The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-19
GOLD IN TRAIL CREEK.
Rich Country Which Northern Pa
cffic MAY DeVeIOp.

DR.. Willis E. Everett, the pioneer
mining chemist and geOlogist of the
North Pacific coast, left yesterday via
the Northern Pacific for Seattle, after
a short trip to the East. DR.. Everett
is as well known to the mining world
as any other man in the country. He
has represented number Of large
American and foreign syndicates, and
upon his reports millions of dollars
have been invested in the West. His
home is in Tacoma.
DR.. Everett has recently returned
from an eight months investigation of
the Trail creek country in British
Columbia, not far north of the Ameri-
can boundary, and into which the North
err Pacific railroad company is said
to have surveyed a proposed line Dr.
Everett is very enthusiastic regarding
the Trail creek mines, which he says
will develop into the most valuable on
the continent as soon as they are prop
erly worked. Speaking of the mines
and those Of the immediate territory.
Dr.. Everett said:
81 have gone to the bottom of many
of the Trail creek mines, some Of
which are already 500 feet down and
LOO feet in the solid rock. The GUAM
tity Of gold in actual sight running
$50 to the ton, Is so great that in order
to gain an adequate idea as to the
themselves. The possibilities here are
so utterly out of the common, so fab
ulously great, and the rnineralogicaI
conditions so peculiar that an ade-
quate account of them cannot be con-
veye6 in a newspaper interview The
quantity of rich ore cannot be fully
estimated, but it Is very great. 1t is
in eruptive rock, which Is a true CAB
bro, as miners term it, or otherwise
known as diarite, but the latter term
is not entirely correct. The ore ex-
lists in lenses, shoots, and single walled
fissu1es, radiating diagonally through
the great faunts in the country rock,
and i'll such manner that it is in a
new mineralogical condition almost
unknown to science hitherto, the prime
ipal pay ores being generally found on
the hanging walls.
The Trail Creek mines will soon be
gcbbled up. I believe that next spring
will see such an influx of Canadian and
foreign capitalists, all bidding against
each other, that the prices will go up
from 200 to 500 per cent. This con-
dition of affairs is seen even now, for
there are mining men there from all
parts of the world
This may sound like a boom story
but l am very conservative man.
and am known as such all over the
Pacific coast, but l am ready to prove
NItdl nave SdIQ VI the lId1I Greek,
Bour6ry Creek and SLOGAN districts is
absolutely true. There is not only
gold there, but silver, iron, coal, lead
and some copper, asbestos lime, gyp-
sum and other minerals.
"The mineral belt is about 100 miles
long and extends northerly and north
westerly from the Occur d'Alene coun-
try in Idaho and Northwestern Mon
tana. through Southeastern British
Columbia, taking in the gold range and
a portion of the Selkirk range, thence
into the Northern Cariboo country,
thence northerly into the Cassiar coun-
try, into the headwaters Of the McKen-
zia country, and from there northwest
erly into Alaska. The strip even
crosses the Behring straits on the
Kamschatka side; thence following
nearly southerly and southwesterIy the
same mineralized belt extends into
Northern Manchuria The belt seems
to follow onward southerly through
China, Burmah, and seemingly out
crops in Borneo, Australia and New
Zealand. 1 only mentioned the course
the belt seems to take to show that
one end Of it surely ends in the Trail
Creek country. / believe that now,
with the election of Mckinley a matter
Of record, that the investors will rush