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Show IPROSPEGTORS Till MM1T0 LARDQ New Year Will Bring Much Activity in British Columbia Co-lumbia Gold Field. RICH SURFACE SHOWING Spokane Syndicate May Enter District and Begin Dredging Dredg-ing Campaign. EDMONTON. Alta-, Dtsa. 6. Prospectors Pros-pectors are staking placer and lode claims alonr the La.rdo rlvor In BrUlsb Columbia Colum-bia and every Indication lo there will be a grtax deal of mining activity the next year. Thin Is chiefly due to the fact that keen Interest la centered In the district dis-trict as the result of the Bucceasful work of, the Buschnor cold drodi at Oold-h!U, Oold-h!U, three miles below Poplar, the plant havtn been In almost continuous operation opera-tion for several months, malilns not only expenses durlnc the experimental period, but a profit aa well. Tfce flndlnjj of sold In and along the f river bed for miles clearly Indicates that it has been washed down by the streams that come from the neighboring bills and the vicinity of Poplar appears to i be the center of the IcdKes that gave birth to i i t'v. i n i.bitn In rnn Itne precious muuti. io. - ; Junction with the fapt i"it tne tremen-dous tremen-dous rich surface showlnfc'n of gold ore were discovered In that camp several yeara ago. strengthens tho belief of many who are acquainted with the peculiarities , of tho camo'and who aver that the upper end of the Lardo river la destined to become be-come one of the greatest cold regions or the North American continent. Surface Showings Rich. One of tho questlonn that has frequently frequent-ly been asked about Poplar camp Is: 'Why Is It that with the wonderfully rich ore that bos -been found In tho surface sur-face of so many claims there, that more active development has not neen undertaken?" under-taken?" Tho reply from thoso who are acquainted with the ground Ib that surface sur-face showings are to extremely rich that capital, proverbially timid, Is afraid oi them. To put It another way, It seems too good to be true for oro of Buch nature na-ture to be found- to any depth. But the optlmldts come back with the reply that the required development will bring untold un-told riches to light, but none of tho believers be-lievers Jn the camp, unfortunately, have the neceasary capital to back up their faith, and so perforce must wait until outside capital comes In to undertake tho taek of breaking into tho vnulte of one of nature's treasure houses, and disclose dis-close the wealth that lies hidden there. Already signs are at hand that the day Is not far distant when capital will be on hand for development purposes, aa Inquiries In-quiries arc being received steadily by owners of mining property there and staking stak-ing of claims has been going on there right and left. In the river bed ns well as In the hills; for tho success attending the Buschner gold dredge has awakened a local Interest In placer mining along the Lardo that was never felt before. District Has Future. A placer mining engineer, who had a long and varied experience in the Klondike Klon-dike and other Ileitis, recently, according to S. II. Connor, engineer In chargo of tho Bu&chnor dredge, made a thorough examination ex-amination of the vulley and gave as his opinion that It would make history ua a placer mining camp. He Bald. It Is Impossible to tell how far down It Is to bedrock In the valley of the Lardo, but from what I have been able to pco by a superficial examination ex-amination of the field. I feci convinced that when placer mining along the stria in Is carried down to bedrock, tho results will be Btanllnrc. Every Indication Indi-cation goes to prove that tho yellow metal Ik then; in Immense quantities, and Hie time will no doubt come when the splendid re oils that are Joins achieved by mery aurfnee mining today to-day will sink Into lnslgnlflcanco when compared with what will be done wlien the bedrock zone Ib reached. The othei day Connor picked up a piece of white quartz from the deck of the dredge. It having been carried on board In oii:c way by the buckets. It was about ng big as a. man's hand, and he was on the point of chucking It overboard over-board when, more for curiosity than anything any-thing else, he determined to break It open. This he did, and before he flndmed the Job the chunk was smaehed into thou-rnndn thou-rnndn of pieces, and from the pulverlza-t'on pulverlza-t'on ho extracted between S2 and J3 worth of gold. It is announced that another dredge may bo built and operated shortly ty a syndicate formed In Spokane. |