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RATLWAY ROUTES.

It is particularly worth mentioning that information gained
since the printing of the maps referred to shows: that there is a
feasible railway route to Pacific Coast tidewater shorter than any
of those previously mentioned.

The writer visited the property three times during the months
of August and September this year. Prospecting work was going
on under the direction of Mr. Campbell-Johnston and was still car-
ried on for three or four weeks after the last visit.

GEOLOGY.

A partial section was measured by Mr. Malloch, Dominion
Government Geologist, on the mountains about a mile south of the
southwest corner of the field. This section comprised a thickness
of 2,700 feet and contained 8 seams of coal of which 7 seams ag-
gregating a total thickness of 23 feet of coal were contained in 800
feet of measures.

Another partial section, believed to be a continuation down-
ward of the one just mentioned, gave three additional seams of
coal in a thickness of 378 feet of measures. This gives 11 seams
with total thickness of coal of 35.9 feet in 3,080 feet of measures.

On the property itself one seam is opened up showing a greater
thickness than any given in Mr. Malloch’s section, and on an ad-
joining property to the south, two seams are opened showing con-
siderably greater thicknesses. So that it may fairly be assumed
that the total thickness of coal on the property will at least be equal
to that given in the geological section.

There are no intrusions of eruptive rocks in the field and there
is no evidence of the existence of either volcanic flows or eruptives
in the neighborhood.

The principal work done is on a tributary stream of the West
Fork of the Skeena River about the middle of the property. This
stream is called West Fork Creek on your Key Map but is better
known as Biernes Creek.

Near the mouth of this stream one seam (the Benoit Seam) was
naturally exposed by the water’s edge.