Creek about 70 feet south of the No. 1 post of the Caribou
lease, and was abandoned at a depth of 12 feet... Avdrill-hole
was put down 19 feet below the bottom of the shaft and it is
reported, that no bed-rock was reached even at 4 depth of 31
feet below the creek. <A second shaft, sunk beside the creek
at a point about 650 feet north of the No. 2 post of the Cari-

bou lease, was also abandoned at a depth of 14 feet in clayey
gravel.

A third attempt to reach bed-rock beneath the creek was
made by using an ingeniously-built, home-made drag-line shovel.
A cut was started about 250 feet north of the No. 2 post of
the Caribou lease but was abandoned when it had reached a
depth of 18 feet.

Peanut Fraction, Bonanza and Beverly Leases. The Peanut
Fraction (No. 370) and Bonanza (No. 409) leases are owned by

E. J. Brown, and the Beverly (No. 410) by D. A. McPhee. The
leases lie along Nheaton Creek up-stream from the mouth of
Alice Shea Creek. A little prospecting has been done on then,
but, as yet, no pay-gravel has been found.

ON ALICE SHEA CREEK

Sluice Box, Rainbow, Nugget and Sunset Leases. There are

four creek leases staked along Alice Shea Creek, up-stream from
its mouth. The Sluice Box lease (No. 353) is owned by J. J.
Shea, the Rainbow (No. 354) and Nugget (No. 355) by V. Shea,
and the Sunset (No. 356) by J. G. Hope. It is understood that
V. Shea has an interest in the Sunset lease.

All four leases have been partly prospected and gold
found on them. During 1939, V. Shea was working on the creek
about 700 feet down-stream from the No. 2 post of the Nugget
lease, close to the point where the 52 ounce 15 dwt. gold nug-
get was found in 1937. Most of the gold on Alice Shea Creek
is coarse, and in 1939 Shea recovered nuggets ranging in weight
from 1 to 16 ounces.

The gold is on bed-rock across a width of about 50 feet
and beneath 1 to 3 feet of gravel. It is apparently a post-
glacial concentration of gold from bed-rock or boulder-clay,
which form benches along the sides of the creek.

Before a stretch of creek is worked, all large boulders
are pulled to one side by a 5-ton winch driven by a small
gasoline engine. The creek-grade is steep and the shallow
gravel is shovelled by hand into a string of 12-inch sluice-
boxes. During most of the year the creek is small enough to

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