| Show STORY LE ROT the story of the discovery and development of thele the le rot rol mine which V sold the other day for a greater sum than any other british columbia property ever sold gold for has been told but it ft is interesting enough to bear repeating says saws the spokane spokesman re view joe burgeois Burge and joe morris two brench Pr ench canadyan Can adlan prospectors proa were the ot of the property joe burgeois Bur geoia who bad mined in placers bit never to in quartz was waa sent pent to do as ament eB the lily lilly may the rac claim balm located in rosaland this work performed burgeois loafed and and waited tor for supplies that were from froan nelson looking at red bed mountain he saw it was ar lift IA places and could be easily prospected pecked pec ted lit the meantime he had become with joe morris a prospector and the two went across the oan can you yn and discovered the bold iron cap jang of numerous strong veins on theoe they located the le rol roi the war eagle the center star the idaho and t fee virgilla Virgin la aut but with prospective millions in their mp burgeois and morris were poor teen ao 00 poor tw they could hardly a grubstake Burgei ps po with his imant outfit tramped over to nelson leere he showed his bis samples with little iron p pyrites said the local expert what does it assay 5 I 1 oten ten dollars in gold five per cent t copper and a trace of silver 14 Mats a bed bad showing BUrge burgeois bet tr drej D IV Burgoo fai was de cidely blue and dla dim waged antil berun he run amtoft colonel nel ro 8 ap pp tag topping had been min irkis recorder and was as running a small email store at alt nelson he questioned burgeois and found that the only assay was from the virginia i the others may do better he reasoned its clean ore and the veins are big the outcome was that burgeois and topping made a dicker rop topping ping was to pay the fees for locating the five claims and was to have his choice of one of the properties Burge burgeois came back to trail creek stripped off the iron capping put in a few shots and found clear ore above the fir roots topping followed jand and made crude assays essays which gave more encouraging returns and the three topping burgeois and morris gathered around their lonely camp fire and resolved to stay with the strike and give a fair trial that is the story as narrated by colonel topping of the discovery of the mines of trail creek burgeois Burge sold his holdings for or and w went en t up into the r port 0 rt steele district and located a silver lead claim sold it for and then went to the northwest territory bought a acre ranch and sent back east to canada for his relatives the dream of his life has been realized he has struck it rich and settled down morris carried or out of the camp came down to spokane married a school teacher and bought a home on the north side and has since become a fa farmer irmer from the start topping had faith in the camp he calculated that there would be a movement of prospectors and went down to the mouth of trail creek seven miles from the le roi and war eagle groupe homesteaded homestead ed acres and built a hotel on the picturesque bank of the columbia he is there yet in the fall of 1890 george M poster foster was at colville trying a lawsuit and became interested in the le rot roi he entered into a bond with topping whereby he agreed in consideration of fourteen sixteenths of the mine to expend 2000 in development work forster returned to spokane and took in upon the deal colonel 1 I N peyton of spokane george turner oliver du ranft W M ridpath Ridi path and alexander tarbet colonel peyton afterwards bought toppings remaining interest dividing it among a few of his friends chiefly in danville HI about two years and a half ago the stock in the le rot hoi was being peddled about ithe city for 50 cents a share and almost any price it would bring it has since been quoted as high as 8 there have been no great changes in the holdings of stock in the property since the company gathered in about everything in sight at about 40 or SO 60 cents about two and a half years ago the stock of the principle holders was then pooled and since that time has been in the hands bands of two trustees the dividends due the stock have been paid to the trustees and they in turn issued their checks to the individual holders the floating stock never amounted to over 10 per cent of the whole capitalization since the pool was formed farmed |
