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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1887)
AGUHTLTIKU IX MUTLSU COIXMIUA. oedej in fertility on the Pacific coast A ready market in found for all pro duct, at good prices. Hay and dairy and poultry products pay the lt The delta, m well m tho alder, cedar and pine bottom, land of that region, i all taken up; but much of it tit held for sale, and purchasers can procure cither wild or improved land at fair prices. A char, ter has been grantM fr a raitwsy south of Fraser river, running from Idncr'a landing, seventy miles inland. Inthia region there arc two hundrel ami fifty thousand acres of gd land, either ojn prairie or lightly wled. .Such of thia aa is unoccupied, l-long to tho Cana dian government, Wing rail ay lands. Many locations arc U'ing made there, and all settlers will, no doubt, le juolly dealt with ly the dominion pnernment The greatest al undance of land ou to settlers ia in the interior, which haa leen settled slowly liecauw of ita isola tion from market This state of affairs haa Wen changed ly the completion of the great railway, wbo route, happily, is an intermediate one, affording an out let to tho greatmt nuruU-r of districts. It is estimated, ly competent erwms, that there aro one thousand square miles of land east of l aw r riter, in tho southern jortion of the prurince, which may le easily ntiliL In the Nicola, Sjllutn chen, Salmon, Okanagan, Kootcnay and Columbia regions, there are thousands upon thousands of acre of arable land yet to be claitnl In th-e valleys y tie found some of the largest and boat productive farms in the protince. Some of this land is so situated as to respire irrigation, but the greater rt ) Ids abundant crop without artificial wato. icg of the soiL A railwsy has ln chartered, with a suUidy of l.cmu) j-r mile, to ran south from the Cana dian rscific, through the Okantgan re gion, tLos opening cj tie greatot ft-U-Lt of aable lanl There are quite extensive Wr,c lands, where the soil is fertile, but the rainfall too light, and the land too high for suc cessful irrigation. Whst cvn done with soeh laitd b - rl "- wells, has )et to I ajxertainrtL They are, however, coterrI with the nutritious bunch grass peculiar to this rtin of the American continent, and make ur.ri. celled rang? for cattle. The bunch grata cure on the roots, as it stands, and re mains as hay nutil it is rrr.ewrd in the spring; cattle grsiing on it all winter. They do r't require other bl, ftcrjt in occasions! seaona, when the stow msy, for a short time, t. d'ep fr them, or hate a crunt upon iL With a little food on l.snd for such emergencies, the sWktnan ia pre(ared for the hard est winter. The graas a so nourihirg that cattle are fst and in condition for mark t early in the sprirg. There is a large agricultural srttoo, an eitensite area of low land, lying wrt of I'rasrr river, and chiefly north of the fifty-first arsllfd, caliruatol at twelve hundred square milr. Tle soil U aU mt uniformly goI. but, to a grrat ft. tent, ia covered with tie. It y iff the route of the rail?) a, and is 14 like ly to e onnl op f,.r s"tne time. It is a region which there is every r,a.ntln lirte will le occupied, eventually, by an agricultural j. 'pulsion. Th"re are, on lVace river, at an avrrsge rlatit) of tao tlfiUoand t alive the 11 el of the -a, twenty-three tbou.Mtil sp3r miU of aablo lanl, of which sit lb, sand lie within the limits of IWiluh C lumbia, in the t"rtheaUrn irti"0 of the province. WLerevrf whrat, oats anl trhy hate U-a Uil in that ri"t. lly hate pr'loc-I rtctUnt croj. IV Ut"a grow t grrat stie atl -tf-cta Th-r is u il"uU that the b.Joara will rtrntual'y elistrL I'v t'- !art, l,iuLtof the Ct.aiSa VtaCji Ilailaay Hnyt aais of Uua rS)' "I