Trail Mining News: 0054.0505
IN TRAIL’S MINES.
The development of
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The much talked of Sovereign trail, when completed, will be of great benefit to all the properties on Lookout Mountain, as the route will be most direct and the claims can all be reached in one and a quarter miles from Trail.
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J. Jordan and George Atchison have returned from their trip through the Slocan country, and report the country between New Denver and
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A new strike has been made on Forty-nine creek by W.B. Leitch, J.A. Netterfield, and J. Brown. They arrived in town Wednesday, and have with them samples of their new discovery, in which free gold is plainly visible. They have made ten locations, and will at once return with supplies to open up the property, as they intend shipping as soon as the trail to their camp can be completed.
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E.A. Wyllie, of Hamilton, Ont., was at the
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Charlie Thompson came in from Waterloo Wednesday evening, and reports two very rich strikes in that camp, one being midway between the mouth of Champion creek and Waterloo, and the other about one mile from the Apache claim, being a free milling proposition, from which they are now taking ore running from $45 to $100 per ton.
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The Raymond lode, on the North Fork of Salmon, was inspected this week by the owner, H. Doctor Raymond, and he reports plenty of ore in sight, as the bottom of the 15-foot shaft is all in ore.
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H.C. Pollock, one of Trail’s greatest prospectors, has just returned from Rock creek in the Boundary country, and has some very fine ore from that locality with him.
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The first shipment of weight tons of ore from the Promatura mine at Cariboo creek was treated at the Trail smelter this week; the owner, B.C. Rodd, receiving $368.47 net, which return was highly satisfactory to him.
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W.B. Myers of Lardeau came down by steamer Nakusp on Thursday, and speaks very highly of that country. He will soon begin shipping ore from the Bald Eagle mine to the Trail smelter.
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David Gould of
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Mr. Fox has purchased one-eighth of the Gold Bar mine on
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H.T. Bragdon who has been sojourning in the Slocan for the past two weeks, has secured a bond on the “
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