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tinue for any distance along the strike, as another tunnel 100 feet to the

north fails to show any iron. . . . Other smaller amounts
of iron ore are exposed . . . . in different places. These 5 Ns
(are) of the nature of iron cappings . . . . andhave probably formed
by the oxidation of . . . . sulphide”.

(39) Near Crawford Bay

Hematite, in some respects at least, behaving as a sedimentary deposit,
has been found associated with conglomerate on Grays creek and the
divide between Grays and Crawford creeks.

(40) Kitchener Iron Ore Deposits
(See Figure 24)
LOCATION

The principal iron ore deposits occur on Iron Range mountain west of
Kitchener and north of Goat river. Iron ore occurs also south of Goat
river, towards the head of Thompson creck. Other occurrences are
reported to exist north of Iron Range mountain and, also, south of the
head of Thompson creek on the west slopes of the Moyie range about
the headwaters of Russell creek and Little Moyie river.

Iron Range mountain is a steep-sided ridge whose narrow summit
is 6 miles long, stretches nearly due north and south, and rises 3,000 to
4,000 feet above Goat river to a general elevation of 6,000 feet above
sea-level. The ridge is bounded by deep valleys, that of Bon Ton creek,
an easterly flowing tributary of Goat river, on the north; Goat river on

| the east and south; and Arrow creek, another tributary of Goat river, on

the west. A trail leaving the highway at a lumber mill a mile west of

Kitchener climbs the southern face of the mountain and follows the

ridge top to its northern end. A branch from a second trail running
northward up Goat River valley rises on the eastern slopes of the mountain
and joins the first-mentioned trail about midway along the summit of the
ridge.

Thompson creek, a second ore-bearing locality, enters Goat river from
the south, 3 miles west of Kitchener. It is a small, short stream in a
steep draw in the mountain side. A trail to the ore occurrences leaves
the highway at the stream crossing and follows up along the waterway.

The ore at all the localities is hematite and outcrops along a nearly
due north and south course, firstly at intervals over a distance of 6 miles
along the summit of Iron Range mountain and, secondly, at the head of
Thompson creek, about 3 miles south of the highway. The other reported
occurrences north of Iron Range mountain, and south from the head of
Thompson creek, lie on the same general north and south course.

HISTORY

The ore occurrences on Iron Range mountain were located by Mr. C. P.
Hill, now of Victoria, B.C., in 1897 and succeeding years at a time when,
due to the discoveries made at Rossland, ferruginous outcrops throughout
the region were being staked in the hope that they might prove to be
weathered outcrops of gold-bearing copper deposits. In 1901, the truenature