Collection search - Map of the Skagit Gold Fields and the Routes there to Compiled by W.D. PAtterson, L.S. from Miners Informations & the Best Authorities. Published by Mess. Earle & Co. Wharf St. Victoria. [cartographic material]

Possible date could also be 1880 see BC SESSIONSAL PAPERS, Minister of Mines Annual Reports: 1911, pk131, which sets the Skagit Rush as 1879/80 1938, pF008, also refers to the Rudy Creek Rush of 1879.; 1860 is assigned as the approximate date of this map. It was during this time that the surveying parties of the Joint Boundary Commission were making out the 49th parallel. These parties and a number of miners also found some gold deposits in this region and east to the mouth of the Similkameen River. Howay, F.W. & Scholefield, E.O.S., British Columbia From the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. II J.S. Clarke Publ. Col. 1914. pgs 72, 307-308. F5755 S24 V. 2.
1005; 600; 1209; 610-Skagit River; 1000; 1240-Skagit Gold Fields
Distance tables and some travelling difficulties noted in Remarks.
Mess. Earle & Co. -publishers; Britton & Rey, S.F. - Lithographers

Scale 1 inch to 6 miles

The microfiche version is NMC7681