The following is an except from "The History of British Columbia 1792-1887, by Hubert Howe Bancroft. The book was published in 1890.

"The Deposits on the north branch of the Thompson came first into notice in 1861, when a tributary from the east, twenty miles above its mouth, was mined to a small extent and yielded eight to ten dollars a day. At the same time the Indians found course gold above the junction of the Clearwater, and on the Barriere River a community of French Canadians was making as fifty dollars a day.(Factor McKay of Kamloops reported in 1864, that seven or eight miles from there some Canadians were making $40 a day. Victoria Weekly Colonist March 29, 1864). In that creek rich quartz and alluvial diggings were reported in the summer of 1869, and regarded as a rediscovery of the spot where a swiss miner ten years before had claimed to have found some ledges.(The swiss died, says the record, without making them know. Victoria Weekly Colonist, July 31, 1869) Besides these localities, Moberly Creek, Adams River, Shushwap River, and Cherry creek received considerable attention during the Big bend and Upper Columbia excitements, between 1864 and 1867."
"Moberly Creek, on the Upper Thompson, was brought into notice at the commencement of the Big Bend excitement, by W. Moberly and Mountaineer Perry, who examined it in 1865, and gave it a good report."