80 GEOLOGY OF MOOSE RIVER GOLD DISTRICT — WOODMAN. 



three-inch lea 1 on the foot-wall, and a small one on the hanging 

 wall. Both roll heavily, as do also the rather rough walls, the 

 foot-wall rolling ten inches deep. 



Comparing these, lead for lead, with tho^e described from 

 farther east, we have little ground for belief in their identity. 

 The northern ones have about the right intervals between each 

 other, and are at equivalent distances from the probable position 

 of the anticlinal axis. But the distance from the Little North 

 to the Big North is far out of proportion. There is also a 

 dissimilarity of belts, most marked in the two just mentioned. 

 Altogether, I see no ground for classino; them as identical with 

 the eastern veins. The distance between the localities is greater 

 than these leads are ever carried by direct observation. More 

 than this, no lead or group of leads has ever been proved to 

 descend the nose of a plunging fold and rise to the surface 

 farther along the strike ; and the most plausible theories of the 

 origin of such veins render it improbable that they would do 

 this. Finally, the rocks at West Mine are pitching west, as in 

 the main district ; and no proof has been found as yet, of an 

 eastward plunge between the two places. Unless one exists, 

 the former strata are structurally higher than the latter, and 

 not their equivalents. 



Division ii: subsidiary anticline. — Returning to division ii 

 once more, no leads are found south of the Serpent and north of 

 the Bruce bolt, except a few filaments at the center of the anti- 

 cline in the quarry on area 131, most of which do not outcrop at 

 the surface. The Archibald vein I have no personal knowledge 

 about, as its openings have been full of water for a number of 

 years. The Bruce belt consists of several thin leads, occupjang 

 about a foot in width. In the quarry, no leads are met north of 

 the Jo. Taylor belt (pi. 18) which was in early years tunnelled 

 under the western two-thirds of the quarry. The belt is seven to 

 eight feet thick, overlain by four feet of whin, and contains 

 six leads. The hanging wall lead is exposed here better than 

 farther east, the foot- wall one not so well. The corrugations of 



