The Greenwood Miner
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-30
issued: 1900-06-22
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note: Bennest & Eccles. THE GREENWOOD MINER Tailors and Furnishers. lit Published Weekly. Vol. 2, No. 25 GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1900. $2.00 Per Tear. ON THE WEST FORK. A Lsrfe limber of Prospector, in the Camp��� Development Being Done. Frank Chadler and Cap Shields came down from Beaverton Monday last, and report considerable activity in that district. A large numberof prospectors are going into the country, and development work is being pushed on many of the claims around Beaverton. A representative of Jay P. Graves has been in the district for the past two weeks looking over the properties there. Kobt. Wood of Greenwood, has movod the plant used at his mine near Penticton, to the Sallie claim on Wallace mountain, about a mile from Beaverton. A tunnel has been run 120 feet on the claim. The ledge is about 15 inches and runs very high in silver. Chas. Collins and F. Miller have been working on the Hard Cash, a claim joining the Black Diamond, and have struck a lead 2 feet in width, which averages ���HO per ton. The tunnel on tne Highland Chief is in 30 leet, and the ledge is now being crosscut, V. Hennewy is crosscutting the lead no the Knob Jill at a depth of 40 feet. There is it larg! body of copper-gold ore on this claim. George Wells has just completed assessment work on the Highland Lass ��� and Duncan. The Highland Lass lice between tlie Highland Chief and Bell claims, The lead Is about 15 inches of ver.v hjjjh grade or >'.' ���'""'" ���'"���-��� About 200 feet of work bus peen done on the King Solomon, consisting of shafts, tunnels and open cuts. There are three leads on tho property. On the lower lead a shaft has been sunk 80 feet, and a drift run on the ore body for about 10 feet. A tunnel has also been run 30 feet on the same lead. The ore body is about ll feet iu width. On the upper load, there is an ore body 5 feet in width on which a tunnel has been run 75 feet, and two shafts each about Hi feet On the center lead, a shaft has been sun…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Greenwood (B.C.)
spatial: Greenwood
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0081894
language: English
lat: 49.0883330
long: -118.6763890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Greenwood, B.C. : The Greenwood Miner Printing Company
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