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shafts another bed vein was encountered, locally 8 feet wide. Both veins
are well mineralized with pyrite and picked samples of pyrite have
assayed 4 ounces of gold a ton. Two shafts and the Newberry adit have
been driven amid open-cuts near the southwest boundary of the Inde-
pendence claim. The shafts and open-cuts disclose a diagonal vein and
also bed veins several feet wide well mineralized with pyrite and galena.
The Newberry adit, 600 feet long, was driven west under the two shafts.
It cuts two wide quartzose zones, each about 30 feet wide, of the bed vein
type, locally well mineralized with pyrite.

Scattered open-cuts continue southeast into the adjoining Hard Cash
claim which extends down to Grouse creek. The Syndicate has begun
another adit on this claim, called the 400 adit, to explore their ground at
depth. There are three other old short adits on the Hard Cash claim,
the Anderson in the centre of the claim and the Moore and Fountain
Head adits near Grouse creek. The Moore and Anderson adits fail
to disclose veins of commercial width. The Fountain Head adit, how-
ever, cuts a 30-foot bed vein consisting of quartz banded with country
rock, and also at least two branch veins a foot wide, striking north 65
degrees east, consisting of quartz and pyrite.

Sampling has not been thorough enough to set an average assay value
on the veins, but has shown that some veins locally will assay an ounce of
gold a ton across a width of 2 feet.

The rocks southwest of the claims are mainly unsheared dark grey
quartzites and those northeast of the claims are fissile quartzites of the
Baker member, and above these is the Barkerville formation. The inter-
vening ground, covered by the claims, apparently absorbed much of the
regional stress and yielded by shearing and by fracturing. The Baker
member took up some of the stress and yielded mainly by shearing.