From a 1917 report
Since the acquisition of the property by this Company all work has been confined to the sinking of a working shaft on the Garnier vein. This shaft was started on the outcrop of the Garnier vein and was sunk vertically to a depth of a little more than 200 feet where a station was cut, a crosscut bearing south 40 degrees west was started and continued to a point 365 feet from the shaft. During the sinking of the shaft a number of small veins & stringers were cut, all of which dipped to the west. At the 70 foot point the secondary sulphides were first encountered, assays as high as $70 in gold silver & copper being obtained. At the 110 foot point the first water was encountered and at about the same point the first molybdenite was found. At the 130 foot point it appeared that another vein was coming into the shaft from the east but as the sinking progressed the vein straightened, and the dip changing from the west to the east receding from the shaft into the country rock on the east of the shaft, indicating that the veins in the Garnier system might show a corresponding change of dip from the west to the east. At the west end of the station on the 200 ft. level a vein having a dip of 45 degrees to the east and a strike identical with that of the Garnier on the surface was encountered it is possible that the vein is the Garnier. This game vein was cut in the opening of the sump and at the point was two feet wide and was sampled across that width with results of $24.50 in gold and silver per ton.
In cutting a station for a pump in the west end of the station a small footwall stringer from the vein last mentioned was found which gave selected samples assaying 35% molybdenite. From the shaft to a point 150 feet to the west the granite is much broken altered locally by koalinization and sericitization and removal of a portion of the biotite. In this distance a number of minor slips having a north south strike were cut, three of which show a molybdenite content over a sufficient width to allow a profitable mining and milling.
At the 150 foot point a vein was cut and named the Bernice. This vein occurs along a north south fault plane in which the relative movement as evidenced by the displacement of a lamprophyric dike amounts to 30 feet. Where cut by crosscut, the Bernice was sampled across 4 feet with results of $23.22 in gold telluride. Drifting was done on this vein and at a point 12 feet from the crosscut it was sampled across four feet with returns of $41.28 per ton, while a selected sample taken from the 30 foot point gave a return of 20.2% molybdenite. The drift on the Bernice was carried to a point 48 feet from the crosscut and is still in ore, there being a considerable amount of high grade molybdenite for the last 20 feet along the drift.[1]
From a 1918 report,
There is a unquestionable a large amount of both high grade and milling ore that can be developed on this and adjoining properties, but the only feasible method of mining it economically and profitably is by means of the proposed deep tunnel.[2]
From a 1939 report,
Seven cars of ore were shipped from surface working assaying around $42.50 per ton in gold and silver, plus about 1% Wolframite and some Molybendite. These veins were not opened from shaft by cross-cuts, as all cross cuts from shaft were driven southwest away from the said surface veins. A 75-ft. Cross cut on 200-ft. level of shaft would cut the West vein.
Property has all the ear-marks of a mine that would supply a 100-ton mill for a number of years and I believe a great deal of money can be made in operating this property, providing the same can be adequately financed, equipped and managed. Mainly, it will be necessary to work out a process whereby all metallic values can be recovered in marketable form.[3]
