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Title: The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Canadian periodicals
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario publishing co
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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five yearswas $2,578,000 in bullion. The actualnet profit was close to $1,000,000.Last year the company milled 31,000tons of ore, and produced from amal-gamation, concentrates and cyanidingsome 16,200 ounces of gold, worthover $820,000. Real gold bricks, worth $20,000each, were produced, and it was a lit-tle mistake he made about the ship-ment of some of these which sodisgiisted the train robber Bill Miner who was captured with twopals aft^r holding up a CanadianPacific Railway express car someyears ago. Bill thought the com-pany had shipped some gold bricks bythe train he stopped, but nonewas there, and all he got was a fewregistered letters and those famousAustralian bonds of which so muchwas heard in a recent session of theDominion Parliament. It was never my good fortune, inmy wanderings in interior British Col-umbia, to get near enough to CampHedley to visit the famous NickelPlate,hut Mr. J. P. ^McConnell, edi-tor of the B. C. Saturday Sunset, ofVancouver, was within the mine not
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GLORY HOLE ON SUNNYSIDE. Ni long ago, and this is what he said atthat time : The workings at the mine consist ofa bewildering mass of electric tramwayswhich cross and recross at differentlevels; of great glory holes and tunnels,some level, some inclined at an angleof about 35 degrees from horizontal; ofgreat cavernous stopes and winzes andchambers blown out of the bowels of theearth. Everywhere are wires for elec-tricity and pipes for air. In none of themines is there a stick of timber. Therock is hard and the roofs are solid,while the mining methods are exceedinglycareful. We first visited the Niclcel Plate. Atthat claim a great glory hole had beenworked. Then the miners bored into thecliff above and below and met in themiddle of the mountain. We went intothe lower tunnel. For hundreds of feetwe walked along the electrically illu-minated underground passage. Then wecame into a series of huge caverns, whoseroofs were supported by immense columnsof ore. We were literally in a mountaino

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