/^C^rt^UjUtA.aJ ^L^'( i ; / I f The lardeau eagle. "��� r .3 r VOL II. NO. 22. FERGUSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JULY 11, 1900. $2.00 A YEAR. THECCPLOCALITY A Number of Promising Claims Now Receiving Attention. The Free Coinage, Copper Glance, Triune, Yorkshire Lass, Morning Glory, Virginia, Luoky Jim, Black Eagle, Nora .Lee, Golden Gate, Early Bird, I. X. L., and Alios. The Silver Cup, with its group of claims, is bo well known to the general public that the EAOLE need not dwell on its merits or demerits, but simply take it as a starting point, a landmark, In speaking of the claims adjacent thereto, and whieh are not so well known. The geological formation of this section of tbe country, or southwest of the great "lime dyke," are slates and schists with small beltsjjf limestone occurring frequently, the limestone and schists forming contact veins which carries large deposits of ore. To the northwest of the Silver Cup, on the same veins, is the Free Coinage, Copper Glance, and Triune group. ��� On the Free Coinage claim considerable development work was done in 1897 and '98 and some very .rich ore encountered, but work has been discontinued since the above mentioned period. The Copper Glance adjoins the Free Coinage and is fairly accessable, with large surface Bhowings of rich ore. Tbe Trinne group comprises three claims, which are now being worked by energetic lessees. The ore exposures are Immense, boing from 12 to 22 lnohes, solid shipping, and sufficiently rich to stand packing from the claims to the wagon road. Sidelining, on parallel veins with the Cup, to the southeast, are the Yorkshire Lass, Morning Glory, Virginia, I/uky Jim No. 1 and No. 2. The York- s&Ae Lass and Morning Glory have 'lltt'Y- v.'iriTjifp.^u.. -v,'-'""'. SV5 *f"\ Virginia group a shaft ia sunk 30 feet, and is now being pushed on to greater depth. The shaft exposes quantities of ore of good values. A trail leads from the property to Trout lake, about Similes. The Lucky Jim group 1b to be vigorously worked this summer, the owners P. H. Murphy and G. S. McLeod, with ��� party of men are now on the ground. The work will consist in sinking a main shaft 60 feet. The vein is 5 ft. ���ride, between walls composed of quartz and pyrites. In the centre of tbe vein is a leader of pyrites from two to eight inches wide, rich in gold values. From assays made the lowest returns were $292, the highest $494. .These values are enormous and with the work now in hand will show the future of the property. Sidelining tbe above claims comes the Black' Eagle, Nora Lee, Golden Gate, Early Bird, I. X. L., Alice and other claimB. The necessary development work to properly demonstrate the value of all these claims is still in obeyanoe. The Eaole would like to see capital come to the rescue of tbe prospector. He has done all he can do. He has given the claims his best thought, bis strong muscle and is prepared to reciprocate with capital in every way if he can only do so. The properties so far developed in the distrlu are successful a fact which should lead purtios seeklug Investment Into this camp. SOMETHING ON AT THE CUP. But at Present It ia Shrouded in Mystery.���The New Manager. Manager Didisheim and three experts, whose names .were not obtainable, arrived in the camp on Sunday, and on Monday they went up to the Silver Cup, apparently to size up the mine with a view to directing future development and operations, The Silver Cup mine iB all right. If it was not. It would not stand the red- tape management existing one month. They have lots of ore in sight, after six long years of work. Tbere has been a lot of money spent, but the mine has more than re-paid It all with a handsome balance. The mine management is governed by a provincial manager and his staff, these in turn are directed by a London board and God only knows how many othor officials. L. Didisheim, the latest acquisition in the way of a manager, who recently got the job, because tho late manager would not become a nonenity and be boshed around like a child, is a nice man���in his own estimation. In order to better show his Immense personal importance and serve hia company on the "sucker" plan, he has given instructions that no visitors bo allowed in the miue, and that tho Eagle in particular, publish no Information concerning their doings. An Eaole reporter endeavored to secure the'mission of the "experts" from Mr. Didisheim, but in broken English he told us to go to blazes, that we were always lying about his property, and otherwise made ourselves obnoxious in his presence. The Eaole doesn't give a continental about being called "gentlemanly" names, but the point is this. If tbe management desire their doings to be continually clouded in mystery, are they figuring on gulling someone'' The truth never hurts a good thing. And if this great hi-yu manager would condescend to give us information which is considered public information by every other mining man in the camp, tbere would be no errors. Tbe Silver Cup is looked upon on the outside as our banner mine; and for this reason the results of their ore shipments, etc,, would be of immense benefit to the camp. But this company has an uugentlemanly and abusive manager, swelled with his own importance, a man who despises "white" people,, anything British except his salary, and for that reason nothing can be gleaned from this quarter. The Eaole does not like to become personal, but if ever Manager Didisheim trys to run a "sandy" on us again we'll strip him of his yr'.l.iw leggings, and otherwise knock.the supreme crap out of his foreign pride. And whenever we feel like publishing anything concerning, the Cup, we will just pro- oeed to do so, Manager Didisheim to the contrary notwithstanding. INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY The Initiative Movement For Organization Now Being Taken in Vancouver. The Vancouver Independent, tbe cleanest and best edited labor paper in tho p^fvlnce, give.-, r. \*^-?l'; 3", u.^ccu^t. of the movement ir/ Vancouver to form an Independent Labor Party in Vancouver and if possible throughout the province. A convention recently held in Vancouver gives promise of rapid and influential development. The Independent says: "Tbe idea is similar to that which has been successfully carried out in Winnipeg; it takes into tbe ranks of those in sympathy with and willing to secure legislation for the working classes. The object is to study economics and vote for the party's candidate whenever it Bees fit to make a nomination for any representative position. The obligation is that applicants for membership renounce allegiance to the two chief political parties. It is open to all in sympathy with the .objects sought, and while progressive trade unionists have been along the backbone of the party, tbe roll has included inthe Prairie City about an equal number of non-unionist, business and professional men." If the Vancouver committee would take it upon themselves to act as "headquarters," and from there submit questions to union organizations throughout the province by refer end urn vote, the Eaole believes the unity of forces would be quickly brought into working order. By this means the people would be educated up to the system of voting which must come sooner or later, and the pravir.ee rapidly won and governed by the Independent Labor Party���or the peopie. AN KXI'KltlKNCKII HAN'S OPINION. "I. have prospected, lived and worked in mining camps from the Lako of the Woods to Harkervllle (Cariboo) for the last twenty-six years; but I- never was as stuck on a camp as thhMHie" said J. N. Black (Dad), of the Arm of McKinnon & Sutherland, to an Eaole man yesterday. "There never was more development work going.on in the district than this year, and the prospects were never brighter. Business 1b a 100 per cent, better than this time last year. Many new strikes have been made, a half dozen or more shippers added to the list, a dozen men are now working for one last year, tonnage for a railway is being created and everything points to a season of unprecedented prosperity. Why, in another season or two the Silver Cup and Nettie L. will only be among the ordinary producers, as was the case with the Slooun Star In the early days of the Slocan, a mining district In which I am Interested and huvo lived for years." A Practical Mining Men Would Strike the Camp. Assessment and Development is in Full Swing. TOO MANY CHEAP PROMOTERS | ORE SACKING AT THE TRIE An Experienced Miner's Opinion of This Distriot.���Methods JPursued Whioh Blaok Bye Legitimate Investment���New Blood Needed. -Will Wait for the Railway. E. M. Morgan and party left for the Mabel group on Saturday to finish sinking on the lead they are now working upon. As soon as sufficient depth has been attained drifting will be commenced and ore piled on the dump to await transportation facilities. Mr. Morgan is quite satisfied with the prospects of the Mabel group, and speaks glowingly of tbe district's mineral resources in general. He has been in nearly every mining camp in North America, but never before did he see such surface and ore shewings as obtained in this camp. Mr. Morgan finds the "waiting" possibly as much of a struggle as anyone else, but his absolute confidence in tho merits of the district has given him a resolute determination to hang on until the tide does turn. "All we need in the world is a railroad," said Mr. Morgan. "Then good practical mining men will soon arrive on the scene. There's too many cheap-john jacklegs in the camp, looking for something for nothing; and they find it. The result is, thoy go down into the penny ante belt, float a jim-crow company, sell Bhares, find they have a wild-cat, go broke and the shareholders in chorus condemn the country in general, instead of stringing up the "floater." But these things will change when we get a railroad. It's only a matter of time until wo get some really practical mining men into the camp. Until then we will hold .on to our properties, peg away as usual and keep a stiff upper lip. We've got .t'^ij'1'" ai>��i. tne rest ip bot,���H .to ftomft. ���and we'll either bo here or there will be a stranger in��hades." STRAIGHT TD? TO PROSPEOTORS. Work on the Brow, Hunter and Trapper, Luoky Jim, Nettie L., Hazel, Hobo and Good Luck.-- Supplies Being Packed in Every Direction.���Lardeau's Best Year. The Triune Group. S. A. Sutherland and D. Ferguson were up to see tho Triune group on Monday. The lessees, Messrs. Gunn and Lade brothers, are busy taking out and sacking ore. Three men are working in the mine, and are taking out throe tons of clean shipping tore a day. They have about 20 tons ready for pack horses, the only means of transportation they have, and will commence shipping regularly at once. They expect returns of at leaBt $200 to the ton, net. The tunnel is driven in on the lead and all tho ore taken out so far is just what was encountered on the woy in, doing away largely with dead work. As soon as a few shipments are made and they are in far enough, drifting will be commenced. Never in the history of British Columbia was there such a shewing in so short a time. Mr. Sutherland brought down some fine specimens of ore which were being admired by townsmen yesterday and to-day. Needless to say the Ferguson brothers are highly elated with their property, acquired in part only last fall, they having paid only $3,000. cash or one of the claims. It hardly seems possible that three men are taking out nearly a thousand dollars worth of ore a week, but such is the case at the Triune. As soon as the rawhiding season comes around a larger force of men will be put on and the Triune will probably ship more ore than the Silver Cup this winter. The trail recently built by the owners and lessees, unassisted by the government, is fairly passable, but needs further work aoue upon it, to facilitate heavy traffic. The Outcrop's Advice is Applicable in This Camp. Now that it is an assured fact that we will have a number of monied men and mining experts in the Lardeau district this season to iuvestigate tbe inducements we have to offer in mineral claims, It may not be out of place to make a few suggestions to the present owners. We agree tbat the prospector Is the hardest working man of to-day and that he should receive for his work and perseverance the very highest reward obtainable. It is he who puts a pack ou bis back and climbs the rough rugged mountains. He spends weeks away from the sound of human voices and is entitled to every consideration. At tbe same time our district is new and every prospector owns from one to a dozen different claims, and will therefore find it an advantage to put a reasonable prioe on his properties and stay with it. Don't raise the price j when a mining man says he wants it. Yon have other claims und the sale and development of one moans that your chances of getting a good Aguro for another has increased many times. Don't let your imagination run off witli you. Tell the truth, and when an investor has trudged many a weary mile he will find the facts to be us you stated and will have no reason to llml fault, even if he Is worn out. Whon you set a prlco on your claim you will not need the advice of others, so don't ask it. When you are offered your price take it like a man. You will not take a suit of clothes if the tailor raises his price after you havo given him your measure; neither will an investor buy your claim if the price be raised. Don't talk too much. No man can talk all the time and say something. Tell what you have and stop there. A good mechanic when ottered a job will simply say he can do It; a poor .me will talk one to death. But above *11 don't back-cap the other fellows property1.. No man knows-what is hidden in 'tbe rocks. Tunnel Work on the Brow. Messrs. Geo. and J. Lembke are now at work on the Brow, a property in which they are Interested, sidelining the Ajax on the east. They are running a crosscut tunnel to tap what they consider the Nettie L. lead, and are uow in nearly 25 ft. W. Letts was up to the property on Thursday last and speaks well of the shewings on the Brow. Geo. Lembke was in town on Saturday on his way to record some work. He has written to his brother in Vancouver,'stating the circumstances and if the reply is favorable it is possible tbat 75 or 80 ft. more will be driven. This, Mr. Lembke feels certain, will catch tbe big lead at about 100 ft. depth, and expose muoh the same values as found in the Nettie L. He is very anxious that the work be pushed ahead, but lock of sufficient capital is bothering more than Mr. Lembke. Capital Fit the Lardeau. Dr. Spencer,, a it ember of the Lon don Chamber ol' Mines, who Is Interested in several properties in tlio Lardeau, will be in this district about the middle of July in the Interests of British capitalists. Another Rich Fool Creek Oroup. A force of men started last week from Comaplix to do a large amount of work by contract system, on tho Hunter and Trapper claims at tho head of Pool creek, and spendid results aro expected from the commencement, as surface samples from a one foot pay- streak have assayod $4110.80 and $284.32 per ton, and from u nineteen foot vein of eoncoutt..*lng are $75.00 per ton of concentrates. The group Is owned by the Canadian Mutual Mining und Development Co. of Toronto, which has made excellent progress tho past fifteen months with seven out of thirteen of its properties.���Com. Nettle I.. Manager Pool made a hurried trip to the Nettie L. on Monday and left ih the evening to be in Revelstoke for the company's annual meeting. As soon as the meeting is over a program for the future development of the mine will be made public. Mr. Pool could only assure the Eaole that they would make things hum from this date. Regular oro shipments are still being made; but a larger output will soon be made. This will moan an additional force of mon. And thus the payroll constantly Increases. lish, San Francisco and New York, with a viow to buying a controlling interest or outright, but they have so far declined to change their present plans of a syndicate to develop 'the property, and incorporate a Canadian company to reap the rewards the owners expect from it..���Com. Hazel, Hobo and Uood. Luck. Sam-. McColl struck [the camp last week; to commence assessment work, with Messrs. D. Dunbar and S. P. W. Gainer on the Hazel, Hobo and Good Luck clulms, located on the Horn ledge, above the Hob Roy, some two miles from Circle City. Luoky .liin. Jas. Grant is in town getting supplies to take up to the Lucky Jim, the well known gold property, which is being developed a good deal this season. In another column will be found an account of the work to date. Silver King. The Chesnut brothers left on Monday morning for Gainer creek to do assessment work on the Silver King. A PROMINENT MINING MAN. Dr. M. F. Chesnut Looking After His Companies' Interests. Dr. M. F. Chesnut of Rossland, who is extensively interested in mining in the Lardo-Dttncan country, just over the divide, has returned to the camp after an absence of several months, and to-day in company with superintendent J. W. Westfall has gone to the Old Gold mines. The Dr. is here in the interests of the company of which he is secretary. He has just let a large tunnelling contract and will remain until the contractors have taken in their outfit and commenced work. The company is and has been working day and night, developing their property with satisfactory .results. Their future plans are to contlnne along the earns gonoral JUtlL.- hirclofc. ���" To'* ";��� ed with increased vigor. The party will be gone a number of days. They will also examine other properties In the vicinity of the Old Gold before their return to Ferguson. LAURIER MUST ACT. W. G. Alcock of New Westminster, says: "With regard to the Japanese whom Sir Wilfrid Laurier seemed to be afraid to touch with a ten-foot pole, they are a greater menace to the white man than the Chinese. They are more aggressive, and work cheaper. They are depriving thousands of loyal British subjects of the means of a livelihood. They will work at $4 to |5 per month and board. They fairly swarm around the canneries, the mills, and factories, and as section-men on the railroads and on the steamboats. They work as carpenters, shoemakers, hurnessmakers, 'tailors, painters and boatbuilders. Thoy bring their rice and other provisions from Japan. They are not only taking tbe very living from white laborers and mechanics, but running businesses; already many white men who had just their daily labor to depend on for the support of their family, have had to break up their little homes, sell thtir furniture to a second-hand man and go across the line to seek to make a fresh start, whore thore aro fow Chinamen, nnd where Jnps aro not allowed toilund. This is but the beg inning. God alone knows what tho end will be. Natal can stop thorn: Now Zealand and the Australian Colonies can stop thorn; but for somo unaccountable reason they must bo allowed to overrun thlB provinco: then tho. North West Territories and Manitoba, aud it will not take long at tho present rate to give Ontario and Quebec a taste of what it is to compete with rtce-eating coolies. I consider this the overshadowing question In Canadian politics to-day. We havo asked for bread, and have been given a stone." > Not Sufficient Development Work Done to Criticize as Yet PROMOTERS WILL BE TO BLAME In Most Cases if There Aro Fail' ures��� There is Plenty of Pick and Choice, But Proved Properties Do Not Soil at Two for a Cent Apiece.���Time Alone Will TelL The Eagle was accosted tho other day by a newcomer. Said ho: "I don't see anything .tbout the wildcats in the Eagle at all: you seem to ba giving nothing but tho bright side of it; and the jerk-water companies operating here and there- in the district are all supposed to be representatives of the district, on the outside. You should give both siies." Well, stranger, there arc quite a few mere prospectB and an accasional wild-cat in this camp, as in all others; but there has not been sufficient development work done, on many of them, as yet to demonstrate their value, nor have they reached a stage where criticism would be just, for it takes time and money to find out these things, and no man can see further into tho ground than another. We will admit that some properties are being: "boomed" in the east which in the opinion of local mining men, are not worth two-bits; but the promoters in every case bought them for a son? and palmed them off on an unsuspecting public as "a good thing." This is the curse of the camp. Outside opinion is prejudiced against the district after a number have been bitten by this means. But there is this to be said. Every property in the Lardeau taken hold of by competent mining men, with capital, has been a success. The Silver Cup and Nettie L. are examples of what proper development has accomplished. The local owners of various properties are doing good work, but they lack tbe means to push development the year round. This state of affairs can only be remedied with a railroad. With tbe advent of transportation a new era will dawn. The one-horse promoter will have to take a walk and buyers will be looking for properties, not holders seeking for a purchaser. There is ups and downs In every occupation, but the large number of men now at work In this camp and the certainty of largely increased ore shipments, even under the present adverse circumstances, this winter, holps to keep the bright side predominant. IT SOUNDS WELL. Outside Investors After It. Tlie owners of the Silver Bolt group have beon approached this season by throe representatives of capital, Kng- Is It not about time the misleading official title of Lardeau mining district for the Fish River camp was altered? The Indians name for Fish rivor is the lu-Comaplix. and there seems to be no reason why t he camp should not be known by the name of the recording o'ice instoad of by that universally appropriated in popular parlance to ���mother district altogether.���Revel- s i Ite Herald. As a Country it Covers More Than One-Third of the Entire British Empire. The area of Canada" is ,1,45fl,3o3 square miles. It constitutes more than one-third of the whole British empire, and is only about two hundred thousand square miles smaller than the continent of Europe. In other words, if Canada were placed upon Europe the whole of tho continent would be covered, with the exception of Franco;1 or. if the United States, without Alaska, were placed on Canada, British Columbia and half Alberta would bo loft uncovered. Without its dependent territory Alaska, tho United States Is four hundred thousand square miles smaller than Canada. Tho one Canadian province of British Columbia Is largor than Prance, Italy, Switzerland and Portugal taken all togother. Quoboo and Ontario are each largor than the Gorman empire and Switzerland combined. Nova Scotia is larger than Grooce, or Switzerland, or Denmark, or Holland, or Belgium. Yet Nova Scotia is the second smallest province of Canada. Prince Edward Island is larger than Montenegro. The inland waterways of Canada are the most extensive in tlie world. In her lakes and rivers might be sunk the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, and nineteen thousand square miles of water would be left unfilled. The climate, though it varies enormously over an area so vast, is such as has always bred the strongest and most enterprising races of mankind. We have the largest and richest fisheries, coal areas, mineral and timber regions of the world. Our wheat lands, grazing lands, and iron, gold and silver- lead mines, when developed, will be among the mo*t productive in the world. THE LARDEAU EAGLE, FERGUSON, B. C, JUL* 11, MOO. THE LARDEAU EAGLE PUl!3ted��.^!ffiE yr'""'""*/ morning at Ihe oftlee of pubBcatlon, Ferguson, B. C., by 5,. P. PHSTTIPIHIOHI. Advertising Hates: ._, column Inch. Leffal ads, 18c jier tuonpariel). for first insartion; Sc for each additional insertion. Display ads, si.50 per l, 18c jier tuonpariel) line - isejtion; So for each additional in Rending notices 15c per line each Issue. Subscription Kates: By mail or carrier, SS.00 jier annum; Sl.oo for six months. Stopped nt expiration. Job Department: The Kaqlg Job Department ia well equipped, and is prepared to execute nil kinds of printing ut honest [trices. Address till communications to��� THK FERGUSON EAOLE, Ferguson, B. 0 WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1900. tlll.l KIN VIHK OHRISTIAM'S SI'NDAV IMIAVKH-SOMi. Jesus, lover of my soul, (ii vo me 25 per cent.; While the money in doth roll I'll he filled with sweet contint, Hide me, < > my Savior, hide, While I make the dollars fast: Safe Into my safe they'll a-lidc. You'll receive my soul at last. iiilu'r refuge have I none Save ray mortgages for me; While 1 skin each brother's sou For support I'll look to thee. All my trust on thee is stayed, To my usury 1 cling, l-'or my game is neatly played 'Neath the shadow 'of thy wing. I'lenteouB grace, with thee is found Let new victims now drop In, Lot them each with cash abound, Make, oh. make for me more tin. Thou of life the fountain art, Let me draw long life from thee, Plate with goltl my marble heart, Count my gains eternally. LESSONS IS ECONOMICS, Ths study of economics has a tendency to lessen popular veneration (or tlie mere possessors of wealth or ot the means of securing wealth from day to day. The wealth of the world ir. comparatively trifling and bus been variously estimated at from four to ten years' production. A building over 50 years old is rare in this country, and the average life of that form of wealth is much less than half a century. Other forms have a still shorter life, Clothing may have an average lite ot a year, and food does not last so long, The production and consumption of wealth go on continuously, and the seeming great fortunes are merely franchises to take and consume an unusually large share of the daily product. Anyone whose efforts do not add to the sum of the world's wealth must take and consume the products of other people's labor. Wealth can be produced only by human effort, and anyone not a producer must deprive the producers of a part of their product. If such a ono is charitable 'ie merely restores a part ol that which he Is taking, and his supposed gifts to public movements art merely relinquishments. lie cannot aid tbe public financially, but can merely lessen tbe burden he imposes on them. The restrictive effect of high wages on miners is going to be a continuous theme tor discussion. There are some mineral deposits that pay abundant returns to the owners at ihe present rate of wages, some which barely make a return for the capital invested, and some which will not pay to work while present wage rates are in force. If wages were doubled, ths line of profit would be shifted, so that a smaller number would pay a good return to the owners, some of those formerly very profitable would barely pay a profit on the outlay, while a larger number would be made unprofitable. If wages were reduced o a bare subsistance, or if it were lossible to obtain labor for nothing, here would still be some deposits hat would not pay the cost ot opera' tion. The local question is between the payment of the products locally in wages or distributing them among the stockholders in various parts of tha world. Tbe feeling locally is as a consequence in favor of high wages. P1NCIIKK VKKKK OIL FIELDS. Archie McVittie returned Tuesday from an extended visit to the Pincher Creek oil region, bringing back with him several large bottles ot crude petroleum which has been pronounced by analysis to be of a high grade. There is a district about 20 miles square in that region which shows considerable quantities of petroleum almost anywhere, turn over a boulder and oil will be found adhering to it; dig small pits almost anywhere at random, and in most of them oil will seep. A settler there has a hole'Jsix feet square, three feet deep, the sides boarded up, into which oil and water constantly seeps. He uses a common cream separator for extracting the oil, selling the proceeds in the Mormon settlements, making a good living therefrom. Another method of sep- ���rating, used by the inhabitants of that district, is to take cans and fill with the mixture; the bottom is perforated and the water runs off leaving the oil, which is emptied out, and the process repeated. Mr. McVittie had about two quarts of tbe oil, which was gathered in this crude manner in less than ten minutes. Some years ago an effort was made by boring to lind the source of the petroleum, but the work seemed to have bean misdirected; the operator went inside of the territory where all the indications were apparent, and on a prairie underlaid with a deep wash, proceeded to bore there. At a deptii of 150 feet a heavy How of water was encountered and a very good artesian well���still flowing��� was the result. Later, others went in with a complete plant and started nearer the district proper. This also was an ill- fated venture, as work had hardly begun before the plant was completely destroyed by Are. An abandonment of work followed and nothing has since been done. Mr. McVittie has secured control of a large district, and has also perfect sd arrangements whereby an English outfit will drill 1000 feet in the midst of the oil field. Further operations will depend upon conditions, of course. ���Cranbrook Herald. PKOM COLD TO OIL. Half a century has wrought many changes in the West, hut in no section has thero been so groat a transformation ns in California, said Edward E. Shields, a wealthy petroleum operator, of Los Angeles, to a 'Post-Intelligencer' representative the other day. ���'In 1849, as everv child who is able to road knows, the talk in California was gold." he said. "Now that scene has been shifted to Alaska and we Cali- foruians are just as enthusiastic to-day over oil as we were fifty years ago over the yellow metal. "The discovery of oil ill the vicinity of Los Angeles has practically ruined some of tlie, best resident portions of tho city. Unsightly derricks have been erected where it once stood intended costly dwellings should stand. The trouble with our people as yet is they arc novices in the oil business but they arc learning more every day and at present, boring operations are carried out ou a more scientific basis than ever before. "The oil industry in California you might say is in its infancy, yet wo at present rank the fourth state in the Union producing the largest amounts of petroleum. So you see that enthusiasts are irot so very crazy when they say California will be richer in oil than j it ever was in gold. ' "Yes, I believe that within a few years the product of the California oil helds will have the effect of reducing the price of oils. You see our supply is unlimited. Even out in the ocean we have great derricks erected which are daily primping up from beneath the bed many hundred gallons of oil of the best grades. We are just beginning, as I say, but even now have iro difficulty in finding a market for every barrel we produce." WORK OP HI/NTKKS. Killing off the wild animals of the globe for their skins! That is the process that has boon going orr for many years in every country where thero was ifanie that the skin-hunter could find and kill. It appears from a work recently published in England by Mr. Bryden, an African traveler, that many of the species of big game of that continent have beerr entirely destroyed by the skill-hunters. Among the more Important species so exterminated are the white rhinoceros and the quagga. The business of skin-hunting is carried on largely throughout the districts of Africa lying near the British colonial possessions and the Transvaal. From these districts alone hundreds of tons of skins of wild animals that are slaughtered only for their hides are shipped to England each each to be made into leather Morr who follow skin-hunting ns a trade in those regions are described as parasites who do not come into the country to settle, but destroy the game that the real settlers would use for food, in order to get a few shillings for the hides. The zebra's skin makes a leather as fine as calfskin and it is sold as such the London market,with those of several species of antelope and deer. Elephant and rhinoceros skins are sent to Sheffield, where they are used in a raw state to face the wheels for polishing steel cutlery. It is said that rro othor material is so satisfactory for the purpose and that it will be hard to find a substitute when these skins cannot be had, through the approaching extinction of the animals. Giraffe skins are used for making saddles, whips and other articles of general utility in a new country. The Soudanese make them into shields. In the East Indies the camel-skin was formerly used as a covering for traveling-eases; but this is done no more. Sharkshins are used for the grips of sword-hilts, and the skins of large snakes are imported into all civil ized countries to cover trinklets, books and toilet articles. Even the cobra's skin is used by the Chinese to cover their fiddles of one string. Cruelty, like every other vice, re. quires no motive outside 'of itself; it requires only opportunity. ��� George Eliot. Courtship In Charon. A young gentleman happened to sit at church in a pew adjoining one in which was a young lady, for whom he conceived a most sudden and violent passion, felt desirous of entering into a courtship on the spot, but, the place not suiting a formal declaration, exigency suggested the following plan: He politely handed his fair neighbor a bible, open, with a pin stuck in the following text (2nd epistle of St. John, verse 5): "And now I beseech thee,lady, rrot as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another." She returned it with the following (���2nd chapter of Ruth, verse 16): "Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to tho ground, and said unto him, Why have it grace in thine eyes that thou shouldst take notice of me, seeing 1 am a stranger?" He returned the book, pointing to the 12th verse of the nnl epistle of St. John: "Having many things to write unto you I would not with paper and ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak face to face." The marriage took place the next week. i" Hers is an interesting leaf from an author's diary:���"Sold one poem, and had live returned. Made almost enough to pay the but mer." ' 'Sold a short story and came within an ace of making enough to pay ten dollars on the grocery bill." "Wrote an obituary on an ancient oitlzen, and had Maria's shoes mended with the proceeds." "I must try to write enough to-night to bur ��� gallon of kerosene oil. ���Atlanta Constitution. People wish to be settled. Only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.���Emerson. KOOTENAY MINING DIVISION STATISTICS. The report of the Minister of Mines for the year 1899 gives figures as to the relative importance of the mining divisions of East and West Kootenay: Recording Office. Nelson Rowland Kaalo New Denver Slocan City Kuskoiiook Trout Lake City.. Comuplix Kakuip Revelstoke Golden Windermere I Port Steele Claims Recorded. Certificates of Work Recorded. Bills of Sale and Transfers Recorded. Preo Miners' Certificates Issued. 1,4% 2,14'i 1,028 113 an 5U2 18., am 068 H THE "ROB HOY" MINES (LARDEAU DISTRICY OP B. C.) H K THE SCOTTISH-CANADIAN MINING CO., OF B.C.LTD $ S3 NON-PHR.SON.Aij LTABTT .TTTvy tBoard of Direotors: chairman: : vice-chairman: W. J. Teasdall, Esq., H.D., J. M. Miller, Esq., -Jab. A. Lowell, Ex-M.P., London. - Rossland, B. C. Niagara Palls. Dr. n. Woolverton, Rev. A. R. Best, 0. M. R. Graham, Ebq��� Dr. G. T. He (Chough, London. Sprlngford. London. Chatham. solicitor: managing director: T. H, Luscohbe, Esq., London. A. E, Welch, Esq., London. bankers:, The Canadian Bank op Commerce (Correspondents tn Great Britain���The Bank op Scotland.) Gko. H. Wmtlakb, Esq., Lcndon. Thos. P. Mccormick,Esq London. THE^ COMPANY__ __ ,"5 r/': is incorporated under the most stringent laws (Specially Limited Liability) of 8. C, aud its Charter was granted July, 1899. owns some 180 acres of valuable mineral lands on the "Home Ledge" at the head of tho Lardeau River, f has three (3) distinct and well-defined Lodes, with nearly a mile hi length ofore body, THE COMPANY has built its own roads to Circle City, mine buildings, quarters for 30 to 85 men, blacksmith's shop, forge, jwwder houses, etc. has surveyed its "Rob Roy" and "Highland Chief," which are now ready for Crown granting. has a magnificent Water Power on Galena Creek crossing its own property. THE COMPANY has some 380 feet of tunnel work done with ore showings in three different Slaces through the workings, and ave lately run into the Gray Copper, which Is the mineral that carries such immense values in silver. has every prospect of being able to pay big DIVIDENDS within a reasonable time, and hope to be able to quit selling stock soon. : The natural question arises: "Why,if there is all this, do you have to offer stock for aale|?" We answer that If you knew there i a not of Gold iu vour ararden whlnh vmi nni.M ,��>* h�� ���n��r.u�� ��-J *������>- >.-���----��� IB ��� ���. _������ .v. H��au|i >T o mioircr butu ii you snew mere yw was n pot of Gold iu your garden whicli you could j;et by digging and you hadn't a shovel and no money to buy one with, you'd have II to raise money 11 That's where we arc I We bave to get at the pot of Gold, and then���those who have stock will be fortunate, nnd those [ |fj who haven't will wish they had.] Gome, or send in and investigate. I WW M The Scottish-Canadian Mining & Dev. Go. of B.C. H (Noii-mHeasabfo.r'* r - - r LIMITED LSJ. Address communications to A. E. Welch, Managing Director, 207 Dundas Street, London, Canada. \ THE LARDEAU EAOLE, FERGUSON, E C JOLT 11, 1900. ��< YELLOW CURSE f * Thli is tbe way Editor Lower v. of the New Denver Ledge, sizes up the Chinese question: In the discussion over the bill in the Federal Government at Ottawa proposing to raise the tax on Chinamen coming into Canada from $50 to 8100 I notice that some of the members prefer to keep the bars down and allow them to come in freely. Members of parliament who would advocate such a course must do so in ignorance of this evil or else they have Chinese souls. The tax should be 81000 instead of 8100. No man who stands up in Ottawa and pleads the cause of Canada for the Chinamen is a true friend to the best interests of this great Dominion. He should be herding exiles in Siberia, or thumping Indian slaves in the silver mines of South America. A white man's country is no place for Chinese boosters. Iu Eastern Canada, the yellow men are not very plentiful. Here and there a few of them run laundries,and give a flavor of cosmopolitanism to the humdrum east. In the west they are so numerous, especially on the coast, that the foliage sometimes looks as though it was eternally nipped with autumn frost. In China there are millions of beings who never had 810 at one time. They are the most licentious people on earth, notwithstanding that their blood is not heated by benedictine, or other rich cordials. Missionaries have tried to convert them to the Christian faith, but with little success. They are loyal to their own superstitions and will not trade them for a newer assortment. Some may pretend to come to Christ, but as a rule, like many in Canada, it is only for the benefits that accrue from the bluff. They look upon white people as legitimate prey. Their prisons are full of convicts and executions are of daily occurrence. In the morning those to be killed are stood in line and their heads cut off with a sword. Their bodies are then fed to the hogs. The government of that country wastes nothing, so beware of their pork. Contractors take large numbers of convicts and ship them to America where the poor slaves receive nothing but their board for years, as the big companies take all the money. Leprosy, bubonic plague and other terrible diseases are common amongst the scum of China. They never can assimilate with Caucasians, and after gleaning all they can in this country send it home and follow later on, dead or alive. This is the kind of material found working for some of the best fami lies on this coast. John is a great thief, and he is successful at it, because he never takes much at a time. His caution is always on watch in his upper stope. Women like him for a servant as their husbands cannot love him as they might a hired girl. Women like him be' cause he never gives anything away, not even their love affairs. He no savey, and does not tell the neighbors about the domestic doings of his master, He never gossips with the whites, even if he does drink tea. In California John has by his cheap labor caused many a girl to become a stranger to virtue in order that her body might have bread, History repeats itself. So you yellow scab champions at Ottawa if you want to fill Canada with slave labor, tainted with eastern diseases and rotten with oriental vice, push the national doors wide open and flood this great and glorious Canada of the C.P.R.'s with a yellow virus that will eventually poison tlie hands now stretched out so foolishly to pat the saffron-tinted syphaxes upon their leprous, pig- tailed craniums. If you do not want this lamentable state of affairs to come to pass why do you not nip the matter in the bud, and turn the high tax semaphore against the Mongolians before they own the country ? It is easier to do it now than later on. In conclusion I will say that anyone, legislator or otherwise, who advocates Chinese emigration to this country is a traitor, just as much as that biblical character who sold his birthright for a fill of pottage. FROM LOWBBY'S UPPER STOPK. From latest reports everything is not so yellow around Cape Nome as it was before the boats left Seattle. The Atlanta Constitution wants to know what has become of hell. Most of it has been moved to Western India, but there is still a chunk or two of it in China and South Africa. A society has been formed in New York for the purpose of attempting a political annexation of Canada with the United. States. They will never do it. If they would work for the reverse the Canadians might assist. As it is we arc perfectly capable of pulling our own canoe up the stream of time. W. C. Edwards stated in the House at Ottawa that tlie restrictions on Chinese were a contradiction of the fundamental principles of tlie British constitution, freedom and the open door. If Edwards has such a love for these yellow mongrels why not come out west and live among them for awhile ? This might cure him of his rot about the benefit of an open-door system. The Rev. A. B. Winchester, who looks after the Presbyterian Chinese mission on the coast, has taken the stump on behalf of Canada for the Chinese. In his zeal to practise his iron-clad doctrine upon a race who only laugh at our religion the reverend gentleman seems to forget the white people. If he is burning with such a desire to save the Mongolian race why not go to China where the Canadians will not say a word to hiin, and John is thicker than love at a camp meeting. A MISTAKEN DOG. Here is a true dog story: A family down town having a false grate in one of the rooms of the house placed some red paper behind it to givp it the effect of tire. One of the coldest days, the dog belonging to the household came in from out of doors, and seeing the paper in the grate, deliberately walked up to it and lay down before it, curling up in the best way to receive the glowing heat as it came from the fire. He remained motionless for a few moments; 'eeling no warmth, he raised his head and looked over his shoulder at the grate; still feeling no heat, he went across aad carefully applied his nosa to the grate and smelt of it. It was as cold as ice. With a look of the most supreme disgust, his tall curled down between his legs, every hair on his body saying, "I'm sold," the dog trotted out of the room, not even deigning to cast a look at the party in th* room who had See that this label is ou all Clothing you purchase pURN ITUR^ andiHouse Furnishings from our large and well-assorted stock is already very evident in the Lardeau and Trout Lake District, which means that we are successful com petitors with all comers in price and quality. Before you invest in our line drop us a curd for quotations. We can savs you money. R. Howson k Co., REVELSTOKE, B. C Enterprise Beer Made by tha Enterprise Ure* ing Co. ,at Revelstoke is keeping the camp cheer ful. When you want tha best insist on ENTERPRISE. All the leading Hotels handle it. Enterprise Brewing Co., Revelstoke, B. C. The Union Label On everything you buy is a guarantee that tlie producers thereof receive a fair rate of wages for its production. INSMT ON HAVINd THE LABEL watched his actions and laughed so heartily at his misfortunes. That dog had reason as well as instinct���Troy Times. "Paw," said Japbeth, as they sat on the hurieane deck of the ark, "do you ever think of going into polUcs?" 'Well," replied Noah, as he pushed the giraffe's head out of the mizzen- to-'-gallan'-sail, ' if I did, I think the floating vote would be all I'd have to look after."���Baltimore American. ' Woman," said the corn-fed philosopher, "will never succeed in her demand for the same pay as man for doing the same work. The only way PACKING AND FREIGHTING All work guaranteed. FERGUSON PACKING ami TRANSFER OUTFIT; headquarters at Ferguson, B. C. Contracts entered into for PACKING OF MINING SUPPLIES Etc., to any point in the District. Good, prompt service, and any work undertaken guaranteed. Freighting from Thomson's Landing to Ferguson a specialty. S. DANEY, PROPRIETOR. Canadian "Imperial Limited" Service for the year 1900 will be commenced jy||[ I0TH. The "Imperial Limited "takes you across the Continent in four days without change. It is a solid vestibuled train, luxuriously equipped with every possible essential for the comfort and convenience of passengers. Ask your friends who have travelled on it, or address J. atoCREERY.Ag.ut Arrowhead T. W. BKADSHAW, Aftt RovaUtoke Orto- f. 1. OOTMj, AMI. Pass. Ant., Vancouver. B.G to get the lam* pay for the same work Is to howl for more pay for less work.''���Indianapolis Press. No task is ill where hand and brain And skill and strength have equal gain, And each shall each in honor hold, And simple manhood outweigh gold. ���Whittier. It is well to consider a little whether in our zeal to suppress one form of Immorality we may not be forging chains hich may iu time be fastened upon the neck of some great but unpopular truth.���Loring Moody, United Hatters of North America m THIS IS THK UNIONMiiM of the United Hatters of North America. When you are ljuy.tijr n FUR HAT either soft or stiff, hw to It that tlie Csuuuiue UNION Label in sewed In It If a retailer hus Ii>oae lutwU In his pojweaaion and offers to put one in a lint for you, do not patronize him. He lias not any rUcht to have loose tnhcls Loose laliels In retail stores are coun- ito. ~ ly the Label Is perforated on the four edges exactly the terfeits. Do not listen to any explanation as to no label. The n\ on the four tage Stamp, Coun.... _ times perforated on three of the edges, and some- ny < why the hat has no label. The Genuine Union ��� idffes exactly the same as a postage stamp. Counterfeits nre some- i>�� ui wia eu|b��. unit nun it- times only on two. Keep a sharp lookout for the counterfeits. Unprincipled manufacturers are UM.ng them in order tn get rid of their s*c��l.- miidehnts. The John B, Stetson Co. and Henry H. Roolofs & Co., both of Philadelphia, Pa., are non-union concerns. JOHN A. MOFFITT. President, Orange. N J. JOHN PHILLIPS, Secretary. 477 Park Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. General Freighters to all points in the Distriot. Light rigs for cmiek trips provided. Saddle horses at all stables. The traveling public accommodated at any time of the day or night. For any further particulars, freighting rates, etc. address��� The Pioneer Livery, Feed and Sale Stables Thomsons Landing, Trout Lake (Jity, Ferguson, Ten Mile. Craig & Hillman, THOMSON'S LANDING, B. C. SMOKE CIGARS And at all times Insist on the box bearing the blue label It helps manufacturers to sae the force of paying fair and honest wages Nelson Ciqab Makers' Union, W The Calgary M j Brewing & Malting Co., Ltd. n Calgary, Alberta ffl Calgary Lager Y LJ XXX ALES XXXSTOUT U II BUFFALO BRAND AERATED WATERS AJ W*J ALL LEADING HOTELS HANDLE OUR GOODS. \f\d tSSZSXS3BSIESXSXS& H0TEL FERGUSON THE PIONEER HOTEL OF THE LARDEAU The Bar is supplied with tho best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Men. RATES, $2 A DAY AND UPWARDS FERGUSON BROS., Proprietors. P. BURNS & CO. WHOLESALE MARKETS Rossland, Nelson, Sandon, Revelstoke, Greenwood, Grand Forks and Vancouver. RETAIL MARKETS Rowland, Trail, Nelson, Ymir, Kaslo, Sandon, New Denver, Silverton Cascade City, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Phoenix, Midway, Camp McKinnev, Revelstoke, Ferguson, Vancouver WM. SCHMOCK, """FERGUSON BRANCH Beat Wines, Liquors and Cigars Finely Equipped Bar RofHted and Refurnished Best Cuisine Serrioe Best $2.00 a Day House in the Lardeau District. HOTEL LARDEAU J. LAUGHTON, proprietor. FERGUSON, B. C. Headquarters for Miners and Mining Men. Neatly furnished, well-lighted und Heated Rooms. Conveniently situated on Victoria Ave. K3K2K2 K3 KJ K2 K2K2K rA When you are in Trout Lake Oity put up at P^ B KSlimin nn-rr, 89 H " QUEEN'S HOTEL ft ri Abrahamson Bros., Proprietors FT jTw Everything new and up-to-date. Fire proof safe. Finest [J y~S wines, liquors and cigars. Mining men's headquarters. 5^2 A^ Cheerful dining room. Al service. II O THE CENTRAlHoTElTREVELSTOKE, O JTT is under the same management. JTT MkJKJ K3 K3 KJ K2K2I& AH Eyes are Fixed ��ni the LARDEAU FERGUSON Is the Natural and Commercial Centre��� THE PAYROLL TOWN Over one hundred and fifty men now working in the Wonderful new mimes Now being developed by strong, practical companies. Are being located in Ferguson. Stores and Stocks are being enlarged. Properties are changing hands. Capitalists are appearing on the scene. fceCSslkOV Smelter men are on the Ground. Railway Construction has practically begun, and the entire district is coming rapidly to the front. Come straight to FERGUSON The Rossland-Nelsonofthe Lardeau For further information, write or see��� W. N. BRAYTON, General Agent. HENKY FLOYD, Local Ageut. ��� - - ' a- THE LARDEAU EaGLE, FERGUSON, B. C, JULY 11, 1000. THE LOCAL FIELD The Northport smelter is being enlarged. The A rrowhead branch will not be in sliapo for about two weeks yet. Freighting between here and tho Lauding is comparatively light for this time of year. ��� The (inn name James Gill & Co., Revelstoke, has been supplanted by Messrs. Taylor & George. . Wm. II. Athol and J. McTaggart came down' from the Spokane group, up the north fori:,-last Friday. S. F. W. Gainer has opened a wateh repairing shop in the second storey of the Eagle palace. See Ms-ad vt. Sain. Armstrong;, a C/.-P. R. brake- nian, was killed on the-Arrowhead branch at Wigwam on- Wednesday last. C. R. Scott has a contract from the townsite for cloai'ing Vickers street between Victoria and Lome avenue, and also a portion of Lome avenue. The Nelson and SUverton football teams will do battle to-morrow at Slocan City's Orangemen'scelebration. Big money up, and a game for'blood/" If R. T. Lower}' lived In this camp that inevitable cow and water baiTol troublo would cease. No bell, no feed and no milking is necessary. Six tins lor a dollar. Local superintendent Westfall is increasing his forces on the Old Gold, Primrose and St. Louis groups, over the Duncan slope. Supplies are also being taken over in large quantities. A. G. Fraser has opened up a general store at Thomson's Landing. Mr. Fraser was one of the Kuskonook fire victims and he certainly deserves success in his new venture. The Fish creek camp business is increasing down that way. M. F. Chesnut, president of the Old Gold Quartz and Placer Mining Company, Ltd., and the Primrose Gold Mining Co., Ltd., companies operating just over on the Duncan slope at tho bead of tho north fork of the Lardeau, Is in the camp. To-morrow is the glorious Twelfth! Tho same people who helped to liberate the British empire from the ruling days of religious tyranny, in 1690, are to-day being licked to a standstill by a people thoy fought side by side with at that timo. Tho i Dominion government have granted $90,000 to the Kaslo & Lardo- Duncan Co. for their Lardeau extension. The chances are the road will be built, up the Duncan slope, this season, seeing that the governmont builds and presents it to private owners. If you aro really interested in the progress of the camp you will help the Eagle to spread the news throughout the world.'If you , are where the Eagle can't roach you, send a copy to your friends. Sow the good seed, assist tho publisher to stave off the sheriff and you'll reap the reward in due timo. Send the Eagle to your friends, or to anyone you think will become interested in the camp. It passes from one place and person to another, is read, extracts copied into larger papersfxho news will spread. But give us a lift to do tbo introductory work. Printer's Ink made Rossland; It can do the same for the Lardoau. A dozen or more pack horses went up to north fork properties already this week with supplies. Ten will leave for tbe Empire to-morrow or Friday. And evory day supplies are being packed and taken to various fropertles operating in the camp. During August and September winter supplies will be laid in, so that tlio local merchants will be doing a thriving business from now till winter sets in. How can you expect monied men in the camp seeking Investment, when they don't know you're alive or never heard of the Lardeau. Help the Eagle to help yourself. All this eamp lacks is advertising. If judiciously advertised the rest will soon follow. SOUTH AMUCAN RAILWAY)*. Thos. McNaught has furnished tho Eagle with a few Interesting figures concerning the government owned railways of South Africa. Natal,���after paying all expensos bas generally a large surplus, amounting in some cases to millions of dollars. It has great difficulties to contend with in its line from Durban to Maritzburg, or Petermarltzburg, the capital, a distance of 125 inlles. It rises from the eea level to an elevation of over 0000 feet. In the last returns I got from the manager, 1898, the surplus was over ��500,000 sterling, over $2,500,000 The Capo Colony returns were sent me for tbe same year, and after paying all expenses they showed a return equal to oyer 7i per cent, on the money invested. Their railways will com pete with the C. P. R. and beat it hollow for complete equipment and comfort. The Cape Colony railway, it must be borne in mind, has a barren haul of nearly "00 miles across tho Karvo, a desert plateau, with comparatively no return therefrom. This plateau has farms at stretches. SANCTUM SHORTSTOPS Beware of the backonpper. Canada should own the C. P. R. '���Canada should own the C. P. P.." says the Lardeau EAGLE. Tn this wo concur. But at present we are face to face with the stern fact that tlie 1!. P. R. owns Canada.���Regina Standard. If one-tenth of the money spent on Bossland or Slocan properties was put into development work in this camp, their mineral output would sink into insignificance as compared with the Lardeau's prodnction. Now is the time to do effective work in bringing our mineral resources to public notice. Every copy of the EAGLE directed to parties outside of tho camp will help. Trot along yonr mining news, and a dollar or two to pay for shoe leather. If there is anything that a man should foel it a duty to do it is to patronize homo industries. Ho is prosperous in proportion to tho prosperity of the camp he lives in, and the camp is prosperous in proportion to the amount of business transacted. This is a fact so palpable that it ought not to be necessary to call attention to it. In tho Kootenays newspapers are not published for fun. They are purely business enterprises, the same as a shoe shop, a gold mine, or a saw mill. They aro more satisfactory all round when thoy pay���moro satisfactory to the owners, to their patrons, and to the town in which they are published. No town can have a better advertisement than a flourishing newspaper.���Nelson Miner. A united effort on the, part of those hanging on" in this camp would accomplish the ends desired. The outside monied man is not to blame. He doesn't know where the "Lardeau" is, ho doesn't know that this camp offers better investments than any other camp in B. C. If we fail to advertise our resources we ought to "struggle." Increase the Eagle's circulation and assist it to circulate thousands of extra copies throughout the world. Let's wake up for a few hours and let the outsido world know that we are still on earth, ready to do buslnoss. The people who have thoir little all at stake in this camp should not slum- ber on and idle their lives away waiting for a turn in tbo tide. Rouse yourselves; take some concerted action, scare up a few dollars and let's advertise our resources. Thero Is no use for thoir existence unless developed. The development will not take place until we get a few monied men interested. The monied men will not become interested unless we roach them. How are they to know of the grand opportunities we have W"offer. A little more printer's ink and less booze is urgently needed in this land of gold, silver, lead and copper. There has not been a sale of a tried and proved property in the Camp as yet this season. The brand of mining men, in most cases, who have struck here so far are apparently not looking for a real bona fldo proposition for which they would have to pay a fair price. Thoy want "cheap" claims, and nccdloss to say the bush is full of them. The industrious miner who has proved his property to bo worthy of a decent price will reap his reward when mining men strike the camp. With tho advent of a rallv y the "cheap" mining promoter v I fade away like a beautiful dream, to be replaced with men whoso desire will be to do their mining In .the ground���not in tho east. Every man induced into this district Is a direct benefit to the hotelmen and merchants'. These Bhould do their utmost to help advertise our wonderful mineral resources. While your adyt. may not help you directly $10 or $15"a month, it certainly will Indirectly. Advertise the country by helping the Eagle. Once the people come in and see the camp, the rest will been���;.-. In no other camp in North America is there such surface shewings and high- grade ore. Outsiders do not know this, Wo must reach and tell them. But mountain water and scenery isn't all that a publisher requires to do so. Think this matter over and let'* unite in our efforts to bring this camp to the front, and "force" tho railway to build. S. Shannon, Assayer and Analytical Chemist. OFFICE! VICTORIA AVE., FERGUSON, B. ('. raJJ-All khuls of Photographic work done. Mining properties ti specialty. Local views for snie. Call at office to see samples. Ferguson Shaving Parlor Wm. Snell, TOXSGRIAI. ARTIST All brunches of (he tonsuriul art executed with am bidexteriuns dexterity. How About That Sick Watch ? Bring it to me at once and I'll guarantee its repair. My shop is in the Eagle dfflce. ��� S. F. W. Gainer. Lumber Everything is now in shape for us to supply Lumber Don't delay but get your order in at once. .Davis & Foote. Stationery is in our line And we have jiiBt received a fine stock of Letter Pads. Patronize "The Eagle." When you want a Cool Refreshing. Drink Try "Enterprise Beer." All Lnrdcnu'H Ic-adlnp hotels handle if. ' Manufactured by the KntorprlHO Krowlnft Co,, RuvclfitOke, B. C. Get Your Next Suit Made to Order And made by us. We guarantee fit, flriiah and quality. The price will be very little more than for a hand-me-down. And the money 1b kept In the camp. "Hquare" shop. R. S. Wilson, Revelstoke. FIELD 4 BEWS, ��� Druggists Chemists Stationers :?.��! REVELSTOKE:. If yon need anything in Photographic Supplies... Kend to the CANADA DKUG & BOOK CO., KEVELSTOKE, B. C. Leave Your Watch With A. C. Cummins, Ferguson, and he will guarantee prompt and safe delivery of your WATCH to mo. Repair department Is In charge of R. N. Doyle, an expert in English, Swiss and American watch repairing. All work guaranteed. A fine line of Diamonds, Watches, ('locks,Silverware: Hold and Silver Electro Plating and Engraving. J. Guy Barber, C. P. R. Watch Inspector, Revelstoke, B. C. A. N. Smith. Dakar Grocer and Coiifeotioner. ^Special quotations to Lardeau Consuui REVELSTOKE, B. C, Imperial Bank ym�� of Canada. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED, 12,900,000.00. CAPITAL PAID I'P . . I2,����!,(]08.00. KEST 11,700,000.00. JJ General Banking Business Transacted Interest allowed on deposits in Havings Iii'I'iir tment at current rales. A. R. bThEARN, MANAGER REVELSTOKE BRANCH. Furniture and Furnishings Tbe largest and most complete stock In North Kootenay. We can out^ fit your home or hotel as complete, and cheap as eastern or coast firms. Prompt"(tSlBntlon* to 'mail orders'; shipments rnaUe on shortest notice.1 Ask- ' for quotations. Undertakers, R. Howson & Co. .REVELSTOKE, B.C. T.A.Wilson, M.D., CM. 1.. R. C. P. & s. [Queen's University.] Provincial Coroner, Etc. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ferguson, B. C. Fred C. Elliott, BARRISTER, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC., TROUT LAKE CITY B. C, AND Ferguson, B. C. Harvey, McCarter $ Pinkham BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. OFFICES : REVELSTOKE AND GOLDEN. Solicitors for Imperial Bank of Canada. Ceo. S. McCarter. A. M. Pinkham. J. A. Harvey. White, Gwillim tf Scott, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. OFFICES: McKENZIEAVENUE, Revelstoke, B. C. A.H. Holdich, M.C.M.I., ASSAYER AND ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, Revelstoke, B. C. SMOKE. Royal Seal Kootenay Belle Little Gfem ^^CIGARS UNION MADE by the Kootenay Cigar M'fg Oo, NELSON, B. C. aWSee that'tlie BLUE LABEL is on each box. California Wine Co. Wholesale Dealers in Wines, Liquors Cigars, Etc. Nelson, B. C SMOKE | CIGARS UNION MADE Jj ^#^HSh��j$H$H5H$H ��� ������ We have a large stock on hand, at lowest prices Rough and Dressed Lumber; Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, AH Building Requisites. Call on us, or write (or our quotations. Special orders promptly filled Fred. Robinson Lumber Co., Ltd. COMAPLIX, B. C. Por People Who The " Eagle" has the following list of books for sale: Caenar'HColumn, (Donnely).., .25c. The American Peasant! (TfobleS)..,. 25c, Ten Men of Money Island, [Nortonl 25c. A Tramp in Society, iCowdrevi 25c, Bottcr Days,jFltcnl 25o. The Golden Bottle, IDonnely] 50c. An ldoal Republic, [Phelps] 50c, Christ the Socialist 75c. American People's Money, IDonnKlly] Hoc. The Little Statesman, [Armstrong) '. 25c. Government Ownership of Railroads. by F. G. n. Gordon 16c. Poems for the People, W. F. Phelps 10c. In Hell and the Way Out, by H. E. Allen...25c. One Way to Co-operative Commonwealth.. 10c. Law, Labor and Liberty, by E. V. Debs lOo. Tho Concentration of Wealth, E. Irving... .10o. A Pure Democracy, by It. 8. Thompson 25c. Direct Legtslatl hy J. W. Sullivan 10c, Municipal Loolallsm, byF.O. R. Gordon...Mo, A Fow Things About Trusts 10c. Hard Times, enuso Hnd cure, by Gordon.... 10c. Tlie Sew and Ills Money Laws Inc. Merrlo England. Iiv Hubert BlstChlord 25c. The Story of My llfntiitorshlp 250. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy....26c. Shvlock's Daughter, by Margaret 11. Bates.50c; A (laughter oniumalllty, by E. M. Smith. .250. An Appeal forthe Blind, by W. A.Ratollfte.JOo. Proportional Representation 10c. McKinhon & Sutherland Miners9 Outfitters... Ferguson, The Mining Centre. \k Ferguson, B. C. T Miners' Supplies We have' just placed in our ware room a large stock of choice fresh Groceries. Also a big addition to our well assorted'stock of Boots and Shoes, 'Clothing, Crockery, Miners' Supplies? Etc. Special quotations to cash purchasers. Goods carefully packed, for pack horse outfits. Close cash prices. BATHO & Q��f, General Merchants and Outfitters for the Lardeau. Great Departmental StOrPe .REVELSTOKE, R. CL More Than Freight Saved By Buying Miners' Supplies FromUs. BOURNB BROS. C. B. Hume & Co<9 Wholesale and Retail ��'�� General Merchants.... Heaviest Buyers in North Kootenay. Revelstoke. Branch at Trout Lake City. IIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIISSKIIIIIIIIIIII til 101 III I III tllllllll tttttttttttttt* Imperial Brewing Co., Limited.. KAHL00PS, B. C. Manufacturers of Lager Beer, Porter and all kinds of aerated waters. Satisfaction guaranteed. ^Tj /-p ttt p00___ All orders by mail or ��V. I . VV . JTearse, otherwise promptly attended to. manager. > > I I ��HI lllllllllllllll SAVAGE BROS., Wholesale and Retail dealers in Farm Produce;, Hay and Feed, Cured Meats, Fish, etc. Write for quotations In any quantity. Prompt shipments.. Revelstoke, B.C. ���I*fflH>M< AL FERGUSON ^ Is tlie.... of tlie Golden Lardeau Investigation is all we ask. Subscribe for the "Eagle" It Will Tell You the Kest. *T~*
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Title | Lardeau Eagle |
Publisher | Ferguson, B.C. : R.P. Pettipiece |
Date Issued | 1900-07-11 |
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Ferguson (B.C.) Ferguson |
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FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Notes | Published by R.P. Pettipiece from 1900-02-14 to 1902-03-27; by Alfred Pelkey from 1902-04-03 to 1902-05-29; by E.G. Woodward from 1902-06-06 to 1904-03-04; and by J.J. Atherton from 1904-06-10 to 1904-10-14. |
Identifier | Lardeau_Eagle_1900-07-11 |
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Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2015-11-26 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 120992cb-f6eb-4e88-aaa6-094d39412427 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0082159 |
Latitude | 50.6833 |
Longitude | -117.4832999 |
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