with the opening of the Hull Mines in 1887, when the
City of Nelson was inaugurated as a mining centre.
Smelters were established throughout the area, not-
ably the establishment at Trail, where Consolidated
Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. operates the largest metal-
lurgical plant in the world. The silver-lead proper-
ties in the Slocan district were soon producing, and
presently the East Kootenay was adding its quota
trom the Sullivan, St. Eugene and North Star mines.
In 1891 the Mother Lode was brought in near Green-
wood and the Granby near Phoenix, both fine low-
grade deposits of copper and gold, soon to be follow-
ed by the Nickel Plate at Hedley.

The search spread to the Coast, where the famous
Britannia Mine was opened in 1898. In 1910 the
Granby Company began to look farther afield and
established itseli at Anyox, which soon became an
important centre. A few years later attention was
drawn to fine deposits of gold-silver ore at the head
of Portland Canal, on the edge of Alaska, and almost
at once the Province found itself richer by another
splendid mine as the far-renowned “Premier’’ came
into production.

The last few years has seen the rapid development
of gold mines in the newly-created Bridge River dis-
trict. Such producers as the Pioneer and Bralorne

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