JACKSON'S BAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 287, 4 December 1874, Page 4

JACKSON'S BAY.

A special settlement is about to be founded at Jackson's Bay under the auspices of the Westiand Provincial GoTernment. The following description of the district is from the West Coast Tim**:— Jackson's Bay is the spot selected to be, at some future time, proclaimed by the GoYernoraf a Special Settlement for intending immigxsnta and others, .who, it is to be hoped will ere long -find remunerative employment in their several avocations, whether the tame, lie in the way .of gold-miniog, . coal-minmg wood-cuttktg,orf»imiog, or whatever new industries, as new industries they are sure to he, they may engage in. *ff he site selected fox the town is at the extreme north of the Special Block. Tha excellent harbor accommodation, naturally formed, makes that point the most desirable centre. The Block will from feat point extend north and south of the Arawata river, consisting of excellent. ltud,~distant ftbuv two to three miles from the pi>rf. ai 'Referring to the new industries which wreiikely to be develdped after apopuJatloiihjsWfalrl/'set in, Mr Macfarlane asgurerfti tiiat largej,"4<i>°tities of limestone and sandstone are already in abundance close to the' jßay, and what ii df still greater importance, an excelledt sample of coal has been discovered already by one of the miners working there, though the extent of the seam has notyet-been defined, only; a mere outcrop beiD^visible, Clajrlor brick-making is also abundant aud easily to be obtained. Another discovery, and one of very -considerable imporUSfcfei ff.ils talue is fully appreciated^ was the discovwy of numbers of the true herring close" to tbecoart in-the vicinity of the Bay. One 'ef the men working in that locality, assured Optain Bascand that herrings were . visible in large numbers among the rocks at certain seasons. Theieflshea, one of which Captain Btscand had m his possession, resemble the ordinary herring so plentiful on the coasts of Scotland. In color of scale and , size of body and flu they- are exactly alike. We may mention that James Tear, who is wett n kaown< in Hdkitika, where he was for some time engaged following the occupation of aWntman, expressed himself so satisfied with the prospect of the herring curing business in that locality, from the numbers he has seen in the waters, aud the pretence of whales in the deeper waters outside, which has always been taken as an indication of smaller fish being abundant, taat, he has resolved upon starting at. Jackson's Bay in the fishing and curipg business. . : . . ■