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in the face of the larger tunnel and across 23 feet of the larger lens in the
creek. The results of assays of these samples at the Mines Branch labora-
tories are as follows:

Se eo 6, 52 Goldstar es Trace.
Silver se A ee 1-13 ozs. per ton.
5 GSS 9 Ease Me pone oy Moke Barn ee 3-15 per cent.
Petis 5 ee re Re Golde oe BE oe es Trace.
Silvers ps co tap Se 2-25 ozs. per ton.
Lead 5567 ae eG le ee oe 5-52 per cent.

The results of assays upon samples taken by the present owners in a
tunnel driven since that time at a point lower on the hill yielded: gold 0-01
ounce, silver 16-35 ounces, lead 44-15 per cent, zinc 5-10 per cent, total
value $75.84 per ton. The results of assays on samples taken by the writer
are low, but he believes that higher grade ores will be found in these deposits.
Surface prospecting should be done, first, by cross trenches through the
heavy drift cover at points lying in the direction of the strike of the system
of parallel fissure veins, and also in the neighbourhood of the exposed lenses
in‘the creek. If the results are satisfactory the occurrences on top of the
hill can be developed by a tunnel starting south and down hill to crosscut
them (Figure 16). Waterpower for a small concentrating plant can be
obtained from the creek. ! : ;

If the Pacific Great Eastern railway be built along the route as origin-
ally planned, about 25 miles of wagon road would connect the railway
with these deposits, the most feasible route being probably from the
south ead of Ahbau lake down the North Fork of Cottonwood river.
The connecting of Barkerville to this railway would shorten the haul
which would otherwise be very expensive.

About 2 miles northeast of the south end of Ahbau lake quartz claims
have been staked by W. Harper and others. The prevailing country
rock is quartz sevicite schist. An outcrop of quartz 2 feet wide and 30
feet long trends south 41 degrees west with quartz float extending farther
southwest along the strike for perhaps 100 feet (Figure 17). A tunnel
-90 feet long has been driven to a point immediately under the northeast
end of the outcrop (Figure 17). The tunnel follows an anticlinal arch
in the schist for 50 feet, after which a 2- to 3-foot vein of quartz, broken
by a north-south fault, is encountered. The quartz is cut off to the south
by another fault striking north 50 degrees west. The 2-foot quartz vein
in the tunnel is probably identical with the vein on the surface. About
30 feet north by east of the mouth of the tunnel a\2-foot vein of quartz
crops out on the hillside. There is a little galena and pyrites in this out-
crop and a few stringers of galena were seen at the point indicated in the
tunnel; otherwise the writer was unable to find occurrences of ore-bearing
minerals in either the tunnel or outcrops. The claims lie 1,000 feet above
Ahbau lake.

HIXON CREEK.

On Hixon creek 4 miles east of its junction with Canyon creek and
31 miles from the proposed route of the railway (Figure 1, locality 4),
are a number of old workings that mark the site of a gold mine operated
more than forty years ago. A wagon road from the mine to the flats of

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