be obtained at outfitting posts at Telegraph Creek or Lake
House. Arrangements for hiring pack-horses can be made at
Telegraph Creek.

Climate. Wheaton Creek is in the Cassiar Mountains and
consequently has more rain than the "dry belt" around Tele-
graph Creek. The precipitation probably averages about 30
inches a year. Conditions from year to year range between
wide limits and the summer of 1939 was unusually wet. Though
the totel precipitation was not great, on Nheaton Creek dur-
ing the last two weeks of June there were twelve days with
light showers or rain, in July twenty-two days and in August
eleven showery days in the first eighteen. Winter snowfall is
about 3 feet, but by July most of the snow has gone from the
summits. The only glaciers nearby are on the north side of
King Mountain.

In the spring, the rapid melting of the snow and the
quick run-off, raise the creek by early June. The maximum
flow is short and by August the creek is low. The measured
flow of Wheaton Creek on July 18 was 33 second-feet, and on
August 16, after a week of fairly heavy rain, it was 31
second-feet. In June, however, the flow was several times as
much. The estimated flow of Alice Shea Creek during July and
August was between 3 and 4 second-feet.

Inasmuch as the operations on Wheaton Creek are not en-
tirely dependent on water supply, it is possible to work from
about. the middle of May until late in October. “Their opener
ing season is longer than that of a corresponding hydraulic.

References: G. Hanson and D. A. McNaughton, Memoir 194,
Bureau of Economic Geology, 1936.

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