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NORTH BEND OF FRASER RIVER.

A prospect owned by Oscar Eden, of Prince George, and others,
situated just north of the most northerly bend of Fraser river (Figure 1,
locality 1), carries values in silver, lead, and gold. The property is con-
nected by steamer channel up the Fraser with Hudson Spur near Hansard
about 24 miles east, on the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, and to Prince
George about 50 miles down the river to the southwest. The route to
Hudson Spur is in quiet water all the way, but there are several long rapids
down the river toward Prince George. Developments on this property
include a tunnel and shallow shaft. The tunnel, within 100 feet of the north
bank of the river, is about 95 feet long trending about north 40 degrees
west. The country rock is a quartz muscovite chlorite schist carrying
some carbonate. A sheared zone about 3 feet wide and dipping east,
carries quartz with pyrite. In places in the tunnel it lies between fairly
solid walls, the easterly wall being apparently more schistose, but other-
wise of the same character as the wall on the west side. There has been
much faulting and silicification of the country rock. The shaft lies 300
feet in elevation over the river, about 1,800 feet north of it, and about 750
feet east by south of the northeast corner of Eden’s homestead lot. Galena
occurs in quartz that is from 5 to 6 feet in width lying between well-defined
walls of schist. The walls strike 285 degrees magnetic north (46 degrees
true north) and dip 60 degrees to 65 degrees to the northeast. Faulting on
the foot-wall is represented by 8 inches of black and red gouge. About -
20 feet of the length of the ore-body has been exposed. If the strike of the
ore zone be followed in an easterly direction for 550 feet along the side
hill a gulch is crossed running south 67 degrees west toward the Fraser.
Two hundred feet down the gulch from where the strike of the ore zone
would cross the gulch are boulders of quartz, some of them 2 feet across,
with much galena. They must have moved downhill from their outcrop
and are a very excellent indication that the ore zone has a length of from
500 to 600 feet at least.

Samples taken from various places in the tunnel and in the foot-wall
of the ore zone at the shaft are said to have carried radium. The writer
took samples from the gouge in the shaft and from points in the tunnel, as
near as possible to the pomts from which the original samples are said to
have come from, but a test on these samples by H. V. Ellsworth of the
Geological Survey, did not indicate any trace of radium. According to
Mr. Eden samples taken by him across the outcrop near the top of the shaft
gave 13 ounces of silver and 15 per cent of lead to the ton, whereas a sample
across the ore at the bottom of the shaft yielded 25-8 ounces of silver, 42
per cent of lead, and a trace of gold. The writer did not sample this ore-
body, but galena is plentiful through the quartz. |

Assays made from samples 30 feet and 60 feet from the mouth of the
tunnel are said to have yielded respectively 3 ounces silver, 50 cents in gold,
with some lead; and $4.80 in gold.

A company known as the North Point Mining Company, of which
Oscar Eden is president, has been formed to develop this property. Surface
trenching should be done to prove the outcrop over as long a
distance as possible so as to determine its dip and strike and whether