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Vol. IVBEAVER LAKESHOWS LIFERe-organization of Mining Company Would Help Older Camp Intelligent Prospecting Preceeds Remarkable Gold Strikes at Herb LakeMining NewsTin* snmm* r's work in the minera field ui Y*w Manitoba should see many discover i**s of great importance made, l-ite r lake lias sprung in life after lying dormant since nearly a year ago. Dan Maher's trip east resulted in getting men interested in the older camp. Han* croft’s work on the Waverly claim lent n great deal of encouragement to the men up there, and reports of a deal I icing under way for this property art* substantially true. The Waverly products! on- values of $120.00 to the ton, which, outside of the Prince Albert showing, is the next lest. The ore Inidy on the Waverly, in extent, is much lurji r than any yt*l uncovered. Tnere i plenty til rock on the claim and should the values continue at any reasonable depth, it looks like a sure producer. The mining machinery on the Prince Albert is about as useless a collection of so much iron as could bo gotten to-geth-er any when*, i lie directors sought assistance in The Pas to get this stufl' freighted up, arguing that it meant agreat deal to tin mpany and a greatdeal to the o w n to have the machinery on the ground and working. The people came through alright and made it possible to got the machinery in.Ik-fore 111imine can possibly develop into a real mine, there will have to l»e a lioime denning of the organisation and the stock unwatered. It is organised like many com i..*ii s were organized in the C«,halt, boom days. The properties under c *nt-«ol of the company are good ones and if given a chance will certainly make good. In the meantime the company is peunilo^s, viith more than half its two million dollar capital, represented in stock, unwisely distributed here and tic n . rl li two engineers are holding down the claims, and their salaries arc gradually eating away every visits* a— t. The Herald lielieves the directors are neg.igent in allowing this state of a flairs to continue and they owe it to themselves to place the company on a surer footing.Herb lake is fortunately in a stronger portion for rajnd development than Heaver lake. There are no mining com-p 111i*■- up th»*re and it is not the iuten-li n to have any of the tyjs? resjKmsible for holding hack Heaver lake. The tinds at Her!) lake are more numerous than at Heaver, and this is entirely due to the energy and sincerely of tiie men in the tieid. The ore bodies ure lieing shown up U tter at Herb lake, and inti iligent prospecting marks every advance made at the newer camp. Thaie a e no veins at Heaver lake with the amount of stripping ami surface work done, as represented by the Kiski and Hex i aims at Ileib lake. Mining engineers who have visited the latter place, h]K*«k of the Kiski vein as the U*st ex-Hmjrk* of stripping they have ever seenMessrs McDayitt, Vickers. Campbell, (Iassett and Harris, of Herb luke, are in Tlie Pas buying supplies. Mr. Harris is making a quick trip to the coast to ie- j port to his principals on the results of libs jobservations.A rush to File lake took place last week and though nothing was struck, the formation was considered good enough to warrant extensive pros)»eeting of the tieid.Frank Currie, of Toronto and F.fk laike, is a guest of Dun Mosher at Beaver lake. Mr. Currie w as a partner of am Otisae in the famous Otisse-Currie mine at Flk Lake. He says considerable interest is being shown in this district by mining men in the Fast, anil it is only a question of time when a rush from Toronto will start.The Herb lake field is pretty well staked and the prospectors are settling down to developing their properties. From now on some good reports exptK-’t-ed. The work consists of stripping small leads and clearing away the heavy brush.Otisse and Woosey are working northeast from Herb lake and in their absence Hackett and his hind band are stripping the new vein for the length of the tracing.Campbell brought down to The Pas a second sidewalk sample on Saturday.It is not quite as good as the first one, hut it showed u quantity of free gold.Milton Burrows is out from six weeks inspection of the strikes at Herb lake ami he is favorably impressed with the camp. “Two mines sure/’ says Mr. Burrows, “and jierhaps more, hut two anyway.”Engineer Harris went hack to British I Columbia by Monday’s train. He car-j r s away a strong impression of Herb ' P1 lake and declared it the most promis-! al irig gohi cssnp lie has seen in a long ai time. The silicia rock of Herb lake, he t!links, will prove of great interest to the coast smelters and he will recommend this feature of the formation to the Guggenhiems and other mining giants in B. C. “If left to me to determine, 1 would say Herb lake will make a producing camp.”Campbell and Hassett say they have a car load of high grade ore in sight, ami it they could get it to steel for shipment to a smelter, they would never entertain a buying proposition. Mr. Campbell lielieves there is $35,000 worth of gold in sight on the two veins of the Hex and Moore claims. Hackett makes no esti mate of the amount of gold in place, hut like others at Herb lake he is con-vinced there is enough high grade ore on the Kiski to pay well for shipping it away for treatment, even with the great handicap of getting it out to the track. Unless these foregoing properties change bauds, ore will be shipped out through The Pas next winter.UiJeff Russell, prospector, left last night on a prospecting trip to the north country. .Mr. Bus ell is driving to Montreal lake, and from there he will travel by canoe to Stanley, which point will is* the base of his operations. He is outfitted for alsatt eighteen months and will prospect over the northern country extending from Stanley to Beaver lake.Sjsxmlative h liling «»f claims has doneF. N Copeland, of tins city, is the pro-dr tit oo sp pr pc ea ha Krlt; ex fat hit na f civic gir flo clat flea i formuch harm m he progress of Beaver lake, and thi harm has tniiitut.-d against the camps chances m early success. The hulk of claims at Herb lake are owned by |K*uple 011 the grounds working them, and by residents of The Pas ami employees of the linden's Bay railway. Then* are cl’tso to four hundred claims sutked and recorded, and at this time Hearty one h:»lf are thoroughly pros(MH*t-«lt;S. A.- rcporis come in of new strikesit is fo1 lowed by mop* men going up to work their holdings. In this way Herb lake is making great strides towards that goal of all prosjsvtors ambition—a goldmotor of the expedition.—Prince Alliertrush.Re-building FallenHerald.The Graham Brothers and Engineer Freeburn, of Seattle, went back to Beaver lake Wednesday witu supplies to work several projiertie*. It is understood Mr. Freeburn represents Pacific Slope mining men and is looking for a mine.teetinvidfreinkDr. Elliott is in receipt of a letter from Porcupine, Ontario, asking for information about Beaver and Herb lakes.II. Bowman, of Hedley was the first man to drive mining stakes into the famous Ro-sland mining district. Tne place where he -take s later sold for seven million and a halt. He unfortunate y made not!iing out of the sale.Th\vhforthethe«.($2lt; to i thi a h
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The Pas, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Jun 11, 1915
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