Way up in the British Columbia South Central Interior is a  early 20th century town site and mining site called Bralorne. After leaving Lillooet and going past Gold Bridge the town site remains with its deep underground workings that from time to time and gold price to gold price are reworked.The mine was noted as being a hot one and part of the reason given for abandonment where working temperatures in the lower levels of 103 degrees Fahrenheit.

A  man named Jack Johnson  left yesterday  to start the mill up they have by 2 unconfirmed sources 30,000 tons of stockpiled ore at 1/2 an once per. That should come to 15 thousand ounces of gold at 1400 dollars an once . Jack pours the gold into bricks and places a J on it as well as the initials BGM.

 There are two other residents of Merritt employed at the mine. A mine car from the workings of other years restored on tracks at a residence on Coldwater Avenue.The women’s dad worked at another historic mine: Britannia Beach,  the home of the current mining museum .

We think that that’s good as there are many commercial and social uses for gold these days above the old Kings Treasury that always had strings on its disbursement to pull it back.

Bravo free enterprise and we hope you recover some of your prestige taken by frauds in recent years.

Today in History: March 17th 1987

Patrick Griffiths born.