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3 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