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 been located in it. Still later the same company drove a very long low-level adit, also from the same side as the other two adits, for the purpose of prospecting from it both the Supreme ground and that previously held by the old Inkerman Gold-mining Company. A little over 1,000 ft. from the portal of this adit a crosscut, known as No. 5 south drive, was projected in a southerly direction, and in it the Supreme lode (evidently the downward continuation of the shoot previously referred to as having been struck in the south branch of No. 2 adit) was picked up. At this depth the lode was up to 45 ft. in width, but was mixed with country rock and was about 400 ft. in length, but, like all the other ore in the claim, it was of low gold content. From the low level this shoot was followed down by means of an incline shaft to a further vertical depth of 200 ft., two levels being opened from the shaft, one at 100 ft. down and the other at the bottom. In these levels the shoot is said to have been up to 57 ft. in width, and of about the same length as on the low level. A good deal of this stone was mined and crushed, but it barely paid working-expenses, and was certainly too poor to encourage development of the ore-body at any deeper zone.

As nearly as can now be estimated, the quantity of stone crushed from the Rainy Creek-Supreme Claims was 22,214, tons, which yielded 5,268 oz. gold, equal to 4·7 dwt. per ton.

Inkerman Mine.—This mine was not directly on Adam’s line, but lay a little to the west of it, and about half-way between it and Lee’s line. Auriferous stone was first found on it in 1876 by Joseph Potter, one of the discoverers of the Caledonian reef, and a company was registered in February of that year to work the property. By means of three adits the ore-shoot was developed down to 300 ft. below the outcrop, and was found to be 200 ft. in length, with an average width of about 8 ft. Below No. 3 adit a winze was also sunk to a depth of 40 ft. Throughout the workings the stone was consistently of low grade, some 21,020 tons crushed only yielding 6,102 oz. gold, equal to 5·8 dwt. per ton. The Inkerman Company at an early stage acquired the Rainy Creek and Supreme Companies’ holdings, and did a good deal of prospecting on them without satisfactory result. It also worked the Inkerman West Mine, on Lee’s line, and this was the only part of its property that gave any profit. The same company also held the Inkerman South Claim, on Lee’s line, when in 1890 some rich stone was found on the surface, 90 tons of which was crushed for a return of 3 oz. gold per ton, but it does not appear to have done much prospecting on this claim. In 1896 the Inkerman Combined Mines took all the Inkerman Gold-mining Company’s claims over, repaired No. 3 adit of the Inkerman Mine, and drove it a further 800 ft., but got no solid reef. It also put out a drive southerly from the low-level adit, to come under the old Inkerman workings, with which connection was made by rising, but no reef was found; and after 1899, in which year the company was reconstructed as the New Inkerman Mines, Ltd., no further work was done on the claim.

Lady Louisa Mine.—This mine lay to the east of the Supreme. Some outcrops of quartz were found on it, but when they were tested by means of several shallow drives they were found to carry gold to the extent of about 3 dwt. per ton only.

As to Hustler’s (Souvenir) and the General Gordon Claims, along the northern portion of the lode-series, there is little to be said. Some outcrops were noted on them, and a certain amount of prospecting was done, but in all cases the stone found was extremely poor. On one of the Souvenir