CE TTING | AE awAY OF-THE .CAND

A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY

Note—The following description of the territory traversed by
the Pacific Great Eastern Railway beiween Squanush and Prince
George has been offered solely with a view to giving intending settlers
some idea of the general topography or physical features of the
country. Its main purpose is to help the reader to visualize or, to
use a current phrase, to “get the lay of the land.” It serves to
emphasize the fact that the greatcr portion of the area tributary to
the railway is virgin soil. Yet it is in these picturesque and fertile
valleys, with their rich bench lands, in the park-like tracts adj ining
the smaller lakes, and on the snugly sheltered plateau and dow
lands, that the opportunities are greatest to-day. Fast being linked
by communicating roads with the older communities, they are in
most cases admirably swied for successful mixed farming, dairying,

and diversified ranching.

Squamish and Lillooet Valley DISENSiS and

Pemberton Meadows.

at Squamish and continuing as far as Birkenhead

B EGINNING
Summit, Mile 117, considerable mixed farming has been carried on
for years, but the coastal section adjacent to the railway is principally
famed for its scenic, fishing, and general tourists’ attractions.

Through the Lillooet Valley and its confines to Lillooet Lake there
are arable tracts on bottom and bench land, broadening at what is known
as Pemberton Meadows. Here the rich alluvial soil is famed for its fertility,

and hay, grain,
vegetables, roots,
and small fruits
yield heavily.
While about 25,009
acres of this area
is privately owned,
there are at the
present time nu-
merous opportuni-
ties for purchasing
unimproved lands
at a reasonable
price. Settlement
first began here in
the early sixties.

CATTLE AT PEMBERTON MEADOWS.

From Pemberton to D’Arcy there is a limited amount of good ranch
land and a section well timbered, but no vacant Crown land. Large
quantities of hay and grain are harvested and some fine cattle kept on these
farms. At the south end of Birkenhead Lake is a good-sized tract of land