Nechako flows easterly, it flows through the wide _ fertile Nechako Valley, with its rich deposit of © deep silt soil and large areas of practically level or gently undulating lands, which for over 40 miles have general width of from 15 to 25 miles. The | river is navigable from Prince George for many miles. Stern-wheelers ran up-stream from Prince George to Milne’s Landing and Fort Fraser before the railroad was built, and one vessel ascended some years ago 25 miles above Fort Fraser on the Upper Nechako, on which, if some rocks were removed in the lower canyons, navigation is ¢con- sidered possible for about 60 miles to the big | canyon. River-steamer service was abandoned on completion of the railroad. The most important tributary is Stuart River, a wide river which drains the lake system, including Stuart, Tremb-. | leur, and ‘Takla Lakes, with their connecting - Yivenrs and tributary lakes, south-eastward in a long — valley 2 to 6 miles wide, stretching north-west for over 200 miles to a narrow divide from the Skeena drainage at Bear Lake. With removal of some obstacles in Chinlak rapids in the lower river, ' navigation is possible to Takla Lake. In 1871 the steamer “ Enterprise’? made the trip from Prince George up Stuart River and by way of the con- | necting lakes and rivers to Takla Lake. ; This leaflet deals only with that portion of the drainage in vicinity of the Grand Trunk Pacific _ Railway—the Endako and Nechako Valleys and Fraser Lake vicinity. The lake-plateau region. to. ‘the south of the division reached by road from the railroad at Burns Lake is described in a pamphlet © entitled “The Francois-Ootsa Lake District,” and the northern part of the division is described in another pamphlet entitled ‘Stuart and Babine ie Lake Districts.” tae Vanderhoof, altitude 2,089 feet, 69 miles west of |” Prince George, 398 miles from Prince Rupert, situ- | ated in the centre of a wide stretch of almost flat arable land stretching for many miles in every direction, is the chief town, with population of about 350. It is built on a wide flat, mainly north of the railroad, the centre being, about three- quarters of a mile from the south bank of Nechako | River, and has good general stores, hotels, churches, | ~ schools, hotels, restaurants, liveries, garages, lum- ber-yard, billiard-saloons, bank, real estate, law, and other business offices, resident physician, and weekly newspaper (the Nechako Chronicle); also — -| Board of Trade, Farmers’ Institute, G.W.V.A.,. ‘etc. Officials of the Land Settlement Board and | _. Forestry Branch of the Provincial Government and i | Soldier Settlement Board, also agents of private

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