13 Sep 1894
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Newspaper
Nakusp Ledge
Location
Nakusp, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1894
Page
1
Nakusp British Columbia advertisement for Prospect House includes Corning and Rodd props. The bar offers finest wines liquors and cigars and the hotel is described asProviding excellent accommodations on the lake shore near the Slocan mining route with fishing hunting boating and sketching facilities for tourists and artists.
Miners report Smith Yoarkins & Co sinking on Creek with 20 feet dug and expected bedrock at 50 feet. Andy Parks and Sol Holden's group pursue virgin claims with top gravel showing gold. Gold Hill and McCullough Creek projects press on, others idle or prepping winter operations amid flood damage and drifting toward rim rock.
Report describes supply arrivals and transport to creek camps as crews prepare to work across multiple creeks. Hamilton and Cayley sink a shaft on Camp Creek to bedrock. About forty men to operate through winter with several quartz claims at the basin head. A 10 stamp mill will be installed next season to process free gold.
Mr McLeany reports staking a quarter acre at Mineral Creek head while crops, especially potatoes, look strong in the valley. Woolley and Kerby return from a mountains trip, fighting smoke and flies. En route they encounter a band of bears and three grizzlies, plus one black bear. they shoot and kill the entire band, one grizzly taking ten bullets. This is declared the season’s best bear fight.
Fifteen tons of ore from the Alpha mine arrived Monday with sixty more tons next day marking the first ore shipped via the Na KaiP & Slocan railway. A total of 709 tons from the same mine will follow. Ore exits the district through Revelstoke as three claims near Cariboo Creek BC are expected to reach bed rock this week. John Ieer reports assays of 35 to the ton from gas rock on Mineral Creek, likely a free milling proposition worth pursuing.
Rail work progresses with grading finished this week at Three Forks siding grounds and depot construction starting at Rosebery. A section house at Sloean Lake head is to be completed this week. A passenger coach and a combination car were added last week, improving smoothness on curves over the former flats.
Fragmentary text describes deck work, wharf traffic, and a road to Sloe Lake with notes about a Dominion government engineer and Ottawa forwarding. The readable items are incomplete and ambiguous, lacking clear names, dates, or outcomes.
Local notes from Nakusp include Jake Cobaugh and W C McKinnon visiting, S M Wharton en route to Denver, Dan McDonald returning east for winter, and Judge Crease examining charges against Captain Fitzstubbs with a report to the lieutenant governor. The Silver King mine near Heintz plans to open, and local business may be affected by Pais activity.
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