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 ANNOTATED GUIDE (Continued). 



316 m. Tantalus Coal Mine — Altitude 1,718 feet 



505 km. (522 m.) About two-thirds of a mile (1 km.) 

 below Tantalus mine, and on the same side of 

 the river, is a general store and a dismantled 

 R.N.W.M. Police barracks. One-third of a 

 mile (-5 km.) farther along the river bank is 

 situated Carmack's road house which is on the 

 Whitehorse-Dawson waggon-road, 131 miles 

 (210 km.) from Whitehorse, measured along 

 the road. About one-third of a mile (5 km.) 

 below Carmack, Nordenskiold river joins the 

 Lewes on its left limit. 



Lewes river below Tantalus and particularly 

 to Five Fingers rapids, continues to be extremely 

 tortuous, and 6 miles (9-6 km.) below Tantalus 

 swings to the foot of Tantalus butte within half 

 a mile (-8 km.) of a point where it had touched 

 the base of this hill, 8 miles (12 -o km.) farther 

 upstream. The higher hills in this vicinity rise 

 to elevations between 3,000 and 3,500 feet 

 (900 to 1,000 m.) above sea-level. 



From Tantalus to Five Fingers coal mine, a 

 distance by river of 16 miles (26 km.) or 8 

 miles (13 km.) as the crow flies, the rocks along 

 the left limit of the river are mainly Tertiary 

 basalts, similar to those at Miles canyon, in the 

 vicinty of Selkirk, and elsewhere in Yukon. 

 On the right limit of the river these rocks are 

 also extensively developed, but the Jura- 

 Cretaceous rocks are also exposed for about 4 

 miles (6 km.) above Five Fingers mine. The 

 layer of light grey or nearly white volcanic ash, 

 which is noticeable from Caribou northward, is 

 particularly prominent between Tantalus and 

 Five Fingers, where it is about a foot (-3 m.) 

 thick, and as elsewhere is very near the sur- 

 face, the vegetation being rooted in it. 



332 m. Five Fingers Coal Mine — The Five Fingers 



531 km. mine [13, pp. 53-55; 19] is situated on the 



right bank of the Lewes, and the workings 



are all close to the water's edge. The coal 



measures on this property belong to the lower 



