20 Pacific Great EASTERN RartLway BELT.

Alexis Creek and Chilcotin Country.

The Nazko Valley connects with Alexis Creek and the Chilcotin country,
the latter having stage communication via Chimney Creek Bridge with
Williams Lake Station on the Pacific Great Eastern line. The Chilcotin
District is well peopled, having smal! settlements grouped around the mail-
distributing centres, such as Alexis Creek, which has a general store, school,
post-office, and hospital. Nazko River where it leaves the lake of the same
name is in a narrow valley for some distance, when it widens out through
grassy flats. These flats are mostly open, with dry sandy soil, growing
summer feed, wild hay, and peavine in the moister tracts. There are about
3,000 acres unsurveyed which are adapted for pre-emption in the valley.
In conjunction with the wild-hay meadows to the east a settler could embark
in cattle-raising in a moderate way.

From the Clisbako north
the valley has been surveyed
and several settlers are grow-
ing good crops of timothy,
oats, and vegetables for home
consumption. In the neigh-
bourhood of Nazko Post-
office there are many mea-
dows, some quite large,
between sand and gravel
benches and drained by the
Snaking River to the Nazko.
A considerable part of this is deemed well suited to stock-raising.

HERD OF STOCK IN CHILCOTIN.

Ten-mile Lake Land Settlement Area.

North of Quesnel the Pacific Great Eastern line leaves the Fraser and
at 10-Mile Lake another settlement area of the British Columbia Settlement
Board is reached. A number have taken up land in this district, where
there are some 4,000 acres available for development. The railway crosses
north via 10-Mile Lake to Cottonwood River, surveys extending from 3
miles east of the line to the Fraser River, which has a deep curve at this
point. The area is rolling country, with steeper hillsides approaching the
river. Much of it is burnt over, leaving only small poplar and second-
growth willow standing. The Barkerville Road traverses the southerly
part and another road runs northward. Some 12 miles from Quesnel is
an area of bench land bordering the river, on which are several old ranches
raising hogs and cattle and having good apple-trees and mixed crops.

Strathnaver District Land Settlement Areas.

From the Cottonwood River on the way to Prince George surveys
extend from 1 to 3 miles east and about 5 miles west of the railway right-
of-way, reaching the Fraser again at White’s Landing. Strathnaver Post-
office, 33 miles from Quesnel and contiguous to the railway, has a creditable
mining and farming population. Near by is another land settlement area