Mike Higbee's Prospectors Cache

Grant County Washington

by Tom Ashworth

Electric City

East of Electric City by .5 miles, at the foot of the east wall of Grand Coolee, in section 14 T28N R30E, is the location of The Electric City Mine. It was a bismuth, beryllium, molybdenum and silver mine that had a by product of a little gold. In the SW corner of section 14, in floor of Grande Coolee, is the Hope No. 1 Mine.

George

Southeast of George, to the Columbia River, in section 22 R18N T23E, in the gravel and terrace gravels along the River you can find placer gold.

Priest Rapids

IN the far southwest corner of the county, near toll bridge junction of route 24 and 243, in sections 10 and 11 T13N R24E, is the Chinaman's Bar Placers. The river gravels yield placer gold.