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northwest and dipping in general west, and between the higher grade lenses
much rock has been silicified and pyritized. Clothier states that an aver-
age of the results of assays of hundreds of samples from the Province claim
would be about 60 cents in gold, about 2 ounces of silver, 2-16 per cent
lead, 0-53 per cent copper, and 5 per cent zinc.

The Golden Crown claim is south of the Jain. On it two short adits
explore a mineral zone up to 10 feet wide that in places contains gold values
up to 0-2 ounce a ton. This showing is not connected with those on the
Province and Jain claims.

The Big Missouri claim is 1,500 feet southwest of the Golden Crown
claim. On it a large area is mineralized with pyrite and within this area
patches are silicified and well mineralized. One of these is about 8 feet
wide, 50 feet or more long, strikes north, and dips 70 degrees west. Picked
samples assay up to 0-2 ounce of gold and 4 ounces of silver a ton, lead
runs up to 4 per cent and zinc to 10 per cent.

Showings on the Laura and E. Pluribus claims are mainly east of
Harris creek. On these claims the angle of dip of the rocks is lower than
on Big Missouri ridge and to the east on the adjoining Mineral Hill group,
where the volcanic rocks are overlain by sediments, the dip is to the east.

On the Laura a silicified zone with pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and chal-
copyrite strikes north and crosses Harris creek. This is known as the Creek
ore-body. It is at least 150 feet long and is up to 10 feet wide. It dips
west about 35 degrees. Samples from this showing assay less than 0-1 ounce
of gold and about 1 ounce of silver a ton. Lead runs about 3 per cent and
zinc up to 6 per cent.

On the E. Pluribus much of the rock is feldspar porphyry and deposits
in this rock have been explored by open-cuts, diamond drill holes, and by
2,500 feet of near surface adits. West of, but near, Harris creek are two
or three cuts and short adits known as the Calcite cuts. They are in a shat-
tered zone cemented by quartz, calcite, pyrite, and sphalerite. The main
showings on the E. Pluribus are mineralized silicified zones. One is 6 feet
wide and has been traced for several hundred feet. It strikes northeast
and dips steeply southeast parallel to the shearing that is exhibited in
places by the rocks. This silicified zone contains the same minerals as the
other showings and also carries tetrahedrite and silver minerals. Picked
samples assay 300 ounces of silver a ton, but the gold values are in gen-
eral less than 0-1 ounce a ton. A diamond drill hole driven through this
body affords samples that assayed as high as 24 ounces of gold and about
20 ounces of silver a ton. This zone and another that is well mineralized
only locally have been explored by about 2,500 feet of adits.

Since 1927 development work has been concentrated on the west side of
Harris creek. The Province adit, beginning at an elevation of 2,900 feet,
was driven north 60 degrees west for 2,700 feet and passes directly under
the great cluster of open-cuts on the Province claim, some of which are as
much as 600 feet above the adit. Judging from the strike and dip of the
rocks the outcropping mineral deposits should dip west and, therefore,
mineralization found in the adit 600 feet below and directly under the cuts
is not necessarily the downward continuation of the surface deposits. If