One prospector reports having recovered several pieces
of coarse gold (valued from 10 to 15 cents each) from bed-
rock benches south of lease No. 345. It is also reported
that the cemented gravel on lease No. 332 yielded a few specks
of fine gold when crushed and panned. The writer crushed and
panned some cemented gravel taken directly above bed-rock,
and recovered a little black’ sand but no gold.

Most of the gold from Alice Shea Creek has been recovered
from lease No. 355. The three other leases have been pros-
pected and coarse gold found on them. All the gold recovered
so far has been from the shallow gravel overlying bed-rock in
the bottom of the creek, from the top of the bed-rock, or from

cracks within the bed-rock.

Bed-rock and the overlying gravel and boulder-clay in
the bottom of Philippon Creek have been prospected on the one
placer lease (No. 358) staked along the creek above its junc-
tion with Wheaton. Although a small amount of coarse gold is
found from time to time, no pay-gravel has been discovered.

Some coarse gold, and a nugget valued at about 50 cents,
are reported to have been recovered from the.small unnamed
creek entering Wheaton from the east just below the lake to-
wards the head of Wheaton. No leases are staked on the creek,
very little prospecting has been done, and no pay-gravel found.

So far at least, workable gold-bearing gravel is found
only on leases Nos. 302, 402, and 345, at the lower end of
Wheaton Creek and on the four leases on Alice Shea Creek. In-
asmuch as the prospecting on the other creek leases on Wheaton
Creek has not attained sufficient depth to reach bed-rock, it
is unknown whether there is a concentration of gold on or
near the bed-rock teneath the creek.

Character and Associations. Practically all the gold re-
covered from Wheaton and Alice Shea Creeks is coarse and nug-
getty; most of the grains are larger than wheat kernels. The
gold from lease Nos. 345 and 402 is similar. It occurs in
rounded or flattened grains and nuggets whose surfaces may be
smooth or irregularly pitted and rounded. The surface is dull
and almost uniformly orange-yellow in colour, but beneath the
oxidized surface coating, the gold is bright and yellow. Most
of the large nuggets have quartz still adhering to them. of
the largest nuggets recovered from Wheaton Creek one, found
above the falls on lease No. 302, weighed 2 ounces 2 dwt., and
another found on lease No. 345 weighed just about 2 ounces.
The average fineness of almost 700 ounces of gold from lease
No. $45 is 831 parts of gold, 121 parts of silver. ‘The simi-

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