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been producing peas 8 feet high, beans, potatoes, cabbages, cauliflower, lettuce weighing
one pound apiece, tomatoes, sugar beets, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, red and
white, cherries, apples and plums. In addition to this most of the settlers have been
successful with poultry, hogs and cattle, etc.

Of the products which British Columbia is eminently fitted to raise, the Province

is forced to purchase the following from outside markets in the average year to meet
the home demand:

UGG ely aiane ween 1 opera arian cesta wate en $ 5,084,000 .00
Condensed Milkand €ream....:................. 700,000 .00
LIER ky sa ake gas HE cena cc 2,378,000 .00
(ON Cese ee eae Nate ne hak Pkt Drs huh Puayt ett Saal 1,000,000 .00
OUI Gin camera oa Uitte ene eat eae 3,500,000 .00
IC ALS Teg erence catelee e ES chal ital 5 pean 7,280,000 .00
PUES UNG! OROGIMEIGs «no neccadeodcwasogacne unseen. 3,500,000 .00
Talis Fold sees arte et earch ee a tO a 7,450,000 .00

Miednlyvevalterran aan orca lanes 8h tat ete ae $ 30,887,000 .00

Little anxiety need be felt that the home market will not absorb all such products
grown in the Province for years to come, and that the competition will be keen or prices
low. Aside from this there is an unlimited market outside the Province for any possible
surplus; the settler located on the Grand Trunk Pacific having access under favored
conditions to the domestic and world’s markets.

There is no section of America where the man who will work will find it so easy
to make a good living at the same time that he is preparing his lands as in the territory
served by the Grand Trunk Pacific and its Coast Steamship lines in British Columbia.
From the eastern border of the Province to the Queen Charlotte Islands great activity
is taking place in timber manufacture, mining, fisheries and all branches of commercial
life, and ample occupation in any of these branches of industry will be found near at
hand, no matter where he settles in that territory.

Graham Island

There is a very large area of first-class agricultural land along Masset Inlet and
east and south for a short distance from Skidegate Inlet which is comparatively free
from heavy timber and comprises many large open areas of natural meadow land, a
great deal of which is open for pre-emption. This country is comparatively level,

“Money-makers,’’ Terrace, Skeena River District.