THE NEW ELDORADO

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 69, 30 June 1910, Page 5

THE NEW ELDORADO

notice not yet eokth- ? COMING, ', By Cable— Press Association—Copyright. t , * < London, June 28. " v ' In'answer to inquiries made by the ', Jlgent-General in London the Govern* . ment of British Columbia says they f ' nave no information from the wold ((•Commissioner regarding the discovery gjj|fc Stewart. ........ |f . 'iBUSH OF PROSPECTORS. £ '' TOWNS SPRINGING UP.

|V Received June 29, 6.15 p.m. '.: t Victoria, 8.C., June 28. ;i ' iA big rush of prospectors has sec in ' t * to, Northern British Columbia, following the sensational discovery in the "■}.- neighborhood of Stewart City. , v | tAt*the latter point on the Portland lA Canal, a small city has sprung up durU ing the last four months, as a result of £§- the-opening up of a number of very rich if-.quartz properties, and the prices of town £ lots run into excessive figures. '" The present "strike," which raised the jjL' excitement to fever heat, is said to be *l""a mammoth gold reef of free milling ' ore. The discovery was made by C. M. , Dehjrove and Louis Anderson, on one of the forks of Bitter Creek, about thirteen miles up the valley from Stewart; Ledge. The ieef was first reported as being L 3000 feet wide, but more conservative s| estimates place it at 50 feet. , . A stampede of the whole population <■"'. followed'the publication of the news, Vv but the mountain side at the scene is "'' very precipitous, and few of the gold I seekers reached the ground. ,' The' whole vicinity has now been * staked, and mill tests will follow. '-,' The whole of the Northern Coast is '*■" experimenting, and there is great mining activity, and great improvements in . transportion have followed the building • -of the town of Prince Rupert (which is a hundred miles from Stewart), and I . formed a big incentive to prospectors, j