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view.Years ago when the first discoverers of the camp, Messrs. Heed and Ryan, came upon the scene, a beautiful limpid stream frolicked down the gulch, casting a cooling freshness upon all around, but saying nothing of the hidden riches which is passed on its way from its springy source high up the mountain side. Reed Creek they called it and Reed Creek it remains though to-day its milky appearance, as it bears down the whitish, semi-drab colored slag from the quartz mill to thefhitsbelow,Sit' the’gbidi‘?f WliiJlilaughingly concealed is now being from it every day; but higher gulch the sparkling spring which trickles by the “Miners’ Home” hoarding house, kept by Epli. Morris,will help to show the extent of its old-time purity. *While Reed and Ryan were earliest, upon the scene, they can scarcely be said to have the honor of discovery.| Quartz out-crop they undoubtedly saw, and mineral claims they had, hut tliey turned their hacks upon the locality leaving nothing to show their connection with it except the name Reed Creek. To another set of discoverers , must really belong the honor of its £) discovery as a camp. These were Messrs. Geo. Sheean and Fred Gwat-kin, who, in the*fall of 1S87, put up their stakes on the Stem winder which is known in camp as the discovery claim, and is situated upon the main ledges running up the mountain in a north-westerly and south-easterly direction, 011 which were afterwards staked out a number of valuable claims. From these it was that the Stratheyre Co. made their choice last season when they first became interested in the camp. The location of their properties and that of the other claims on this and other ledges we will give further on,
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Okanagan Falls Mining Review
Okanagan Falls, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Sep 16, 1893
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