^ 1 lip " Learn to Labor and to Wait "—for the Railway. «,- . s \ IU Monotony is Death; Variety is Life. Midsummer is Gone, the Harvest Days will Soon be Over, Still no Sign of the Promised Summer Railway Session. Nature has Set the Table for a Million People in the Similkameen and Nicola Mineral Districts—Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, Coal and Iron: Vol. v. No. 15. PRINCETON. SH SATTTPn A v tttt v k iQc\A $2 a Year, in Advance. PRINCETON, B.C., SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1904. NEW VARIETY OF WHEAT. Originated from a Few Kernels Taken from a Wild Goose. Hugh Hunter has a peculiar bearded wheat unlike anything of the kind ever seen by any to whom he has shown it. He terms it "goose" wheat, for want of a more classical name, and yet the name is not misapropos since the grain was recovered from a wild goose shot in its southern flight some three or four years ago. The few kernels thus saved were sown and carefully tended until at the present time it has multiplied into many bushels. As it now stands in a patch of about one eighth of an acre it looks very healthy with a large stem and broad leaf. The heads average from 190 to 196 grains and stand in serrated columns long and short around the central one. As the agricultural editor of this journal is dead his mining coadjutor can only say that whether it comes from a goose's crop or an Egyptian mummy's belly it looks as if it might pan out a bonanza for the "hayseeds." It has been sent to the agricultural college, Guelph, Ont., for classification. HEDLEY PARAGRAPHS Fire Destroys Brewery Val- Kued at $5,000 and r No Insurance. Daly Reduction Co. Buys Mine—Mill Running Full Blast and All Goes Well. Great Mineral Country. J. I. Jones, of Cottage Grove, Ore., arrived in Princeton last Sunday on a combined business and pleasure trip Mr. Jones is prominent in mining cjrcles^ in Portland and has made several successful ventures in that line in recent yearf. He will see as much of the Similkameen as possible within a limited time and convey his impressions to colleagues who aref ready to invest on the strength of his say so. It is significant of a growing interest in the Similkameen that at present a large number of inquiries are being made both by letter and personal visit to this mining district. Mr. Jones coincides with the testimony of former visitors that this is undoubtedly a great mineral country, lacking only in transportation. He much admired the hotel Jackson exhibit of ore and praised the climate and location of Princeton. Railway Notes. Great Northern railway engineers are now at work on Anarchist mountain, about 30 miles west of Midway. They have run four trial lines in endeavoring to find a 2 per cent, grade. It is fully expected that it will be obtained. Within a few days engineers will begin locating from Osoyoos lake towards Princeton. Orders have been issued to all engineer crews and graders on the Kalispell cutoff and Morrissey, B.C. branch to have their work completed by Aug. i. The theory is advanced that President Hill is hastening towards the Similkameen. Prospects for the actual construction of a coast to Kootenay railway were never brighter. The Similkameen & Keremeos railway bill has passed the railway committee stage. Hedley, July 19.—We regret having to report the total destruction by fire of the Hedley brewery on Monday, 18th inst. The fire, which originated iu the boiler {■opm, broke out a few minutes after 1 p.m. and as the building was situated some little distance from any others and no means being at hand to speedily give the alarm, when help arrived it was apparent at a glance that there was no chance of saving the building—a light frame one. All that the many willing hands could do was to use the few minutes, e'er the building was wrapped in flames, in saving a few kegs and barrels of the stock on hand, also a couple of pieces of machinery from the soda water works. The loss is estimated at-foooo. No insurance. Messrs. Cahill and Yates have sold the \ Climax and IXL mineral claims to the Daly Reduction Co., the consideration, we learn, being in the neighborhood of $ 12,000. It may interest some to know that the claims are situate near the switchback on the company's electric tramway. The electric and gravity tramways appear to be working smoothly and regularly. The stamp mill is now working steadily and running night and day. Good progress is being made installing the machinery of the new 40-drill compressor—when it is completed it will supply all power needed at the mine and intermediate points. The new hotel is rapidly nearing completion. It is equipped with a hot and cold water system, lavatories, bath rooms and every modern convenience usually found iu first class hotels. An addition is being made to the Grand Union hotel which will greatly improve the looks and facilities of that well known hostelry. Preparations are being made in various parts of the town to erect new buildings, principally residences, and no doubt before winter many comfortable homes will be erected to accommodate our ever increasing population. ASPEN GROVE NOTES The Portland Again Active and Shareholders on the Ground. Man Looking for a Helpmeet While Another Goes in Search of Lost Mine. Aspen Grove, July 16.—The Portland, with Jack Murray in charge and Tink French at the lever, are engaged in bailing out the water in the shaft. A. W. Wright and the auditor are here at present and are making an examination of the property. It is not yet definitely known if development work will begin now. Messrs. Murray and Larsen are doing development work on their property at Fish Lake and Mr. McDonald, having completed his yearly mineral work has started for the valley to engage in haying. Mr. Eastwood, of Copper Standard fame, has been engaged by Mr. Pooley to do_his butchering while the said Mr. Pooley is searching for a partner-for-life. Haying is in full swing in Nicola valley and men are scarce. A small raise in daily wages might be of benefit to the farmers in saving much good hay. Dad Allan and Messrs Lowe and Aug- stett are still pegging away, when the mosquitoes are willing, and are having splendid results. The boys are stayers and are entitled to a big stake. Mr. Smith, of the Big Sioux, is somewhere in California looking for a lost mine. With his usual good luck and sharp penetration he will, no doubt, find it. The mosquitoes here are wonderfully active and more plentiful than ever. All the Aspen Grove properties are looking well and everybody is enthusiastic about the future of the camp. Mr. Poulton, who has completed his contract on the Maggie and Little Giant, is off for the lower regions (I mean the valley) to engage in haying. Messrs. Willarson and Johnson are getting in double shifts on the Hit or Miss with good results. Observer. IN SOLEMN MATRIMONY. Macphail-Terrill Nuptials the First' Celebrated at Granite Creek. The wedding of Mr. Donald Macpbail to Miss Belle Terrill on the 12th inst. at Granite creek was of more than passing interest. In point of chronology it is the first on the roll of many yet to be chronicled in the coming generations of the pioneer gold camp of the Similkameen. But its historic interest is of secondary importance when the popularity of the principals in this their new-found home and adopted country is considered. From across the sea relatives and friends of the bridegroom in Scotia dear sent mementoes of their high esteem and regard, while the bride received many tokens, of love from relatives, and from friends a shower of congratulations and numerous presents. The Star joins with their many friends in the valley in wishing Mr. and Mrs. Macphail all happiness and prosperity. The marriage ceremony was conducted by the Rev. George^'Mason of Nicola at 5 p.m. in the presence of many guests. The bride looked very pretty in a dress of crepe de chene trimmed with point de esprit lace. She wore a wreath of the typical orange blossoms, also a splendid pearl brooch, the gift of the bridegroom, in all of which she made a charming midsummer bride. The bridesmaid^- Miss Ethel Ibynne, looked pretty in a dress of white organdie. Mr. D. A. C. Mac- .phail.. brother of the Skip. J. Webster, of Vernon, cousin of Mrs. W. C. Lyall, is visiting here and may locate on fruit land. He is accompanied by T. Benford who is also in search of land. Both gentlemen are fully impressed , "-~. with the immense resources of the coun-.' J. E. Coulter came up from Keremeos try and wonder at the delay in railway; to remove his family onto the ranch he building into the Similkameen. f is tilling there It is reported that the Daly Reduction Co. is endeavoring to secure the output of the Kingston mine and parties are now in the east to negotiate with the largest shareholders to that effect. A. F. McDonald, railroad contractor on the Phoenix: branch of the V. V. & E. was in town a few days this week and reports good times in the Boundary. An anti-corset league, on the lines of those elsewhere, is mooted groom, was best man. The bridal couple left for Kamloops on Sunday last by stage where they will spend the honeymoon. The groom was born in the Isle of Mull, Scotland, where his ancestry may be identified for many centuries. He has travelled extensively in Africa and America and is a graduate in arts of Glasgow university. The bride hails from Colorado, where flows the noble Rio Grande through scenery unmatched the world over, and has been a resident of Granite creek for the past two years. The festivities following the ceremony were not quite ended when the dawn of radiant morn beckoned to the happy pair that the voyage across life's main had begun under fair omens—may all their lives be sunlit. Mr. and Mrs. Terrill were most affable and attentive as host and hostess, and the inspiriting music of Messrs. Thynne, Ross and Rabbitl was duly appreciated. W. E. Butler bought a bunch of eighty horses from Mr. Allison, near Keremeos, for which he paid about $2000. They were driven to Ducks by J. Budd and G. Aldous from thence they will be shipped to Calgary. Three diamond drills are in operation in the Nicola making coal boring tests. The V.F.M. & D. Co. of Princeton has stopped drilling for the present on their coal lands near the town. 1 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR July 23, 1904 The Similkameen Star Published Weekly at PRINCETON, B.C. —BY— The Princeton Publishing Co. A. E. Howse, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: One Year, ........... $2.00 Payable in Advance. 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 10 and 5 cents per line. Four weekly insertions constitute one month advertising. All cheques to be made payable to A. E. HOWSE. HOPES DEFERRED. The annual meeting of the Vermilion Forks Mining and Develop- -ment Co., held last month in London, affords a text from which an interesting chapter might be writ-- ten. For, the condition of the company is a reflex of the political history of the province in so far as it affected the coast to Kootenay railway scheme. Pernicious influences, over which the company had no control, have delayed progress and temporarily overcast a particularly bright and prosperous inception in Princeton and vicinity. A period of depression and fruitless anxiety in the Similkameen may be readily traced to the vagaries of incompetent governments and a buccaneer railway corporation and individuals and companies alike have felt the blighting and discouraging effects resulting from stubborn inertia of procrastinating legislators. The Vermilion Forks Company invested large sums of money here in real estate and in coal and metalliferous mining. Their properties are among the most valuable in the country and mast increase manifold in price with railway construction. "When these properties were acquired there was a tacit understanding that transportation would be given at once. Indeed, legislators solemnly promised to make railway connection if they were returned to office. How false those promises have proven the Vermilion Forks Co. and the thousand and one other investors have fully realized. They have acted honorably and in good faith and have fulfilled all their obligations to the government—they have performed all their duty to the country and the community— only the government has failed. In a community where everybody is poor and kept so by the machinations of unscrupulous authorities, the hopes deferred rankle until the faintest sign of relief from a competitive, though alien, source is welcomed with ecstacsy. Thanks to a kind Providence there is now a well-founded hope that foreign enterprise will supply what neither the local government nor a home Kgronopoly would—a railway: All those who have patiently awaited the turn of the tide will reap their well-merited reward, not the least deserving of whom is the Vermilion Forks Mining and Development Company. The Kamloops Sentinel, always sound in doctrineandjudgment, has the following comment: "The statement made by the chairman of the Vermilion Forks Mining Co. at the general meeting of shareholders is an arraignment, unconscious no doubt, of the present provincial government and their immediale predecessors. This company have spent thousands of dollars developing their coal property and in other enterprises in expectation that the government's pledges respecting railway construction through the Similkameen district were to be trusted to. The thousands sunk are making no return and the cry for more money to keep up the work to hold the property becomes monotonous in the ears of the long- suffering shareholders. "It is this sort of thing that makes it difficult to enlist British capital in our enterprises. The possibilities are great but the day when they will become profitable is so indefinite if postponed so long owing to the indifference and vacillation of the government, that the wonder is not that capital is difficult to get, but that it can be got at all. " We are afraid the chairman will be doomed to disappointment over the promised summer railway session at which all railroad matters were to be dealt with and the country sent bounding along into an era of abiding prosperity. That promise was only one of 'Dick's' little pleasantries; a promise never intended to be fulfilled. But the railway that will open up the coal and mineral deposits of the Similkameen will come despite the scarcely veiled negative opposition, as it may be termed, of the McBride government. There is only one company the present government wish to see build into the Similkameen and they will not take any step to make it easier for any other concern to build on that account. " The Vermilion Forks Co. are not alone in suffering from lack of transportation. Every mine, coal or mineral, in that rich district is handicapped in the same way. Relief will not be through the hands of the present provincial ministry." 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 iorty acres of Crown lands for pasturing purposes: Commencing at a post marked I. M. W.'s S. W. corner : Thence running 80 cnains 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 east and west sides by the Tuiameen river. J. M. WRIGHT, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Dated this nth day of July, 1904. PRINCETON BOARD OF TRADE—Rooms centrally located. Membership solicited. C. E. Thomas, E. Waterman, President. Secretary. A. Bell, Treasurer. Advertise in the Star. 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 a crown grant of the above claim. 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. NOTICE. TTHIRTY days from 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:— Commencing at a post marked A. Green's &-S. 3, and 5^-S. 4, placed on east side of Cold- water river, al outjiciles south of Coutlee. And running 40 chains west, 80 chains south, 80 chains east, 80 chains north, and then 40 chains west to point of commencement, containing 640 acres.- William Rice, Locator. Charles Stirling, Agent. Nicola, May 20, 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 160 acres of mountain pasture land, described as follows Commencing at a post situated on the south side of Similkameen river, about 8 miles from Princeton and opposite the mouth of Whip- saw creek marked T.C.R's S.W. corner, thence r.orth 80 chains following the meander ofSimii- kameen river, thenee 20 chains east, thence 8c chains south, thence 20 chains west to initial post. T. C. R2VELY, W. F. REVELY, Agent. Princeton, B.C., April 21st, 1904. NOTICE. Kenley mineral claim, situate in the Similkameen Mining Division of Yale district. Where located : Copper mountain. Take notice that I, Ernest Waterman, free miner's certificate No. B72039 for myself and for Edwin Barr Hall, free miner's certificate No. B72040, intend sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. .rind further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 9th day of April, 1904. NOTICE. Olympian mineral claim, situate in the Similka- .rneen. mining division of Yale district. Where located : On Copper mountain. Take notice that I, F. W. Groves, acting as agent for Joseph Wright, free miner's certificate No. B75373; J. S. C. Fraser, free miner's certificate No. B42433 and L- G. Barron, free miner's certificate No. B57500, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificaie of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance ofsuch Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 25th day of April, A.D. 1904. NOTICE. Great Republic mineral claim, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located : Copper mountain. Take notice that I, John P. McLeod, free miner's certificate No. B80240, for myself and as agent for Charles H. Bonter, free miner's certificate No. B75510, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the mining recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced befo?e'"the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 18th day of April, A.D. 1904. J. P. McLEOD. 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 eighty acres of second class land, situated in Osoyoos district: Commencing at a post marked J.L. situated about forty chains north of northeast corner of John Kearns' preemption lot 3098, thence 20 chains east, thence forty chains south, thence 20 chains west, thence forty chains north to point of commencement, containing 80 acres more or less. JOHN LOVE. Fairview, B.C., April 13, 1904. MineralExhibit Spokane Fair Oct. 3=9 Prospectors and others are invited to contribute mineral specimens for an exhibit at the Spokane Fair. Specimens should be of about 25 lbs. weight with names of claim and owner attached. Specimens will be received by C. E. Thomas, . F. W. Groves and at the Mining Recorder's office. BY ORDER, PRINCETON BOARD OF TRADE. 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 Klondyke 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 of 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 whole 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 work, and 3*011 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 of FORFEITURE To PETER SCOTT and any person or persons to whom he may have transferred his interest in the Sacramento mineral claim situate at Camp Hedley—20-Mile Creek—acjoining the Oro Plato in the Osoyoos mining division of Yale district. You are hereby required to take notice that I have, for the last four years caused to be done the whole of the assessment work on the above mentioned mineral claim as required by section 24 of the Mineral Act and have paid for recording the several certificates of suclrwork, and you are herel y required to contribute vour proportion of such work and expenditure, together with all costs of advertising, your said proportion amounting to two hundred and five dollars, ($205) 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 interest in said mineral claim will become vested in me, your co-owner, under the provisions of the Mineral Act and Amending Acts. Dated this 30th day of April, A.D. 1904. DANIEL BRAITHWAITE. NOTICE. Tempest fraction mineral claim, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located : Kennedy mountain. Take notice that I, Ernest Waterman, agent for the Vermilion Forks Mining Company, free miner's certificate No. B72038, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining recorder for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance ofsuch Certificate of Improvements. Dated this 13th day of April, A.D. 1904. NOTICE. Mogul, Mogul Fractional and Red Butte Fractional mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located : On Kennedy mountain. Take notice that I, Charles Willarson, free miner's certificate No. B63394, acting for myself and Peter Johnson, free- miner's certificate No. B63393, intend 60 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 ofsuch Certificates of Improvements. Dated this 14th day of May, A.D. 1904. NOTICE. Ada B., Ada B. Fractional and Centre Star Fractional mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located: On Copper mountain. Take notice that I, Charles Willarson, free miner's certificate No. B63394, acting for myself and Peter Johnson, free miner's certificate No. B63393, and Robert O. Cramer, free miner's certificate No. 63382, and William H. Morrison, free miner's certificate No. 75486, and Furman R. Whitwellf;free miner's certificate No. 72045,intend sixty days from the date hereof, to abply 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 bejcommenced before the issuance of such certificates of improvements. Dated this 14th day of May, 1904. m y i ^ m \ July 23,1904- THE SIMILKAMEEN ~S^TA"R: VERMILION FORKS MINING AND DEVELOPMENT COT. Annual Meeting Held in London- Chairman is not Discouraged —Government Promises Unfulfilled. Coal in One Strata is 28 Ft. Thick- Railroad is Required to Make Country Prosperous. The following report of the Vermilion Forks Mining-Si Development Company taken from the British Columbia Mining Review of London will be of interest to readers of the Star. The company's interests are centred in Princeton and they own a large acreage of real estate besides coal and metalliferous properties in and about the town : The chairman said: "I am afraid I cannot record any great progress since this time last year, but certainly we have made no regress—that is some advantage. I may say that we are, perhaps, the most economically worked company in the city of London—if not the most, certainly one of the most. The period for which the balance sheet shows the figures is over 14 months—perhaps an awkward period, but at the same time it helps us considerably in getting home the ac- - counts and in laying them before you at a more convenient season. You will observe that during this period we have spent -^"i,8oo. Of that sum ,-£716 has been spent upon coal and mineral claims boring account—which has undoubtedly rendered the property more valuable. We have, therefore, incurred about ^"1,100 for 14 month's work, including all up-keep, general administration charges, and so on. Our difficulty throughout has been our railway. The moment the railway comes we are rich ; at least we think so and I still believe so. I will dwell upon the position of the railway later on. We have been waiting for the Railway some five years, and consequently I am not able to tell you much more than • how we have spent the money keeping the thing in good order and ready to take advantage of the railway when it comes. When it does come we shall be able to show you that the place is worth a good deal more than we gave for it. With regard to the board, Mr. SchWeder has resigned for his own reasons and we have appointed Arthur Hickling in his place, who has received no remuneration, and who holds a great proportion, or represents the holders of a great proportion of the shares in the company, and it is for this reason, no doubt, that he has done so much for us for nothing. All I can say is that those people whom he does not represent should be very grateful to him indeed. We thought it would be far better if he was a member of the' bard. He is here six months in the year and we have made arrangements with; him to be represented by a friend of his during his absence. I have no doubt you will be glad-to welcome him in that position. Our townsite sales have been very small, for the reason that the railway hangs fire. We have had some success, however, in respect to coal. We have here, as yOu see, a rough plan of the coal. We drilled here (pointing to the map) ago, and found here a large •I am afraid to say how you find in Bfmsly Columbia thicker seams than in England —in this case it was 28 feet. We have proved that the coal exists, exactly as we thought it did; so that we have proved a great deal, and the existence of large bodies of coal. We have proved the land to such an extent that we have been able to throw up a certain portion of our R. Ha ROGERS M.A., B.C.I,. SOUGITOR CONVEYANCER NOTARY PUBLIC, Etc. OLALLA P.O. Simikameen, B.C.' .some time number of feet- many. Of course [Continued on page 4. J F. W. GROVES A. R". COLL., SC. D., Civil and Mining Engineer PROVINCIAL 1AND SURVEYOR. UNDERGROUND SURVEYS. PRINCETON. - - B. C. PELLEW-HARVEY, BRYANT & OILMAN, PROVINCIAL w ASSAYERS bk TIE VANCOUVER ASSAY OFFICE, ESTABLISHED 1890. Analysis of Coal and Fireclay a Specialty. Complete Coking Quality Tests. Reliable PLATINUM Assays. VANCOtfVER, B. C. I PIERCY & Co., WHOLESALE DRY CXX>D2r VICTORIA, B. C. 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SCHUBERT. Wood, Vallance & Leggat, HEADQUARTERS FOR Sherwin-Williams' Paints Limited. MURALO'S 1st quality Cold Water Sanitary Calcimo VANCOUVER, B. C. SMBMMw+aln WALL FIN,SH MWaMMr^atM wall finish This finish fis 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, VANCO#ER, B. C. The Vancouver Breweries, Ltd. BREWERS OF THE FAMOUS Cascade Beer «£ Alexandra Stout Queen Beer <£ Alexandra Ale For sale throughout British Columbia in all the first- class Hotels, Liquor Stores and Saloons. The Amalgamated DOERINfi & MARSTRAND & RED CROSS BREWERIES, VANCOUVEP, B. C %. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR July 23, 190^ V. F. M. & D. CO. ANNUAL MEETING. [Concluded from page 3.] - coal licenses, and save the heavy fees which the government puts upon them. I may say that the government is in difficulties for money, and has doubled all the payments or something like it. We have, however, managed by curtailing our areas after proving them, not to pay any more than we did previously. So that the government has not profited in our case by their action. The drill has been working very well, but, as I said, without any further success so far. However, this year it is at work again, and we hope to report some good results "next year. The quality of our coal has been proved at Hedley at the Nickel Plate mine. We cannot get it there except under rather heavy cost of transport at present, but when transport is better we shall be able to do soj's.The railway, of course, would make an end ;of any difficulty in the matter. They are willing to pay eight to nine dollars for our coal, and like it immensely, which is a great point in its favor as far as value goes. There are four people or companies who are proposing to build railways, any one of which would benefit us immensely. From what we hear we gather they are quarrelling amongst themselves and trying,to get subsidies from the government. The last few governments came in upon the promise^that this railway should be built. But it has not been built yet. They are all fighting one against the other, and we are still in the position of not knowing what is going to happen next. We have news that there is to be a summer session on purpose to consider the matter and to settle something, but until something is absolutely settled I am afraid, personally to Ireve any great expectations at the moment. We have bought 160 acres of land at a very low price and that increases our assets. We also have a crown grant of an area of land that we held under Mr. Waterman, our former manager. We had some difficulty getting it, but it is now satisfactorily settled. I may also say that there iS a road to be made up the Copper mountain, about twelve miles from Princeton, which we have wanted for a long time. There is every reason to believe that this road will be built this year. If so, it will make a great difference to the town, bringing in people who are likely purchasers of our town lots. This year we do not propose to call upon the shareholders to find any more money, we think we can get it more economically by a loan, and if in the following year we have to ask j'ou for more money, we shall acid the present expenses to that. With regard to the amount of the loan Mr. Hickling estimates the expenditure at not more than ^500—I expect we shall want a little more than that for everything—but if we can can carry on for that and wait for the railway, I do not think it is an exorbitant figure." Some questions were asked about the railway, and Mr. Hickling incidentally mentioned that "We have got some information that came today by mail—news that the contract has been let for a line which includes twelve miles of the line which we want—it is twelve miles of our actual railway." Just Opened COMMERCIAL HOTEl I first Class Dining Room Ncwlg filled Hedley City Good Beds * 4 I ffi' x No Chinese Employed. BEST BRANDS LIQUORS AND CIGARS ALWAYS IN STOCK SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO TRAVELLERS. HUSTON & MJbLEAN, Proprietors For CONNOISSEURS Only. Can be had at all first-class hotels through out the province. R.P.RITHET&CO.,Ld. VICTORIA, B. C, Sole Agents* DRIARD HOTEL WNICOLA LAKE TUCHHTS Largest Sale in Canada Henry S. Harkness, on Sunday, June 19, covered the distance from Boston to New York, 243.7 miles, in 6 hours and 55 minutes with an automobile. The time made compares favorably with that of the fastest express trains, and is the best ever made by an automobile on the road in America. At times Harkness claims to have made as much as 83 miles an hour. The oldest working clock in Great Britain is that of Peterborough cathedral, which dates from 1320, and is conceded to have been made by a monastic clock- maker. Straight Party Linos: WE ARK EXCLUSIVELY SHOEMAKERS AND CAN GUARANTEE Style, Comfort and Durability IN FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURED BY US. 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, Liquors and Cigars. TELEPHONE* BATH. Headquarters for Princeton, Spence's Bridge and Kamloops ''£&% Stage Lines. Subscribe For the STAR For the STAR July 23, 1904 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR LOCAL NEWS NOTES. "» For t / it may Chas. Connell, of Sheep creek, arrived T last week and will labor on his mineral claims. For the information of distant readers be stated that the name Vermilion j Forks is derived from the red paint bluffs ( about a^nile up the Tuiameen river from J Princeton and the forks or iunction of / the rivers at the town. Tuiameen is Iu f dian for "red water" and Similkameen isj ! 'swift water," both highly euphoniou j and rythmic and well adapted for poetica l uses. F. W. Groves, P.L.S., is surveying for C. F. Law on Bear creek. The reported death of W. J. Snodgrass of Okanagan Falls is authoritatively contradicted. Friends are pleased to know he is still in the flesh and ready to do battle for political rights as cf yore. The large ranch belonging to Mrs. Pooley at Nicola lake has been bonde to parties who, it is believed, are acting for a railway company. Thursday was the hottest day this season, the government thermometer regis tering 97 degrees in the shade .. Count}' court will be held in Hedley in October, of which due notice will be given m the Star. [ P. O'Flanigan of Seattle came to Gran- j ite creek last Saturday where he and Mr. Terrill, his brother in-law, will operate a new placer gold saving appliance. Sam Spencer and Jim Campbell are. doing assessment work on their mineral properties. Mat Stewart and wife of Nicola lake have been on a tour of the coast cities for the past two weeks combining business with pleasure. The seventh annual session of the American Mining Congress will be held in Portland en Aug. 22 to 27. Delegates from Canada, Mexico and the United States will be in attendance and questions concerning mining will be discussed by the ablest men in the industry. L- G. Barron, of Walla Walla, who always takes a practicat. interest in the welfare of the Similkameen has written here for a few small specimens of ore which, as a dele gate, he will have pleasure in exhibiting. Specimens left with C. O. French will bt forwarded. 1 Crown grants to mineral claims have I been issued as follows: Huckleberry, Kelly creek and Morning Star, Sutter creek, A. D. Ross; Similkameen, Kennedy mountain, Groves and McLean ; Annie L., Copper mountain, Smith and 1 Kennedy; Mable frac, Milo frac. and \ Sunrise, Copper mountain, Burr, etal. 1|' THAMES ^ HOLD EN -,oup! Company OF MONTREAL, LTD. VANCOUVER BaCa 1 HB 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. SKEY, Agent, Kamloops, B.C. DOCTOR WANTED. For Princeton and vicinity. Government sul- sidv $300 per annum. Exceptionally bright fu ture lor capable man. Town is on proposed coast to Kootenay railway. Address MEDICAL COMMITTEE, LOT WANTED. A well situated vacant lot on Vermilion avenue or Bridge Street. State lowest price for cash. Give number of lot and block. Address I. ^NICHOI.SON, P.O. Box 460, Victoria, 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 640 acres of crown lands for pasturing purposes, 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, in all 640 acres more or less. C. M. KINGSTON, C. O. FRENCH, Agent. Hated this 19th day of July, 1904. m Of excellence which characterize the Mccormick LINE OF MOWERS are symetrical and staunch main frame, simple and powerful gears, perfect and frictionless bushings, direct stroke pitman, and long steel wearing plates for the knife. The McCormick line of mowers embraces the Vertical Lift, New 4, New Big 4, and Little Vertical. These machines are illustrated and described in detail an the McCormick book for 1904, "It Takes the Palm, I which will be supplied free upon request. Sold by THE H HOWSE CO'Y A THE: l i inowsE emmm NICOLA LAKE AND PRINCETON LIMITED m A THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR July 23, ioofr <a <a (a 6 6 6 <* i*4J> CO^JCC'^KKJ^' TAe Town of & <fc Lots for • ••4^dIC • • • 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. <£ ■ 1 NCETtN British Golamhia* overnnenl leal- liiriers For le Sinnikamccn District. BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED at the Forks of the Similkameen and Tuiameen Rivers. The BUSINESS CENTRE lor the following Mining Camps:— Copper Mountain Kennedy Mountain, Friday, Boulder and Granite Creeks, Summit, Roche River, Upper Tuiameen and Aspen Grove. FINE CLIMATE and pure WATER ENORMOUS AGRICULTURAL AREA TO DRAW FROM WffWWWW W WW9PfW9f Send for Map and Price List to <£ «£ e£ <£. <£ ERNEST WATERMAN, Resident Manager VERMILION FORKS MINING AND DEVELOPMENT CO. ■5T 2 7 5 € • i v. *SR f 1 /
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Title | Similkameen Star |
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Howse, A.E. |
Publisher | Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company |
Date Issued | 1904-07-23 |
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Language | English |
Identifier | Similkameen_Star_1904_07_23 |
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Date Available | 2018-10-31 |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0373231 |
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Longitude | -120.507778 |
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