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directions along its strike. At the face in the adit the vein has a width
of 4 to 6 inches, but the dip increases suddenly to 30 degrees northeast.
A channel sample taken by the writer 30 feet from the adit entrance, on
the north wall, across 7 inches of vein quartz, assayed: silver, 0:22 ounce
a ton; gold, 0:06 ounce a ton. The sample contained no sulphide,
although in places the vein is sparingly mineralized with pyrite. Two
hundred feet north of the adit is another quartz vein similar to the one
just described. It lies just above a talus slope near the foot of the bluff,
and has not been prospected. The strike is south 40 degrees east and the
dip 20 degrees northeast. It ranges from 4 to 8 inches in width and is
exposed for 100 feet. Three hundred feet farther north, an adit 30 feet
long has been driven northeast on a 4-inch quartz vein that narrows to a
mere stringer parallel the bedding near the end of the adit.

On the northeast bank, and close to the outlet of the small lake on the
Black Wolf No. 1 claim, a trench crosses an altered, silicified, and min-
eralized aplite dyke. The dyke is 34 feet wide, strikes north, and dips
35 degrees east. It has been sheared, impregnated with finely crystalline
quartz, and mineralized with pyrite. A 41-inch channel sample taken
across the dyke at the trench assayed only a trace in gold and silver.
The dyke has been followed north across the Hall Fraction claim by a
number of trenches. A representative grab sample of the altered rock
was taken on the latter claim from a deep open-cut 640 feet north of
the lake on the north side of a small creek. The sample weighed about
2 pounds and was cut by numerous quartz stringers and veined with fine
pyrite. It assayed a trace of silver and 0-02 ounce of gold a ton. Eight
hundred feet north of the lake the dyke increases in width to 8 feet and no
longer shows any minerals. It continues north across the Hawk and
Bear claims.

Motherlode Claim

References: Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines, B.C.: 1920, p. 41; 1921, p.
43; 1923, p. 48; 1980, p. 74.

The Motherlode claim, owned by Oscar Olander of Rosswood, is
situated on the west slope of Maroon mountain at the headwaters of the
south fork of Hall creek, about 44 miles southeast of Rosswood. It is
reached by a trail that at an elevation of 4,000 feet branches to the south
from the main Maroon Mountain trail from Rosswood to the Bear claim.
There is a cabin beside a small lake at an elevation of 5,000 feet and
the workings are on a northeast-trending ridge that rises steeply to 5,700
feet south of the cabin.

Considerable interest was manifested in this property some fifteen
years ago when rich pieces of float were found on the talus-covered slope
of the mountain south of where the cabin now stands. The owners
reported rich silver values from blocks of vein quartz mineralized with
pyrite, zinc blende, galena, and tetrahedrite. Pieces of float are still to be
seen scattered through the talus near the base of the peak. A specimen
collected by J. T. Mandy, Resident Engineer in 1930, assayed: gold, 0-04
ounce to the ton; silver, 19 ounces to the ton; copper, 0-03 per cent;
lead, a trace; zinc, 4:4 per cent.