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of sedimentary rocks, conglomerate, slates, and greywacke, which dip in a

southerly direction down the slope of the mountain. The basal member of

the sedimentary series, a conglomerate, contains abundant dark-coloured

pebbles and small boulders of volcanic rock and exceeds 30 feet in thick-
ness. The main mineral deposit may extend southwest into the sediments

as a 3-inch wide fissure that was seen along its strike 200 feet southwest of

the portal of the main adit above the road.

The main mineralized zone is richest in galena, sphalerite, and tetra-
hedrite near the sedimentary rocks. This type of ore is most valuable for
its silver content. Farther northeast and at higher elevations it contains
much more arsenopyrite and only a little sphalerite and galena. This
arsenopyrite-rich ore commonly carries considerable gold.

The Victory zone, the main zone, is prospected by four adits and a
dozen open-cuts for 1,300 feet up a 27-degree slope between elevations of
3,750 feet and 4,350 feet, and is known to exceed 1,600 feet in length. It
ranges from 1 inch to 6 feet wide, strikes northeast, and dips steeply. Below
3,950 feet it splits, but higher up it is a single zone of shearing.

There are 820 feet of drifting and crosscutting in the main adit at
elevation 3,750 feet (barometer reading). For 100 feet northeast from
the portal, the zone in the roof of the adit ranges from 2 to 15 inches in
width. It consists of sheared and altered rhyolitie rock replaced by
galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, and arsenopyrite. Commencing at the
portal, and for 25 feet northeast, the roof is stoped out for 4 feet upwards,
and at 70 feet from the portal there is a stope 10 feet long and 8 feet high.
Between 100 feet and 260 feet from the portal the adit follows a very
narrow, sparsely mineralized fissure. Then the adit runs east as a cross-
cut for 355 feet. At 180 feet along the crosscut a vein is intersected and
was explored by 117 feet of drifting. This vein ranges from 2 to 8 inches
in width, with an average of 4 inches of solid sulphides, of which arseno-
pyrite is dominant. This is believed to be the downward continuation of
the main zone, and the one followed for 100 feet from the portal is pre-
sumably a branch from the main zone. A 4-inch channel sample taken
across the zone in the roof of the adit, 50 feet from the portal, assayed:
gold, 0-65 ounce a ton; silver, 6-52 ounces a ton; lead, 3-42 per cent; zine,
11-90 per cent. A 5-inch channel sample taken across the main zone from
the roof of the drift, 30 feet northeast from the 355-foot crosscut, assayed:
gold, 0-42 ounce a ton; silver, 14-64 ounces a ton; lead, 23-45 per cent;
zinc, 13-36 per cent.

No. 2 adit at elevation 3,965 feet follows the main zone for 160 feet.
There the zone ranges from 1 to 4 feet in width, and its mineral content
is variable. At the portal there are two sulphide seams, each 2 to 4 inches
wide, separated by 4 feet of altered, cross-fractured andesite with numerous,
small sulphide stringers. The zone narrows gradually towards the north-
east. At a distance of 25 feet from the portal, it is 18 inches wide and con-
sists of at least 90 per cent sulphides, there being about equal proportions
of galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite, with some tetrahedrite and a little
chalcopyrite. An 18-inch channel sample taken across this part of the
zone, 30 feet from the portal, assayed: gold, 0-16 ounce a ton; silver, 13-62
ounces a ton; lead, 23-20 per cent, zinc, 27-93 per cent. Farther along the
proportion of altered rock increases. At 75 feet from the portal the zone