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[[begin page]] 5 (circled) The Douglass pine where procurable should be selected where Cedar cannot be had. I may here mention that the red pine in question prevails wherever there is a growth of wood from the Priests Rapids upwards to some distance beyond Kamloops. It ceases (by the Brigade trail) at Bonapartes River near Green Lake There is excellent pasture for animals all along the Similkameen The dry gravelly flats are interspersed with fertile bottoms in parts. The Prickly Cactus and the Rattlesnake attest the warmth and dryness of the soil. The Rattlesnake however does not extend beyond Thompsons River the Cactus as far as Alexandria Arrived at the point called on my map Toneharneen or the "Red Earth" fork the question you proposed to me comes up. At this point or near it the village of Princetown is I am told, now established. I should strongly dissuade your attempting to continue the line hence to Fort Hope. In the first place I see no object to be gained by it. In the next you will abandon a most eligible line of country for a rugged and difficult one more than twice as long to reach the crossing of the Thompson. Owing to the narrowness of the valley [[end page]]