. Factory and industrial management. VIEW OF PINE CREEKj ATLIN, AT THE UPPER END OF THE FAIRVIEW LEASE. OPPOSITETHE STEPHEN DYKE GROUP. MINERAL RESOURCES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 837. CASCADE RANGE FROM SKEENA RIVER. as on both the east and west sides of Prince of Wales Island. But thecoast has been prospected only to a very limited extent, the main rea-sons being- the unfavourable conditions prevailing as to thick timber,high mountains, impenetrable undergrowth, thickness of moss, lack oftrails and necessity for packing supplies, etc., on mens backs. Conse-quently comparatively very little is kno
. Factory and industrial management. VIEW OF PINE CREEKj ATLIN, AT THE UPPER END OF THE FAIRVIEW LEASE. OPPOSITETHE STEPHEN DYKE GROUP. MINERAL RESOURCES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. 837. CASCADE RANGE FROM SKEENA RIVER. as on both the east and west sides of Prince of Wales Island. But thecoast has been prospected only to a very limited extent, the main rea-sons being- the unfavourable conditions prevailing as to thick timber,high mountains, impenetrable undergrowth, thickness of moss, lack oftrails and necessity for packing supplies, etc., on mens backs. Conse-quently comparatively very little is known as to the mineral resourcesof the Coast range, and in fact the earliest discoveries of ore bodies,so far as British Columbia is concerned, date back only to about outcroppings on the discoveries so far made have been generallyunique, because of their vast extent. As an example of the most ex-tensive outcroppings so far known there is that on the Britannia groupof claims on Howe Sound, where occurs a mountain of ore about 6,000feet long at the base, nearly 300 feet high, and in which a tunnel driven125 feet long shows a solid mass of ore from the mouth to the fa
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