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cut yearly in this vicinity. Generally the soil on the benches is sandy loam.
They have occasional summer frosts, but crops where cultivated do well.
Mixed farming is the industry for which the lands hereabout are best
adapted.

Quesnel and Vicinity.

At Quesnel, a brisk and picturesque town with well-stocked stores,
hotels, numerous business offices, and mining enterprises of various kinds,
a Government creamery was established in 1921. An area of fairly level
land extends between Dragon Lake and the Fraser River, stretching south-
ward towards Kersley, with deep clay loam soil wherever cultivated. Here
settlers grow grain, potatoes, and a great variety of other choice vegetables
and produce without irrigation. Some bottom and bench lands are surveyed
in Quesnel Valley southward to Beavermouth. This is largely a mining
country and the flats and benches of the Quesnel Valley have long ago been

IRRIGATED TIMOTHY-FIELD SOUTH OF QUESNEL.

pre-empted for the most part. There are one or two old-established farms
on the road from Quesnel to Barkerville, but as previously stated, this is
principally a mining district.

Baker Creek and Nazko Valley.

Continuing northward from Quesnel is Baker Creek and Nazko Valley,
reached by a pontoon ferry crossing the Fraser at Quesnel, with connecting
roads. On the upper part of Baker Creek, and about 30 miles distant, is
a smal] settlement engaged in hog and cattle raising and dairying. There
are some cultivated tracts and many of the population carry on trapping
during the winter months, arranging for joint feeding of their stock mean-
while. Several of these families raise chickens, own good cows, and have
excellent crops of potatoes and other vegetables. The road via Baker Creek
continues on to Nazko, 60 miles from Quesnel. Here there is a post-office,
store, and a small farming settlement, a number of surveys having been

made.
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