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Ku^mTr' tinue with slight westerly dip to the city itself. 

 The seam has an average thickness of a little 

 over 5 feet (i-5m.). Between 15 and 20 feet 

 (4 • 5 to 6 m.) below this seam there are evidences 

 of another seam from 4 to 7 feet (i • 2 to 2 • i m.) 

 thick which may be distinct from that at 

 Clover Bar. The coal is sub-bituminous, 

 and is suitable for domestic and power purposes 

 but requires care in shipment and storage. 



Alluvial gold has for many years been washed 

 from the bars in the Saskatchewan, both above 

 and below Edmonton. Gravel dredged from 

 the bed of the river is used extensively in road 

 making. In the washing and crushing oper- 

 ations a small amount of gold is recovered daily. 



837 m. Wabamun — Altitude 2,380 ft. (725 m.) . 



1,347 km. Westward to Wabamun the surface is gently 

 rolling with an absence of outcrops of the under- 

 lying rocks. Between Wabamun and Fallis, on 

 the north shore of Wabamun lake, the upper 

 part of the Edmonton formation is exposed, the 

 outcropping shale including a seam of sub- 

 bituminous coal being reported to be from 18 to 

 22 feet (5-4 to 6- 6 m.) thick with a small parting 

 in the centre of the seam. 



851 m. Gainford — Altitude 2,435 ft. (742 m.). The 



1,369 km. coal seam outcropping on Wabamun lake dips 

 to the west and is mined at Gainford at a depth 

 of 138 feet (42 m) at which point it was found 

 to have a thickness of 10 feet (3-04 m.). 

 859 m. Entwistle— Altitude 2,566 ft. (782 m.). The 



1,382 km. valley of Pembina river, which is crossed at 

 this point, is about 100 feet (30 m.) deep. A 

 10 foot (3 m.) seam of coal outcrops near the 

 bottom of the valley, while upstream from Ent- 

 wistle several other exposures show much 

 thicker seams, one of which is stated to be 26 

 feet (7 • 8 m.) thick. These seams belong to the 

 upper horizon of the Edmonton, in which coal 

 is found in almost continuous beds from this 

 point to Crowfoot, on the main line of the 

 Canadian Pacific railway, a distance of 245 

 miles (390 km.). 



