The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-07-23
issued: 1903-08-07
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note: THE DAILY NEWS VOL.2 NELSON. B. 0... FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1903 POPLAR FREER IS AJONANZA The Richest Camp on Earth Says W. B. Poole NO. 94 Has Paid a Big Price for Lucky Jack Group Relief a fair crew Is at work, two shifts, and the stamp mill and cyanide works are ln constant operation. Regular shipments are also conveyed down from the Arlington, Keystone and Canadian King mine. The Canadian King is under lease to Wm. Connolly and the Keystone to Clemens & Co. FOR BRITISH SUPREMACY [Special to Tne Dally News.] Kaslo, Aug. 6.—W. B. Poole, resident manager and principal owner of the Ophir- Lndo and Oyster Criterion groups of mines ln the Trout Lake district, came ln last night on the steamer Kokanee from tlio now famous Poplar camp. Mr. Pool is a cool, level-headed business man who has demonstrated his ability in connection with the Nettle L„ Triune nnd Silver Cup mines, and is now making a grand success of the properties whicli he Is operating. He has with him samples of ore tho equal of which has never been before seen by the oldest miner in the country. Knobs of gold stringers and filigrees of the precious metal llterully cover the largo pieces of white quartz and tellurium bearing rock now on exhibition at the hotel here where spectators crowded and pushed each other ln their efforts to see and handle the chunks of virgin wealth. Some of the samples aro a combination of telluride and mlsplckle, assaying upwards of 116,000 per ton, while picked samples gave returns of fabulous amounts. Mr, Poole states that ho has concluded arrangements for the purchnso of the. Lucky Jack group owned by Hamilton, O'Conner nnd Morgan, for n price, which ho admitted, exceeded one hundred thousand dollars. Ho says Poplar and Rapid creek camps have every Indication of proving Immense dividend payers In the very nenr future and the mining world will stand aghast nt the riches thnt nro going to be produced from that district. "In my experience I havo never seen nny- thlng to equal what hns b…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0381421
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : F.J. Deane
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text