REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF MINES, 1929.

This property, comprising eight claims, is situated on the Bear River-Nass
Montreal. divide. A detailed description of the showings is contained in the 1928 Annual
Report. During the season J. Douville and partners, the owners, carried out
additional stripping and open-cutting and more discoveries were made.

This group of sixteen claims, owned by E. C. Morris and C. Lake, of Stewart,
Southern Cross. is situated on the east side of the Bear River glacier, at altitude 2,500 feet.
Open-cutting and stripping during the season has exposed a showing of quartz
veinlets over a width of about 20 feet in a formation complex of andesite and argillite. Minerali-
zation consists of chalcopyrite, grey copper, and some zinc-blende. The owners report having
identified native silver in the occurrence. The showings are among the season’s new discoveries

and indicate good prospecting possibilities towards the Meziadin Lake area.
This group of sixty claims was staked and surveyed on behalf of the Consoli-
Treaty Creek. dated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada during the late fall of 1928.
The claims are situated on the north side of Treaty creek—formerly 20-Mile

creek—a tributary of the Bell-Irying river, about 35 miles from the confluence of the Bell-Irving
with the Nass river.

The claims are reached via the Bear River road and trail over the Nass divide, the Surprise
Creek trail skirting Meziadin, thence to Bowser lake and the Bell-Irving. At present the trail
has been put into good shape by the Departments of Mines and Public Works as far as Hanna
creek, about 10 miles beyond Surprise creek, but from there on is reported to be in very bad
condition. It would seem that a more direct route to this area, should improved transportation
facilities eventually be warranted, would be via Tide lake and the Bowser river to Bowser lake
and from thence to Todedada lake down the headwaters of Treaty creek. In view of the
operations on the Big Missouri and at Tide lake, and the already available good road and trail
conditions serving that area as far as Tide lake, this route should be given consideration in the
event of improved transportation being warranted.

During July, 1929, the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada transported
men and supplies by aeroplane from Stewart to Bowser lake and inaugurated an active campaign
of preliminary prospecting on the claims. Time was not available for the Resident Engineer to
examine the showings during the season. The company reports, however, that values are scattered
over a large mineralized area and appear to be mainly in gold, silver, and copper, although
sufficient work has not been done to form a criterion of the possible value of the property. *

These groups are situated towards the mouth of American creek and are

Morning Canyon owned by Sam Deschamps, of Stewart. The Morning Canyon showings have

and Keystone. been explored by open-cuts, stripping, and a 60-foot tunnel driven diagonally

across a mineralized zone. Where the tunnel crosses the zone at 20 feet, the

owner reports 7 feet of mineralization with pyrite, some galena and zinc-blende, and a little

chalcopyrite. From 20 feet to the face intermittent mineralization is reported, with 18 inches

of fair mineralization showing in the face. During the season tunnelling was continued and
a cabin built.

On the Keystone a quartz vein, 4 feet wide, mineralized with zine-blende, chalcopyrite, and
some galena, in an andesite formation, has been opened up by a 50-foot tunnel, a 12-foot shaft,
séme stripping and open-cutting.

This company was incorporated in 1928 for the purpose of exploring some
Heywood Mining claims staked in the same year. The company is capitalized at $1,000,000,
and Development divided into 4,000,000 shares of the par value of 25 cents each. The property,
Co. consisting of fourteen claims on the east bank of American creek, was further

explored during the summer by open-cutting and stripping.
This company has a capitalization of 6,000,000 shares of no par value. Four
Mountain Boy hundred and fifty thousand shares were offered to the public. The remainder
Mining Co., Ltd. is distributed as follows: 2,525,000 shares pooled until December, 1929;
2,500,000 shares to be retained in the treasury; 525,000 shares sold. The head

office is at 112 St. James Street, Montreal.

The property comprises eight claims and three fractional claims. It is situated on the west
side of American creek, about 18 miles from Stewart and 4 miles from the end of the Bear
River road. The claims can be reached by the trails on either the east or west sides of American
creek. Heavy pack-horse traffic and excessive rain put the east trail in bad shape during the