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end of the south drift. At the face of the south drift the vein consists of
12 inches of milky quartz sparsely mineralized. At the face of the north
drift, the vein is 3 feet wide and is rich in sphalerite over a width of 12
inches on the hanging-wall side of the vein, with about 5 per cent sphalerite
throughout the remaining 2 feet. A 3-foot channel sample taken across this
face assayed: gold, 0:13 ounce a ton; silver, 44-36 ounces a ton; lead, 0-28
per cent; zinc, 10-82 per cent.

No. 2 Vein. This vein lies 95 feet east of the No. 1 vein and outcrops
35 feet higher on the mountain slope. Its strike and dip are almost identical
with that of the No. 1 vein, but it has been traced for only 250 feet along its
strike. The vein is narrow but persistent, with widths ranging from 6 to 12
inches. The quartz gangue carries an abundance of arsenopyrite and pyrite
with some shoots rich in galena and sphalerite. A 6-inch channel sample
taken across the vein in a cut midway along its strike assayed: gold, 1-215
ounces a ton; silver, 60:49 ounces a ton; lead, 5-42 per cent; zinc, 3-61 per
cent; arsenic, 3-80 per cent; antimony, 0-28 per cent.

In the lower adit where this vein is intersected 100 feet east of the
No. 1 vein, it is 8 inches wide and the quartz gangue contains up to 30 per
cent of galena and sphalerite. It has been drifted along for only 20 feet.
This vein has 150 feet of backs between this level and the surface.

No. 3 Vein. This was the first vein encountered in the No. 2 crosscut
adit at 140 feet from the portal. Water backed up by the caving in of the
portal of the adit prevented its examination in the 1937 season. O’Neill
(1919) describes the vein as consisting of about 6 inches of mixed ore. In
the lower adit a 6-inch vein containing about 50 per cent of galena and
sphalerite occurs at 180 feet from the face of the adit. The surface out-
crops of both veins are drift covered.

No. 4 Vein. The No. 4 vein is the strongest vein on the property,
having been traced by surface trenching and by the underground workings
for a distance of 1,200 feet along the strike. The vein ranges in strike from
north 40 degrees east at its southern extremity to north 58 degrees east
at its north end, and the dip ranges from 65 to 80 degrees southeast. The
surface trace of the vein climbs slowly from an elevation of 1,615 feet at
an old shaft near its north end to 1,715 feet at its south end. The southern
extremity of the vein is enclosed for 200 feet in granodiorite. An average
vein width of 2 to 3 feet of quartz is maintained on passing from the sedi-
mentary rock into the intrusive, but the vein carries much less sulphide
where the granodiorite forms the wall-rock. Near the centre of the stock
the vein widens to 7 feet and contains about 1 per cent of galena and 1 per
cent of pyrite. A chip sample taken across the 7-foot vein in a rock cut
assayed: gold, 0-015 ounce a ton; silver, 0-17 ounce a ton; lead, a trace.
The vein splits and pinches about 50 feet farther south. An old adit driven
in the granodiorite 50 feet below the 7-foot vein outcrop was too filled
with mud and water to permit entry.

The vein is cut by the No. 2 crosscut adit at 400 feet from the portal,
and is drifted along for 230 feet north and 154 feet south from the cross-
cut. Much of the vein has been partly stoped out immediately above this

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