GOLD DIGGINGS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 248, 5 December 1873, Page 3

GOLD DIGGINGS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

; From papers brought by the Glimp&o to Port Chalmers the ' Otago Guardian' extracts some reports of gold discoveries that appear to us of a very exaggerated: nature. : Anyone who studied the accounts of the Ilaast rush must have observed how papers in the same country as a new Goldfield are prone to overlay statements of 'prosperity.' ! 'i'his has probably beenj done in this case. _ Such as it is however we give it for what it is worth • _ By the Telfair from Sitka, for. Portland, which called off the harbor early yesterday morning to lend passengers, we nave gratifying intelligence of the discovery ot new.fand world seem to be rich and easily worked, gold .diggings, situate near the head waters of the. Stickecn rrvvr. 1 .ie mines are shallow, and pay, it was renorted from loz. ir> 3oz. a day to the hand. Captain Rill Moore and aig some of the luclty ones : W. Walrirot) is Lyons' another. for in

new Eidorndo travelled- from-Buck's Bar* / early in the spring, <i-k1 ai-rivid on the / . c-eek n Ajril: Tii'n distance is Si t miiiV from the mouth ofth-j iStic-k<n;ii t-> the now mines; 140 miles.-of this distance is by warer to w liat- 'is known as the Big Canyon ; thence by a fair trail, to Dease's ' Like, 85 miles, which cau be nmde in sis days' packing The Indians, after Captain Moore had made one or two trips / picking, pointed.out a better trail, and which has now been ad iptcd. Ii is t':ou;ht the miners will winter ia the dis- . trict. Mr. Lear, who lias a store, at Fort Wrangle, at the mouth of Stickcen. ono ot the passengers, ljfr on the 6th ot August in a canoe for the Skeena and at I' Bella met the steamer,*and took passage here to purchase supplies. He lias with him some of the gold, which he lias shown us, and he estimates it be worth about lßdols. an ounce. Pieces worth as ■high as 18dols. and 22d015. have been , taken out. ■.■■■■]■ ■■.'"■■■ Since we penned the report given we have received the folio .ring toiy letter from Captain MojjfSjiimself, written to the Hon. the-^Ohief 1 Commissioner : _- > ~ - Lettek ,ps<3i4 Captain" Moobk ■;._■•-Thibet Creek, Gassiar District, Ju'-y, 1873. ■To the Hon. It. UeaTen, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works Sik, —I am located on the Thibet, ocefk r - this creek empties into Druse's Rker, at the v ~ foot or the lake, and might, be considered' t,W west branch of Cease's River. This ere' k i runs about east and west, and is about one-. ! third larger than Germansen "reei I havebeen prospecting, and I find that, tie creek has gold in paying quantifies for ; five miles in length. The gold is coarse, and of a iiue • qualify ; there ha.vebcen pieces found as high - 22duls. There are several smaller stremii* emptying into this creek which, have nold anthem, but as yet have not been-prospected fairly. I have been prospecting one of tbeiu for a few days, bat I was-not-able to reuch the bed rock, as the creek was too high. The bed rock on Thibet creek, so far as we cait know, is from one to 10 feet deep, and thegold generally lies on the bed ra«-k; or within six inches of it This eoautryiiiis clie apponrance of a general gold couiitry j there are seventeen miners on the creettaow, and they keep coming in, one and two'at a time, froio> Slickeen. Miners here "male from half anounce to two ounces-per day: they are all' • working with rockers. Thibet creek lias it" Bource near the head of the second north of the Stickeen River I ain.&p.. _ (Signed) W. Mr. L. Blum, i?f recived a letterjSfrora. Eorfc'-W r anglejsaftw eL*k document give||"most with th> frori| 1 being taken out per the Stickeen country vnJl be another California. at the mines himself, but ceed thither to take up a ■ H