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Comox district, which include within their boundaries all the flourishing farming, mining, lumbering and fishing communities along the east coast and the line of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, a tract recognized to be the choicest portion of Vancouver Island. This magnificent estate is being systematically explored by the Company, whose intention it is to clear the available azricultural land of timber and divide it into con- venient sized lots, when it will be offered for sale to fruit-growers, farmers, poultry and dairy men, at reasonable prices and on favorable terms. As the interior is explored it is the intention of the Company to extend the railway and build branches into the most desirable valleys to afford easy access to the agricultural, timber and mineral lands.

Fuller information regarding these lands and the Company’s townsites

may be had by application to the Land Department, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company, Victoria, British Columbia.

A British Columbia Prize Fruit Exhibit.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT LAND REGULATIONS.

The Government of British Columbia does not grant free homesteads. The fact of a person having a homestead in another province or on Dominion Government lands in this province, is no bar to pre-empting Crown lands in British Columbia.

Lands owned by the Provincial Government are laid off and surveyed in quadrilateral townships containing thirty-six sections of one square mile each, whenever it is practicable to carry this survey through.

HOW TO SECURE PRE-EMPTION.

Any person, except an aborigine, being the head of a family, a widow, or a single man over eighteen years of age, and being a British subject, or any alien, upon his making a declaration of his intention to become a subject