The British Columbia Skeena
Coal Company, Limited.

The British Columbia Skeena Coal Company, Limited, have
acquired from the British Columbia Anthracite Syndicate, a syn-
dicate formed in Quebee which has discovered, staked and now
holds under lease from the Government of British Columbia 47
claims of Anthracite coal Lands, or about 30,000 acres, situated at
Ground Hog Mountain, B.C., on the head waters of the Skeena
River, about 150 miles north of Hazelton.

A mining engineer—Mr. Ronald C. Campbell-Johnston, of
Vancouver, a Scotch mining and metallurgical engineey of long
experience and a graduate of the London School of Mines, was
sent by the syndicate in 1910 and again in 1911 to examine and re-
port upon the deposit, and to give his opinion on the property.

His first report which is dated Vancouver, November, 1910, is a
very voluminous one, forming 46 pages in book form, illustrated by
maps and diagrams of seams and by photographs of some point in
each of the 47 claims held by the syndicate.

The first seam of coal examined by Mr. Campbell-Jolinston in
1910 is four feet in thickness, and contained, according io his re-
port, 112 million tons of coal. There are other seams on the pro-
perty and he is of opinion that “‘future further work (on cther
seams) should multiply your tonnage say five to ten fold’’, (see his
report. )

| The quality of the coal is anthracite. An official analysis
made by Mr. J. O’Sullivan, F.C.S., of Vancouver, (Mr. O'Sullivan
was for 26 years Assayer with Messrs. Vivian & Sons, Swansea)
of four samples handed him by Mr. Campbeli-Johnston gives the
following result: oe