24 Paciric GREAT EASTERN Ratuway BE Lt.

The Lillooet District is notable for its high-grade potatoes, and in the
alluvial soil around the Pemberton Meadows region they also do well.
Small fruits flourish in the Railway Belt and are of many varieties.
The currants, raspberries, and strawberries are finely flavoured and wild
fruits grow in profusion over much of the countryside. In the Lillooet
section, where especially favourable conditions prevail and where there are
long periods of strong sunshine, some of the very finest grades of market-
garden produce and fruit, including apples, cherries, tomatoes, watermelons,
cantaloupes, green corn, grapes, etc., are grown successfully under irrigation.

VIEW OF PEMBERTON MEADOWS.

As previously stated, there are agricultural possibilities in the Pacific
Great Eastern Railway area as yet undreamed of. They await the man
who possesses ‘initiative and energy and who makes a study of developing
his chosen tract along practical and up-to-date lines.

SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.

“What is the climate like?” This is among the very first queries
put by the average man who proposes casting his lot in a new country,
and very naturally so. The nature of the climate has a very important
bearing on his general living conditions, on his work, his health, and, if he
is a farmer, on his crops and prospects as well.

It has been often stated, and not without a substantial basis of fact,
that the climate of British Columbia is one of its greatest assets. Probably
no other Province in the Dominion of Canada offers more variety in this
respect. This is largely due to its geographical position and to the physical
features of the country.

In the wide expanse of territory that comprises the Pacific Great East-
ern Railway Belt conditions vary with the locality and altitude. The lower