S\ tii/rfts** * •ki THE CASCADE RECORD Published In the Interest* of the Boundary Mining District VOL. I. CASCADE, B. C, MARCH 25, 1899. No. 20. IN AND AROUND CASCADE. The annual report of the Bran­ don & Golden Crown Mining Co. F. R. Crocker, formerly of Brook­ Ltd., owning the Golden Crown lyn, is spending a few days in the group in Wellington camp, shows, Gateway City. In the Mining Field since April, 1897, the sum of $24,- Early in the week there was a * 000 has been spent on the property. brief cold snap, when the mercury With this money over 450 feet of got down to zero one night. News of a moH encouraging in the group. This is but a sample work has been done. The report character continues to come in al­ of what is going on constantly. states that the railway survty runs Frank W. Gibbs, agent for the most daily from the numerous Those in a position to know claim Brackman & Ker Milling Co , wus within 100 feet of the shaft house, mining camps that surround Cas­ that the Burnt Basin will be con­ so that shipments to the reduction in Cascade early in the week. cade in every direction, like a nected with Rossland hy a good The new Yale hotel, now build­ works which the C. P. R. has de­ glittering semi-circle. Not only is trail this year. Only six miles cided to erect it Cascade, can be ing in Grand Forks, to cost $50,000, this true of the older camps some would need to be built, to a junc­ will be one of the best in the pro­ made very cheaply. The property distance away, where development tion with the Sheep creek trail to is one of the best in the district. vince, it is said. to some extent has heen going on Norway mountain. Tuesday night the till of the for several years, but in localities Willarsi n and Johnson, who Late rleUI Quotations nearer at hand the same pleasing Hotel Gladstone was robbed of be­ have been working on the Mystery Now York, March 23rd- Bar sllver-WXc. tween $60 and $75 in silver. 1 here conditions are almost universally group, close to the Burnt Basin, Mexican dollars, 47Wo. is no clue to the thief. found to prevail. have this week found a fine ore Lake copper— $16.75® 17.8?. The man who has any doubt chute, carrying gold and copper, Lead-W.40@ 4.42H. The Stockholm hotel at Brooklyn Tbe firm that flies the telling (rice for minus has been closed by the police. That about the stability or permanence with some galena. The ledge can and smelters quotes lead 14.20 at the close. town now has five hotels. At one of any one of the many mining be traced for 300 feet. time there were 16 of them. camps which are found in the Broke Two Bones Marjorie Wolverton, the little Boundary country' has not yet In the Districts Last Saturday night, when one daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. made himself known ; and if there The main ledge in the Stem- of the stages was about three miles Wolverton, who has been ill with is perchance such a one he would winder, in Fairview, has been from Hall's, on the sttep clay hill, la grippe, is once more around. become converted by a two weeks' tapped and is over seven feet wide. the driver, Jed Rogers, in feeling trip up and down these hills and for the brake, was thrown out, and The family of D. L. Barclay dales, where nature has been so G. T. Curtis, of Cascade, has arrived from Revelstoke this week, purchased a half-interest iu the the two horses started at a break­ generous in placing her precious neck speed down the hill. As the have rented a house and will here­ metals. Pilot Beacon group, on Sutherland after make their home in Cascade. creek. vehicle sped down the declivity all In the older localities, like Green - but one of the five passengets V. W. Smith, who built a couple wood camp and Dead wood camp, The Kamloops, in Camp Mc­ jumped or were thrown out. of miles of railway on Lower Arrow the development is steady and Kinney, adjoining the Wiarton, There was one serious accident, lake, has been in town this week, most satisfactory. When the rails IIHH been ttiken over by C. E. Race, James Gill, of Meyers Falls, hav­ returning from Greenwood and reach up there, the ore trains will of Rossland. ing two bones of his left leg broken. Republic. be in evidence. Much interest is The shaft is down 40 feet on the He was brought to the Hotel Cas­ Mail matter is now carried to being taken,' however, in other and Admiral Dewey claim, in Camp cade, where Landlord Thomas did Nelson and Rossland from the sometimes more distant camps. McKinney, and good values are everything possible for him. Dr. States on Sundays, but no mail in Camp McKinney if becoming quite being obtained from the rock. H. B. Stanley Smith was sent for received here from these towns on a favorite, there being no small at­ The Record is unable to print and set the broken bones. Mr. the same days. traction about the dividends being the mining transfers, etc., this Gill's wife arrived in the city on steadily pounded out hy the 50- week,probably on account of our Tuesday to nurse her husband. Jimmy Ennis has sold out his stump mill on the old reliable erratic mail service from Grand The other passengers on the interest in the Burnt Basin Hotel, Cariboo. As a result properties Forks. at Gladstone, to his partner, Thos. stage were C. L. Hoffman, of Spo­ are changing hands there fre­ kane, who was bruised ; H. Bolster, Flynn. Mr. Ennis, however, still quently, companies are being Messrs. Hill and Shea, formerly continues at the hotel. of Cascade, are reported to have of Spokane; Smith Curtis and formed, and this year will see a great Alfred McMillan, of Rossland, and change in this one of our oldest made a strike on a claim at Okan­ Holbrook & Kean, of the Grand agan Falls, assays giving $30 to Robert Young, of Winnipeg. Forks and Greenwood stage line, camps. The fact that it does not As soon as the stage company depend entirely on free milling $130 on the surface. are about to put on a new line be­ The rich showing lately reported learned of the accident, one of the tween that t< wn and Republic. ore also has its attractions. officials came down from Columbia, The district of the West Fork of in the Little Cariboo, in Camp Mc­ Some 20 head of horses and new Kinney, continues. The shaft is 58 and saw that nothing was left un­ vehicles have been secured for the the Kettle river, like that of the done for the patient's comfort. Mr. North Fork, is forging ahead rap­ fett deep, all in ore, which assays line. about $25 to $80 per ton. Gill will probably be confined for idly this spring, and its prospects eight or ten weeks. C. W. Greer, of Brooklyn, has are being taken hold of for the pur­ E. A. Bielenberg, has bonded the arrived in town, and will soon pose of exploitation. Both of these Golden Rod in White's camp for Firemen's Fund Bell start a bakery, having bought out $10,000, of which ten per cent, is Forks will undoubtedly show some Cascade's fire wardens are in the plant user! by Barry & Hep­ good mines in the near future. to he paid June 1st. E. Spraggett, burn. He will have his shop in of Grand Forks, was the owner. need of funds for the purchase of Still further away, Rock Creek, needed apparatus for fighting fire, the location now used by Bigney's Fairview, Keremeos and the fav­ In Camp McKinney the Cariboo shoe store. and it has been decided to give a orably known Similkameen district is running its mill night and day, ball on Easter Monday, April 3d, Walter Battle, who formerly had are coming into favor also, and with 50 stamps constantly drop­ for the purpose of raking the need­ charge of Black's hotel dining the indications are that large num­ ping on the best free milling gold ful amount. Tickets will he on room, died suddenly last week in bers of prospectors will give par­ rock yet encountered in this old- sale next Monday at one dollar Republic, from the effects of bron­ ticular attention to all of the camps time dividend payer. each, and every man in Cascade chial troubles. A post mortem and districts mentioned. Clive Pringle, of Greenwood, has should secure one. The ball will was held, and showed that death Nearer Cascade itself we find the bonded the Helen H. Gardner, Cop­ take place at the Cascade Audito­ was not due tn the recent slight Burnt Basin, which many have the per Farm, Vancouver and Hum- rium, and no pains will he spared wound received from a pistol bul­ confidence to believe will prove to bolt claims from C. A. Sanders, to make it a delightful event. The let. Battle leaves a wife and family be one of the best in southern George Wolf .and J. Miller for best of music will he provided, and in Colfax, Iowa, a grown son being British Columbia. All it needs is $120,000, five per cent.