The blend of these personalities now manifests itself in the first of a series of books designed to aid both the occasional and the serious prospector throughout B. C.'s many gold-producing regions. [...] Rodger Touchie 8 GOLDPANNING IN THE CARIBOO Jim Lewis demonstrates the art of panning Below, new prospectors are born with the discovery of 'colour' SECTION OONNEE THE ESSENTIALS Nothing lights up the human imagination quite like the flash of gold. [...] Every now and then, lift the pan clear of the creek and shake it vigorously, using the same circular motion to concentrate the gold and heavy sands. [...] It's a tributary of Wolf Railroad and the lure Creek, which flows into Antler Creek from of a wage drew many miners away from the the west just below what used to be the gold fields in 1885. [...] This is located in one of scale operations were the richest areas of the Cariboo! on Antler Creek; In 1932, a private company managed to upper Antler Creek had just one lease in work the exposed section of the channel progress.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 917.11/75
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781895811339 9781459330016
- LCCN
- F1089.C3
- LCCN Item number
- L494 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (96 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00213483 (OCoLC)431548201 (CaOOCEL)419791
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD 7
- SECTION ONE: THE ESSENTIALS 10
- SECTION TWO: THE CARIBOO'S GOLD-BEARING CREEKS 34
- CHAPTER 1 ANTLER CREEK 38
- CHAPTER 2 CUNNINGHAM CREEK 46
- CHAPTER 3 QUESNEL FORKS 52
- CHAPTER 4 LIGHTNING CREEK 66
- CHAPTER 5 WILLOW RIVER 78
- CHAPTER 6 HIXON CREEK 88
- APPENDIX 93
- GOLD COMMISSIONER OFFICES 93
- CREEK INDEX 95
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS 96