scows to Takla Landing via Tachie and Middle Rivers and Stuart, Trembleur, and Takla Lakes. MINERAL DEVELOPMENT. Babine Mountains between Babine and Bulkley Valleys have formations of schists, quartzites, shales, etc., cut by numerous porphyritic dykes, with mineralized areas in which some good prospects are located, notably galena, zinc-blende, grey copper, azurite, malachite with high values in silver. Present development is near head of Driftwood Creek and slopes to Fulton River, and consider- able areas have yet to be prospected and explored. Deposits occur in veins, mostly narrow, comparatively short quartz veins. Silver content, in some instances, is very high. Copper, lead, and zinc are present in con- siderable quantities in some, supplementing silver value. In 1928 and 1929 considerable diamond-drilling was done by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company on the Richmond properties, which they had acquired from J. H. McDonald. They have spent a large amount on tests and are still interested. Galena minerals occur 3 miles back in the mountains opposite Marble Point, copper on Copper Island, minerals with gold, copper, silver, also considerable zinc, in places on Newman Peninsula, asbestos in serpentine of Middle Range, coal on Fulton River. To north side of Babine Lake superficial glacial deposits are deep and few exposures seen. South of Stuart Lake the ranges of rocky hills have rock-exposures, chiefly sedi- mentaries of Palaeozoic age. On north of Stuart Lake glacial deposits occur and no reports of minerals are made. The Manson-Germansen Creek area—Manson Creek is 125 -miles by trail from Fort St. James—has yielded about $550,000 in placer gold, being worked intermit- tently from 1868, and hydraulicking and drilling is proceeding. The Government has spent considerable money in the Fort St. James and Manson Creek Districts on roads which should ultimately reach Fort Grahame and Finlay Forks. Roads and trails that had fallen into disrepair are being reconstructed. Interest in the placers around Manson Creek is increasing. Some samples of black sand have been brought out. The Consolidated Mining Company has drilled some of the ground systematically and its interest would seem to indicate further experiments. TIMBER RESOURCES. Other than a small mill near Fort St. James cutting only for local requirements the forests within the watersheds of the Babine and Stuart Lakes are unexplored. A con- siderable area is forested, some sections with statutory timber. About 5 per cent. is barren mountains above timber-line and 10 per cent. covered by lakes and streams. Forest fires have burnt approximately 50 per cent. of the 4