The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-10-23
CaSSiar Placer Miners Encouraged
 By Results Of Season. s Operations

MT. and Mrs. Ben Cambron arrived last Friday on the Hazel B No. 3 from the Cassiar where they have spent the summer de- veloping their claims on Gold Pan Creek which they bought in 1927 from Hughe Ford and Bill Grady.
 MT. Cambron reports having had a fair season. He got to work on July and when he put his boxes away on October he had taken cut 50 ounces. pennyweights of coarse gold which he had sluiced from gravel on clay above bedrock.
 Mrs. Cambron deserves special mention, her husband believes, for the spirit in which she enters into his placer ventures. They were seven days last June in reaching Tele- graph Creek from Wrangell, having taken passage on the trip of the Hazel B. No, ? when high water kept them tied up four days at Grand Rapids before 1t was safe to go through the canyon.
 Arriving at Telegraph Creek they engaged a truck to take them to Dease Lake. On account of the condition of the roads they were three days on the trip of 73 miles, during which time they slept out at night and had camp fire meals during the day. At Dease Lake they rested one day at the Ritchie road house and then started out with their two dogs packed for the trip over the muskeg and a mountain range during which the increased by 2500 feet. Two days were required to reach Gold Pan. Mrs. CambrCn went to Gold Pan with with her husband in the spring of 1927 and stayed there two years during which time she never saw a white woman. She stayed alone when he had to take the dogs to the Dease Lake Post for supplies or go out hunting and she did the light work around the camp while high water was on in order to give him all the time possible on the sluice boxes.
 Lower Costs
 Lowered costs of provisions are being felt even in that remote sec tion of British Columbia, Mir Cambron reports. Flour which was SIS hundred pounds in 1927 this summer was only $16. Coffee which was $1 a pound in 1927 is now, only 90 cents, and everything else in provisions has dropped until now the prevailing prices on staple goods are as follows bacon, 75c lb; sugar s27 a hundred; beans $27 a hundred; milk, cans for Dease Lake cost 27c lb. by the time Indians have packed them in to Gold Pan.
 He says they have no difficulty in keeping supplied in good food. Besides their dry staples, they can buy onions, cabbage and potatoes. For meat they take their choice of moose, caribou, mountain sheep and goat.
 Capital Needed
 M. Cambron believes there is no question about the future Of the Cassiar. The gold is there in pay ing quantities, both lode and placer. The great need is capital for development. Men working alone against the short season and the delays occasioned by poor reads are at so great a disadvantage that they can't take out the gold which is there.
 No one thinks of giving up his claims. In fact, the men are talk ing up more ground each year.
 Stakes Dome Creek
 Cambron this summer staked a half mile lease on Dome Creek fer Bill Grady, who made the discov- cry on Gold Pan in 1924 Grady has long believed that the gold on Gold Pan came from Dome Creek. The new lease opens out on a high gravel bench overlooking Gold Pan. A $65 nugget which was taken from Dome Creek few years ago was sold in Wrangell and Grady believes there are plenty more like 1t in this vicinity.
 Grady has just returned from a trip 150 miles from Dease Lake during which time he found some promising ground which he will investigate further next season.
 Vickery's Ground Rich
 A. M. Vickery who has lease on Gold Pan one and one-quarter miles above the Cambron camp, is plan ming to move his automatic trip dam a little further up next year in order to work some new ground.
 With this dam he has made an open cut 300 feet long. IS feet deep to bedrock which has proved E- T.. vfnh Hic fret aIaan