is red soil for 3 or 4 feet, then mottled clays for 4 or 5 feet with 2 to 5 feet 
of wash at the bottom resting on decomposed granitic rock. 
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Sketch Section, Annandale Syndicate’s Claim, Koetong. 
The method of working here is by means of a tail race and sluicing, 
but the water supply is rather limited, and the water has to be brought for 
some miles. The wash-dirt containing the tin ore is much more water- 
worn than at the Excelsior ground, and quartz pebbles containing tin ore 
are very common. The quartz is evidently from ganitic country and 
contains abundance of black tourmaline. There are occasional pebbles 
of pink colour and somewhat fibrous texture. Here also a great deal of 
titaniferous iron is saved with the cassiterite and in about the same pro¬ 
portion as at the Excelsior workings. No very large pieces of tin ore 
appear to have been found in this tract. The Tertiary deposit here is right 
on the divide and there is some reason to expect that it would be worth 
while to prospect the surrounding country for other portions of what must 
have been a once continuous lead, the source and end of which has not yet 
been determined. About a mule northward some quartz veins carrying tin 
ore were tested in a small way many years ago but nothing further has 
been done, although some very rich nuggets of tin ore were got there. 
Altogether several acres of stanniferous gravels appear to have been worked 
profitably in the Annandale neighbourhood, and there would be more work 
still to do if water could be got for the purpose, but there is only the one 
race and that is being used by Mr. Grant’s party. The northern drainage 
runs into Royal Park Creek which empties itself into Koetong Creek from 
the west side above Koetong, while to the south-west a creek rises that 
flows into Dry Forest Creek. 
Dry Forest Creek. 
The workings on this creek are about 3 miles a little south of west 
from the Annandale claim; height about 2,000 feet above sea-level. 
A tail-race has been blasted through a granite bar so as to work the 
alluvial wash in the flat above and a few chains furthei up the pipes for 
