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twenty-five miles from Padmore, and about eighty miles west of 

 Calgary, close to the line of the Canadian Pacific Eailway. But 

 although this valuable deposit has been known for many years to 

 some of the early prospectors of this section of the mountains, it 

 was not till last summer that the location was secured, and in the 

 Fall active operations for extracting the fuel commenced. 



Along the belt of the Foot Hills, where the strata are more 

 folded and indurated than on the plains to the east, the coal seams 

 crop out more highly inclined, and the beds are probably often re- 

 peated. About twenty- eight miles from Calgary, and ten miles 

 east of Morley, an important coal outcrop occurs in these beds ; it 

 is that of Coal Creek, in the "Wildcat Hills, on the Cochran Eanche, 

 where the seam appears to be about five feet thick, dipping east, at 

 an angle of about 30°, under a series of cream-coloured sandstones. 

 Most of the other outcrops in this belt are too far removed from 

 the line of railroad or other convenient means of transport to be of 

 much economic value at present, but eventually many will probably 

 prove important. Dr. Gr. M. Dawson has recorded several outcrops 

 in this district, as that on the Big Cottonwood Eiver, north fork 

 of Highwood Eiver, and the north fork of the Old Man's Eiver, 

 near the Crow's Nest Pass, and on the middle fork in the vicinity of 

 the Kootenai Pass ; also a thick seam, about ten feet wide, on Mill 

 Creek ; these two last locations are about forty miles west of Fort 

 M'Leod. On a specimen from an outcrop on the Indian Supply 

 Farm, a little further south-east, Mr. Hoffman publishes a report 

 and an analysis ^ which may be quoted : — 



" Colour, pure black ; structure, lamellar; lustre, shining resinous, 

 with occasional dull patches ; powder, black, the same communicating 

 a deep brownish-red colour to a boiling solution of caustic potash. 



"Analysis by Slow and Fast Coking. 



1 Cliemical Contributions to the Geology of Canada (1880), ty Chiistian Hoffmann, 

 P. Inst. Chem. (page 12.) 



