barrister, at a sheriff's .sale there,
bought in for $25,ooo 00 the well
known property, acting for inter
ests the identity of which he re
fused to disclose."
The mine was for many years
the subject of litigation In the
Courts of Canada, and thousands
■were made and lost in sales of
the company's stock, but as far as
Is known, not a dollar in profit was
ever actually taken from the mine
Itself, according to Judge H. B.
I/eFevre, who was Interested in the
mine shortly after its discovery,
and at one time president of the
company.
Sensational Strike
“One of the most sensational
strikes In the history of the north,
assays of ore taken from cross
cuttings of a stringer of ledge
that averaged 18 inches, at various
depth?, were from $800.00 a ton
to $1,400.00 a ton, and caused sud
den visions of great wealth, to the
engbwera who grubstaked the
prospectors in the late '00s' Judge
IcFevre said. ,
“At one 1 accumulated 30,
000 abases of the stock, for which 1
gras offered *30,000.00. Our belief
. |n tte fabulous wealth of the mine
was such that I refused the offer
as an insult to my intelligence,"
Judge LePevre reminisced.
Beginning: Of Mine
Judge LePevre was a member of
an engineers' party that was mak
ing a survey for the White Pass
and Yukon Railroad in 1898, when
three prospectors appeared at Cari
bou Crossing, where the party was
cginping, and showed the engineers
the samples of ore they had taken
from the Atlin district.
