V. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
REPORT ON HYDER DISTRICT
Reprinted from U. S. Geol ogical Survey Bulletin No.
T7S—B, ''mineral investigations in southeastern Alaska,” 1
925: BY A P. Baddington.
CRIPPLE CREEK
The Cripple Creek group
of clgttns is on the south bans
of Salmon River just above
Texfs Creek' and just below
the bridge across Salmon Riv
er qt Ten-Mile. The group
comprises four claims. The
deyflopxnents consist of an
adit 45 feet long with a 15*
foot open cut at the portal,
an £>foot drift to the west
froip the breast of the adit,
four small prospect holes,
and strip pits along the pro
jected strike of the vein. An
upper vein of quartz ha&!
been stripped for 150 feet.
The adit was driven on a j
veh) zone lying along the con-!
tact between a sheet of gran-!
odiorite and greenstone and '
consisting of two veins, one!
on the footwall of the adit!
and the other on the hang*1
ing. wall, with a barren zone
of fractured greenstone be- i
tween them. The lower vein:
is exposed for 65 feet, and
the yp'per vein for 45 feet, j ■
pinching out within 20 feet 1
of the ^breast of the adit. ;
From the breast a drift was j
driven 8 feet to the west on
the lower vein without reach
ing the end of the vein zone.
In the open cut the vein zont
is exposed for a width of 18
feet and consists of a massive
vein of quartz 4 feet wide
with numerous smaller string
ers in fractured greenstone.
In the drift the strong quartz
vein splits into a vein zone o*
small quartz stringers in brec
ciated and fractured green
stone. A little pyrite was noted
in the drift, scattered through
the greenstone in disseminat
ed grains. No sulphides were
noted in the massive quartz,
though it has iron and copper
stains in the open cut.
The upper vein has grano
diorite on the hanging wall;
all the footwall has been cut
away, but to judge from the
rock exposed in the breast,
it was an altered and brecciat
ed greenstone. The vein con
sists of quartz bordered byi
several smaller stringers of
quartz in the hanging wall. I
The main vein ranges from a i
few inches to 2 feet in vfidth ■
and averages 11 inches.* On,
the footwall aide of this veto
were noted two email seams
of sulphides, one about z
inches wide exposed for about
6 inches, the other about i
inch wide and traceable for
5 feet. B6th of these stringer*
carried rather coarsely crys
talline galena, with a little
pyrite and sphalerite. Scat
tered through the quartz
vein are sparce grains of py
rite, galena, and chalcopyrite.
Specimens of solid galena 8
to 4 inches wide are common
on the dump.
About 200 feet above, the
road is a solid mass of quartz
which has been exposed by
stripping for about 150 feeu
The quartz rein is about 4
feet wide and is contained in
granitic work, probably the
sheet that partly parallels the
adit on the lower rein zone.
No sulphides were noted in
this vein. The lower vein
strikes northwest and dips
70 degrees N.; the upper
vein strikes northeast and dips
40 degrees E.
STONER
The Stoner group claims ad
joins the Eleven Mile group
and is held by II. B. Stoner.
About 300 feet above the
Hooaier tunnel on the Eleven
Mile claims, at an altitude of
1,360 feet, 15 feet from the
boundary' line of the Eleven
Mile group, an open cut was
made. This cut is about 40 feet
wide and is in either silicified
MAP OF
PORTLAND CANAL MINING DISTRICT
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'greenstone or a felsite sheet.
More careful examination
would be necessary to deter
mine which. Dikes of andesite
porphyry are found on each
side of the open cut. Fine py
rite cubes are disseminated
throughout the rock, and local
ly there are little threads and
veinlets of fine granular gal
ena. Calcite veinlets are com
mon. The best assays are re
ported to be about half an
ounce of gold to the ton.
DALY-ALASKA
The Daly-Alaska group of
claims is also known as the
Eleven-Mile and as the New
Alaska group. The claims are
near Eleven-Mile, on the Sal
mon River road.
The writer is indebted to B.
W. .McDougall for information
about the property. The group 1
comprises 11 claims and is
equipped with a 25-horsepow
er Fairbanks-Morse oil engine
and compressor. An average
of about 16 men were employ
ed between March and Aug
ust, 1923. Since Westgate’s re
port was written about 380
feet of underground workings
have been driven. At an alti
tude of about 150 feet above
the camp on Salmon River a !
58-foot shaft was started on a !
mineralized 1 streak in green
stone and sunk vertically.
From the boltoni of the shaft1
a 70-foot crosscut was driven;
from this crosscut a drift G2 j
feet long was run on a inin- ■
eralized streak, and from the |
end of the drift 44 feet oi i
crosscut. The mineralized zone ,
consists of broken and silicl-1
tied greenstone, with quartz ;
veinings and streaks of sul- j
phides.
A short distance northeast of
the Daly shaft a crosscut was
driven for about 150 feet in a
southeast direction and inter
sected some rich but narrow
sulphid stringers.
Many small open cuts have
been made on mineralized out
crops above the entrance to
the Lamon tunnel. Near the
bed of a creek, at an altitude '
of about 600 feet, two open
cuts have been made on a min
eralized shear zone in the
greenstones. There is a 3-foot'
vein here, streaked with string-:
ers of fine granular galena, j
pyrrhotite and sphalerite, with !
some chalcopyrite and pyrite, i
together with calcite ana!
quartz veinlets and some sul
phides. The sulphides may
form about 20 per cent of the
zone. The vein strikes about i
N. 80 degrees W. and dips GO
degrees S., and it is reported
to average about 30 or 40
ounces of silver to the ton.
In another open cut on the
same zone, about 10 feet
above, the sulphides consist
mainly of pyrite with local
sphalerite stringers that give
high assays in gold.
Samples are reported to have j
been obtained that yielded as
says of silver as high as 500 j
ounces to the ton. A polished j
specimen reported to be of the
high-grade type was examined
under the microscope and
found to comprise pyrrhotite,
sphalerite, and pyrite, with a j
little chalcopyrite, galena, and
tetrahedrite.. The tetrahedrite
occurs as small blebs in the
sphalerite and as minute vein
like stringers. Its reaction with
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BRIEF ITEMS FROM
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS Of ALASKA
John E. Meals, of Anchorage,
has been appointed a member
j of the Territorial board of ac
countancy for a period of six
years.
Chief of Police McDermott of
Fairbanks has declared war
on the dog nuisance and
threatens to summon the own
ers of all loose canines to ap
pear before the municipal
magistrate.
The department convention;
j of the American Legion in
Alaska was held at Fairbanks
June 20, 21 and 22. All poets
in Alaska were represented
by delegates.
One of the most audacious
shop lifting attempts evei
tried in Ketchikan was nipped
in the bud recently through
the vigilance of Narcotic Of
ficer Lonnie McIntosh. Wilbur
Day, George King and George
! Guthrie were apprehended by
1 him when they purloined a
suit of clothes from the Heck
man Department store. AH
three are said to have police
records. King is on parole
from the Monroe reformatory
on a three to fifteen year
sentence for second degree
burglary.
A Russian church is to be
opened in Cordova shortly by
Father Lavrischeff, who re
cently came from San Fran
cisco and has been stationed
at the reservation at Tatitlelc. j
The Mountain Point Packing i
Company, with its plant in i
Wrangell Narrows, put up 3, j
370 cases of clams in a she I
week’s run. This is the largest!
clam pack ever put up in the!
same length of time, due to
the plentiful supply of clams
from the Kake beds.
$Vank Knight, one of the best
known oldtimers ofthe north*
lond, who has resided in the
Circle district during the last
several years, took his own
life recently at Ferry road*
house, according to advices
from the interior.
A new regulation on >Ji.>
kd railroad forbidding t><>
carrying of
freight trains is wor1 ia
hardship on prospector T
der the new rule a pimp • v
must start out !•> .
his outfit and - >\
rival at some way •
the line, or shin the '
advance and trust to
he will find it "v*'
when he follows on il
passenger train sev
later.
The steamer Thptis, ongi-’?'l
ly the whaler, Dundee, votprnn
Arctic cruiser and well known
to Alaskans, has been chart
ered by Donald McMillan, the
explorer, as the second ship
for his Arctic expedition to be
made this summer to accom
pany his ship Bowdoin. The
Bowdoin will transport scient
ists and the Thetis will carry
the navy planes and personnel.
The Thetis was sent in 1884
to rescue the Greeley expe
| dition and Was later a revenue
eutter in Alaska, also a float
ing court.
The big freighter Oduna re
cently carried north the final
shipment of steel for the thirty
bridges which are to replace
the wooden structures on the
Alaska Railroad. Most of the
bridges will be completed this
summer.
potassium cyanide suggests
that it is the silver-bearing
variety, freibergite. Moil sam
ples as much as 30 inches in
width are reported to have
yielded 20 to 80 ounces of sil
ver to the ton. Work is being
continued to prove whether or
not a definite ore body exists
on the property.
VIRGINIA |
The writer did not see the I
workings at the Virginia group j
and William Bunting is author*
ty for the following descript
ion. The group comprises six
claims staked in 1919 on the
Salmon River road near the
international boundary. Work
was begun in 1920, and the de
velopments consist of 600 to
700 feet of tunnel and cross
cuts.
Th this work a zone 50 feet
wide, of which 12 to 16 feet
is mineralized with sulphides,
was crosscut. The ore is said to
average about $4 to $5 a ton,
inainly gold. Selected samples
have yielded as high as 41/*
ounces of gold to the ton.
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