an acre. Besides the rivers, numerous small creeks
| furnish good water.

; Eastward from McBride the valley has similar
characteristics. The railway is close to the foot-
hills on the south side. The winding river has a
comparatively narrow flat, with sloping bench land
reaching back to the foot-hills on either side.
, Holmes River enters from the eastward about 2%
miles below Eddy Station, at which Castle Creek
| enters from the south, and Raush River, which
; parallels it a few miles east, enters at Raush Valley
‘| Station, centre of a good potato-growing district,
-and across. the river are some promising settle-
ments.

Dunster TO TETE JAUNE.

} Dunster, altitude 2,559 feet, 20 miles east from
‘ McBride and about equidistant from Tete Jaune,
| is centre of a farming settlement with some good
| farms. Soil is fertile, clearing cheap, and with
- absence of stones a tract is soon put in condition
_ for the plough. Surface is generally level, con-
| sisting of a series of benches. The valley is regular,
but the river winds from side to side, about
doubling its length. Dunster has school, Farmers’
Institute, and a bridge crosses the Fraser here.
‘| Grain is one of the chief crops, but has to be
| cut green and there is no threshing outfit available
yet. Potatoes and roots and small fruits do well,
| better on the benches than on low-lying land near
| the river. Climate is not adapted to larger fruits
+ on account of severe frosts after the sap starts
| in spring. Croydon, 6 miles farther east, altitude
_ 2,518 feet, has a pole camp, also post-office. Many
telegraph and telephone posts, also split cedar for
_ fence-posts, are shipped from here. Shere, 7 miles
eastward, altitude 2,411 feet, is a flag-station and
- has a sawmill.
Tete Jaune Cache, post-office and station, alti-
tude 2,395 feet, well known in construction days
when it was head of navigation, but now dwindled
| down to two or three settlers, is near the junction
| where the valleys of Fraser and McLennan merge,
giving a wide plain, open or lightly wooded and
somewhat sandy or stony loam soil, the better
quality being on the north side. Where not burned
over there is a top dressing of decayed vegetation
and some loam; where burnt off little remains but
fine sand. In swamps and low-lying land close to
the river a fine clay, scarcely distinguishable, is
interspersed with the sand, which appears to con-
| tain nourishment for plant-life, as indicated by
the thick growth of willow, poplar, alder, and
| spruce. Considerable mica-sand wash from the
Mica Range is found in this area. On the north

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