The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-07-31
Encouraging Reportsfrom
 The eCaSSiar
Alaska Weekly

lIOh thC 1ASDofhCo SiSSh SNSehoh oh the Cassiar Mining District in Brit ish Columbia and is greatly enthus- ed over the mining outlook in that section. MT Wilms has just finished the freighting in of a large outfit of mining machinery from Tele- graph Creek, the head of naviga- tion on the Stikine River to Dease Lake, and only had short time on the ground, but saw enough to con- vince him of the enormouus possi- bilities of the new camp, or rather the old camp that is coming back.
 When seen by an Alaska Weekly reporter, MT. Wilms said: 'I have just had the most wonderful trip ever had into the most wonderful country that I ever saw. am con- nected with the Pendleton Gold Mining Corporation with placer holdings on McDames Creek in the Cassiar and have just returned from freighting in sixty tons of mining machinery and supplies for the coming season. We took in a big land dredge to work our ground. We landed at Dease Lake or the mouth of McDames Creek on July 1st, and had to build road to move the machinery up to the claims, a distance of about twelve miles. By the time I left there, we had eight miles completed and will have our plant on the ground by August 1st, and set up and running on or about the first of September. We had hoped to get in couple of months work this fall, but now l do not think we will get in more than one month, or just enough to get the plant we'll limbered up and working properly. Our ground has all been drilled and we know just where we are as regards values, so we have nothing to fear. With our present plant we can handle a thousand yards of gravel per day, and as we contempate putting on two crews; this will bring our capac- ity up to two thousand yards and as the ground has been proven at two dollers per yard, it is not hard to figure our gross. earnings. Placer mining is booming in the Cassiar and every one that l know there is at least making wages, although there are no big outfits with their plants operating this early in the game. Crawford is sluicing and do- ing well. He is on McDames Creek. Wing is mining on Quartz Creek and reports that the pay is most satisfactory. Over on Snow Creek Frying is hydraulicking and seems pleased with his outlook.
 ''The British Columbia govern ment is certainly backing up the miners in this section. When left there they had a crew of thirty men working on the road, and now you can take a tractor right from Teegraph Creek to Dease Lake. Mcdonald has started a stage line and has an auto stage line running from the head of navigation to the diggings. The steamer service on the river is fine. and to show you, gings on McDames Creek to Seattle Sid Harrington has some wonderful boats on the river and the service is second to none anywhere. I had a day or so to spare and did some banning with these results Here he showed the reporter $34 in gold dust and in the lot were two nuggets weighing about $10 each; :; it looked good, coarse gold in a new camp.
 MT Wilms continued: "It is the most wonderful country I ever was in. The wild flowers are grand and the hills are covered with wild ber- ries of all kinds. Never. saw so
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