FORT FRASER LAND RECORDING DIVISION. St fo)

HE Fort Fraser Land Recording Division, which embraces a great interior lake region draining vast plateaus and basins which contain considerably over 2,000,000 acres of arable land, is traversed by the

) Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which is operated through the rich

Uh Endako and Nechako Valleys. In this land district are many of the

_ larger lakes of the Province, the majority connecting through valleys holding large

- areas of good land. The main rivers are the Nechako, Endako, Chilako, Entiako,

_ Stuart, Necoslie, and Middle Rivers. The Nechako has its source in Natalkuz Lake, easternmost of the chain of lakes in the south-east of the district, and the Entiako

empties into this lake near its junction with Enchu Lake. The Endako runs from

Burns Lake, which connects by a short stream with Decker Lake, from which the

_ Bulkley flows to join the Skeena at Hazelton, and it empties into Fraser Lake,

which has an outlet into the Nechako at Fort Fraser. The Chilako flows from Tatuk

Lake; the Stuart drains south-easterly from Stuart Lake to join the Nechako, which

in turn has a confluence with the Fraser at Prince George. Necoslie River, which

parallels the Stuart a few miles to the east, drains into Stuart Lake. Middle River connects Tremblay and Takla Lakes. Of the great lakes which lie in this district, the larger ones are Francois, with length of sixty-three miles; Eutsuk, not quite ~ as long, but with larger acreage; Ootsa, Cheslatta, Tahtsa, Tetachuck, Fraser,

Babine, Stuart, Tremblay, and Takla. There are many others of lesser extent—the

district being a great interior lake region. Pre-emptors’ Maps Nos. 3B and 3c, the

_ Nechako and Stuart Lake Sheets, show the land available for settlement in this

district. :

The Government Agent's office is located at Fort Fraser, reached by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, a settlement where for over a century a post of the Hudson's Bay Company has been established at the eastern end of Fraser Lake. All applica- tions for pre-emption records in this district must be made at his office.

A GREAT INTERIOR PLATEAU.

The greater part of this land district is embraced in a well-drained plateau with but slight variations in altitude. Cheslatta Lake, at the west of the lake region, south of the railroad, is at an elevation of 2,900 feet, the land thence falling away gently to Fort Fraser, and dropping still more gently to Stuart Lake to the north, which les at 2,200 feet. It is part of the Central Interior Plateau system, which consists essentially of plateaus and isolated hills. Differing from the Fraser Plateau to the south, from which it is reached by a gradual transition at the northern end of that uplifted peneplane, its valleys are not cut down as in the Fraser Plateau, a

feature of which is its dissection by deeply carved valleys. It is the greatest lake region of the Province, with many large lakes, together with numerous smaller ones ‘ranging in size from a few miles in length down to ponds.

The height of land is at the north-west corner of the land district. Bast of Bulkley Lake the water flows eastward through the Nechako system. The large lakes all drain to the east, eventually to the Fraser River’ ‘The rivers as a rule

: are not large, and usually flow but a short distance from one lake to the other. _ The Nechako River, which drains most of the lakes south of the railroad to the