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The deposits are located along the lower slopes of hill-sides and as bogs
in the vicinity of small creeks. In the flat or typical bog parts of the
deposits, timber is almost entirely absent, and the ground is covered with
grass and scrubby second growth evergreens. On the hill-side deposits,
however, where the slopes rise to 15 degrees, the timber is thick, and some
of the trees are over one foot in diameter. As far as could be ascertained,
there are no topographical features that give a clue to the outlines of the
deposits.

A number of small creeks flow through the claims, and they are all
depositing flocculent iron hydrate. The elevation of the deposits varies
from 200 to 400 feet above sea-level.

HISTORY AND OWNERSHIP

The following details are quoted from previous publications:

“A group of thirteen claims was recorded during the past summer and
is now held by the Iron Mountain Syndicate of Victoria; little or no devel-
opment work, however, has been done as yet’’ (6, page 206).

“The thirteen claims owned by Messrs. Frank, Croft, and others on the

West arm have received some development work this year (1903)
The property consists of eight claims containing limonite, and five con-
taining bog iron. . . . The bogs are drained by a small creek flowing
into the arm and named Indian creek. These deposits have been pros-
pected by holes sunk at different points. On a range of hills to the north-
west of the bogs lie the limonite deposits, one of which, on the Sunrise
claim, one mile back from salt water and at an altitude of 400 feet, was
examined. . . . The deposit has also been prospected by a number of
open-cuts and holes” (29, pages 195, 202-203).

“The original twenty-two claims . . . were sold to J. Moore of
Seattle. . . . . A large number of open trenches have been dug
systematically. . . . The owners . . . . have just acquired the
balance of the new locations made this year (1905), numbering some
fourteen claims” (29, pages 212-213).

Thirty-six claims on the north side of the arm are owned by J. A.
Moore and W. Pigott of Seattle. On the thirty-six claim area, considerable
work was done in 1906. ‘‘The two largest cuts are 425 feet long, 44 feet
wide, 7 feet deep; and 200 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, all in
ore. Some of the shafts are sunk 14 feet deep (29, pages 183, 201).

GEOLOGY

Owing to the caved and overgrown condition of the old workings and
the dense cover of underbrush and timber, very little new information was
obtained in 1924, so that some data is quoted from earlier reports.

The country rock on the hill-sides over which the tributary creeks
flow is a fine-grained, soft, decomposed, light-coloured intrusive or extrusive,
richly impregnated with fine-grained pyrite. No rock relations were dis-
covered. ;

OCCURRENCE OF THE LIMONITE

Iron hydrate (here loosely called limonite) occurs as an undulating
blanket paralleling the present surface and is found in the following way:
(a) as a cement in the glacial drift; (b) as a replacement of pebbles and