On the north fork of Glacier Creek, Anderson and Young
staked the Sunshine Group, which responded favorably to development
underground; but it is understood that the continued dropping in the price of
copper mitigated against the claims being taken over. Nesbitt and Archer
located the Ruth and Francis and other claims in that neighborhood on which a
considerable amount of development had been done from year to year.
Ward Brightwell staked the Lulu claim; the first of what is
now the group of claims owned by the Glacier Creek Mining Co. Ltd. The other
claims; the Little Wonder, afterwards developed by the Little Mining Co, was
staked by Ranch and Horstman; the Riverside and other claims by J. Harper, and
O. K. Fraction and Wolverine Fraction by Joe Perault. Joe struck some very
high-grade silver ore on the O. K. Fraction and was very enthusiastic as to
the value of his property, so much so that on being asked what price he was
holding his claims as he said “If anybody comes aroun’ an’ offers me
tree-quarters for my claims, why I would tell them to go to hell.”
In the boom years of 1910, Joe incorporated the O. K.
Mining Co., and some work was done, but as only a small amount of capital had
been raised, the company finally went to the wall, and the claims were
acquired some years later by the present owners. On the various claims now
held by the company, about 3000 feet of underground work has been done and
about 2000 feet of diamond drilling. One hole intersected an eight-foot vein,
which was lately crosscut by the extension of the main tunnel and the vein
drifted on for 350 feet. This exposed an extensive body of low-grade galena
ore. On the Little Wonder vein a drift tunnel 600 feet long opened up
considerable ore carrying high gold values-from which a ten-ton shipment was
made in 1910, returning $45 per ton, with the main values in gold.