Cunningham Creek, Cariboo, B.C. 1058. Gold dust, 1 oz., worth $16.50 per oz. Grouse Creek, Cariboo, B.C. 1059. Gold dust, 0.51 oz., worth $16 per oz. Eight-mile Lake, Cariboo, B.C. 1060. Gold dust, 14 oz., worth $17 per oz. Cariboo, B.C. 1061. Nugget, 4.01 oz., worth $16 per oz. Stout Gulch, Cariboo, B. C. 1062. Nuggets, 0.94 oz., worth $17.25 per oz. Mosquito Creek, Cariboo, B.C. 1063. Nuggets, 0.82 oz., worth $17.25 per oz. Lowhee Creek, Cariboo, B.C. 1064. Nuggets, 1.61 oz., worth $17.25 per oz. Lightning Creek, Cariboo, B.C. 1065. Nuggets, 1.0625 oz., worth $17.50 per oz. Summit Creek, Cariboo, B.C............. Colonial Mines and Development Co. 1066. Gold dust, 2 oz., worth $18.33 per oz. Hydraulic workings. Stevens Creek, Cariboo, B.C............. 1149. Nugget, 17 oz., worth $18.50 per oz. ...........F. E. Younge. Hydraulic workings. Quesnel Forks, Quesnel Mining Divi-Consolidated Cariboo Hydraulic sion, Cariboo, B.C. Mining Co. 1067. Nugget, 440 grains, value $15.40. Horsefly Hydraulic Mine, Quesnel......Horsefly Hydraulic Mining Co. Mining Division, Cariboo, 1069. Gold, 700 grains, value $24.50. Stamp mill, from cemented gravels. 1070. Black sand, 1 lb. From hydraulic tailings. Horsefly River, Quesnel Mining Division, Cariboo, B.C. 1071. Gold dust, 2 oz., worth $16.90 per oz. Keithly Creek, Quesnel Mining Division, Cariboo, B.C. 1072. Gold dust, 2 oz., worth $17.40 per oz. Quesnel Forks, Quesnel Mining Division, Cariboo, B.C. 1073. Gold dust, 2 oz., worth $16.50 per oz. Dredging Lease No. 3, Norman Bar, Yale District, B.C. 1096. Black sand. } .W. H. Gallagher. Lytton, Fraser River, Yale District, B.C.......... 1148, Coarse gold, 8 oz., worth $19 per oz. ...J. Cobeldick. 1102. Gold dust, 2 oz. 5 dwt. 14 gr., worth $18 per oz. 1102a. Gold dust, 1.95 oz., worth $18 per oz. Carlysle Claim, Smith Creek, Revelstoke Mining 1103. Gold dust, 2 oz., worth $18 per oz. Columbia River, Revelstoke Mining Division, 1104. Gold dust, 2 oz., worth $18 per oz. Consolation, French Creek, Revelstoke Mining Division, West Kootenay, B.C.}. 1105. Nugget, 2.27 oz., worth $47. ....... Geo. La Forme & Co. 1105a. Gold dust, 1 oz. 3 dwt. 3 gr., worth $20.80. Fire Valley Creek, Arrow Lake Mining Division, West Kootenay, B.C. 1099. Gold dust, 0.9 oz., worth $16 per oz. Hall Creek, Nelson Mining Division, West Kootenay, B.C. 1042. Amalgam, value $35. 1074. Gold dust, 3 oz. 7 dwt. 16 gr,, worth $18 per oz. Choo Chee Woo Claim, Wild Horse Creek, Fort Steele 1098. Gold dust, 1 oz., worth $18 per oz. YUKON DISTRICT. Placer gold mining has been carried on in the Yukon District since 1881. The industry began with river-bar mining on the Lewes, Salmon, Stewart and other rivers. In 1886 coarse gold was discovered on Fortymile River, and, subsequently, a number of the tributaries of this river, and also of Sixty-mile River, a neighbouring stream, were found to be auriferous. In 1896 the Klondike discovery was announced, and the centre of the industry was moved there. This new and very rich field has an area of about 800 square miles. The principal auriferous streams are Bonanza, with its tributary Eldorado Creek, Bear Creek and Hunker Creek flowing into the Klondike; and Quartz Creek and Dominion Creek, with its two tributaries Gold Run and Sulphur creeks, flowing into Indian River. The total length of the paying portions (at present) of the productive creeks aggregates about fifty miles. The richest parts of the valleys yield at the rate of about $2,000 per running foot, with a pay-streak 150 to 300 feet in width. The creek-gravels have a thickness, as a rule, of from six to ten feet, and are overlain by a bed of black "muck" usually from ten to fifteen feet in thickness. The lower three or four feet of the gravels, with about two feet of the underlying broken and decomposed bed-rock, hold the greater part of the gold. Besides the stream-gravels, auriferous gravel terraces occur on the sides of most of the valleys, and Bonanza, Eldorado, Hunker and Quartz creeks are also bordered in places by wide rock-cut flats at elevations ranging from 100 to 300 feet above the present valley-bottoms, on which heavy deposits of gravel have been accumulated. These gravels represent the wash of older valleys that followed approximately the direction of the present ones, and have a thickness in places of over 100 feet. They are everywhere more or less gold-bearing, and in places, especially towards the base of the formation, are extremely rich. Klondike gold occurs, as a rule, in coarse grains, usually showing some degree of angularity, and is often quite rough and unworn. Small nuggets are plentiful in places, and larger ones up to about $1,000 in value are occasionally found. The grade of the gold varies on the different creeks from about $14.50 to $17.50 per ounce. The production of the district for the last three years is approximately as follows: Bonanza Creek, Claim No. 19, above Dis- R. R. Lowe, Dawson City, Yukon covery, Klondike, Yukon District. District. 1186. Gold, 1 oz. Bonanza Creek, Claim No. 36, above Dis- W. Ogilvie, Dawson City, Yukon covery, Klondike, Yukon District. District. 1120. Three nuggets, 16.7 grains. Bonanza Creek, Claim No. 2a, above Dis- R. R. Lowe, Dawson City, Yukon covery, Klondike, Yukon District. 1187. Gold, 2 oz. District. Bonanza Creek, Claim No. 2, above Discovery, Klondike, Yukon District. McDonald's Bonanza Klondike Ltd., Old Broad street, London, Eng. 1157. Gold, weight 61.39 oz., recovered from one pan of gravel weighing 20 lbs. 1156a. Gold, weight 80.43 oz. |