has a post-office and school and is the centre of a
farming district, in which many who took up pre-
emptions some years before the railroad was built
have some good farms. ‘There are no stores at
Stellako and Endako is the trading centre. ‘There
is an Indian village on the reserve east of Stellako
Station. Savory, altitude 2,251 feet, is a flag-
station 6 miles west of Kndako, near which a num-
ber of settlers have located. Palling, altitude 2,311
feet, 10 miles west of Burns Lake, is a small town
in a mixed-farming district, in which settlement is
inereasing. It has a sawmill, hotel, general store,
post and telegraph offices. Musk-rat farming is
being carried on in the vicinity. Rose Lake, 6 miles
west of Palling, has a general store, post and tele-
graph office serving a mixed-farming and _ stock-
raising settlement, in the vicinity in which many
pre-emptions have been taken up during the past
few years.

HMndako Valley is little over a mile wide in places,
but has very rich soil in the bottom lands near the
river and has been occupied from end to end. In
places where other small valleys join the bottom
land widens. 'The valley lands are at altitude of
from 2,350 feet at the head to 2,230 feet at the
easterly end, narrow, fertile, well watered, easily
cleared, and provide excellent native herbage for
stock. Adjoining mountain country rises in varying
height to about 2,500 feet above the valleys, with

rolling timbered lower slopes with sufficient sedi--

mentation to carry heavy growth of peavine and

vetch. Between the mountains and the valleys
proper the land usually rises in jack-pine or poplar- ©

covered terraces, often too dry for any purpose
without previous preparation. 'The whole district
was in bygone years a haunt of beaver, whose work
is indicated by the numerous meadows, many wet
and moss-covered, which when drained and cleared
have yielded good crops.

Palling and’ Decker and Rose Lakes are centres

of settlements on either side of the railroad, in

which a fair amount of good arable land is found,
valley-bottom with black loam and benches and
rolling areas with sandy loam with gravelly subsoil,
which is exposed on the ridges, mainly timbered
with poplar and jack-pine, with some spruce in an
open stand, with considerable vetch and peavine

growing between the trees. Scattered willow bot-.
toms are found and open meadows. Settlers have
-eut roads to Rose Lake, Palling, and Decker Lake

Stations, and the old wagon-road paralleling the
railroad has been converted into a b highway. to
_ Burns Lake.

Reporting on surveys made in 1920 in vicinity
of Palling and Decker Lake, V. Schjelderup,
B.C.L.S., said they skirted the old surveys on the
east, taking in all land left suitable for settlement
in the vicinity, not as good on the whole as that in
(ie _ previous surveys, but comparing favourably with
other land in the district pre-empted or purchased,
and a: number of settlers awaited gazetting of the
‘surveys to file records. This part of the district
contains an extensive area of first-class agricul-
tural land, most of which was purchased some
years ago, but not developed. Cruisers of the
Land Settlement Board examined it in 1920, and
it is expected that it will have settlers on it in due
| | course, as the quality of the soil is excellent, clear-
'| ing comparatively easy, and there is ample supply
| of good water. The main Government road. par-
allel to the Grand Trunk Pacific runs through the
‘area and settlers have cut their own roads to it,
making the district accessible. There is a general
store and post-office at Palling and school at
- Decker Lake.

i In vicinity of Rose Lake nearly 3,000 acres were
: Ee weved in 1920 lying between the lake and
_ previous surveys south of it. The quality of the
_ Jand surveyed on the whole is good. With excep-
_ tion of a few open poplar slopes-and willow bot-
- toms, the larger portion is covered with pine, some
- of which is good tie-timber. ‘The soil is good and

- settlers on the land previously surveyed south of
_ Rose Lake, and fair wagon-road leads from the
_ station south. There is a general store and post-
- office at Rose Lake, and quite a few settlers on the
“main road, east and west of the lake.
Similar lands have been surveyed in vicinity

‘and ine vicinity of the road from Burns Lake to
Francois Lake, at the south. On the north side
‘timbered bench land and rolling areas are found on

slightly rolling timbered lands have been surveyed..
There are many flats near the lake with good
alluvial soil, swampy in places, yielding excellent
vegetables where drained. ‘The south side of the
lake, east of the surveys near the Francois Lake
Road, excepting some small flats near the lake, is
mostly rough and broken, and at the east end of
the lake the valley sey bordering ben is narrow

- clearing not too heavy. There are a number of

‘of Burns Lake, 2 to 4 miles north of the lake, |

_ the lower slopes of the mountains, and to the south ~

ul

getables, and raise stock to limited extent.
imilar conditions prevail in vicinity of Endako
nd Stellako. The bulk of the surveyed land is
ken up, only odd lots remaining, mostly at some
listance from the railroad.. In 1920 two quarter-
~’ sections were surveyed, being all the unsurveyed

ment, and south of Priestly four quarter-sections
were surveyed in 1920 immediately north of the
urveys on T'schesinkut Creek, covering the last
trip of arable land available there.

ay VICTORIA, B.C.:
Printed by Wittiam H. CULLIN, Printer to the King’s
ae Most Excellent Majesty.

1920.

and found remaining vacant suitable for settle--