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Mining notes from Long Lake and surrounding camps
The Moonlight in Long Lake camp will be surveyed while two shifts work on John Bull near Gladstone. Copper ore is opening at Summit camp on the R. Bell. A small stamp mill on Oro Fine near Fairview is active. Cariboo stamps drop steadily at Camp McKinney. Stemwinder in Fairview slow. two Burleigh drills up, two more en route. Assay yields $286 in gold from Contention group near Pierre Lake. Republic mine pays an eighth dividend of $35,000. total dividends now $260,000. Gold Drop in Greenwood vamp becomes incorporated with $1,000,000 capital. joins Snow shoe, Rawhide, Monarch, and 4th of July. After Rufus Pope’s Ottawa visit, work starts at War Eagle and Buckhorn under Peter Joyce. Great Hopes in Deadwood Camp slated for development by Peter Larson and T. Greenough. Rathmullen Mining orders plant from Jenckes including hoist, pumps, drills. sixteen claims held, Maple Seds, Rathmullen, Ben Hur, La Belle Marie most developed. Volcanic mine litigation settlement prompts early mining. iron cap shows possible $10 gold and 12% copper. D. J. Darraugh returns from Cariboo Creek with ore samples and notes six feet snow at 7,500 feet. Jewel mine in Long Lake camp has over 1,000 feet of development and 500 tons ore on dump. ore averages $13.36 per ton. cyanide plant planned to process at $5 per ton. Jewel Development Syndicate plans new shaft.