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001C9610 4 1 ~ I October 26, 1928. NATURAI. FEATURES OF iVEST VANCOUVER (Continued from Page 1) impressiveness is most completely realized if it is viewed from the university site, when it suggests a great natural bastion ~ commanding the sea approaches to the city. Its height is about 300 feet, so that it is nearly as lofty and quite as massive as Ben Nevis, the highest of the Scottish mountains. It is difficult of approach,thanks to the mischievous activities of man. Its broad southern face was once covered with forest, which is still found on the north and west sides. Up till about ten years ago, it was possible without undue effort to reach the summit. The climb was a little dirty, for the route led over charred logs and soil reduced to reddish gray ash. The upper part of the climb is not greatly changed. Dead trees still cumber that grand mural front, and the winter rains are still washing away the sterilized soil front, laying bare the gray rock beneath. except where seepage along the foot of some crag has served to protect a group of seedlings from the scorching breath of the forest fires which wrought the mischief, Lower down, however, nature has been ironical in her vengeance. A jungle of alders and similar forest weeds, such as always springs up after a fire, now forms a barrier along the whole south front, which only strong and perse- vering woodsmen can penetrate. The British Columbia Moun- taineering Club, with its usual public spirit, cut a pathway through the jungle above Horseshoe Bay. The task was well worth doing, for Black Mountain occupies a strategic position in the angle between Howe Sound and English Bay. The section of its panorama which gives it special importance is that which starts from the Olympics on the south, ranging over the mountains of the great island on the west, and then over the length and breadth of Howe Sound, with its lofty is- lands and its mountain-girdled shores, and the broad snow- fields that lie between it and Jervis Inlet. A district with such a vantage-point in its own territory is to be envied. The new trail makes it possible to make the ascent from Horseshoe Bay and return the same day; and hundreds will gain a new impression of the fjord which bears the name of Lord Howe, a famous one in the record of battles for the sceptre of the sea. The view from the Hollyburn Peak will always be better known than that from Black 5Iountain, for the climb and the return journey can be made from Vancouver in twelve hours, including the ferry trips. Howe Sound is not well seen from it; but there is a semi-circle of mountains which is worth see- ing. Less than a mile to the north-west is Strachan, with its broad top and wooded sides. Beyond and to the right of it, are Mount Brunswick and the Lions, higher than Strachan by a thousand feet. Then comes a vista of peaks beyond peaks in the far north-east. Cathedral 5Iountain, the mon- arch of the Seymour Valley, takes on a less savage aspect than from any other point. The northern pinnacle ridge of Crown Mountain, of whose existence few but climbers are aware, shows up in all its rugged ungracefulness, presenting a com- plete contrast to that southern aspect which won for the mountain the name of "Sleeping Beauty." Ambleside Hill There is a minor feature of interest which is prominent as the visitor approaches the ferry landing. It is a woode&l hill about 340 feet in height, which rises at the foot of the EIollyburn Ridge east of Twelfth Street. The hill stands out clearly from points as far away as the higher streets of North Vancouver. The Indian burial-ground which contains the mausoleum of Chief Joe Capilano lies on its southern slope. The granite has been here injected with volcanic rock of a much more enduring nature than its own; and the injected mass, long since cooled and hardened, has gradually become prominent through the general wearing away of the land sur- face which has taken place in the course of many centuries. The hill bears the name of Little 5Iountain, to which, however, another large intrusion of volcanic rock in South Vancouver appears to have a prior claim. Streams West Vancouver is a part owner of the Capilano, though the great canyon lies almost entirely in the district of North Vancouver. But the western municipality is not without stream-valleys of its own. The upper course of Brothers Creek includes a picturesque waterfall and a fine ravine, of which the traverse during the summer months is quite interesting and by no means difficult. Nelson Creek, which enters Howe Sound at Eagle Harbour, has a shorter course and a steeper grade than Brothers Creek. It will come into prominence with the completion of the western road extension. But the finest stream-valley in the municipality proper is that of Cypress Creek. The main stream has its source in a couple of shallow lakes situated on a peaty moorland which lies north of Black iWIountain. The dark wooded face of the mountain makes astriking background to the picture of the lakes on a sunny day, when the sky is reflected in the watery mirror set in the level green moorland. The stream first flows eastwards, and then turns to the south-west. For a distance of four miles we have the spectacle of THE iVEST VAN NE4VS Whimsical Revie w The Judge--"You are charged with running your car sixty miles an hour, smashing a tele- graph pole and a plate-glass win- dow, and injuring six people. )Vhat have you to say?" The Offender--"Great Scott, Judge, doesn't the fifteen dollars I paid for my license entitled me to any privileges at all?" He was showing his collection of hunting trophies to a girl friend. "I had the deuce of a time with that buffalo," said he. "Never harl such a morning in my life. I shot it in my pyjamas." "Heavens!" gasped the girl. "How did it get into them?" A woman came into a car with five children. She busied her- self seating them. A benevolent gentleman arose and gave her his seat. "Are these all your children, madam?" he asked, "Or is it a picnic?" "They'e all mine," snapped the woman, "and it's no picnic." A woman had spent an after- noon listening to the detailed ac- counts of her friend's illness, real or imaginary. IVhen asked where she had been, she replied: "I thought I was going to a tea party, but found it was an organ recital." "IVhat's the matter, Hiram," said a neighbor who had stopped for a minute on his way to town. "You look like you wanted to eat somebody up." "Oh, it's my wife," said Hir- am. "This morning she said: 'Do you know how many pan- cakes you have had? That' twenty-six.'t made me so darn- ed mad I got up from the table mthout eating my breakfast.' FOft SALE--Columbia Grafanola, full sized cabinet with records. Good as new. Phone SUest 1. FOlt ItF'iT on waterfront two houses one unfurnished; all improvements $ 20. the other furnished. Light and 4Vater. $ 16. Phone West 4. SEVERAl. VARIEI IES of Choice Iris plants for sale. Dr. Thompson, West rsu. FOlt ltENT--Reasonable. Furnished or unfurnished on Waterfront, Dun- darave,cosy bungalow, living room with open fireidace, two bedrooms, modern bathroom and kitchen. Phone West 413L SEWING WANTED -- Ladies'nd Children's work. be. Bloxham, Phone IVest 226. WEBB'S SHOE REI'AIltS iVEAlt BEST--Dundarave. WIN DOiV BLIN DS--Made to order and installed. Estimates free. Pearce's Drygoods, 14th Street and b1arine. Phone West 144. FOU ft ltOOb1 COTTAGE -- Water, Light, Phone, Garden, Fine view. Lot 75x129; $850, terms. ~VF&T VANCOUVER INVEST- MENT COY. West 102. P. otI em ome New Fuur ltuom Fully blodern house. Five minutes from Ferry, with sweeping sea view. Furnace, fireplace. Lot 66x122 at $2750; on very good terms. We specialize in this district. GEO. HAY Notary Public 1405 bIarine Drive Office Phone West 21 or Sey. 1260 Residence Phone W. 32R or W. 204X R. P. Clark 8c Co. (Vancouver) LtcL BLACK SOII.. about 100 yards, for sale. Hnbb Transfer, West 17. D RESSbl A K l. i G--Ladies and Child- ren--Alterations of all kinds. blrs. Davies, phone West 197L. WANTED--About a thousand good used red bricks for chimney. Ap- ply Wilson dc Moore, Dundarave. GRAbf Al HONE As& D VIOLINS For Sale--Sonora Cabinet Gramaphone, fumed natural oak finish $75 cash or $~5 on terms to responsible party also several three quarter size vio- lins in good condition, suitable for beginners, with case and bow, $ 10 to $ 15 complete. Apply Grigor's Dry Goods Store. Ul ltlt;IIT ilcLAGHLAN GltAbIA- PHONE for sale with records. AVhat offers. Phone IVest 23Y3. I'Olt SAI.E--$3000. Comfortable blod- ern 4 roomed bungalow on two large view lots at Dundarave (cor- ner ). Apply Parkyn, 2512 Haywood Avenue. FOlt SALE D L 237 Block 13, Lot 20, Total price $200. Terms $ 10.00 down, $5.00 a month, interest 6%. Apply. "Lots," West Van News. WANTED--A good wireless, battery- less set in exchange for lot in West Vancouver. Good location. West 9&L2. NOltTII SHORE EI.ECFRIC for wiring,-- Radio,-- Fixtures. Get our prices. Phone 79, North Van- couver. COW bIANURE FOlt SALE--Well rotted, $5 Two yards; $ 10 for 44 yards. bIr. Raine. Phone West Pe4 L2 ltADIO--bfarconi and Stewart-IVarn- er, Batteryless, demonstrated at our shop Before buying a radio see these. West Van. Electric (Jack Paterson). BI.ACK SOIL. about 100 yards, for sale. Hobb Transfer, West 17. FOlt RENT -- Comfortable modern house close to ferry, $30. Also, furnished four room modern bung- alow in Dundarave. Phone West 620L after 6 p.m. bIODEltN BUNGALOW FOR RENT $30. Five large rooms: Lot 13~~132 Garage, newly decorated. corner blathers and 26th. on Bus line. Ap- ply, B. R. Harrison or any West Van Real Estate Agent."Jim, lend me a five spot for a moment--only for a moment." "Quite sure only want it for a moment;?" "Quite sure--only for a mo- ment." "All right. Wait a moment, and then you won't want it."-- The Progressive Grocer. The old offender volubly pro- tested his innocencet. But the magistrate was not convinced. "I wouldn't believe you," he said, "if you swore on a dozen Bibles. Whatever you said, I'd believe the opposite to be true." Then the prisoner said: "Your ivorship, I plead guilty." "Ah, well," moralized the mor- alizer, 'somewhere behind the clouds the sun is shining." "Maybe," demoralized the de- moralizer. "And under the sea is land, but that does not help a guy when he falls overboard." "It took you a long time to pull that fellow's tooth out," said the dentist's assistant.. "Yes, he married the girl I loved." NO CASH PA YbIENT--Exceptional chance to buy a fully modern fam- ily residence, nicely situated in good section, with four bedrooms, fire- place, furnace. etc., on the unusual terms of $50 monthly. INVESTbIENT OPPORTUNITIES in West Vancouver were never more attractive than they are today. Buy on a quiet market and reap the bene- fit later. Six years back waterfront lots were $600 to $700 today they range from $2000 to $3000. Over 300 fo increase. Consult us for real opportunities and rock bottom prices. R. P. Clark 4 Co. (Vancouver) Ltd 823 Hastings St. AU. Sey. 7483, 7484 Local Representative C. J. AltCHER, IVest 225. Ambleside Hall FOR RENT Applications for reservations of the Ambleside Hall for the present may be made to the agents. GEO. HAY Notary Public 1405 b1arine Drive Phone West 21 BLACK SOIL. about 100 yards, for sale. Hobb Transfer, West 17. FOUNDATION, CLIENT %ORE, Landscaping, Lawns made, Grading and Clearing. T. Barnott, Resid- ence Phone West 672R. THAT LITTLE JOB -- Gardening, Rock Work. Rustic Work, Lawns, Pruning, Spraying, Concrete Paths, Drives, etc. Fencing, Rough Car- pentery, Painting and Kalsomin- ing. Repairs of all kinds. Saws sharpened. Phone West 172Xl. CABINET MkhER 4 Oliver, 15th and Waterfront. Repair work done. Cedar chests from $ 15. H E~ISTITCHING--Plain . white 5c yard; silk and colored 10c yard. Pearce's Drygoods, 14th Street and Marine Phone West 144 NEWblAN 4 ROBBINS -- Builders and Contractors--Painting, paper- hanging and kalsomining, chimneys built. 28th and Marine. Phone West 74 R1. BLACK SOIL, about 100 yards, for sale. Hobb Transfer, West 17. LAND ACT Notice of Intention to apply to I'urchase Land. CLASSIFIED ADS ~i ( F ~ "The long brook falling through the clov'n ravine In cataract after cataract to the sea," overlooked on one side by the Hollyburn Ridge, and on the other by the lofty crags of the south-east face of Black AIoun- tain, which are dotted up to the timber-lirie with the upright stems of the burned forest. The climb through the ravine to the headwaters of the creek is an interesting one, and not difficult for a good walker during the season of low water. The Lower Falls, which are within easy distance of the station, are very fine after a day of rain. The Shore-l.ine The seacoast of IVest Vancouver does not begin to grosv rocky until IVest Bay is reached. The maritle of drift between it and the Capilano has converted the intervening shore-line irito ari ordinary shingle-strewn beach. The rock shows almost everywhere between Caulfeild and Point Atkinson; rind this character continues alor1g the shore of Howe Sound pastwhite Cliff Point to the municipal boundary. There are feiv of the 8ea-stacks which contribute so greatly to the pictur- esque effect of the granite coast of Cor'nwall. Yet the cliffs are bold and varied, as ive might expect from the action of the storm-waves generated in the ample sea-room of the south- west between Vancouver Island and the mouth of the Sound. The By-IVays But the student of the picturesque is not limited to the mountain and the seashore. The summit of the Hollyburn Ridge is approached through glades which are a delight to the eye at all seasons, though the most wonderful effects are witnessed in the time of snow. Even the half cleared riorthern roadways of the municipality offer numberless vignettes to the sketcher and the amateur photographer. Amid much that is fine in IVest Vancouver, it is a question if there is anything quite so attractive to the unsophisticated visitor as that border zone, too high up the hill-side for the crowd, but riot too far aivay for enjoyable rambling. Hundreds of athletic boys and girls have discovered the Hollyburn Ridge for them- selves within the last two or three years; but scores of people who are no longer young have also discovered that the less freclue»ted roads of the municipality, ivhether bordered by trim garderis or overshadowed by the forest, caii refresh both the eye arid the mind. In the Land Recording District of New Westminster and situate near Grace Harbour. Gambier Island. Take notice that I, Alfred Louis Del- amare, of West Vancouver, occupation Labourer, intends to apply for per- mission to purchase the following de- scribed lands:-- Commencing at a post planted at South East corner, aproxirnately 600 feet from South corner of Lot 42, D. L 2768, Gambier Island, thence 245 feet to North East corner; thence 40 feet to North West corner; thence 250 feet to South West corner; thence 60 feet to South East corner more or less, and containing 1,'7 acre more or less. PURPOSE--To build a mall from said islet to Lot 4" opposite. 90 feet distant, for shelter; Secondly to beau- tify what is a bare rock, by planting trees thereon. ALFRED LOUIS DELAMARE. Dated 9th August, 1928.