HEMATITE IRON A Large Deposit of this Valuable Iron on Otter Creek, C. Snowden and D. Cairnes returned Monday from Otter Creek where they were doing assessment work on the D.C. claim, on which they have exposed large body of hematite iron carryiug $3.80 in gold. The lead is in the neighborhood of 100 feet wide and traceable for a length of 1600 feet. It has been posed by numerous open cuts. The body lies between a magnesian 1 and a schist, and along one wall a band of iron pyrites 10 feet in width parallels the hematite. The iron pyrites is in a quarcz gangue while the hematite is in £ matrix of lime. Small quantities of yellow copper are met with on one end of | the lead, but the iron is fairly free from deleterious impurities, taken on the whole, and will doubtless improve when depth is attained. None of the p> open cuts are over four feet deep. F. W. Groves, P.L.S., who wa°, out surveyi the property, returned with Mesi Snowden and Cairnes. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. F. W. Groves, P.L.S., left on Thursday for Copper mountain, where he will su vey the June Bug claim for Snowdi Bros. W. C. McLean of Nelson, B.C., was visitor here early in the week. P. Johnson and C. Willarson have cor pleted assessment work on the Bornite claim on Kennedy mountain. This claim adjoins the well known Red Buck the work done disclosed a showing of similar ore to that found on the latter property. The case for assault brought against E. F. Voigt by Jim Bole, a Chinese cook, was disposed of on Thursday by Ms trate Thomas, who fined the defendant $$ and costs, amounting in all to betw< $14 and $15. Mr. Voigt signified his tention of appealing the case. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Pigott have left for the coast. Barr Hall has finished painting his new residence on Vermillion avenue. H. H. Pitts came np the river Sunday from Hedley and spent a few days at this place and Ashnola. Burr and Jones, who have been crown granting properties on Copper and Kennedy mountains, left this week for the Boundary. The Ashnola bridge was carried away by the high water on Sunday last. W. G. Murray passed through town Saturday on his way to Hedley. School Inspector J. S. Gordon, of Vernon, came in last Saturday and inspected the Princeton school. Miss Whillans, the teacher, held a special session of the school Saturday afternoon to allow Mr. Gordon to leave by the outgoing stage Sunday morning. GOVERNMENT DEFEATED Wells and Eberts Dismissed==McInnes Re= signed==Premier Prior Loses Control of Legislature. /"VN A MOTION to go into Supply the Prior government was defeated on May V 28th by a vote of 16 to 19. The defeat followed the dismissal of Wells and Eberts and the resignation of W. W. B. Mclnnes from the cabinet. Wells and Mclnnes both voted against the government while Eberts did not vote. Col. Prior left the chamber to inform the Lieut.-Governor of the position ofl affairs and on his return he stated the Lieut.-Governor had handed him a memorial from Mr. Curtis stating that charges had been made against him (the Premier) respecting the Chimney Creek bridge contract, and informed him that dissolution was delayed pending an investigation. The opposition to the granting of Supply was for the reason that if the Premier succeeded in getting Supply, the Lieut.-Governor would be justified in granting him a dissolution, which he otherwise would not. A committee was appointed to inquire into the Chimney Creek bridge contract, part of the materials for which were furnished by the E. G. Prior Co., Limited. The all important question now being discussed is the selection by the Lieut - Governor of a successor to Prior, the candidates for premiership honors being as plentiful as dead leaves in autumn. For the Liberals, Curtis, Oliver, Mclnnes and Martin are mentioned, while the Conservatives are divided in their allegiance between McBride and Wilson. With such a wealth of material to choose from the Lieut.-Governor may have some difficulty in deciding upon who shall succeed Col. Prior. In Vancouver, matters political appear to be badly mixed. There are likely to be Martin Liberals, anti-Martin Liberals, McBride Conservatives, Wilson Conservatives, Socialists and Independents in the field. The party line movement has gained considerable headway in the interior, but the failure of both Conservatives and Liberals to unite on leaders is militating against its growth. A new election can hardly take place in less than four months as it will be necessary to prepare new voters' lists. In the meantime, conventions and caucuses will be in order and the silver-tongued spell-binder will be abroad in the land. In this riding the sentiment appears to be in favor of a candidate resident in the constituency, and the Liberal or Conservative tag on him will cut little figure. What the electors are anxious to have is a member of clean record who can be trusted when he goes to Victoria to uphold the interests of the province in general and the district in particular. Hira Monte Mining Co. T. A. Rogers, of the Mira Monte Mining Co. and W. A. Clark, of Mountain View, Cal., treasurer for tbe company, were in Princeton on Saturday last. This is Mr. Clarjc's first visit to the Similkameen and he expresses himself as highly pleased with the properties acquired by his company in this section. The scenic beauty and climatic conditions prevailing here also called forth his praises. t Mr. Rogers states that it is the intention of the company to continue the tunnel on the big porphyry dyke between here and Granite creek and to carefully sample different portions of the dyke for pay shoots. The place from which the large assay of $248 in gold was obtained last seasou will be paid, particular atten- High water in the rivers is rapidly subsiding. Danger from floods is about over, Government-Owned Railways. Hon. Mr. Blair delivered his statement on the Intercolonal railway on May 28. He spoke in favor of a government line to the Pacific coast, and announced a surplus for the current year on the Intercolonial of $ 125,000. He made a long argument in favor of government ownership, and spoke of the high state of efficiency of the road Mr. Haggart severely criticised the road and said that Mr. Blair's management did much to destroy the confidence in government A General Banking Business Is transacted by the Bank of Hamilton. It has a reserve fund of over three-fourths of its capital. Interest allowed on Savings Bank deposits of one dollar and upwards from date of deposit to date of withdrawal. A. H. SKEY, Agent, Kamloops, B.C. ASPEN GROVE Big Surface Croppings of Copper Ore Found on the Portland. Stripping on the Portland, which has been carried on since the work was stopped in the shaft through an influx of water, is said to have resulted in the exposure of an immense body of copper ore, over 80 feet in width and of similar character to that on which the shaft was sunk. A. W. Wright, of the Portland Mining Co., is now in the camp and is accompanied by a mining engineer from Terre Haute named French. Starwalt and Murray have finished work on the Buckhorn group on Bare mountain for the season and report good results. They have sunk an incline shaft 50 feet, in the bottom of which is three feet of ore carrying copper glance, native and red oxides of copper, and running $7.50 in gold. On the group of five claims between 90 and 100 feet of open cutting has been done, disclosing in most cases ore of like nature and grade to that found in the shaft. The claims are about twenty miles from here via Summers HEDLEY NEWS. Work is progressing steadily on the flume and stamp mill of the Nickel Plate Co., the framework for the latter being about all up. Brick for the company is being burned about two miles from Hedley ou the eastern end of the Similkameen townsite. When the mill is completed, work will be commenced on the smelter, for which Indian reserve land lying1 between the stamp mill and the Similkameen river was lately secured. This will probably not be for some time. The smelter and stamp mill will be the property of the Yale Reduction Works, which will be in the market for custom ores (especially yellow copper ores) when the plant is ready for operation. The copper ores will be needed in smelting the arsenical iron of the Nickel Plate mine. Danger from high water is considered very slight, the only accident so far being the washing away of a small cabin on the creek bank last Saturday. Huston & McLean have opened a new hotel called the Commercial and are doing an excellent business. The house is up-to-date in every respect and well deserves the large share of patronage it is attracting. Work is expected to commence on the Kingston mine some time within the present month. F. M. Gillespie, the lately appointed postmaster and mining recorder, has fitted up a neat office in J. A. Schubert's store, of which he is the manager. The average maximum temperature for the week ending Wednesday, June 3rd was 73.28 and the average minimum 42.87. The thermometer registered as low as 34 on May 28th and as high as 86 on the 30th. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR PRINCETON, B. C, ME PRINCETON PUBLISHING CQ. A. E. HOWSE, - Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RAT] All cheques to be made payab A. E. HOWSE. DEFEAT OF GOVERNMENT The defeat of the Prior administration on a motion of the Premier's to go into supply marks the finish of as disreputable and self-seeking an aggregation of politicians as ever burdened a young and struggling Province All parties and governments re- cbgnize and reward to some extent the services of followers, and as a result the " spoils system," as it is generally designated, obtains in.all parts ot the world where responsible government exists. ' It is usually regarded as a necessary evil apd while not generally or openly advocated or defended is winked .at by politicians of all parties. Though it cannot be said to be a satisfactory method of filling government appointments, it must be conceded that it is a very natural one under our present governmental system. When, howeyer, in addition to those perquisites to which the ruling party considers itself justly entitled, we find a government making deals with land grabbing railway companies for the spoliation of the province, and favoring grafters of all kinds and conditions who profit by the dishonest alienation of the people's property, it is time to call a halt and drive such a government from power and its members into oblivion. In the case of the Prior government such a course should have been followed long ago, and the only reason it was not done was because of venal elements in the legislature greedy for bribes, i valuing the loaves and fishes of office above the principles they were elected to uphold. Let the electors mark carefully their representatives that failed so signally to stand for honest government and at the opportunity rapidly approaching retire all such from public life. The people of B.C. have surely no wish to see a repetition of our late political rottenness. The Island clique is smashed. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Prior government is a thing of the past. There will now be a chance for the Mainland and the inauguration of better things politically. Mclnnes quit the Prior adminis? tration like a rat deserting a scuttled ship. Martin has a hard time explain^- ing his inability to understand Bill 87". The electors of B.C. have formed an opinion ere this of Joe's unusual stupidity in this matter. It has made him an impossibility as leader of a united Liberal party in this Province! All honor to John Oliver, the member for Delta. British Columbia owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude for exposing one of the most corrupt deals in the history of this or any other Province. Wells and Eberts were .fired— Mclnnes quit: the Province as well as the Premier would be well rid of the three. ' What's the matter with forming a new party to be called the "People's Own" with John Oliver as leader. If it took up the cause of the people against the professional politicians it would be sure to win. Watch Houston of Nelson and lison of East Yale getting under the mantle of the Conservative party n order to save their skins. Whitewashed. Last >ear Smith Curtis made certain charges against the Dunsmuir Government and Mr. Justice Walkem was appointed a commission to enquire into them. The commission proved to be rse than a farce, it made a mockery of th, it was a travesty of justice and its abrupt termination was a fitting climax to the miserable pretence that it was. That the belated report of the Commissioner, just presented, should exonerate the government is only what was expected, but it means nothing. The facts brought out in the evidence, and the :thod of conducting the investigation rob the propriate termination episode.—Inland Sentif ^alue It is ;andalous used the expression " dainty, shell-like ears," and the printer became mystified over DeWruyter's horrible chjro'graphy and made it '"dirty, shawl-like ears." CHURCH NOTICE. —Princeton: Service 11 a.m., S.S. 2 p.m. Granite Creek, 7:30 p.m. Service 3 p.m. S.S. NOTICE. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. n the Distri< NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the un- hotelkeepers in the town of Hedley this day dissolved by Dated at Hedley City this 15th day of May, Witness ) CaRL N] teve McKay, j NOTICE. NOTICE. By Order, HUGH HUNTER, Registrar County C01 Princeton, May 16th, 1903. NOTICE. Take Notice that wf, William Al nd Alfred Joseph Cooper, Free Mir ates B54742 and B54743 respective thirteenth day of May, A.D. 1003. WILLIAM ALFRED COOPER. ALFRED JOSEPH COOPER. NOTICE. JOTICE is hereby g: the Chief Commis- F. W. GROVES, . COIJv., SC. D., Civil and Mining Engineer PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. UNDERGROUND SURVEYS. PRINCETON. - - B. C. Where located:—Wolf JLake, South Fork Similkanieen River. Take notice that I, Ernest Waterman, agent for the Vermilion Forks g and Develop- obtaining a Crown Grant of the above chum? And furth r take notice that action, under s Jfsuch Oer Dated this 28th day of March. 1003. m -23 NOTICE. La Reine M ethat I, Ernest Waterman, ag <y for the Vent Uion Forks Mining and Devel cate No. H564S6, intend, sixty days from the d ply to the Mining Recorder for ac iwn grant of the above claim. And furth r take notice that action, under s be commenced before the issuai 28th day of March, 1903. m -23 NOTICE. No. B564S6, Intend, sixf of, to apply to the Minii ining a Crown Grant of tl NOTICE. ——- Dated this 28th day of March, A. D. 1903. m-23 T?^^f/fyc^Zi^ne^tenli0n5«^ for a quarry lease on the following described NOTICE. Copper Cliff and Copper Bluff Mineral Claims, Copper Mountain. south, 20 chains west; back to post, m aUr4o.*eres. G. E. WINKLER." Miner's Certificate No. B51146, intend, sixty days corder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the NOTICE. . And further take notice that action, under sec- T^^*7c^\a%^J&a\\^L% ofsuch Certificates of Improvements. Dated this 29th day of April, A.D. 1903. j 20 described lands :— Situated on Nine Mile Creek, west of Lang's NOTICE. y-nd running So chains north, 80 chains west, in all 640 acres. VTOTIOE is hereby given-that sixty days after 1~ date I intend to apply to the Chief Commis- S SPENCER, Agent. Located 25th May, 19:3. the'NicSla Division of Yale District, described as east corner of Lot 905, running thence north 40 80 chains east, back to post, in all, 640 acres. j. MCFARLANE, Located 25th May, 1903. Aspen Grove, April 21,1903. j-20 For Connoisseurs Only. Can be had at all first-class hotels throughout the province. R.P.RITHET&CO.,Ld. VICTORIA, B. C, Sole Agents* June 6, 1903. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR LAND GRANT GRAFT. How the Dominion is Being Worked by Private 'Railways. Sir William Mnlock laid an interesting statement before parliament the other day. It was in answer to a question as to how much of the lands voted for railway construction in Manitoba and the Northwest territories were still reserved for the various companies, and what area has been patented to each company. The following table gives this information in a condensed form: Manitoba. Reserved. Canadian Pacific. Railway 600,000 Canadian Northern Ry. 5,432,000 Manitoba & Northwestern Ry. 41,000 Manitoba Southwestern Ry. 313,403 Total Northwest Territory. Alberta Ry. & Coal Co, Calgary & Edmonton Railway Can. Pacific (main line) Can. Pacific (Souris branch) Can. Pacific (Pipestone extension of Souris branch) Manitoba & Northwestern Ry. Manitoba Southwestern Ry. Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Red Deer Valley Ry Canadian Northern Ry. 2 Total 6,476,403 22,048 304,288 >6i5,738 ."9.350 200,320 ,460,000 ,044,685 .777,4io 322,500 ,898,000 Manitoba. Canadian Pacific Ry. Canadian Northern Ry. Manitoba & Northwestern Ry. Manitoba Southwestern Ry.. Great Northwest Central Ry. Northwest Territory. Alberta Railway & Coal Co. 42,764.339 Patented. 1,939.844 5.693 535.o69 5.736 Calgary-& Edmonton Ry i,i39,54° Canadian Pacific (main line) 8,645,644 Manitoba & Northwestern Ry. 523,577 Manitoba Southwestern Ry. Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan 'Great Northwest Central Ry. 72,188 328,042 314,263 Total 12,115,374 Of the grant to the Canadian Northwestern in the Northigest Territories, 2,000,000 acres are along the Manitoba and Hudson Bay railway. As the companies follow the practice,ofpatenting their lands only as they sell them, it ma) .be taken for granted that the Canadiar .Pacific has sold more than half its original holdings. It has, however, secured the charters of branches like the Great Northwest Central ►and the Manitoba & Northwestern, to which land grants have dbeen given. The fact that the Canadian Northern has over 5,000,000 . acres land in Manitoba, of which less than 6,000 acres have been—patented, will be learned with general siyprise. Tables may easily be compiled which will giyi some idea of the size of the area alien ated. For instance : Area of Scotland 19,000,001 Assessed area of Ontario 23,000,001 Cleared area of Ontario 13,000,0a Area granted to Mackenzie & Mann 30,000.0a Thus it will be seen that Mackenzie & Mann have been given within two 01 three million acres of the combined area of Scotlaud and the cleared part of Ontario. Their lands are more than twice as extensive as the whole area which the people of Ontario -have-rcieared in one hundred and twenty years .which have elapsed since the province began. —Ozonogram. Just Opened COMMERCIAL HOTEL First Class Dining Room Newly Fitted Hedley City 4 Good Beds ..No Chinese Employed.. ^BEST BRANDS LIQUORS AND CIGARS ALWAYS IN STOCK SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO TRAVELLERS^ HUSTON & McLEAN, Proprietors ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^*S****W»AiWV^^^^i^^^* Hotel I Jackson« >~wv*The Leading Hotcl^-^w^ This Hotel, having passed into new management, will be found first class in every department. §§ §§ Hot and Cold Water Baths. m m iHotel 1 Jacksona Princeton, B*C. DRIARD HOTEL, NICOLA LAKE, The Hotel has been thoroughly renovated and refitted. Everything First Class. No pains spared to please the public. Table supplied with best the market affords. Fine Wines, LiquorsandCigars. TELEPHONE' BATH. Headquarters for Princeton, Spence's Bridge and Kamloops Stage Lines. Subscribe for the CTAD and get the Latest JlAR, flining News. MURALO WALL FINISH. This finish is more popular this year than ever, and has won its popularity by its durability, pretty|tints, and the easy mode of mixing and ap^jlng. Put up in 23 beautiful shades and white. As your dealer for a color card or send direct to McUlpJAN, McFEELY & Co., Ltd., Wholesale and Retail Hardware Merchants, v?$$$ VANCOUVER, B. C. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR June 6, 1903 HILL OR SHAUGHNESSY Optimist vs. Pessimist in B.C. Railway Building. President Shaughnessy and President Hill are both on the coast at the si time. Both have been interviewed. President Shaughnessy says he will build any more railroads in B.C. until jj the ones already constructed pay a dividend on their capitalization. President Hill says he will build the Granby smelter immediately, grade to Phoenix without delay and cont the Washington & Great Northern to the cpast as fast as modern methods of railway construction will permit. President Shaughnessy has received bonuses, land grants or guarantees foi every mile of railroad he has ever built in the province. President Hill built the Washington & Great Northern from Cascade to G Forks without a bonus; land era: tions and legal and ph; al obstruc junc- of every kind. Both 1 ;he courts, thi i Do- minion and Provincial the corporation of th Forks bucked him at e eg° 111 sand spike was driven undei Columbia to protest be ment of the Province •pr $a otest. is in Bi se the go' iled tode ritish liver him over 600,900 acres of coal land with which to defeat the Cro w's ~Nest Pass Coal company. .President Hill bought 55 per cent, of | the stock of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal company on the open market whil< Shaughnessy slept. President Shaughnessy is a knocker who says the country is going to the dogs through the interference and doini- , j nation of labor unions. He cannot build the hotel in Vancouver because of the longshoremen's strike in Montreal, cannot make any railway improvem until the U.B.R.E. goes to work, and he advises the people of British Columbia *f to leave mining alone- and not get mixed up with the Western Federation, but pay all attention to agricultural-pursuits"in' which there are no labor unions. I Hill is an optimist; he says he has settled all differences amicably with his ■ railroad employees and harmony reigns e supreme on his line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. He says that the country north of the international boundary line is the richest country that lies out of doors; that our mining resources are stupendous: that the mines of the Pro vince offer a safe and sure investment for capital, and that the Boundary is due to become one of the greatest copper camps v Shaughnessy regards the boundary line ] as an impassable barrier. He would sooner cross a divid? than pass a customs office, and depends on the fetich of the flag to work the people for an appropria- Hill disregards all artificial barriers^ follows the natural grades, crosses the boundary whenever he sees fit, and depends on good railroading for a profit. The Canadian Pacific railway has cost Canada three hundred million dollars in land and money. The Great Northern railway has cost Canada practically nothing. Shaughnessy was an American citizen until he came to Canada. Hill was a Canadian until he went to the United States. Within the next two years Hill will undoubtedly be before the legislature ofl British Columbia asking the privilege to build more railways in this Province. Shaughnessy will undoubtedly have his agents working industriously to arrange that the privilege be denied. The question that presents itself to the people of this Province is: Which of | these two men is British Columbia' Hill or Shaughnessy?—Ozonogram. Over-Beaching Pat. An English tourist on his arrival at Dublin hired, an Irish cabby to take hii and his baggage to one of the principal hotels. When he arrived at his destination he gave the driver half-a crown. The cabby looked at it in supreme contempt and asked him what that was for. "That is your fare," said the English- At this the Irishman became so violent and abusive that the tourist threatened to take his name and summon him. "Do it if you can," said Pat. The Englishman took out his note book and walked round the car to look for his name, and found it was scratched 1 obliterated," the tourist. "Phwat?" says Pat. s obliterated," said Faith, then you're a liar," cried cabby isn't, it's O'Grady." On the Way. 3ow does you like de new preacher?" asked Mr. Erastus Pinkley. "Very much," answered Miss Miami Brown. "He's got a good start. H< knows a heap o''words, an' jes' as soor as he gits 'em arranged in de propei order he'll hab a mighty fine sermon." Excusing the Dog. "Madam, your fierce dog here bit just a moment ago." "My dog? Impossible! That dog rouldn't harm-a flea." "Perhaps he didn't know I had any, Ruyter is not an author. He' chemist." "Why so?" "Every novel he writes becomes a drug 1 the market." .-.-.RUBBER STAHPS.-.-. Seals, Stencils, Price Markers, Printing Wheels, Numbering Machines, Band Dating and Numbering Stamps, Check Perforators, Bubber Type, Printing Presses, &c, &c. FRANKLIN STAilP WORKS, Vancouver, B. C. I PIERCY&Co,, WHOLESALE DRY GOODS VICTORIA, B. C. MANUFACTURERS OF Clothing, Top Shirts and Underwear. TICKCTrS Myrtle Navy Tobacco Largest Sale in Canada' A Strong Combination. Manitoba Hard Wheat and the Lake of the Woods Milling Co'y> Combine to produce the finest grade of flour on the market. Try Best Patent Brand. JAS. J. LOUTIT, Agent, Box 158 Vancouver, B. C. Hedley Meat Market, CHAS. RICHTER, Manager. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in —HEATS— Saddle Horses to All Points in the Similkameen. Wood, Vallance & Leggat, Ltd., HEADQUARTERS FOR Miners', Lumber and Mill Supplies. WIRE ROPE A SPECIALTY. B* C* Agents for Black Diamond Files* Send us your orders by Mail, and they will receive Prompt and Careful Attention. VANCOUVER, B. C. Hedley City Stored A Complete New Stock of General flerchan- dise always on hand, CONSISTING OF A PULL LINE OF Groceries, Dry Goods, Men's Furnishings, Boots and Shoes; also Builder's Supplies, Shingles, Doors, Windows, Paints, Wall Paper, Hardware, Stoves, Nails, Drill Steel, Harness and Saddlery. Headquarters for Enderby Hungarian Flour, Northwest Oats, &c J. A. SCHUBERT. 'j Advertise in the " STAR." Hotel Tulameen The Dargest and Most Homelike Hotel in Princeton is now open for the travelling public. Our bar is stocked with the Best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Special efforts will be made in the Cullinary Department, and tables will be furnished with the best the market affords. PRINCETON, B. C. GEO. W. ALDOUS, Prop. June THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR PROSPECTOR'S TRIALS In Discovery of New Mining Regions and Their Development. The discovery of new mining districts is no longer a result of accident, bnt the intelligent search for mineral by men trained by years of experience in this business. The prospector is a man to whom the mining world owes much. He is a man of sanguine temperament, often —usually—disappointed, but rising hopeful again he continues his search, across desert plains, through rugged mountains, and into almost impenetrable thickets. In some instances the obstructions to his progress are so great that several days are required to reach some objective point but a short distance away and within plain sight. The discoverers of the mines of Rossland were several days in reaching the objective point of their search after having made up their minds to visit a particular red mineral-stained hill. They were hampered b'y fallen timber, dense thickets and deep torrents of icy cold water, but they persevered, found and located some of the best mines in the district, though they did not profit largely by their find—the discoverers of great mines seldom do. Butler, the discoverer of Tonopah, went into the desert of southern Nevada when there was no unusual activity in that district. He went, believing that in that broad region, which had produced bonanza mines before, there still remained a chance to make new discoveries of value. He made a discovery, the Mizpah mine, and sold out at a moderate price, sustaining the reputation the prospector has for disposing of great mines . for: uinal s That the last great mine has been discovered in British Columbia, Nevada, or in Arizona, Colorado, or California or in any other great mining region, no one believes, but what is required to stimulate search is the discovery and development of a rich mine. When this occurs the immediate neighborhood is quickly scoured by prospectors who search every where, and take many chances which at other times would not be given a moment's consideration. Claims are located and shafts started upon nothing. That there is no surface indication is apparent but the hope of rich veins or deposits below stimulates this class of prospecting and often satisfactory results follow. Occasionally in old "mining districts, where mining has been carried on successfully for years, a new find is announced where the existence of pay ore was not even suspected. Discoveries of this class are sometimes made in old mines, where crosscuts are driven or diamond drill holes have been bored. A discovery of this character has the same stimulating effect upon an old district that is so noticeable in a new one. And this renewed activity in an old camp can usually be measured by the value of the initial new discovery. If it is a bonanza development is given an impetus throughout the district, and this sometimes extends far beyond the immediate vicinity of the new field. If it be of good but not of extreme value, the result of the stimulant is only noticeable locally. Such great development as that of the gold-bearing banket of the Witwaters- rand has a stimulating effect upon the whole world, but here, too, the ratio of the value of the development to the intensifying of mining activity is proportional in the same degree that a more or less important one would be. The extensive development, equipment and successful operation of such mines as the Homestake in North Dakota, Treadwell in Alaska and some of the great copper mines has stimulated search for large mines which will afford a sonable but assured margin of profit. Such operatious as these have done much to place mining where it properly belongs, on a legitimate basis, and on the same plane as other investments of equal commercial importance. — Rossi Oh, merchant in thine hour of eee, If on this paper you should ccc, Take our advice and now be yyy, And in this journal advertiii, You'll find the project of some uuu, Neglect can offer no exqqq; Be wise at once—prolong your daaa, A silent business soon dekkk. The three causes: "Congratulate! old chap; I'm the happiest man on earth today." "Engaged, married, or vorced ?"—Life. lie Vancouver Breweries, LM. BREWERS OP THE FAMOUS Cascade Beer Ginger Beer S> Alexandra Stout <£ Alexandra Ale For sale throughout British Columbia in all the first- class Hotels, Liquor Stores and Saloons. The Amalgamated DOERING & MARSTRAND & RED CROSS BREWERIES, VANCOUVER, B. C If you want First Class Footwear Insist upon -------- J. D. KING CO'S BOOTS & SHOES Nothing equals them for Style, Fit, Finish and Wear. flaple Leaf and King Quality Rubbers. WHOLESALE ONLY. Vancouver, B. C. J. LECKIE CO., Limited. Princeton's Leading Store We are Now ^Closing Out- Some ODD LINES to Make Room for MEW STOCK. Arriving THES Am Em HOWSE Company ^LIMITED PRINCETON THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR June 6, 1903. The Town of -: PRINCETON!:- British Columbia. Lots for • • CammSGLll %aS • • • PRESENT PRICES OF LOTS From $2.00 to $10. Per Front Foot.*£«^ Size of Lots 50x100 Ft. and 33x100 Ft. Terms: 1-3 Cash; Bal. 3 and 6 months, with interest at 6 per cent, per annum. <£ Government Head- quarters For the Similkameen District. BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED at the Forks of the Similkameen and Tulameen Rivers. The BUSINESS CENTRE for the following Mining Camps:— Copper Mountain Kennedy Mountain, Friday, Boulder and Granite Creeks, Summit, Roche River, Upper Tulameen and Aspen Grovej FINE CLIMATE and pure WATER ENORMOUS AGRICULTURAL AREA TO DRAW FROM Send for Map and Price List to & *&> *& <& *& ERNEST WATERMAN, Resident Manager VERMILION FORKS MINING AND DEVELOPMENT CO.
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Title | Similkameen Star |
Contributor |
Howse, A.E. |
Publisher | Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company |
Date Issued | 1903-06-06 |
Geographic Location |
Princeton (B.C.) Princeton |
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Newspapers |
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Language | English |
Notes | Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1903-12-26). |
Identifier | Similkameen_Star_1903_06_06 |
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Source | Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives |
Date Available | 2018-03-23 |
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