about have won the cup for the best district exhibit
of garden produce at Prince Rupert Exhibition for
several years in succession.

Southward from west of Haida the country is
more broken. A number of benches, varying in
width up to about three-quarters of a mile and in
altitude from 900 to 1,500 feet, are separated by the
valleys of Miller Creek and headwaters of Tlell
River, the former being in a narrow gorge with
little bottom land. These benches are separated by
the deep creek-valleys, and being cut by ravines of
small streams have generally a broken appearance.
This undulating country slopes fairly rapidly to
the sea north and west of the Skidegate Indian
Reserve, the slopes being fairly well timbered. Fire
and wind have destroyed most of the first-growth
timber on the benches. There are several tracts
of tundra, lightly timbered and free from moss,
with good soil. In the timbered portions soil is
yellow clay loam, fertile where cultivated. Adjoin-
ing the Skidegate Indian Reserve is the South-
easter Mine, producing gold-bearing galena. At
Skidegate and Queen Charlotte City, a town 4
miles west, on Skidegate Inlet, are stores, post-
offices, and other facilities.

Townships 4 and 5, excepting a narrow strip
along the shore and in the Honna Valley, are mostly
more or less rough and hilly. The main drainage
is Honna River, flowing east and then south from
Stanley Lake. Slatechuck Range reaches across the
north-west boundary of Township 4 into Section 31
at elevation of 3,500 feet. In Township 5 the
eastern and north-east portions are not as moun-
tainous as the western part. The highest peak, in
Section 12, Township 5, reaches 2,200 feet. There
is considerable heavy timber, and many timber
limits are held, also coal lands. Camp Robertson,
where coal was found over thirty years ago, is in
Section 20, Township 5. There are also workings
at Slatechuck Creek in Township 2. Lina Island,
generally fairly hilly, has an area of agricultural
land, settled for some years, on the water-front.
Several benches farther back, with sandy loam soil,
could be brought under cultivation.

YAKOUN RIVER VICINITY.

Township 6, generally rolling, slopes easterly with
some abrupt hills in some parts. From the north
of Sections 15 and 16 the ground rises gently and
fairly evenly to the south, attaining greatest eleva-
tion on a height extending north-easterly from the
centre of Section 3, the southern and eastern slopes
being steep. An abrupt sloping hill rises in the

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