This Daisy Bell property is located south of the South Fork of Woodbury Creek (Lendrum Creek), about 3 kilometres by road from the Kootenay Florence mine.
A rusty veritcal fracture striking east and containing several centimetres of quartz and locally galena is followed in the workings. The host rock is reported as either a fine-grained mica schist or limestone of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Milford Group.
One report describes the ore as occurring as fissure and cavity fillings and replacement bodies in limestone. The limestone occurs in relatively thin bands and tends to be vuggy and cavernous in places.
From 1948 to 1951, the Daisy Bell recorded a total ore production of 150 tonnes. From this 35,147 grams of silver, 23,352 kilograms of lead and 9,490 kilograms of zinc were produced.
In 1901 the King Solomon Mines Co. obtained 35 claims at the mouth of Woodbury Creek and built a concentrator there. In 1903 the company obtained the Daisy claim. By the end of 1904 this company owned 60 Crown-granted claims in this vicinity. A small number of men were employed through 1910, the latter years being limited to assessment work only. After this period of activity these claims apparently reverted to the Crown and no further activity is reported until 1928.
The Princess Creek Mining Co. Ltd. was organized in 1928 to develop the R.F.G. and Bell groups consisting of 7 claims. Soma exploration work was carried out the following year on the R.F.G. group. No further activity is reported until 1948. At this time the property consisted of 3 claims, the Florence M, the Daisy, and the Bell, and was owned by J. Cossetto of Ainsworth. Leasers worked the Florence MI. claim during 1948 and 1949. The Woodbury Mines Go. Ltd. was formed in 1950 to develop the Daisy Bell group of 6 claims, their holdings later being increased to 10 claims. Some drifting was done on the Daisy vein and about 1524 metres of diamond drilling was completed. In 1952 the Woodbury Mines Co. extended its holdings to the shore of Kootenay Lake by acquiring the Amazon, Budweiser, Budweiser Frac., and Superior claims from Kaslo Base Metals Ltd. This group of claims had originally been staked by the Canadian Pacific M. & M. Co. in 1696. After 1952 most of the work done by Woodbury Mines Co. was confined to this new group of claims. A total of 396 metres of tunnel was driven, 253 metres of it being on the Superior claim. Diamond drilling underground amounted to 158 metres in four holes. All work by this company ceased in 1953.
The Kaslo Base Metals Co. resumed work on the Amazon-Budweiser group in 1956. The adit on the Superior claim was extended an additional 56 metres. At 302 metres from the portal a fissure vein was intersected which contained a 7 to 10 centimetre width of galena and replacement ore up to a width of 0.6 metre.
