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the mass. This is clearly demonstrated by the material tipped from the 
tunnel. Trenches and shallow holes have been dug and shafts up to 60 
feet deep have been sunk in prospecting the lodes on the top of the ridge, 
and some good work has been accomplished in this manner. Still further 
to test the nature and value of the lodes, a tunnel has been driven from 
the south side of the ridge in a northerly direction and about 150 feet 
helow the top of the ridge. This is now very hard country (granitic) 
and is 250 feet in from the mouth. Two veins of quartz carrying tin ore 
have been cut, but the distance driven is not enough to intercept the lodes 
that show most strongly at the surface, especially as they have a northerly 
dip. This tunnel should be continued for another 200 feet, and it would 
then afford an excellent means of judging whether these stanniferous lodes 
are of economic value, and if they are, the tunnel would offer facilities 
for extracting the ore cheaply. 
The lodes show best right on top of the ridge above the tunnel. The 
most easterly hole, which is about 5 feet deep, exposes a quartz lode 
4 feet thick. This is the thickest lode so far opened. One chain south ol 
this is another small opening showing a quartz lode with tin ore in it. 
From the 4-ft. lode trenches and shallow holes have been made for a 
length of about 5 chains, and what is probably the same lode is laid bare 
at intervals to the 60-ft. shaft. The most westerly opening is north of the 
60-ft. shaft. The quartz lode in these openings would average about 
11 inches thick, and it carries a good percentage of cassiterite in crystals 
and irregular pieces. A cross-lode occurs striking W. 10 deg. N. and it 
is about vertical. The quartz is 2 inches thick and rich in tin oxide; gold 
has been seen in this lode. This vein should pay for extraction while it 
traverses the decomposed rock, but when the hard granitic rock is reached 
it would be expensive to> work such a thin lode. A shaft 16 feet deep has 
been sunk on this lode, and the stone is as well studded with cassiterite at 
the bottom as at the surface. 
