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 New Year, full of hope, happiness, prosperity, be yours
14th Year   No. 52
PRINCETON, B.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 19J3.
PER YEAR : $2 Ca.
Single Copy sc
letter service and general treatment by railways demand
MINING PROFITABLE
(JAND NEW VEAR
PROMISING
MINES  AND   MINING
C. M. Snowden, Sam Moore and A E.
McCoun have been at work on the Roany
placer claim and are sinking and drifting
on a tunnel. Values are expected at bedrock which is expected to be reached
soon. .-w^%
The United Empire Coal mine, East
Princeton, is making regular shipments
of coal to Nelson and Washington points.
Sam Spencer and wife moved to Hedlev
last week, where the former is employed
in the stamp mill of the Hedley Gold
Mining Co.
Jim Lacey was in town this week from
Hedley renewing old acquaintanceship
Wo:k is to be rushed on the big flume for
the Hedley Gold Mining Co. The flume
is three miles long, 7 x 8 in the clear, and
will require a lot of lumber in construction. The dam is in course of construction and three working shifts-wili be employed.
Mr. Cessford was brought down from
Coppermountain last Friday morning and
taken to the hospital with a broken ankle.
H'e slipped on. ice and in falling fractured
a bone. He is employed by the B. C.
Copper Co.
B. Barlow has taken the position of fire
boss at the United Empire coal mine.
Big Profits in Mining
There will be no extra dividend for the
Consolidated shareholders, although the
profits for the last fiscal year were practically a million dollars, or 18 per cent, on
the shares issued. At the meeting held
in Toronto on Tuesday morning, there
was a strong inclination on the pert of
some to place stock ou a permanent 10
per cent, basis, but the directors prefer to
adhere, for the present, to the more conservative policy of the past, and the usual
8 per cent, dividend payable quarterly,
will continue. President Matthews read
the annual report, showing the splendid
financial results which he emphasized
with the reminder thsjt it was only five
years ago that a bank overdraft of a million and a half existed. After allowing
$150,000 in round figures for development,
and wiping off $200,000 approximately
for depreciation, the profit of the Consolidated company for the past year was
equivalent to nearly 18 per cent upon the
shares issued-, which are-$5,800,000.
Similkameen Mineralogy
[Continued from last week.]
'In 1905 thei British Columbia Copper
Company took options on  ten or twelve
claims around f H       3 the Snn?et,
and work was carried on for about eleven
months. A diamond drill wasbroughtin
and much deep drilling done, but the results were not made known to the public'
"Hvdraulic mtniug.—In 1893 some prospecting ane surveying was done on the
i-ast side of the Similkameen river, above
Princeton, by parties associated with W.
C. McDougall, with a view to working
some of the benches stretching back from
the river by hydraulic methods. Gold
was found'in all the test pits, but the bed
rock was not sufficiently high above the
level of ihe stream to afford a good dump.
This, with the fact that a ditch, seven
miles in length, to carry water from the
Similkameen river on to the ground,
would only give a head of 116 feet, forced
the promoters to abandon their project.'
'In 1895 the Anglo-American Company
was formed y Capt. S. T. Scott, with the
object of working some ground situated
011 the west-side of Ihe Similkameen river,
just above the mouth of Whipsaw creek.
A ditch two miles in length brought
water from Whipsaw creek, and under a
head of 320 feet this was supplied to two
No. 5 Monitors at the foot of the bench
Sluicing was carried on for a period of
eight days, when it was found that the
bedrock here also was too low to afford
a dump for the tailings, and they were
constantly blocking the channel and
forcing the water back over the flat. The
expense of keeping the sluice boxes free
from the tailings, and the fact that bedrock was not reached in the pit, caused
the company to abandon the work and go
into liquidation.'
'The most successful attempt at hydraulicing was that undertaken by W. J.
Waterman in 1895 on some ground about
three miles south of Princeton. This
ground had formerly yielded from $5.00
to $10.00 to the hand, and had been
worked both by whites and Chinese.
Water was obtained from a spring and
Continued on page   5.
TOWN AND DISTRICT
Arthur Hickling, managing director of
the Princeton Coal & Land Co., left on
Monday for Rossland en route to London,
England, where he hopes to arrive the
latter end of Jauuary. He is in the best
of health and spirits and leaves reluctantly
owing to our healthful and enjoyable
climate. Star, with a large number
friends, bids him safe voyage and early
return.
W. H. Holmes of Granite Creek is in
the hospital with blood-poisoning following an injured toe which has been amputated. He is suffering considerably,, and
it is hoped he will soon be around again.
G. H. Whiteman returned on Saturday
from Boundary points and Nelson, where
he had been on business connected with
the Princeton Coal &- Land Co. He states
that the weather is very miid and pleasant
in the places named.
BOARDS OF  TRADE
AGAINST HRAIN
SERVICE
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RAILWAY POINTS.
Princeton board of trade has been
actively guarding the interests ofthe district in endeavoring to get improved railway service and last month tried to obtain
remedy for the damage to business, interests by the smallpox scare. On Tuesday
last two deputations, G. P. Jones and C.
P. Dalton from Hedley, and J. A. Brown
and H. Tweddle from Keremeos, repressing the boards of trade at each of these
places, came here and met Messrs. Andras,
Chapman, Huston and Moeran, a committee of the Princeton board. Resolutions were wired, together with a petition,
to the railway commission at Ottawa and
to Martin Burrell, M.P., and L. W. Shatford, M P.P., regarding the cancellation
of three trains a week on the V. V. & E.
Inspector Greenfield ofthe P. O. department and Messrs. Kenny, Costello and
Doyle, officials of the Great Northern,
were notified of the action of the joint
boards and resolutions sent. A copy of
the petition will be published next week.
The Spokane train carried out 75 men
Monday who have been laying steel on
the branch. All the track is laid and the
road bed surfaced to Pateros. It is understood by railroad men that regular trains
will commence running through to Pateros from Oroville by the first of the
year.—Gazette.
The Kettle Valley railway company will
apDly to the Dominion government for an
extension of time in which to complete
its line. Application will also be made
at the next session for a charter to construct a branch iine from the main line at
Otter summit to the Aspen Grove mining
district.
From and after the 23rd inst., trsins on
the V. V. &. E., Great Northern, will be
run only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, to Coalmont Tuesdays and
SaturdaySj^^*'^
»^ft0CAL AND GENERAL.
rOn the 23rd inst., at Chilliwack, at the
home of her parents, Mr. arid Mrs. Robert
Stevenson, Mrs. Kiel:/Eldest daughter
died after a protracted»illness. The deceased is daughter of our respected fellow
citizen Robert Stevenson, who will have
the sympathy of many friends here and
throughout the whole province. Mr.
Stevenson left for Chilliwack, in answer
to a telegram and will be present at the
funeral. Mrs. Kier was school teacher
for twelve years and was an accomplished
musician.
A donation of $10 has been received by
the secretary-of the  Princeton General
Hospital from the Similkameen)
Institute at Keremeos.   Tbe giftjl .
spirit of co-operation which pronfP
will be highly appreciated by ta
bers and directors of the hospital.
Mike  Gaynor  arrived from Pel.
last Friday.    He has some mining pt^4
erty at Lillooet whicb is showing hig!
values.
Frank Batley,. M.E., is out of the hot
pital but his knitting leg fracture necess
tates irksome inaction.   All hope t
him on his ' pins ' soon.
Eric Anderson was in town Mond;
route to Penticton where he will s
holidays with friends.
IN -COW- M%-W
By STRATTON MOIR
Mrs. S. L. Allison, the oldest
of Princeton district and one h
teemed and respected by every!
composed in blank verse a tale*
life which Star is glad to have r.
to publish.   The setting of the
laid in the Similkameen district
picts in beautiful and familiar
the romantic life of the early ^bra\
maids.   The author has also publi
paper on the anthropology  of th'
kameen  Indians.     Mrs..
over   the   pseudonym   ' S
Following is ' In-cow-mas-k
doubt, will be read  with |
pleasure by  many in  this st
those outside :
—o—   jgS?
Dy a rapid flowing rivei^
In-cow-mas-ket built his dwei
Called it by the name Chu chu-e-wi
There his kinsmen dw It beside him
In their circular mat houses,
Made from bark of fragrant cedar. <i%
With him dwelt his aged grandsire,.^!
Now sightless, heirless and infirm ;: 3
But his mental eyes were opened,
Things he saw which others see I
And men loved him for his wisdo.
In the lodge of In-cow-mas-ket
Lived his first wife Sem-min-at-cor
She was plain in face and figure,
She had borne him many childrc
And she was now no longer your
In-cow-mas-kets's aged graudsi
Tenderly she loved and cherjs*
When the men had gone a 1
When the young memleft t'
TShen she would lay h'im 4y
On a pile of soft warm bei.
She wonldsit and work besidt
While he told her wondrons s*
Ofthe men and ofthe creatr
That lived in days long par
Stories told him by his f
Old even then, when
How the rapid flow-
Once but a ,:""*"
How the t.
When tbe E
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 THE     SIMILKAMEEN     STAR
Dl.CEMB.K   HI   1^13
friffi   DYING   YE^
3E old, old year with its joys and its
sorrows,
pleasant todays and suuuy tomorrows;
e songs that we've   ung and tbe tears
that we've shed,
e pleasant, tbe painful   like shadows
'  have fled.
?arewell, old year, thou can'st no longer
stay,
pith silent tread we see thee pass away—
5ut as thou departest our song shall be :
Aber, mother, sister, brother, a happy
iNew Year to thee,
APPY NEW YEAR TO THEE.
CHRISTMAS TREE
e Christmas tree to which the public
ibuted generously was attended by
e uumber on Tuesday night    The
s^S-ot Santa Claus (Mr. Kynoch) filled
e hearts/of the children with great joy
id righyt well did Santa greet his dear
pes and/comport himself for the occasion.
ne chair was taken by E. Waterman and
ae prosram consisted of three Christmas
arols     conducted   by   the   Revs.   Mr.
__rfe and Mr. Gillam ; recitations by
ly Glover, Jean Hall, David Muir
^*rank Leighton ; lullaby recitation
>y Velma Pascoe, Dolly Waterman and
Babbie Thomas; song, Dorothy/ Glover ;
piano solo," Ida Huston.   The thanks of
,11 are due to the committee ; Mrs. Garri-
Trs. Dignan, Mrs. Griffiths and Miss
.mas and  New Year days being
ys Star is lsued on Wednesday pre-
;.     This arrangement will relieve
lire staff of Star from newsboy to
aging editor of the necessity of
dvert:ses will  please hand in
s early as  possible   for   next
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
Presbyterian church—Services in the
court house, Princeton. Sunday school
at 11 a.m. Evening service at 7.30 p.m.
Rev. J. A. Gillam, pastor. All are corr
dially invited.
Church of England—Next Sunday,
at Princeton, Matins, Holy Communion,
and Sermon, n a.m. Evensong and
Sermon, 7.30 p.m.
Christian Science lesson sermon' sub-
ect next Sunday : ' Christian Science.'
The Comforter, which is the Holy Gbosb
whom the Father will send in my name,
be shall teach you all things, aud bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.—John 14 : 26.
Miss Burpee, formerly teacher heie,
has been engaged in the public school to
succeed Miss Wier.
The hockey club is organized with H.
D. Russell, captain ; S. C. Brooks, manager ; Mr. Crowley, secretary-treasurer. A
match will be played New Year's day at
the Owl.
Love's secret is to be always doing
things for God and not to mind because
they are such very little ones.—F. W.
Faber.
Dissolution of Partnership
Take Notice that the partnership
hitherto carried on in the name of King
& Gibson is hereby dissolved by mutual
consent. T. Clark King retiring from
the business, which in the future will be
continued in the name of S. R. Gibson
who will pay all accounts against tbe firm
and to whom all outstanding accounts
must be paid.
Signed this 5th day of December, 1913,
at Princeton, B. C.
T. CLARK KING
SAMUEL R. GIBSON
Witness . J. B. Wood
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WISHING   ALL   1   j»   j»   j»
MERRY   CHRISTMAS
Happy  and Prosperous
*al&New  Yearns
Yours truly
MAX  BERGER
Sole Agent for
The Rex Tailoring co.9 Ltd.
TORONTO
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What would the Christmas Dinner be with=
out the help of the Butcher and Farmer ?
AH contribute to the feast.
Christmas Meats, Etc.
Besides the Staple Fresh Meats, Corned Beef. Mess Pork,
Ham, Bacon,   Canned Meats, Butter and Eggs, there are
Turkeys, Ducks, Chickens,   Oysters, Sardiues,
Fresh Salmon and Halibut, Cured Fish
I P. BURNS & CO.
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What shall I get Mother & Dad this Xmas?
A.   L.   WHITE
Will tell you.       He is just unpacking; a
CAR OF NEW GIFT FURNITURE
Drop in and see! Costs nothing; to look anyway!
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December 26, 1913
THE    SIMILKAMEEN   STAR
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SPECIALS.
FURNISHED ROOMS for rent —Mrs.
M. Leighton.
Bread, Pies and Cakes for sale at the
Miner's Restaurant.
WOOD FOR SALE: — Hughes &
White supply all kinds of firewood.
Shipments made to outside points along
the railway. Leave orders at Len
Huston's.
Xmas Cakes and  Mince Pies made to
order at the Miner's Restaurant.
'    Every Sunday evening special dinner
from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Hotel Tulameen
Princeton   orchestra   will   play   during
dinner.
MINER'S RESTA URANT — Three
kinds of fish on Friday, chicken on
Sunday.
Books for the million ! Interesting
and informing by standard authors. Call
and see them.   Len Huston's.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
A large number of subscriptions to
Star will be due on the 1st January,
1914. Payment of same should be
made now to preserve continuous
delivery of tbe paper. Renewals
and new subscriptions are respectfully solicited—all are payable in
advance. Price, $2 within the empire ; foreign, 50c to cover postage.
FOR SALE—I have 40 shares of B.C.
Portland Cement Company's Stock of
Princeton, B. C, which I will sell for
$50 per share. WM. H. KAYE, 421 Exchange Bank Bldg. Spokane, Wash.
FOR' SALE—Ranch land, 160 acres,
five miles from town. Crown granted,
with coal rights. Surface rights, only,
520 per acre, with coal rights, $3° per
acre.    Apply Star office.
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AGENT FOR
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The Man You Know
AT
LEN HUSTON'S
Cipr & News Stand
TOBACCOS, CIGARS   PIPES
Agent for Nelson Club and Kusko-
uook Cigars, made by
NELSON CLUB CIGAR CO.
Ice Cream, Sodas, Confectonery
IRWIN BLOCK
« J. L. HUSTON,   =    =    Prop.  \
Similkameen Hotel
SUMMERS & WARBLE
PROPRIETORS
Large and New building, well Furnished aud Plastered ; Comfortable ; Quietude.
Sample  Rooms, spacious, in hotel.
Hotel is situated near Great Northern Railway station.
. Vermilion Avenue,
Princeton, B.C.
CARPENTER AND UNDERTAKER
The undersigned has followed the above lines of business for the past
dozen years %n Princeton and
will continue the same.   I
will be glad Ito receive orders
and will give ahem prompt attention.   Residency I and shop at foot of
BILLITER A"V?f on Tulameen River
W. SSWILSCM
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TOWN AND DISTRICT
The Ladies Hospital Auxiliary will
welcome all to the masquerade ball in the
I.O.O.F. hall next Wednesday evening,
December 31st. Arrangements are ample
to accommodate the large crowd expected.
Merrymakers from all over the district
are coming. The time, the place, the
cause, all appeal to the public. Admission
$1, children 50c, supper 75c. at the hotel
Princeton.
T. Dignan is taking orders for the installation of electric light in houses and
business places in town.|
Warren S. Stains is under orders to
leave for Oroville on the first of the new
year, due to the reduction.of the staff on
the Great Northern railway. Mr. Stains
has won many friends here by his courtesy
and reliability and all hope to see him
back again when business revives and
Uncle Jim is done cheeseparing.
Tbe Nicola Valley News, dead for about
a year, is about to be ' resurrected ' by R.
W. Hulbert, late managing editor of the
Coquitlam Star. Merritt with its 2000
people will then have probably one more
newspaper than it is capable of supporting.
Sam Moore left on Monday for his old
home in Olga, Wash., having received
word of the death of his mother on the
13th inst., at the advanced age of 75 years.
He expects to return here in about three
months.
Martin & Osborne, electric wiring contractors, are a new firm to enter into business in Princeton.
' Editor Star—Sir : Knowing that you
are always glad to get local items for your
widely read paper I enclose the follow:
ing : ' Accounts are to hand of the latest
Chinese upraising, or should it be more
properly termed a Boxer insurrection.
Although full details are at present lacking it seems certain that one at least was
severely wounded in his amour propre and
when the smoke of battle cleared away,
there was found to be one wig more on
the green. Th's bas caused the fair sex
great grief and one was heard to utter the
following simple but pathetic valedictory
—Good-bye Ben.'—Tulameen war correspondent.
The Tulameen hockey club cup for
competition, presented by the hotel Tulameen has been ordered.
Princeton Orchestral Society will give
a social dance in the I.O.O.F. hall Christmas night, 25th inst.
Flooding the Owl has begun and skating is now enjoyed by the patrons of the
rink. Good light now and electrical
light will soon be installed.
Sir Robert Ball, the former astronomer
royal of Ireland and later the Lowndian
professor of astronomy and geometry at
Cambridge, died on Nov. 25,aged 71 years.
He was the author of many books popn*
larizing astronomy, among the best known
of which may be mentioned ' The Story
ofthe Heavens,' the 'Story of the Sun,'
and 'Lives of Great Astronomers.'
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Corner of Billiter Ave. and Lime St.
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VOLUME XIV
This issue of Star completes the
fourteenth year of its existence and
the fifty-second number tor 1913.
IDuring all these years *i\ has en-
1 .deavOred to chronicle correctly all
v*ae important events and truthfully
/et forth the natural inducements
for the investor and homeseeker.
Its one aim has been to build up
the town and district on their
merits. In its own humble way it
has striven for the rights of the
people generally and advocated
progress and reforms. Having
done these things to the best of its
poor ability Star asks for continued
support of its subscribers and advertisers. In this age no town
making any pretensions of progress
can afford to be without a newspaper and without a healthy patronage of subadifibers and advertisers,
its two chief sources of revenue, it
caunot live. By strict economy
and hard work Star -has weathered
years of depression and disjM»point-
ment. In that time two of its
neighbors have passed on to the
journalistic boneyard while it remains twinkling, dimly it may be
at times, yet always able to stand
1 off the sheriff and proverbial wolf,
^^-"Cossidijfc'ing the limited field, sparse
opulation and delayed railway
iirogress Star has much to be thank-
£ful for. The loyal support of advertisers has made the paper possi-
lile, without another journalistic
epitaph would have been written
long ere this. With increased patronage and expanding population
the paper will be found to keep well
in advance of all requirements as in
the past. No other town of like
size in Canada supports a newspaper, worthy of the name, having
over four hundred inches of space.
Many commendatory letters have
been received during all these years
and not a word of complaint, which
is something to feel encouraged
over. The foregoing is not written
in an egotistic vein but for the
^yrposeof inducing those who are
ot subscribers or advertisers to
ecome patrons and assure them
Aey are getting their money's
worth. The coming year, 1914,
looks brighter   than   any   of  the
fourteen nearly ended. Mining,
which is the backbone of the district, is now on an assured basis.
The elimination of doubt aud uncertainty as to mining makes the
prospect peculiarly encouraging.
To all a very happy and prosperous
new year. Shine on, O Star of
Similkameen !
NOTES AND COMMENTS
It is time that some binding restrictions aud limitations were put
upon those railway companies asking for further extension of time in
which to build their proposed road.
It is one of the farcical procedures
of the Dominion railway committee
to make 'cast iron' stipulations for
the companies and then at the end
of the term stated for building to
undo all they had previously legislated on. Railway companies
'come back' regularly for favors
from the railway committee and
they invariably get them. The
people of the Simlikameen have
been waiting for twenty years for
direct)railway connection with the
coast.. They have been promised,
fooled and cajoled until they are
heartily sick of the whole business.
Another, and another extension of
time has been asked for completion
of lines that could be built in a
small fraction of the time applied
for. Endless extensions of time,
ruinous delay, progress held up,
discontented people, business stagnant, hopes deferred, all the result
of insensate procrastination. Is
there no remedy ? The people
through their representatives, grant
bonuses and give concessions receiving in return disappointment
and broken agreements from the
railway companies. The people
are up against it hard enough fighting the physical difficulties which
all new countries present and it is
too much to bear the needless obstacles which the railways put in
the path of progress. Owing to the
picayune policy ofthe Kettle Valley
company Princeton coal is shut out
of the Okanagan district where
thousands of tons should have been
shipped this winter if railway construction had been carried on with
any business push. The Great
Northern is even a greater stumbling block to progress by its penny-
wise, pound foolish policy, in reducing its daily train to three a
week and making everybody lay
over at night at Oroville. If the
railway companies want tonnage
they must help to develop the
country not retard its growth by a
miserable. cheeseparing, skinny
policy. Railway" companies, like
individuals, cannot hope to make
profits always in a new country just
at the initial stages of development.
To whine at trifling expenses and
be niggardly and mean for the purpose of saving a few dollars at the
cost ol public spirited persons betrays a small, penurious soul. A
critical time has been reached in
the history of the Similkameen.
For railroad companies or individuals to cheesepare, halt and delay now
is to turn back the hands on the
clock of progress. No retrograde
policy now.    'Onward/ is the word.
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SIMILKAMES£J MINERALOGY
From   Page   i.
stored in a reservoir immediately above
the bench to be worked.   A self-acting
gate to the reservoir was built with the
intention of using the' water as a bucking
hydraulic.     The   w^ter   was   stored   at
night behind an old beaver dam above
the reservoir, and during the day was al
lowed to run into the reservoir which  it
filled two or three times an hour.   The
gate acted automatically and let out a
a head of about 2,000 miners inches for
seven or eight minutes.    When the reservoir was empty the gate closed, and the
boulders, etc., in the pit were cleared up
and the ground got ready for the next run.
In   November,   1895.  a   partial clean up
gave results of from twenty-five to thirty-
five cents per cubic yard of ground moved
and  paid expenses.    The next year the
property was sold to the Vermillion Forks
Mining and development  Co.,  now the
Princeton   Coal   and   Land   Co.     More
water was brought from Stevenson creek
and  a  small   monitor  installed under, a
hundred foot head.   Two runs were made
in 1898 and the results obtained gave ten
to fifteen cents per cubic yard of ground
moved.    The amount water was not sufficient to move the heavy wash, and trial
surveys  were  run   to  bring more water
from  Nine-mile creek.    The amount of
workable ground, however, was not large
enough to warrant the expense of such a
ditch and the work was dropped.'
'The river bars at the tn'outh'of Friday
creek fifteen miles above Princton were
at one time found to be very 'rich.    Here
a trial pit was opened up.   A ditch one-
half mile in lengths\vas dug and a short
pipe line with a monitor installed.    Work
was carried on for a part of one season
and in the next spring when operations
were about to be commenced it was found
that the  whole  ditch  system   had been
washed away into the stream. The claims
were then abandoned and-have lain idle
ever since.'
'On the Tulameen river the earliest at
tempt at dypraulicing was made by a
group of Vancouver men who built a
flume and ditch from Eagle creek with
the intention of recovering the platinum
from a bench a short distance below this
point. The bench was small and was
soon washed out, with what results was
not ascertained.'
'On Granite creek, from which probably
more placer go^d was'recovered than'any
other   part of the Similkameen district,
some bench claims were opened no by
Capt.  Scott,  Robert  Stevenson,   W.   E.
Hogg and others.    A flume four miles in
length was laid and  work began on the
Swan  claim and at its upper end.'  The
gold  here  is  very coarse and   probably
much was recovered, but.the  company
shortly after went into; liquidation aud
the court is said to have cleaned up about
$900.00 from the sluice boxes.  Mr. Hogg
afterwards worked a small pit four miles
below the mouth of Granite creek  and
washed out the gravel from an old high
channel ofthe Tulameen river.    It is be
lieved to have paid for the season, but the
pit was filled  up with  wash from the
mountain side the next spring, and never
reopened.'
'Prilling.—Boring operations for lignite
began in 19OT, and have been prosecuted
by several parties interested in the development of the Princeton coal basin. The
Vermillion Forks Mining and Develop
ment Company is the largest .holder of
coal claims and it has sunk six bore holes
to test its properties. Two others have
been sunk by Blakemore and one by
Sharp ; and with the exception of Sharp's
bore hole all have been sunk in the valley
of the Sonth Similkameen river between
Princeton and Ashnola.' |pS»S
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Complete change of program Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Good,
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Cor. Bridge and Angela Street.
Prices:
Children 15c.
Adults 25c
DOMINION HOTEL
fBll, D. McRAE, Prp rietor j
TUt^MEEN,  B.G^
LIVERY IN CONNECTION
//liners',   Prospectors'   and Travelers' Home
RATES \ $1 to $2.50 per Day     ;
THE GATEWAY TO THE
Tulameen Gold and Platinum Mines.
4 Princeton Carriage
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General Blacksmithing.
carriage Building and  Repairs
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PRINCETON,      -       B. C.
LIQUOR ACT, 1910
(Section 49.)
NOTICE is hereby given that, on the
l|i^h day of Januaiy next, application will
! be made to the Superintendent of Provincial Police tor the trausfer of the licence
fb-Jthe sale of liquor by retail in and upon
the\ premises known  as   the   Tulameen
hotel,-situate at Princeton, British Columbia, from  Kirkpatrick  &  Malone to
Kirkpatrick & Coulthard, of British Columbia.
Dated this 12th day of December, 1913.
KIRKPATRICK & MALONE,
Holders of Licence
KIRKPATRICK & COULTHARD
Applican ts for Transfer
Dissolution of Partnership
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing between
the undersigned is dissolved this day by
mutual consent. All accounts owing us
must be paid 'to our successors, Kirkpatrick .& (Coulthard, by whom all
aecQtttits-'Owing must be paid.
W. J. KIRKPATRICK
J. MA£LQNE\
Princeton,-Nov. 29,.3^3.
IN-COW-MAS-KET
From   Page   1.
Reft the solid rock in twain,—then
The deep lake pent in the mountains,.
Down—downward  dashed   to  join  the
stream,
Tore its way on through the valley
And formed the great Similk-ameen.
Madly dashing, like a wild horse,
That hath broke its curbing rein, it
Rushes swiftly, tearing downward,
Swells Columbia, joins the main.
How one time upon the mountain,
Where he had gone to hunt the deer,
He had lost his band of horses,
Amidst the mountain's summer snow.
For thongh warm and bright the weather
Without a warning rose a storm.
Suddenly across the mountains
There swept a gust of freezing wind,
Driving lead-grey clouds before it;
Then suddenly the snow came down
Burying the men and horses ;
Vainly did he try to save them.
He tried himself to break a road.
With his snow-shoes went before them,
Sinking—still sinking deeply down ;
Ever wallowing before them,
Weaken'd, starving, stumbling after,
On came his poor dejected band,
Ever getting weaker, fewer—
Until at last but one remained ;
He, a sturdy dark gray stallion.
The grandsire sang of Chippaco :
' Once upon the Mount Chippaco Jags
There liveda monster grim and dread,
Auful as that dreadful mountain
When thunder clouds enveil its head.
Awful was his devilish laughter
And fierce and scorniul was his ire,
When he found men on his mountain
Where he hides 'midst clouds and fire.
Women had he taken captive
And kept them on that mountain lone ;
Men he mocked with fiendish laughter
Who sought to take the women home.'
Sem-min-at-coe smiling listened
To all the wondrous tales he told.
In the lodge of In-cow mas-ket
Lived his young wife little Chin-chin.  '
She was famous for her beauty,
For her.lithe and slender figure,
And for her large and lustrous eyes.
In cow-mas-ket gave her father
Many norses, mauy kine, all
For this beauteous dark-eyed maiden ;
But she loved not In-cow-mas-ket,
She cherished not his old grandsire,
Thought of nothing but her beauty,
Cared for nothing but her pleasure.
Mounted on her fiery broncho
See, see her dashing o'er the hills,
Driving in her herds of cattle,
And laughing—jesting with the boys.
Snatching at a long 'reata,
She swings it lightly o'er her head ;
Lassoes, catches, overthrows one,
Laughing she gives her horse his head ;
Shouts as on he swiftly gallops,
She makes him yet more madly run ;
What cares she for Sem-minat-coe,
Now toiling, working hard at home'?
What cares she if Sem-min-at-coe
Does the work she has left undone ?
Sem-min-at-coe tans the buckskins,
Gets the wood and gets the water,
Continued on page  7.
H. B. BROWN, M.E.
724 Pacific Block
VANCOUVER, B.C.
Copper Property  Wanted  foi
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Correspondence Solicited
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Horses for hire, single or doubl Wood
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Draying in all its branches. ' .ices right
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Freight and Passenger
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Princeton & Tulameen
COUNTY   COURT==YALE
a sitting ofthe County Court of Yale will be
held at the Court House, Princeton, Tuesday,
9th day of December iqi3, a* the hour of 2 o'clock
■n the afternoon.   By command.
HUGH HUNTER,
OC17 Registrar County Court.
The above court is postponed until Monday,
January 6th, 1914.
By command,
HUGH HUNTER
Registrar County Court.
$20.00 REWARD
Tne above sum of money will be paid
for reliable information as to the whereabouts of or delivery of one black mare
and suckf.ng colt, black. Brand on mare
U on right thigh.
GEO. W. ALDOUS.
Synopsis of Coal Mining Regulations
COAI, mining rights ofthe Dominion, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon
Territory, the North-west Territories and in a
portion ofthe Province of British Columbia, may
be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an
annual rental of Si. an acre. Not more than
2,56o acres will be leased to one applicant.
Application for a lease must be made by the
applitcant in person to the Agent or Sub-Agent
ofthe district in which the rights applied for
are situated.
In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections," or legal sub-division ol
sections,and in unsurveyed territory the tract
applied for shall be staked out by the applicant
himself.
Each application must be accompanied by a
tee of $5. which wtll be refuuded if the rights
applied for are not available, but not otherwise.
A royalty shall be paid on the merchantabfe
output of the mine at the rate of five per cent per
ton
The person operating the mine shall furnish
the Agent with sworn rerurns accounting for
the full quanity of merchantabl e coal mined
and piy the royalty therecn. If the coal
mining rights are not being operated, such
returns should be furnished at least once a
year.
The lease will include the coal mining rights
only, but the lease may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may
be considered necessary for the working of the
mine at the rate of $10.00 an acre.
For full information application should be
made to the Secrstary of the Departmeut of
the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-
Agent of Dominion Lands.
W. W. CORY
Deputy Minister of the Interior.
N. B.—Unauthorized publication of this ac*.
vertisment will not be paid fo" 39$sPi£
NOTICE
Yale Land District, District of Yale.
Take notice that I, James Campbell
MacDoaald, of Vancouver, B. C, Civil
Engineer, intend to apply for permission
to purchase the following described land :
Commencing at a post planted two
hundred and eighty feet west from the
north west corner of Lot 520 Yale district,
thence north forty chains, thence east
forty chains, thence south forty chains,
thence west forty chains to the point of
commencement and containing one
hundred and sixty acres more or less.
JAMES CAMPBELL MACDONALD.
Dated November 12th, 1913.
Certificate of Improvements.
Fissure Maiden Fractional mineral
claim situate in the Similkameen Mining
Division of Yale District.
Where located : On Siwash Creek (Five
Mile Creek.)
Take notice that I, E. E. Coley, F. M. C.
No. 74379 B, acting as 1 agent for the
Inland Development Co? Ltd., F. M. C.
No. 70927 B, intend at tpe end of sixty
days from the date thereof to apply to
the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of
Improvements for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of th e above claim.
And further take noVice that action
under Section 85 of the Mineral Act must
be commenced before/ the issuance of
such Certificate of Improvements.
Dated this 19th day oik December, 1913.
THE INLAND DEVELOPMENT Co.,
Limited,
E. E;', Colev, Agent.
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Bedecks herself in gay attire,
Smokes dainMcigarettos,
And lounges \d\Win the'sun ; jj
In cow mas-ket dares remonstrate
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When the wmter snows were melting
From the forested the mountain
From the hills and from the valley
And when the streams began to rise,
In-cow-mas-ket hunted beaver ;
Set his traps in swampy meadows
He set them by the beaver dams
Stretched their skins on bended willows,
Kept their tails for little Chin-chin
When the whiter snow was melted
By the south wind's balmy breath, then
In cow mas-ket hunted grizzly'
Just waking from their winter sleep •
Near thei: dwelling place he found them
Close to the mountain's rocky caves'
^fo-eow-flws-ket slew the grizzly	
He took the meat, he took the skin
Saved the paws for dainty Chin-chin.
In-cow-mas-ket hunted red deer
In the mountains, in the valleys •
Chin-chin gaily, rode beside him ' -
With.his long musket oaher knee
Cheer-d him with her lively prattle.
In a hollow ofthe mountain
Where feeding, sheltered from the sun,
They would find large herds of red deer
Pretty Chin-chin held the horses
While In-cow-mas-ket shot the deer
When at eve returning homeward,
With their weary horses laden
They were mej by_young Pen-que-nac,
Good Sem-mi„ at-coe's darlingTihild
Young Pin que-nac on'her pinto,
With her fierce wolfhound by her side,
Safe was she in the protection
Of her great noble guardian hound
In-cow mas-ket loved the maiden
Dearer than all the world beside
Even more than pretty Chin-chin •
Like'her mother Sem-min-at-coe   '
She was gentle, she was kind; thus
All who knew her ever loved her
For her goodness and her beauty.
Fair, fair was In-cow-mas-ket's child
And her lovely flowing tresses
Fell about her like a garment,
And her dark eyes beamed with beaut3
Iu the long, long days of summer,
When the warm-rays of the sun had
Ripened the mountain berries
And the trout forsook the river '
To ascend the tribute streams, then
In cow -mas-ket left the valley
And encamped upon:the mountain -
Coming from theyjarrow valley       L
See, see the mot^y cavalcade
In a cloud of duslenshrouded
Comes a herd cf bellowing kineses are bleating for their mothers,
And cows arrowing for their young,
Through the dust and bleating turn,,],
Loud the drivers'whips are cracking!
Now a band of driven horses'
Quickly pass along the road-then
After them rides Sem min-at-coe
Close carrying her youngest chikL
And beside her young Hosachtem
Upon a broncho fresh and wild
Gaily young Hosachtem chatters •
He spurs his horse, then holds him in
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undersigned and endorsed 'Tecder for
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obtained   at   this jfcpartment,   at
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Office Building, Montreal, P. Q , and  on
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.P^erS°nS-Menderin^ are notified tha<
tenders wtfj.not be considered ur'esL
made on the printed forms supplied, a A
signed with their actual signatures
ing their occupations and places of u-
ence Iu the case of firms, the act
signature, the nature of the occupation
and place of resldence-bPeachlmember "f
the firm must be given. ^'~~-W
Each teuder must-be accompanied bv
an accepted cheque Ufa a chartered feankl
pavable to the ord^r of the Honorable thi
Minister of Pnbhc Works,  equal  to    ed
tVn^611' £0„p- W,   °f the amount of th?
tender which will be forfeited if the pe.
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ract when called upon to do so, or fail
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the tender be not accepted .he cheque
will be returned. v^
The Department does not bind itself t-
accept the lowest or any tender.
Bj^ order,
R. C. DESROCHERS, /
Secretary-
Department of Public Works,
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B -C., is extended to Thursday, January g§
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R. C. DESROCHERS,
t-.   Secretary.
Department of Public Works,
Ottawa, December 0, 1913.
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