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LANDS IN VICINITY OF CANIM LAKE AND
MAHOOD RIVER.

Ideal Dairying District.

Roads from 100-Mile, ro5-Mile, and 108-Mile on the railway serve
both Buffalo Creek and Mahood River vicinity, reaching to Canim Lake.
This is a beautiful dairy and mixed-farming country, and, like the rest of
the lake-plateau pasture, is mostly knee-deep on the hillsides, and peavine,
vetch, and lupine grow abundantly. Mahood River (Bridge Creek), to
which Bridge, Sheridan, Deka, and other lakes drain, runs in a deep valley
through Horse Lake to the railway, and after joining Little Bridge Creek
continues through a park-like district to Canim Lake. The country along
Mahood River to Canim Lake is undulating, with capital soil and yields
excellent crops. There are quite a few open patches and any bush land
met with is comparatively easy to clear. A post-office is located on an-
old Indian reserve at the south-west side of Canim Lake. While many of
the pioneer settlers here engage in stock-raising, the land is admirably
adapted for mixed farming and dairying and most of the population have
good gardens, where a wide variety of truck is grown. There are excellent
store and school facilities and ready communication. Branch roads run
up Buffalo Creek and to Drewry and Deka Lakes, as well as to EXE tera
busy shipping-point on the railway. Between Canim and Drewry Lakes
are many fine meadow tracts where Indians have cut wild hay for years,
and Canimred Creek, which enters near the east end of the lake, drains a
basin with several thousand acres of gently rolling land with numerous
grassy meadows.

There is a thriving settlement around Forest Grove situated in a fine
farming country some 16 miles from 100-Mile on the railway-line. This
point has post-office and excellent school facilities, and, like nearly all other
sections of the “lake country,” has absorbed a fine type of settlers.

Mr. F. Maude, one of the oldest settlers in the Forest Grove District,
writes as follows :—

“T have such faith in the future of this locality and therefore have
been erecting a large two-story house. When one stops to consider for a
few moments what additional work an undertaking of that nature entails,
he must inevitably come to the conclusion that there are bright prospects
ahead in the opinion of us older settlers. This feeling was voiced at a
large gathering we held in honour of the completion of our new home. It
was unanimously agreed to by the fifty or sixty homesteaders in attendance.

“ For-the past six years I have lived in Forest Grove, and now more
than ever am convinced that it is rapidly becoming a prosperous and con-
tented community. This year we have indeed much to be thankful for.
The hay and grain crops were so heavy that we not only have enough for
the coming winter, but will also have a surplus which will carry us well