Delightful Windy View of Hedley Nickle Plate Traditional Cache
240 Jordy: Looks like yet another Ammo can has gone missing. I'm really getting tired of this, but I'm guessing someone with a geocaching account is having fun collecting ammo cans in the area.
Delightful Windy View of Hedley Nickle Plate
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In 1939 the nickel Plate returned to full production and Hedley was visited by tragedy when a thaw loosened slab of Stemwinder Mountain plunged 1,000 feet to the outskirts of Hedley Mascot Town site and struck two blocks of houses. Two persons were killed, and 23 persons escaped injury in the slide which destroyed or damaged nine homes. “I’ve lived here since 1907” said Scottish born resident Neil McLeod, “and I’ve seen mony a bit of rock come down; but no the like o’this” “I was sleeping lightly. It was a roar like thunder, louder and louder. I got up. “I saw it hit like a bullet and whizz past me. There was a flash and spray of splinters from Strand’s house (Where Peter Strand 52 and his housekeeper Mrs. Johanna Green, 53, were crushed in their beds)
A policeman upon viewing the carnage caused by boulders ranging up to 200 tons apiece, declared that it was a miracle that the death toll had not been higher. R.H. Stewart, managing director of the Hedley Mascot Company, announced that surviving houses in the danger zone would be moved, and the provincial government offered free building lots to the 15 families affected. The mines continued in operation (despite a devastating fire in the upper works of the mill in 1940 and a serious threat of flooding to Hedley in 1948) until 1954, when it became apparent that the maverick Mascot Fraction was giving out. In 1955 history came full circle and the Mascot, which for so long had been overshadowed by its famous neighbor, ceased to be after withdrawing $13 million from its eight-acre property. Thirty years ago, Harry D. Barnes marvelled at the Mascot’s wealth: Seldom in the history of lode mining in British Columbia has so small an area produced so much wealth in gold as the small mascot fraction.
The GNR, quick to retreat, discontinued its Hedley Keremeos line Then the fabulous Nickle Plate, once the leading gold camp of Canada, was shut down. At the time of closing its owners claimed to be awaiting new technology which would enable them to extract the remaining gold ore more efficiently.
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