The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-10

borhood OF those already working and in
several notable instances at Trail Creek
and IN the SLOGAN Valley paying large divi-
bends at intervals of a few weeks.
1t may consequently with certainty be
predicted that whatever be the final output
OF precious metal ores in South and West
kootenay as the result of the operations of
1880, the next twelve months will see such
output trebled in dimensions and profit
earnings at most conservative estimate.
Already the ore and base bullion output of
South kootenay alone amount in value to
over ~, 200, 600, and the coming weeks of
winter will witness the haulage over the
hard-bound mine roads and trails of guam
titles OF ore now lying on the mine dumps,
which will enormously increase the pres
ent weekly output of the mines. Deals by
English and American investors are now
approaching completion in all parts of
South Kootenay, involving an aggregate
that must at least approach $2,000000,
while the owners of the famous Silver
King mine at Nelson, West Kootenay,
have almost completed their smelling and
concentrating appliances, which will en-
aole large immediate output of base bull
hon as the outcome of immensely rich
sllver-lead ore running well over 500 to
Ihe ton on the average. Recent railway
developments have, moreover, now for the
hrst time tapped some OF the richest mine
districts of West and South Kootenay ana
rendered available shipments from what
are undoubtedly some of the richest silver
mines in the world.
But 1t is, after all, probably in the gold
and copper districts of the Kootenay coun-
try, and notably such centers as Trail
Creek, Cariboo Creek and Boundary Creek,
that the greatest profits of all should ac-
crue IN the Immediate future, since the
combination of gold and copper is for
proht-earniag purposes far stronger than
that OF silver and lead.
British copper kings are interesting
themselves in several large intended ven-
lures at Trail Greek and elsewhere, and
confidently rely on the richness of the
PROVINCES vast copper deposits as means
that should surely enable them, if neces-
sary, to counterfeit any cornering opera
tons attempted elsewhere on this con-
tlnent, but with the exception of this
special and notable effort, the details of
which are very largely concealed from
observation at the present, almost all the
great mineral developments of West and
South kootenay are in the hands of
American capitalists and American
miners, whose great present center is
Spokane. They are apparently as deter
mined to acquire and hold for themselves
by perfectly legal and legitimate means
the vast precious mineral wealth of British
Columbia as are British and French in
yestors to reap the large profit obtainable
from the similar and probably larger
precious metal boards of the TransvaaI
and British South Africa. The Americans
know good thing when they see 1t quicker
than any nation in the world, and having
seen their opportunity seize upon it un-
hesitatingly, backing it with sufficient
hard cash, while the British investor huns
and haws and allows the promoting
middleman to carry off the cream of the
profits obtainable.