m i Timx. No Transcontinental Railway, No Development, Railway Monopoly is the Scourge of Western Canada. ** The Grand Trunk Pacific will be Constructed in Seven Years."—Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Contrast that Definite Statement wifh the Indefinite one: 14 I Believe that Sometime in the Future a Second Transcontinental Line, Owned and Operated by the People, will be Necessary!*—R. L. Borden, Vol. v. No. 20. PRINCETON, B.C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1904. $2 a Year, in Advance. Iron and Steel. The existence of large quantities Of native, hematite and magnetite iron in the Nicola and Similkameen districts is well known but little appreciated. The necessity for handling iron ore on a large scale with cheap transportation has concentrated attention and effort on the more precious minerals here. But the day is not far distant when crude iron ore will be manufactured on the spot into steel, for the coal is at hand and limestone in sufficient quantity for fluxing the ore is also at hand. William Blakemore, of Nelson, contributes some valuable suggestions, as follows, to the New York Mining and Engineering Journal: "Is it possible to establish a steel-making industry in British Columbia which would serve the west with appreciably cheaper iron and steel and realize a profit on its product ? Six conditions are necessary for the success of such an enterprise. 1. A sufficient market. 2. Transportation. 3. A suitable ore. 4- Flux. 5. Fuel. 6. An assembling point of the raw material where it can be converted economically. These conditions Mr. Blakemore believes exist today. As to the market, he estimates that with the railway mileage now under contract and to be completed within the next five years west of Winnipeg, there will be a demand for not less than 100,oco tons of steel rails annually, besides the demand for light rails for mining purposes, which may be estimated at 3,000 tons annually. In addition there would be a ready marKet for rails in the adjoining western states. The question of transportation involves a decision as to the assembling point of the raw material . and its conversion into the finished product. The cost of coke would be about $5 per ton and of coal $5. Pig iron can be manufactured at from $10 to $12 per ton. The market and the natural resources are ready to hand ; it only requires capital and brains to convert a great possibility into an assured success." MINING PARAGRAPHS LOCAL AND GENERAL Boundary Ore Production Increasing and Another Smelter Wanted. Fast Season Very Quiet in the Similkameen Owing to Absence of Railway. Weekly Grist of Town District News Notes Boiled Down. and The ping mines Copper Mountain Boad Ready Traffic—"Spuds" are Scarce- Ore Exhibit. for Railway Nearly Completed. Patrick Welsh, the Great Northern railway contractor, says £he spur to the Granby smelter from Grand Forks is practically complete and the grading of the line to Phoenix will soon be done, when the rails will be laid and the contract concluded very quickly. Some 30 miles of new railway have been built. About the middle of November the 1600 men engaged in the work will be paid off. During the month of September the pay roll on construction amounted to $125,- 000—a comfortable swag for Princeton to get away with when the railway boom hits her. latest addition to the list of ship1 in the Boundary district is the Senator, which had not been sending ou^ ore for several months. The past season has been the quietest in mining and prospecting that has been known since the placer days in the Sirn-i ilkameen. Fewer prospectors have been in the field, which resulted in less development work and less trade from that source. It is all traceable to the absence of transportation facilities. There are a thousand coal and ore properties which could have been shipping if the railway had hove in sight. The only retrieving feature in the season's operations has been the successful mining and milling business of the Daly Reduction Co. at Hedley. About 70 men are employed on the Brooklyn mine in the Boundary and the ore shipments have recently been increased. There was considerable truth in the rumor that the C.P.R. had secured control of the Cascade Power Co. A Montreal despatch announces that such control has been secured by the C.P.R., and that a smelter to rival the Granby plant at Grand Forks will be built at Cascade,^ where Boundary ore will be treated. C. O. French is inwardly thanking his iguiding spirit for having a mineral claim' near Granite creek which contains the "real thing" in such quantity as to make it a "thing of beauty and a joy forever." There is a large body of it and strange to say hundreds of prospectors have passed oyer it without noticing it. That Granite creek will yet regain some of its pristine glory is the belief of many and the well grounded hope of Mr. French. Jim Snowden has a remarkably fine specimen of bornite or peacock copper ore which he found in a disusedtunnel qn Friday creek. Another instance of the need of development and a railway. For the month of September the ore tonnage for Kootenay and Yale amounted to 115,000 tons. W. C. Trumbull of Montreal is making a tour of the Nicola and Similkameen districts with a view to their mineral pos. sibilities. He arrived in Princeton on Thursday. Rev. Jas. Lang writes from Peachland that Rev. Mr. Campbell, Presbyterian home mission convener, will preach in Princeton on Nov. 6th. He also states that an effort is being made to secure an energetic missioner for this section. j The new Hotel Similkameen at Hedley is now open to guests. H. B. Brown and wife returned on Tuesday from the coast where they have been for the past two months. Mr. Brown was plied with questions about the Similkameen while away. He will reside at Hedley. Messrs. Stevenson, Evans and Brad- Jshaw of Chilliwack arrived over the Hope trail with a band of cattle on Tuesday. Miss McNeil of Hedley was a visitor to Princeton this week. Messrs. Campbell, Healey and McKel lar returned from a timber cruise to the Roche river country on Tuesday and left (Thursday morning for the coast. Fred Baker held the ribbons on Wednesday's stage for the first time in six weeks, having been laid off for repairs which now find him in better health than heretofore. C. JSneas Shaw, P.L.S., left for Greenwood recently. He has been engaged with surveys for E. Voigt on Copper mountain. W. C. McDougall of Olalla, accompanied by Mr. Armstrong, was in town on LFriday looking over his mineral interests here. Mr. McDougall has some exceptionally fine locations here which he 'is anxious to further develop but he is compelled to 'mark time' until the railway appears. Mr. Armstrong has recently disposed of his store to Mr. Pritchard 5of Keremeos. >■ Potatoes are scarce and sell readily at F2^c. per lb. The ore specimens for the Vancouver /Tourist Association are ready for ship- s ment by first wagon to Spence's Bridge, ■on which charges have been rebated for that distance by Mr. Howse and the same being done by Mr. Marpole over the f C.P.R. to destination. The road to Copper mountain is now {finished and ore can now be hauled to JPrinceton when required. John D. Kearns of Fairview was in town Thursday on a pleasure trip. He long ago" acquired a lurking curiosity to see Princeton and now he is captivated by its charming location and handsome girls. He is preparing for a professional calling after which he will likely settle down here. Mr. Kearns is a young man of broad and Liberal ideas and belongs to that type of manhood essential to successful nation-building. He is an all round athlete and keen sport. The Railway Policy, From the Hon. Mr. Sifton's speech at Winnipeg; "What," he asked, "is the policy which the government presente to you for your endorsation or rejection ? It is this : To build a line from ocean to ocean wholly on Canadian soil; to absolutely control both the freight and the passenger rates; not to grant to the Grand Trunk Pacific a single acre of land, except for stations and roadbed—(cheers)— not to give them a dollar of exemption- from taxation of any kind soever— (cheers')—not to grant them a vestige o£ monopoly, legal or otherwise, in any province or territory of the Dominion— (cheers')—to have all the money expended by the people of Canada on the road itself, and to do all this at a total cost of some $13,000,000. (Loud cheers.) This, gentlemen, is the government's policy." Buoyant with Hope. Arthur Hickling left on Thursday for Vancouver, he having been in Princeton tor the past two months in connection with his large interests in the Vermilion Forks Mining Co. Mr. Hickling has greater faith in the future of the Similkameen than ever ; which is founded on nothing less than the accruing evidences of research, exploration and development. The coal drill has established beyond all peradventure the existence of various strata of large extent and the quality is first class, as proven by scientific test and practical use. Mr. Hickling is in a far more buoyant frame of mind as to railway connection with the outside world than he was a year ago. The stockholders in his company will, no doubt, share with him the quickened pulse of hope on receipt of his report. The Vermilion Forks Co. own the choicest real estate in Princeton and their mineral properties are among the most valuable in the district. Like many other investors they are simply awaiting the turn in the tide —the railway. Mr. Hickling's departure was the occasion for many friendly goodbyes and good wishes—his absence causing a rent in social, religious and political circles which cannot well be mended. The weather has been superb all the present month and it may continue right up to Christmas. The prophets predict an open winter. The sign interpreters also do; saying that grouse have little covering for their legs; chipmunks and squirrels have not laid by any store as yet and wild geese have not gone south. The fact that very few of the bachelors around town have laid in a full supply of potatoes may be taken as an indication of a short and mild winter. In any case a mild winter is due after two severe ones. The election of officers and annual reports will be the chief business to be transacted at the board of trade meeting next Thursday night. fc THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR October 29, 1904 §1 The Similkameen Star Published Weekly at PRINCETON, B.C. —BY— The Prince{5n Publishing Co. ^a.. E. Howsi, ^Manager. *' ! One Year, SUBSCRIPTION RAT^E: Payable in Advance. I $2.00 Subscribers will confer a1 favor on this office by promptly reporting^Shy change in address or irregularity in receipt of their paper. Advertising rates furnished on application. Legal notices io and 5 cents per line. Four weekly insertions constitute one month advertising. All cheques to be made payable to A. E. HOWSE. THE yOIGE^F REASON. Before j another'weel£A'i?a's flown the die will have bee$. cast for good or ill—the •judgment=qf3the people .will haveJaeen given on the widely sundered policies of the Liberal and Conservative leaders. It is a momentous period in the history of Canada. The budding nation has arrived at that stage in its triumphant journey of the recent half dozen years where the parting ways call for serious consideration, lest a road be taken which will cause the people to sigh for the days of plenty, progress and prosperity which they now have. The history of any nation of dominion shows plainly that on the choice of a wise and trusty leader the harmony and advancement of its citizens depend. On the other hand, disunion andcomrnercial stagnation are the invariable accompaniments of weak and vacillating .rulers and leaders. To drop the pilot of the good ship Canada, now sailing on an unruffled sea of contentment and prosperity, would be the act of men who shun reason and prefer their party's triumph before the country's good. Will. the people of Canada on Thursday next reject Sir Wilfrid Laurier, whose statesmanship haa raised Canada from an insignificant colony to the fairest jewel in the diadem of empire ; or will they accept Mr. Borden, who is a novitiate in statecraft and whose multiplying railway schemes bloom and fade with the daily morning's sun ? It cannot be ! NOTES AND COMMENTS. Nothing could be simpler than the railway policy which the government presents to the people for their endorsation or rejection. Yet it is the subject of gross misrepresentation by the Tory press and is the one particular subject on which Opposition speakers lash themselves into rage because of its unassaila ble conditions. No fairer, or more businesslike proposition was ever presented to the people of Canada or any other country. The railway opens up an immense tract of new and unsettled country Which no reasonable person will deny is well worth the government aid proposed to be given. Its connection with the Grand Trunk railway in Ontario and Quebec ensures tonnage for it from the day of its completion. Eastem;v;manufacturers will have a new fieldfor business and western' grain growers and\British Columbia products will have competitive railway rates to markets. Prof. Bryce, the great English publicist and political economist, thus spoke of Canada at Toronto recently : "You have a magnificent destiny before you, and when we contemplate that destiny may we not be stirred to think that .there is something higherand better for us, which ought to make us admire the empire, than merely the sense of its extent and its wealth and population ? It is the moral mission which Providence has given to the British race that constitutes the greatness of the empire. I will venture as a last word to say thaHn all that Canada has to do toward the accomplishment of the mission of the British race it will have all tbe help and all the sympathy that Britain can offer, for among all the glories which Britain counts as hers there is none higher than that she has been the mother of such a daughr ter as Canada." The first mission of Canadians is to consolidate the empire by preferential tariffs the first of which has been given by Sir Wilfrid Laurier to the motherland'. Some ranting Tories are making use of the ..racial cry against the premier of. tbe Dominion because he is a French-Canadian. They forget that the premier of Great Britain a few years ago was a Jew. In a new.country such as Canada, made up as it is by every race and creed under the sun, no man is debarred from the highest position in the gift of the people by reason of his origin. Canada knows no class nor race among her heterogeneous subjects. Having a good character and ability the humblest citizen is eligible for office and emolument. Mr. Blair, as chairman of the recently instituted Railway Commission, has resigned. Like Mr. Tarte he is an uncertain quantity. Because he could not have all his own way in" the department of railways he bolted. In order to embarrass the government in the crisis of a general election he has again resigned from a high party appointment. Should he now enter into the political campaign he need not wince if the term "traitor" again fastens to him. If the great Canadian railway monopoly should, be so fortunate in having a government favorable to its schemes elected, then farewell to the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Great Northern and to all competition in the Similkameen and elsewhere. NOTICE. THIRTY days from date I intend to,apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for coal aud oil on the following described lands :— Commencing at a post marked 7, S.E corner of post No. 6, and running 80 chains east, 80 chains south, 80 chains west, 80 chains north, back to post, containing in all 640 acres.'...situated on the Lumbum lake range in the Quilchena basin, Nicola valley. JOHN LaMONT, Locator, S. ANDREW HARTMAN, Ag't. Dated Sept. 29, 1964. NOTICE. 'THIRTY days from date I intend to apply to . *■ the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a licence-to prospect for coal-and oil on the following described lands: Commencing at a post marked No 8 and running 80 chains south, 80 chains west, 80 chains north, 80 chains east, to point of commencement, containing 640 acres more or less,- Situatetl 011 the Lumbum lake .range, Quilchena basin, Nicola valley. StANDREWHaRTMAN, Locator. Dated October 1, 1904. NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the^CJhief Commissioner of :Lands and Works for permission to purchase 640 acres of mountain pasture lard, situated and adjoining Harris's preemption (Lot 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. THIRTY 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 of 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 iutend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission.to purchase 320 acres of mountain 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. FV ENCH, Agent. Dated this 14th dayof August, 1904. NOMCE. Copper Glance, Azurite aud Alpine mineral claims, situate in the Similksmeeu 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 mh;er's'certificate No. B62Q53, 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 j 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. 3904. 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. B784Q8, and Charles F. Law, free miner's certificate No. B7211Q 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, 11504. 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 100 acres of Crown lands for pasturing purposes : Bounded on the north by lot No. 969, on the west by lot No. 257, on south by Chas. Asp's preemption on east by China creek, in all 100 acres more or less. E. E. BURR, Locator. Dated this 25th day of September, 1904. NOTICE. l^OTIOE is hereby given that sixty days after J ~ date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to ing purposes, commencing at a post marked purchase 160 acres of mountain pasture land situated in the Nicola division of Yale district, north of and adjoining Boulter's preemption, lot No. 1155, starting from his N.E. corner, thence west 80 chains, north 20 chains, east 80 chains, south 20 chains to point of commencement, and containing 160 acres. LUKE GIBSON. Dated this 17th day of September, 1904. NOTICE. Northern mineral claim, situate in the Similka; meen mining division of Yale district^ Where located : On Copper mountain. Take'notice that I, F. W. Groves, acting as agent for J. S. C. Fraser, free miner's certificate, No. B42433, Joseph Wright, free miner's certificate No. B75373,:and L. G. Barron, free miner's ceitificate No. B57500, intend sixty days from the date hereof, toiapply to the mining recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. I And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance bf such certificate of improvements. Dated this 13th day of October, 1904. NOTICE? 'TpHIRTY days after date I intend to apply to * the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works Tot*ft«lii!ense *° prospect for coal on the following described lands:— Commencing at a post marked E.S.N's southwest corner, And running 80 chains north-, 8c- chains east, 80 chains south, 80 chains, west, to point of commencement, containing 640 acres, and adjoining J. Lang's locations on the east boundary. E.-S. NEAVE, Locator. Ernest Waterman, Agent. NOTICE. Cousin Jack, Ymir, Morning, Oshkosh, Winnebago, Blackl ird and Berlin mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located: Boulder creek Mountain. Take notice that* Alexander Gallinger, acting as agent for the Boulder Mining Co Limited, free miner's certificate No. B72141, intend 60 days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Re-' corder 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 3rd day of October, A.D. 1904. NOTICE. '■phirty days after date I inter d to apply to the * Chief Commissioner of I ands and Works for a license to prcspect for coal and oil on the following described land:— Commencing at a post marked J.G. at the south-west corner of the Hamilton ranch, near Coutlee thence north 40 chains, west 40 chains, south 40 chains, east 40 chains to the post of commencement. JESUS GARCIA. Nicola Lake, Sept. 22,1904. NOTICE. Summit No. 1, Copper Head No. 1, Bullion No. 1 Yellow Jacket No. 1 Fractional, Nelly No". 1, Nelly Fractional, Yellow Jacket No 1 mineral claims situatein the Osoyccs mining division of Yale district. Where located : On Bullion mountain, east of the townsite of Olalla. " ■ Take notice that I, R. H. Rogers, as agent for Robert Gaede, free miner's certificate No. B78828, 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. ^nd further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificates of improvements. Dated this 16th day of September, 1904. Reginald H. Rogers. NOTICE! The O.I.C. fractional and Crackerjack mineral claims situated in the Osoyoos mining division of Yale district. Where located : ( amp Hedley. Take notice that I, Louis O. Hedlund, F.M.C. No. B78963, for myself and agent for John Green- hill, F M.C. No. B78964 and H. P. Nelson, F.M C. No. B62074, 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 of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 19th day of September, 1904. Louis O. Hedlund, Hedley. B.C. NOTICE. Hattie and Copper Jack mineral claims, situate iu the Similkameen mining division of Yale Isilistrict. 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. 1904. NOTICE. i I 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.LH'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 12 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. A I I October 29 1904 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR LOCAL AND GENERAL. It is stated that Ernest Mills, the Socialist candidate for Yale-Cariboo, intends to make a canvass of the constituency and will shortly present his views to the electorate of Princeton. Tommy Day returned from the Nickel Plate where he had been caring for his brother who was injured in a runaway tram accident. The patient is almost recovered. ^><r Joshua Bell, a colored man, was found guilty at Greenwood of murdering his wife last winter and./will be hanged on January 13th, 1905. i^j^rb l^f^iXJ, John Gladden left on Thursday for Hedley after attending to his large mineral interests in this section for the past ' few weeks. F. W. Groves, P.L.S., is busy with field work now and appreciates the fine weather. Now the saw and the hammer may be heard in making improvements, additions and new structures. The pitiful ki-yi of the sneaky coyote may be heard any evening on the suburban hills. They too will have to 'climb' when the railroad comes, and may it come soon and thus spare the tender chicken and grouse from these beastly thieves. Canada possesses three times as much arable land as the United States, and in ten years will be able to raise enough grain to supply the British market. While last century was the century of tbe United States, this century would be the one for Canada if governed as in the past seven years. J. Empty of Greenwood was in Princeton on Monday last. Mr. B. , rushing into the editor's room—'"Look here, you've got a paragraph in your paper about my retirement from public life." Editor—''Certainly, what's the matter with it?" Mr. B.. "Matter with it, you've got it under the head of 'Public Improvements !' " "I think," declared the little daughter of the widow to the millionaire who was calling, "that you are a charming and delightful man." "How nice ! What makes you say so?" "Mamma told me to." A fisherman was drowned close to the shore and his body was not recovered until the following evening. When it was taken from the water a collection of very large crabs clung to the clothing, and these the minister detached and sold to help the widow, who appeared to be inconsolable. When the money was being handed to the woman the giver asked her how she wished the bodj' to be disposed of. "D'ye no think," she said, "we could do waur than just set him again ?" 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. SALE OF HORSE. Left at my premises by W. H. Wheeler, teamster, in March last, one roan horse, which will be sold to cover charges, if not sooner paid. CHARLES ASP. Princeton, Oct. 28, 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 40 acres of mountain pasture land, situated and adjoining Brandt's purchase on north line and 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. IVER PAULSEN, Locator. Dated this 1st of September, 1904. NOTICE of FORFEITURE To STEVE M ANGOT or whomsoever he may have transferred his interest in the Gold- Platinum mineral claim, situate on Champion creek, a tributary of the Tuiameen river, 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 Gold-Platinum mineral claim, situate on Champion creek, in the Similkameen 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, Daniel Coute- nay, free miner, who has made the required expenditure. The amount due by you in respect of the said mineral claim, not including costs, is $35-33- Dated this 24th day of October, 1904 DANIEL COUTENAY. ROCHUSSEN & COLLIS Yates St., Victoria, B.C. 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Waterman, President. Secretary. A. Beix, Treasurer. 50 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs Copyrights &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly 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 Jlunn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American* A handsomely illustrated weekly. I.nrgest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms, $3 a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. IKIUNH SCo.»«B«-*-». New York Branch Office. 635 F St., Washington, D. C. THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR October 29, 1904 +0 L ADDRESS. To The Electors of Yai,e-Cariboo : As the liberal candidate in this electoral district, I respectfully solicit your votes and influence. No attempt will be made to discuss the general issues of the campaign in this address. Since receiving the Liberal nomination in January last, I have visited many parts of the riding and made myself thoroughly acquainted with its requirements. This work will be continued until election day but owing to the large extent of territory to be coVered it is.a physical impossibility to visit all sections or personally interview all the electors. I therefore avail myself of this opportunity to ask for your suffrage. Permit me to direct your attention to some matters of local importance. Yale- Cariboo fully warrants the expenditure of public money in its development. The government has already done much in this direction. It has granted aid to several lines of railway ; government owned telegraph and telephone lines have been constructed ; the necessary money has been voted to secure telephonic communication through the rich Nicola and Similkameen districts, and telegraphic communication between Vernon and Kelowna. In order that the practically inexhaustible mineral, timber and agri cultural resources of the district may be fully developed, this policy of governmental aid must be continued. It is important that Yale-Cariboo shall return as its member one who can direct the attention of the government to matters of vital importance to the district and who will support the government in its aggressive policy of development. It is particularly important that the electors of this riding should show their appreciation of the government's broad, statesmanlike plan of constructing another transcontinental railway which will be the chief factor in opening up the northern portion of the riding. Branch lines to connect with the southern transcontinental lines will surely follow and the whole interior of the province will be opened up. Briefly, my policy, so far as Yale- Cariboo is concerned, is a policy of development of all its important sections. With a leader whose record fills with pride all people of this country, irrespective of party affiliations ; supporting a government whose eight years of wise, progressive administration has placed Canada in a proud position among the nations of the world, and at the same time has more closely connected the ties which bind us to the mother country, and fully endorsing a policy which means so much to the western portion of the Dominion, and more particularly to the district of Yale-Cariboo, I await with confidence, your verdict. Yours very sincerely. Duncan Ross. Greenwood, Oct. 6th, 1904. igifrijh*M October 29 1904 THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR Fiwe Flour Whitest Strongest Best LAKE OP TBE WOODS Milling Company JAS. I. LOTJTIT. Agent. P.O. Box 153 Vancouver, B.C. PRINCETON BOARD OF TRADE—Rooms L centrally located. Membership solicited. C. B». Thomas, E. Waterman, President. Secretary. A. Bell, Treasurer. Liberals and Conservatives Get the Habit I Of buying your goods where the prices defy competition; where all goods are || fresh, clean and new, Bought at Lowest Prices and sold with careful consideration for the pockets of our customers. m. -:o:- Fresh Groceries New Rubber Goods I Boots and Shoes -:o:- Everything up=to=date at Tk HOWSE j COMPANY NICOLA LAKE AND PRINCETON LIMITED -:o:- We Lead, Others Follow! % ^^^^^^^^B^M^^^^^^^^^^^^R^^^^^S OPERATION BY GOVERNMENT. Borden's Railway Policy Exposed by | Premier Laurier. In his dying extremity Mr. Borden -j catches at any "old" straw that he may keep his political head above water.till after polling day on the 3rd of Noveni- ber. First, he denounced a second transcontinental railway, then he advocated the purchase of the Lake Superior section from the C.P.R., giving running rights over it to the Grand Trunk, Canadian Pacific and Canadian Northern, now he says government ownership and operation is the proper thing. The following are Sir Wilfrid Laurier's views on government ownership and operation as expressed in his great Toronto speech on the 15th instant: "Governments can build railways—I ^ 3 have no fault to find with that—but gov- ■^ ernments cannot operate railways. (Cheers.) The reason is very obvious. Railways have been compelled to carry passengers and freight, but it is an act of commerce, and I say to you, my fellow countrymen, that governments never were intended to go into business as men engage in commerce. It is no part of -the responsibility of government to do anything of the kind. I am prepared to discuss whether or not telephones or telegraphs should not be administered by the postoffice. The postoffice department disseminates written intelligence, ai d there would be some reason why thej- should disseminate verbal intelligence. Railways are not the same thing. Compare the management of a railway by governmeut with private enterprise. Go into the office of any railway manager on this continent, whether Canadian Pa cific railway or Grand Trunk railway or any other railway. There 3'on find the manager all the time thinking, planning, to reduce the expenditure and increase the traffic. Every day he has a report on the road; every day he scans to see where improvements can be made. If he finds that there is a section where there is no g traffic and no trade because there is no agriculture, no mining, or lumbering, but that there is fine natural scenery, he would put up a big hotel and get traffic; he immediately plans to build it in ordei to bring traffic where he did not have it before. Or, i'n another section there is a forest in which settlers do not go ; if he knows there is somewhere a young man ■ of-enterprise or energy he sends for him. advances the money to put up a sawmill, and therefore business comes to the road Or(, if there is in any part of the railroad a mining camp where the freight rates were too heavy to ship the ores, he puts up a smelter, and then at the other end of the line, as has been done by the Canadian Pacific railway, as shall be done by the Grand Trunk Pacific, he will provide a flotilla of ships in order to distribute his merchandise all over the ocean. Do you think it would be possible for the .government to do the same thing 1 (Cries ^of No !) Suppose Mr. Borden builds that road, and though there may be beautiful scenery in that part of the country, and there is, do you think it would be well if he proposed to erect a new hotel a^A an(j operate it ? He would be laughed at. Or, do you think he would be allowed to put up a smelter or provide a fleet of steamers ? Sir, the thing is preposterous, and you only have to consider it in order to realize that it is preposteious. (Ap a, plause.) Straight Party Lines WE ARK EXCLUSIVELY SHOEMAKERS . AND CAN GUARANTEE Style, Comfort and Durability IN FOOTWEAR MANUFACTURED BY US. Just opened COAMRCIAL HOTEL First Class Dining Room Sieiey Newly Filled Good Beds .No Chinese Employed. BEST BRANDS LIQUORS AND CIGARS ALWAYS IN STOCK SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO TRAVELLERSj&§ HUSTON & McLEAN, Proprietors THAMES HOLBEN OF MONTREAL, LTD. NICOLA LAKE "The Japs are better fighters." "Yes." "And they are better equipped." "Yes." "And have more confidence." "Yes." "But don't you think the Russians will win in the long run ?" "Well, that seems to be their specialty." The Hotel has been thoroughly renovated andTefitted. Everything First Class. No pains spared to please the public. Table supplied with best the market affords. Fine Winest Liquors and Cigars. TELEPHONE* BATH. H ; Headquarters for Princeton, Spence's Bridge and Kamloops Stage Dines. ^iih^finK** For the star ouu^riDe For the STAg f tjmjimes" 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* J./i/RSCH Sons 6 G>. Alras. Montreal Wm THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR October 29, 1904 it M • • • *Z^ d I t • •'<'•' -.■$■*<*•••*&<***• PRESENT PRICES OF LOfsf I From $2.00 to $10. Per Front Foot**£e^ Size of Lots 50x100 Ft. and 33xJ00 Ft. Terms: 1-3 Cash; BaL 3 and 6 months, wi^i interest at 6 per cent, pef^annum. <£ m. m :v;;; livepiieil Head- pariers For the &L .^vtsiimS***^ © M83 District. BEAUTIFULLY SITUATED at the Forks of the Simil- P^ifteen and Tulameetflifers. The BUSINESS CEN- TR^jfor the following Mining ;(|Smps:— Copper Mountain Kennedy Mountain, Friday, Boulder* and Granite Creeks, Summit, Roche Rive|> Upper Tuiameen and Aspen Grove. FINE CLIMATE and PURE WATER ENORMOUS AGRICULTURAL AREA TO DRAW FROM Send tor Map and Price List to <& *& S> <& <& ERNEST WATERMAN, Residlat Manager VERMILION FO$KS MINING AND DEVELOPMiN j CO. sflf! Agents fof the j^ADIAN QR%C0NCp^RATI0N|4.IMI'pD, (ESmbre dit Process. f\ *
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Title | Similkameen Star |
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Howse, A.E. |
Publisher | Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company |
Date Issued | 1904-10-29 |
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Language | English |
Identifier | Similkameen_Star_1904_10_29 |
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Date Available | 2018-10-31 |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0373279 |
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Longitude | -120.507778 |
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