Nechako and Endako |
Valleys al

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Nechako Valley, which holds the largest con-)
nective area of practically level agricultural land |
in Central British Columbia—the monument mark-
ing the geographical centre of the Province is at
the east end of Sinkut Lake, about 8 miles south.
from Vanderhoof—and Endako Valley are trav-_
ersed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and.

are well served by good roads. The bulk of the!

surveyed land in vicinity of the railroad has ia

taken up, only odd lots here and there, mostly at

some distance from the railroad, remaining avail-|
/ able for pre-emption, the location of these ed
indicated on Pre-emptors’ Map 33, Nechako Sheet.

Settlement began many years ago when'the pioneers,

attracted by the large areas of good agricultural

land in Nechako Valley, went by river and trail,

. and .began the clearings which now are attractive
‘farms \with Cultivated fields of from 100 to 300

acres in extent. Since the railroad came in 1914

there has been a steady and continual influx of)
| settlers, and development has been rapid, with the
_result that Crown land now vacant is confined tol
~seattered lots. Pre-emptions, purchases, or leases
-of Crown lands in the Fort Fraser Division, which
extends from Rose Lake on the west to a short:
distance east of Stuart River, on either side of.
the railroad, are to be applied for at the office of ;
' the Goyermuent Agent at Fort Fraser. ‘Two.
_ settlement areas of the Land Settlement Board are’

Situated in the district, one—Area No. 2—being

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‘from 2 miles south to 6 miles north of the et
mostly in Township 14, in which tracts cam ae
- Similarly obtained from the Land Settlement Boat a. 4)
~All applications for lands within these settlem om
areas, or information concerning them, should I us ‘ |
id.

east and west of Vandeshoor, which is about equi-|

- distant from east and west boundaries, stretching’
18 miles along the Nechako River and from 4 to” a
'miles north, in which some tracts remain and. can
be obtained by purchase on moderate terms ‘ant \
‘conditions from the Land Settlement Board; the
_other—Area No. 8—in vicinity of Marten Lake,
Station, from 2 to 9 miles east of Fort Fraser and’

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made to the Land Settlement Board—not to th

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many great lakes of the division to the Frase:

Neary ee sihe portion above Nautley River, Ae
. ing the Endako and Fraser Lake—has a waters

miles ism “above the outlet at Natalkuz B!
From the east of Fraser Lake, where the Lc

office of the Board at Victoria and office at Tella, sb if
the Board has an office for the administration of Z |
these areas at Vanderhoof. ae
The Hndako-Nechako Valleys, trending Sait and.
west, drain to the Fraser River at Prince George, ]
and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway rungs from |
west to east via Hndako Valley, where altitude at
the head, on the divide from Bulkley Valley, up |
which the Hanae runs from Hazelton south- — 4
easterly, is 2,359 feet; thence it runs along the
southerly side of Fraser Lake, altitude 2,192 feet,

and crossing the Nechako to Fort Fraser it follows. 4 |

eastward through Nechako Valley at altitude vary- |
ing from 2,241 feet at Fort Fraser to 2,088 feet jh
near Stuart River. The Endako is a kes and rh
tortuous river, widening in places into lakes and |
pools, the principal lakes being Rose Lake at its
head, and Decker and Burns Lakes, winding fom
side to side in a valley about a mile wide—wider — |
in places where tributary valleys enter—with rich — | |
alluvial bottom land, with many wet beaver |
meadows and mossy swamps requiring araining, 4
and rolling poplar and. jack-pine covered tracts
sloping to the hills and mountains on either side.
It eyes into Fraser Lake, 12 miles long, about —
2 miles wide, covering an area of 20 square miles, © 1
receiving the drainage of Tchesinkut Lake by 4
Tehesinkut Creek from the south-west. Fraser
Lake, in addition to being the outlet of the Endako, — e |
is the outlet of the Francois Lake System via iP
Stellako River, a swift stream with rapids in P|
canyons for 4 or°5 miles, with fall of 150 feet, —
estimated to offer 3,800 onee: -power if developed, —
Fraser Lake drains by a short swift stream 14% |
miles long, Nautley River, from the east end to a.
Nechako River, which bends easterly after’ receiy- —
ing its waters. Nechako River, which drains the

heads, at the south-east of Natalkuz Lake, whic
collects the waters from various lake systems an
rivers to the west, and is 600 feet wide where it
leaves the lake, flowing east and morth-east for 1
miles, and then. it breaks through a mountain rang
in a long canyon with rapids and falls estimat d
to offer, if developed, about 30,000 horse- power,
and rapids in canyons lower down offer anotl

10,000 horse- suey Ros as

about 17,900 square mile of. which the ret