
to the Okanagan Valley and
Vancouver going west and
eastward, north to Banff and
Calgary.

The old mines are still
there, of course, and the
ghost towns a bit more crum-
bled, and “hc cities are still
peaceful and friendly, but
there is a iarge but, as in
“but people ate not rushing
through anymore.

The Keotenays are being
discovered, and visitors are
finding what .so many resi-

Pants, reg. 6.50 NOW 5.49] dents of this country already

Shirts, 4.50 Now Slashed |aew — that

this is a vaca-
tionland altaost without par-

. $3.79 allel in Carad:.

I re-discovered the Koo-

Jeans 8.95 NOW $7.79) tenays recently on two trips,

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BLASTING!
Sports Coats and Suits

must be dredged out at a
20% discount.

ae
. HIGH WATER!

one in the spring-time enter-
ing through the north end
via Vernon and the -Mona-
shee (what a lovely name)
Pass, and the second in the
autumn over Anarchist Moun-
in on the Southern Trans-
Canada Highway out of the
Souter Okanagan.

here I went I
found ‘good accommodation:
weatherbeaten but still proud
hotels buil: in the old wild
days of the mining boom, or
in motels as up to date as
next: year’s mod fashions. a

We are flooded with Cas-
ual Pants — so every time
you buy a pair there‘’s a
$1.00 in the pocket.

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Every sweater must be

moved so ¥ discount on
the entire stock.

a
DRILLING!

All Ritchie Shoes! 20%
OFF Savings up to $6.00.

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CONCRETE!

Every Summer Jacket has
$3.00 in the pocket.

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the old hotels, and
with some of them offering
food rooms at $3 a night,
they’re easy to take.

Iran define the demar-
cation line of the East and

*|West Kootenays, but outlining

it all on a mup is difficult.
Government mining surveys
and forestry maps probably
have quite precise boundaries
but you won'l find such un-
Janimity in the Kootenays it-
self. Let’s say, 1» make things
simple, that the Kootenays
East and West are split by a
line running north and south
through Kootenay Lake, and
that tne whole area includes
everything east of the Okan-
agan Valley te the Alberta
border.

T'm not rigtt, but not that

ither.

high-
ways and byways, let's first
dispose of our boasting
friends, Undenizbly, the Koo-
tenays have two of the finest
boating lakes — the Arrow
Lakes system and Kootenay
Lake — the last named: o!
which is famous for its mas-
sive rainbow trout.

Your boat could be put
inte the Arrow Lakes at the
north end at Arrowhead,
south of Revelstoke on the

long ago wher the Kootenay |§

main highway "rushing traffic °

Trans-Canada Highway. Then
(provided you have someone
to drive your uute down, for

ruising down
the eo Mies to Castlegar.

A
get used to solitude for the
lake is virtuaily unused by
any but Jocal boaters. And
when you do set out, be sure
you're well stocked with sup-
plies and fuel. There aren't
that many comiounities along
this long-string bean-like lake
a between blue-green

tenay Lake. Now
there's ‘a Take! Wet your keel
at Nelson on the west arm|/
of Kootenay Lake and head
out towards the main lake.
You get more phag 250 miles

of

you) yo you could: spend an idyl-| out.

warning: you'll have to|to

es in the earlier days, but
tied to the mining , boom
which faded and then went

in Rock Creek I met a
Patriarch, white beard almost
his knees, sitting by the
store, and he said, “A miner
all my life. Still hold my pros-
pector’s licence. Do a bit now
and then. I've been that close
so many times and- never
made it. Some did, but not
me. Never. Never will now.”
T wished him luck and drove
on.

Over the new Salmo-|j
Creston Highway, and what
a ski slope!, About 20 miles
downhill. Into Creston, a plea-
sant little town, with plenty | qj
joe accommodation, serving an
erences and

dozens of wavee? ‘with sandy
beaches, assy camping
parks, and not a soul within
20 miles. There's nothing like
it for the soul — this inland
sea of sun and sand.

The fishing is g great, but
some spots ate better than
others. In other words, if you
see fishermen fish where
they are. They're probably
local people, and know the
hot spots.

The highways of the Koo-
tenays are mostly. new, or
re-built, and jee long dry per-| in
iods' of spring, summer’ and
ali make the side routes ex-
cellent, even 2f they are dirt
roads,

Your service station
maps will show you only the the
main roads, but local
information maps oben en
the country to you — the
small roads leading back in-
to reed-cirrled small lakes
dimpled by frolicsome trout,
decades-old gravel roads run-

ning back into mines aban-
doned 70 years ago, or log-
ging roads grown over con-
siderably buc still passable. If
you are apprehensive and you |3
feel like stretching your legs,
park the car and walk,

East from Anarchist
Mountain, Highway 3 runs
through the Boundary coun-

f|try, through Bridesville, Rock | tains

Creek, Greenwood where the
great Phoenix smelter once
Belehed 24 hours a day for
years, and midway and into

Grand Forks, al: villages and
towns which had great futur-

lumber
cafe at the three o’c!
fee break, one rud
type told his friends,
15 deer, ali up, on

Ey: mines. You're travelling an
abandoned rail« grade which,
for years, hauled out millions
jof dollars wortls of silver be-
fore the: great’ mines of this
country .went bust;

Bountiful Kootenays Offer Much to Tourist

*|sidcroad to Sandon, a° city

tos

pe dancing girls, and civic pride,

S’flood ripped out the main

small hut beside the miner-
al springs back. in the, hills.
Fifteen minutes and you'can
count the aches and_ pains
leave your body, one’ by one.

If you're driving along
Kootenay Lake, try the spa
at Ainsworth, more rustic
than others but rated by
a as being the best of

nearby. Kaslo, the
jumpingatt place in the early
days for much of
deau Country mines, en will
find a friendly little commun-
ity. The many boarded-over
buildings: show it has had
better days, but its location
on the lake with the surroun-
ding hills makes it one of my
favorite spots.
You may rent a boat here

-|for a day’s fishing, and there

are some deep ‘holes to the

south that give up .lunker

trout. By. fhe way, it’s a city,
it has only

my back road this morning.
Have to get them outa there
or my trees will catch it.”

said, “Get a big mean old
dog,’ ” and everyone laughed.

Cranbrook, a small city
bright as-.a silver dollar,
with a 50-yard line view roe

The rest nodded, and one course

| shost towns and

a few
punded | people. as carryover
better days, of

At Kaslo, seek the road
to New Denver, up over the
old gravel road through the

silver country, past several

‘About’ ‘three. miles ‘from
New Denver, watch for. the,

that died when the’ price of
silver ‘dropped ‘out’ of: sight
60 years ago. ‘Once this hud-
dle of shacks and wreckage
Vin a gap in. the hills had: all
‘the bright lights and flowing
champagne and ‘saloons and

that any’ city had.,

The main street was built Q
mover Carpenter :Creek, and

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Sidney Poitier in “FOR LOVE OF' IVY” Starts June 18
Coming “IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT” Sidney Poitier

the final coup de grace oc-
curred in 1955 when a flash

)street; Not much left now.
dust: shacks clinging to the
‘hillside, wrecked buildings,
memories of a few oldtimers,
and the indifferent skies over-
head.
At Nelson, in® front of
the Hume Hotel, the old men
sit in the autumn sun under
the trees turning red and
gold and they ‘talk of the
great days. They talk of the
properties that never made
it, mines that flourished and
died, and mines like the Sul-
livan — one of the greatest
— feeding the huge |

smelter. ;
They talk of steamboats
on the Takes, and hauling sup-
plies: into the : pus by. pack
train, and the dred -rail-
roads ‘that ety a full-blown
from promoters’ imaginations.
Such promoters made more
money in phoney
99 per cent of the hardrock
miners. It’s the story of any
mining country.
And next time you're in
Grand‘ Forks, ‘stop in at din-
ner at the main hotel and
have a Russian’ meal — bors-
cht, thick and delicious, and.

galoopsies with a tart
sauce, cucumber salad, all nm
honest homemade .bread you
can eat, and then the: hottest
tea you can stand. All for
$1.60. “Just another bargain

GRAPEFRUIT, Pink + 10 for 99c
WAX BEANS, Cut, Green Giant 2 for 45c
COOKING OIL, Domestic, 32-07. ........ 9Bc
JAM, Apple-Strawberry, 48-07. 79¢
TOOTHPASTE, McLean's Fam. size $1.19
BREAD, Friday & Saturday 6 for $1
‘See Us For Fishing Supplies
— Rock Gas Propane Cylinders Filled —
Gulf Gas and Oil United Purity Store
Easy Credit Terms Available

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Johnny’s Grocery
&° Gas Sales Ltd.

On _ Robson Side of the Ferry
Open, 7 am. — 9.p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Open Sunday 9 a.m. — 9 p.m.

Fish and Chips

in the

the Rocky
eight miles from Fort Steele,
the ..former ; and brief] wed
Mouated Police headqu:
where the lecal Indians thea:
tened to act tue, The uprising
|, and the Mounties
pulled out in 1868. But mem-
ories remain.

There is so. much .more
than just a Mountie post, for
the federal government has
recreated Barkerville. The
job isn’t finished yet, but it

takes little imagination to see
what can and will be done.
And there is an excellent mu-
seum, which, when I was
there, received the raves of

a charter busload of Califor-
nia tourists.

And there is no lovelier
drive in spring or fall than
farther up thi
Valley with rock:

tains to the le
and don’t bere

Roman-type indoor baths, two
pools. for the public and. spe-

cial’ baths for guests in a

Reg. 179.95

We also

279 Columbi

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See the Fleetwood 22” Color TV with the new Imperial
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$799.95.

Fleetwood Portable, regular 209.95
Special

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Tomato Soup i727... 8 rr*1.00
Canned Bacon 79

Orange Juice =.

Tulip. 3S
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6 oz. Tin ..

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Regular Grind.
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Captain's Choice.
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Soft Drinks 27:7"...
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Peanut Butter

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Detergent :

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Assorted Colors.

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Cream Pie
Pork Picnic
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Smoked. Gov't. Inspected
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