side there is less mica sand and more clay and —
loam. Subsoil is sand. Where cultivated this soil
has grown good vegetables. Farther westward —
down the valley is considerably more clay and ;
loam in the soil. Dp at
On either side of the valley eastward from Dun- |
ster vicinity the mountains rise to 7,000 feet, about —
5,000 feet above the river, and near Dunster and —
Tete Jaune are regular and easily climbed, the
tops consisting of plateaus where one can walk
for miles over mosses and lichens away above tim-
ber-line, with broken mountainous country streteh-
ing some distance beyond on either side, in which
snow-capped peaks are seen in eyery direction.
This is good country for the sportsman. Big
game abounds. Goat are plentiful and large, some _
as big as 450 lb., ranging close in, but remaining
high in the mountains. Caribou are plentiful, but,
being more timid, range farther back. Moose range
close to the yalley and are easily obtained in the
districts east from McBride. There are many deer
throughout the valley and grizzly and black bear
can be obtained by following up tributaries. There —
are no sheep on the British Columbia side, but.
many range on the Alberta slope. It is a good fur
country and some settlers do well trapping during
winter. At present the district lacks roads, but
this condition is being improved. In the mountains
in vicinity of Tete Jaune some groups of mica
claims have been located, notably on Mica Moun-
tain, about 9 miles south-west from mouth of Me-
Lennan River, and on Tete Creek, which joins
near the mouth of the river. am

The Canadian National Railway, which from the
junction at Red Pass runs parallel to vicinity of
Tete Jaune at Albreda, turns southward by way
of McLennan River, following the easterly limit
of the valley to Cranberry Lake, lying on a low
Summit; thence crossing the head of Canoe River
and running via Camp Creek to North Thompson
Valley en route to Kamloops. :

TETE JAUNE Cacnr Basrwarp.

Tete Jaune has many interests. It was named
after Jasper Hawes, a yellow-headed half-breed
employed by the North-west Fur Company, who,
early in the nineteenth century, used to cache or
put up in a temporary store or shelter near here the
furs he had procured, and a settler to-day occupies —
what is believed to have been the site of the cache.
Tete Jaune is the highest point on upper reaches —
of the Fraser navigable for light-draught steamers
and during construction days barges were built