EXPERT ADVICE 7 
taken advantage of the enhanced values that follow the 
advent of a railroad and sold out at a big profit. An 
instance occurred in 1911 in the valley of the Columbia 
River, between Golden and Cranbrook, in which the far- 
seeing and patient pioneer waited nearly twenty years 
for fortune to come to him. But come it did at last, and 
well was he rewarded for his pluck and tenacity. But a 
man who intends to grow—or, at any rate, to sell—fruit 
cannot afford to do that. 
The railway is, however, only a link between the fruit- 
grower and the market in which he hopes to dispose of 
his fruit. Consequently he must study further the rela- 
tive ease of access which, through the railway or lake 
service, he will obtain to the distant market. (See 
further chapter on Markets.) 
Expert ADvicE.—On the whole, when the intending 
fruit-grower is in a position to afford it, it will well repay 
him to engage the services of an experienced grower, or 
other person who understands how to grow fruit in British 
Columbia, and is well acquainted with the climate and 
all the local conditions, both those which are favourable 
and those which are unfavourable, either to select land 
for him or to examine and report upon land which he has 
selected for himself. This expert advice can be secured 
at a quite moderate cost. 
