http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0081707
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alternative: [The Miner]
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-30
issued: 1897-07-10
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note: S MINER. SECOND YEAR.-NO. 61. GRAND FORKS, B. €., SATURDAY, J FLY 10, 1897. , .1" , i ■***= J'RIXIE FIVE CENTS. 18 PHY .DIRT Place? JJigging? in the City Limits. SIXTEEN CLAIMS TAKEN New Mining Excitement Oausei by the * Discovery of Gold-bearing Gravel Eight at Hompi. Grand Forks bids fair to J30 tho center of a new kind of mining excitement for this section, as placer diggings have 'been discovered within the corporate •limits of the oity arid practical demonstration has proven tljat gold exists in the gravel in quantitios that will pay aod pay well. 'Tho placer diggings are ■located on the bar west of tbo business fart of the city, between the "first benchi1' and the main Kbtlle riyer. ' The fact that ihe gravel of this river carries gol.l was tjiscoverod by S/S. Schuler of this city last fall. Mr, S^hu- ler was procuring sand for building purposes, and qut of curiosity he panned .some of it after sifting froni the gravel. ■ 'To his surprise a nuniber of color*; were shown and further tests conclusively proved that tbe sand of this bar was Valuable for another pqrpose' than making mortar. Mr. Schuler said nothing about his find until on th3 ith of Juiy jn company with E. H. Willett and two Others he located the Eighteen Karat group. Under the placer laws the original discovers of: bar placer diggings can "take up c'lai.ms' of 25.Q feet water front and from low water to high wator mark until four such have been taken, then every succeeding clai-n must be not more than J00 feet along the water frqqf*.. Under this pr vision th9 Eighteen .Karat group of four oUinjs, tho Golden jShore, Golden, Nugget arid Gold Dust, were staked occupying 1,000 feot of river front and extending back to tho tench a distance of from 100 to GOO feet. About 100 feet of flume arid sluice was at once put in arid this is now being increased to pOtjJeet. Since tne ''18 Oarat group" was staked six additional olaims, covering all that Was left of the bar, have been takon up. Tbe Golden Gate, at …

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The Grand Forks Miner
spatial: Grand Forks (B.C.)
spatial: Grand Forks
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0081707
language: English
lat: 49.0311110
long: -118.4391670
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Grand Forks, B.C. : F.H. McCarter and Son.
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