December. Ice forms in the river in November
and it freezes solid about the end of December ;
the break-up occurs about March 15th. High
water is usually about mid-June and low water
about the end of November. Rainfall averages
about 30 inches. Occasional light frosts are en-
countered.

Cultivation on the flats and benches has demon-
strated that all hardy garden and field crops and
small fruits grow well. The soil when cleared and
worked is very productive. In many places drain-
age is required, beaver being numerous, and by
damming small creeks cause floods over near-by
Jand.

Wiuttow River TO HANSARD.

Willow River, a town 19 miles from Prince
George, altitude 1,912 feet, 114 miles up Willow
River, is a lumbering centre, with sawmill, stores,
school, and post-office, with local population of
about 100 engaged in lumbering, farming, and trap-
ping. ‘To the north are a number of timber limits.
Willow River, which heads in Cariboo Mountains,
flows north-east, draining a plateau sloping north-
west, surface eleyation ranging from 2,500 feet at
Two Sisters Mountains to 1,900 feet at the Fraser. ,
Part of contiguous country is undulating. The
divide between the Willow and Fraser has moun-
tains with rounded tops reaching 5,000 feet, and
between Willow and Bowron basins are mountains
to 6,000 feet, both ridges falling off northward to
the plateau, which extends for considerable dis-
tance south of the Fraser. The basin has been sur-
veyed, areas south of Pitoney Creek being under
timber licence. A forest reconnaissance covering
440.040 acres in the basin showed the bulk timbered
and 20,000 acres burnt, the stand being 3,698,906
M. board-feet—58 per cent. spruce, 34 per cent.
lodgepole pine, 5 per cent. Douglas fir; 369,520
acres being statutory timber land. Settlement is
mainly on the lower part of the basin, where the
valley gradually widens to from 6 to 8 miles. A
road from Prince George via G-Mile Lake crosses
north-west via Tsadesta Creek, entering 12 miles
up, along which is a strip 100 to 160 yards wide
of open and grassy land with deep brown loam soil.
The ground rises on either side 150 to 200 feet to
rolling plateau, with fairly open timber, part with
clay loam soil and open poplar and willow, else-
where spruce and jack-pine, and parts with mossy
surface over hard clay. t

From Willow River the railway leaves the
Fraser, which here makes a northerly bend, and
crosses a valley occupied by Haglet, Aleza, Han-
sard, and smaller lakes and connecting streams. ~