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ing on the men: then the big cut in the photo, made when the seam
was reached in a pit, is 61 feet long from the creek. At the end,
the ground was too deep to stand, so a tunnei was carried in and
timbered heavily for 11 feet till the floor of the coal seam was
reached. ‘Then a slope on the floor was sunk 14 feet deep to catch
a solid rock roof. Sufficient work on the actual seam has not yet
been accomplished to speak with accuracy of the normal width and
quality. It would appear that the seam will be normally six feet
thick, when it finds itself. ‘Six analyses show 71 to 84 per cent of
fixed carbon.

On the ‘‘SCOTT’’ seam, as shown in the annexed photo, a wide
cut was put in for 35 feet in length, till timber had to be used. The
eut and tunnel were kept double compartment that is 14 feet wide
for 16 feet to cateh full width of seam on slope. Then a single
tunnel was carried on in all 42 feet long.

At the end, as work ceased, this seam was ten feet wide, and
this is wider than when the other engineers inspected it. It isa
splendid seam to work in the future and get a high percentage of
extraction of clean hard coal.

The contents of all the seams harden, and bear the severest of
| handling, as the ‘‘GARNEAU”’ coal does already, when the coal is
taken far from surface and meteorological influences.

Tn the slope, the “GARNEAU” seam shows up to 36 inches of
clean coal, without any clay or shale partings.

The ‘‘ROSS’’ seam.—On the east side a cut was put in in coal
for 36 feet, then a cut to the north for 34 feet, in coal and shale,
and at the end a timbered tunnel for 6 feet in solid coal. Analysis
80.94% fixed carbon. ‘The normal ‘‘run of mine’’ will assuredly
improve.

The ‘‘PEULETIER’’ seam.—A large shaft was sunk on the
coal for 40 feet. ‘This demonstrates a strong, high-class fuel, six
feet thick, at bottom, of clean coal, but high in ash till the influence
of surface water is past. All the samples taken were dirty samples,
full of ash and pyrites.

Memo:—Mr. Campbell-Johnston submitted samples of coal
from thse different seams—-not fair samples of what may be ex-
pected for the reasons given above—to Mr. O’Sullivan, the official
Assayer, at Vancouver, with the following result -—

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