m m Placer, Coal and Lode Mining in the Similkameen. All Honest Labor is Honorable. ^ The Prosperity and Development of the Similkameen Depend Entirely Upon Railway Communication, "Which Must be Given. Its Mineral Resources Offer the Greatest Inducements for Investment; Its Climate a Standing: Invitation to All—Invest while Prices are Low. Vol. v. No. 23. PRINCETON, B.C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1904. $2 a Year, in Advance. HO! FOR PRINCETON Railway Projects Looming on the Horizon of the Nigh Future. Movements of Railway Magnates- Lining Tip for a Start Into the Similkameen. In an "interview with a Vancouver reporter G. A. Begy, president of the Nicola, Kamloops & Similkameen coal and railway company, who, with W. H. Mer- ritt, was recently in Princeton, stated "that every arrangement had been made as to the financing of the projected line. The company has been reorganized and it is composed of good reliable men, who are well able to carry out the undertaking once they receive favorable word from the provincial government. Surveys are nearly completed under the direction of C. H. Keefer, C.E, We have all our plans ready and our trip this time was to go over the entire route as laid out in the charter. We are well satisfied with the prospects. We are now on our way to Victoria and the first moment that we receive satisfactory assurances from the executive' council of the government we are prepared to give the order to immediately start construction, everything being in readiness. The first part of the line, that which will be constructed as soon as possible after a beginning is made, will be from Spence's Bridge to Nicola, a distance of 45 miles. This will open up large deposits of coal in that neighborhood." President Shaughnessy of the C.P.R. arrived in Vancouver on the 16th. He is coming to Summerland to inspect his farm and is expected in the Similkameen to look over his coal areas. A party of high officials of the Great Northern and the same number of Canadian Pacific recently visited the Granby mines at Phoenix in the interests of their respective companies. The C.P.R. officials extended their journey to Midway the terminus of their road for the last few years. Great Northern officials were at Midway also looking over their terminal ground. It looks as if they were lining up for the race to Princeton as Midway is the starting point. Ten to one that President Hill will win in this greatest race for the greatest prize of modern times. It is confidently expected that the V. V. & E. branch of the Great Northern will be finished from Grand Forks to Phoenix by the first of October. The spur to the Granby smelter will also have rail connection at that time, which will enable it to receive ores direct from Republic and Rossland mines and coke from east Kootenay over one railway system, the Great Northern. A blast of 500 barrels of black powder was recently exploded on the line near Grand Forks which moved thousands of tons of rock onto an adjoining ranch. Grand Forkers are elated over their two railroads and the doubling of the capacity of the Granby smelter. Ore Specimens for Vancouver. About 1000 lbs. of ore specimens from the Similkameen district have been accumulated in the board of trade building and packed ready for shipment to the Vancouver Tourist Association rooms, there to form part of a permanent mineral exhibition. The specimens are not as complete and representative as could be desired owing to the labor required in procuring fresh samples from crown granted claims on which no work has beeu done recently. However, it will form the nucleus of what can be made by future additions one of the most interesting mineral exhibits to be found iu any city. The varieties of coal and iron, the fire clay, limestone, red ochre and copper sulphates in solution, as well as other less common minerals found in this district would be most attractive to the ore connoisseur and should be added to present shipment if possible. Thus, the opportunity for making known the riches of the Similkameen, if improved and appreciated by both givers and receivers, will assist in making Vancouver a mining centre and benefit the whole province. The Sunday School. Editor Star—Sir : The Sunday school suffers from the prejudice which regards it as merely a place where goody-goody people may safely be pious without much gain to themselves or loss to others. It suffers also from the zeal of such as would displace by its operation the instruction properly belonging to the home and de volving upon parents. A more mischievous error, however, is the supposition that Sunday schools are for cities and towns but impracticable or useless in sparsely settled districts. Serious reflection will lead to the conclusion that the largest benefits are derivable from Sunday school work -where population is scant and gospel ordinances intermittent or suspended. Under such circumstances self-help is the obvious duty of every Christian. All who retain a due sense of how solemn a thing it is to live should surely meet together once a week for conference upon the facts of existence, the chief of which is man's relation to his Maker, and to study the Volume of Inspiration for themselves as intelligent and responsible beings are morally bound to do. Thus1 'Assembling themselves together" and appropriating to themselves the saving truths of the gospel with [Continued on page 3.] A UND OF PROMISE So Says W. Yolen Williams Regarding Minerals of this District. Delayed Railway Construction has Disheartened Prospectors and Mine Owners. W. Yolen Williams, late superintendent of the Granbv mines at Phoenix, has been giving the Spokane Review his impressions of this country while on a trip to Bear creek, near Otter Flat. The opinions of such gentlemen as Mr. Williams are courted in all mining countries for the reasons that, in the first place, they are reliable and unvarnished, and secondly, there is a reserve cf expression which carries' eonviction to the most skeptical. It is to be regretted that more men of Mr. Williams' stamp do not find opportunity of visiting the Similkameen and Nicola ' districts. It is certain they would be well repaid in the revelations which nature would unfold to them. Then, there are opportunities now for investment which in all-likelihood will not occur twice in any man's, lifetime. When Mr. Williams comes again it is hoped he will extend his visit to Princeton and vicinity. Mr. Williams said : " The Similkameen country in southern British Columbia looks to me like a mining district of great promise. It has long been known for its gold and copper and how prospectors are excited over a silver-lead camp which they think will make a second Slocan. It is on the summit between Princeton and Hope. I wanted to see it but was deterred on the advice of the natives, who told me that the rain then prevailing in the valleys would probably prove to be snow on' the summits and the trip promised to be a hazardous one. " I went into the country by way of Kamloops on the Canadian Pacific, whence a stage runs weekly for 130 miles down into the Princeton country. The roads are the finest mountain highways I have ever seen and the trip is a delightful one. It is a prospector's paradise for wood, water, grass, game and fish, and the mineral outcrops are beautiful. " The Morning Glory group, in which I am interested with three others, is about 18 miles from Princeton, near Otter Flat. It was staked four years ago and we have not done muSh work. However' we have a fine showing of chalcopyrite with gold and silver, which gives assays around $50. " At Nicola I found the people confident of having a great coal camp, and they were using their own coal for domestic purposes and for smithing. > " The people generally in the Similka meen are discouraged over the delay of the railway to run through the district. The camps can do nothing without transportation and many of the prospectors are getting disheartened with the interminable wait. "The Nickel Plate mine at Hedley, which is controlled by the Rodgers interests, is running its 40-stamp mill and should have a great future." Pioneer Revisits Princeton. James Orr, ex-M.P.P., of Victoria, arrived in Princeton on last Saturday's stage. He is one of the narrowing band of '49ers who came to the Pacific coast in search of fortune and is also one of the earliest pioneers of the Similkameen and Cariboo goldfields. In the early '60s he and the late Mr. Allison washed gold on the Similkameen river above Princeton making from $25 to $60 per diem apiece. Though in his eightieth year Mr. Orr took out a miner's license and started yesterday in company with Bill Allison and Sam Spencer in search of an old location made some forty years ago, but the exact spot he cannot distinctly recollect. He met his old tillicum Robert Stevenson here both of whom dug gold side by side in Cariboo. Both were skookum men in their day and their prowess in feats of agility and strength t were the talk of the camp. Mr. Stevenson owes a debt of gratitude to his friend who saved him from the perilous hug of a big bear that had given him a chase. "Jimmy," as he was popularly named, caught the bear in his mad flight by his caudal appendage and held him uutil his companion reached high timber. Both gentlemen have had many such hairbreadth escapes by flood and field. Many friends wish them every success. In parliament Mr. Orr was calm, dignified and dispassionate and respected by . all. Politically he sympathizes with the Liberals and condoles with the Conservatives. When Mr. Orr first came to Princeton it w'as called "Quonitkwa" by the Indians, its equivalent in English being "paradise." Gov. Douglas subsequently changed the name to Princeton. Mr. Orr expects to winter here. The train hold-up on the C.P.R. at Sil- verdale near Mission Junction last Saturday night resulted in the loss of $7,500 in gold dust and cash by the Dominion Express Co. and a small amount of registered mail. A posse of police and detectives are on the trail of the robbers and their capture is expected at any moment. A reward of $6,500 is offered for the ar-. -\' rest of the desperadoes, "Podunk" Davis came in via Hope pass from Victoria on Thursday where he had been an interested party in a case of disputed right to coal property. An error in the department of lands and works seems to have caused the trouble and expense to Mr. Davis who again is cited to appear there on the 27th instant. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR September 17, 1904 The Similkameen Star Published Weekly at PRINCETON, B.C. —BY— The Princeton Publishing Co. A. E. Howse, Manager. One Year, SUBSCRIPTION RATE: Payable in Advance. $2.00 Subscribers will confer a favor on this office by promptly reporting any change in address or irregularity in receipt of their paper. Advertising rates furnished on application. Legal notices io and 5 cents per line. Four weekly insertions constitute one month advertising. All cheques to be made payable to A. E. HOWSE. WAITING FOR DEVELOPMENT. lacking many of the conveniences and accessories of civilization the Similkameen affords forcible evidence of a dearth of men qualified to legislate for a new country possessed of rare natural advantages. This district still remains in almost the same primitive condition of seclusion as when the gold- hunters of a quarter century ago found it. It still has many hundreds of square miles on which the footprint of man has never been made. Here the whelps of the savage beast, and the deer and the kid are yet tame with curiosity on the approach of man. As it now is the Similkameen stands a towering monument of-the neglect and incapacity of dead and dying provincial governments. Many professions of sympathy and unnumbered promises have been made by sycophant supporters of the various local governments but all fell far short of realization. No friendly stentorian voice of minister has ever been heard in the legislative hall in behalf of this castaway district—all have succumbed to the clammy touch of monopoly. From the several premiers down to the insignificant toady in a back seat of the house there has not been found a single legislator of sufficient ability or honesty of purpose to fight to the death the mercenary, poltroons who have so long kept this country in the background. Money to the amount of a million and a half dollars was readily procured for parliament buildings at Victoria and other large sums have been spent in the beautification of that city and its environs. A minister who now occupies a cabinet position in the McBride administration formerly proposed a bonus of a million dollars to the Pacific cable when it was promoted. What a fine investment that would have been ! Instances of the above character might be cited to fill a page, but enough has been given to prove the absurdity of entrusting the development of a new country to boodlers, boozers and pettifoggers. No doubt these identical individuals, without truth or the desire to attain it, will endeavor to take credit for the good times which will follow in the wake of the railway soon to be built in spite of them. One will shout "I did it" and another will say "See what I have done for you," while a third will throw all kinds of dust in the air to fully blind the shortsighted. But, as with all mockers, their doom is sealed, for they will be sat upon, bound, and cast into Stygian oblivion by the people. NOTES AND COMMENTS. When one sees the hosts of humanity, far outnumbering those of any other nations, gathered under the rule of the British and Chinese empires, the former with 389,000,- 000, the latter with 407,000,000 people, he is impressed with the contrast between the rule of a Christian nation and that of a pagan. On the one hand is a snug little island containing some 40,000,000 of people,, who have planted their flag in every corner of the earth, who subjugated the Indian empire with its 330,000,000 of heathens and has in Africa and America vast po- sessions which will yet teem with an innumerable throng of Christian people ; on the other hand is observed a nation of slaves bowing to gods of wood and stone, unpro- gressive, ignorant and threatened with dismemberment on every side. In this contrast there is overwhelming proof of the superiority of Christian rule over that of pagan. As between Christianity and civilized unbelief there is the same superiority. Surely righteousness exalteth a nation. A measure was introduced in the recent session of the Dominion house by Sir William Mulock to regulate the sale of quack medicines, devices and appliances advertised as wonderful remedies for the cure of disease will be approved 03' suffering humanity. Large sums of money are lavished upon worthless curealls about which a sort of superstition exists in the minds of the unknowing. If persons would rely more upon the natural remedies of food, air and an abundance of water inwardly and outwardly, they might then "throw physic to the dogs" and put quacks out of business. Legislation that will tend to reduce the number of impostors to a minimum will be appreciated. NOTICE? NOTICE is hereby given that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 640 acres of mountain pasture lard, situated and adjoining Harris's preemption (I,ot 966), starting from his S.W. corner and following section line to N.W. corner, thence 80 chains west, 80 chains south, 80 chains east back to point of commencement, 640 acres. G. BRANDT, Locator. . Dated this 1st of September, 1904. NOTICE. Billy Goat and Shamrock mineral claims both situate in the Osoyoos mining division of Yale district. Where located: On Riordan mountain; and Searchlight and Flagstaff mineral claims, both situate in said Osoyoos mining division. Where located : On Flagstaff mountain, southeast of Olalla. Take notice that I, R, H. Rogers, as agent for Robert Gaede, free miner's certificate No. B78828 and James Fjordan, free miner's certificate No. B78824, intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the mining recorder for certificates of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining crown grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 12th day of September, 1904. NOTICE. 'T'HIRTY days from date I intend to apply to *■ the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license tc prospect for coal on the following described lands:— Commencing at a post placed ten chains south of the S.W. corner cf lot 1042, And running north 80 chains, west 80 chains, south 80 chains, east 80 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres. W. C. MCDOUGALL. Dated July 23, 1904. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 320 acres of mountaiu pasture land, described as follows Commencing at a post marked a.J's N.E. corner, thence 80 chains west, 40 chains south, 80 chains east, 40 chains north, back to initial post, in all about 320 acres. Situate about n miles west of Princeton, and is bounded on the north side by the meandering line of the Tuiameen river. ALICE JAMES, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Dated this 14th dayof August, 1904. NOTICE. I^OTIOE is hereby given that sixty days after * ^ date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 640 acres of crown lauds for pasturing purp6ses, commencing at a post marked S.W. corner of lot 1091, thence running 80 chains east, 80 chains south, 80 chains west, 80 chains north, back to post, iu all 640 acres more or less. C. M. KINGSTON, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Dated this 19th day of July, 1904. NOTICE. TAKE NOTICE that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Hon. the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 320 acres of Crown lands for pastur ing purposes: Commencing at a post marked I. M. W.'s S. W. corner: Thence running 80 chains west. 40 chains north, 80 chains east, 40 chains south, back to point cf commencement, in all 320 acres, more or less. This land is situate about 10 miles west of Princetcn and is bounded on the south side by the meandering line of the Tuiameen river. J. M. WRIGHT, . C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Dated this nth day of July, 1904. NOTICE. Copper Glance, Azurite and Alpine mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located ; On Copper mountain. Take notice that I, F. W. Groves, acting as agent for John R. McRae, free miner's certificate No. B72143, and Hugh McRae, free miner's certificate No. B62053, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining crown grants of the above claims. And further take 1 otice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 9th day of July, A.D. 1904. Sale of lands for Unpaid Delinquent Taxes in the Princeton Assessment District, Province of British Columbia. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that on Wednesday, the 12th day of October, 1904, at the hour of 12 o'clock, noon, I shall sell at public auction at Government Office, Princeton, unless sooner paid, the lands, hereinafter set ont, of the persons in said list, hereinafter set out, for the delinquent taxes unpaid by said persons on the 31st day of December, A.D. 1903, and for interest, costs and expenses, including the cost of advertising said sale. LIST ABOVE MENTIONED. Short Description of Property. Coluir n No. 1. mt Taxes. Column No. 2. Column No. 3 Name of person Assessed. Delinqui Taxes. at date of sale Statvtory costs and Expenses. Total. Similkameen Valley ■ Coal Company. Frank Bailey. Lot 2059, Group 1. Lot 1968, Group 1. $22.50 22.50 $1.05 1.05 $2.00 2,00 $25-55 25.55 HUGH HUNTER, Assessor Princeton Assessment District, Princeton, B.C. Princeton, Sept. 10th, 1904. NOTICE of FORFEITURE To JAMES F. DICKSON, or to any person or persons to whom he may have transferred his interest in the High Ore and, Margarett mineral claims, situate one mile north of Similkameen City", in Camp Hedley, in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district, British Columbia. You are hereby notified that I have expended the sum of $200 for work on the above mentioned claims and $5 for recording the same for assessments, such being required and necet sary to hold the said claims for the year endingtjuly; 3rd and 27th June, 1904, respectively, under the provisions of the Mineral Act and Amending Acts; and if at the expiration of ninety days from the date of the first publication of this notice in the Similkameen Star, you fail or refuse to contribute your portion of such expenditure, namely, $102.50, together with all costs of advertising, your interest in said mineral claims will become vested in me, (your co-owner) upon filing in the proper office in that behalf the affidavit required by Section 4 of the Mineral Act Amendment Act, 1900. Dated this nth day of Tuly, 1904. HENRY A. WILLIAMS. NOTICE of FORFEITURE To ARCHIBALD GRANT or whomsoever he may have transferred his interest in Klon- dyke mineral claim, situate on Copper Mountain, and about ten miles from Princeton, in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Take notice that after the publication hereof once each week for ninety days, 3 ou fail or refuse to contribute your portion of the expenditure required by section 24 of the " Mineral Act," being chapter 135, Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1897, in respect of the Kloudyke mineral claim, situate on Copper mountain in the Osoyoos Mining Division of Yale District, British Columbia, together with all costs of advertising, your interest in said claim shall become vested in your co-owner, Thomas F. McAlpin, of Princeton, Free Miner, who has made the required expenditure. The amount due by you in respect of each of the said mineral claims, not including costs, is $25.62^. Dated this 4th day of June, 1904. THOS. J. MCALPIN. NOTICE of FORFEITURE To W. E. WELBY and any person or persons to whom he may have transferred his interests in the Elbe, Sunset, Maid cf the Mist and War Cloud mineral claims situate at Camp Hedley in the Osoyoos mining division of Yale district: You are hereby required to take notice that we have for the last two years done the w hole of the assessment work on the above mentioned mineral claims as required by section 24 of the mineral act and have paid for recording the several certificates of such wcrk, ard you are hereby required to contribute your proportion cf such work and expenditure together with all costs of advertising, your said proportion amounting to One Huudred and Fifty Nine Dollars ($159.00), exclusive of costs. If you fail or refuse to contribute your said proportion and all costs of advertising within ninety days from the date of the first publication of this notice in the Similkameen Star, which date is hereunder written, your interests in said mineral claims will become vested in .us, your co owners, under the provisions of the Mineral Act and Amending Acts. Dated this 4th day of June, A.D. 1904. H. W. YATES. J. F. CAMPBELL. NOTICE. 'T'HIRTY days after date I intend to apply to * the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for coal on the following described lands:— Situated on the right bank of One-Mile creek, 2% miles from Princeton, commencing at a post, And running south 80 chains, west 80 chains, north 80 chains, east 80 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres. H. B. CANNON, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Located Aug. 7, 1904. Commencing at the N.E. corner of H. B. Cannon's coal claim, And running 80 chains north, 80 chains west, 80 chains south, 80 chains east to point of commencement, containing 640 acres. W. L. GERMAIN, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Located Aug. 7, 1904. Commencing at the S.E. corner of W. L. Germain's coal claim, And running 80 chains east, 80 chains north, 80 chains west, 80 chains south, back to post, containing in all 640 acres. A. F. MCDONALD, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Located, Aug. 7, 1904. NOTICE. THIRTY days from date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum on the following described lands in Yale division of Yale district: Commencing at a post marked J. Y. MacAd- am's coal claim, S.E. corner, thence north 80 chains, thence west 80 chains, along south line of "Blakemore" claim, thence south 80 chains, thence east 80 chains to place of commencement, containing 640 acres. J. Y. MACADAM, Locator, W. A. Da VIS, Agent. Located June 16,1904. Commencing at a post marked D. F. Campbell's coal claim, N.E. corner, running 80 chains west along south line of J. Y. MacAdam's claim, thence 80 chains south, thence 80 chains east, thence 80 chains north to place of commencement, containing 640 acres. D. F. CAMPBELL,Locator, W. A. DAVIS, Agent. Located June 16,1904. September 17, 1904 w am ■4 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. [Concluded fronvpage i.] prayer and praise intermingled, any community may enjoy all essential elements of public worship—minister or no minis- ter._ Not only so, they will find the act of imparting scripture truth to others the very best means for their own intellectual enlargement and uplifts! Yours truly. -, . James Lang. Princeton, Sept. 13, 1904. i i LOCAL NEWS NOTES. Messrs. Horton and White burned a \ kiln of 16,000 bricks of excellent quality 'which are now on sale. C. Harris brought in the first load of new oats for the season yesterday. Geo. Aldous is recovering from a severe (attack of rheumatic fever. The first of what is designed to be a series of whist socials was given by Mr land Mrs. Lyall on Tuesday evening' Prizes were won by Mesdames Barnard land. Bell. Wm. Knight came in from Highland Valley on Wednesday bringing with him fine ore specimens. / Alex. Bell is adding to his house a combined conservatory and piazza from de- jsigns by architect Hall. Chas. E. Will of the U.S. boundary survey, left for Seattle on Sunday last, intending to spend the winter there. He made many friends here by his affable manner and sterling qualities and it is said there are some aching hearts among the young gentlewomen owing to his departure. Public worship will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. by Rev. Mr. Lang. Sunday school at 2:30. P. W. Groves, P.L.S., has recently surveyed mineral claims at Hedley. Norman Nowell and T. Green arrived from Chiliwack and Howard Aldous and Gus Hewat from Vancouver Wednesday. Nils Pearson returned from a prospecting trip up the Pasayton and has some good specimens with him. E. Burr and wife of Hedley are taking j a holiday here. F. R. Whitwell has gone to Spokane. Billy-Rice is in town from Nicola. Druggist Rolls of Hedley, formerly of Vancouver, died suddenly at the former place recently. Geo. S. Waterlow, a director of the ! bnowshoe and Le Roi mines is expected ' at Rossland shortly. J. Bainbridge left for Rossland last Saturday. C. H. Wolf and Claude Snowden have returned from a prospecting trip. Gus Pouwels, C. Bonniver and Billy -fearless are washing gold ut> river. THE VANCOUVER ASSAY OFFICE, ESTABLISHED 1890. Analysis of Coal and Fife- clay a Specialty. ' Complete Coking Quality Tests. Reliable PLATINUM Assays. VANCOUVER, B. C. R. H. ROGERS M.A.,' B.C.L. SOLICITOR CONVEYANCER NOTARY PUBLIC, Etc. OLALLA P.O. Simikameen, B.G. H. I COOPER Harness, Saddles, Horse Furnishings, a '■'■'■■'■'■"'■'■Sec MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS Hi Harness of any Description and any Price Made to Order-Send for Prices. [Established 12 years in Vernon ] KELOWNA, B.C gm~Freight Prepaid to Penticton on all Orders from Princeton and Vicinity. P 1 aWaafA A, P M f v m 11 HNfYcity "imtt £ A Complete New Stock of General Herchan- I dise always on hand, • CONSISTING OF A FULL LINE OF 0 Groceries, Dry Goods, Men's Furnishings Boots snrl <?Wo 1 1 Builder's Supplies Shingles, Doors, Window .^ints^all I I Paper, Hardware, Stoves, Nails, Drill Steel a Harness and Saddlery j| Headquarters for Enderby Hungarian Flour, Northwest Oats, &c J J- A. SCHUBERT. J J n ** V J J- PIERCY&Co,, WHOLESALE DRY GOODS VICTORIA, B. G MANUFACTURERS OF Clothing, Top Shirts and Underwear. Wood, Vallance & HEADQUARTERS FOR SfcerwiB-wniiams" Paints Limited. MURAEO'S 1st quality Cold Water Sanitary Calcimo VANCOUVER, B. C. A General Banking Business A general banking business transacted by the Bank of Hamilton. Capital all paid up, $2,229,280.00. Reserve fund and surplus profits, #2,067,080.95. Interest allowed on Savings bank deposits of one dollar and upwards from date of deposit to date of withdrawal. A. H S.KEY, Agent, Kamloops, B.C. F. W. GROVES A. R. COLI.., SC. D., Civil and Mining Engineer PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. UNDERGROUND SURVEYS. PRINCETON. - - B. C. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase |4o acres of mountain pasture land, situated and adjoining Brandt's purchase on north line arid running along C. Summers's (Lot 1157), thence south 20 chains, west 20 chains, north 20 chains east 20 chains, back to point of commencement' 40 acres. ' t^.j.^- . , IVER PAULSEN, Locator. Dated this 1st of September, IQ04. Be Vancouver Breweries, LM. BREWERS OF THE FAMOUS Cascade Beer & Alexandra Stout Queen Beer # Alexandra Ale For sale throughout Britisji Columbia in all the first- class Hotels, Liquor Stores and Saloons. The Amalgamated DOERINfi & MARSTRAND & RED CROSS BREWERIES, VANCOfjVEP, B. 1 NOTICE. Hattie and Copper Jack mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located: In Aspen Grove camp. Take notice that I, F. W. Groves, acting as agent for J. S. C. Fraser, free miner's certificate No. B75740; Henry S. Poulinier, free miner's certificate No. B72121 and Emerson E. Wells free miner's certificate No. B85508, intend, sixty days from date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificates of improvements for the purpose of obtaining crown grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance ofsuch Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 29th day of August, A.D. rgo4. I H####*j£»Jif» WALL FINISH MWMMI *##€# 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 applying. Put up in 23 beautiful shades and white. Ask your dealer for a color card or send direct to McLENNAN, McFEELY & Co., Ltd., Wholesale and Retail Hardware Merchants, VANCOUVER, B. C. i L THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR September 17, 1904 Humorous. The late Nellie Farron, when she visited America with the London Gaiety company, danced before a well known New York club. At the end of the dance during an informal supper, some one began to talk about the new woman—a burning topic at that time. "Do the English believe in woman's emancipation?" a lawyer said to Miss Farron. "Do they believe in opening the same fields to women as to men and in paying them at the same rate?" "Oh, yes," said the little actress. "Even the English tramps believe all that. A tramp asked a countrywoman of mine one day for assistance and she said to the man sternly : 'Why don't you go to work?' 'Madam,'said the tramp, 'twenty years ago I made a vow not to do another stroke of work till women were paid the same wage as men.' " First correspondent (learning Russian) —Is "artillery" masculine or feminine? Second correspondent — Masculine, I should say. First correspondent—Why so ? Second correspondent—Because you can silence artillery. The late senator Alexander T. Goodwin of Utica, New York, left behind him the reputation of never having been too tired nor too ill to give or take a joke. During his last illness a relative, knowing the senator's extreme fondness for bran- died peaches, sent to his sick room a small jar of that preserve. A few days later the relative called and was admitted to the sick room. Quickly turning on his pillow, and without giving his caller time to extend the usual formalities, the sick man exclaimed : "My dear Louise, how* can I ever thank you for those delicious braudied peaches?" "I thought you would appreciate them, Alexander," returned the caller modestly. "Ah, yes ! ah, yeS,!" he assented with a smile, and, as the smile broadened and finally broke into a chuckle -which seemed almost noisy in the hush of the sick room, he added, "and how much more I appreciated the spirit in which they were sent." ■■w&t Nicola Lake and Princeton -:o: General Agents for British Columbia For the S Greatest Acetylene Gas Machine In the World* NOTICE. Take notice that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 320 acres of crown lands for pasturing purposes : Commencing at a post marked F.L.H's S.W. corner : Thence running 80 chains west, 40 chains north, 80 chains east 40 chains south, back to point of commencement, in all 320 acres. Situate about 10 miles west of Princeton and is bounded on the south side by the meandering line of the Tuiameen river. F. L.HAMMOND, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Dated 7th September, 1904. NOTICE. St. Lawrence, St. George and St. Helen mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located: On Bear creek. Take notice that I, F. W. Groves, acting as agent for William Henry Armstrong, free miner's certificate No. 878498, and Charles F. Law, free miner's certificate No. B72iig intend sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for certificates of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining crown grants of the above claims. -i.nd further take notice that action, under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificates of improvements. Dated this 29th day of August, 1904. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs ... copyrighjs &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may cmiekly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably.patentable. Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. . Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive' special notice, without charge, in the " k^£iUfa M% A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any soienUfiflWournaJ. Terms, $3 a year: four months, $L~ Soldbyltll newsdealers. SSI Broadway, II IVIjJI UUwi _ __ ,.■" — "■ t? 7. Branch Office, 625 F St.. Washington, D. C -:o:- Q o m be S u H 2l to n CHEAPER, I m CLEANER I Than Coal Oil ar Write V > -:o:- THE t DOWSE Ci NICOLA LAIe AND PRINCETOF n *y September 17, 1904 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR MINING NOTES. From tha Pelmer Mountain Prospector of Loomis, Wash., it is learned that ar rangements have been completed whereby operations will begin at once on the Palmer mountain tunnel. The tunnel is a mining proposition with enough ore in sight to satisfy any investor. Capital is at hand to put in operating and treatment plants and a broad smile lights up the countenances of the people owing to the good news. A complete reorganization of the Le Roi mine and smelter management has gone into effect. Managing director Mo- Millan is appointed general manager and j W. Astley is made general superintendent. The intention is to continue i operations at the mine and smelteripn an increased scale of activity.;,;,^J. H. Mc- Kenzie will shortly make a report on the concentration-" "experiments. Development has extended to the 1,400 foot level in the mine, the deepest point reached by vertical workings in any Canadian metalliferous mine. The Poplar Moping Association wi.lLiSs- commend certaiff'clia'nges To the" Mineral' Act the moSti important ot which will be as to whether it is desirable to give the 1 prospector thirty days in which to record s'~ h*is discovery and at the same time to require the completion of ,tlie first 3^ear's work jwithin thj^.thirty days limit and before" he can record. The object is to ..put a stop to the stalpng of a large number of mineral claims by one or two in- ' dividuals who do no development work, "■'but simply tie upflrhe properties and prevent more enterprising men from doing . work.; I The largest known nugget of platinum is from the Ural mines and is a part of the famous Demidoff collection in Russia. It weighs 22^ pounds. Other lumps are dhe in the Berlin museum from South America weighing 11,641 grains, and another jn the St. Petersburg museum weighing ir^ pounds. No American museurn exhibits a lump larger thau a few ounces; Copper mining is an industry that is rapidly decreasing in importance in Great Britain. Fort3' years ago the pro- puction of copper ore and copper precipitate amounted to upwards of 210,000 tons whereas in 1002 the production was only 6,il2 tons. Cornwall is the main source in the United Kingdom of the supply of this ore. Tin mining, which is also mainly confined to Cornwall, hasjfike- wise greatly decreased. TICKETF: Just Opened Largest Sale in Canada ;. mm HOTEL First Class Dili RCIAL Newly Fitted City No Chinese Employed. BEST BRANDS LIQUORS AND CIGARS ALWAYS IN STOCK SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO TRAVELLERS.^! HUSTON & JjjfL'EAN, Proprietors ROCHUSSEN & COLL Yates St., Victoria, B.C. MANUFACTURER'S AGENTS FOR % Mining Machinery #f and! supplies Tenders on Engineering Contracts MINING BROKERS Quotations on all kinds of machinery WRITE JUS FOR PRICES NOTICE. Bullion No. 1, Bullion Fraction fractional, Copper Head No. 1, Copper Head Fraction fractional, Nelly No. 1, Nelly Fractional, Yellow Jaeket No. 1, Yellow Jacket No. 1 Fractional,! and Summit No. 1 mineral claims WMe located: On Bullion mountain, all situate in the Osoyoos mining division of Yale district, and Dividend A and Dividend No. 1 A, mineral claims, both situate" in said Osoyoos mining division. Where located: On Dividend mountain. «• Take notice that I, R. H. Rogers, as agent for Robert Gaede, free miner's certificate No. B78S28, intend sixty days -from -the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificates of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining Crown grants of the above claims. And further takenotice that action, under sec" tion 37, must be commenced before the issuance1,; of such certificates of improvements. Dated this 12th day of September, 1904. For CONNOISSEURS Only. Can be had at all-first-class hotels through out the province. R. P. RITIIBT & CO., Ld. VICTORIA, B. C, Sole Agenjts, t.s*am The Hotel has been thoroughlwejlovated and refitted. Everything First Class. .:\ ■-. "' j No pains spared to please the.public. , j Table supplied with Jbest $&-. market affords. Fine Wines, Liquors'and Cigars, v j£^J& j; !! TELEPHONE* BAJTL Headquarters for Princeton, Spence's Briagerand Kamloops Limes the STAR! WE ARE EXCLUSIVELY SHOEMAKERS AND CAN GUARANTEE Style, Comfort and Durability IN FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURED BY US. The MME& ||, HOLDEN Company OF MONTREAL, LTD. VANCOUVER B.C. A J./imscrt Sons 6 C°- Hms. Montreal m .^f„=;s*, ■-•«.-_.. " ".~-^;"< io» .<**•*«*. ^^^tkhbbr3 vr ,""igo4 4 L LOTS F*omJ2JX&J$M). Per Mm^^~oo^$^ ^^^B^J^^I ill 1 Si^iof Lo^^50xjj00| BaL 3Uici 6 months, od|t* per annum* <£ W as.a"\W- , *« ft For the Sfiiliicen District. 3AUT!1FTOL^PITIMTED at the Fofff of tne Siln& ?fcameen and Tuiameen Rivers. Th^'$US8ffiS^(SSS^. TTRiE* for mt follbwmj^SBll|hg* Ga^ps:—?f Cop^el 'MduEi^fii ^KennedyCdMountainfc Friday, Boulder* and Granite Greeks, Summit, Roche River, Upper Tuiameen and Aspen Grove. ENORllpUS AGRlcftftlW- AL AREA TO DRA WdFROM Send for Map and Price List to «£ «£ m ^fe& ppisfSS* Resident .Manage*J7ERMILION FORKS MINIlSfd'AND DEVELOPMENT CO. -j;-". :, *S -*;-; r~p-=' ■e.;*«i?--;-^-*-*_':•»-" -. \ m ?— v* M^Miii
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Title | Similkameen Star |
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Howse, A.E. |
Publisher | Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company |
Date Issued | 1904-09-17 |
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Princeton (B.C.) Princeton |
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Language | English |
Identifier | Similkameen_Star_1904_09_17 |
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BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives |
Date Available | 2018-10-31 |
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/ |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0373221 |
Latitude | 49.460278 |
Longitude | -120.507778 |
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