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on these lakes. Between Kazchek and Rice Lakes, near
the trail between them, are some good meadows, which
would produce hay if beaver-dams were cut. Near Rice
Lake surface is broken and soil, mainly glacial drift on
hill, slopes to bottom lands reaching 2 miles from Middle
River. Kloch Mountain, between Kazchek and Kloch
Lakes, reaches 4,400 feet, with White Crater, north-west
of Kloch Lake, 4,800 feet. North and south of Trem-
bleur Lake is mountainous unsurveyed country, only sur-
veys being timber limits on southern shore. The country
between Trembleur and Stuart Lakes, west of Tachie
River, is mainly mountainous. Some good land occurs on
slopes to Stuart Lake, and several lots have been surveyed
north of Tarnezell Lake, reached by trail over the hills 4
miles south-west from Grand Rapids on Tachie River.

VICINITY OF TAKLA LAKE.

North from Rice Creek surveys are confined to the
valley of Middle River, and on Takla Lake the only sur-
veys are on lakeside slopes north to Takla Narrows, where
the high peaks or Takla Range, with Mount Blanchet
reaching 7,000 feet, separate the two arms of the lake.
The country is rough and rocky near the southern part.
On the east rolling brulé slopes about 4 miles, with sandy
soil and poor land, to bordering mountains. About 5
miles up North Arm mountains close in and slope abruptly
to the water to near Maclaing Landing, near which a store
is operated at Takla Landing. North from here undulat-
ing land reaches eastward about 2 miles, with about 7,000
acres of good soil, including many large beaver meadows.
Western slope is steep, thigkly clad with green timber.
North-west Arm is mountainous on both sides. At north
end two or three sections of bottom with good soil are
drained by Dust Creek and ten or twelve sections of fair
land are found near by, easily cleared, with occasional
small meadow-ringed lakes in them. The northern bound-
ary of the land division crosses the flat north of Maclaing
Landing, the northerly part of the lake and Driftwood
River being in Smithers division. The Hazelton—Babine—
Manson Trail, with ferry crossing on the lake, crosses on
a line with this boundary.

BETWEEN STUART AND BABINE SYSTEMS.

From west end of Trembleur Lake to Wright Bay on
Babine Lake is a low-lying wide transverse valley in which
a large block of agricultural land has been surveyed.
This pass was the route of a wagon-road in the days of
Omineca gold-rush, before travel was diverted to the
Hazelton-Babine-Takla Lake and Fort St. James-Manson
Trails. Centre of this block awaiting settlement with
development of the region is about 12 miles to north of
Donald Landing, where the Burns Lake-Babine Lake
Wagon-road debouches, and a valley reaches south toward

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