44 

 ANNOTATED GUIDE.— (Continued). 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



245-5 rn. Fernie — Altitude 3,302 ft. (1,004-4.). From 

 395 • I km. Fernie to Morrissey the railway 



248-0 m. Cokato — • continues down Elk river valley, 

 399-1 km. here wide and flat with few rock 



254-0 m. Morrissey — exposures. At Morrissey another 

 408-8 km. branch of the Morrissey, Fernie 



and Michel railway leads up the north side of 

 Morrissey creek to the Carbonado colliery of 

 the Crownest Pass Coal company. The Carbon- 

 ado mines have been idle for some years, although 

 at least nine seams have been worked at different 

 times, and a large plant, including 240 coke 

 ovens, installed. The extremely gaseous nature 

 of the coal at this point, resulting in a number of 

 serious ourbursts of gas, has caused it to be 

 considered expedient to abandon this colliery 

 for the present. 



On the south side of Morrissey creek and 

 extending to the south branch of Michel creek 

 on the eastern edge of the coal basin, the 

 Dominion Government holds in reserve a block 

 of 45,000 acres of coal land, being part of a total 

 reserve of 50,000 acres, the remaining 5,000 

 acres being situated to the northeast of Hosmer. 



Shortly after crossing Morrissey creek the 

 railway passes out of the basin of Mesozoic 

 locks and enters into a belt of Devono-Carboni- 

 ferous limestones, the valley becoming narrower 

 and rock exposures more frequent. The Palaeo- 

 zoic rocks continue for about five miles (8 km.) 

 when their contact with an older series, con- 

 sisting of siliceous argillites, possibly of Cambrian 

 age, is crossed. The contact is a faulted one. 

 These beds continue to Elko near which place 

 263-7 m. Elko — Alt. 3,082 ft. (939-4 m.) excellent 

 424-4 km. sections may be seen in a canyon in the valley 

 of Elk river. 



