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for 50 feet from its junction with the main vein, and then it pinches. A
stope 20 feet long is carried through to the surface on what was evidently a
very rich part of the vein.

A second short adit is driven east to intersect the main vein from a
point 375 feet south of the collar of the main shaft. The adit intersects the
vein 57 feet from the portal, but here the vein is offset for 20 feet by a
fault. A drift that follows the fault line for 150 feet shows it to be barren.
The fault strikes north 20 degrees east and dips 75 degrees southeast. The
main vein is explored south of the fault line by a 50-foot drift reached by a
short crosscut from the drift on the fault. Here, the vein ranges from 21
to 80 inches in width and the quartz gangue is banded by fine seams of
sulphide, most of which is pyrite and arsenopyrite with some galena. An
18-inch channel sample taken across the vein from the roof of the drift, 15
feet from the face, assayed: gold, 0-025 ounce a ton; silver, 14-96 ounces
a ton; lead, 5-30 per cent; zinc, nil. A 13-inch channel sample taken
across the vein from the roof of the drift, 25 feet from the face, assayed:
gold, 0-085 ounce a ton; silver, 0-21 ounce a ton; lead, nil; zinc, nil.

The main vein is reached by the No. 2 crosscut adit 192 feet east of the
No. 6 vein or 880 feet from the portal of the adit. On this level the vein
is drifted on for 765 feet. The drift extends 248 feet south and 517 feet
north from its intersection with the main crosscut. This drift reaches the
main shaft 320 feet north of the end of the main crosscut. Near the shaft
there is a 118-foot drift along the hanging-wall vein. The main vein is
continuously exposed along the 765-foot drift, and ranges from 6 inches to
5 feet in width. For most of this distance the vein is of white, milky quartz
sparsely mineralized with iron, lead, and zinc sulphides. An ore shoot that
extended 50 feet south and 100 feet north of the shaft was developed by
two raises to the 150-foot level and considerable stoping was done from
both levels. The hanging-wall vein, which joins the foot-wall vein 50
feet south of the shaft on this level, furnished an ore shoot 80 feet long,
varying from 24 to 4 feet in width. This vein pinches to a width of 4
inches of quartz 100 feet northeast along its strike from the main vein.

Water and general disrepair of the shaft prevented an examination of
the 150-foot level, the 400-foot level, or the level at the bottom of the
winze.

O’Neill (1918) states that the main vein ore shoot is 200 feet long
on the 150-foot level and that it varied from 6 inches to 8 feet in width,
averaging 4 feet to the surface. At the 400-foot level the ore shoot was
100 feet long, varying from 18 inches to 3 feet in width. In the drift at the
bottom of the winze, 86 feet below the 400-foot level, there is 6 inches of
good grade ore for the total distance of 400 feet drifted.

In describing the hanging-wall vein O’Neill states: “On the 150-foot
level the shoot is known to be 95 feet in length. . . On the 400-foot level
this shoot has been opened up in a drift over 100 feet in length and the ore
is 6 inches in width, occurring along a well-defined hanging-wall.... A
raise was put up from the 400-foot level in this shoot and it widened in
a short distance to 3 feet, with a larger content of galena.”

No. 8 Vein. The No. 8 vein is 400 feet east of the main vein, and has
been traced along the surface for 380 feet between elevations of 1,830 and
1,880 feet. The vein strikes north 55 degrees east and dips 70 degrees