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7 Mining Around New Hazelton |

FOR THE OMINECA HERALD |

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_ The territory tributary to New Hazeltun has
a wonderful wealth of mineral resources, This
‘much i is already known though scarcely a begin-
aing. of prospecting has been. made. Only the
areas above timber line have yet ‘been run- over,

but enough has been discovered there to render. it -

certain that the country will ultimately and he- |.
fore Jong ‘produce gold, ‘silver, copper, lead and
zine in larger quantities than any other like. sized
Bortion of British Columbia. |; :

“At this stage of its development one. » claim
‘an. ‘truthfully be made for the Skeena river
basin: It-contains more properties from | which
. big samples of high grade ore have been brought
down by prospectors than any new mining dis-
trict which has come to the front in the western
part of the United States or Canada in the. jas st
thirty. years, .

. -. Heretofore its development has been both

‘spotted and “spasmodic, The coming year will
see operations on a_ totally different basis. |” At];

least three silver-lead mines— the Silver Standard,
Silver Cup: and American’ Boy — —will be opening up
‘levels 800 to 500 feet below’ their: outcrops and
each of them is certain to market a big tonnage
. Of thigh ‘grade ore.. In the aggregate this sum

. will-not be less than $250, 000, and it may be dou-
: ble: that sum, -

Concurrently, three gold-copper properties--

: the: Rocher. de Boule, Great Ohio and Rocher de

. Boule Wonder-—will be prosecuting development |:

on.:an equally extensive scale. The first: named
_alréady has. been equipped -with a hydro-electric

" power. plant, air compressor. and tram liné.and is|f

; ‘driving a-working. tunnel'to tap its main ledge at
' a-depth of 400 feet.. It.is-now about’ to begin
production: at the. rate of 100 tons of shipping ore

daily. On both the Great Ohio and: Rocher :de :

Boule Wonder the ore bodies are being. explored:
and: developed. at equally. deep. horizons... So..it.is
safe to assume that.between them. these three
- properties . will: -have an ‘output’ within | the next
twelve months of $500, 000 at least. a

er: stimulating. effect on the mining: ‘industry of
~ the district, As a result it, can be ‘confidently

: : predicted” ‘that a “goodly “number. ‘of ‘properties

7: “whose operations have. not: yet: passed the pros-
eo pecting stage will be comprehensively’ developed
forthwith. Among. these will undoubtedly be in-

district.

‘tinue. to distribute a quarter million : dollars every

established gold. camps. of Colorado, ' does . not

‘Operations such. as ‘these cannot “fail to have a

| King: Silver Pick and ‘probably ‘several. others i in if
the vicinity of the Silver Cup mine on. Nine. ‘Mile :

Certain other sections of the Skeena mineral |

-Kitselas, ‘Lorne: creek,

Fiddler ‘ereek, and iS fact the whole canyon: ‘dis- :
trict, promise to blossom.forth. with big. develop: ;
ment enterprises, encouraged thereto. by. the suc: ‘

more directly tributary: to New Hazelton. ‘Hud-
son Bay. mountain and the camps along the Babine

range and lakes-also will burst forth into, activity | |
this season, plans to that‘end having already: been d
perfected by such well known operators as James |

Cronin, Col. ‘R. G. Steele, T. E. Jefferson. and: R
J. “MeDonell. :

:.. Two facts should: be borne i in mind i in connee-
tion with the mineral wealth of the New Hazelton

ment in the district.

What the country needs most is, first, more |.
prospectors of experience;. second, men- of smail|

capital who are willing:to lease and bond: proper-.
ties with good showings of shipping ore.to. start
on; and, third, some operators of nigh. standing
to take hold of and finance large enterprises that |

would turn.the: attention: of investors generally to}

this section. through: their. records’ for. production | §
and the payment. of dividends.

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Speaking ‘in ‘the: ‘Legislature, L
M.: P:.P..for Rossland,’ stated that.t]
had: been driven out-of the country
| measures to encourage'a ‘renewal: of” rospecting.
The. fact that the mines of ‘British Columbia con-

month in dividends, or rather better than the old-

prove anything contrary to. thé statement of the:
member for ‘Rossland. Present. dividend-| -payers
were. prospected and developed at. ‘that’ stage’ of
| British Columbia’s.- history’ when mining was in:
its infancy and its extent unproven, and the pros-
pector shared the hardship. common to other eall-
ings in the] pioneer davs.. But. with: the develop:
ment of country, ‘through government assistance

to agriculture and other commercial ‘activities, | —

those really responsible. for .the present proud
position that mining occupies in the province
have’ never. been encouraged, in fact the many
petty obstacles strewn along the path of the pros-
pectors have: been irritating and increasingly. dis-
couraging.

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