| |  |  | Int'l Wayside acquires the Monster claim group International Wayside Gold Mines Ltd                                    IWA
 Shares issued 38,454,998                                 Jul 19 close $0.90
 Thu 20 Jul 2000                                                News Release
 Mr. J. Frank Callaghan reports
 International Wayside Gold Mines has acquired the Monster claim group.  The
 company  has  purchased  75 per cent of the Monster claim group for 200,000
 shares of the company (100,000 in year one, 50,000 in year two  and  50,000
 in year three). A 3-per-cent net smelter royalty is payable, with an option
 to purchase 2 per cent of the net smelter return for $2-million (U.S.). The
 company  also  has  first right of refusal to purchase the remaining 25 per
 cent from the Wells Syndicate and a 20,000 share finder's fee is payable to
 Bill  Charnobay.  The  company would also like to report that Eagle Mapping
 Services has been retained to complete aerial mapping of the property.  The
 total  area  of  the  company's property is now approximately 152.65 square
 kilometres or 15,265 hectares.
 Rocks in the vicinity  of  the  new  discovery  Bonanza  Ledge  consist  of
 siltstone,  mudstone  and  quartzite.  The  same  rock  units that host the
 Bonanza Ledge zone and the majority of gold deposits along the  Barkerville
 gold belt also underlie the Monster property. The presence of limestone and
 dolostone float  north  and  south  of  Yuzkli  Creek,  which  crosses  the
 property,  and  abundant  marble  float  similar  in appearance to the fine
 marbles that control replacement ore deposition along the Barkerville  gold
 belt near the centre of the Monster property suggests that these rock types
 are also present. The aforementioned  marble  float  is  located  near  the
 contact between black siltite and quartzite.
 At the Comstock showing on the Monster property,  both  A  (strike)  and  B
 (orthogonal)  veins  bearing  pyrite,  galena  and sphalerite are reported,
 including a vein upward of 30 feet in width, striking with the sediments.
 Eagle Mapping Services will be producing 1 to 15,000  scale  colour  aerial
 photography   covering  an  area  of  approximately  10  kilometres  by  43
 kilometres. In addition  1  to  2,500  scale  five-metre  contour  maps  of
 Barkerville  Mountain,  Richfield  Mountain  and  Island  Mountain  will be
 produced. The area of Cow Mountain will be mapped in a one-metre contour.
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