87
hoarse to celebrate
event.
the
Yale
became
then
the
head of navigation and this speedily brought about a new order of things. The Hope route became a secondary matter and a reversion to the old Anderson route,
pack trains between Yale and Spuzzum being in operAt Spuzzum, Frank Way
ation in the following month.
had erected a bridge and
a
The
this
first
pack trains over
mile above he ran a ferry.
route reached the Forks
rival
on September loth road, a land and water
There was, however, a route, between Harrison
river
and Lillooet.
new and
(Lytton)
(In 1860 a
better read
was
opened between Yale and Lytton, which afterwards became the famous Cariboo wagon road). The river
was worked also up
for
miles
140
Thompson
the
ence with the Nicola
to
15
river.
from Hope, and
up-stream
miles beyond the confluBoston Bar became quite
a settlement, and by October, 1858, Lytton had 50 dwel-
Miners worked up above that town and by Nolings. vember there were 3,000 working near Fountain.
Commander Mayne in
describes Lyttun, which he visited
1859, as then consisting "of an irregular
row
some
of
dozen wooden huts, a drinking saloon, an express a large court-house as yet unfinished and two
office, little
buildings near the river, which had once belonged to the
Hudson Bay Company, but which were now inhabited by the district magistrate. The gentleman happened to be absent from Lytton, but
took up
my
thinking
we should
quarters
in
find
found
I
his constable,
the court it
preferable,
house.
we
and
at
Next
once day,
pitched our tent
without, but the clouds of dust which swept over Lytton
continuously soon
But
this
made
had not
all
us glad to seek
its
shelter again."
happened without some
trouble