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368 Victoria Machinery Depot Co., Ltd. is 280 ft. in length and 69 ft. 2 in. beam. It has a capacity of 3,000 tons. In connection with each of these ma- rine railways efficient and completely equipped repair shops are operated. The plant of the Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. is unusually well equipped. This plant has 'been re- cently rebuilt and now includes a foundry, machine shop, forge shop and THE MARINE REVIEW way is destined to play an important part in the history of the Northwest coast. No matter what developments may take place elsewhere, through its waters fleets will always find their way, for by it are reached numerous important centers of population and also the terminals of nearly all the transcontinental railways. The Strait is a part of a great structural valley, due to the operation of some tremend- October, 1909 Juan de Fuca are most important 'to the commercial interests of the North- west Coast of America, carrying an average width of ten miles from Cape Flattery for 50 miles to Race Rocks, here in consequence of the American shore trending northward the breadth is contracted about two miles. From this point the Vancouver shore re- cedes in a northerly direction for nine miles toward Esquimalt, off which the Fic. 9--Tue INNER AND Upper Harzors oF VictorrA, B.C. Tue Upper Hareor Is a boiler shop provided with the latest, approved machinery and appliances. In conclusion we cannot do better than quote the words of Charles H. Lugrin, editor of the Victoria Colon- ist, in regard to the remarkable ad- vantages to the navigator offered by fie Ottaits of San Juan de Fuca, which waterway, it will be remem- lbered, forms tthe connecting link 'be- tween Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma and all other Puget Sound ports and the Pacific ocean. Mr. Lugrin says: "This remarkable water- DRAWBRIDGE. ous forces in by-gone time. It ex- tends inland on the continent as far as the Hope Mountains, although the upper part of it has been filled with silt and other detritus brought down by the Fraser. It-has two great ram- ifications. One of these is to the North and terminates at the head of Bute Inlet. The other is to the south and extends far down into the State of Washington. Captain James Cooper, R.. N., gives the following description of the Strait: graphical features of general "The geo- the Strait of SHOWN IN THE BACKGROUND BEYOND THE Royal Roads extend for three miles offering to all vessels a splendid an- chorage required." Captain wrote of the Strait the soundings off its entrance: '"No- where on this coast are such soundings to be found. In fact, they @e10 the Strait of Juan de Fuca what the Banks of Newfoundland are to the Gulf of St. and when Devereaux and else Lawrence, a safe the mariner approaching the land in thick weather. and by attending to the lead and using ordinary precautions, the valuable guide to navigator