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iStomtt'res Castle was an active town with about 1,500 



people in 1884-86, but is now deserted. The 

 "boom" was caused by the discovery of copper 

 prospects in Copper mountain directly south 

 of the station on the opposite side of the valley. 

 Mining proved a failure. And there is now 

 only one of the old timers, James Smith, living 

 here. 



There are numerous foundations on this flat, 

 but most of the buildings have been burned or 

 torn down. 

 100 m. The Dominion government is building an 



160 km. automobile road across the Rocky mountains 

 from Calgary to Golden. The road here 

 crosses the railway and Bow river; it follows 

 up Vermilion creek to the south, over the 

 Vermilion Pass, and down Vermilion river 

 to the Kootenay, thence into the Columbia 

 valley and down to Golden. The road is nearly 

 completed up to the pass, which, with an eleva- 

 tion of 5,264 feet (1,605 m -)> is the lowest 

 pass in this part of the Rocky mountains. 

 To the east of Vermilion Pass is seen the craggy 

 cliffs of Storm mountain (altitude 10,309 feet) 

 in the Middle and Lower Cambrian formations. 

 The lower rounded ridges to the east are formed 

 of Pre-Cambrian shales. The contact, appar- 

 ently slightly unconformable, is exposed at 

 the eastern base of Storm mountain. 

 105-5 m. Eldon — Alt. 4,817 ft. (1,468 m.). The 

 170-4 km. broadly rounded Bow valley is underlain by 

 the softer Pre-Cambrian shales included in 

 the Hector and Corral formations. The Pre- 

 Cambrian beds floor the Bow valley and the 

 lower slopes up to Kicking Horse pass, and 

 to the head waters of Bow river. This series 

 has been called Pre-Cambrian by Walcott 

 [4], because the beds are largely unfossiliferous 

 and underlie the Olenellus zone of the Lower 

 Cambrian. These beds represent a portion 

 of the Bow river group, defined by McConnell 

 [5]. A few brachiopod-like fossils were found 

 by the writer in a layer of Hector shale at the 

 base of Storm mountain. 



