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 hundred 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. Whether 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,” ete. The rocks 
of the peninsula are principally mica schists, with occasional 
dikes of trap and highly metamorphosed limestone. Parallel 
with 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 the ‘‘ 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 Mining and Smelting Co., 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 
