The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-20
Favorable Report by a British
Expert From That and
SLOGAN District.
CARIB0O PLACER PROFITS
Bedrock Struck in One Claim After
Eighteen Years of Hard
Labor.
Especial Correspondence of THE CALI

VANCOUVER, B. c., Nov. 1.-THE
Lulu Island gold excitement continues,
with the possibility of the claims proving
sufficiently profitable for practical devel-
opment. Big prices have been refused,
and purchasing syndicates are being
formed The stalking of claims continues,
and the area covered aggregates many
square miles.
Good silver quartz has been found on
the Manquan River, at the head of Howe
Sound, within distance of about forty
miles from Vancouver. Copper bearing
some gold has previously been discovered
on the sound, which is likely to become
the scene of busy mining operations in the
early future.
Thus in the surrounding country within
a radius of 100 miles from Vancouver rich
mineral finds are continually being made,
although no working has yet been done,
the local discoveries being for the time
overshadowed by the immense riches OF
the upper country districts.
j. II. Clemes, a British mineralogist and
mine expert, upon whose report the Brit
ish syndicate interested in SLOGAN and
Trail Creek districts will act. makes some
very favorable statements concerning those
districts. He states that one mine in the
SLOGAN and two in the Trail Creek district
are already making very large returns, and
the prospects of many others he regards as
very favorable. In the Trail Creek district
the question of depth of naturalization
will have to be faced, which has been done
in the War Eagle and Leroy mines, whose
large dividends have enabled the employ
ment in each case Of very considerable
capital with excellent results.
The Trail Creek country in particular,
he says, is no land of poor mems mines,
but requires large capital investment and
costly boring and other mechanical appli-
ances On the other hand, the South
Kootenay mine districts are more acces-
sible than any similar precious metal region
where British capital has hitherto found
entrance. In Trail Creek particularly
there is abundance of wood and water
available for lumber, fuel and other mine
necessities.
In Cariboo the hydraulic companies are
finishing up their seasons work, and sup
Elementary reports are daily expected, in
addition to the excellent return of over
$67, 900 by the wash-ups at the Horsefy
and Cariboo mines q few weeks since.
Great perseverance is being shown in some
of the quartz mining operations of the
Cariboo District. In the case of the
Waverly claim bedrock has just been
struck after eighteen years of quiet but
steady working by comparatively poor
miners, whose means are behind the under
taking.
At Barkerville, Cariboo's oldest mine
center, unique sensation has been caused
among the population by the closing of
the saloons on a recent Sunday, under pro-
vincial law, for the first time in thirty -tive
years.
Rich placer finds are reported to have
been made by a Vancouver man named
Baton and others in the debatable territory
far up the Yukon River. in which law and
order are now being maintained and GUS
toms collected by the Canadian mounted
police.
Rev. Mr.. Stringer, missionary from the
Mckenzie River District, beyond the
Yukon reports that many American
miners and Indians are now attracted to
the British side of the Alaskan boundary
as a result OF the good administration pre-
vailing The incomers state that they are
receiving perfectly fair treatment and all
possible consideration.
Word comes via Nelson of further con-
siderable investments of capital in the
Trail Creek and SLOGAN districts, where it
is evident that the men of the States do
not intend to surrender their supremacy
to British capitalists, who are at last
slowly awaking to the great possibilities of
the country.
In the Miberni district on Vancouver
Island, about fifteen miles from the mer-
camille center of Nanaimo and in the re-
gion of Barclay Sound, further reports
almost daily arrive of most promising gold
finds. Active and successful boring opera
tons are also being made on Copper Island,
in the same district.