Show BRITISH COLUMBIA platinum is reported to have been discovered in the jewett mine at trout lake the fhe property has been developed chiefly for its gold values ore having an assay value of 12 a ton has bas been struck by the mansfield company in the lardeau district the body is seven feet wide and was encountered at a dentt of feet it lies near the main vein the silver lead in which is valued at a ton the liberator mining company has installed a compressor power plant and an assay office on the emancipation mine near hope at a cost of the development tunnel is being advanced at the rate of ten feet a day the upper tunnel has passed through five ore bodies and is entering the sixth milling ore of a good grade is being removed A blockhouse just completed at the noble five mine exceeds in comfort any building of its kind erected in the interior of british columbia it is electrically lighted steam heated and equipped with shower baths and hot and cold water fixtures a drying room and reading room it will accommodate fifty five persons and cost twenty eight men are employed the mill is being operated on a basis of a shift a day |