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The Fiddler vein occurs on the steep valley side west
of Knauss creek where it lies along or close to the contact between
the argillites and the voleanics. It is visible in natural
exposures and in cuts for a distance of nearly 1,000 feet, and over
a range in elevation of 500 feet, and is reported to continue 1,000
feet farther up the hill. In the lower 1,000-foot stretch it is
6 inches to 4 feet wide, averages about 2 feet, and tends to
narrow toward both ends of this part. An adit driven in a westerly
direction, almost directly into the valley wall from a point at
about the middle of the 1,000-foot stretch, follows the vein for
about 290 fect. In the adit the vein pinches and swells and
narrows westward to 2 to 5 inches. In two raises from the drift,
of Genetaernere length, the vein decreases in thickness in an
upward direction. Since the raises are inclined so as to parallel
the valley slope, the thinning of the vein in them scems to
indicate that at levcls above the adit the vein also decreases in
thickness to the west. In an adit near the lower limit of the
1,000-foot stretch the vein is 1 to 10 inches wide.
The vein is unusually continuous and is well mineralized
throughout with pyrite, galena, sphalcrite, and some chalcopyrite. a.
The sulphides in places are concentrated in the middle of the vein.
Values in gold as indicated by assays, range from 0.25 ounce to
6,54 ounces a ton. In 1926, 100 tons of ore from the vein were ie
shipped. One lot of 35 tons averaged 1.28 ounces of gold and 5.35 tae
ounces of silver a ton, 6.1 per cent lead, and 3.8 per cont zinc.
The character of the vein closely resembles that of the a
veins on the nearby Patmore property. Only a small part of the
Fiddler vein has been removed. Mining has been most extensive on
the wider parts of the vein which were also the most accessible.
The vein widens markedly in small rolls of the enclosing

strata and without doubt the development of the vein was governed