The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-01-19
LETTER FROM CRAMEls.
Describing His Trip to the SIinil-
kaiIeen Country.
Rossland, B. c., Jan IL, 1899

." t@AS"Il lhdj anu 1Ou tdH uNp"il'
Eon 1t | was glad to hear rom o i
ouce more. | even read al! of lh
advertisements aud after 20
through put The paper in my
pocket 10 glance at at times anc
see If | had overlooked anything
| will write YOU all ABOUT my
"trip to the Similkameen country.
1t was on the 18th day of last
Septen Der when w. H. Morrlson
aud myself saddIed oJr Cay uses,
and, with two pack horses, Jeff
GascaGe for the .Similkameen, 4
distance OF 214 miles west of here
We had heard u great deal about
the country being such a rich
copper company that we wanted
to See for ourselves. We were
nine days going to Princeton, an
old placer town on the Simikameeu
river, and at the mouth of the
Fulun cen river. From Princeton
we went up the Sini kAmeen
IL lilies to Saturday creek, where
we made our first location-a
quartz ledge heavily copper
stained. From Saturday creek we
continued on up the river to Sun :
day creek, but made no other
locations. Saw some wonderful
showings that were staked, and it
would be Impossible for me to
describe to you the imm 4nse bodies
of high grade ore that we saw.
After leaving Sunday creek we
crossed to the east side of the
Slmilkameen river to examine the
greatest mountain in British
Columbia Copper mountain. This
mountain was discovered some ten
years ago, but as it was so far
from transportation nothing was
ever done to develop it. Copper
mountain is about six miles long,
four miles wide, but the noun tain
proper is only about two miles
wide and two ana one half miles
long, and | can truthfully say that
t1at is one body of copper ore
There never was any work done on
Copper mountain until this sum
mer. The deepest hole on the
fountain now is on the Sunset
claim This claim was located ten
years ago by an old trapper, and
let run out, and was restaked for
the three years following. Last
summer the owners sunk 50 foot
shaft, 5X7 feet, which is all in ore
and the bottom of the shaft ASSAYS
39 per cent copper and from $22 30
SSi in gold. The next claim To-
Gated on the mountain was the
Helen FL. Gardner. This claim was
located four years ago, but no work
was done on it until this summer
when the owners sa k 40 feet of a
shaft. SKI. This shaft assays 32
per cent copper and as high as $+2
in gold. The next claim OF anv
great Importance is the Sun Rise,
located two years ago. Tn. work.
ing on this claim consists of a |
shalt, which assays 25 per cent
copper. SIG gold, These claims,
Helen H Gardner and the
Sun Rise-arc in the heart of the
Copper mountain proper. Morri>
son and myself were fortunate in
getting claim on this mountain.
We sunk ten feet of a shaft, the
bottom of which assays eleven per
cent copper and $1I gold. We
also located fractional claim on
this mountain III all we made
i've locations on the trip.
On our return we got an assay
on the quartz-our first location
md to our surprise it went $84 in
gold and tcur per cent copper.
We expect to leave here the first
'f nsxt May for the Simikameen,
md mark what I tell you in the
course of a few years there will be
more mines on Copper mountain
han any other mountain in
British Columbia, and there will
oe town in that country that
vii. be hummer. The c. P. r.
IRE building a railroad up the
10 Princeton, aud
rom there up the TuIumeen. This
'oad will not be completed before
-hree years, but wher completed
will extend to Victoria. While