C & W Construction

            A.C. McLean & Co. have been clearing ground for their second camp this week at Gladstone.  They are said to have a two and a half mile contract there on the right of way.  On Monday the tote road had been built about 28 miles, leaving four miles more to reach the lake.  The tote road camp was moved a couple of miles further on Thursday.  McPherson Bros. and Stout have just completed a pole road a mile long to the site of the new mill, which will soon be running at their second camp, twenty miles out.  Every boat now brings in a large contingent of laborers, who are soon absorbed by the different camps up and down the line.  Several contractors have regularly employed agents in Brooklyn to secure help.  There are now nine good stopping places between Brooklyn and Christina lake on the tote road.  What is said to be the largest blast ever set off in British Columbia was exploded Monday of last week on the construction line between Brooklyn and Robson, and consisted of 500 kegs of black powder, each of which weighed 25 pounds.  Cases are on record where 100 or 200 kegs were set off, but as far as known Monday’s blast broke the record.