SECTION II

HARDROCK MINING

• Ruby - The First Okanogan County Seat (p. 16)
• Hiram "Okanogan" Smith (p. 20)
• The Blewett Mining District (. 27)
• Milling Machines (p. 32)
• The Arrastra (p. 34)
• Power Drilling (p. 35)
• Hand Drilling (p. 37)
• Poland-China Mine (p. 39)
• The Palmer Mountain Tunnel (p. 40)
• Investments in Mining (p. 42)
• Monte Cristo and Its Mines (p. 43)
• The Everett and Monte Cristo R.R. (p. 48)
• Slate Creek District (p. 50)
• The Mammoth Mine (p. 54)
• The Azurite Mine (p. 58)
• Work Duties at the Azurite - Don Olling (p. 66)
• The Kikendall Brothers and their Dog Teams (p. 68)
• Charles Ballard (p. 71)
• The Ballard Brothers (p. 76)
• The Knob Hill Mine (p. 80)

SECTION III

PLACER MINING

• The Properties of Gold (p. 83)
• The Similkameen River (p. 86)
• Rich Bar on the Similkameen (p. 87)
• Early Routes of Travel (p. 88)
• Horses, Mules, and Mining (p. 93)
• The Swauk Mining District (p. 98)
• Chain-bucket Dredge (p. 101)
• Diverting Water for Mining (p. 102)
• Recreational Dredging (p. 105)
• The Sluice (p. 107)
• The Rocker (p. 110)
• Beware of the Rattlesnake. (p. 112)
• Keeping Law and Order (p. 113)
• Silver Creek Hotel Rules (p. 114)
• The Gold Pan (p. 115)
• Weighing Your Gold (p. 116)
• Regulations (p. 116)

• Bibliography (p. 118)
• Index (p. 121)

PICTURE 1 - Gold scales with nuggets and vials of gold. The nail was stuck in bedrock at the bottom of the Similkameen River. It may have been there since the 1800's. (sec.3-p.116)

 

PICTURE 2 - Tools of a mining engineer: pocket transit; Robert Peele's Mining Engineers' Handbook, Vol. 1; and field book used by Vernon LaMotte during his years as a mining engineer. (sec.2-p.57)

 

PICTURE 3 - The result of a few days work on the Similkameen River. Similkameen gold is distinctively beautiful, orange in color. (sec.3-p.85)

 

• PICTURE 4 - Hazard Ballard's horses crossing cable suspension bridge in 1935. It was 90 feet from the bottom of the bridge to the Skagit River. (sect.1-p.14)

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