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it at present. A tunnel 104 feet long was run into the bank and the channel crosscut. Mr. Wendle states that there was as much as 14 feet of gravels in the channel which is 60 feet wide, and that they showed values of about 75 cents a cubic yard, and that there were small values in the glacial gravels above. In 1908 and 1909 a ditch 4 miles long from Cariboo creek, one of the best water rights in the district, was constructed and in 1910 hydraulicking was carried on by W. F. Gore, who purchased the property from Mr. Wendle. About $700 in gold is said to have been recovered, but only a small amount of ground was moved. In 1912 the mine was operated by Messrs. Meyers, Hazlett, and Taylor, apparently with poor results, and since that time the property has lain idle. The main ditch is nearly 500 feet above the bottom of the pit, but does not extend to the head of the pit. The water flows down to a lower ditch from which a pipe-line extends to the pit, furnishing a head of about 275 feet. The ditch is still in good condition except for a few hundred feet near the upper end where it is cut in gravels and where slides have occurred. There are splendid facil- ities for disposal of the tailings and a large supply of water can be made available. The main difficulties in the way of successful operation of the mine are the great thickness of the material filling the channel, the occur- rence of boulder clay at the top which renders it dangerous to place a monitor close to the face in the pit, and the low average gold values in the deposits.

Carey Creek

Carey creek—which is named after Pat Carey who did considerable mining and prospecting work on Grouse creek and vicinity—lies between Canadian and Grouse creeks and flows into Pleasant Valley creek. The only work done on the creek was at the mouth, where a tunnel was run upstream about 60 feet and a shaft 33 feet deep sunk near the end of the tunnel. The shaft was not sunk to bedrock as a strong flow of water was met with in the bottom. Some gold was found on bedrock in the tunnel near the mouth, but none in the shaft. The work was done about 1914 by Pat Carey, Bob Buchanan, and Harold Mason.

Canadian Creek

Canadian creek (Figure 18) is a short creek between French and Grouse creeks and flows northeast into Pleasant Valley creek. One branch heads on the northeast slope of mount Proserpine; the branch coming from the southeast heads near some small ponds on Grouse Creek flats, which are also in part drained by another stream, flowing into Pleasant Valley creek. There is a rock ridge 300 feet high lying between the creeks, so that the valley of Canadian creek is bounded by rock rims. The valley bottom, however, is broad and is for the most part drift-filled to a considerable depth. In the lower part, at a point 3,000 feet up from the junction with Pleasant Valley creek, there is a marked increase in the grade of the creek. The steep gradient continues for 1,300 feet, in which distance the creek has a total fall of 100 feet and flows for part of the distance over bedrock. There is a high bank of boulder clay on the west side of the creek along the steepest