PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN
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VOL. 9, No. 37.
PRINCE  GEORGE, B.C.,' THURSDAY. JULY 29,   1926.
FIVE CENTS.
Fort Grahame Property is Under Bond
What will doubtless be the first step in the development of the min. cral resources of the Fort Grahame district to the north of Prince George, and one which will determine the route for the railway to connect the Peace River district with the Pacific coast, will be taken with-n the next few weeks when C. A. MucKay, of. Victoria, reaches the big-galena showing in the vicinity of Fort Grahame which was recently examined by Douglas Lay, provincial mining engineer for this district.
In his recent address before the numbers of the Prince George board of trade Mr. Lay was very enthusiastic as to what he thought he would find when he visited Fort Grahame, in view of the reports which had conie to him. That his expectations were fully realized may be gathered from the circumstance that already :, strong syndicate had been formed in Victoria to take overdevelopment, and that during the coming winter a crew of miners will be engaged in driving a 200-foot tunnel through tl I   Fort Grahame property with   a
�  ii w to running cross-cuts to cut the f  in- veins which are exposed in the
�  .! face  showings.
James   Ferguson   the  Locator. The Fort Grahame discovery was by James Ferguson, a prospec. r and trapper    resident    at    Fort Gn liame, several years ago.    He was remote   from   transportation   to interest   capital   until   his   discovery ad  been given an authoritative en-usement by  the     department    of �   .    This   however, was supplied .-  Douglas  Lay  a  few weeks  ago. :       iwing close  upon  Mr.   Lay's report on  the property,  C.  W.  Frank and  C. A. Mac Kay organized a syn-rj cate of eight in Victoria and secur. ,. bond from Ferguson.    Mr. Mac. Kay had been keeping cases on   the Fort Grahame find.    He had reports uoon the property, but they were not official, although in June.of 1925 he was ready to take a chance upon a bond   if the  statements  which    had reached him could be verified by an official examination of the property No time was lost when Ferguson received the report of Mr. Lay.
The discovery, which has the ear-n<:nm-=hovel operation as well as the usual mining along the veins
Geoloo-y  of   Fort  Grahame. Mr. MacKay arrived in the city on Monday, and securing an outfit proceeded to Fort Grahame on Tuesdav. ''iroompanied by Mr.  Ferguson.    He has been mining in British Columbia thirty years,  during which time (' has been a careful   student    of geology.    That the big Fort Grahame "owing is not an isolated bunch of �re is indicated, he says, by a study oi   -he geological  map  published  by dominion    government.       This shows the  area to  fall   within    the iate pie-Cambrian  formation,  which >�ends through'the  province   from we    international    boundary    right Wough the Yukon   and which   was Prepared by Dr. Schofield, professor oi pology in the University of B.C. 1 is m this formation that the Sultan  mine  occurs,   as  well   as   the ranious .St. Eugene, which was oper-�ed   for years   by  the   late     James '"in, and later bv the Consolidates company of Trail.    It is the same �    nation,   although   given   another ous Wir  name< in  which the fam-loeato!?     m8er  mine   in   Ontario     is h..: �lMl-    To the south of the inter-�.;i-( ""al  boundary,     United     States RcfcoSo?1    C0"�Perating    with    Dr. ,�,;,'�� and Dr. Daly, of the Can-founn f�    pCal   dePart>nent,    have the hi� d s:lnie formation contains mi    ��  Bunker  Hill   and     Sullivan .,. ..      "ls well aa the Hec]a andMorn.
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