The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
GOLD IN THE NORTHWEST.
The Cariboo Country Promises TO
Aid to the Worlds supply.

The Cariboo Country Promises TO
Aid to the worlds supply.
All westerners are becoming inter-
ested In the marvellous developments in
gold mines since silver was demone-
tized and are wondering where the
matter is to stop. The African fields,
the Australian fields, the Alaskan
fields, and tine new Developments all
through the western regions have been
wonderful A number Of Salt laNerS
are interested in the Washington ana
British Columbia fields, and they pro-
mise to prove very rich in the near
future. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
contains the following account of the
Cariboo prospects:
With the opening of spring, work
will begin in earnest on the big mines
III the Cariboo, and the promoters of
enterprises i'm that section have great
confidence in the mineral wealth. of the
country. A. D. Whittier, agent and
manager of the Cariboo Gold Fields
company, limited, at Barloerville, on
his recent visit to this city brought
news of activity that viii extend
throughout the winter. and prepare the
with the opening of the coming sea-
son. In speaking of Mr.. Winters en-
terprise a. D. Scroggy, general pas
senger and freight agent of tine Seattle.
Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, says:
"Orieinally. away back in about 1858,
gold was discovered in considerable
quantities in the Cariboo region along
the banks and I'm the beds of the
streams, some Of which at that time
We're fairly large, carrying a good deal
of water that prevented a very
thorough working of the gravel. Will
liams creek was perhaps the principal
upon it most of the placer work was
done. The people at that time who
We're in search of gold even with their
private methods OF use took out about
S25, 0G1, 0O0 When it is realized that
they could not work the heavier ma
terial and had no means of saving the
fine gold it is seen that these grounds
muse have been very rich. Operations
were suspended wlhen the miners found
they could not keep UP their average
of taking out several Thousand dollars
q. month, and the various enterprises
that had before been worked were
stopped and remained idle until about
1889 or 1890. Meantime, some of these
streams and particularly Williams
creek dried up leaving immense
gravel banks to which present opera
tors are compelled TO bring water from
a long distance.
'iAbout this time Mr. Whittier went
into the Cariboo prospecting, and after
close investigation determined that it
would surely pay "a big profit on the
grounds over and whatever other
ground had not been formerly worked
upon, and he immediately set about to
secure from the Dominion government,
as we'll as from private parties, posses
sion of about all the ground on Will
Jams creek. Among the private parties
from whom he secured a. portion Of the
was Z. C. Neufelder of this
city
after getting the ground into shape
and formulating the scheme so that he
to London, and after two
years hard work in the face of the
Barring Bros failure and other we'll
known depressing circumstances in the
financial world. he succeeded in organ
ling the Cariboo Gold Fields company,
limited, with a capital Of about $5,000,-
coo, of which he is the agent and MAN.
ager. His plans being well developed,
before leaving England he contracted
used in the construction of q. pipe line
from the source of water supply to the
mines.
"Thereupon he returned to this coun-
try, going at once to the Cariboo, after
some details necessary
Work began Immediately after the
snow had gone off. early in May, 1898.
He began with a large force of men,
which in short time was increased
ployed constructing bitches, fumes,
shafts, tunnels and OH work of like
nature necessary to opening up a big
mining claim of this kind. Water has
to be brought three or four miles with
L fall of 1910 feet, and in this particu-
ar there is probably no other hydrau-
ic claim IN the world attempted to be
worked on the same scale.
at is proposed with this water to
-un elevators and wash the gravel at
he same time. A tunnel six feet high
~ five feet eight inches wide and near
v a mile long. is being constructed in
% the heaviest bank of gravel, some |
hing like 200 feet high, from which it
s proposed to run shafts to the surface
or the purpose of eleyating the gravel /
30 that it can be washed and disposed |
# without further handling. The bot |
ON of the tunnel reaches bed rock I'M
Ter the gravel and viii be extended un- |
il the entire gravel bed is worked out"
The gravel bank forming the basis
" Mr. Writers operations is practi-
ally inexhaustible, and will last. it is
calculated, anywhere from 300 to 600 |
7ears The company calculates Oh re- !
llizing from 60 to IS cents per cubic |
rard. and, when the plant is set up, !
will be able to move several hundred |
ards per day. During the past season
he company paid out $4,000 in sala-
les, and the list will be increased with
he coming year when water will be OBJ
aired and the plant will begin to pro- |
luce gold. Mr.. Whittier is also plan !
ling to put in electric lights and tele- |
,hones, and to establish machine |
;hop, and with such an equipment will |
,e able to operate the year around.
Eagle Secures Two More Claims.
The stock of the Eagle Gold Mining /