NORTH-WESTERN DISTRICT (No. 1).

This is a group of eight claims staked on a new discovery by Joe Bussinger

Big Thing. near the south end of Tutshi lake and northerly from the Jessie. The owner

reports the showing on this group to occur at about 4,000 feet altitude and

to be similar to, though lower in grade than, the Jessie showing. Assays of from a trace to $2
in gold and about 2 per cent. copper are reported to have been obtained.

PLACER-MINING.
Report BY HERBERT CARMICHAEL,
DESCRIPTION OF PLACER PROPERTIES.

During the season of 1929 there was considerable activity amongst the placer-miners and
a number of the properties give promise of becoming producers of some size.

Lake Surprise Mining Co., Ltd—This company is working on Ruby creek, which flows into
Surprise lake on the north side; work was started this year by building a flume and hydraulick-
ing with the object of reworking old ground. This creek yielded large returns to individual
placer-miners, but was never carefully cleaned up. Matson & Schultz have leased the property
from the above company, which has its headquarters in Seattle.

Boulder Creek.

Boulder creek flows into Surprise lake 3 miles east of Ruby creek. Boulder Creek Placers
owns the whole of this creek and it is controlled and operated by the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Company of Canada, Limited.

There is some length of ground on this creek that was never worked, and to get sufficient
grade to work this, 500 feet of bed-rock flume was built this year on a lower grade than the old
flume, the total distance back from the lake being 2,000 feet. Piping is being done with a 4-inch
monitor under a 100-foot head, the top of the bank being 55 feet above the flume; but this bank
does not contain any yalues and none are expected until the unworked ground on bed-rock is
reached.

Otter Creek.

Otter creek flows into Surprise lake on the south side, a short distance from the outlet of
the lake. The Compagnie Francaise des Mines d’or du Canada, of Paris, France, under the
management of J. H. Moran, controls this creek. This ereek has been prospected for a consider-
able distance from the mouth and showed good pay-dirt, but the company has always been short

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of sufficient water to work it. To overcome this difficulty a flume and ditch is being constructed
along the hillside on the south side and from %4 to 1 mile back from Surprise lake. This will
take in the waters of Wright, Idaho, Casino, Union, and eventually Quartz creeks, delivering the
same to a dam high up on Otter creek—a total distance of nearly 9% miles.

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