Wednesday, June 30, 1999

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Watson's pre-emption of 320
acres and an adjoining sec-
tion of 640 acres [known as-
Blaine] for 5000 dollars and
had put in an application for
488 acres of wild land ad-
joining. Watson's improve-
ments consisted of fencing
his. own. pre-emption,. a
cabin of a single room,:a
small barn and fowi house
and 12 acres said to have
been ploughed, but this_
could: not be seen for the
snow. There were upwards
of 100 acres of level prairie
land near the house which
needed water to save from
drought in the summer &
the rest was mountain side
dotted with pines. A pretty
place with great capabilities,
if water would be brought,
but the source of water

some 10 miles off, natural -

obstacles had to be over
come and it was a doubtful

question whether others

were not in. preferential
claims to the water.

After another day’s: in-
‘spection of the place and a.

careful calculation of the
probable .cost of fencing,

. building and bring water to
“the land, I came to the con--

clusion that it would be too.

. _ expensive and even then a -
_ doubtful bargain. So deter-

“ Serve,

A genileman’s son turns to farming

. there is little arable land nearby.”

sacrifice of the seed grain
that Harry [sic] had pur-
chased, and returned with
him to Vernon.”

It was while making their
way back to Vernon, the de-
cision was made to travel to
New Westminster, and then

to Victoria, where they

could consider what land
was available in those loca-
tions.

they found that good land
was available at Port Haney,
this they would later decide
would: rot. suite Henry's
purposes.

Making their way to Vic-

toria, inquiries were made
of available land.

“. we visited Messrs.
Jones & Bridgeman in Fort

St., [Real Estate Agents].

and arranged to go out the
following day to inspect the

: Saanich district, a penin-

sula, due North of Victoria,

where farming has. made

some progress. We drove
accordingly to Mr. O’Con-

nor’s place, 14 miles out of
“town. .— a good gravelled ~
‘road leads to the. neigh- -

-bourhood of the Indian‘re-
where. Mitchells,

Matthews. & O’Con-

Arriving in New.
Westminster on: March 9,°

gether. The last comprises
138 acres, running down
the Sound that divides the
Island from the mainland.
There are 20 acres of good
land near the house — a low
ridge of about 80 acres cov-
ered with pines and cedar
running through the centre

of the property and some 30.

acres of good land near the
sea. The place is fenced all
round and the fields are sep-
arated by fences. There is
an excellent house of eight
rooms — spacious barn,
stable and poultry house —
shedding for 10 cows and
roomy hay loft capable of
holding 60 tons. The stock
consists of four horses and
five cows and these, with
the carts, waggons [sic] and
implements and the furni-

ture of the house are to be

sold with - the farm for /

£2000. >

- The drawback. to the
place is that there is but lit-
tle arable land and it is diffi-

cult to procure any close by, ..
as proprietors are holding
back thinking that a railway.

is likely to be built” ia

Next week we will it com,

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