“Zeballos is the best thing that has happened to this province’s gold-mining industry in ages,” the deputy minister of mines for British Columbia stated last week at a meeting here of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
“It is reasonable to expect that the west coast camp will produce between $500,000 and $1,000,000 in gold this year,” said Dr J. F. Walker.
He added: “And I think the expenditure of $50,000 on a wharf and roads and trails at Zeballos speaks for the government’s faith in the venture.” Reprinted from The Northern Miner, April, 1938.
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