Miners watching the sluice-flumes and sluice-boxes on Spruce Creek in the Atlin District in 1905.
Off to the creeks! A mining company truck in front of the Stikine Hotel in Telegraph Creek. Although this photograph was taken around 1924 there was still activity in the region.
Richfield in 1868.
A little over half an ounce of gold from 10 1/2 hours of sniping on bedrock on the Similkameen River. Worth more than $150 at today's prices it is proof that the old-timers didn't get all the gold.
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