Transactions . as to the other ore used in the blast-furnace is the highest in percentage of iron,and the position of the Moreda works gives them a positive advantageover the others. Further, they have in their favour the proximity of theport for shipment of the finished material without railway charges. The President moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Jones for hisinteresting paper, and the motion was cordially approved. Mr. G. F. Moncktons paper on The Mining Districts nearKamloops Lake, British Columbia, was taken as read, as follows :— .minim; districts of liumsn Columbia. ;5!il MININ
Transactions . as to the other ore used in the blast-furnace is the highest in percentage of iron,and the position of the Moreda works gives them a positive advantageover the others. Further, they have in their favour the proximity of theport for shipment of the finished material without railway charges. The President moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Jones for hisinteresting paper, and the motion was cordially approved. Mr. G. F. Moncktons paper on The Mining Districts nearKamloops Lake, British Columbia, was taken as read, as follows :— .minim; districts of liumsn Columbia. ;5!il MINING DISTRICTS NEAR KAMLOOPS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. By G. F. MONCKTON The district of British Columbia to which this paper refers is thewestern part of the area drained by rivers flowing into Tvamloops lake,with an east-and-west width of 35 miles and a length from north tosouth of 75 miles. It forms a part of the interior plateau, and shareswith the rest of that region, which is 100 miles wide, and runs north -. Fig. 8.—View, looking Westward, from the Foot of Kamloops Lake,at a Height of about 1,200 Feet above it. The Course of the ThompsonRtveb is shown kor about 15 Miles. The Deep Canon, at the Rkjht- HANI), ENDING IN A LOWER BENCH, IS THAT OF DEADMAN RlVEK. TlIE BlUFIS, 300 Feet high, along the Thompson River, are composed of White Silts markingan Old Lake-bed. The Thompson River is About 1,000 Feet above Sea-level, and Mount Clossy, on the Left-hand, is about (i,000 Feet High. ward through the whole extent of the province, its peculiar character-istics, namely, a marked want of vegetation in the lowlands, due to thedryness of the climate, and a system of terraced mountains separatedby deep narrow valleys (Fig. 8). The rainfall does not exceed 12 362 MINING: DISTRICTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. inches a year in the lower valleys, which are from 1,100 to 2,000 feetabove sea-level; but it is greater on the heights above them. Themountains are usually thinly wooded, and contain ma
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