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Excerpt from In British Columbia
Lymg between 52 and 54 degrees of north latitude, embraces an area of upwards of 700 square miles. The Quesnelle Lake and River form its south and south western boundary, and the Fraser north-eastern, western and northern. Here Williams, Lightning, and Antler creeks and gulches startled the world by their amazing richness, the wake-up-jake claim yielding 150 Ounces in a single day, the Caledonia 300 ounces, Butcher 350, Steele's 409, _the Chittenden claim on lorhee 432, the Ericsson 500 ounces, when the Diller claim cleaned up with the astonishing amount of 102 pounds of gold! These wonderful deposits have been found in the beds of the water courses, from 60 to 80 feet below the surface. There are also extensive lodes of rich gold-bearing quartz awaiting development. Though the mines of Cariboo reached their maximum product in 1864, it is the opinion of most old miners who have had experience there, that still greater wealth lies hidden in her mountains and water courses. The annual yield of the district now ranges from to Mr. John Bowron, the Gold Commissioner, ln formed me on my recent visit to Barkerville', that prospectorssent out by the Government had just returned, and reported having found good surface/diggings and extensive ledges Cf rich quartz rock. The completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway will greatly reduce the hitherto enormouscost of con ducting mining operations here, and greatly facilitate the development of the vast gold deposits of this region.
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