Journal archives: In 1901, big hopes for little community of Keefers - The Ashcroft

Journal archives: In 1901, big hopes for little community of Keefers - The Ashcroft

125 YEARS AGO: JUNE 29, 1901 Rain: For a dry climate it has been decidedly wet along the Thompson for the past two weeks, it having rained nearly every day. Crops in general are much benefited by it, but now that it is about haying time farmers would appreciate a month of old-fashioned hot, dry weather. Cariboo Road: The Cariboo Road is bad but the late rains have not, according to reports of stage men and teamsters, done as much harm as was ant…