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Rh the Haddington Island quarries, near the north end of Vancouver Island. The columns supporting the interior ceiling are of Italian marble, while the walls of the treasury and rotunda are finished in Tennessee marble, and native woods are used for the interior finish. Beautiful lawns, walks and shade trees, surround the structure.

A strange occurrence happened as I stepped in the main building. A gentleman stepped up, seeing I was a stranger, and kindly offered to show me through the buildings. I presented him my card, and as we were climbing the long marble stairs, I somehow in the conversation mentioned Oregon. He turned and looked at me with surprise, wanting to know if that was my home. "Oh! no," I answered, "my home is in Butte, Montana." He then told me that his former home had been in Albany,