| Show AN OD STORY RETOLD I 4 Robert of Early Earll Days in III inI I Columbia I The story of Carl boo and Its wonder l fill tul riches recalls the name ot of Sc whose name Is associated with a fairylike st story ll or of wealth and 5 Ii t woo Intimately assocIated with him I VILS Robert Hobert Stevenson Steenson who passed i through the excitement and hardshIps ot of those stirring times Umes and has lived 7 to teU quite recently ot of the rich mine p that Will was found Cound and lost for tor several j d years ears but has now DOW been rediscovered i Many versions ot of this fabulous find i have bac been told but the following Is r s assumed to be correct bel being given the I Spokesman by Air Ir Stevenson I e himself J F In the tall fail ot of Cl 61 McLean a nude I L eons Do Bay overtook Cameron and 4 me at Bonaparte river and showed us usI S I a piece of quartz encrusted with free 3 gold The 11 specimen Will Was the richest I Ir r 1 ever saw My 1 partner artner and offered loITered I the theom om officer r It If he would us to i t the locality whence It came McLean ho was killed in the Indian 1 var In the following year OUr ourS S otter offer contenting himself with giving us u general directions For one reason or A I postponed the search for tor the tho t El EJ Dorado until H 14 years ears had elapsed d dI I then started out with two Indians and a few tew weeks ot of continuous search lag discovered what from Crom McLeans McLean de Will was the mother lode The find 1 consisted of oC a free rree milling f y quartz quarts ledge e The mineral could be beI I I j traced over a high mountain peak for q V nearl nearly feet teet I staked the claim and andI I 1 recorded It The locality roughly I I i Is 18 about 60 50 or 65 55 mlle miles east of 01 the coast and about 40 miles north ot of 4 J the boundary In tire heart of 01 the Hope Hoper r mountaIns I brought out samples s ot of I I the rock and seven assays gave aye values I ranging tram from down to 3 50 In j t gold per ton The These ns assays q can 1 be 0 veri verified erI fled fied nt at the ilie government o asay y dices In InI I I Victoria I 1 revisIted the be beaUty but butas it i I was as unable to find my claim despite n a I most moat diligent search Great was my I disappointment but I resolved on n a sec second I ond search eAtCh the following yur ear with the tho thom thea a same m success This may mar seem strange e p but 1 it must be recollected that the die 4 1 J is 18 covered with dense Umber timber and 1 jh there I is great creat uniformity about the tho 1 mountains This fall I 1 made Il a third I j I hunt fur the claIm and after a month 1 ot of ceaseless casele tramping over oer the summits J J t r rediscovered the ledge I Intend to work 4 t the property In the sprint spring There Is no nor r 1 doubt about Its richness and ond I feel teel that I have another fortune within my I grasp J ilL Mr Ste Stevenson exhIbits some rome quartz quarts that I is bespattered with gold |
