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Magnetite veins of any considerable size, now exposed, are confined to
the eastern part of the Moose claim and to the Magnet claim. The indivi-
dual veins, as seen on these claims and at Glen Iron mine at Cherry bluff
where conditions are essentially similar, have certain plainly developed
characteristics that have a marked bearing on their economic value. Most
of the veins follow courses whose directions approximate east and west. The
courses of individual veins are curving and neighbouring veins are roughly
parallel with one another. Most of the veins are vertical or highly inclined,
but some dip at angles as low as 45 degrees. The veins do not continue inde-
finitely either vertically or horizontally and examples were noted of veins
terminating by gradually thinning and dying out both in an horizontal
direction and in a vertical direction; in other cases veins were observed
to split up into two or more veins which diverged from one another and
in some cases at least, died away in a comparatively short distance. Some
veins were observed to be comparatively wide over a relatively long dis-
tance, others for only a comparatively small part of their observed
course; other veins, so far as they were now visible, maintained throughout
a relatively narrow width. It is inferred that in general the notably wide
part of any vein is a local development of comparatively limited
extent. In wide veins parts of them were in nearly every case
characterized by the occurrence of apatite in considerable volumes, sufficient
to lower the grade of the ore in a marked degree. In other cases the wide
parts of veins in places carried sheet-like horses of country rock whose
presence would greatly reduce the amount of minable ore.

On the Signal and Anvil claims no magnetite ore of commercial value
is exposed and it is thought to be improbable that any such ore occurs in
the immediate vicinity of the magnetite-bearing outcrops now visible.

On the Moose claim and in that vicinity, several zones of veins 1 to 2
feet broad are exposed at a few places on the unmapped north brow of the
hill on which the claim is staked. These veins appear to be individually
too narrow to be of value and are not closely enough spaced to permit
of mining several together. They are valuable as indicating that on the
Moose property conditions are such that the veins may have a considerable
lateral extent. To the south of the open-cuts on this claim, two isolated
outcrops not belonging to the same vein show respectively widths of 5
feet or more and 12 feet or more. These exposures may indicate the
presence of several veins each 5 feet or more wide, but nothing is known
regarding their possible length nor as to whether they maintain their
width along the strike where the whole country side is wanting in rock
exposures of any kind. In the trenches just north of these two occurrences,
much magnetite is visible over a length of 200 feet, but the iron ore occurs
in a zone of veins which individually thin and thicken or die away. In
places several veins may coalesce and jointly expand to a thickness much
greater than their combined individual thicknesses, but these expanded
parts have no great length and presumably no great depth. On the
other hand, either along the strike where the ground is now all drift-covered,
or at some depth, some of the individually thin veins might coalesce to
form a vein comparatively broad and holding its br sadth for a considerable
distance. The amount of ore visible in these trenches is considerable;
it may be equivalent to as much as 10 feet disposed in a number of roughly
parallel veins contained in a thickness of 20 feet. An iron ore-body