The Princeton Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Brown, J. A
issued: 2022-07-20
issued: 1922-10-20
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note: THE PRINCETON I Published in the Interests of Mining and<f Agriculture in the Similkameen Twenty-third Year—No. 48 PRINCETON. B.C.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1922 PER YEAR: $a.oo Cub Single Copy sc. Rich Strike in the Lower Similkameen OROVILLE PROSPECTOR STRIKES GRAVEL THAT IS "LOUSY" WITH GOLD* I During the past fortnight, says the Oroville Gazette, a discovery of placer gold has been made on the Similkameen river, a few miles west from Oroville, that had it been discovered near any other town in the northwest, would have created a wild sensation, although in this community the find has been so placidly as not to create a ripple and one never hears the incident mentioned on the street. Not since the stirring days of the Coeur d'Alene gold discovery, barring Alaska, has there been such a remarkable placer find in the northwest. Rrey Coyle, who has been washing gravel on the north side of the river a short distance above the falls, took a friend's hunch and tried farther upstream, where a reef ran from the hill down to the river. He immediately discoveed that the gavel was fairly "lousy" with gold. Not the fine, flake gold, so hard to save and which requires so much labor in order to obtain a quantity of any value, but large pieces of so'id gold, two.of which, at least, are a,s large aa the first joint of a man's finger. Mr. Coyle at once returned to Oroville for the purpose of securing a lease, or option, upon the ground, and displayed his find to a few acquaintances. Besides the two nuggets mentioned he had a small bottle partially filled with coarse gold. We have never seen such placer gold since the Coeur d'Alene discovery, and, as has been said before in this article, if the sjtme gold was placed upon exhibition in any community in the northwest anywhere in touch with mineral bearing ground a stampede would instantly follow. Old and experienced mining men who have examined the gold declared it to be as fine a sample of placer gold as they have ever seen, both as to s…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1929-12-26).�
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton, B.C.
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0416413
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
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