hundred, where they finish to the
‘north.

From the foot of these vertical
columns huge piles of talus broken
from the summit reach far out on the
bench. The mountain seems to have
been formed of a mass of very hard
clay well mixed with gravel, and is
very like conglomerate rock in tex-
ture. It could be conglomerate in pro-
cess of formation. At any rate, it is
very dangerous to climb around, as it
tends to crumble under strain.

As you approach closer, you see that
what, from a distance, looked like
grooves between adjoining columns
are in reality narrow slots, which form
the entrance to narrow box canyons,
10 or 15 feet wide and a thousand
feet deep. They run back into the
hill for hundreds of feet, rising rapid-
ly toward the top of the pipes. From
their mouths deep watercourses ex-
tend out over the bench, washed out
by the torrents of water that take this
away from the heights to the river.

Ponderosa pine, twisted and bent,
‘grow here and there, wherever they
can find enough nourishing soil and
moisture sufficient to sustain theix
life. For trees, or any vegetation, in
this area, it is a terrific struggle to
exist. Much of the humus has been
washed out of the ground, and as it is
in the dry belt, very little rain falls
between spring and autumn.

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115° in the Shade

The deep valley in which the
Fraser runs through this area seems to
trap the sun’s rays, and bounce them
back and forth between the rock and
clay slopes, causing terrific heat along
the rolling benches below them. It is
nothing unusual for the thermometer
to reach 115° in the shade in this
region, which is the province’s closest
approach to a desert. Unlike most
deserts, however, there is little cooling
off at night; the heat seems to stay in
the bottoms. As the river here runs
approximately north and south, the
only winds blow in one of these direc-
tions; and few north winds blow in
the summer months.

Wonderful gardens can be grown
in these lowlands, where there are
patches of good soil, and water can be
put on them by irrigation from one
of the tributary creeks of the river.
Cattle are wintered there by the big
ranches on their holdings, as the snow
storms of the highlands are frequently
rain storms when they reach the lower
altitudes.

In the arid summers little game
other than the occasional family of
coyotes are seen. When the snow gets
deep up in the hills, however, the
deer, and some moose, move down
into the valley for the winter. It is one
of the most interesting, and least
publicized, parts of the province. Here
is one of the few places in the
southern part of B.C. worthy of being
pictured that hasn’t been, to any
extent! 7 *

To let his girl friend Rosa know
he was waiting for her, a lover threw
six lighted matches through her bed-
room window at Buenos Aires. But
Rosa was asleep and her bed caught
fire. She was taken to a hospital and
was reported seriously burned.—The

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Didja know? The record of the
teen-age auto driver is not good, but
it is better than that of the 20-24 age
group.—The Beat. * *

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members of other Police Forces.

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to the effect that a Policeman in Aus-
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a member of your Force who is inter-
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40 Gerard St.,

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