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or certain areas are characterized by a number of relatively small bodies so situated with respect to one another as to permit of economic mining methods, it is evident that the deposits on Iron Range mountain are only of slight prospective value.

In this connexion it seems worth while to tabulate the known occur- rences showing ore of a width of 4 feet or more.

American Flag shaft, 10 feet of ore or more. O-Ray shaft, 400 yards south of above, 18 feet of ore. Trench, 70 yards south of above, 6 feet of ore. Maple Leaf shaft, 800 yards south of above, 6 feet of ore reported but not seen. ,

Keepsake claim, 750 yards south of above, 8 feet of ore decreasing to 4 feet in horizontal distance

Pacwhe dean, 3,000 yards south of above, two outcrops, each of 4 to 8 feet of ore.

The ore occurrences lying in line with those on Iron Range mountain, but situated several miles southward, on the south side of Goat river, at the head of Thompson creek, are reported to be of the same type, but relatively richer in magnetite and still more poorly exposed. Indications of the existence of similar deposits are reported to occur at intervals over a farther distance of several miles on the west side of the summit of the Moyie range in the vicinity of the headwaters of Russell creek and Little Moyie river.

FORT STEELE MINING DIVISION (41) Lamb Creek

On Lamb creek, near Moyie and about 23 miles from the railway, limonite outcrops in several places.!

(42 a) Bull River Iron Ore Deposits

(See Figure 25) LOCATION

The Bull River iron ore deposits occur on Fenwick mountain in Fort Steele mining division in southeastern British Columbia. Fenwick ~ mountain is the northwest end of a short mountain range which terminates at Bull river and is part of the east face of the Rocky Mountain trench here occupied by the southward-flowing Kootenay river. Bull river flows west and joins Kootenay river at the town of Bull River on the Kootenay Central branch of the Canadian Pacific railway.

From Bull River town two roads run by circuitous routes easterly up either side of Bull River valley and join one another by a bridge over Bull River canyon at the base of Fenwick mountain about 5 miles, in a straight line, from the river’s mouth. An old trail leaves the road on the south side of the river at a place about one-half mile from the bridge at the canyon and rising on the face and side of a spur of Fenwick mountain, ends about 500 feet below the ridge-like summit where the outerops of iron ore occur. The narrow ridge here attains an elevation of about 6,500 feet above sea-level, extends in a northwest-southeast direction, and falls steeply on the southwest side to Bull River valley 3,000 feet below. The property lies along the summit of the ridge and consists of eight Crown-granted claims and fractions.

1 Smith, A.J.:in ‘Iron Ore Occurrences in Canada’; Mines Branch, Dept. of Mines, Canada, vol. 2, p. 26.