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WILKINSON, PROSERPINE, AND PROSERPINE SOUTH CLAIMS

The above-mentioned claims are south of Barkerville between Williams
ereek and Conklin gulch. The Wilkinson and Proserpine claims are under-
lain mainly by the Rainbow member, and the Proserpine South claim, which
adjoins the Proserpine on the southwest, is underlain mainly by rocks of the
Lowhee member.

A long line of shafts, short adits, and trenches extends from the Wilkin-
son claim south-southeast across most of the Proserpine claim. The open-
ings are presumably on a long, wide vein, for there is much quartz on the
dumps of some of the shafts. The vein is visible in one of the cuts on the
Proserpine claim and is there 5 feet wide but is not well enough exposed to
show its relationship to the bedrock. This line of openings is on the Proser-
pine ledge of old reports, which was explored first by Mr. Wilkinson in
oe The vein is reported to contain pyrite, arsenopyrite, and galena in
quartz.

Open-cuts and a short adit on the Proserpine claim 500 feet northeast
of the northwest corner of the claim expose two narrow quartz veins
striking north 60 degrees east and north. Quartz on the dump of the adit
contains pyrite and is so plentiful as to suggest that larger veins were cut
in the adit.

A group of trenches and shafts mostly on the Proserpine claim, but
partly on the northeastern part of the adjoining Proserpine South claim,
expose several veins. A trench and shaft in the southeastern part of the
group disclose two veins, one of which is vertical, strikes north 19 degrees
east, is 2 feet or less wide, and is mineralized with pyrite. The north-
western trenches expose several veins striking north 10 to 15 degrees east,
one of which is well mineralized with pyrite. In 1933 Island Mountain
Mines Company, Limited, drove a crosscut adit from the Proserpine South
claim eastward under this group of surface openings. The adit is 975 feet
long. It is a crosscut to the east for 600 feet and from the end of the
crosscut is mainly drift to the north-northeast under the northwestern
part of the surface openings. The easterly drive cut a few small bed veins.
The northerly drive disclosed one quartz-pyrite vein at least 6 feet wide
striking north 30 degrees east and branch veins 2 feet or less in width also
mineralized with pyrite. This vein is disturbed by a fault roughly parallel
to it, but appears to pinch to the north to several branching quartz-pyrite
veins each 1 foot or less wide that strike north 20 to 30 degrees east
and end at an easterly striking fault near the north end of the workings.
This vein has been drifted on for 140 feet.

CONKLIN, PROSERPINE EAST, AND PENELOPE CLAIMS

The above-mentioned claims are south of Barkerville between Williams
creek and Conklin gulch and adjoin the Proserpine claim on the southeast.
The Conklin claim appears to be underlain entirely by fissile quartzites of
the Baker member and the Proserpine East and the Penelope claims by
rocks of the Rainbow member.

Two caved adits and a caved shaft on the Conklin claim do not now
expose vein matter. A quartz vein 4 feet wide, striking north 55 degrees
east, outcrops a few feet from the shaft. There is an old 4-stamp mill
below the upper adit.

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