64 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [fEB. 9, 



Descending by the southern trail, I passed a number of mines 

 in active operation, such as the "Little Donald," on the same 

 lode as the " Spokane"; the " Krao/' showing considerable ore 

 body and a promising galena said to assay ninety ounces of sil- 

 ver. This mine is at an altitude of four huntlred feet. Above 

 this was the "United,'' showing coarsely crystalline galena rich 

 in silver. 



This will serve to indicate the general features and prospects 

 of the Hot Springs Camp. Unquestionably there is a great deal 

 of ore, and a large supply can be depended upon from this 

 camp, in spite of the fact that no one claim has as yet been 

 worked to such a depth that any certain conclusions can be 

 drawn as to the permanency of the deposits. 



It may be said in general that the ores in the limestone are 

 dry and very rich, though perhaps uncertain in extent, as is 

 usually the case. Whetiier any of the veins in the schists and 

 granite are true fissures it is perhaps impossible to say at this 

 stage of the development. Most of these mines will become con- 

 centrating propositions, and furnish a large amount of silver as 

 well as lead. 



Across the lake from the Warm Springs, a headland juts out 

 nearly a mile beyond the ordinary shore line, bounded by bays 

 at the north and south. Looking at this headland from across 

 the lake, it may be described as consisting of two hills, the north- 

 ernmost perhaps two hundred and twenty-five feet above the 

 lake level, and the southernmost one hundred feet higher, di- 

 vided by a valley sloping to the lake shore. Upon this pro- 

 montory are situated the Hendryx group of mines, consisting of 

 the " Blue Bell," "Silver King," " Fraction," etc. The rocks 

 of the peninsula are principiilly mica schists, with occasional 

 dikes of trap and highly metamorphosed limestone. Parallel 

 witii the lake, and running north and south through the entire 

 peninsula, is a very large vein of sulphurets, varying from ten 

 to twelve feet on tlie "Kootenai Chief," where it emerges from 

 the lake on the south, to the width of over eighty feet on the 

 "Blue Bell" claim, when it again narrows and disappears in 

 the lake on the north in the "Comfort'^ location. 



This vein is strong and persistent for over three thousand feet, 

 showing again and again on the surface of the ground, in places 

 ■ carrying galena, but principally made up of iron pyrites, zinc 

 blende with a little copper, etc. 



Upon none of these claims, excepting the central ones, owned by 

 the Kootenai Miningand SmeltingCo., has there been any serious 

 development work, but the latter have been thoroughly pros- 

 pected in a way to open out a great body of lead ore, with 



