Excerpt from page 66 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: There are four levels at this mine and we followed the narrow-gauge railway about 750 feet back to the end of the first tunnel. Here the ore comes hurtling down a shaft from the higher levels and is loaded into a mine-car and pushed out to the entrance. It looked like dangerous work back there in the dark and wet interior of the mountain, with no light except that given off by the carbide flares stuck in the caps of the miners. We were glad to be out in the sunshine again. Outside the ore is picked over as it slides down a chute, and the non metallic lumps of rock are thrown out before it is trucked to railhead at Lumby for shipment to the smelter. Some of the samples shown us looked rich enough to satisfy any investor.
