The Slough Creek benches, since their discovery in 1881, have been

Slough Creek worked by Chinese companies, which included the Point Hydraulic

Benches (2. Mining Company, Tong Sing Tong, Dang Sing Dang, and others. For

and 3). some years the Point Company was managed by J. Wendle, of Barker-

ville, and in later years W. M. Hong, of Barkerville, has been in charge

of the operations. Water for hydraulicking is brought by ditch from Montgomery, New,

and Nelson Creeks, and also by ditch and siphon across Devils Lake Creek from Jack

of Clubs, Pinkerton, and Burns Creeks. An extensive area of bedrock about 4,000 feet
long and 600 feet or more wide has been laid bare by hydraulicking.

Operations during the last few years have been on a greatly reduced scale, by
reason of the higher operating costs and the lower gold content of marginal gravel that
is overlain by increased depths of barren overburden.

Production of placer gold from the section has been large and is given in Table V.

Eric Rask, of Wells, holds one placer lease at the head of Devils Lake

Rask Creek. A small hydraulic pit was opened and operated since 1943 on

Hydraulic (8). the east side of the road at the divide between Devils Lake and Chis-

holm Creeks. A small amount of water for hydraulicking is collected
by ditch from small tributaries along the east side of the valley. The pit has been
abandoned, and in 1947 Rask was preparing to open a new pit on the east side of the
road about 1,000 feet north of the old one.

Leo Bedford and K. Huttula, of Wells, have a half interest in the
Leo Bedford’s Barton lease lying on the west side of Devils Lake Creek just north of
Hydraulic (7). Hong’s siphon. Water for hydraulicking is obtained, by arrangement,

from Hong’s ditch which runs along the hillside just above the pit.
Bedrock gravel lying about 100 feet above Devils Lake Creek was first encountered in
a drift. Later a small hydraulic pit was opened up and advanced about 260 feet
westward.

Four leases on Coulter Creek are held by the Julius Powell estate and
Coulter Creek J. Chouse, of Wells, and his two partners. The ground, first hydrau-
Hydraulic (1). licked by Julius Powell since about 1924 and latterly by J. Chouse, is

a buried channel of Coulter Creek lying about 30 feet above and on
the north side of Coulter Creek. The pit is about 1,109 feet long and 250 feet wide.
Bedrock gravel is overlain by from 25 to 100 feet of boulder-clay. The bedrock gradient
is about 10 per cent. Water for hydraulicking, from a ditch system that collects the
run-off from upper Coulter Creek, is under a head of about 150 feet. The drainage
area is small and little water is available from mid-July onward.

In 1947 the ground was under option to Alvo von Alvensleben. The first clean-up,
made on July 10th after sixty-five days of piping, is reported to have amounted to 186
oz. of crude gold from an area of approximately 25,000 square feet of bedrock.

Production of placer gold is given in Table V.

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