Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-12-07
the British Gold Mining Company
of British Columbia has excited

the British Gold Mining Company
Of British Columbia has excited
the won.:er OF thu camp. TIE
now famous q,.'d Stand :, d ledge
,'ise..vsred by Alf B. Patterson,
smpsrin, srd"nt of to Lemon
mines in the Rock Greek gulnh
two ,-ars ago hos n'.ced the
Lemon i'm the trout rsnk "a To the
s;za nf tie orc bod uncovered
AID in nlain sight The Lemon
folks will INSTALL stamp mill
within sixty DAYS; the ccncentra-
tor of the plan. is nNw ut Pentic-
ton awaiting wagon transportation
here. The William Hamilton
Manufacturing TO, of Peters
borough, Ontario, a'- putting up
a stamp mill and fixtures, includ-
ing the enuine ard boiler power.
A year agt, loag stage ride
from Marcus, Washington, or
PentictoD. b. G., wns necessary to
visit Camp Mckinney, and the
old Concord stage wended its
weary wy ave- mountain roads,
through dere n marack and
fir inrt SIS, a"rass uncertain
streilms md down dargarous de-
clivities .hich haffial even the
sturdy pioneers who rarely at
te mpted to travel during the win
ter mouths when the snow was
deep
Now, however, there is great
difference. The old stage roads
have been graded, the streams
bridged, and stage travel is not
nearly 30 tedious. And then the
railway tracks are now laid as far
west as Midway beautiful little
town on Kettle river, only 25miles
east of Camp Mckinney. It is
safe to predict that the big black
bear and the fierce mountain lion
! that infest these forests, the de-
light of the real huntsman, soon
will be frightened by the locomo-
! tive whistles and the roar and din
of the passing trains bearing
thousands of tons of rich concen.
trates to the smelters at Green
wood, Grand Forks, Trail and
elsewhere. The Camp Mckinney
ores are free milling and concen-
trating. Stamp mills located at
the mines will extract the free
gold and the concentrates will
have to be smelted or treated by
COLONIZATION. Toronto capitalists
are now promoting q smelter and
COLONIZATION plant for Camp Nc
Kinney. This great Canadian
city his pinned it's faith to this
camp aud at least dozen of the
Camp Mckinney companies have
tn ir general headquarters in
Toronto.
By midsummer it will be possi-
bic for anybody from the world
at large to ride into Camp McKin-
ney in plush-cushioned passen-
ger coach rolling over a track bal
lasted for miles with rock out of
mountain sides which would as
say good values in gold. Between
here and Robson the graders and
blasters, in blazing the way for
the iron horse found several de-
posits of gold and copper, the
lodges, being clearly defined and
the ore assaying all the way from
$40 to $50 to the ton. You may
be assured it did not take the
men long to put up discovery
s:,.;a,as and file on the claims,
which doubtless hold fortunes for
the men who own them. I refer
to this fact to show that this ls q
marvellous mineral country, sus-
ceptible of great future Develop
ment. 1t will yield it's millions
of the precious metal and prom
Uses to become as famous as the
fabulous treasures of the Nevada
and Colorado mines, which have
produced SO many bonanza kings
the last quarter of q century.
MIG