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and Britisher, were discovered by E. E. Armstrong, F. J. Tregillus, T. A.
Blair, and P. Carey in 1916 to 1919. The work done on them constitutes
the most recent exploration in the area, and afforded the best opportunities
for the detailed study of the vein systems. The exploratory work on the
various claims was done partly by the owners, in the nature of annual
assessments, and partly by the Mining Corporation of Canada under a
working bond which they held on several of the claims in 1919 and 1920.

The accompanying figures (Figures 31, 32a, and 32b) indicate the
positions of the different claims and of the various open-cuts, shafts, etc.
The serial numbers appearing on the figures are used to designate the
individual workings in the following statements and in figures.

Victory Claim. Working No.1. A small open-cut showing a B vein
6 to 8 inches wide, striking north 35 degrees east, and stringers 1} to 2
inches wide of solid arsenopyrite with pyrite and galena.

Working No. 2. A B vein 10 to 15 inches wide, striking north 55
degrees east, with pyrite, arsenopyrite, and galena.

Working No. 3. Irregular bunches of quartz containing some pyrite
and arsenopyrite.

Working No. 4. Open-cut showing 9 feet of barren quartz of A type.

Workings Nos. 5 and 6. Small open-cuts with barren quartz on the
dumps.

Working No. 7. Open-cut showing 133 feet of shattered white quartz
of A type, striking north 52 degrees west.

Wilkinson R. HE. Claim. Working No. 8. Old shaft 50+ feet deep,
with large dump showing white quartz with small amounts of pyrite. The
following description is from the Annual Report, Minister of Mines, B.C.,
1914, page 66. ‘On the Wilkinson there is an old shaft full of water and
said to be 100 feet deep. Judging from the dump, this shaft was sunk
almost entirely in quartz; this quartz carries a little iron pyrites and arseno-
pyrite, but is, for the most part, very barren-looking. Two surface cuts
show the vein to be split up into quartz stringers occurring in slate.”

Proserpine Claim. Working No.9 a. Old shaft 67 feet deep. The
following description is from the Annual Report, Minister of Mines, B.C.,
1914, page 66. “From the inside of a cabin a shaft has been sunk 67 feet,
and from this 100 feet of drifting has been done. This working was also
full of water, but Mr. Baker says that throughout the vein is irregular and
mixed up with the slate rock. To judge from the dump, very little quartz
has been taken out. Two hundred feet to the southeast there is another
old shaft 97 feet deep, apparently mostly in slate.”

Working No. 9b. A tunnel 110 feet long and running southwesterly;
15 feet from the face it is crossed by an A vein, 4 feet wide, striking north-
westward and well mineralized with galena and pyrite. Nearer the face
of the tunnel in very rusty rock is a 9-inch B vein and several narrower
veins of the same type, all striking northeastward.

Working No. 9c. Old shaft 67 feet deep.

Working No. 10. Anopen-cut 60 feet long running northwest. Black,
argillaceous quartzite striking south of east appears in the cut which is
traversed by an A vein 18 inches wide in which no sulphides are visible, but