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face of the tunnel the depth to bedrock was found to be 27 feet.! The
position and depth of the buried channel at this point were thus determined.
A second tunnel was then started 100 feet lower down Antler creek and
nearer the level of the creek, and was run upstream for 450 feet along
the course of the old channel. Where it passed beneath tunnel No. 1 it
was about 7 feet above bedrock. In 1899 the property of the Bradford,
Cariboo, and Yukon Gold Fields, Limited, was acquired by the Cariboo
Deeps, Limited, a syndicate of which Mr. H. E. C. Carry, of Vancouver,
is manager and chief stockholder. The tunnel was extended in 1900 and
was found to be running with the steep rimrock of the buried channel
close on the left hand. The channel was crossed in two places and was
found to prospect better than the sides, the gold being coarse and well
worn, but not in sufficient quantity to pay. The bedrock was hard and
smooth and without crevices, and was, therefore, unfavourable for holding
gold. Work was continued in 1902, but gold was not found in paying
quantities. Water pressure in the deep channel also caused difficulties in
prospecting.? In 1904 Henry Boursin relocated part of the ground for-
merly held by the Cariboo Deeps, Limited, and continued the tunnel in
the hope of locating more favourable bedrock, but apparently was un-
successful. The total length of the tunnel is 728 feet. In 1919 six of
the stockholders of the company ran a tunnel in from the level of Maloney
flat and sank a shaft to connect with the upper end of the tunnel, with a
view to locating pay gravels and hydraulicking with Antler Creek
water, but no further work was done.

The hydraulic pit on the left bank of Antler below Maloney flat (Figure
2) was opened up by J. Campbell and the Houser brothers, but did not pay,
as the ground had been already drifted and the deepest part of the bedrock
channel could not be cleaned out owing to its low level. Most of the pay
is said to have been on a rock bench on the north side about 10 feet above
the deep channel. A large amount of work has been done in searching for
the continuation of this channel from the hydraulic pit down to Sawmill
flat, thirty-one test pits and shafts having been sunk, one of which above
the cabins at Sawmill flat is said to be 71 feet deep. A prospect tunnel
was also run in 1915 from the level of Sawmill flat by Campbell and the
Houser brothers. The tunnel is about 110 feet long and several side drives
extend for short distances. Some gold was found, but no definite rock
channel was located.

The most recent work along this stretch of Antler creek was done by
Morris Anderson, who sank a shaft 40 feet deep on the left bank just above
Maloney flat. He holds that a buried channel extends along the left side
of the creek, since it was reported that a tunnel run from the level of Antler
into the left bank about 100 feet above the mouth of Groundhog creek
showed the surface of the bedrock to be dipping into the hill. It may be
that the deep channel on the right side below Maloney flat crosses over
above the flat, but sufficient work has not been done to determine whether
this is so. The bedrock in the Anderson shaft is probably too high to be in
this channel.

1Ann. Rept., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1898, p. 978.
2Ann. Repts., Minister of Mines, B.C., 1900, p. 234; 1902, pp. 93. 117.