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Four vertical, roughly parallel, rusty sheared zones striking north
and 50 to 100 feet apart are exposed on the surface. They are not well
exposed, so that the width of the mineralized part is not clearly defined,
but rusty, sheared rock is 6 ieet wide in some places. Pyrite, galena, and
sphalerite, and perhaps tetrahedrite, occur in the zones, but owing per-
haps to the oxidized nature of the outcrops sulphides are not plentiful.
The rusty zones are in volcanic rock and have not been traced southward
into the sediments. The theory is held by the management that they are
ofiset by a fault a short distance north of the sedimentary volcanic con-
tact. Northwesterly striking faults dipping northeast are numerous on
the property, but the offsets seen rarely exceed 5 feet. An adit 100 feet
below the lowest mineralized shear zone has been driven eastward to
crosscut the mineral zones. It is over 400 feet long, but did not encounter
any shear zone nor any ore, although it has gone far enough to cut all of
the zones. The zones are either cut off by a fault or they do not extend
downward as far as the adit.

HARNER GROUP

The Harner group is at an elevation of 4,500 to 5,000 feet in Magee
pass one mile east of the Washington group. The country rock is argillite
of the upper part of the Bitter Creek formation, and overlying volcanic
rocks of the Bear River formation, the whole being intruded by a stock of
augite porphyrite. The Coast Range batholith outcrops half a mile west
of the property.

Two veins are exposed by-open-cuts for lengths of 500 feet each. The
upper vein strikes north-northwest and dips 40 to 70 degrees east, and the
lower one west-northwest and dips 40 to 70 degrees north. There is a dif-
ference of elevation of 150 feet between the lowest and highest outcrops
of each vein. The upper vein is 2 to 9 feet wide. As the surface exposures
are oxidized, some rust may have spread laterally beyond the vein bound-
aries, making the vein appear wider than it actually is. The lower vein
1,000 feet south of the upper one is similar in size and appearance. A
short adit driven on the upper vein exposes only a few rusty quartz
stringers instead of a good sized vein as was to be expected from surface
exposures.

The veins consist of quartz mineralized with pyrite, galena, and
sphalerite. Sampling of unaltered vein matter has not been thorough,
but good values in silver and gold are obtained from the outcrops. The
surface showings are quite attractive and further underground develop-
ment should be done.