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LOCKE BAY, INNER END KLUNKWOI BAY, Q. C. I.

RECO M. C. SHAFT-HARRIET HARBOUR, MORESBY ISLAND.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

NORTH-EAST KOOTENAY DISTRICT.

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GOLDEN MINING DIVISION.

REPORT OF J. E. GRIFFITHS, GOLD COMMISSIONER.

I have the honour to submit my annual mining report for the district of North-East Kootenay for the year 1907.

Conditions have improved a little, a larger number of men being kept steadily at work developing, and the prospects of shipments during the ensuing year are good.

This property, which is situated about three miles east of Field, has Monarch Mine. been leased by the Canadian Concentrating and Smelting Co., which has built commodious buildings for the employees and staff and is preparing to instal a wire cable tramway, but, in the meantime, a waggon road has been built to the C. P. R. track. Seven carloads of ore have been shipped to Toronto and two to Trail, but the returns are, however, not available.

Situated on Ice river, about 15 miles from Leanchoil. The Labourers Shining Beauty. Co-operative Co. is still working on this claim, both tunnels being in about 500 feet each, driven on a well-defined lead of quartz impregnated with

galena. No ore has yet been shipped.

Giant Mine.

On the property of the Golden Giant Mines, Limited, located on Spillimachene mountain, seven miles west from Spillimachene, on the Columbia river, 41 miles south of Golden, and consisting of three claims and a fraction, all about 600 feet above the river and at an altitude of 3,000 feet, a large amount of development work has been done, opening up a very large body of galena, said to assay about 25% lead and from 5 to 10 oz. of silver. Complete and substantial buildings have been erected on the property and a concentration plant of the Elmore vacuum process has been erected, with all the necessary equipment for a capacity of 40 tons a day. So far the tests have proved very satisfactory, and by the 1st of May the plant should be turning out its full capacity.

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WINDERMERE MINING DIVISION.

REPORT OF E. J. SCOVIL, MINING RECORDer.

I have the honour to submit herewith a brief report on the Windermere Mining Division for 1907.

Little change has taken place since 1906. The following properties made shipments during the fall: Tecumseh, Paymaster, Comstock, Charlemont and Black Diamond.

Development work has been carried on more or less upon most of the leading properties (silver-lead); otherwise nothing more than the usual assessment work has been done.

During the season several promising copper properties were located, viz.: Copper King group, on Jumbo fork of Toby creek; Copper and Copper No. 2, on Skookum creek, a tributary of No. 3 creek, and the Steelhead group, on Salmon river (creek).

This Division has an immense stretch of really virgin prospecting ground, which with the advent of the Kootenay Central Railway will receive due attention from the prospector. As a matter of fact, serious mining is in abeyance until the completion of the Kootenay Central Railway, when the many promising properties--added to those which are now in a position to ship-will demonstrate what can be produced from this particular section of the Province. OFFICE STATISTICS-WINDERMERE MINING DIVISION.

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NORTH-WEST KOOTENAY DISTRICT.

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REPORT BY ROBERT GORDON, GOLD COMMISSIONER.

I have the honour to submit herewith my annual report on the progress of mining within the Revelstoke, Lardeau and Trout Lake Mining Divisions, for the year ending December 31st, 1907.

The year has shown no very marked development either in quartz or placer mining, owing principally to lack of capital with which to prosecute work and also to lack of transportation facilities throughout the different portions of the district. In the Revelstoke Division hydraulicing has continued on Smith, McCulloch and French creeks in the Big Bend, and the results, particularly on McCulloch creek, have been very encouraging. A considerable amount of money was spent on these claims during the past year, there being about 50 men employed during the summer months.

The quartz claims in the Big Bend District have been entirely at a standstill excepting for assessment work necessary.

In the Lardeau Division the Eva has been producing steadily and the stamp-mill kept going almost throughout the entire year.

The Silver Dollar mine has also done a good deal of development work, and although shut down just now, owing to financial stringency, is expected to re-commence operations in the early spring.

The owners of the Lucky Jack mineral claim (Lardeau Division) are installing a small stamp-mill on their property this winter, and will be in a position to test its value during the coming year.

In the Trout Lake District the Silver Cup and the Broadview have made very good showings, and with increased shipping facilities that locality will become a good revenue producer.

The outlook for the whole district is, on the whole, very encouraging and with the advent of capital, and good management, will undoubtedly come to the front in a very few years.

REVELSTOKE DIVISION.

REPORT OF W. C. MCLAUCHLIN, MINING RECORDER.

I have the honour to submit my annual report of mining operations in the Revelstoke Mining Division for the year ending December 31st, 1907.

During the past year but little development work has been done on the quartz mines in this Division, except the necessary annual assessment work. More work than usual was done on the placer claims of Smith creek, French creek and McCulloch creek; all are expected to make a good showing in the spring. I am indebted to J. D. Sibbald, manager of the Revelstoke and McCulloch Creek Hydraulic Mining Co., Ltd., for the following:

"During the year 1907 the company has met some drawbacks from slides and old works of 1865 and 1866. In the spring the work started on what appeared to be an end of the old works, but after washing 15 feet up stream ran into a large amount of old workings, where

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