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The early pioneers travelled up the Portland canal. HYder, Alaska on the right with the salmon river. On the left Stewart, BC and the Bear river.
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History - Chapter 10 cont...

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.


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