The Hedley Gold Field, British Columbia ¹

Abstract

THE mining town of Hedley on the Similkameen River, in British Columbia, a little west of the 120th meridian and about twenty miles north of the United States boundary, is the most important mining camp in that district, and is of interest owing to the unusual character of its ores. The town is situated near the mouth of the Twenty Mile Creek, a canyon from 2500 to 4000 feet deep and with walls sloping at angles of 400. The first mining claims were discovered there in 1894, and though many small mineral deposits have been found in the district, there are only two producing mines, the Nickel Plate and the Sunnyside Mines, of which the former is the most productive gold mine in Canada.