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EXTRACTS from Second Report of Mr. R. C. Camp-
bell-Johnston, M. E., after completion of develop-
ment work on the property of the British Columbia
Anthracite Syndicate, on the Skeena River, B. C.
in 1941. :

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The British Columbia Anthracite Syndicate

Head Office, Hochelaga Bank Building
QUEBEC.

GENTLEMEN :-—

‘‘It is Just one year ago, namely, in November, 1910, after the
writer’s first trip on to your coal-lands, located near the head-
waters of the Skeena River, that he handed you a report relating to
the data at the time obtainable, as to the geology occurrence of
coal, with its quality and quantity to date known, and other inform-
ation gathered, as to the advisability of undertaking the develop-
ment of this field. He told you that in his judgment this one
could be made ‘‘the largest colliery with the highest grade coal on
the Pacific Coast.’? (See conclusions: Page 34.)

At that period, this was his matured professional judgment,
based on the details at hand after a careful examination of pro-
perty, as an experienced mining engineer. Your Syndicate after-
wards put full confidence in his assertions and conclusions, provid-
ed all the funds which he asked for to explore and develop the pro-
perty, and engaged him to go back this summer at the head of a
very large expedition, to make good his words by actual proofs,
substantiation, and the opening up of the seams.

In this second report now handed to you, it is shewn that the
hopes then expressed and the optimism originally felt, have both,
as conceptions, fallen far short of actual facts now proven to exist
in situ.

These same facts are vouched for, and corroborated by Mr.
James McEvoy, B.A.Se., late Geologist and Chief Engineer of the
Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company; and also Mr. Geoffrey Francis
Monckton, Fellow Geological Society of London; and again by Mr.
G. 8S. Malloch, of the Geological Survey of Canada, Department of.
Mines, Oittawa, who is embodying the items concerning your pro-
perty into the Government Report of Progress for this year, with