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x IN LOVING MEMORY of Peter Curran Dunlevey.

CHRONICLES OF THE CARIBOO 27
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new Cariboo Wagon Road would kill that, and when the road reached
Soda Creek in the fall of ’63, he left Sellers at Beaver Lake and start-
ed a hotel, saloon, store and ranch at Soda Creek.

But he continued to dabble in mining from there, culminating in
his Island Mountain quartz venture. He spent a fortune there trying
to extract the gold from the rebellious ore, which the assays indicated
was in it, and failed only because, at that time, there was no known
process of doing it commercially. And, mark you, the Island Mountain
ore IS extra rebellious; for, the present company mining it have to
use an 88 percent cyanide acid solution, while at the Cariboo Gold
Quartz they use cnly a 49 percent solution.

This brings our stery up to the present day.

Jim Sellers must have been sincere in his regard for Agat, the el-
der Taghliel girl; for he later married her—frontier fashion—and she
proved a good and faithful wie.

Likewise Moffitt tcok a Shuswap girl from Soda Creek and Dun-
Jevey a Dene beauty from Wort Alexandria. Sons of the three were my
schoolmates at St. Joseph’s Mission; while my sisters were schoolmates
of the Dunlevey and Moffitt girls at the St. Ann’s Convent across the
yard.
Dunlevey died at Soda Creek and was buried in the St. Joseph’s Mis-
sion cemetery in consecrated ground. So he must have renounced his
Free Masonry before he died and returned to the faith of his fathers.

His grave lies neglected and forgotten save for the thorny guard
that is a tangle of wild rose bushes which, in their season, are a mass
of lovely pink buds and blocnis, shedding their short lived glory and
their passing petals o’er the grave below. Parting these bushes one

may read cn the headstone:

Born at Pittsburg, PA., U.S. A., October 21, 1834.

Died October 15th, 1904.
Requiescat in Pace — AMEN

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