The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-08
A SPRING FULL OF COPPER.
Mr.. Carson Tells of a Wonderful Find i
the KOOtenai.

Mr.. Carson Tells of q Wonderful Find in
the Kootenai.
w. +. Carson of Tacoma, travelling
passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific.
and q. Mel. Brown, the company's dis.
trict passenger agent Mt Vancouver. have
just returned to Portland, Or. from ex-
tended trips through the famed mining
districts OF the K00tenai country, and
report the greatest activity there, not
Wlthstanding the advent of winter.
The prospcctors are sticking little
closer to the camps on account of the
snow. said Mr. Carson, to an Oregonian
reporter, "but otherwise there is as much
work going on as if there were not from
two to three feet of snow Oh the ground
Development is being continued on all
the claims upon which underground work
has been done, and there is as much az.
tivity US if they were in the middle of
summer.
''The kootenai is such wonderful
country that, if half the truth were tciI
OF it's mineral wealth. it would not be
credited. A recent find that has excited
great deal of attention is the discovery
OF an actual copper spring, now known
as the Red Blanket in the Lilloeet dis
trict. just north of Spencer's bridge, on
the Canadian Pacific. The water in So
luton runs 30.7 pounds of copper to 200
gallons. and 10000 gallons day come
tumbling down the mountain side. This
is the only real copper spring that is
known of, with the exception of one in
Idaho, and that only flows two pounds of
the metal to 100 gallons of water. Hon.
William Pritchard Morgan, NJ. P. for
Wales. prominently known in Wales.
Australi lila and South Africa, through his
extensive mining interests. heard of the
Red Blanket copper spring. prior to his
sailing from Vancouver with a party of
mining experts. for Japan and China,
December 8. He was very much inter.
ested in the reports he received of the
spring. and not only left one of his ex-
perts behind to make an investigation.
but is said to have offered 100000 for
81 per cent. Of the property.
The Kootenai is what you might call
Il dress-suit mining country: that is, one
could reach it from Portland inside of
forty-eight bours in a dress suit and pat
ent feathers, without the slightest dis
comfort a magnificent tlouble-dccked
steamer plies on the lake, connecting
with the road. and passengers travel as
comfortably as between here and the
sound. Or San Francisco. Gold, silver,
lead. copper and almost all metals, are
found there, In the Okanogan and
Boundary creek districts. there is gold
everywhere. Gold ami likewise silver.
copper and lead are found in East and
West Kootenai. West kootenai in
cludes the famous Trail creek and Ross
land country. The SLOGAN district to the
north contains plenty of silver, copper
and lead, besides gold and farther mort
lies the equally rich Lartlo district. Both
the Lardo and SLOGAN districts. and like
wise the Carriboo gold country lie to the
north of the Canadian Pacific. Very
promising claims and strikes are located
all through there
Mr.. Carson brought bottle of copper
water from the Red Blanket spring
down with him for Mr.. Hurlburt of the
O. r. 4 n, who is very much interested
IN th;s