10 Pactric GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY BE rT.

held by Crown grant or pre-emption, but unoccupied. There is a Dominion
fish-hatchery located at Spetch in this vicinity, and a sawmill as well.
Around Anderson and Seton Lakes there is some arable land and at Shalath,
an Indian reserve on Seton Lake, some surveys have been made.

The alluvial benches of the Fraser River in the vicinity of Lillooet
have been cultivated for many years and produce splendid crops under
irrigation. The soil here is usually a light sandy loam with gravel subsoil.
Some of the farms here have been cultivated since the eatly gold-mining
days. The aggregate of arable land, while comparatively limited and
dependent on irrigation, is most fertile. Excellent tomatoes, tree-fruits,
including Italian prunes, peaches, apricots, grapes, raspberries, and other
small fruits, walnuts, watermelon, excellent cantaloupes, muskmelons, and
other crops ate grown. Potatoes are a decided specialty here, being of
fine flavour and remarkable size, yielding in some instances as high as 26
tons to the acre. Grains and grasses do well under cultivation. There
is no vacant Crown land.

McKinnon to Pavilion.

From McKinnon to Pavilion farming is confined to benches near the
Fraser River. There are three large ranches-——one 15 miles from Lillooet;
17-Mile Ranch, where a road-house has been maintained for years; and
Tiffin Ranch, near Tiffin Creek. The largest crops are alfalfa and potatoes.
Considerable range land is found as the railway ascends the side-hills to
the east. It is considered that a large area of these rolling uplands generally
referred to as range country could be very profitably dry-farmed in case
that industry at some time took the place of stock-raising. At present a
fair portion of this area is Crown-granted for grazing.

Some well-cultivated tracts are found about Pavilion Mountain. and
at Pavilion-village there is a considerable population, consisting of whites,
Indians, and some Chinese. From here a road runs south-east via Hat
‘Creek to Cariboo Road.

Clark Creek and Gillen Creek drain a rolling upland area in which a
tract 3 to 4 miles wide and extending 5 miles north has been surveyed,
some of this being incorporated in three large ranches. Excellent crops
of timothy are grown under irrigation, and grains, vegetables, and garden
products principally by dry-farming. Official reports indicate that remark-
able results are obtained yearly on these properties and are an example of
what might be accomplished in many parts of the district on the higher
levels. Farms have been cultivated here since 1860. For many years wheat
was milled at Pavilion and cattle have been raised for decades. It is a
suitable area for both sheep and hogs.

Vicinity of Pavilion and Lough Raymond,

Leaving Pavilion, some surveys are found on benches between Red
and McKay Creeks. At McKay they are mainly on narrow strips and
rolling upland. At Kelly Creek there is a small area of bottom land
surveyed.