388 GEOLOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE (’REEK DISTRICT. 
southeast of the shaft. Two hundred feet 
northwest of the shaft the vein branches. 
The East Victor vein continues, with 
a strike of N. 52° W. and dip of 68° 
SW., for 400 feet to the end of the 
claim, and then on level 3 for at 
least 400 feet farther into Isabella 
ground. The West vein is of less 
importance. Close to the Victor 
shaft is another junction from which 
diverges a connecting vein between 
the Victor and the Cheyenne system, 
at first with a strike of N. 80° W., 
but farther on in Isabella ground 
swinging about to a more north¬ 
westerly strike. The dip is steep to 
the southwest. It is developed on 
Victor levels 7, 8, 9, and 10. 
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OCCURRENCE OF THE ORE. 
The ore is said to have been oxi¬ 
dized throughout in the Victor work¬ 
ings, with the normal gangue of 
quartz, fluorite, limonite, kaolin, 
and manganese oxides. Little is 
known of the distribution of the 
ore. The most important shoot 
seems to have occurred within 400 
feet on both sides of the shaft, near 
the point where the veins diverge. 
In depth the shoot became impov¬ 
erished; it is stated that, like the 
Cheyenne shoot of the Isabella mine, 
a flat mass of plionolite was encoun¬ 
tered which cut off the ore. At the 
northwest end line where the East 
Victor vein enters Isabella ground a 
very rich shoot occurred, the stopes 
of which were visited. It is in places 
30 feet wide and extended down 40 
feet below level 5, or 280 feet below 
the surface. There exists in the 
breccia at this point a system of 
flat joints which much resemble a 
rude stratification and which cut 
off the shoot at the depth men- 
5 failed to find ore in Isabella ground. 
