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proved a perfect failure. By opening the mine 400 feet east from where it was 

 originally opened, and on what I now know to be 2.3 dwts. ore, it cannot but be 

 a great success. 



" While testing this lode, I have at the same time been making a careful 

 survey of the entire district with a view of finding out the extent of the ore body 

 in this district, with the exact geological formation of the rock. 



"Former unsystematical prospecting, had been carried on in the drift, and 

 sufficient return had been obtained to pay expenses of working for ten years in 

 this way without one lode carrying gold l)eing found. By further carefully sur- 

 veying the facts, it is very evident some places are richer in gold from this drift, 

 than others, and the richest of this comes within an area 500 feet north and south 

 by 1,000 feet in length east and west, richer in the centre and grading off toward 

 the ends ; and the whole area is 600 feet south of what I suppose to be the anti- 

 clinal of the formation. Also the description of the drift found, does not agree 

 with that from the lode now worked, and this would evidently prove that there 

 were richer lodes there than have yet been worked, and that witli the proper 

 systematic search, they could be found. 



" Knowing where this rich drift had been found, it was clear that it came from 

 the north, as the glacial throw of Nova Scotia is well known to be from north to 

 south. The next thing necessary was to find the apex of the anticlinal, which, 

 hitherto, has been unknown in the district. It is clear the glacial action has 

 caused this drift to be carried south from the lodes in the folds of the strata form- 

 ing the apex of the anticlinal. This is proved by my investigation, as will be seen 

 by referring to my map. [The paper was illustrated by a detailed geological map 

 of the district.] 



" From surface indications and the rock formation, 1 was able to tell about 

 where the centre of the fold of the anticlinal was. I had the surface soil removed 

 from where it seemed to be, uncovering a space twenty-five feet long by twelve 

 feet wide. This proved to uncover the rock exactly on the apex of the fold of the 

 anticlinal with the lodes on the north side dipping north at an angle of 40 degrees, 

 while those on the south were perpendicular and turning round on the east end, 

 with a flap dip east. This proved the location of the anticlinal and the point of 

 greatest erosion, and where there ought to be, from the evidence of twenty years' 

 prospecting and the geological facts of the district, a great many quartz lodes. I 

 then bored north and south with a diamond drill and found the number of lodes 

 to be 52 in nuniber, varying from one inch to three feet in width. 



" The table on the following page gives their width and material with results 

 >of tests when made. 



