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British Columbia draught horses, command big prices.

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Columbia. Tobacco is also very successfully grown and facilities for curing
and marketing it are in progress.

Sicamous is a favorite summer resort on the great Shuswap Lake, well
known for its well appointed C. P. R. hotel, a resort for fishermen and
hunters. Situated on the C. P. R. main line, Sicamous is the shipping place
for the Okanagan Valley, and is the most central point on the Shuswap
Lake, towards which all explorers of this picturesque district gravitate.

Armstrong and Enderby are prosperous growing towns nine miles

apart, and are important shipping points for lumber, flour, fruit, and farm
' produce with lumber and flour mills, brickyards and other industries.

Vernon, the distributing centre for Okanagan Valley, has a lovely
situation on the Okanagan Lake, and is in a splendid ranching and fruit
growing country. It isa thoroughly up to date town, with all the necessities
for modern life, including a newspaper.

Kelowna, 33 miles south of Vernon, also on the lake, is the shipping
point from Mission Valley and surrounding districts, with a fruit packing

house, warehouses, saw mills, stores, newspaper, etc. A flourishing aquatic
club is one of its special social features.

Peachland and Summerland, on the west side of Okanagan Lake, are
in the centre of the peach growing district, with lands in the vicinity east

filling up. Naramata isa townsite opposite Summerland on the east shore
of the Lake.

Penticton, at the southern end of Okanagan Lake, is the headquarters
of extensive irrigation works designed to reclaim 30,000 acres of land for
fruit growing. Grapes and peaches of exquisite flavor are grown at Pen-
ticton and also at Keremeos and the neighboring Similkameen Valley.
It is an important port of call for all the lake steamers. The usual com-
plement of stores, churches, banks and semi-public institutions are here,
including a live newspaper.