. The tourist's northwest. iver. South from Spences Bridge a fork of the Canadian Pa-cific extends to Merritt (40 m.) and Nicola (47 m.) in thehigh rolling country of the Nicola Valley, where farmingand stock raising are successfully pursued. One of thenoted cattle ranches of the Province is in this region. ^ler-ritt is the northern terminus of the Kettle Valley Railwayto Penticton, this upper extension joining the road fromHope about 30 miles to the south. In the heart of an ex-cellent fishing and shooting district, Merritt is also on themotor route between Ashcroft and Hope, and Ashcroft and
. The tourist's northwest. iver. South from Spences Bridge a fork of the Canadian Pa-cific extends to Merritt (40 m.) and Nicola (47 m.) in thehigh rolling country of the Nicola Valley, where farmingand stock raising are successfully pursued. One of thenoted cattle ranches of the Province is in this region. ^ler-ritt is the northern terminus of the Kettle Valley Railwayto Penticton, this upper extension joining the road fromHope about 30 miles to the south. In the heart of an ex-cellent fishing and shooting district, Merritt is also on themotor route between Ashcroft and Hope, and Ashcroft andPenticton. Beyond Spences Bridge the rails thread a gloom-ing alley whose scant width is shared by the agi-tated river. The shadows grow deeper as theBlack Canyon contracts. The tops of the cliffsare hundreds of feet above the bed. The sunlightthat bathes the bare hills about Ashcroft is inwelcome contrast. Through the gorge of theThompson we have reached the east side of therange. Ashcroft is in the dry belt in the centre. VANCOUVER TO REVELSTOKE 409 of the Province. Here water is so much a thingof commerce that the columns of local newspapersare filled with announcements that a certainranching company, or Yenzabaro Moriyama, orJohn Jones purposes to divert and use a stipulatednumber of miners inches or cubic feet from anamed stream for irrigation, and advising thatobjections to the application for license so to di-vert must be filed with the Comptroller of WaterRights within thirty days after first publicationof the notice. When the caravans came this way by road forthe Cariboo mines, Ashcroft was surrounded bydust and bunch grass. Thanks to irrigation,some of its desolation has been redeemed by theplanting of farms and orchards. The motor stage to Barkerville (287 m.) offers an excur-sion to the adventurous scarcely to be equalled elsewhereon the continent. Stops are made in the Fraser Valley atClinton, 150-mile House, Soda Creek, and Quesnel beforereaching Barkerville, the
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