Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume V

No. 57.

Mr. Campbell to the Secretary of State.

Washington, January 19, 1872.

Sir: * * * * * * *

I can say from my own knowledge that after the discovery of gold on Fraser River in 1858, the canal de Haro was the *ordinary channel of communication between Victoria and British Columbia, and doubtless now is, and ever will be.[71]The Haro channel the usual channel.

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Late United States Boundary Commissioner.