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Title: The Mining industry in Quebec
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Québec (Province). Dept. of Natural Resources Québec (Province). Dept. of Colonization and Mines. Mining industry of the Province of Québec Québec (Province). Dept. of Colonization and Mines. Report on the mining operations of the Province of Québec Québec (Province). Dept. of Mines. Report of the Minister of Mines of the Province of Québec
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Québec
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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om the railway station to the mine over a bad road. Supplies aregenerally sent in during the winter when transportation is cheaper. Topography The most important topographical feature of the district is thelong valley of the Great Cascapedia river, which stream runsapproximately north and south (magnetic), takes its rise in theheart of the peninsula on the western slope of the Shickshockmountains, flows in a very deep bed it has eroded for itself in themountains plateau of the interior, and falls into the Baie des Cha-leurs at Cascapedia. About 40 miles from its mouth,.it divides intotwo branches; one flowing from the Shickshocks, called the Salmonbranch, and the other flowing from the northwest where it takes itsrise in a lake, hence its name the Lake branch. Its flow is very rapidits grade being about 25 feet per mile. Its tributaries are likewisevery rapid, their slope is generally greater and they are real mount- Plate I.—Lake Ste. Anne, taken from the mountain west of the lake.
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ll.ti II Mount Albert ind I iblc mountain, from mountain wesl -i I ike Ste Vnne. THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 125 ain torrents. Among the latter, are two which interest us moreparticularly because they cross the projected township of Lemieux;these are the Berry mountain and Brandy creeks, tributaries on theleft bank of the Great Cascapedia river. The first takes its rise about2 miles southwest of lake St. Anne on the line of the water-shedbetween the St. Anne and Great Cascapedia rivers, and falls intothe latter 3 miles below the fork>. The second takes its rise at the foot of Mount Albert on thesouthern slope and falls into the Great Cascapedia river about amile and a half above the forks. These two creeks run nearlyparallelly to one another in a southwesterly direction. Other smallstreams fall into them and increase their flow. The valleys of thesestreams are always narrow and their sides are steep. They thus cutthe mountain plateau into chains of hills by scooping out their bedsin the

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