drag-folds. These drag-folds are indicated by erratic strikes near the summit of
Burns Mountain and, presumably, if the exposures were better, similar small drag-
folds would be seen in and around the workings on the Perkins veins.

The projection of the Butcher Bench-Burns Creek fault lies about 800 feet west of
the portal of the Reid adit. However, no evidence of the fault in that position has been
found. It is possible that a fault in the Reid adit 70 feet from the portal or a wide
shear-zone said to be about 120 feet west of the bend in the Burns Mountain long cross-
cut may mark the position of the fault on the ground. No other faults of any size
were seen.

Joints belonging to the regional system of north-north-easterly striking and west-
erly dipping fractures are present in some exposures. ‘Most of the fractures are
unmineralized.

The known veins on the property may be grouped into two sets. The Perkins
veins, Several veins exposed in the Reid adit, one or more veins immediately north of
the Cohen Incline, and several others exposed in bulldozed trenches, occupy fractures
striking north 15 to 25 degrees east and dipping about 70 degrees to the west. The
individual fractures do not appear to persist for more than several hundred feet and
are considered to belong to the regional system of north-north-easterly trending joints.
Several other veins, including the Galena vein, a small vein exposed in an open-cut just
north of the old arrastre tailings, the vein on which the Cohen Incline was driven, and
three other veins exposed in bulldozed trenches south and south-east of the Cohen
Incline, occupy fractures striking north 50 to 60 degrees east. The dip is not every
place apparent, and it is not known whether all dips are the same. In the Cohen
Incline and in the open-cut north of the arrastre tailings the dip is about 75 degrees
to the south-east or almost vertical, whereas the dip of the Galena vein appears to be
55 degrees to the north-west. There is no indication of the relationship of this frac-
ture direction to the more northerly trending system. Some veins of both groups are
auriferous.

The Perkins veins have had the most work done on them. The work (see Fig. 2,
in pocket) comprises a large number of old open-cuts, stripping along the veins, a ver-
tical shaft with workings to a depth of about 50 feet now filled with water, old stopes
which came to the surface, now caved, and an inclined shaft caved at 15 feet depth.
In the autumn of 1946 about 3,500 feet of bulldozer stripping was done, distributed
between the Perkins veins, the Galena vein, and those around the Cohen Incline.

The work appears to indicate that at the surface there are three Perkins veins
essentially parallel and about 50 feet apart. The central one, about 300 feet long, had
the most work done on it and appears to have supplied most of the ore that was mined
in the earliest days. At the south end about 130 feet of vein ranging from 4 to 12
inches of hard sugary quartz is exposed in surface trenches. An inclined shaft was -
sunk on it, but evidently none of the vein was mined. Little or no pyrite mineralization
is seen in the quartz.

The northern 150 feet of this vein is indicated on the surface by old caved stopes.
A vertical shaft was sunk to a reported depth of about 50 feet, and from it the vein
was mined for a length of about 130 feet and to an unknown depth. No vein can be
seen in-place, but ore from the dump shows pyrite, free gold, and galena. Selected
samples from the dump indicate that the pyrite is auriferous.

About 50 feet to the west a second vein is exposed in a rock-cut about 40 feet long,
and on it a cribbed shaft was sunk to an unknown depth. Whether this vein is explored
underground from the vertical shaft or whether ore was mined from it is not known.

Immediately north of this vein is a caved area, presumably around the raise driven
upward from the short crosscut about 325 feet from the portal of the Reid adit.

About 50 feet on the east side of the main Perkins vein is a third narrow, some-
what discontinuous vein up to about 6 inches wide following a sheared zone that is

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