60

About 1917 the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting, and Power
Company held an option on the property and did a little diamond drill-
ing. In 1926 the Copper Cliff and other properties were optioned by the
Spencer interests of Vancouver and during 1926 a short adit was driven;
the option was given up in 1927.

The deposit consists of country rock locally mineralized with pyrite
and chalcopyrite in a zone several feet wide. As yet very little has been
done to outline individual shoots of ore on which the value of the property
depends.

Copper Creek Group (Locality 175)

Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1921.

The Copper Creek group of five mineral claims is in Illiance River
valley a mile below the mouth of Copper creek. The lowest exposed
mineral showing is a zone of quartz gashes in argillite. A few hundred
feet higher is a quartz vein several feet wide sparsely mineralized with
pyrite and galena.

David Copperfield Group (Locality 147)

Reference: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1916, 1917,
and 1919.

The David Copperfield group of two mineral claims adjoins and lies
south of Dolly Varden group. The mineral deposit is a quartz-barite vein
up to 15 feet wide in felsitic rocks and has been traced westward from
Kitsault river for a thousand feet. The vein is very sparsely mineralized
with pyrite, galena, and sphalerite.

Dolly Varden Mine (Locality 146)

References: Annual Report of the Minister of Mines, British Columbia, 1913, 1915,
1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1928, 1929, and 1930; Geol. Surv., Can-
ada, Sum. Rept. 1921, pt. A; Can. Inst. Min. and Met., Trans., vol. 25, pp.
212-224.

The Dolly Varden mine is west of Kitsault river and 16 miles from
Alice Arm. The principal workings are between 1,500 and 2,000 feet above
sea-level. The lower camp of the mine is at the end of the narrow eauge
railway from Alice Arm. The upper camp is connected with the lower
camp by trails.

The Dolly Varden mineral claim was the first to be located in upper
Kitsault valley. In 1915 the Dolly Varden Mines Company was organized
and this company developed an ore shoot by adits and diamond drilling,
and disclosed a large probable tonnage of high-grade silver ore. Prior to
1916 all supplies and machinery had to be packed in on men’s backs, but
in that year a pack trail was built from Alice Arm. In 1917 the Dolly
Varden Mines Company entered into a contract with the Taylor Engineer-
ing Company to build a narrow gauge railway from Alice Arm to the
Wolf group of mineral claims on Kitsault river 19 miles from Alice Arm.
According to the contract the Taylor Engineering Company was to receive
a profit of 10 per cent above cost. Construction began in 1917. The cost