Greenwood City the "Key"
to Boundary Creek District
BY: BG EDITOR
Greenwood, B.C., c. 1900
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 06, 2019 — GREENWOOD, BC (BG)
In 1897, the British Columbia Mining Record gave this report[1] on Greenwood's mining prospects, and the city itself. As we can see documented in the photographs from the Mining Museum, the mines represented a complex mechanical industry and capital investment.
Greenwood City and Midway
THE RIVAL TOWNS OF THE GREAT BOUNDARY CREEK DISTRICT
"Those who have been through the Boundary Creek district and examined its wealth of mineral resources predict that it will be the greatest camp in British Columbia. All it requires is transportation facilities to enable the mines to put forth their ore.
During the past year initiatory steps were taken to provide railway accommodation for the district, and although construction has been delayed there is every reason to
expect that the iron horse will be running through that part of the province before the close of 1897. When that takes place the towns of Greenwood City and Midway will go ahead with leaps and bounds.
Which will attain the greater prominence of the two is difficult to say at this time. Both will flourish — both will become large and important mining towns.
During the past year each has progressed rapidly in sympathy with the important mining development going on around them. But when the mines become shippers, with proper transportation facilities, not only Greenwood City and Midway but other towns will grow through the rich and boundless wealth of Boundary Creek. [ ]
Greenwood City, the "key" to the Boundary Creek district, is peculiarly advantageously situated as regards the mining camps which surround it on all sides. Hardly a year old, the town now boasts of general mercantile stores carrying as full a line of supplies as any in the interior, and nearly every branch of business and profession is represented.
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