3-085-878 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Gold in British Columbia: Lytton, 1898. 'Dr. George M. Dawson, C.M.G., Chief of the Dominion Government Geological Survey...has recorded the results of a long and careful examination in his valuable work on "The Mineral Wealth of British Columbia," the standard authority upon the subject. He is of opinion that the gold supply is permanent, and he sets forth that opinion in detail...giving the weight of his official position to the mineral resources of the great British dependency on the Pacific coast. Mr. William Ogilvie, of the Dominion Government Land Survey, says...that British Columbia contains an area of from 550 to 600 miles in length, and of from 100 to 150 miles in width, over the whole of which valuable mineral properties have been found, and that...it will become the largest, as it is the richest, gold-field ever known...The Minister of Mines states in his Report - "...The vein matter is diorite. The lodes average in width from 4 ft. to 20 ft., and the locations now extend over an area of about twenty square miles. Fuel is abundant, and an unrivalled climate, in addition to short railway communication, completes the advantages which very few mining camps possess." Lytton, south of Kamloops, is rapidly growing in importance.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.