GEOLOGY OF MOOSE RIVER GOLD DISTRICT — WOODMAN. 33 



dip on the north side, and a south dip on the south ; but this 

 was not considered in plotting the axis on the map. Several 

 outcrops lie a few feet north of the Alex. Taylor lead, all but 

 two, which have been recorded, being of doubtful value for 

 structure. These two exposures are quartzite, so that there is 

 no slate on or near the surface north of the lead just mentioned; 

 but this is not surprising, as the slate rarely stands out well 

 under erosion. Northeast of the shaft near the center of area 

 132, is a ledge from which the concretionary " fossils," already 

 described, were collected. This is also whin, coarse in places 

 and with an indeterminate but distinctly low south dip. The 

 Alex. Taylor lead is important because, although the deepest 

 shaft is only forty feet down on a 35" surface dip, the lead 

 flattens out considerably in that depth. The next data come 

 from the Britannia, which gives an average dip of 45° S. A 

 small trench on area 69 showed in 1899 six belts of leads, all 

 with a fairly steep south dip, one measured as 67°. In 1901 a 

 belt of rather erratic veins had been opened on areas 68 and 69, 

 to a depth of 170 feet. The dip of the sediments varies con- 

 siderably in that distance, through irregular " rolling " of the 

 beds ; but it is safe to call it on the average 70'' S. 



No other exposures are met north of the Touquoy crusher 

 except a number of leads in a drain on the east side of area 32, 

 observable only in 1899. They all have steep north dips, some 

 probably vertical ; but the depth open to observation was too 

 slight to make sure of that. These leads, on account of similarity 

 in attitude, interval and composition, are taken to correspond to 

 the Moleskin and leads south of it in the trench on area 30; and 

 to the south, leads with a south dip, very like the Smith and 

 those near it, have been seen when the drain was fresh. Finally, 

 a bedded vein occurs at the south corner of the Touquoy crusher, 

 vertical and in vertical strata; and south of this are three south 

 dips, on area 33. 



Division i: interpretation of structure. — The obvious inter, 

 pretation of these data is given in the section on pi. 3. The 



