CHAPTER V.—DESCRIPTIONS OF PROPERTIES.
LODE PROPERTIES.

The company, 1004 Sun Life Building, Vancouver, holds thirty-five
Cariboo Rain- claims and fractions lying on the south side of Burns Mountain. The
bow Gold main showings on the claims are the Perkins veins, the Galena vein,
Mines, Ltd. and the Cohen Incline veins, all of which lie between 5,100 and 5,250
(31, 32, and feet elevation. A camp at 5,150 feet elevation is reached by 114 miles
ao) of wagon-road, which leaves the Lightning Creek road 144 miles south-
east of Stanley. The first quartz-vein discoveries were made on Burns
Mountain sometime in the early 1870’s. By 1878 the ground was owned by J. C. Beedy,
who in that year built a small quartz mill at Van Winkle. In 1879 quartz ore mined
from the Beedy, later called the Perkins, veins was hauled to the mill and gold valued at
$3,500 was recovered. On the death of J. C. Beedy in 1880, the property was acquired
by J. Reid, of Quesnel. Reid’s company drove a crosscut in from the west side to cut the
veins at a depth of about 75 feet below their outcrop. One vein intersected at 340
feet from the portal was drifted to the north for 20 feet. By 1885, when the ground
was examined by Amos Bowman, the property was being worked by EH. Perkins. In
1891 it is recorded+ that “Mr. Perkins on Burns Mountain, continues to work his
man-power arrastre and manages to make his living from it while prospecting the
mine.” ‘Perkins continued to mine the veins at shallow depth for many years. Picked
quartz was roasted and crushed, and the gold was recovered either in an arrastre or
with a rocker. The old arrastre may still be seen, and from it tailings have run down-
hill to the west for about 150 feet. In 1902 two of Perkins’ claims were bonded by
C. J. Seymour Baker and A. J. R. Atkin. Ten tons of ore, treated by them in the old
Government reduction works near Barkerville, yielded about 10 oz. of gold.

After Perkins’. death in 1919 the property was acquired by C. Fuller and D. Hawes,
who held the ground until it was acquired from them by the Burns Mountain Gold
Quartz Mining Company, Limited, in 1932. The company drove a crosscut 2,163 feet
in length to crosscut the Perkins veins at a depth of about 275 feet below the outcrop
and also drove the Reid adit ahead about 50 feet. On lapse of the company’s claims
the ground was relocated by R. E. MacDougall, W. E. North, and J. J. Gunn, of Wells.
The claims were acquired in 1946 by the present company.

The veins at the Cohen Incline already had been worked at the time of Bowman’s
examination in 1885, but no other information regarding the work done is available.
Bowman makes no mention of the Galena vein workings to the east of the camp, and
no information regarding the age or the results of the work is available.

The rocks underlying the claims include silvery-grey sericitic quartzite, fissile
grey quartzite, and brown thinly-laminated argillaceous schist and quartzite. Thin
beds of dark rice-grain quartzite are interbedded with the other quartzite, and at the
Cohen Incline there is a bed of fine pea-pebble conglomerate. In and around the sur-
face and underground workings on the Perkins veins the rocks are dominantly grey
and brown thinly-laminated argillaceous schist and fine-grained quartzite. These rocks
are similar to beds exposed along Lightning Creek up-stream from the mouth of
Amador Creek, and also to the rocks along Oregon Gulch.

The rocks for the most part have a fairly constant strike of from north 20 to 25
degrees west and dip at angles of 15 to 40 degrees eastward. At the Cohen Incline
and northward, the general trend swings to north or slightly east of north, with the
dips remaining low and to the east. The rocks appear to be part of a fairly uniform
panel of northerly striking and easterly dipping beds uncomplicated except by minor

* These numbers correspond to the numbered locations on the accompanying map.
+ Minister of Mines, B.C., Ann. Rept., 1891, p. 561.

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