The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-07-01

was brother | had not met for 4.
years, and hence he was a stranger r.
me. Naturally | was surprised onf
stunned when they ordered me to star
u working tunnel and they would stanf
oy me for 1000 feet Then if the,
ohought there was nothing in it they
would take their tents down, 90 home
and no one but themselves would he
out dollar. They had planned To
visit the mine in August. They stated
that they were not mining men. but
business men and capitalists. They
mad won business prestige and com
potency during the past % wears and
would not throw it away by inviting
friends to assist and take chances of a
failure. On the merits of the property
they were willing to mine, and thus
the true merits of the same they would
determine. | felt that they were the
class OF miners we want in this country.
but as they expected to come out in n
few months | dared not commence
such an outlay of other peoples money
without their examining the country.
| asked only for small sums to lay out
before their arrival, so that thev could
better form an opinion when they got
here, and the money asked for was
forwarded. They came, saw and were
satisfied. The met Geologist Evans
and employed him. | installed the
drills as hereinbefore stated. Prof.
Evans agreed with me that we had a
sedimentary basin. No geologist
have ever met has been able to tell me
of another west of the Rocky noun
tains. | wish | knew of such | would
go to see it and trace the washings
connected with it. This sedimehtary
basin is formed by ancient river chan
mel wash. 1t passes southeast on top
of the range north of the Similkameen
river, between the south slope of Kru-
ger mountain and north slope of Goat
mountain, and on toward the Bona
part range, the eddy currents passing
south into Osoyoos lake valley, and as
far north as Vernon, b. c.. making an
inland sea from Oroville to Vernon.
This sedimentary wash has deposited
values on the south rim of this inland
sea in mudS and sediments: first, by
washings, becoming rock in later ages.
Proof of this is that Osoyoos lake rests
in sediment cradle OF late washes
and Filings. Our drill on No. | hole
went 300 or more feet below the bot
tom of OsoJ zoos lake. The rock was all
sedimentary formation and mineralized
to the bottom. The conclusions of the
writer have always been at variance
with other prospectors, but others now
believe as he does. We have l3 veins,
fine, large, trending north and south,
and eight smaller, yet of good dimen-
sions, east and west. They are not all
faced up in proper shape, yet enough
to know that they carry values from &
to 81 per cent copper, with small val
ues in gold and silver. The predic-
tions of the writer at first were that
these grounds carried S. per cubic
yard, and these predictions have not
changed as there is no cause for any
change. | believe there is in the
neighborhood of 400 acres above the
the level of this valley on this com
pany's ground.
This letter is written without the
knowledge of my company. 1t is likely
my bones will be green with mould
when the predictions l have outlined
come true. If second Calumet and
Hecla exists it is right here. A sedi-
mentary basin of this magnitude is
worthy of large capital consideration,
and there are very few on the Ameri-
can continent that | would change
grounds for had l the equipment to
work it. The above are the ideas of
the writer and agent of the Detroit
Orovile Exploration company, based
upon studies of the ground extending
over II years.
N. B. KELSEY, Agent.
Oroville, Wash, June 22, 1910.