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fertility of the soil. A number of open meadows and easily drained marshes
can be utilized to excellent advantage in raising hay. The land, generally
speaking, in this section offers most favourable opportunities for mixed
farming and stock and will undoubtedly rate high in productiveness.

200,000 ACRES OF GOOD ARABLE LAND.

It has been estimated by competent authorities that there is available
for settlement and development in Northern Lillooet and Southern Cariboo
Divisions, embracing the various lake plateaus and valley lands already
referred to in some detail, about 200,000 acres of excellent arable land,
capable of supporting a large number of active and contented settlers.
While there are variable conditions, according to location, there is a particu-
larly wide latitude or choice offered the new-comer in making his selection.

THE DISTRICT LYING NORTH OF QUESNEL.

With the completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway between
Quesnel and Prince George, much valuable agricultural territory will be
opened up, particularly in the Nazko Valley and Blackwater Districts,
where there are some fine virgin tracts of stock-raising and mixed-farming
lands. Already a number of settlers have located in these districts. In
the region south of 6-Mile Creek, Stone Creek, Woodpecker, Strathnaver
(south to the North Fork of the Cottonwood), and around 10-Mile Lake
there are some promising lands admirably adapted for dairying and other
branches.

PRIVATELY OWNED LANDS.

In addition to the lands for pre-emption and sale already mentioned,
which are mostly adjacent to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway line, there
is a considerable area of land held by private interests which can be
purchased at reasonable figures in many instances. These lands will be
listed by the Pacific Great Eastern officials in order that reliable information
can be obtained in regard to them by prospective settlers.

In the general topographical survey, given elsewhere in this booklet,
of the country traversed by the railway-line between Squamish and Prince
George reference is made, in passing, to various surveys from Pemberton
Meadows northward, where considerable acreage has been alienated. There
are numerous pieces of good valley and bottom land in the Lillooet and
Cariboo, adjacent to the Fraser, where development has been retarded,
which in the natural course of events must be opened to cultivation on
modern and up-to-date lines.

THE B.C. GOVERNMENT LAND SETTLEMENT AREAS.

Lands included in these areas, to which previous reference has been
made, are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Land Settlement Board.
These lands are not open for pre-emption, but where settlers comply with
certain regulations of the Board, as to residence, improvements, etc., may