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INDUSTRIAL NOTES. 



At the present time the chief industry of Hedley is 

 mining, and the activity of the district depends on the 

 operation of the mines and the reduction works of the 

 Hedley Gold Mining Company, and to prospecting and 

 development work on mining claims in the surrounding 

 region. 



The Hedley Gold Mining Company employs about 60 

 men in the Nickel Plate and Sunnyside mines on the top 

 of Nickel Plate mountain, and operates a system of electric 

 and gravity tramways which carry the ore from the mines 

 to the mill. The electric tramway is about a mile in 

 length, while the gravity tramway is 10,000 feet (3,048 

 m.) in length, and drops nearly 4,000 feet (1,219 i^i)- 



The mill is situated at the town of Hedley and treats an 

 average of 160 tons of ore per day. It is equipped with 40 

 stamps, two tube mills, and cyanide tanks, and is operated 

 either by water power or steam. The ore being treated 

 has an average value of about $1 i.oo to the ton from which 

 an extraction of 95 per cent of gold is made. Up to 1913 

 a total of about $3,250,000 in gold has been recovered from 

 Nickel Plate ores mined. 



REFERENCES. 



1. Dawson, G. M. Report on the Kamloops Map sheet, 

 G.S.C. Vol. VH, 1894. 



2. Camsell, Charles. Memoir No. 2. Geol. Survey of 

 Canada, 1910. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE. 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



124 m. Bromley — For four miles (6-4 km.) beyond 



' :^o km. Hedley the rocks along the railway 



133 m. Allison — are Palaeozoic slates, limestones, 



214 km. and schists, good exposures of which can be seen 



in the bluffs which face the river at several 



points. Shortly after crossing Sterling creek, 



the railway enters a batholithic body of 



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