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operations. Soon after starting, however, the brakes in some manner became locked and the locomotive began to skid down the rusty rails without moving a wheel. It had attained a speed of about seven miles an hours when the expert had to announce that he had lost control of the engine and to recommend those aboard to jump. This, fortunately, they did, escaping with nothing more that a shaking, and in one case a sprain. With accelerating speed the huge locomotive sped down the track. It had probably got up to fifteen or twenty miles an hour when it came to the curve at the bottom. Here it left the rails and began to conduct pioneer agricultural operations in the soil in which small boulders and occasional stumps were frequent. The safety valve broke off and its pressure gauge went down to zero in a second. Fortunately in plowing into the comparatively free ground it did not meet with any irresistible obstacle, so that it is not so seriously damaged as it might have been." The engine was wrenched free of its front truck, which remained, inverted, on the rails. The stack was bent at right angles, and the remains of the headlight reposed upon a stump. The cab was badly battered, yet the engineer's valise remained within it. While it was to serve the McNair brothers no more, the tough little Heisler survived to be part of the lumber industry for many years. The wreck of the company's motive power must have come as a rude shock to the McNairs and perhaps more so to three other gentlemen. Not three weeks prior to the accident, an agreement had been signed between the McNair Timber Company and one David Grant, acting on behalf of a company about to be formed. On June 10, 1907, the McNairs formally entered into partnership with Graham Fraser, a manufacturer from New Glasgow, N.S., Joshua Peters of Moncton, N.B. and Russell L. Fraser, a North Vancouver engineer. The capital of the corporation, known as the McNair-Fraser Lumber Co., Ltd., was divided into 2000 shares of $100 each, of which James and Robert McNair each held 5000. Jim McNair remained President, Chairman of the Board, and manager of the company, while R.L. Fraser became assistant manager.