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- 40 VICTORIA ILLUSTRATED.
best land available, so that for the production of cereals, roots and meats, almost unequalled natural facilities are afforded.
The agricultural resources of the Island of Vancouver it is hard to estimate, but the Saanich, Cowichan, Comox and Alberni districts
have amply demonstrated their abundant fertility, while elsewhere the explorers say that thousands of acres only await the settler's
advent to enormously repay him for the exertions he may put forth. There are known to be in the immediate neighborhood of Victoria, not
less than 60,000 to 80,000 acres of fine farming lands, whose products have done honor to themselves in the different fairs of the country,
and were indeed, on the only occasion that they were sent abroad for exhibition purposes, honored with substantial acknowledgment at the
Paris Exposition. However promising the prospect, the fact cannot be disguised that only a small proportion of what might be fruitful
fields, have been placed under cultivation. The Farmers' Delegates who arrived here some months back in search of knowledge as to this
Province as a place of settlement, had but little to say of the Island of Vancouver, for the reason that they could not, or were not
disposed to give to it the attention that it not only deserved, but absolutely required. Practically speaking, the scope of the farmer
in British Columbia is unlimited, and within fifty miles of Victoria the subjoined yields per acre fully demonstrate the capability of the
soil : Wheat 30 to 40 bushels per acre, potatoes from 150 to 200 bushels, and up
BUILDING OF THE B. C. LAND AND INVESTMENT CO. (AS SHOWN WHEN COMPLETED).
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