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News from Big Bend Country
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News from Big Bend Country

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Newspaper article from The Daily British Colonist focusing on the Big Bend gold rush.

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0051.0025: Big Bend Diggings

Newspaper report with a letter by a trader on pack trains in area. It states that the Big Bend diggings...

NEWS FROM THE BIG BEND COUNTRY (From the British Columbian).

            Mr. McLardy, of Yale, has furnished us with a letter which he received from Mr. William Robertson, who writes from the Columbia River, near the Big Bend, under date July 26th.  The letter reached Yale on the 8th day after it was written – the quickest time yet made from that section of country.  After giving an account of accidents and difficulties by land and by water, Mr. Robertson says:- “I wrote you in my last about a creek giving a good prospect.  It is called  Curran’s Creek.  We reached it about two weeks ago; but owing to the unusual height of the water at this season it is impossible to get to the bed rock in the creek.  Still they are sticking to it, the prospects being good enough to keep up their spirits.  There has been another creek struck called French Creek, which from what I have been told, I think more of than I do of Curran Creek.  I am on my way up there now.  You may remember Turner prospected a creek last fall, a little above where he struck the Columbia River, of which he spoke very favorably.  It is called Gold Creek, but might perhaps more properly be called a small river.  French Creek empties into Gold Creek nearly 20 miles from its mouth, and runs north and south.  When we were at Curran’s Creek, three men came down in a canoe for tools and provisions, and the account they gave of French Creek induced us to go up, and we are now on our way.  One of the men is named Munro, an intelligent, quiet, steady man from Canada. His prospect had been sufficiently good to induce his party to turn the creek, and when he gets up with tools they will go to work with sluices.  Another of the men, named Anderson, showed me his prospect out of six pans of dirt, fully a dollar, but not from the bed-rock.  There are two feet of pay dirt near the surface in the gravel.  His party cannot get to the bed-rock till the water falls – still this stratum of dirt will pay them well to work.  It is pretty coarse gold he showed me.  The Discovery Co. passed our camp three days ago, going down on a raft to Curran’s Creek for provisions.  They describe the creek as still too high to work; however both river and creeks are going down fast during the last two days, and we are just about to proceed onward.  To-night, with good luck, we will reach les Rapides des Morts (Death Rapids).  We have been waiting a week for the water to fall, before we dared venture it.”
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Title: News from Big Bend Country
Internal ID: 0051.0024
Medium: Newspaper
Date: August 7th 1865
Collection: 0051
City: Yale, BC
People: Anderson, Turner, Robertson, Munro, McLardy
Publisher: Victoria Daily Colonist
Pages: 3
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