![]() By 1902 the Mother Lode, with its workings then extending up to a mile and a-half underground, was the second largest producer in the entire Boundary District. –Greenwood City PhotoĪll this and a railway, too, spelled prosperity for Deadwood City which had blossomed at an “admirable location, on a series of gently sloping benches, covered with a light growth of timber and with abundance of clear spring water”.Ī visiting newspaper reporter predicted that “Altogether the outlook for Deadwood…is excellent for a big payroll, and when the smelter is blown in and ore is being shipped it certainly gives promise of becoming one of the big producing camps of the Boundary district.”ĭeadwood’s mines had produced 100,000 tons of ore–99.5 per cent of which came from the Mother Lode–compelling the latter’s owners to expand their workforce and infrastructure and to blow-in a second furnace at their smelter. A much reduced Greenwood survives butĭeadwood City, like its fabulously rich Mother Lode Mine, is long gone. The nearby City of Greenwood was the site of a massive smelter for the copper ore from the mountaintop Phoenix Mine. In 1900, and those of other prominent producers in the area. They built their own smelter nextĭoor at Greenwood to process their ore, which finally began to flow Pitiful), the Mother Lode enjoyed “the heaviest mining plant in theĭistrict” and used the latest technology, includingĮlectrically-detonated blasting. with a capital of $1 million (then anĮnormous sum that makes the mine’s founders’ payout even more Prominently for 1,000 feet along the hill in which it occurs, andĪs the B.C. It is one of the most striking in theĭistrict, the outcroppings of the large ore body standing out Out… The surface showings of the Mother Lode may rightly beĭescribed as enormous. “adequacy of equipment and thoroughness of development work carried Pre-inflationary age–and the well-heeled American-owned Boundary Partners sold out for $14,000–a pittance even in that Mother Lode began operation more than four years later, after the When their attention was drawn to a prominent outcropping of copper –īill McCormack and Dick Thompson started the ball rolling in May 1891 Until the blowing up of Ripple Rock in 1958 the Mother Lode Mine was the greatest man-made explosion in Canada.
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