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 Industrial Notes. 



Coal mining is the principal industry carried on in the 

 neighbourhood of Princeton. The coal-bearing rocks cover 

 an area of about 40 square miles (103 sq. km.) and virtually 

 the whole of this area is taken up in coal claims. Prospect- 

 ing and development work are being carried on at a number 

 of points in the basin, but shipment of coal is being made 

 only from the collieries of the Princeton Coal and Land 

 Company, situated on the east side of Similkameen river, 

 near Princeton. The coal is mined by an entry driven on 

 the dip of the seam. The method employed is pillar and 

 room, with the use of coal cutting machines. 



Two and a half miles (4-02 km.) southeast of Princeton, 

 cement works have been erected, which are capable of 

 manufacturing 2,000 barrels of cement daily. The raw 

 materials for the cement are all obtained from a thick bed 

 of Oligocene age, and the lime from a bed of pure cr5^stalline 

 limestone in the Palaeozoic rocks underlying the Oligocene. 



On Copper Mountain, 12 miles (19-3 km.) south of 

 Princeton large bodies of low grade copper-gold ore are 

 being actively prospected by the British Columbia Copper 

 Company, and it is expected that actual mining will soon 

 be under way. 



References. 



1. Camsell, Charles Preliminary Report on Part of the 



Similkameen District, G.S.C., No. 

 986, 1906. 



Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



ANNOTATED GUIDE (Continued). 



136m. Princeton — Alt. 2,120 (646-15 m.). On 



219 km. leaving Princeton the railway follows the valley 

 of the Similkameen river for a short distance, 

 and then enters a tunnel which cuts through a 

 narrow neck separating the Similkameen from 

 Tulameen valley. From this point westward 

 to Tulameen the line lies in Tulameen valley 

 passing from one side of the river to the other 

 as is found necessary. 



