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high on the west side of the pit, but the deep channel was not reached. An
attempt was then made to extend the pit upstream along the bedrock bench
toward the Clear Grit ground, but the numerous glacial drift boulders and
’ large masses of limestone on the bedrock, as well as the small water supply,
proved serious difficulties. In 1904 a tunnel was run for about 300 feet
from near the head of the hydraulic pit towards the Clear Grit ground, but
apparently no good pay was found and the work was not continued. Some
prospecting was also done from the Miller shaft, 83 feet deep, below the
Clear Grit ground. In 1905 and 1906 the company, then under the manage-
ment of H. McMasters, attempted to sink a shaft in the flat above the Clear
Grit ground and below the upper dam for the purpose of mining the deep
channel by drifting, but failed in their attempts because of the underground
pressure of water and mud. In 1908, the property being held by Alfred
Ansley as trustee, another shaft 200 feet farther downstream was sunk
about 80 feet to bedrock and drift mining, under the management of H. H.
Jones, was carried on for one or two seasons. It is stated by Dave Bever,
who worked in the mine, that there was an incline of 12 feet from the bottom
of the shaft up to the driftings and that workmen at the face were always
in danger of being trapped if the pumps failed. Two steam pumps were
used and there was no difficulty in controlling the flow of water when the
pumps were working properly. A great deal of time was lost as the boilers
were defective and the water frequently gained on the pumps. <A 6-foot
drive with 9-foot caps was run upstream, but no great amount of drifting
was done and the operations are said not to have paid.

There is an old tunnel on the west side of the creek about 1,600 feet
down from the Grouse Creek road. It has a fair-sized dump at its mouth
and was apparently run in search of the channel of the west branch of the
creek, but nothing is known regarding the results of the work. A housed-in
shaft with pumping machinery installed, on the west side of the valley just
above the Grouse Creek road, was sunk by the old Dominion Company
and is said to be 60 feet deep. The ground at the shaft is said to contain
some gold all the way to bedrock and the average values at the bottom are
reported as 13 ounces to the set, but only prospecting work was done. In
1900 the Cariboo Deeps Company Limited, under the management of H. B.C.
Carry, installed machinery at the shaft with the intention of pumping it out
and testing the ground, but no actual work was done.

The ground on Canadian creek has been pretty thoroughly tested and
no very rich pay-streak was found. The results of the operations of the
Clear Grit Company, which were the most extensive, are not definitely
known. The mining is said to have paid considerably more than expenses
in some years, but probably on the whole was done at only a small profit.
There is some possibility that the ground in the upper part of the creek and
in Grouse Creek flats at the head of the creek will prove of value for dredging,
which is probably the only way in which it can be mined. The grade is too
low for hydraulicking and apparently the ground is not rich enough to pay
for drifting. There is also some possibility that a buried gold-bearing
channel occurs near Grouse Creek road at the foot of the draw in the moun-
tain slope in which the main west branch of the creek heads.

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