14 Paciric GREAT EASTERN Ratiway BE rt.

The Roe Lake, Bridge, and Canim Lake Districts are crossed by the
railway-line between Green and Horse Lake and lie in a wide lake-basin
with complex drainage, the southerly lakes draining to the North Bonaparte;
the others to Bridge Creek. Here Bridge and Sheridan are the largest of
a number of lakes, and lying between them is Roe Lake, on which is located

Roe Lake Post-office, store, and school. To serve this area a road 15 miles

in length has been built to the railway. Roe Lake is now credited with a
population of some thirty or forty people. Mr. McDonald, on the north
side of Lac des Roches, has demonstrated that fine crops of timothy, wheat,
oats, barley, and rye as well as clover, root-crops, turnips, beet, and carrots,
could all be successfully grown. Considerable stock and horses are raised
in this section and most settlers have good beef and dairy stock. Excellent
butter and cheese is made and a Government creamery is contemplated.

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HERD OF HOLSTEINS.

All this lake-basin from Crystal Lake on the south to Canim Lake on the
north is rated a first-class dairying country. Lone Butte on the railway-
line links this section with a good road. There are some 200,000 acres of
choice agricultural land in this district which it is believed will prove one
of the very choicest dairying and grazing sections of the Province and an
important feeder to the railway. It is well to note that there is a very
considerable area of Crown land open in this district for settlement.

It should be explained that this wide lake-basin is vastly different from
the plateau region that lies to the west and south. Instead of the general
jack-pine covering, cottonwood and spruce prevail, and Douglas fir sur-
mounts the ridges in places. The altitude is approximately 3,900 feet.
The rainfall is also heavier here, as evidenced by the luxuriant wild vegeta-
tion. There is pasture knee-deep on the hillsides and peavine, vetch, and
lupine grow in abundance. The areas that have their topography suitable
for agriculture have clay loam and black loam soil.