Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 4-1918 Little River The Brindon seen today has an average dip of 22, a thickness of at least 3,100 feet. The cliff on the fault line must also be some thous- and, I think. On Stanley's map ore is reported on this brook. Ore was seen on it then any float of it in the stream. Stanley also reports marble at the head of the brook and therefore marks it as Cambro-Ordovician. Evidently he mistakes the quartz float for marble, or the dikes of quartz for marble. I had the impression that the Carr lies on the flanks of the Long Range Mts in synclinal form. This is an error for the Carr dips towards the mountains from 22 to 25 degrees and close to the pre-Cambrian stands vertical. The papers say that the Reid Company have found ore in moderate amount on the Smith Branch near where we were today. It has been developed some and a siding put in but at present nothing is being done further. I am afraid it is mere enthusiasm. One man said that a 30 foot bed was found by an English specialist and that a million tons of ore is in sight. Yet more men after it. The labels are an ore statement. July 21 ore with Dr. Hatch of Columbia de Dr. Morris. The person said he saw the 30 July ore. Strange that did! After six P.M. Denton and Edmonds crossed the railway and opposite to collections, through the bushes and up the brook into the glacial coupee. They inten- ded to go the glacial lake and the overglaciers back of it, but twice