| Show I GOLD IN THE NORTHWEST The Cnrihoo Country Promises to AlI to the Worlds Supply All westerners are becoming interested I inter-ested In the marvelous developments in I gold mines since silver was demonetized I demone-tized and are wondering Where the i matter i to stop The African fields I the Australian fields the Alaskan 1 fields and the new developments all thTOUgh the western regions have been I wonderful A numlber of Salt Lakers are interested in the Washington and British Columbia fields and they pi < > I mise to prove very ri3h 1n the near 1 future The Seattle PostIntelligencer contains the following account of the Cariboo prospects WUh tire opening of spring work I will begin In earnest on the big mines hi tihe Cariboo and the promoters of I pintoprises in that section have great I confidence in the mineral wealth of the country A D Whittter agent and I manager of the Cariboo Gold Fields company limited at Barketrville on his recent visit to this city brmipht I news of activity that will extend the winter and the I throughout tle wir tr prepare 1 extensie work way for development wllk i with the opening of the coming season i sea-son In speaking of Mr Whittiers enterprise en-terprise A D Scroggy general passenger j I senger and freight agcnifc of the Seattle I Lake Shore Eastern railroad Bays Originally away back in about 1858 gold a discovered In considerable I quantities in the Carlboo region along the Panics and rn the beds of the i i streams some of vlhich at that time were fairly large carrying a good deal I of waiter that prevented a very thorough working of the gravel Williams Wil-liams creek was peihaps the principal I I stream in the Cariboo country and upon it most of the placer work was I done The people < at that time who were In search of gold even with their private matihoJs of use took out about 525000000 Wlhen it is realized that they could not work the heavier material ma-terial and had no means of saving the fine gold it 4s seen that these grounds muss have been very ridh Operations were suspended when the minor found I they could not keep up their average of taking out several thousand dollars a month and the various enterprises that had before been worked were stopped and remained idle until about 1889 or 1890 Meantime som of thee streams and particularly Williams oreek dried up leaving immense gravel banks to which present operators opera-tors are compelled tie bring water from a long distance lAbout this time Mr Whittier went into the Cariboo prospecting and after close Investigation determined that it I would surely pay u big profit on the investment necessary to work these old grounds over and whatever other ground had not been formerly worked upon and he immediately set about to secure from the Dominion government as well as from private parties possession posses-sion of about all the ground on Will lams creek Among the private parties I from whom he secured T portion of the property was E C Neufelder of this city cityAfter getting the ground into shape and formulating the scheme so that he could handle it Mr Whittier took the proposition to London and after two years hard work in the face of the Baring Bros failure and otn r well known depressing circumstances in the financial world he succeeded in organizing organ-izing the Cariboo Gold Fields company limited with a capital of about 5000 000 of which he is the agent and manager man-ager His plans being well developed before leaving England he contracted for about 350 tons of steel pipe to be used in the construction of a pipe line I from the source of water supply to the mines II Thereupon he returned to this country coun-try going at once to the Cariboo after arranging some details necessary Work began immediately after the snow had gone off early in > May 895 I He began with a large force of men which in a short time was increased to nearly 500 and which was Jiept employed em-ployed constructing ditches flumes shafts tunnels and on work of like I nature necessary to opening up a big mining claim of this kind Water has to be brought three or four miles with a fall of 1070 fEet and in this particular particu-lar there Is probably no other hydraulic hydrau-lic claim n the world attempted to be I I worked on the rame scale I is proposed with this water to run elevators and wash the gravel nt I the Fame time A tunnel six feet high by five feet eight inches wide and nearly near-ly a mile long is being constructed into in-to the heaviest bank of gravel something some-thing like 200 feet high from which i is proposed to run shafts to the surface I for the purpose of elevating the gravel so that it can be vashed and disposed of without further handling The bottom I bot-tom of the tunnel reaches bed rock under un-der the gravel and will be extended until un-til the entire gravel bed is worked out The gravel bank forming the basis of MrWhlttiers operations is practically I practi-cally inexhaustible and will last it is calculated anywhere from 300 to 600 years The company calculates on realizing 1 re-alizing from 65 to 75 cents per cubic I yard and when the plant is set up will b able to move several hundred pards per day During the past season id out 60000 in sala the company paid 513 ries and the list will be increased with the coming year when water will be obtained ob-tained and the plant will begin to produce pro-duce gold Mr Whittier is also planning I I plan-ning to put in electric lights and telephone tele-phone and to establish a machine shop and with such an equipment will I I I be able to operate the year around j |
