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by the following tests. In the presence of the writer two panfuls of broken,
oxidized, clayey rock were taken from one of the open-cuts, and were rapidly
and roughly panned without being crushed. The gold recovered in the
two pans was highly crystalline, and, on weighing, was found to have a
value of $1-97. Other panfuls were estimated to contain upwards of
$2 each; others had very small amounts. The richness of the outcrops
suggests that they overlie a series of well-mineralized B veins or intersections.

Perkins or Beedy Ledges

These are located on the southern slope of Burns mountain at an
elevation of 5,000 feet, and about 2 miles due east of Stanley. They were
among the first ledges discovered in the area, and were worked by J. C.
Beedy of Lightning creek as early as 1878, when he erected a small quartz
mill having a capacity equal to five ordinary stamps.

The underground workings have caved in and at the time of examinat-
jon were full of water, so that no examination could be made. Messrs.
Fuller and Hawes, of Stanley, who re-staked the ledges recently, cleared
some of the old workings that were close to the surface; and from these,
the following information was secured.

There are two parallel veins, about 50 feet apart, striking due north
with dips varying between 90 degrees and 70 degrees west. One of them
is exposed intermittently for 400 feet, and varies from 10 to 15 inches in
width. The mineralization is sugary to brownish brecciated quartz of
the B type with siderite, pyrite, and galena. Free gold can be seen in the
brecciated quartz, and fine crystalline gold dust can be shaken from speci-
mens of honeycomb quartz from which pyrite crystals have been com-
pletely removed by oxidation.

The country rock is grey sericitic quartzite and sericite schist of the
Richfield formation, in a nearly horizontal attitude.

Bowman made the following report in 1887: ‘Body (of quartz) from
6 to 18 inches, sometimes widening to 3 feet or more. There are several
ledges of this sort near each other. Contents: quartz, with galena, ferric
hydrate, and iron pyrites. The quartz is usually honeycombed from
decomposition of the pyrite, resulting in dark brown, bluish, and blackish
oxides. Accompanying the galena there are white and dirty yellow
oxides. An assay by Mr. Hoffmann of quartz carrying a little galena,
gave: gold, 2-625 ounces, silver 3-033 ounces to the ton. Another,
holding more galena, yielded: gold, 0-365 ounce; silver 29-896 ounces
per ton. Free gold shows in fine particles after roasting and washing.
Development work consists of a tunnel about 300 feet long, and several
shafts, 50 to 70 feet deep, with connecting drifts and stopes. Several
hundred yards north of the Perkins shaft is the Laura ground, on one of
the Beedy series of ledges which has been extensively opened by the Cohen
incline.”’!

It is from these ledges that the largest pieces of quartz gold have been
obtained. The values have been variously reported as between $30
and $120.

1Geol. Surv., Can., Ann. Rept., vol. III, pt. C, p. 38 (1889).