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The claims and main showings are at altitudes of 5,000 to 6,500 feet,
but mostly up on the sparsely-timbered grass-covered plateau, where the
quartz ledges stand in relief. The country rock is the sericitic quartzite
of the Richfield formation.

Both A and B types of veins occur, but, owing to a covering of snow
at the time of the writer’s examination, the vein structure of the property
could not be worked out. The approximate trend of the zone of mineral-
ization appeared to be north 25 degrees to 35 degrees west. One zone of
quartz ledges varies in width up to 57 feet, and consists of mixed quartz
lenses, veins, and stringers and mineralized sericitic quartzite and sericite
schist. Some of the smaller veins, evidently of the B type, contain siderite
and ankerite with disseminated galena. A few shovelfuls taken from the
oxidized, iron-stained outcrops revealed on rough panning fine crystalline
gold, coarse gold in quartz fragments, galena, and much fine-grained, buff-
coloured scheelite. Sixteen samples taken from the property by Fred
Wells during September, 1922, gave an assay on average value of $38
a ton in gold. Work was being prosecuted, by the owners, on this group
during the spring of 1923.

Other Ledges

There are very many other ledges of quartz in the area on which
information worth reporting was not available. Some of these are gold
prospects, and others are new finds with very limited exposures.

Amongst those, which, for the above reasons, are not described are
the Aladdin-Honest John claims on the east side of Stouts gulch; the
quartz ledges outcropping on the grassy uplands of Bald mountain and
mount Burdett; ledges in the hydraulic pits of Stouts gulch and Mosquito
creek; Westport ledge on Williams creek; ledges on Antler mountain, and
Amador mountain; ledges in Lightning creek, Davis creek, etc.

For whatever data is available with regard to these ledges, the reader
is referred to the Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B.C., from 1877
to the present, and to Bowman’s report on the ‘‘ Geology of the Mining
District of Cariboo,’’ above-mentioned.