(168) Cable ferry

Excerpt from page 52 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: At several points cables have been stretched across the river by means of which boats and small barges are pulled from bank to bank. At one of these crossing places we called to a boy on the opposite bank and he ferried us across the river and back again. He was an expert, this boy. The rope which he held in his hands as attached to a pulley running on the cable, and, by keeping the prow of the boat pointing slightly up-stream, he made the current do the work both ways across