78 GEOLOGY OF MOOSE RIVER GOLD DISTRICT — WOODMAN. 



side of area 33, is a four-inch lead. Farther south a lead of 

 three inches has a shaft over it, and within a few feet comes 

 the South lead, of two inches. 



There is little doubt but that many times this number of 

 leads outcrop on the surface of the bedrock. All the trenches 

 in this and other divisions, tend to emphasize this probability. 

 On the west side of area 69 a cut 55.3 feet long was opened ia 

 1899, in a search for the Britannia belt. It has since caved in. 

 The first five feet from the south end is in slate, with a steep but 

 undetermniable south dip. From five to twelve feet the rock is 

 occupied by a belt of angulars. At the latter station is a two- 

 inch lead. At 21.5 feet and 23.5 feet is a belt occupied by two 

 very small leads ; at 39 feet is the north side of a whin belt, 

 and three feet farther is a narrow lead. At 52 feet is a lead of 

 three to four inches thickness, and at 55 feet a small vein heavily 

 corrugated. The Kaulback belt of angulars has already been 

 described. It is difiicult to estimate the thickness of quartz 

 represented, on account of the many bifurcations of the veins. 

 On area 32, in a drain which begins at the north end of the area, 

 a number of leads were visible in 1899 after cleaning the 

 excavation, and more were seen in earlier years. South from 

 the north end 54 and 56 feet, the first leads are two which are 

 thought to be the Moleskin belt, from similiarity in the appear- 

 ance and relations of the quartz. No. 1 is one-fourth inch, and 

 No. 2 is two inches thick. The third lead is 78 feet from the 

 north end, six inches broad ; the fourth 83 feet, 8.5 inches 

 broad ; the fifth 87 feet, four inches across ; the sixth 90 feet 

 south, two inches thick ; and the seventh is 9 feet south of the 

 area line, and 1.5 to 2 inches thick. They all have steep north 

 dips. 



Division ii : north anticline. — Beginning at the north of 

 this division is No. 7, six to eight and sometimes ten inches 

 thick, rolling heavily westward. The rock is largely quartzite 

 to the Copper (pi. 13), which has two leads, three and four inches 

 on the aver.age, A slate belt of several feet was available also. 



