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trace of the original bedding planes. While Daly regards it as not safe to 

 assign any definite age to the three dominant series, he says: 



" It seems best to believe, as a working hypothesis, that the Hozomeen green- 

 stone and limestone are younger than the principal quartzite (phyllite) group and 

 overlie the latter conformably." 



On page 504 Daly says: 



"It seems probable, therefore, that the Hozomeen series is to be conelated 

 with the Anarchist series, and both of them, with Dawson's Cache Creek series 

 as well as with the likewise fossiliferous Chilliwack River series." 



Farther to the east through the Okanagan Mountains, Kruger Plateau, 

 Midway Mountains, and the Anarchist Plateau (see plate 3, Memoir 38, 

 and maps 10 to 13), the Anarchist series, so far as made out, seems to 

 represent the same horizon of the Carboniferous. It is largely phyllite, 

 quartzite, limestone, and greenstone. The quartzite and phyllite are most 

 abundant, then the greenstone and the limestone, in "pods." 



"This oldest group is almost certainly the same as that which crops out at 

 intervals between the Columbia River and Midway, and, in the Rossland district, 

 bears obscure fossils referred to Carboniferous species. Though the lithological 

 similarity of the Anarchist series to these Rossland rocks and, as we shall see, to 

 the very thick, fossiliferous, undoubtedly Carboniferous rocks found in the 

 Skagit Range, may be an accidental and illusory resemblance, it seems best to 

 correlate the Anarchist series, or much of it at least, with the Carboniferous rocks 

 of western British Columbia." (Page 422.) 



In the center of the Columbia Mountain system between Christina 

 Lake and Midway is exposed a series of argillites, quartzites, and limestone 

 called by Daly the Attwood series.^ This resembles the Cache Creek of 

 the Kamloops district. The limestone is generally white and crystalline, 

 but occasionally drab or black, the argillites are or were carbonaceous. The 

 sediments "probably form part of a once extensive series of sediments 

 which covered southern British Columbia." Daly agrees with Brock in 

 correlating this series with the fossiliferous (probably Carboniferous) series 

 of argillites, quartzites, and limestone in the Rossland Mountains. 



In the Rossland Mountains, and especially in the Little Sheep Creek 

 Valley, there are fossiliferous limestones, cherts, and quartzites, and in the 

 Pend d'Oreille region phyllites, quartzites, limestones, etc. In the Little 

 Sheep Creek Valley there is a blue-gray to white limestone, brecciated, and 

 with lenses of chert and quartzite. In the breccias have been found Carbon- 

 iferous fossils {Lonsdalia). 



In the Selkirk Range the Pend d'Oreille group includes greenstone, phyllite, 

 amphibolite, etc. The rocks are similar, lithologically, to those found in the 

 Rossland district, and in central Idaho Lindgren^ found closely similar rocks in 

 isolated areas, the Wood River series, w^hich carry Carboniferous fossils. 



1 Memoir 38, p. 382, and R. W. Brock, Annual Report Canadian Geological Survey, p. 96, 



1902. 



2 Lindgren, W., The Gold and Silver Veins of Silver City, etc., 20th Annual Report U. S. 



Geological Survey, pt. ni, pp. 85-90, 1900. 



