meadows being numerous and large. The general elevation, however— 3,000 to 3,500 feet—precludes the possibility of using this land for any other than stock- or hay-raising purposes. Manson River, which heads in Bald Mountain, the rolling summit of which is crossed by the Manson Creek Trail, which runs north-westerly from the east end of Lower Nation Lake to Manson Creek, drains a generally mountainous area in a narrow timbered valley at altitude of about 3,000 feet, and agricultural land is confined to the lower part, where it merges into Parsnip River Valley. To the north the Wolverine Range extends between it and Omineca River. Manson Creek, which ‘during the early days, when some 2,000 placer-miners were engaged in the region, was a mining centre with the usual stores, sawmills, and other requirements of a mining centre, is now a small settlement with an average population of about twenty people, including a postmaster and sub-mining recorder. THE OMINECA DISTRICT. Omineca River, which came into prominence in the sixties, when gold was found on one of the tributaries and about 2,000 miners flocked in, drains through a complex mountain region in its upper part. It joins Finlay River about 15 miles above Finlay Forks, being by far its largest tributary. I*rom the mouth to Black Canyon, about 5 miles, the river is shallow and current swift, the slope of the stream exceeding 10 feet per mile. Numerous gravel-bars and islands, covered in places by huge drift-piles, obstruct the course and divide the stream into many channels. Black Canyon, 114 miles long, 100 to 200 feet wide, has usually vertical walls, in places over 150 feet high. It is navigable by canoe at low water, but impassable at flood. From Black Canyon to Little Canyon, about 30 miles, the river has grade of about 12 feet per mile. From the head of rapid water to Germansen Landing, 12 miles, with exception of a few small ripples, the current is easy, 2 to 3 miles an hour, and navigable water extends thence to New Hogem, 23 miles—con- siderably more by following the tortuous channel. At New Hogem a granitic mountain area is reached, extending far into the, mountain country, which covers a large region to the westward and north and for some distance southward. F. C. Swannell, who made a reconnaissance survey of Omineca in 1913, estimated that Omineca Valley held 80,000 acres, suitable for agriculture, and its main tributaries, Oslinka and Mesilinka Valleys, 20,000 and 40,000 acres respectively. A.M. O. Gold, who made a forest reconnaissance of the district, exploring 4,075 square miles from the Nation Lakes Plateau on the south to Mesilinka River and the Police Trail, thence to Fort Grahame on the north, westward from Finlay and Parsnip Valleys to the waterway between Stuart Lake and Driftwood River, estimated that 521,950 acres in this area may be classed as farming land—not including the Nation Lakes basin or Finlay and Parsnip Twenty-one.