Nechako flows easterly, it flows through the wide _
fertile Nechako Valley, with its rich deposit of ©
deep silt soil and large areas of practically level or
gently undulating lands, which for over 40 miles
have general width of from 15 to 25 miles. The |
river is navigable from Prince George for many
miles. Stern-wheelers ran up-stream from Prince
George to Milne’s Landing and Fort Fraser before
the railroad was built, and one vessel ascended
some years ago 25 miles above Fort Fraser on the
Upper Nechako, on which, if some rocks were
removed in the lower canyons, navigation is ¢con-
sidered possible for about 60 miles to the big |
canyon. River-steamer service was abandoned on
completion of the railroad. The most important
tributary is Stuart River, a wide river which
drains the lake system, including Stuart, Tremb-. |
leur, and ‘Takla Lakes, with their connecting
- Yivenrs and tributary lakes, south-eastward in a long —
valley 2 to 6 miles wide, stretching north-west for
over 200 miles to a narrow divide from the Skeena
drainage at Bear Lake. With removal of some
obstacles in Chinlak rapids in the lower river,
' navigation is possible to Takla Lake. In 1871 the
steamer “ Enterprise’? made the trip from Prince
George up Stuart River and by way of the con- |
necting lakes and rivers to Takla Lake. ;
This leaflet deals only with that portion of the
drainage in vicinity of the Grand Trunk Pacific
_ Railway—the Endako and Nechako Valleys and
Fraser Lake vicinity. The lake-plateau region. to.
‘the south of the division reached by road from the
railroad at Burns Lake is described in a pamphlet ©
entitled “The Francois-Ootsa Lake District,” and
the northern part of the division is described in
another pamphlet entitled ‘Stuart and Babine ie
Lake Districts.” tae
Vanderhoof, altitude 2,089 feet, 69 miles west of |”
Prince George, 398 miles from Prince Rupert, situ- |
ated in the centre of a wide stretch of almost flat
arable land stretching for many miles in every
direction, is the chief town, with population of
about 350. It is built on a wide flat, mainly north
of the railroad, the centre being, about three-
quarters of a mile from the south bank of Nechako |
River, and has good general stores, hotels, churches, | ~
schools, hotels, restaurants, liveries, garages, lum-
ber-yard, billiard-saloons, bank, real estate, law,
and other business offices, resident physician, and
weekly newspaper (the Nechako Chronicle); also —
-| Board of Trade, Farmers’ Institute, G.W.V.A.,.
‘etc. Officials of the Land Settlement Board and |
_. Forestry Branch of the Provincial Government and i
| Soldier Settlement Board, also agents of private

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