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 REPORTS UPON THEIR PROPERTY, 
 
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 MADOC. ONTARIO. 
 
 By Mr. CHARLES IIOBB, Mixin(^ Emmxekr. 
 
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 Ml!. ANDREW WHYTE, MixiNrr SurERixTEXDEXT. 
 
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ANGLO-SAXON GOLD MINING COMPANY. 
 
 PROSPECTUS. 
 
 The property forming the basis of the operations of this Company 
 consists of the West Half of Lot Number Seventeen in the Sixth 
 Concession of the Township of Madoc, County of Hastings 
 Ontario. The ^uation and extent of the property, which com- 
 prises eighty four acres of land, immediately adjoining the justly 
 celebrated Richardson Mine, are shown on the accompanying Plan. 
 
 A Patent from the Crown has been obtained for this property 
 and four diflferent triil-shafts have been opened upon it, each of 
 which produces ore from the solid rock containing gold and silver 
 in paying quantities. Gold is also found in the crevices of the 
 rock, as in the Richardson Mine ; as more fully explained in the 
 subjoined Reports by Mr. Charles Robb, Mining Engineer of this 
 City, and by Mr. Andrew White, an experienced Mining Superin- 
 tendent in charge of the explorations. 
 
 Preparations are being made for the erection of a crushing and 
 amalgamating mill, for which the situation of this property is pecu- 
 liarly well adapted. The requisite machinery is now under con- 
 tract by Mr. E. E. Gilbert, of the Canada Engine Works in this 
 City, and will be erected and put in operation in April of the pre- 
 sent year. 
 
 The Capital Stock of the Company is $125,000, and is divided 
 into 25,000 shares of the par value of $5 each share. Payments 
 to be made on the issue of certificates of stock after the legal 
 organization of the Company. Five thousand shares (or $25,000) 
 of the stock is to be reserved for Working Capital. 
 
 Applications for stock and all other communications to be ad- 
 dressed to the Secretary, W. W. Stuart, Esq., 33 St. Nicholas 
 Street, Montreal. 
 
ANGLO-SAXON aOLD MINING COMPANY. 
 
 (LIMITED.) 
 
 To ke inc'jrporatcd hy Letters Patent, under Act 27 nnd 1% Victonn, 
 Cap. 2 3 and Amendments thereto. 
 
 CAPITAL jB125,0()0. 
 
 /A' 25,000 SHARES OF |5 EACH. 
 
 B. HUTCHINS, Esq., Presidkxt. 
 WILLIAM DOW, Esq. 
 WILLIAM W. STUART, Esq. 
 ALEXAxNDER WALKER, Esq. 
 JAMES MOIR, Esq. 
 
 j^metary and Zxtn\xiu, 
 
 WILLIAM W. STUART, Esq. 
 
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 BANK OF MONTREAL. 
 
 OFFICE: 33 ST. NICHOLAS STREET, 
 
 * MONTREAL. 
 
REPORT 
 
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 ANGLO-SAXON GOLD MINING COMPANY. 
 
 BY CHARLES ROBB, MINING ENGINEER. 
 
 96 St. Francois Xavier Street, 
 Montreal, Dec. 30th, 1867. 
 To the 
 
 President and Directors 
 
 Anglo-Saxon Gold Mining Company. 
 
 Gentlemen, — On a recent occasion, I visited the property 
 in Madoc, Hastings County, which has been lately acquired 
 by you for gold mining purposes ; and although the ground 
 was partially covered with snow, and my inspection was ne- 
 cessarily somewhat of a cursory nature, I was enabled to 
 make a tolerably satisfactory examination of its topographi- 
 cal, geological and mineral conditions. 
 
 I had also an opportunity of inspecting the various expo- 
 sures of rock, both natural and artificial, upon it and on the 
 adjacent properties, including the celebrated Richardson 
 Mine, and the various trial-shafts sunk on the Moore Farm ; 
 both which properties immediately adjoin your own. 
 
 The accompanying Plan exhibits the position, dimensions 
 and more prominent topographical features of your location, 
 
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 and of the other mming properties referred to. I desire here 
 to direct your special attention to the important fact which 
 has been clearly established by my recent observations, and 
 is indicated on the plan : namely, that the course of the rich 
 auriferous vein of the Richardson Mine tends to a point on 
 your property at which a similar vein, is found, and where the 
 best show of gold has been obtained. It is reasonable to 
 infer that upon this line, and between the two points referred 
 to, embracing the whole breadth of your property, the pros- 
 pects of similar deposits will be equally good at any point. 
 
 The gold of this region occurs in a matrix of ferruginous 
 bitter-spar or dolomite, associated with quartz and felspar ; 
 the enclosing rocks consisting of chloritic gneiss on the one 
 hand, and a thin band of talcoid slate on the other. The gold 
 seems to be distributed throughout a great, though unknown, 
 breadth of the dolomite ; but is most concentrated along cer- 
 tain lines or leads, where, through the effects of disturbances 
 i of the strata, fissures have been formed and the various mine- 
 
 I rals have undergone a process of decomposition. 
 
 j Such are the conditions observed by me at t^e various 
 
 ; « openings on the Richardson and Moore Hills, which appear to 
 
 owe their, origin to two parallel undulations or upheavals of 
 I the strata, which dip in opposite directions on either side of 
 
 ' their respective axes. Although the structural condition of 
 
 the rocks here has been as yet but imperfectly developed, I 
 consider that sufficient has been done to justify the general 
 conclusion above expressed. 
 
 Your property embraces both lines of geological upheaval 
 above referred to. The north part is traversed by the lead 
 
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 From the Richardson Mine, running parallel with and a short 
 distance north from the axis of upheaval, as indicated on the 
 plan. Much of the area thus traversed is occupied bj low 
 ground, although I have reason to believe that the rocks lie 
 quite near the surface. Near the north-east angle, however, 
 the ground rises to an elevation of thirty or forty feet, over 
 an area of about five acres ; and here the quahty and condi- 
 tions of the rocks have been tested to some extent by costeens 
 and trial-pits, showing, as before observed, a remarkable simi- 
 larity to the conditions at the Richardson Mine. The forces 
 both of elevation and denudation, however, would seem to 
 have been less active here than at the latter place ; conse- 
 quently, the rocks at the surface appear to lie nearly horizon- 
 tally, and are greatly fractured and disturbed ; and I antici- 
 pate that the precise conditions observed at the Richardson 
 Mine will be found to exist on yours only after sinking to 
 some depth from the surface. 
 
 The southern part of your property comprises a much 
 greater area of elevated ground than the northern ; and here, 
 Jn all probability, the leads from the Moore Hill will traverse ; 
 although, hitherto, as no exploratory work has been done on 
 this part of the property, no positive discoveries of gold-bear- 
 ing rock have yet been made. 
 
 It is stated on undoubted authority that " some samples 
 from the Richardson Mine having recently been tested at 
 Scott & Taylor's crushing mill at Eldorado, twenty-six 
 ounces of fine gold, of the value of $546, were obtained from 
 four and a half tons of quartz ; giving $121.33 as the aver- 
 age yield per ton ; and a ton of quartz from the Eldorado 
 Mine has produced an ingot of gold valued at $53.85." 
 
There can be no doubt that the prospects for permanent 
 and profitable gold mining in the Madoc district, and parti* 
 cularly at and near Eldorado Village, are in the highest de- 
 gree encouraging. As yet, however — with the exception of 
 the Richardson Mine, which is rich beyond all doubt or preced- 
 ent, and also some of the shafts on the Moore Hill — there 
 have been no tests by actual working on a sufficiently exten- 
 sive scale, to establish a safe basis of calculation as to actual 
 results. The value of your property, therefore, is rather to 
 be judged inferentially from its proximity to those named, and 
 from the relations which I have endeavored to point out, than 
 from any positive results hitherto obtained. Sufficient work 
 has been done upon the property, however, to prove the exist- 
 ence of gold in the rock, and, I have reason to believe, in 
 remunerative quantity. 
 
 The work hitherto done, which is entirely of an exploratory 
 character, has been confined to the elevated ground at the 
 north-east part of the property ; where, within a linear extent 
 of about 220 yards, four trial-pits have been sunk to a depth 
 varying from five to twenty-two feet into the dolomitic rock ; 
 in all of which gold has been found in very promising propor-^ 
 tion. 
 
 At the opening marked No 1 on the plan, (which happens 
 to he directly on the course from the Richardson Mine,) at 
 the depth of about twelve feet, a crevice occurs filled with 
 partially decomposed quartz and ochreous matter, somewhat 
 resembling that at the Richardson Mine, and carrying fine 
 gold distributed throughout it in considerable proportion. 
 This stratum,where visible, is only frc^isix to eight inches thick 
 
and lies at a very low angle to the horizon, dipping to the 
 north — being, according to my theory, near to the crown of 
 the anticlinal arch. I feel confident tha^, on following it to 
 the dip, it will become wider and richer. The solid rock 
 underlying this stratum is also well charged, for c. considerable 
 though unknown thickness, with gold, which is easily detect- 
 ed by washing. This is the same opening at which, about a 
 year ago, the existence of gold in the rock was recognized 
 by Mr. Michel, who had been commissioned to investigate 
 the subject on behalf of the Government; and is one of the 
 few actual and undoubted discoveries which had then been 
 made, and were deemed worthy of being reported by him. 
 
 Shaft No. 2, thirty yards S. 20*^ W. from the former, has 
 been sunk 22 feet through a highly metalliferous dolomite, 
 seamed with quartz veins ; the rocks here appearing to lie 
 horizontally. Assays of unselected samples of the rock taken 
 from this shaft, gave results varying from twelve to eighteen 
 dollai'S in gold and silver per ton of rock. 
 
 Pit No. 3. One hundred yards south-west of No. 2, was 
 sunk ten feet on a vein of quartz eighteen inches thick, run- 
 ning nearly east and west and descending perpendicularly. 
 This rock, as I am credibly informed, has also yielded a 
 notable proportion of gold by assaying. 
 
 Pit No. 4. Seventy-five yards W. 25° S. from No. 8. 
 Excavated five feet in rock, lying nearly horizontally, but 
 much disturbed, and with distinct traces of talcoid matter. 
 In several specimens taken promiscuo. sly fr^m a layer of 
 {(uartzoze dolomite fifteen inches thick, a very promising show 
 of gold was washed out ; but no sufficient work has been done 
 
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 to test the precise conditions at this point, which certainly 
 merits further exploration. 
 
 In view of all the facts which have been already actually 
 ascertained, and especially of those much more favourable 
 results which may reasonably be expected to be realized upon 
 this property, I ccin have no hesitation in recommending it 
 as worthy of a liberal expenditure of capital for further de- 
 velopment by mining ; and for the estabUshment of a crush- 
 ing and amalgamating mill, without which it is impossible 
 even to ascertain the actual value of the gold-bearing rock ; 
 and which by judicious management, may be made to yield 
 remunerative returns from rock containing a smaller propor- 
 tion of gold than even that which you have already obtained 
 at the surface in your exploratory works. 
 
 For the establishment and maintenance of such a mill, and 
 for the prosecution of mining operations in general, you possess 
 abundant facilities in an unlimited supply of wood suitable 
 for fuel, building, and all purposes connected with mining ; 
 and of water which may be obtained in any quantity from a 
 considerable lake which extends into the east part of the pro- 
 perty, as shown in the plan. In these respects, as well as 
 in the extent of your property, (84 acres in all), you possess 
 special advantages which none of the other mining companiee 
 established in this neighborhood enjoy. 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 ,^-- Gentlemen, 
 Your most obedient servant, r: 
 
 . CHARLES ROBB, 
 >A Mining Geologist, ^c. 
 
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 REPORT OF MR. ANDREW WHYTE, 
 
 MINING SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 Lennoxville, Nov. 18th, 1867. 
 B. HuTCHiNS, Esq., President. 
 
 ANGLO-SAXON GOLD MLNING COMPANY. 
 
 Dear Sir, — Having been engaged in prospecting your 
 Gold Mining Location, Lot 17, in the 6th Concession of the 
 Township of Madoc, during the last three months, I now beg 
 to submit the following Report of operations on the same. 
 
 Although there are several points on your location which 
 offer very favourable facilities for mining operations, my 
 attention was chiefly confined to a ridge on the north-east 
 part of the property, on which gold had been found so early 
 as January last. 
 
 This ridge consists of a mass of stratified magnesian lime- 
 stone, known also as dolomite. The stratification of these 
 dolomites on this ridge is very irreguJar, being in some places 
 nearly horizontal, and in others nearly vertical. At the first 
 opening they have a dip to the north-west of about five de- 
 grees from the horizon. In this opening, about six feet from the 
 surface, there is a layer from six to eight inches in thickness, 
 consisting of quartz and oxide of iron, with fine gold distri- 
 buted all through it. I followed this vein of quartz to a 
 distance of fifteen feet ; it continuing much the same in thick- 
 ness, but with a very perceptible alteration in the dip, having 
 varied from about five degrees where we commenced, to about 
 eight or nine where we stopped. Between the other layers 
 
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 there is generally a quantity of quartz and decom posed iron, 
 which contains fine gold, easily discovered by vashing in a pan. 
 I have also repeatedly washed fine gold from the drillings of 
 holes, preparing for blasts in the dolomite. 
 
 About eighty feet to the south-west I had a shaft sunk t( » 
 a depth of 22 feet, with a view to strike the quartz vein at 
 this depth ; but, as I noticed already, the vein having dipped 
 more than was calculated on, this shaft would require to be 
 sunk deeper in order to reach it. I may notice, however, 
 that the dolomite from the shaft has been found by assay to 
 contain in gold and silver from $12 to $18 per ton. 
 
 At your request I had one blast put in an opening made 
 on the western part of the ridge, which discovered a vein of 
 quartz. From a few handfuls of this I washed in a pan a 
 very good show of gold ; but being obliged to leave the fol- 
 lowing day, had no time to find out the size or probable value 
 of this vein. 
 
 Taking into consideration the rich discoveries in the imme- 
 diate neighbourhood of your property, together with the 
 actual discoveries on it — the excellent facilities for conducting 
 operations, and the advantage of having wood and water in 
 abundance — I believe it to be well worthy the expenditure of 
 a moderate amount of capital in order to open up those gold- 
 bearing veins, and also to pro^^de machinery for reducing 
 
 the same. / 
 
 I am, dear Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 ' -r^ ANDREW WHYTE.