Wolfenden Road (Brisco)
The Wolfenden brothers cleared land and put up some log buildings, earning money with a trapline.
The Wolfenden brothers cleared land and put up some log buildings, earning money with a trapline.
“We sat down and sliding – not always smoothly or comfortably – from one foothold to another and making sharp angles around rugged corners of the bluff we got to the mouth of a tunnel. Dave… with a smile asked; “How would you like to pack these timbers on your back down there?” pointing at some timbering. No one replied as we were very anxious then to get further into the tunnel to take a long breath.”11
The Paradise mine captured the local imagination in a way that no other mining property in the valley has quite come close to.
Although provincially classified as a small mine, the Mineral King Mine was the largest underground mining enterprise in the Windermere Valley.