The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-14

gulch of which the banks are richly la
den with mineralized quartz.
The camp is well named, for view could
hardly be fairer than that which Is spread
before the eye as one gazes southwark
and eastward from the mouth OF the
guich. Between rounded. rocky buttes
on which a stunted pine here and there
finds Judgment. one can look down at The
broad level valley of the okanogan with
a border of timber and brush in its fresh
spring dress marking the rivers course.
To the south the river broadens into
Osoyoos lake, which bends around
the curve OF the combining western noun
tains, It's southern end being lost TO View
in the distance. To the east are the west
ern foothills. OF pale grayish green with
trees so few and small that each one
stands forth distinct; behind them rise
the densely timhered ridges, reaching In
such densely serried ranks of diminish
ing altitude from before Old Baidy's
snowy sides that the slope appears con-
tinuous and unbroken from his giisten-
ing oval crown TO the valley close in the
foreground. To the southeast through
the gap formed by the valley and the lake
are long timbered ridges with crests ris-
ing and falling in wavy line. showing
now dark brown. now rich purple. with the
variations OF light and shade. Far above
them towers Mount Bonaparte, his deeply
scanned tanks streaked with broad bands
OF snow. To the west the eye looks over
grassy foothills to forest-clad ridges
which allow no further prospect.
From the mouth OF this gulch. named
Reefs gulch. after James Reed. a one
armed man who built the fist house in Il.
Fairview Is strung along its sides for
mile toward its head. and would make
typical scene for one OF Bret Harte's or
Mark Twins frontier stories. But IL
would AFFORD them little material for q
story, for Il needs no Justice OF the peace
hahftants. To the right ard left ara the
mineral lodges which win yet bring The
prosperity for which many have long and
patiently waited.
The discovery Of gold here
was made In September. fsSs.
when George Sheehan and Fred
Gwatkins came down from Camp Mckin-
ney on prospecting trip. and on the
southeast side OF the grlch found an out
cropping OF white quartz carrying free
gold They located the Stemwindsr anf
within two weeks a rush Of prospectors
followed and locations were made In ev-
cry direction IL was then proved that
the Stemwtn1er Rad three parallel Lodges.
ranging in width from six 20 twelve fees.
and ali within q total width OF sixty feet.
and that these Lodges cropped olrt for
niles in length They are In a mica and
quartz schisi. but the country rock within
a short distance on each ss6e IS
granite, in which the schsSf appears 20
form a broad dixie. The mother lode. as
the Stemwin1er leIEes are called. runs
northwest and outheast along the hilI
shutting IN the gulch on the SIDE nearest
fhe Ckancgan. ard pitches about a de-
grees eastward at is soutneastera ex-
.yavs4fex Nsft turns towards the north nm
III II has an almost norfhwara pitch OF
the same angle Parallel with the mother
lose on the northeast ard another line OF
his IL another ledge which reaches
uFstn % sever feet ard which has p@en
located for three miles % rs length On
the opposite. or southwest. side of the
xulch. Is the snuEgisr ledge with four
locations tracing IL 20 q length OF SEQ
feet. and beyond this are several pros
poets o. supposed parallel isfEss
wh3eh riIi give the bait q
known width Of two miles. The
ore carries an average OF B. ton gold.
taking the mother lode as whole,
though Il varies ia richness. being rather
pockety. and sosus rock has been taken
out that zssays sspa 70 tso. IL also carries
a little silver and zinc and shows iron
pyfitss though IN small proportion. an
evidence that In gosng westward one
leaves the pyvstic b@gt and enters the free
gold quartz belt
FreFn the zter1wtrder aoufheaEfward
the Brown Bear wzs located By JOSEPH.
Bromley ard George Wilkinson. the 81
yer Crown by John simpson. the Ontario
fraction By Duncan Carmichael, the
Apfalax Star by Edmund Lefsxre ard
Thomas woodland. The Angus fraction by
HAIRY Rhodes and John st@vsns. OF the
Eysasng Star. ~ Harry Rhodes. The Hat