, 1890-03-20
John Douglas Tells of the Flatter-
ing Prospects of That Prom
ising Region.
Golden Ore From the Eureka
Claims Owned by Spokanites
Other Claims.
The Canadian Pacifo's Plans
Cascade City-How to Get to
Rock Greek Camp.

chincry.
MIR. Douglas was seen at the
Grand Central hotel Saturday by
REVIEW representatives, to whom he
showed II number of fine specimens
of gold quartz from the Rock creek
camp.
Most Of the specimens were from
the Eureka claim, the property
of the Douglas company.
The reporter was shown the
assays of some of the Eureka ore,
ono concentrating O3 ounces In gold
aud lB.S75 ounces Of silver per ton.
Another assay showed l0l ounces Of
gold and li.l25 silver, being average
ore taken across the vein at u depth
of 50 feet.
For the first thirty-hve feet In the
shaft the ore assayod four ounces
gold and six ounces silver per ton,
and has shown richer as depth was
attained, as proved by the assays
given above.
WILL PUT IN a MILL.
"Rock creek II n gold quartz
cump,n said Mr.. Douglas, land /
have every reason to believe IL
viii prove rich enough to sat
isfy almost anybody. have
had fnlIh In the camp ever since ]
first went there, aud have gone
down on the Eureka far enough To
prove that 1t IL IA great property. II
has vein six feet wide, and | have
Just shown you specimens Of the
quartz II yields. | first went Into
the camp three years ago, and Tor
the past two years have been
working steadily ON the Eufeha.
| have had seven men ut work all
winter, working two shifts. We
are now dowu l52 feet, but are not
getting along fast enough to su me,
So am ON my way Fast
To get two InporsOll steam drills.
BY the use of these drills and pow
der | can take out ore very rapidly.
During my visit Fast | shall also
make arrangements to put in II
small stamp mill, which | shall use
until | determine what process II Is
best to adopt, when l shall put In II
large plant.
OTHER CLAIMS.
"Ycs, there are large number of
very promising claims in addition
to the Eureka" pursued Mr.. Doug
las. 'Ihe Caribou II owned by Mon
Afghan, King and Others, of Spokane
Fails, as Il also the Amelia, lying
east OF the Caribou. A large amount
of work has been done on both OF
these clalmA
"East Of aud adjoining the Anne
liza Is the Kamloops, a promising
claim, owned by John Moran. The
Kumloops shows the Caribou and
Amelia vein IN places.
"Wcst of the Caribou lies the
Alice and Emma consolidated,
owned 10y Victoria parties; aud ad-
joining the Alice and Emma ON the
west is the Maple Leaf, owned by
james Lynch.
"I'ho Eureka, owned by the Dou-
glas Mining Company, II situated
west of the Maple Leaf, on the foot
hill of mountain which slopes
south.
"NNest of the Eureka Is the
Ecclciachcn, owned by John Fergu-
son. All the claims ! have Just
enumerated are ON the same vein.
"NIuny other claims have been
! located in the vicinity of the same
lead, and considerable WORK has
been done ON most of them. John
Moran has u very promising claim
| lying 81 al heast of the Caribou, called
the OkanOgan.
"NNest from the Caribou for n dis
tance of two miles there are some
fine prospects in lime, the chief loca-
tions being owned by Bill Edwards,
better known "a English Bill," II
well known character in that sec
ton.
"Thcrc are also number of loca-
| tions west of the Eureka, the names
of which | can not recall at present.
John III. East, who Is well known
In Spokane Fails has several good
claims.
"The Rock Creek mines are stu
ated ON the divide between Kettle
river and Osoyoos lake, and between
the North and South branches OF
Rock creek.
give miles northwest of Osoyoos
| lake lies the OlSanogan mining
camp, sometimes called the Osoyoos
camp. Both the Rock Creek and
Osoyoos camps lie about seve.. miles
beyond or north of the boundary
line, In British Columbia.
WILL HAVE TRANSPORTATION.
"What Is the prospect for better
transportation facilities for the Rocl,
Creek country, Mr.. Douglass" was
asked.
"Ihe prospects are very encourage
ing. understand the Canadian
Pacific will build n branch road dur.
ing the coming summer from Syca.
mouse, on the main line, To the
north end of Okanogan lake, n dis
tance of about fifty miles. They
will run steamers from the end oi
the road To Pcnticton, Mt the lower
end of the lake. There are several
steamers on the lake now, and more
are being built. We expect TO have
communication from the mines with
Penticton by means of Il good wagon
road.
"At present we reach that point by
two rou:es-one over the fnkaniI
trail, which takes almost n straight
course, and the other over u very In
different wagon road, which IL
about twelve miles further. IL is
about forty miles from the Rock
creek mine to Penticton by way oi
the tfail which Joins u well-built
wagon road which has already been
builI part way to Rock creek by The
British government. 1t IL the In.
ten ton of the government Ia
complete this road TO the
mines over the route fol.
lowed by the trail, and extend the
road through to Grand prairie and
the new town of Cascade City. Tho
distance from Rock creek to Cnscad,
City by this road will be about