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Okinagan the line might diverge at the first favorable
point and the angle saved by skirting the Okinagan
some distance above its mouth

Either side of the Okinagan could be followed
The travelled road is on the left bank.  It is shorter
owing to one or two cuts off.

The whole of the Okinagan valley is very
practible the chief portion consisting of sandy levels

Wood is scarce save along the stream where 
there is in most parts a fringe of poplars.  About the
forks of the Similkameen there is a growth of
stunted pines on the summits.  A supply of 
these could be obtained with some labourers.

From the nature of the soil they grow in
they would I fancy be very durable for posts

I have only noticed them from a distance
and take them for the "Douglass pine" a good wood

I state this preference more from habit than 
ought else having always gone by that route in
going to Kamloops, if anything its is a trifle
longer than the Similkameen route which
altogether I believe is the preferable one.

Were I on my way to Alexandria from the
forks I should prefer the old "Brigade trail"
by the way of Kamloops.

For your purposes however the Similkameen
route is perhaps preferable and I should therefore
consider it.

The lower part of the Similkameen river