JAN 3-1005 s��" ���*�����& >m t* Ul r- Boundary Mines Pio- duccd $10,000,000 in value Within four years ��� low Phc:nix,is the Centre and Leading Mining Camp of Boundary. AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. Devoted to the Interests of the Boundary Mining District Vol. VI. PHOENIX, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SX'ilJpDAY,,DECEMBER 31, 1904. 'Mi 8 V *P.- - * ft 1 BOUNDARY -00^^0^0^ Output of District Approximately Estimated at 840,000 Tons of Ore -���Brief Review if Situation. A short review of the mining pro gress of the Boundary for the year 1904 shows that the last twelve months have been a period of decided progress and encouragement to every one in this section. In the last three years the business of mining has been brought to a more solid basis than ever before, with results well calculated to encourage those directly interested in the industry. The real business of mining, in short, was never in as good a condition in the Boundary as it is today, with every prospect of there being a steady and substantial increase in the year to come. : More men are working in the mines, more furnaces are being operated at the ' three"dis frict smelters, and better results, both from high and low grade mines, are being obtained. PHOENIX CAMP. mine.' Anew ore crusher has been, enviable record among the high grade installed, and while the; policy of tak- producers, has been worked steadily ing out the ore from the surface quar- during the year, shipping regularly, dories, whence it could be most cheaply ing development, and paying seveaa i-V ���'���'>���.����� :^} . 'r'i ''' > i' ' '' "l"'?-? -'.^,'i' i- >'���': ��� ;'��� * v~ '..' .."v '�����-?.,ei< ...' ���-/.;-;' -������' : '��� ' ���''��� :!���?, -.���.-<; 1.-u vv>.r>:; ��� The last year has certainly been one of no little progress in Phoenix camp. At. the beginning of the year the Snow- shoe mine was closed, and is still inactive, but those in a position to know assert that this large and well developed property, with its million tons of ore blocked but and 100,000 tons already broken down in the stopes, will not Ion;; remain idle. Should the English capital interested in the Sriowshoe not include the mine in the large Ross- land mine merger, now proposed, the property will doubtless be worked just the same. The Brooklyn, Stemwinder and Rawhide'mines were started up last summer, having been acquired by the Montreal & Boston Consolidated, and have shipped approximately 25,000 tons, of ore since operations ..were begun. ' The Rawhide only started shipping last week, but is confidently, expected to grow.into one of the largest of Boundary's shipping mines. At present its output is abbut 300 tons daily, and this.week Jias; installed. tHe first half of a 30 driiringersoll-Sargent' air compressor to furnish power for that mine and for the Stemwinder, almost adjoining. The statements given out are to the effect that the best results ai.e being obtained from the ores from these three mines at the company's Boundary Falls smelter. Of course, the old reliable of the Boundary, the Granby mines, have been doing business steadily at the old stand all through the past year, shipping steadily a little less than 2,000 tons of ore daily. The total shipments for the year will approximate 550,000 tons from the Granby mines, all of which has been reduced-at the company's smelter at Grand Forks. During the year the Granby mines have had in employment from 350 to 450 men steadily, and when the two new large furnaces at the smelter are installed, the force of men at the mines and the output will be proportionately increased. This will undoubtedly happen during the next few months. Improvements at the Granby mines have been steadily going on du 1904, especially during the last half of the year, in preparing for making shipments over the Great Northern railway. These improvements will run in cost from $150,000 to $200,000, all of which is being paid from earnings of the company. They include the new ore bunkers at the No. 3 tunnel, where a large crusher is now being installed, with a total capacity of about 3,000 tons in 24 hours���a duplicate of that in useat the Knob Hill mine for the last two years. The trains of ore from the mine at this level will also be operated with an electric locomotive, now on the ground, and other electrical machinery, of the latest type, is also being installed for this outlet of the mine. On the 1 st of July, William Yolen Williams, who had charge of the properties since the inception of work on on them several years ago, resigned from the superintendehcy of the Granby mines, and A. B. VV. Hodges, superintendent of the smelter, was made general superintendent for the company, and O. B. Smith, Jr., who had been engineer for several years, was made mine superintendent. It is anticipated that in the new year other properties in or near this camp will be starting operations on a more or less extensive scale. mined, has been followed steadily, development has also been going on to some extent in the deep workings. An important find of ore-was made in the property quite recently that enhances its value to a considerable degree, and while it has Deen explored hundreds of feet, its boundaries have not yet been definitely determined. Mr. Hol- man has made an excellent record in taking out on an average of seven tons of ore per man, including every man employed in every capacity at the mine'.'. .-._ . I-���.":���;;- ���',:��� The Sunset mine, also in Dead wood camp, is owned by, the Montreal & Boston Consolidated, and has only been operated since that company resumed operations in ��� the Boundary. The mine is well equipped with machinery, and this year-has shipped approximately 3,000 tons. SUMMIT CAMP. In Summit camp several properties have been worked during the last year, including the Emma, Oro Dehoro, Senator, Reliance, Lancashire Lass, Brey Fogle, No. 37, and Mountain Rose. The Emma, an iron proposition with copper values, has been worked almost steadily, and has shipped approximately 38,000 tons of ore, mostly to Nelson aud Greenwood smelters, some of it also going fo Grand Forks and Trail, as well as Boundary Falls. From 15 to 30 menjihave been employed here, the mine being owned jointly by the B. C. Gopper Co. and the Nelson smelter. | From the Oro Dentiro about 16,000 tons of ore. have beenVshtpped during the year past. In the;early, part of the year the mine was; ogerated on quite an .extensive scale^ii^ut latterly the forceo^OTer^ Jias been reduced and shipments have been in accordance. The ore was sent to the Granby; smelter at Grand Forks. The Senator, under bond to the Granby Co., has been shipping to the Granby smelter, while the shipments from the other mines referred to have been small, if any. It is reported that theB. C. mine, in Summit camp, which has in the past shipped about 100,000 tons of some of the best ore from any Boundary mine, is likely to be reopened at no distant date. operate alL machinery, while the last named uses steam for trie present. Between 400 and 500 men are given steady employment at these three smelters, FRASF.R-YOUNQHUSBAND WEDDING. DEADWOOD CAMP. Deadwood camp's most important mine is now and always has been the Mother Lode, owned and operated by the British Columbia Copper Co. Work has steadily progressed at this property under the superintendency of S. C. Holmanj the force of men running from 65 to 100. In the twelve months the property has shipped to the company's smelter at Greenwood close to 200,000 tons of ore, being nearly 50 per cent, more than for the previons year. Improvements have also been the order of the year at the Mother Lode WELLINGTON CAMP. In Wellington camp there has been little progress this last year. The well known Golden Crown and Winnipeg mines, having gotten into financial troubles, have remained closed; but the Athelstan, which was sold to the Montreal & Boston Consolidated last summer, was operated for a time, sending out during the year 'some 4,500 tons of ore, mostly to the Boundary Falls smelter. As the ore must be hauled on wagons a mile or more to the Winnipeg spur, the cost of which is equivalent to a fair profit alone, it is likely that during the coming year a tramway will be built to the Great Northern railway, which runs not far from it in the valley below. OTHER PROPERTIES. In addition to the properties just mentioned, there are a few others that are preparing to do extensive development. Notable among these 'is the Betts and Hesperus mines, located on Hardy mountain, several milus from Grand Forks. At this property an air compressing plant is now being installed and the Chicago men operating the property propose to -do extensive development on the large ore bodies they have so far uncovered. In Franklin camp, some fifty miles up the North Fork of the Kettle river, considerable activity has also been shown this year in the way of preliminary development on a number of claims, notably the McKinley, Banner, etc., and those who have been there assert that this camp will come to the front very largely in due time. Up the West Fork, development and some shipping is being done, and when a railway is built there next year, it will be favorably heard from. HIGH GRADE MINES. thousands of dollars in dividends to the shareholders. Adjoining the Prnv ' ence, the Elkhorn has marie " .. .; good a record, and like ihe l'r'y%y: seems to impro\ ��� with'di .": ' ���' '' :' ' > The E.P.U. has been ope- -*ed continuously, shipping ore ami making money for the owners. Nearby the Bay claim has been worked and some of the richest Ore, in the district found. The Silver Cloud and the Silver King, also near the E.P.U., have been worked and given good results. A most significant fact, however, is the comparatively recent resumption of operations'on the Skylark and Last Chance���two mines that were operated wi'tn profit years ago, and have lain dormant since. The Skylark, since it was taken under bond by a syndicate of Phoenix men, has fully held up its reputation of ten or twelve years ago, and has slready shipped three cars of fine ore. The. Last Chance is also shipping right ajong. , Other properties in the high grade belt thatr have been taken up and developed 'with good, results are the Helen, Barbara, Strathmore, Combination, and the Gold Bug and others will soon be in the same category. High grade mining has certainly been made a success in the Boundary, and Is an important, part of our industry. NEARLY 840,000 TONS. In giving figures of the tonnage out put of Boundary mines for the year 1904, it should be remembered that definite figures from all the mines cannot be obtained till a few days after the 1 st of the New Year. Accordingly, the following figures are subject to revision, but are believed to be approximate correct: Mine. Tons. Granby;Mines .............. 545,000 Brooklyh-Stemwinder'.'.'. ... 25,000 Rawhide ...... .......... 2,000 Mother Lode; ............198,000 Sunset.._.,. ................ 3,000 Emma . 38,000 Senator ..'............... 5i5oo Oro Denoro,............. 16,000 Mountain Rose .;. 1,800 Athelstan-Jackpot 4,500 High Grade mines 1.500 Miscellaneous shipments .... 750 Total for 1904... Estimated value., ��� ��� 839.95 0 $4,000,000 Particularly satisfactory has been the showing made by the high grade mines of the Boundary in 1904. Those that have made previous records in .values have improved upon them, while several have been added to the list, with a good prospect of remaining thereon. To ship carloads of $75, $roo, $150 or $200 ore is no uncommon thing with such mines as the Elkhorn, Providence, Skylark, E.P.U., Last Chance, etc. As it has been expressed, there has scarcely been a blank among the high grade mines during the past year, nearly every one of them turning out most satisfactorily. The Providence, which has held an : WORK OK THE SMELTERS. Ten furnaces are now in full blast in the three Boundary smelters, namely, six at' the Granby, two at the Mother Lode, and two at the Montreal & Boston. They are handling approximately 3,000 tons of ore daily, or about 90,000 tons per month, or at the rate of over 1,000,000 tons annually. This ore, figured at an average value of $5 per ton, is worth $5,000,- 000. The Granby smelter, has been running its battery of six furnaces almost steadily during the year, handling a considerable amount of custom ore beside the the company's ore from Phoenix. Roughly, this smelter is turning out a million and a half pounds of copper bars per month. The announcement h s been definitely made that in the next few months two more furnaces will be added, at a cost of some $125,000, giving a capacity of about 2,700 tons of ore daily when they are installed and in running order. At Greenwood, the I!. C. Copper Co.'s Mother Lode smelter has been operated steadily most of the year with its two furnaces, putting through'about 208,000 tons of ore. An important addition was made to this smelter when the two stands of copper converters were installed last summer, doing away with the necessity of sending away the copper matte for bessemeriz- ing. This has proved a great saving to the company, they also treating the copper matte f.r the Montreal & Boston and Trail smeiters. The an nouncement is made that this company will also increase its furnace capacity the coming year. The Montreal & Boston's Bonndary Falls smelter had its first furnace blown early in October, and its second about ten days ago, so that the run for 1904 has been short, a little over 30,000 tons of ore having been treated there in that time. Here, also, as at other smelters, it is said that the results have been most gratifying to the management. Before another six months rolls around there is every prospect that fifteen blast furnaces will be treating at least 4,000 tons or more of ore daily from Boundary's mines���as it is the intention of all the smelters to increase their respective capacities as soon as possible. The first two named smelters use electric power from Cascade to Popular Youni Peaple tailed Here Last Ties- day. A very pretty wedding was solemnized in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church last Tuesday, December 27th, by the Rev. E. W. C. MacColl, when Christie Anna Laurie, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Eraser, was married to Viberl Gerald Younghus- ! ���/'formerly of Phoenix but now of I in.C.-'-.uii, Alberta. .lomptly at twelve o'clock, the bridal patty entered the church. The bride who was escorted by her father, was attended by Miss Helen Morfa'tt as bridesmaid, and the Misses Irene and Jean Crawford as flower girls, while Abner Hillier acted as groomsman.: The bride was handsomely a'tired in a gown of white Japanese taffeta, trimmed with chiffon. Her veil of embroidered tulle was caught with a spray of orange blossoms, and she carried a shower boquet of cream tea roses The bridesmaid's gown was of bisque colored peau de soie, over green silk foundation, with touches of black velvet. The little flower girls wore charming frocks of white silk, and the attendants each carried boquats of white chrysanthemums and carnations. After, the ceremony a wedding break- last was partaken of at the home of the bride, on Granby place, when about 30 were present. Since this was the fust wedding solemnized in this church a bible was presented to the bride by the pastor. Owing'to the popularity of both the contracting parties the gifts received were numerous and costly. Mr. and Mrs. Ybunghusband left on the afternoon train for their future home,in Coleman. The bride's travelling costume was of a green homespun mixture, trimmed with green braid, and hat to match. SNOW IN PLENTY LITTLE WATER wi Another Warning: From tta Water Company. MOST SE8I0USH CURTAILS SUPPLY Consumers Must Re Careful About Waste, or Waler Will Be Cut oil W^^^t��� Drought Eliecl In the EsskA C�� f��� ��� ���A .V- NOT A BILL WAS PRESENTED. The City Council Appoints Isaac Crawlord Autitar. ; Mayor Ramberger and Alc$. Boyle, Bimie and Delahay were present at Wednesday's meeting of the city council, and remarkable to state, not a bill was presented for the city fathers to pay. A letter was read from McLeod & Brown, of Greenwood, on behalf of M. H. McQuarrie, threatening suit if damages were not forthcoming for the alleged closing of an alley in the lower part of the city, wich is crossed by the Great Northern. The city clerk was directed to reply that the railway company had agreed to give an exit to the lot in question. Adolph Circu addressed the council asking foi relief from the railway company for crossing Dominion avenue within a few feet of his barn, thereby endangering the property by fire, etc. The council, advised by the city solicit or, stated that the railway company was the proper party for him to apply to. Isaac Crawford was appointed city auditor at the same salary as last year, and it was decided to stir the water and light company up for not keeping the hydrants frrm freezing, and stating that in cold weather they should be examined daily. The Hunter-Kendrick Co. presented about 125 geese as Christmas presents to their [xitrons in the city. The third car shipped from the Skylark, which was sent to the Nelson Smelter, gave returns of $140 to the ton. ./.I...i!<1uii)./Si With the coming of winter, prVrbsd- by a little wet weather, the water" con sumeis of Phoenix may have received the impression that all danger of a water famine is ovei. Such, however, is far from the case, and the city will be indeed fortunate if the present supply in the lake lasts till the spring thaw sets in. This applies equally to the separate down town water system, the supply for which is already exceedingly low. * J. L. Martin, manager; of the light and water company, sends the following note of warning: Phoenix, B. C, Dec. 30/1904 To Residents of Phoenix: It is with the deepest concern that. a note of warning is again sounded in in Phoenix with'reference to the wasting of water. It will be four months before we can hope for a thaw that will be of any material benefit to the source of water supply. The drought has been the severest ever known, and the next four months has the additional element of frost to close up the water sources. In order to give all patrons a chance for water for domestic use, notice is hereby given that where water is found - running to waste, the tenant allowing such waste will be cut off without notice. We have a system of valves on the general mains and after Jan. 1 wc may have to cut the system into sections and allow each section water for two or three hours a day only. If strict economy is practiced this may not become necessary. Phoenix Electric ' " Lighting Co., LrD. The unprecedented dry season has evidently been universal, east and; west, as the following recent press dispatch regarding the direful effects of the water famine will show: Pittsburg, Dec. 28.���Drought long continued, has paralyzed the industries' of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio mills are closed, mines are unable to opeiate and pioperty worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is at the mercy of flames. So univeisal is the scaicity of water that many towns throught the s-ection are without sufficient water for domestic use. In Pittsburg dirty hands and faces are the vogue, for the city: au-- thorities have cut off the supply to all bathtubs. There scarcely is enough . to drink, and the water works has been, able to maintain only one day's supply ahead for the last week. The Edgar Thompson steel works at Bessemer have been ordered closed.' The scarcity in Irwin and vicinity is in its most serious stage and is costing- the coal companies thousands of dollars a day. Workmen familiar with the situation believe that the United States Steel corporation will order every furnace closed down within ten days unless rain falls. Latest Prices in Metals. Xkw Yohk���Copner, i-ieetrolvtid, 75;@$15.25; hikc.^lS.lL'.'.jfe 15 25 Bar .Silver, (il;,!j Lfiul, $4.00 ��t %\ 70. *ll. h i BOUNDARY ORE TONNAGE. The following table given tlie ore shipments of Uouwlarv unites for 1900, for 1901, for , aud 1904, as reported to the Phoenix Pioneer��� Summit 19,494 902, lor 1903, Granby Mines, Phoenix Snowshoe, " Brooklyn-Stem winder ��� Ktiwhide 'f Mother Lode, Deadwood Sunset, " Morrison, B. O. Mine, H. Bell, Emina, " Senator " Oro Denoro " Brev Fogle " No.'37 " Mountain Rose " Reliance Winnipeg, Wellington. Golden Crown, " lUhelstan-Jackpot" King Solomon, \V.Copper No. 7 Mine, Central (I City of Paria, " Jewel, Long Lake fy Carmi, West Fork Providence, Providence Elkhorn Skylurk Skylark- Last Chance ,, K. P. U and Goldfinch Ruby, Boundary Falls Miscellaneous Total, toiiis Granbv Smelter treated, G'wood M.&B. " " 1000 1901 64,533 231,762 297 5,340 1,731 150 99,034 802 47,405 650 1902 309,858 20,800 141.326 7,455 150 14,811 560 8,530 ���903 393,718 71,212 138,079 15.731 3,339 19,365 22,937 363 15,537 1904 544,160 24,603 1,94(1 198,416 3,003 37,660 3,358 16,389 222 364 1,717 33 Past Week 10,620 1,920 1,800 3,424 4 SO i 1,076 2.250 1,200 160 3,230 1,040 550 875 665 2,000 350 80 3.456 785 025 482 2,435 5,640 4,5S�� 890 219 325 - e m 993 400 1(57 726 325 60 25 291 99,730 390,000 507.545 684,461 62,387 230.828 312,340 401,921 818,320 579.905 208,420 30.930 18.244 SOT, 10,850 V'J '1 ���m Hi i i n f r ��� L Si" I > J THE PHOENIX PIONEER mfft M m lis II II P p,; People Notice the Difference when they change from some ordinary tea to ■ There's something about Blue Ribbon that no other tea has. That "something" is jnst quality, put there by methods of manufacture and blending, the most perfect yet devised. Try the Red Label and judge for yourself. Rootenay Engineering' WorKs .' "NELSON, B. G Pounders and Machinists. Repairing: and Jobbing a Specialty. Manufacturers for the Chavt.koud Doi'UIjK Koi-b Abbi.u. Tkamway System, Limitkd. Iron mid Brass Caotings. A large and complete stock made to order on Bhort notice. All (•lasses of work furnished upon appli- curload. B. C. TRAVIS, Manager, *• ° ^^Vc. Office and Works, Foot of Park Street, i ' t; ' The Phoenix Pioneer And Boundary Mining Journal. USOBD OK IATDBDAY3 »V TBB PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ATFWUKIX.B.C. W. •. WILLCOX. Manaqcn. Telephonu I Business office No. t«. I Huxngtr't residence, No. 15. •CUCaiPTIOMg IN ADVANCE. *erYe«r |,i00 81s Month* _ ,.,j II rou are sot > cubacriber to tbli piper, this ■ an InWtatlon to vou to become one. for the efforts he puts forth. Nine limes out of ten the same energy and effort in other walks of life would bring him many fold more returns. break all previous dary's output. records in Boun For the first time in years an equi librium has been struck between public expenditures and receipts in this province—due to the reform measures in stituted by the McBride government. AdrertUlni ralei lurnubed on application. t*gal notices 10 and 5 cents per line. Vour weekly Insertions constitute one month's •drerusln*;. ^ . |LABCL> 1904 DEC. 1904 Sal. Mil. Tuft. Was. Tk«. Fri. Sst. 1 2 " 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 it 12 *3 14 15 16 17 18 19 30 21 22 23 24 25 x6 27 28 29 30 3i There are well authenticated rumors that a mail service will shortly be put on between Phoenix and Greenwood direct, by stage. Now, if Duncan Ross, M. P.-elect, will secure some customs facilities for Phoenix it will be another mark to his credit. A valuation of $4,500,000 on Boundary's ore output foi 1904 does not look so badly. Potter Hros. iron squad on the Great Noithern were able to eat their Air Compressors : Rock Drills i THE CANADIAN RAND DRILL CO. D. J. MATHESON, INSURANCE ACBNT J FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDEn't. Commig»Ioner for UklnB. Ainu&rii, i>hoenix, b. « R. B. KERR, Barrister and Solicitor, - NOTARY PUBLIC."-— .-.,__ PHOENIX, B.c. SHAVING PARLOlgV^. and BATHROOM. Hotel Balmoral " Cor, Mrsl& Knob Hill Ave. I'HOENIX. H, 0 Christmas dinner in ticipated. Phoenix, as an- When the legislative assembly meets on the date definitely set—February 9th—a great deal of interest will centre on the deliberations of the members. Among the most important subjects to be considered is the railway policy, which it is said will be a progressive one. At this time ten blast furnaces in Boundary's three smelters are icduc- ing over 3,000 tons daily of Bouiidaiy ores. Some time in 1905 this should be increased at least 50 per cent. Farmers, Mechsnics, Sportsman! To heal and tofteu the skin and removegrcax oil and rust stains, paint and and earth, etc., use £!";. "Master Mechanic's" Tar Soap. Albert Toilet Soao Co. Mfrs Head Office and Works. '" SHERBROOKE, QUE. Hnuich Offices and Warehouses: ROSSLAND, GREENWOOD AND VANCOUVER, B.C. PROVINCIAL. RESOLVES FOR IM5. Tomorrow the year 1905 will be up- - on us, the sum total of 1904 years having passed since the commencement of the Christian era—since "Peace on earth, good will toward men" was first heard. Christmas has come and gone ' once more, and we are about to start upon another turn in^the whirl of time. On such an occasion it is fitting that we should look'forward,, and .that we should endeavor, to make and keep resolutions.that will make the. world the better for our being in it. The making of resolutions is one-thing, and the keeping of the same is another, but there never was a better time for starting out right. Here are a few suggest- tions in the line of resolves that may be worth while: Resolve that you will stand up for your own town or city, and be as public spirited as your neighber when matters of general public interest come up for consideiation. A long pull, and a strong pull and a pull altogether will accomplish,seeming wonders. Resolve that you will not be in the class of "knockers," the gentry that find it difficult to see any good in anything that does not orginate in their own narrow brains. Any man's country is better off without such people. Resolve that you will do your duty by your church and by your God. If you are not connected with a church of any kind, you are old enough to attend to it. You know this in the bottom of your heart. Resolve that you will be an optimist rather than a pessimist. A cheerful man will always find a welccme in this vale of tears, and can do much to lighten his labers and those of others with very little effort. Resolve that you will think twice be- before refusing to give deserving-aid Will some good Grit kindly explain the purity of politics in the Yukon? With everything in their own' hands for the election, the Liberals were turned down good and hard in the far north, which'is prima facie evidence that the people at large would not stand for Liberalism as exemplified in the Arctic circle. Seemingly, it is now, in order for the army of railway followers, who have been waiting for the announcement of the location of the Pacific terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific, to literally fold their tents and hie themselves to Port Simpson—that is,. If the announcement published has any foundation in fact. As there seems some probability of there being a contest in the forthcoming municipal election, it. will be the part of wisdom for, those ' desiring to vote to see that theii names'are on the city voters' list. Today is the last day on which names can be placed on that list. The-list itself, owing to the increased interest being taken in city matters, promises to be twice as long as that for the last city election. John Houston has certainly succeeded in stirring up politics in his old stamping ground by announcing himself as a candidate for mayor. John has the knack of making enemies about as easily as any-man, and yet, without going into the merits of the question, from the vantage point of disinterested observers, there are,many who think he will be Nelson's next mayor. The Grand Forks Sun is a bright February 9th is the date finally set for the meeting of.the legislative assembly. It is said that the B. C. Telephone Co. will shortly begin the installation of an exchange at Fernie. The meeting of the British Columbia Live Stock Association is called for January 4th, at Kamloops. Every newspaper in the Okanagan is raising its voice, in cold type, against the tri-weekly service now being given that section by the C.P.R. The new Great Northern S. S. Minnesota has arrived at Victoria'on her maiden voyage to the Orient. The vessel is 630 feet long, capacity 28,000 tons freight and 2,000 passengers. She will sail January 21. A commission to enquire into the operations of the Provincial Assess ment Act has been appointed, consisting of the president of the council, the minister of finance, J. 13untzen of Vancouver, and D. R. Ker, of Victoria. A cablegram has been received from Hon. J. H. Turner, agent-general in London, England, stating that at the Royal Horticultural show of colonial fruits, held in Vincent Square, Westminister, the society's gold medal, the highest granted, was awarded to British Columbia fruit. Be Quick. Not a minute should be lost when a child shows symptoms of croup. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appeals, will prevent the attack. It never fails and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all druggists. Holiday-Midwinter Issue OF THE PHOENIX PIONEER. \ LINGERING COLD. tbstood Other Treatment But Quickly Cored by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. "Last winter I caught a severe cold which lingered for weeks," says J. Urquhart, of Zephyr, Ontario. _ "My cough was very dry and harsh. The local dealer recommended Chamber- lam's Cough Remedy and guaranteed it, so I gave it a trial. One 25 cent bottle of it cured me. I believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be the best I have ever used." This is one Preparation? are now being made for the publication of the Holiday Issue of the Pioneer. It is the intention to make the 4 number even more than last winter's issue ' met with such a hearty 1 all over the Boundary, and to . that end we invite the co-oper. T ation of every business and min- * ing man in Phoenix. The more liberally it is patronized, the better it will be. , This number will be profusely illustrated with half-tone' engravings of mining scenes, business 1 houses, etc. Sufferers from sciatica should not hesitate to use ^Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The prompt relief from pain which it affords is alone worth 'many times its cost. Sold by all druggists. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OVER four Million Dollars - Great strength, long experience and thorough, equipment, enables this bank to offer prompt and efficient] service in every branch-of the Banking Business. 3 per cent interest on Savings Accounts. Eastern Townships Bank ESTAIIMSHKU 1859 KinsEdwardLod$e,No;36 A. F.aml A. M. tt«ularcoiuiiiuiiieatfou8b „. -„ limes-gem niectlniu «,,.il i°- Hall: Mcllale lS5j;.,c,ll(<|: ««*«. A.HI&UKR, HcircUrv. 0«o.«;DKy w.ai. I- P. O. F. - SNOWSHOKI.OM^t Meela every Mouday Kvcl,|„_ ,, „ . Nulling l.relheriicottll.IlylStl.rd. r"'" A. S.WII!lan,«<in. N „ Wm. Delahay, ].er. Wo. «,cr. 1*»0KNIX Auit NO. IM. l-'nlou mil. ' vliillu. brttlit.i, cordlaUy^miVX' DAN DO'KSTKADKB. Ire.. M.H.'ioY.i*, MINERAL ACT. Certificate of Improvements. THE DAVENPORT Light Locomotives For All Purposes. S For mines, inside or outside service, for ' Logging Koiids, for contractors. Con^ nnirfc rioiivnr,. f„n.. „„ . venient to operate, quick and powerful, DAVENPORT LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, Davenport, Iowa. , These engines niky be s.-en in service at the mines of (iranby Co.. Phoenix, B. C. little paper, and contains some excellent of the mo&t staPle medicines in use articles. At least, that is what people 11™°™** ^ tCStified t0 ilS 'excel- say who read the articles as originally NOTICE. " Summit, Mayflower, Hopewell, Ealsam Fractional, Cabot lracllonal and Mayflower Fractional Mineral claims, situate In. the Greenwood Mining Division of Vale District. Where located—in Summit camp Talcp Notice that I, Isaac II: Ilallett, as agent for Doimald Mclimis, Free Miner's Certificate No. B74591; George W. Kumberxer, Free Miner's Certificate No. B805.U; and Thomas Roderick. Free Miner's Certificate No H8O401, intend, sixty days trom the date hereof, to apply to the Minlns Recorder for certificates of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining Crown Grants for the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Cer tlficates of Improvements. Dated this39th day of September, A. D. 1904. -6— I. H. HALLETT. Latest Mining Stock Quotations SHOtyTlME UNION PACIFIC ONLY LINE EAST VIA Salt }Lake ai,dj Denver. "Two Trains Daily. 8U>anmliip ticket* to Europe and oilier foreixn countries. Leaven 'Daily Spokane Time Schedule. Effective Nov. n 1903 Arrirc Daily PHOENIX MARKET. P. Burns & Co. HEAD OFFICE FOR BOUNDAKY CREEK, GREENWOOD, |). C. ( :'->";^. ' . HEADQUARTERS, NELSON, D. C. ' "-* ; ',1::V" — Bfliolesdie and Ml IM (totalis. Markets at Nelson, Kaslo, Three Forks, Sandon, Slocan City Silverton, New Denver, Ymir, Salmo, Rossland, Trail, Cascade, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway, Eholt and Phoenix FISH, OYSTERS,AND POULTRY IN SEASON. AH orders receive prompt attention. ' ■ •••••••••••,••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• -9-m-9-9-+-m-9 • » m •»-»-»-4- printed in the Phoenix Pioneer. Then it also prints the table of weekly ore shipments from Boundary mines which also appears first in the Pioneer. Evidently the Sun man knows a good thing when he sees it. Cures Cold* In Ons Hour. Many cold cures are dangerous because composed of deadening opiates. But fragiant healing Catarrhozone cures colds in one hour and is both ,,.. . , " . °\" ~ o —— harmless and delightful to use Even Ihe wisdom o g,v,ng a cup of cold the worst cold^ sneezing sniffeling It not only cures a cold quick ly and effectually but counteracts any tendency towards pneumonia. It is equally valuable tor children and may be given to them with with implicit confidence. It always cures and is pleasant to take. There is no danger in giving it to children for it contains no opium or other harmful drug. Sold by all druggists. water has been illustrated thousands of times outside of holy writ. Resolve that you will give a "square deal" to every person with whom you have to do. This is not only good policy—it is good sense. Resolve that you will not forget the old folks at home, no matter how far away they may be. Father, mother, sister or brother will appreciate a letter or rememberance, be it ever so small. Effort ofthis'kind pays the biggest kind of interest. Resolve that you will bear and forbear. Not one of us has yet obtained a monopoly on wisdom. We all make mistakes. Put yourself in the place of others, and act accordingly. ■ Finally, resolve that you will not forget the publisher of your local pa|>er when your subscription expires. If he is the right sort of a man in your community, he is working for you night and day through the power of his ty|>es. His reward is meagre at best! colds with running eyes are stopped very quickly when the balsamic vapor of Catarrhozone is inhaled. Catarrh- ozone acts like a charm on colds, kills them outright, prevents their return a few hours later. For colds, catarrh and throat trouble use only Catarrhozone. Complete outfij $1.00 trial size 25c, at all diuggists. NOTED IN PASSING. Don't forget hereafter 1905- to write it Togo is going after the Baitic and something will happen. fleet, j STRICTLY BUSINESS One good ad demands another. . It pays to tell what you have to sell. A close margin is likely to make a close friend. Nil desperandum is the advertiser's best motto. The wise advertiser recognizes no competitors—in his ads. Clean adveitising attracts clean people with clean money. Don't'put off till tomorrow the advertising that should be done today. American Boy Hen Hur Black Tail B. C. Copper Canadian Gold Fields Cariboo, Carup-McK (ex- Center Star Crow's Nest Pass Coal.. Denoro Mines I Kaimerr Kislier Maiden I fjialit _ firanby Consolidated International Coal Juno Morning (ilory Mountain r.ioit Montrent & Bo«tou North Star, (JJ. K.) Payne Quilp Kambler-Cnriboo San Poll Sullivan St Eugene Tom Tliumli War Eagle Consolidated Waterloo (Ass Paid) White Bear DRINK Phoenix Beer Made from the BEST MALT and PUREST SPRING WATER, it is unexcelled for quality. Ask for PHOENIX BEER and insist on having it. . • - PHOENIX BREWERY, J. MUELLER, Proprietor. 1 1 ? f i Standard Avii. and Banner Si PHOENIX, B.C. Gait Coal | Hay, Gmin, MSa.m. FAST MAO-To and rrom Coeur d'Alene dlitrfcl, Farm- Inglon Garfield Colfji. Pullman, •Moacow, •Ponieroy. Waitibuir. Uaytou, W » 11 a walli. Pend eton. Baker City and all point* Kasl »;m «:30 p. 111. HXPHHSS-For Farmliigloii . 9.*rneld- Coift". Pullmaii ; ;. Moacow,r.c«lM0n,Portland i", "[ f San PranciKo, Jiaker City ?i.r /3JM5P*I¥S—*«**-■" point! ' k Kail, K.kerClty, San Prmi. cl«co, Portland, Colfax, Oar- «Kxccptsu^d.rdl',rm",,:,on" ••""'"•" " SHORT LINK TO CALIPOKNU. Kan Frnncigco-l'ortlaiid Koute. Steamer* sal! from Alntworth doci,'''Portland, « 8 p. »i. a„d from Spear Street what f, SanFran. ciaco, at 101. in. every five dayi. Ticket* 011 sale at all S. F. fc N. Slatlom. For furtlier information a« to ratea, tiraei trains, equlpiiieiit.etc.addrcM^ ' vCKO. J. MOlli.KK.General Agent. Biveralde Are.. Spokane, Waib Spokane Falls ~""£~~":: Northern Ry. The only all rail route lietween pointt east, west and south lo Roealand.'Nelson, Grand Forks and Republic. Buffet cars run between Spokane and Northport. ^'' r "v EKKliCTIVKjtJNEu.nioj. .'teare. }t , /.rrl?e '■■4S am „...„^.8pok«tte..„.„„ 6:15 p. b. !*>?>*• »" *».koai.tatid..,......-....:....<:3S P»- J;*> a. m.„ i.„Neli9a „.....■ ;.»o p. a. lo:«a. 111 Grand Porka..: 4:0s P. a- *»»■» Republic :.. 6:rjp.m. Save Time air the time BY USING delivered to any part of the city. Oats, Wheat, Fked.etc. I-arge stock. __*f ^Good_Dry Wood. & PALACE LIVERY"STArTrT McIntyre & Mcdonald, Pt0ps. Knob Hill Ave, ^uS" Phoenix, B. C. It is now time to make your good resolutions, and—keep them. It now has the appearance of a contest in the approaching municipal election. The last week in 1904 promises to A Man Hates Himself When he wakes up with a headache and bad taste in the mouth. Something is needed to settle the stomach, clear away the dull heavy feeling and create a little appetite. Just get a tumbler of water, some sugar, and pour in a stiff dose ofNerviIine. You'll pick up immediately and feel tip-top in a few minutes. Nerviline' hasn't an equal for a condition of this kind. It stimulates, cures the headache, relieves the sick feeling and fits you for a hard day's work. Try Nerviline. Large bottles costs 25c. The New .and Enlarged Edition Contains 25,000 New Words New Gazetteer of the World with more thnn 25,000 titles, based on the latest censuo returns. New Biographical Dictionary, containing the names of over 10.000 noted persons, date of blrtb, death, cto, Bditod tar W. 0". HAKKIS, Ph.D.,'LI..D., j UiiitcastatesCommlssJonorofEducation. 238© Quarto Pages , iowri.ie*. «K»lllulr»tloiM. Klch Blndlna* jj n Needed inEveryHomei m**.^ Alw Webster'*"Collegiate Dictionary with xiiOPages. 1400Ilimtrauon*. Sae-.jKioxs^iia. A Special Thin Paper Edition De Luxe j l»l'r">tnJ/romllio«<imoBUu« m rcgnlir «Mlon. It las I Imp covert nni roundcorpora. SlwdfiiOJjilM In. ' I FREE, " A Teat in Pronunciation," lnstruc- tuxj uml entertaining. Also illustrated pamphlets. G. 6 C. ME.R.RXAM CO., Publisher*. Springfield, Mas*. «Ml»anWMM«MuuuimM»iMu»M.m^^1miTwt, • Matlieson & 'Brown. Props. Everything New ™»Sfis 'AND 0THER rigs ^BamJIKSgSBa^J^^O^ES AND SADDLES. SEVERAL HUNDRED CORDS OF DRY WOOD Delivered to any part of the city * ' Entire Outfit New and Up-to-date. A1 share of-the public '' ' patronage solicited. 'Phone™. - :Wr-, DOMINION AVE., COR. BANNER ST., PHOENIX, B. C. To Seattle, Tacoma, AND ALL PACIFIC COAST POINTS. Sit Paul, Chicago, AND ALL POINTS EAST. Palacq and Touriat Sleepers, Buffet Liorary Cars, Modern duy Coaches, Dining Cars, grealii a L» Carte.; ;Be8t|Mpafo oa Wheels. 2 Past Trains Daily 2 EAST AND WKST. . For ratea and folders and full inform*- tion regarding trips call on or adtlrrt* any agent of the 8. F. & N. Railway or WANTED.—MEN AND WOMEN WITH common-school education, that nrc tired of working'for small wascs. to qualify ns salaried ad writers or show-card ■nrftcrn tlirouffh our lnstruotio-i by mail. Prices low; terms oasj: no books to buy. Send for circular, itntlnc whore yon saw this ad and which position you want IWTKRNATIOMAI. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS Bcranton, Pa. Phoei nix Bakery, Phoenlrstreet. •Phone53, We make goodjjread, Try it, ....C. W. GREER, PaowiiBToa H. A. Jackson, Q.F.&P.A., Spokane, Wash. H. Bkandt, C. P. &T..\A., 701 W. Kivefflide, Spoksnef Wn. it f,v«|M4.;<-'. ' Men and'wfetneri nrthis county and adjoining territories, to represent and advertise an old established house of' solid financial standing. Salary to men $21 weekly, to women $12 to $ig weekly with expenses advanced each Monday by check direct from head-. quarters. Horse and buggy furnished when necessary; position permanent. Address, Blew Bros. &Xo., -Dept. A' Monon Bldg., Chicago, III. ^v > ■\ H ! k -VTV>- ,-, -■f -T-.VrT^T^-ftT'" i- * ■ 1 1 1 " ' * 1 rt-j&sSm ��� SB *^ ���*" ����� ��!W, "*4si ���-������. '"M '.-���*w ."��}*? i^.-sa f ��� ��'5"ri f�� ;v**j!gS r "iSBT* k *"*#3S^ S':J3��& J^^^B tSS -*-* ciKsSw ��� c. raB ^ 'KrS $'. c. o*S 36 1 :*W 8if- ' ^**��8H KlOi I -�� "VftS ��� 'sV8s 'Y.T^sS 4. i"W "r >-' $l3a�� {Sffl ���*'. ���'������Ms in -J^HSSB -fcfiE��i t I * UHBiBHOENIX JPJONEER unro Contractor and Bailder. ,,.-���' o o o o Jobbing Promptly Attended to, Full Line of Hard Woods. Shop on .Dominion Avenue SIocm'* D.Tidw* U*t. The following shows the Slocaii ���mines that have declared dividends and the amount of each, to 1905, ��js printed in the Sandon Standard, and compiled by E. R. Sandilands, ol COPPER The neweduion of tlioCOPPKIt HANDBOOK Hat* ami ileseiibes 3.3U cop- permiiies and copper iriiiiinifcoiripniiifB, in nil parin of tliu wuihl, roveriiij; the ulobe, lliet^O<lt>Bcri|)tiotia ranuiii^ from two linen to 12 pngMin length, aeeonlitii: to importance of the mines. The tleHcriptiotiH arc not {iiidded, but frivo facts in llir mootcondutmeiJ and Ket-al-ahle form. There �����** alsufifteenmiscellaneous ehiipterH, devoted to (lie Histoir, U*"g Terminology, Geography, Geology, Cliemiftry, Minurnl��K,v, Metallurgy, Finances unil Stntlftics of CoppVr, render rig the .volume a veritalileeiii'velo|��ptlia of the mi Inject of Copper Mill everything pertaining to the metal." It It the World's'Standard Reference Book on Copper. Every Miner, I'roppeetor, Inwstor, Hanker, ami Hrokcr need* Lit** b'H.k. Price .in |5 in. Buckram hiwlins with gilt top, or $7.50 in full library morrbrai, and the book, IneitliiT himllnir, will he Hunt, fullv prepaid, 011 approval, Uianv nidlroiH in the world, to be paid fur if found Hiitinfuctory, or may relumed within a week01 re. reiptaiil llieeliitrue eaiiwlle.d. Addre1)" the'Author and I'ubliidier, ���';,��� '.p. HORACE J; STEVENS, 36 Post Office Block, Houghton, Mich., U. S. A. mm RAILROAD Sandon: Payne. Slocan Star.... .'. Idaho ........'. .. Reco Rambler-Cariboo.., Last Chance.. Whitewater....... Ruth.....;.;.... Sunset......!.,, ,���. Noble Five..... Goodenough...... Washington....... Monitor.......'..'. Queen Hess...',. Jackson Surprise. Hosun. Amoine........ . Grand total .'. 1,420,000 575.9��'�� 400/) 00 287,500 220,000 213, IOt) 208,000 125,600 66,000 ��� 50,000 45.18? 38,000 :27ipOP 25,000 20,000 20,000 12,000 10,000 . .$ 4,763,297 Ben Remedy lor Coiellattloi. "The finest remedy for constipation I ever used is Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets," says Mr. Eh Butler, of. Frankville, N. Y. "They act gently and, without any unpleasent effect, and leave the bowels in a perfectly natural condition." Sold by all druggists. The Most Delightful Way To Cross The Continent 1' lough Suit Lake City, Glcnwood Springs, UMtlville, Pui> ��!�����, Colorado Springs and Denver. A Daylight Mde Through Nature's Art Gallery Passing Castle Gale, Canon of The Grand, Tennessee Pass, Marshal Pass and the Royal Gorge. ^ Post Trains Daily Bet, Ogden and Denver 3 , Equipment and Service Second to None 'SEEK NO FURTHER, FOR BETTER CAN'T 13E FOUND. Sl'silloasaiCoelct Waited. Man and wife would like to sei'Ute situations as rooks in mine lioaidin^ house, or something similar. Address, Mks. M. J. Lucy, Greenwood, li. C. For Detailed Information, address W. C.McBRIDE, General Agent. 124Third Street. PORTLAND, OREGON. Do, You Want to Save $25 in Duty? . .Then buy the. . OLIVER TYPEWRITER Made in Canada.. A Standard Visible Writer. which gives Perfect Work in theshortett : time with the greatest ease of operation. Write for Catalogue. , PIONEER PUB. CO., Agents. Phoenix, B. C. Bakery for Sale The undersigned offers his bakery for sale IN PHOENIX consisting of bakeshop, with bake oven 8 x 10 feet, good living rooms and sale room. Trarje about .2,000 loaves per week. For full particulars apply to C.W.GREER, Box 57. Phoenix,B>C; ' 1 Corporation of the Qty of Phoenix. Municipal; Elections IW5 OFlfcl* to our Subscribers. !;-: BOTH NEW AND OLD. Phoenix Pioneer and Toronto ; Globe (daily) both for One J ^ijrear.;. .....T:7: ,....:���.. ----- Phoenix Pioneer and Toronto Globe, (weekly) both for One year ............���.-.���..--.--- - Phoenix Pioneer and Montreal : Daily Herald, both for One _���.. /iiicludliiR Hnndsome I'ortrnifV ytJar ^ofKliigEdw*rd, I7XJJ luclies.^-- Phoenix Pioneer and New York World, Thrice-a week, both for one year Phoenix Pioneer and Montreal >���' Family Herald and Weekly Star, both one year.������ ��� Subscriptions received to all Magazines and Periodi-" cals at publishers lowest, rates. Voters' Lists. Send[all subscriptions to this office. PHOENIX PIONEER, PHOENIX, B.C. !*2rayrPIKJENIX PKMEEf ? ���:> And Bbtfndasry Mining Journal, , You'll have no trouble in keeping posted on B undary Mining Matters. pimply serida$2 bill for year's trial to Pioneer Pub. Co., Phoenix, B. The following persons are entitled to have their names placed ou the Voters' Lists for the Municipal Elections for the year 5905, for Mayor. Aldermen and School Trustees of the City 61 Phoenix. j Any male or female, being a British subject of the full age of twenty-one years who < I ��� 1. Is the owner of real estate of the assessed valueofnot less than one hundred dollars, or ! 1. Is the representative, beiue a resident British subject duly authorized by the directors of ail incorporated company, which is the assessed owner oflauds, orofimprovemtiits ol lands situate within Ihemunicipality, or ' "- ! 3 Is the holder of a trades licruse, the annual fee of which is not less than Svcdollais, or' 4. Is a householder, who has paid on or before the 31st day of Dicember in the year immediate' ly prior to the day of the nomination, all municipal rates, taxes, assessment rentals, aud license fees, which are hot chargeable on and payable by him or her to the municipality. Provided, however that in the case of the holder ofa traies llreuse or in ihecaseo'a housholder; he or she shall, during the mouth of December! in each year, make aud cause to be delivered to the City Clerk, a statutory declaration set out in Scciou 2 of Die Municipal Elections Act Amendment Act 1892. forms of the said declaration may be obtained at the office of the City Clerk at the city offices, Phoenix, B.C. D.J MATKESON, City Clerk. The Be G Assay *** Chemical Supply Co., Ltd. VANCOUVER. B. C Direct Importers of Assayers' Supplies. Sole Aiients in B. C. for the well-known Battersea Crucibles, Scorifiere. Mtiftlee, etc. Selling agents for the F. \V. Braun Co'a Specialties Cary Furnaces, Burnere; etc. Mercks' Pure Chemicals, Assay Ma-: tior Platinum, Quicksilver, C. P. Acide,1 Borax GIiish and all Heavy Chemicals.1 Specialty���Silver Free Lead ��nd llthirgo. j Complete Assay Outfits furnished at short notice.. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Slocan ore shipments for the year will exceed 13,000 tons. Two copper furnaces ' are now i). operation at the Trail s nelter. The Gibson, on the south loik ol Kaslo creek, is to j.iin the-shi'iipiii. '���*�����'' ' ���:'-.- ,i. Rossland's pre ahipinents last week Were 5,868 tons, or 338,844 tuns f r the year. . Novembers payroll for the Cro��'s Nest Pa��s Coal Co., fOrtlie three col- leries, was $126,842.55. For the year the Arlington, at Kiie, has made a n-.t profit overall ex|iense- and development of $14,666. A find of ten feet of clean ore was recently made at the soo-foot level el the Foghorn mine in Ymir distiict. Kossland mines are jiroduciiiR near ly 1,000 tons of ore a day, and Boundary mines are producing about 3,060 lonsdaily, Suit over the.I.ucky Jack mine, at Poplar, has been 'tilled among the contestants. The mine will be started up and a stamp mill erected. The Gieat Northern isaflerthe Slocan zinc outpu1 and. interesting complications with the (J.P.k. ii'ay be looked for in t!ie near luiuie. .rMeasutes ate iir |)i(>yres> t�� inc'or- poiate the Crawford Hay lion .Mine- I'otnpany, to operate the claims owneo by Messrs. McMillan & Robinson. With the reient payment of $25,000 in dividends by the Sloe in Star mine in the Slocan, over $400,000 have been thus disitihutcd by li. C. mines this year. Preparations have already been staited in Kossland for the putting in of more machinery of a tjpe bettei suited to the ore in the Kossland Power Company's mill at Trail. The recent find on the i,45o-foot level of the Le Roi is said to be turning out better than was at first expected. The outlook now is that it will develop into an ore shoot of considerable magnitude. The output of the Slocan, not i.ounting the zinc, will .rather fall behind that of last year. But taking in the zinc output the total ore production of theSlocan' will be found to be greater in 1904 than in 1903. �� CURED BCTE#IMA, Pe-ru-na Is a Catarrhal Tonic . Especially Adapted to the Declining Powers of Old Age. In old ago the mucous membranes become thickened and partly lose their 'function," ���: This loads to partial loss of hearing, smell'and taste, as Well as digestive tile- ���turbaneotf, l( ���'���..''���������.'��� ';;. ..'���../���'���;- Pcruna corrocta all this by Its spacl/lo operation on all the mucous membranes of the body.'.:--'' ;���'���. '���.'. One botlle Will convlnco anyone. Onco: used and Peruna becomes a life-long itand-by with old and young. ��� \ If Vm Oet't Sleei Well It's because your nerves are in a weak, irritable condition. Ferrozone Will make them strong, and correct the trouble causing yon insomnia. "I fell into a state of nervous exhaustion last fall," writes Mrs. J*. Stroud, of Dexter. "I was run down, couldn't sleep and felt.perfectly vmiserable,���ttied Ferrc- zohe and -was quickly benefited, can recommend Ferrozone to anyone suffering from over-wrought nerves and sleeplessness." -No tonic is better, try Ferrozone. Price5.50c. at druggists. Strong and Vigorous at the Age or Eighty-eight now J.K. Porker,Utica,N. Y., writes: "Tn Juno, 1D01,1 lost my sense of hoar- :j entirely. I.Iy hearing had been unowhat irapafrcd for coveral years, i:t not bo wucli ofTcctcd but Uiatl could .old convorso -wiih my frlondr.; butlti 'unc, 1001, my senso of, hearing left mo > that I could hear no gouucI y/hatover. f was dso troubled with'rheumatic pains i my Km!;:;. I commoneed taking Po- :::ta and liov,'my hearing Is restored as ^ood as it v.'as prior to Juno, 1001. Jly ilietimaHopalna cro all rjone. I cannot epe^k too highly of Pcrumi, r.ad now I Ohio. ���whtm 88 years old can say it has lnvglor- a ted my whole system. I cannot but think, dear Doctor, that you must fool very thankful to tho all loving Father that you have been permitted to llvo, arid by your: skill' bo" such a blessing as you have boon to suffering humanity." ���Rev. J. N. Parker. .. -.,. ��� A Clshop's Letter. ., T. H. Lomax, D. D��� jDlshop 2nd DIst. A. JI. C.;1 of Ch��TlpittS),:N.' 6., writes": ? '��� ,.. "I recommend your Pcruna to all who ���want a strengthening tonic and a very effective .remedy for all catarrhal eom- X>laints."���T. II. Lomax. ;' If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from! tho use'of'Perunai writo at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will bo pleased to give you his valuable ad- vico gratis. Address Dr. Ilartmau, President of Tho Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 4����������������������������������������������������� ! Phoenix- I Greenwood ��� Leave Phoenix - 9.30 a. in." ��� Leave Greenwood ''..36 p. m.j astern Excursions from Phoenix $84.00 Toronto or^Montreal and return: ���3 Months' Limit. - Corresponding rates to all Eastern points from all Kootcnay stations. For tickets First-class or Touribt Sleeper 'reservation*; or further partic- ulars apply to local agents or writt- > F.. J. COYI E J. S. CARTER, D.P.A., Nelson. A. G.l'.A., Vancouver MINERAL ACT. Certificate of Improvements. Notice. Setli and Jerry Hitrrul Claims, mtunle in tlie tirctn��oo .Milling Division of Vale District. Wliere located, tu I.oiiu Liiko camp ,. r t'ske notice tlitil, I, Albert K. Aklicroft act- inj;��s age'it for tlie Jewel (iold .Miuesi I.iinilnl, l'rce Miner's Certificate No. 1(85,647. intend, llxty days from tlie date litucf, to apply to the Miniiii; Kccorder for a Certifrate ollinprove- nieiUs, for the purpose of otln'umg a Crowi' (Jrnnt of tlienboveclanu. And furtlier take notice that act.ci. under section 37,must be commenced before the i-simncecl ���uch Certificate of lniproveniciits. Dated tliU 15th day of August, 1904, ALDhKT H. ASIICROI'T. P I.. S Furnished Rooms b�� Day, Week or Month. Transient Trade Solicited. (Open al| night. HOTEL HAVANA 510 Front A\enue, ^nnlrano Hone Main 18(19. OpOKaue. Standard Time.. t Leave Greenwood Prompt Attention to Express and Freight. J.,'S; McCAGUE, Proprietor. �������������������������������������������������� ������^ i We do the kind you want, but which you rarely see ��� the kind that is Neat, Clean, Original and Effective. This the only completely equipped Printing establishment in the Boundary occupying its own building. Can we print for you ? ; SPOKANE MEN AFTER BOUNDARY MINE Tartu! J. H. P*x They Try to Buy Golden .Eoile M.Keltle River. Spokane capitalists ���' have made an Effort through J. H.^Fox, of that city, for the purchase of .the Golden Eagie mine, a high grade property east of Volcanic mountain, on the, north fork of Kettle river. Alex.Sharpe of Vancouver and S. Moulton Barrett of Greet.wood are interested with Fox in the deal as venders. The Golden Eagle has been developed to a stage which will allow steady shipments. The main shaft is down 162 feet, and there are a uumber o( diifts. Four years ago the Golden Eagle shipped a little ore, then, when the slump came in the Bonndary, it was closed down and has so remained. The Spokane men contemplate opening it. An interesting incident is recorded in connection with the meeting of Fox and Barrett to discuss the Spokane pioposa!. About.a yeai ago the former had the peculiar sensation of reading his, obituaiy in the press. Mr. Barrett had not seen him since and congratulated him. on his resurrection. Mr. Barrett, himself, in the Greenwood papers a year ago, paid Mr. Fox a high tribute, believing him dead. Hospital Donations Li^t of Donations received since Jan. 1st, 1904, to the Phoenix General Hospital : Cash Jioo ....("lenient S. llouyhtoti. Boston Cash $.s 00 ;... A Friend Cash fc.co A Friend Sldse. $13.00 A Friend Cash $5.00 ...J.J. Btrutzel Kraciure Bed aud FurnUure.value $60...A Friend Cash J50 T. Eaton & Co., Toronto Linen .'. Mrs. I Orawfon Chinaware Misses Crawford C1* I' $25 Canadian Rand Drill Co CashJSo Hospital Staff Landscape Garden Mrs. R. B. Kerr H Crate Strawberries J. II. Pe'ers Syrup A Friend Cash $5.00 M. Mullin Cash $3.00 ...��� _ A Friend 1 doz. Bed Spreads A Friend Pair Crutches... ;..... George Chaplain Granite Tea Pot ...Morrin, Thompson &.Co. Magazines W. S. M'acy Vegetables Mrs. .1. li. Mills Crate Strawberries _ Mrs W. S. .Vacy Cash $1.00 per mouth V. & N.Telephone Co. Crate Strawberries ..: Mr. W.S. Macy Cash, $60.00 ���. Bachelors Dance Cash. $5.00 Robt Horrcll Jar Strawberry Jam Mrs. Win. Fraser '2 Cases Crab Apples W. s. Macy Cash $5.00 .-..A Friend Cashfii .....P. Burns d I'o Bedside Tables, $10 -lark .t Kiuns Invalid chair : Mrs. Hilda Smith Wall nave- for sitting rrom -Mrs. J. II. Bovle Supplies... ��� ....Mrs W I. Germaine Poultry Mr,s. Win. Delnhav Turkey 1'. Bums & Co. Plum Pudding and Old lied Liu< nMrs I Crawford If You're Interested - IN THE - Mines of the Boundary You should read the. Phoenix ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� Jpri SANITARIUM, Arrow Lake, B.C. The mobt perfecty appoint?? c th uiul Pleasure Resort m the Webt.-vrith a nlctesystem of Hnths���including Turkish an I Uusstau. Open the year round. Tlie curative properties of its wnters are uncqunled. Kor Curing all Rheumatic. Nervoui and Muscular Troubles. For Healing all Kidney, Liver and Stomach ailments. Kor Klimiuntni��aU MetnllicPoiSaiis from the System The grandeur of the scenery is unrivaled Mountains,snow penks, forests,Iakes,WBtei falls boating, yachting, fulling, shooting, excursion, tennis. Its winter climate is uusin passed trr n. d. Pioneer JIM CITY SCAVENGER Leave Orders at City Clerk's Office. *** PHOENIX, B G. And Boundary Mining Journal, Replete with the Latest and Freshest News of Boundary's Mines and Smelters. $2.00 per year. $1.25 six months. Si All Work Guaranteed. Imported Goods. FINE BOOTS AND SHOES MADE TO ORDER. PRACTICAL MINERS' AND PROS PECTORS'SHOES A SPECIALTY. Shop on nonunion Avenue. Grand Forks, Phoenix and Greenwood ADDRESS: DeafMSf Unsol Be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the Jlseascil portion of the ear. Theie isoiilyonc way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an infiamtd ��� mditibrj of the mucousliiriuK of the Kustachian Tube. When this tube, iujuflnuied you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation ca'n be taken out and this tube restored toils normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, Which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundrefl Dollars for any case ofDeafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catanh Cure. Send forcircnlars free. F. J. CHENEV& CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold,by druggists, 75c Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. PIONEER PUBLISHING CO., Phoenix B. C. Every Physician Knows About the great merit of Dr. Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut lyhich cleanse the system, cure constipation and piles. Use only Dr. Hamilton's Pills. Price 25c. THE MILWAUKEE A familiar name for tlie Cliiuts;", Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, known all over the Union, as the Great Railway running the-"Pioneer Limited" trains every day and night between St. Paul and Cliicaito, ami Omaha am! Chicago, "The only perfect trains in the woil 1." Understand: Connection3: are made with All Transcontinental lines, assuring to passengers the best service known. Luxurious coaches, electric, lights, steam heat, of a verity equaled by no other line. See that your ticket reads via "The Milwaukee" when going to any point in the United States or Canada. All ticke- agents sell them. For rates, piiinphlets or other information, address, R. L. Ford, H. S. Rowe, Trav.Pasb. Agt., SPOKANK, WN. General Ageu , PORTLAND OR FOR BARGAINS go to the GRAN BY EXCHANGE. We are or will sell en bloc. Pioneer Publishing Co., PHOENIX, B. C. ���������Cll<l����itttl��ll9(��tt��l( in fa (ollie Kennels STAGE J. y.ROYKR. : LINE. ; : Proprieto. Itegimitnj; Itiue 1st, leave (tieentvocK. at 6n.m and Phoenix nt 7:30 11,111 ; arrive nt Grand Kork.-' 10:3011. in..leave (Jrniid Vor'-s^:.^ p. m.,arriving at IMiocnix 7 p. in., awl Greenwood at S. p.m. Connects both ways with Crent Norl Ji?rii iraiiM Hare���Grand Korku to Phoenix, $j5o; Phoenix to Greenwood,50c; tiieenwood to l'lioemx, $r.oi, Greewoot! to Ginnd 1'oiks, $3.' Office in Green wood.lJt. Noriheiu Telegraph otlice. In I*hoe- nix. McKac Ilros. & Smith. In Grand Forks Gl. Norther offices. Kor express ratrs. uquire tt citner otfice. THE HOME OK High-Ooss We make a specialty of breeding the best working strains for sheep-men and sell at reasonable prices. Our Collies give satisfaction to flock masters everywhere. Write us your wants. Thos. S. Griffith, P. 0. Box 1907. Spokane, Wash. eoeeeea.oaeoeoeeeeeeoooooao Please cul outo.it and paste at front of Phone book. Twice 11 are 22. and 1123 is the 'I'horc (local or long distance) for The,20tl. Century Business Training Co., Ltd The new College is now completed, and is situate nt the corner of Broad mid Yates Streets, Victoria. B. C. Arrangements made for boarding Canadian, American and foreign pupils. - " * " ;" dd "Piinscol" Vic- Wireless and Cable address! toria. .. SUBJECTS: Shorthand Typewriting (all good makes) Memory methods, Hookkeeping, Quick at figures, Spelling. Reading (proof), Newspaper work, LithOAiid Letter Press Printing, Kngravtng, Illustrating, Corrections and Paste and Scissois \Vork, Penmanship, Geometry, (ieoKraphy, Languages, Klocutiou Kufctish, Keportiujj, Advertising, Ad-writing. Com. Law for Clerks and Stenographers*, Civil Service, Banking, Stocks and Shares, Broking, Insurance, Buying and Selling, Hlectricity, Telegraphy Navigation. Astronomy. Postat pupils���all parts. Victoria���All day private tuition. Kveuings 7 tog. Vancouver���l*'ee Block, (or Shorthand, Typing and enquirers-. JOB PRINTING, We do _ search of��� Pioneer Pun. Co., i mM$w$M$$&*& B THE PHOENIX PIONEER j&. ���^yy ;jr "^ar*ar -;p,��.jf,,��jf..jf,jf jp ji jp We wish to thank you for your patronage during the year' just clasing, and to wish you a. Happy and Prosperous year in the one coming. We intend to continue the same policy in 1905 that brought us success in 1904. The Best Goods for the Best Moneyv We have been doing it. We will continue to do it. THE THOMAS DRUG CO-, LTD. re if %f iriririr rerererere ow rererererererere rrrr The undersigned offers hisi'Jfcakery for Sale ': " , : " IN PHOENIX consisting of Iwkeshop, with ,'(.,bake oven 8 x .10 feet, good living rooms and sale room. Trade about* ���.p. 000 loaves per week. ', For full particulars apply'to laidlng Natol of laitadary'a laadlaf Mlnlai Ca��a. Hotel Balmoral Comer Knob Hill Are., and Firtt St., PHOENIX, B. C. ' J. A. MeMASTER ���*������.'. , Proprietor. In and Around Phoenix BRIEF TOPICS OF LOCAL AND GENERAL INTEREST TO PHOENICIANS. Happy New Year The Pioneer wishes every one of its many readers, whether near the home of this paper or far" across the seas, the- compliments of the season. Boyle is the druggist. See Dey's stock of rings before you buy. Take your prescriptions to Boyle the druggist For International Coal stock see J. L. Martin. The quality is right if bought from Boyle the Druggist. Do not overlook Dey. the jeweler, when selecting your holiday goods. Brown ware crockery reduced to 25c on the dollar.' Granby Exchange. Dr. Mathison, dentist, will be at his office, Bank blocV, from Jan. 10th to 14th. Those chocolates of Almstrom's will melt in"your mouth���if you give them a chance. Cut Glass makes one of the nicest presents you can give. Dey the jeweler has it from $r.so to $15.00 For large returns and good dividends buy International Coal stock of J. L. Martin, Phoenix, B. C. Tinware reduced. Coffee pots from 60c to 2 for 15c, all new. Old goods half as much at Granby Exchange. Geo. E. Dey, the jeweler, has just received a fine line of Pearl Broaches and Pins, ranging from $3.50 to $25. Mining shares in all the local properties. International Coal, Granby, Strathmore, Oro Denoro and Providence. For sale by Ed. H. Mortimer. The proprietors of the Brooklyn hotel have received a stock of pure Oregon grape wine, and are prepared to supply it to families by the gallon at a reasonable price. Ask any policyholder of the Mutual Life of Canada if he is not satisfied with the policy of the company. Then come and give your application to Ed. Mortimer and be one ot the many. Next Wednesday evening there will be a joint installation of the officers of Greenwood Lodge No. 29 and Phoenix Lodge No. 28, Knights of Pythias, in Phoenix, the installing" officer being George Elkins of Phoenix, of Sterling Silver Broken wrists, arms and legs have been the fashion for the last week. Moral-^-get Mortimer to write you up for an accident policy. Costs little, but gives you good returns in case of accident or sickness. "w, At the sale of real estate for taxes, held in Greenwood last Tuesday, it is reported that property on which the /taxes amounted to about $20,000 was redeemed before the sale, out of $28,000. The sale was adjourned for a couple of weeks. Dr. Mathison, dentist. Purity first, Boyle the druggist. Who is sellingout? Granby Exchange. The old reliable, Boyle the druggist. Webb's fine chocolates, fresh goods, at Almstrom's. Dey the jeweler has a fine line of souvenir spoons. Try Boyle's Witch Hazel Cream for chapped hands. Dr. Simmons, dentist, McMillan block, Jan. 13 to 16. A choice line presents at Dey's. Have you seen the Plato, the latest in clocks, at Blacks' the Jeweler. Oliver N; Galer, of Grand Forks, spent Sunday and Monday here. A fine selection of ladies' gold filled and solid gold watches, Dey the jeweler. Still cutting and slashing prices. Bound to go out'of business. Granby Exchange.. - ��� - Chief of Police Flood returned Tuesday from a vacation spent at Col- yille, Wash. Call arid inspect the Vanguard, the finest 18 size movement in the world, at Ed. Black's. Bom, tp the wife of Angus McDonald, Brooklyn avenue, December 25th, a daughter. If you want something for the youngsters, remember that Almstrom's stock is well worth examining. Mrs. W. L. Dunn and Miss Maude DesSpain left Friday to spend a few days in Grand Forks. "Home thoughts," and "A Strange Way," will be the topics tomorrow in the Presbyterian Church. Changes for advertisements in the Pioneer must reach this office by noon Thursdays' to insure insertion. Don't worry. Get Mortimer to insure you. Life, Fire, Accident or Sickness in the best English and Canadian Companies. Edward Burns, the contractor, spent Christmas with his family in Spokane, returning this week with John Jordan, his partner. R. P. Williams, of Rossland, representing the Jenckes Machine Co., of Sherbfooke, Quebec, was, in the city yesterday. Dougald: McMillan; the first city clerk and chief of police of Phoenix, who has been in the Klondike, arrived in the city again this week. Bell Will be HamerJ January 13. A dispafch from Ottawa states that at the last cabinet meeting an order in council was passed allowing the law to take its course in the case of Joshua Bell, under sentence of death at Kam- loops, for murder. Bell killed Annie Allen at Phoenix on August:. 12th, with a pocket knife. He was tried by chief justice Gordon Hunter at the Greenwood assizes, and sentenced to be hanged. The crime was committed on a Friday, and he will pay the penally on a Friday. !, Both were colored. Two Church Ckrittnaa Trees. Last week Friday the Presbyterians held their annual Christmas tree, the church being crowded during the evening. A pleasing programme was rendered, in charge of Rev. McColl and Mrs. Campbell, and there were presents for all the children, from the two large trees, J. W. Hannam being the Santa Clans. Saturday evening the Methodists held their Christmas tree, and an interesting programme was presented, the popcorn drill being well rendered. Mrs. W. J. Porter, Mrs. Knott and Beatrice Orchard had charge of the programme, the children being remembered with numerous presents, Francis Knott acting as Santa Claus. C.W.GREER, Box 57. Phoenix,B'G CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX; ��� given. _ tliciuuiilci|Hilllyofllic:cUy of IMioeiilx, thai. ,1. require U)c incucncc of tile wild elcclur* r.1 Hit city officii, Dominion nvcimtr, l'liom.lx. II. C, on tin? 9M1 liny of January, 1905. nl i> o'clock noon fbrtlic pin |>o�� of elcctliiK lemons to rcpreanil llicm (it llicnmiildiwil Council a�� Muypr jind Aldermen, toicrllier with 0111 School Trustee fpr, the Ulty school dlsilrlct of l-hoeiila. '",'".:, Tlie mode ol iinniiniillt-u of mtidid^leji slull he *�� follows: '' "1',' ���" '���", ThccmiillUnU|i.��liBlll|e,||omliuite��l In wilting; the writing ��linlH)tiiiil>iiCrilJecf by two' "Voter* df the municipality'aa' proposer ��inl seconder, awl shrill tw delivered to llic relurnliiR:'oHta*��l'.��il* lime between the date of the notice liinl a.p. m. or the day of the nomination, and in the evehfxH 11 poll twine ncccssHry.'such |>Cll will be oneuedoii the uthdij'orjaiiuiiry, 1905, ol ��>>c cUfiatflcoy aforesaid, nnd wlll.be kept open from 911 111..till 730 p. m., of which every person is hereliyl+e- quired to I' fcc notice mid govern himself accord. '"rfc ..ccted'nalhe Matorof such city sliiill!.��*,,,.,, Iieraons as are ninlc Uiltish mililects ol llic full lio persons qualified to be nonilimted fo'r 11 ml elected 11s the 5la\orof tnich city shall,.fj;;?ut'ji ily q��� , T)|e penjoun qualified, to he- nominated for and -.ectcii ��K'Alrlcriheuof Wnch-city shall he such" persons as are male British spbjccts of the fuU Bloaaon Held For Trial. Last Saturday night C. H. Blossom, hoist man" at the Granby mines, amused himself by knocking down Frank Nelson at Hardy hall, and then stamping on his face most cruelly. Nelson is in the hospital, and at best will be disfigured for life, his nose and jaw bone being broken. Blossom was held for trial by Police Magistrate Williams, and sent to Nelson jail in charge of Officer Docksteader. James Turner held a rough house in the Granby kitchen and dining room Wednesday afternoon, breaking crockery, etc., before he received a couple of black eyes and other souvenirs from the employees. ' He was finally arrested by City Clerk Matheson, and fined $ti and costs by Judge Williams for being drunk and disorderly'. aucoftiveiity-oiie years, am! are not msfplBltfiol under any law, nnd have been lor the six months next preccdinjj III* <l��y of iiomliintioii the regl>- tered owiier, (11 the fcand Keglstry ofhee, of land or real property In the city of the assessed value. 011 the Inst municipal assessment roll, or one thousand dollars or nior,-, aud whoareotherwi e duly qualified ��r municipal voters; The ,-..-. -1 <-. cleclc persons as are male _ ,,..v��� . . age of twenty one years; nud are not Msqunlinco undci any law, and have been for.lhc six nionllui next preecdlint the day of iibmlnstlon II e r iris' tered owner 111 the Laud.ltci;lstry oirice.of laud or rml prope'i t'y"iu llic city of assessed value, oh the last municipal assessment roll, of five lini(- drcd<lQllars or-more, aud who are otherwise qualified as municipal voters. Any person being a householder in the.sum school district, and being a lliiltsh subject or the full age of twenty-one yex��j and otherwise qualified by the "Public Schools Act" lo votes! an electiilti or School Trustees In tluB.su.ul school district, shall be eligible lo be elected or to serve n* school trustee for the said school.dUtxlM. .�����;.���' ���Given under my hand at Phoeulx, B. C, the 37th day ol December, 1904. '.!i~l.'. X I), j; MATHHSON, '���'���;���'.... Kcliirn|ugtOflicci). HOLBMY GOODS " IMPORTKD TOYS, FANCY GOODS, . CHINA, BOOKS, MUSICAL INSTRU- ' MUNTS, ETC., in endless variety. For Young a��d Old '?'.' . .'���'". Our stock ol Holiday Goods.this year is far more ex jj'. tensive than ever before, both in quantity an variety. You can find just what you want ft ','.,��� gifts here. An inspection invited. IcRAE BROS. & SMITH, Knob Hill Ave., Phoenix, B. C. l CORPORATION OF THE! "CITY OF PHOENIX. By-Law No. 51. .^'.uMir.;.. . .'������������������ Tlie Municipal C KsXilfutrhatnli i.,,'L'!i!�� bj;|iiwii Council of the Corporation, of ilx enacts us fallows: ..,, ....sbjMiiw'innv.hcclteU for nil purposes ns "Knily Closing lly-law No, ji, i<)m " >..,All'sJiopH within the meaning of the "Shops (teKuhitluii Act, 1900," carrying, on within tin- City thtrftillowiiiij business or blisuiisses, viz; . 1, Ury^;'oo(t>'nm|fnri|ishiiig, "3; rVents' 1'iiriiwliliig'aiKl Clothing. - i'j. Tailors 4. Ilools and Shoes. 5. llulchcis, ���> '. . <i. Kroeers. 7. I'nlutsaiid paper,, , S. 1'lu.nanm.-. *Vo��J is i.'.ol!. 9. 'Hardware 'Merchant*. . ' ���irV?,,.Jt;w':\*:|i'>ii.' .;-".''i''-' ��� ������"���" ��� ���:';'.'��������� ; fi, I'lirnltnre.. ��� ��� . , . ' ���>��� ��� vlljliUiHiucfVI" '���'������ ''''���'���'-��� '���': ' sha'l be closed and ^tnmlil closijl after the hou,r. Ill J1IJ..V1 ^i..' is in re a rose the pub when your subscription exp * ro*-e . ���*. '. , / . i of the is the right sort of a man in Qj- tne munity, he is ��� workjngfcjg''; he coh- and day throu^utdoor in Victoria types. His fK- Monday evening, January 9th Phoenix Aerie N o. . 15 3 and Greenwood Aerie No, 308.'-will holdj a joint installation of officers at Greenwood. Miss Maud DeSpain, daughter of Mrs-.Si A. McCormack, who has been atteniilirig a young -ladies' school in Spokane, is back for the Christmas holidays. Ed. H. Mortimer, insurance, real estate and mining broker. I have a cheap residence lot on Old Ironsides avenue for sale at $225. A corner and a snap. Those desiring tp register for the coming city election, will find the city clerk at the city office this evening from eight to nine o'clock. This is the last day to register, -:: 7 .-^���.������-.-,.-'..\. r.;.- ��� Masons Install Officers. Tuesday evening a pleasant time was had by the membets and friends of King Edward Lodge No. 36, A. F. and A. M., the occasion being the annual installation of officers of the lodge! After the installation ceremonies had taken place, the floor of the new lodge room in the McHale building was cleared, and dancing and card playing wasenjoyed till a late hour, when refreshments were served, there'being a general attendance of the wives and families of the members. Past Masters W. L Dunn and fhos. Brown were the installing officeis, the full list of the new officials for the ensuing year being as follows: Master, George E. Dey; senior warden, Dr. R. B. Boucher; junior warden, Joseph J. Strutzel; secretary, Al>- n:r Hillier; treasurer, George L. Mc- Nicol; senior deacon, William S.Macy; junior deacon, Thomas Oxley; senior steward, Samuel Stevens; junior steward, E. E. Wells; tyler, Walter Ross. The lodge is in excellent financial condition, and is steadily growing in membership. of 7.3011, m.on einii ftud every Vfliy,.except the ^folloiviiig daysf.vis. -Satuidnysi the day 'iuiuiedi- u'cly |>recedlu��any.public.hVlidny, the lusl four, teen days oreaCTt-yenrVlhe'ioth aud 151I1 days of every 111011II1, o' the following day when such mirror 15th day (OTs 6rra~BuWay. ���'���"��� 4 'Any person ivho commits ui.y infraction of (his Ky.lnu- shall Ik. Hi ble.on summary-'co'nvlc- liouvliiijure^UijaJ'ollea^Miigistrate, or-uny, two :ju��tl��a��offlicTca^r having jurisdiction within IWfc City, to a peijallyjiot exceeding one hundrMl ddli��:s, or to imprisonment for any'term not ex- reeiJUu;, tlw tc month**'with or without hard .inbcWirftc-b-onii?;::'"-:: '������...: : ���' 4. This by-law shall take effect and come into force 011 th 3rd day of January, 1005, aiid ahull, beforeihal date, and uficrit is filially passed, lie published by inserting u true copy of the same. ct-rtine(Uj��lhi City. Clerk, in one, issue .of the IMi��r��jx?aciT!ecij*/v! '. l'awectufciMumcipaU'Couiicil the 7O1 day of Deeenibei-Jion};'''" '���'- ' ' > i Itccoi^JirjrsewtfJid'Jitiully passej'the 91st day of December, 1004V "G. \V. K'UMDKKOKK, , ~^< , . Mayo.. 5 ('lt.V I 1: . ���:; .:V. J. MATHKS0N, 5 Seal ( ''.1 Clerk of the Municipal Council. *'��*y��* ' ''��� Certified this 37th day of December, 19m, lo be Utruc copy of "Kar y Closing Ily-lav.- .So. Ji, roai." of tlie City.of I'liocuix, II. C, whkh was rcgii'tered In the County^Idurt-Registry, Grand 1'ork��!H.4Ci-,the'itrH day of December, 1904. :.. ' "*���- " -"������- D.j, MATHI'.SO.S-, City Clerk, Phoenix,B.C. Black's Hotel< ..Dominion Avknuk, PHOENIX, B.C. Comniodiotis Sample Rooms First-Class Dining Room in connection liar Well Stocked with Choicest Goods Most Conveniently Located Telephone No. 26., -\'| ��pcajai -Rates to Commercial Men. ��� ' Good Sample Rooms. Holiday Goods Ladies' and Children's Manicure Sets> Sterling Silvei and Sterline. Silver Plated Ware in Tea Sets, Cake Dishes, etc. Waltham and Seth Thomas..:;Watchi9S;iii:p\'i<5..a\iir; 18 sizes, 15. 17, 19 and 2i jewels, with cases to suit. Also fine line of GENERAL JEWELRY, Etc., suitable for presents. Ed. Black 5'';''tH'E:J'EWELEB.-' mt*********************** Just received direct from Scotland \ . a large shipment of "Sanderson's Famous Mountain Dew" ' Green wood Liquor Co. Repairing^ Boundary Agents for ''PARST OELKBRATED BEER.'' -.'.<: '������ Wholesale Dealer in Wiiies, Liquors and Cigars;' ,.:.''. Telephone orders receive prompt atleution. '.' - Greknvoon, B. C. %* JAMES McCREATH, l'Kor. i 0 1 The" BEST; Cheapest and most satisfactory Clothing in Phoer.ix. i- W^'can /.'WateliV yon at almost any price, from.the jibod, cVt-ryday tiiiicpiec'e to the expensive adjusted"; chrorioineler. .Oi!r;.Je.welry ;aml Cut, tilasrt slock wilT h6;'Fpund' just- what you deaire to mako.a seWedOiifrotn.'~;;.��.': ' '.; Jji.re.piijling Wfiarc! prepared to take care-Qf anytliitij: in-this line/ ' >' ��� Q^mi^E' ;Dey, ��� Miheij'bWoliir..;^.-'"'s Knob. Hill Ave; '.-:J... You Can Get - *' ���' ' -.'���'"'��� ��� THE FINEST - FRUITS,Jlrliathgrow and THE-'FINEST 'CIGARS 'artel: TOBACCOS Cver'snioked at tfieilew' store of...'..'. ���'"'" "���'' "��" ' Alex ticRae^ Stationery, Newspapers,Magazines, etc. Hardy Blockv - Dominion Ave. olitan Cafe at: All Hottrsv DANNY DEANE, Proprietor. ; .. .,n*:, .>'.,.. :-���=..���: .: ���-,-.,. ���; Open Day and Night. " "' ��� ' (under summit' hotK'-')^ v ' ' Oysters in'every style., .;... i .-, ��,,i; Roast Duck and Chicken Dinner, Sundays 5 to'8 p.'srii'?' WHO SAYS SO? Hundreds of satisfied customers.. If you don't believe it come' and examine goods. �� A Fall Line of Underweat, Shirts, Shoes, Ties,etc, just arrived., All new, seasonable goods at old and Cheapest prices. THOMAS BROWN, Wear Exclusively. HARDV-McKHNZIE BI.K. DOMINION AVE.. PHOENIX. Men's s Dominion Ave.f Phoenix, B. C. Ladies* Tailor-made Skirts in Tweed fords, lilue and Black Cloth- modes in cut and cloth. mixtures, Ox- -a choice line of the prevailing While Our Stock is Complete in Every Line. Ladies' Silk Waists, Japanese Silk Blouses in shades of White, Pink, Sky and Black. Grenadines and Lustres in a variety of shades, neatly trimmed. A handsome line of Black Sateens. Women's Neckwear Elegant variety of collars, new designs. Women's and Children's Knit. Underwear and all wool cashmere Hose, Shoes, Rubbers and Felt Slippers. MEl^OVERQQ/n'S^AND SUFI'S, .^Ay,!.3.1!1^ AND UNDERWEAR, MACKINAW CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS. Men's Up-to-date Shoes ia all the latest makes and shapes- in heavy and dress shoes���Our prices right. THE'" 99 Dominion Ave, PHOENBX^B.C '''ll"l"H'iiHiii iJuwi'miiwi'iBm mas uiiuiiB��Mlill|q��m)��M��"Wilil"l1"1 "W'81 Z7=q3&3= BOUNDARY MINES A^f METERS 1 HOLIDAY N ���"V-VT^, -. -������*. -.A'^ y;"' ^ And Boundary Mining Journal r^ ;������\Xr= DECEMBER 1905 TYPICAL MIN'NG IN TME BOUNOABY GWANBV MINES ORC OUAABY, SHOWING VAST W.DTH Or ORE BODY. CONSISTING OF A . . . Description of the Industries of the Boundary Country, British Columbia. J i THE PHOENIX PIONEER J PUBLISHED BY THE... Pioneer Publishing Company, Phoenix, B.C. Price 25 cents. ^ vwmiauatuiimawiiBsmmai f_. ���JHwUtt P.W* * H J 6, T . <S ... >U ... ���w >��� !*~* -cj'y^ vj { 7 *f? jHs ���< * ��� l * /-i*^ '3. t '^ > y>K i aMBMBs'^^''^' ���j i '" t>><�� ^ -' i 1*. "V . , ^, Be ' * JAMB MACKINNON, Oenenl Man��i��- jBUJAM-rAWEO, a���- s r M0MY ta!petl0,. ? *J INIfRCSI 4 PAID*'ON BENSHS AT CDRStNT feHfS T&01u r iV* ft r ."a^'s- w 8 ����� " \9 >�� , 10^15 to $10% w- r"^���.>v *f V T.I ���'-<'^l J YOUR MCAD OmCK, ���Ktl������OOKt PATRONAGE j ���_ m _ BRA^Clia Howick Hantingdon Ibetville Lacolle t��i A ^TiietforJl<M��ies \ >alqbutt; , t Vancouver, B.C., WaterviUe t ^ ,Wi4terloor t ^ West Sh'efford Windsor( Mills, , \Ymnipfeg; Man. > " l^��"l ^ * i n r -f 1 '1,4 ���- ^ x A?> ^A V %# fc ?-Y ��Ml>: WliM^ M, imager. A. Bl H000f Manager, >s' ^ f H vf I \1 >. f i^ -.,*.*. ,*-*! rn^MftSfcrCawd 1 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JGURNA^^^ ,,*, Company. 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ALSO Snowflake Granite Mining Candles And High Grade lubricating Oils and Greases Made and Sold by WRITE FOR ESTIMATES MNY,I1 HEAD OFFICE, WINNIPEG. Branches in British Columbia: ROSSLAND, NELSON, FERNIE, GRAND FORKS, REVELSTOKE; CRANBROOK, VANCOUVER. ' ��2 ^^^^^^^^ U-. Pi w ���*? r 1* ��va '��'** P "WW ���.���wM'iMWjunummiwfimm -*Jj 1 vet a t m u. -��i c I p./ 1 MM k��M?S ^1v v. S" ���>���: Mi- BOUNDARY'S MINES AND SMELTERS SOUTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA .. Being. HOLIDAY NUMBER * fc... PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL, PHOENIX, B.C., DECEMBER, 1905 Boundaries of the Boundary. THE section generally known as Boundary district of southeastern British Columbia comprises territory that may be said - to be approximately* twenty to thiity miles square. The lower line of this section is the international boundarydine between- British Columbia and the state of Washington in the United States. Its eastern line may be placed at the divide of the Gold range mountains, the western line some twenty or thirty miles west of this, while the northern line largely includes the drainage area of the North Fork,, West Fork and mam Kettle rivers. To be more precise, the Boundary substantially includes the Greenwood and Grand Forks mining divisions of British Columbia,1 and the dividing line of these two divisions runs almost directly through Phoenix. Greenwood mining division, with recording office at Greenwood, and Wm. G. McMynn as gold commissioner and mining recorder, includes such camps as West Fork, Canyon City, Rock ci eek, part of Central, Smith's, Copper, West Copper, Deadwood, Kimberly, Long Lake, Providence, Skylark, and part of Phoenix ca.ups. Grand Forks mining division, Sydney R Almond, gold commissioner arid mining recorder, with office at Grand Forks, takes in part of Central or White's, Wellington, part of Phoenix, Summit, Pass creek, Brown's, Knight's, Seattle, Volcanic, and others on the North Fork, Frariklm and the coal camps, Burnt Basirfaxid Christina lake. Within the more or less arbitrary limits of what is known as the Boundary,district, so called because much of the developed property lies not far from the international ...boundary line, are located the high and low grade mines that have made this' section so well known in mining and investing circles in the .United-/ States and Canada. Boundary s Early Days. i WHATEVER may be thought of the mining man today who can," if he wishes, travel'into-the heart of the. Boundary on a palace car, om must admire the pluck and determination of the veritable pione jrs who patiently plodded over what was a . trackless wilderness twenty or more years ago, and by their camp fires built castles in the air of the future importance of this, section-as a metal-- , lurgical centre. Many of them, no Others, filled to the Dnm with the faith that was in them for <the future greatness of the Boundary, never lost heart, although it was almost heartbreaking work to stay with a country that had more enemies than friends, and that was many miles from transportation of any kind. It is exceed-, inglypleasa-t, however, to make note of the palpable fact that many an old- timer, who did not lose faith, but mingled some honest toil with that faith as admonished in the Scriptures to do, received his reward; We could give a list of many such if need bt:��� VIEW OF PHOENIX BEFORE A^j&lkh OR WAGON ROAD HAD BEEN BUILT��� THEN CAlXtfft'"GREENWOOD CAMP. doubt, after a few months spent in hardship in the Boundary, with nothing but a deer tnil and the sun to guide them, decided, and, as they thought, wisely, that the game was not worth the candle, and betook themselves to other fields that were then more in the public eye���and some of which have doubtless been lost sight of altogether in the remorseless whirligig of time, that grinds exceeding small, with mining camps as with other things, if said camps do not make good. men who eventually were amply recompensed for all the hardships undergone in becoming the pioneers of the Boundary district of British Columbia. It is said that, according to the general understanding of the oldest of the old settlers, the first white man to come into what is now known as the Boundary mining district of southeastern British Columbia, was Charles Deitz, who arrived in this section in the year 1857. Mr. Deitz is still a resident of the Boundary, now living .i ;v>2- ,'���..'.-.:.������������ .��� ' ' .....,-.-������... ^v..s-..,-.-'.;ri;��,;-.2;afe^ MQENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JpURNAU lifflMiiiiiiiii miiiiM^WMift ���:��� #"...:...��� 1861 ^lliialliiiiirferi M :t.?.s ;..���:,;���-./;;���������: iilii* :��i.v';:�� ;.-.^'��v ���������^^l-:- M&^a^ ���-it. FUSE iii thern^*;;: N��^ErH^4e?s promptly carefully filled* ���J;; ��� ^v - "*$ PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. r\ i in a comfortable old age on his ranch not far from Midway. Old "Jolly Jack" Thornton was supposed to be the second man to reach this now well known mining region. As early as 1862 Boundary creek was worked for placer gold, and there ^was a small settlement south of the international boundary line, near where the town of Midway is now located. In the year 1884 the first mineral claims in southern British Columbia were staked. These were the Eagle Buckhorn, in Deadwood camp. On the 23rd of May, 1891, William Mc- Cormack and Richard Thompson staked the Mother Lode in Deadwood camp, and on June 2nd of the same year John East and William, Ingram located the Sunset and Crown Silver, in the same camp. By this time the pioneer prospectors were beginning to cross over the valley to where the city of Phoenix now stands, and Henry White and Matthew Hotter located the Old Ironsides and ORE WRECK ON C*P_.B. NEAR PHOENIX. on Hardy mountain by James McCon- nell, and the Victoria and Washington, afterwards Old England, on Rock creek, a few miles above Kettle river. W. T. Smith and John East came to the Boundary distiict in 1^87, and located the Rocky Bar claim, now the Tunnel, on Boundary cieek, near the falls. In the same year they also located the Nonsuch in Smith's camp. In the same year, 1887, the Bruce claim, on Ingram mountain, near Midway, was also located by East. Three prospectors,' George and David Leyson and George Y. Bower- man, located the Big Copper in what is now Copper camp. The claim was then known as the Bluebird. Afterwards they went over the Dewdney trail to Rossland, where some locations were also made, and the Boundary claims . were allowed to lapse. The King Solomon, in Copper camp, was staked by Ed. Lefevre and James Lynch,and in i88i$ it was acquired by I). C, Corbin, of Spokane Falls and Northern railway fame. In 1890-91 some locations were made by* James Atwood and John Lemon near the Knob Hill July 21st, 1891. James Atwood and James Schofielc! located the Stemwinder and G. W. Rumberger and Joe Taylor located the Brooklyn; other locations in this camp followed in rapid succession. Atwood and Schofield also discovered what is now Summit camp, and made locations. The high-grade Providence mine was located in 1892 by William Dickman. About this time Howard C. Walters, an energetic' mining man from Spokane, came into the Boundary and acquired ' a number of high-grade claims, as no others would then pay to work, with the nearest railvyay 75 miles away, and no wagon roads or trails in the country. However, Mr. Walters, who had organized a company known as Spokane & Great Northern Mining Co., finally succeeded in getting in a two stamp mill, which was set up at , Boundary Falls, to treat the ore of the American Boy and Boundary Falls claims. Mr. Walters also bought the Providence, and made some shipments to the Everett smelter, which notwithstanding the great cost of packing on mules to the railway at Marcus, Wash., netted . several thousands* of dollars. Silver went down, however, in 1893,, and^ this discouraged the prospectors in the Boundary, and for a while this section was pretty * nearly, deserted. However, the Skylark, which was located in 1893 by James Atwood, is said to have shipped ore which netted more than $30,000. FIRST CABIN IN PHOENIX. $50,000 Ore Wreck oh C.P.R. ON this page will be noted a view of a wreck of an ore train that occurred on the C.P.R., about tour miles from Phoenix, on the 23rd of August last year. It was a remarkable accident, and no less than 700 photographs were taken of it by Phoenix artists and disposed of. The train, consisting of 25 cars of Granby ore and one of the powerful and expensive side-geared Shay locomotives, had been brought to a standstill some three miles above the wreck, and the air-brakes worked properly; on starting they were noticed to be out of commission for most of the train. Every trainman knew that this meant a runaway, and that no human agency could stop it.. The trainmen jumped and saved themselves, and the entire train, excepting one ore car and the caboose, after running several miles down the hill at 75 to 100 miles per hour, went to wreck in a cut near , the Oro Denoro mine. It is estimated that the wreck cost the G.P. R. at least $50,000, including the 750 tons of ore. Fortunately no lives were lost. One of the most careful crews on the C.P.R. was in charge of the train, and nothing has ever transpired as to the cause of this expensive wreck. W^M^^^^^^M RUSSELL* US^CAU ROWLAND MACHINE Itlt �� \-l�� u '.*��� ^>-'*w������ii*��*��*"*1 i' .;���������.* H^^i^iiiSI ^^niw^'^3*yw��af*^ PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. GRANBY ���' Operating the Greatest Copper Mines and Smelter in Canada. IT is not an easy matter to relate a complete story of: the Granby Consolidated Minings Smelting & Power Co., Ltd., within the limits of any ordinary publication. Its history is so intimately bound up with that of the Boundary district, thai it forms a large part of that, history, and consequently but a few of; the salient facts in connection with the company's now widely known copper mines and smelter can be given here. The Granby ^mine's grew from a mere mineral location, that many prospectors would not look at a second time; to a concern that is now universally conceded to be second to none in the Dominion of Canada for economy of operation and amount of ore mined and smelted, as well as for copper produced. - Today it has eight furnaces at the smelter which'are treating about 2,700" tons of Phoenix ore per day, the reduction works being equipped "with every device known to modern smelting for economical and expeditious operation���and many tnat most smelters are not equipped with. At the mines, here in Phoenix, the equipment is equally complete, although it is being added to each year, as the average . daily output is increased., When the editor of the Pioneer saw the first train- load of ore going out of this camp, m July, 1900, he did not think he would ever see. the product reach the present proportions. But now it bids fair to be increased still more in the not distant future. Fourteen years ago last July the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill mines, were located by Henry White and his partner, Matt Hotter. They had been prospecting over near Rock creek, where White's iar was staked,and Mr. White conducted a store there for four years. In the summer of 1891 they prospected up Boundary creek, and came up through Skylark camp to the present location of Phoenix. On the 21st of July Mr. White, 'noticing the tremendous surface showing on the Knob Hill, planted the location stakes of the two claims���the beginning of mines that were, in time, to make the Boundary famous and to be known over the world as dividend payers. Mr. White and partner held the claims till 1895, when they sold an in<- terest to Jay P. Graves, of Spokane. In the fall of 1896 active development was started, with Mr. White in charge, and from that dav to this there has practically never been a cessation of development work oh the group.; Mr. White gave H. P. Palmerston, of Spokane, a quarter interest in both claims, and in 1895 the Old Ironsides Mining Co. was organized, the Knob Hill Gold Mining Co. being formed the next year. Mr. White is still a shareholder in the consolidated company, and it is needless to say has inore faith than ever in the properties. ^ If anyone thinks that Mr. White and '��',? %��f GRANTS SMRLTER���BEFORE RECENT ENLARGEMENT,. ate ���<:������'.:\ PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. JI'*'- Mr. Graves had an easy time in getting the two mining companies on their feet and in providing the capital for iheir development, they are much mi =taken. Rossland was in its infancy then, and anything like a low grade copper proposition did not take with the investing public in the west. In Spokane bankers looked askance on a man known to be mixed up in mines. How different it is today, when it is known that Spokane's most successful citizens laid the foundation of their fortunes in mining cair.ps. = However, Mr. Graves persevered, and. associated with Aubrey L. White, succeeded in interesting capital from the Eastern Townships of Quebec, S. C. H. Miner and friends, who looked carefully into the matter, finally raking a large interest.in the enterprise. After that matters progressed, more rapidly, ahd deve'opment was done on an >incr,asin'r,y extensive scale, showing up the gigantic ore bodies of the group. , William Yolen Williams was made superintendent of the Granby group in the spring of 1898, and me greater part of the several miles of development was done under his supervision, he resigning on July 1st, 1904. A. B. W. Hodges, who built and operated the company's smelter, was made general superintendent of the company on Mr. Williams' retirement, and since that date has had entire charge of both mines and smelter. v Up to 1897 there had not been 150 feet of work done on the Old Ironsi ies, the No. 1 shaft being down 100 feet, with some drifting. Mr.Williams started work on the Knob Hill Nov 1 tunnel, as well as continuing the exploration of the Old Ironsides claim, and before the end of that year it became known that can ore body of almost fabulous width, length, and no one knew how .V-.i'V '���)>��� ;;��v--:;' ���0 j."'...-.' :;&? ':W&- '���-*-$ ?-''' "1.-^ .-��� '$sf$ ''���' "{���'���''"��� .'..: %'frut. >'&��'&���''������;��� ���:o"<v> I Ik m> 4fc ill 15^ m i\iK m m \fc: JAY P. GPAVES, -.MAXAGBR GRANBY COT '"0VM>t\ deep, had been explored, and the attention of the mining world began to be attracted. About, or just before this time, Mr. White and Mr. Graves succeeded in interesting '.Mr.; Miner, of Granby, Quebec, in the group, as well as other men of means from the Eastern Townships of that province. Some of the Spokane men had become tired of waiting and sold but their shares��� always at a profit, however, as Old Ironsides dollar shares were quoted at $r.io at one time, and Knob Hill went as high as 95c. More claims were acquired when it . came to be more and more realized what a tremendous proposition was here, and the first Granby smelting 'company was organized, as well as the Grey Eagle company. Eventually these four companies were consolidated in the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co., Ltd., with a Capital of $15,000,000. ' The smelter- had been erected at Grand Forks with .an initial capacity -;6f-two. furnaces, which was later increased to four, and about two years ago to six, with a total capacity of treating 1,800,tons of ore daily. Last fall two furnaces, larger still, were added, the daily maximum capacity now being 2,700 tons. From the beginning the owners of the Granby% mines were favored by havi-ig an ore that needed no outside ores to help it to flux���make it run well in the hlast furnaces���being almost a perfect self fluxing ore "its-elf. This was greailyin its favor, and the mo?-t was made ot it, reducing the expense of treating it to the minimum. The first steam plant was brought to the Old Ironsides mine in September, 1897, and the. next spring two drills were operated with it. It was hauled over poor roads from Marcus. In 1898 the tir^t lulf of a ten-drill compressor was installed, and shortly after the second half was put in. Then in 1900 a ten-drill compressor was placed at Knob Hill mine, and the two connected. Contrast this with the present magnificent ^equipment of machinery, a sixty drill tandem machine, operated by two 700 horse power electric motors, all' of which are the largest of the kind in operation in Canada, and which furnishes ample ^ower for pumps, hoists and a splefldid machine shop. One can then get some idea of the changes that have taken place and. the nupor- fiice,- in a r.ommercial way, <f die undertaking. In ihe month of July, 1900, the first ore train was gent down to the company's smelter at Grand Forks, then just finished with two furnaces. F1 Hi *2 m N it ii73 m re __ -j:, w* **&��*&** ^IJCOSj&Tj ���1>H0ENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 1 ft ft ItVU A. It. W. HODGES GEN. &UPT. GRANBY CO. At first the ore shipments were at the rate of about 350 tons daily, but were shortly increased to 700 tons per day. The next year two more furnaces being added to the smelter equipment, the shipments were again increased to some 1,200 tons daily. This rate continued for a year or two, and in the meantime the smelter equipment was again being augmented. After many delays, in the fall of 1903 six blast furnaces be- ' gan the work of reducing nearly 1,800 tons of Phoenix ore per day, and last fall another increase brought the capacity up to 2,700 tons, which rate has since and is now being; maintained steadily. The machinery plant at the mines in Phoenix has a capacity of getting.out at least 5,000 tons of ore dai y. Ore shipments from lhe Gianhy mines for the last five and a half years have been as follows : 1900 64,53310ns 1901 231,762 tons 1902. . ... ...... . . . . 309,858 tons 1903. ... ..... ;..-.393;718 tons' 1904.������.'���. v. v. .549.7��3tons 1905 (estimated)... .660,000 tons Total........ 2,209,5 74 tons It is-probably'a fact that no mining company in British Columbia is constantly adding to and bettering its equipment more than the Granby Co^; The necessity of saving every few cents possible on each ton of ore sent to the smelter on account of the acknowledged low grade of the ore, has brought economiesthat have heretofore been unthought of in the history of mining, at least in this province. Going more into detail as to what has been done by this company in the last year or two, the following may be mentioned : New machinery installed during two or thre'j) ears includes two Canadian Rand class L cross-compound duplex air compressors, electrically dm en and connected to motors by rope drives, high pressure cylinders 16x36 inches, lo.v pressure cylinders 28x36 inches, rated capacity together, 8,228 cubic feet of free air per minute, or 60 3^ inch machine drills; two 700 horse power type C Westinghouse induction motors, to operate compressors; one type No. 1 Thew automatic, single- truck steam shovel, rated capacity 500 to 700. cubic yards in ten hours; one type No. 3 automatic, single-truck steam shovel, capacity 1,000 to 1,500 cubic yards in 10 hours, and two 9x14 saddle tank locomotives, for hauling the mine ore cars from the workings to the ore bins. This machinery is all of the mos* modern and approved manufacture, and calculated to materially assist in the reduction of costs in the production of ore. In addition to the above, last fall new ore hunkers at the Great Northern railway terminal were constructed for the No. 3 tunnel, and electrical equipment for hauling ore, including the first electric locomotive in the Boundary, were installed. All of this electrical machinery was supplied by the Canadian Westinghouse Co., of Hamilton, Ont., and is of the latest and most improved type. A huge style B O. B SMITH, .TR , ' MINE Sl'PT. GRANBY CO. Blake-Farrell ore crusher was also installed for the No. 3 ore bins, similar to that in use for some time at the No. 1 ore bins, having jaws opening 42x32 inches, and a capacity for crushing rock to the size of 7 or 8 inches at the rate, of 150 tons per hour. A third ore crusher of the same great capacity has just been ordertd for the head- works of the new main three-compartment shaft, where also an electric hoist, 250 horse power���the largest in British Columbia���will be put in by the Tenckes-Machine Co. STBAM SHOVEL WOBPING IN ORE QUARRY. I ���;���������:���'.���;������.,:������:������.��� ���: .Vo".. ������������ .,���''������ ^jw^.&fe^ $1 ;PH0EN1X��PI0NEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. L .��� ��a. w���hyir*Wrt.��Wiw^Lfc^jrfttltMjr^JflW^^; rrrm&mV^V'iSkVSP ^T^$" "nIT^ 0%m i-".if>w5ft.,i jiff H*f_r^. PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. GRANBY MINES OFFICE. ORE LOADING AT GRANBY MINES. As to size of the ore bodies in the Granby mines, several statements have been published, and while not always official, it is hardly too much to state that most of them, large as they appeared, were probably not exaggerations. When it is said that there are 50,000,000 tons of ore, the boundaries of which have been explored, the figures seem almost incomprehensible, yet mining men conversant 'with the conditions have made statements even broader than this. It can readily be seen that even at the present rate of nearly 3,000 tons of ore daily for shipping and smelting, this ore body will last for many, many years. Then the company has announced its intention, some time in the future, of driving a long and deep tunnel, to reach the ore " bodies at a depth of upwards of 1,500 feet, thereby opening up untold mil-, lions of tons more. Granby Smelting Works. ECONOMY has been the keynote of -the Granby Co. since the beginning of operations at the .mines and at the reduction works, and at the - latter even the casual -observer can see that this keynote has been the cause of the successful operation of the smelter. The most experienced of metallurgists have expressed surprise and admiration when seeing the^ several smelters of the Boundary for the first time, that the ores can be reduced so economically, but those of-. ,the - Granby. Co. are the cause of no little deserved admiration.1 To one man is justly given the credit for the present satisfactory state of affairs���Mr. Hodges. , ti The Granby reduction works are located on the North Fork of the Kettle river, about a mile. above the town of Grand Forks, the location being all that could be desired for the building up of a great industry of this nature. The science of smelting has been reduced here to the least possible expense, with the greatest possible results, when cost of labor and coke are considered, of any smelter in this GENERAL VIEW Off. G&ANBY MINES, PHOENIX, B.C. PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 1 V i > v t t ' f i ��� i (' f'!i ��� it . ill'1 , ill! .' i ���ir| m ml TO I .!'.; 1: ���i'. !;, 1 l j' *r i 1 1 J t I &l i.i. V- -l! GRANBY SELF-CHARGERS ENTERING FURNACE ROOM. or any other land. At least, this is the opinion of experienced smelter experts from abroad, who have come to examine, half disbelieving, but who have gone away thoroughly convinced. Of course, there are excellent reasons for this most satisfactory state of aftairs. In the first place, the management of the Granby Co. secured the best man available to be superintendent of the works. Then they utilized the waterfalls nearby for power, being transmitted by wire. Every known device for working out the economical side of .t^e, question was introduced, and old ones were improved upon, including even the automatic furnace chargers, the invention of A. B. W. Hodges, the superintendent. Last, but not least, he was favored in the nature of the Phoenix ore which he had to treat ���this ore being practically of a self- fluxing nature, thereby requiring no roasting or mixing with other ores, and comparatively little fuel to make it run well in the furnace. All these things aided in the magnificent results, in which also ample capital and executive ability of a high degree played a most important part. The reader will do well to remember that at Grand Forks is located,the largest copper-gold smelter in Canada, which is now turning out approximately 24,000,000 pounds of copper bars yearly, besides the gold and silver values. Not only is it the largest reduction works of its nature in the ~Do- minion, but it is operated at the minimum of cost, and with a success that has enabled the company to already begin the payment of profits to the shareholders, with the probability of its being continued for a indefinite period, the company's Phoenix mines, 25 miles distant, having an almost inexhaustible supply of ore. After working on the construction for perhaps a year, the first furnace of the Granby smelter began the work of reducing the ores from the company's mines August 13, 1900. Inside of eight weeks the second furnace was in operation. The success of these two furnaces was so satisfactory that it was at once decided to double the capacity of the plant, and in , February, 1902, the third furnace was started, the 'fourth being blown in the following month. Still greater things in the smelting line were projected, however, and two more furnaces were ordered, and; after many delays, were started in the fall of 1903���making the full battery of six furnaces then in operation at this smelter. This year two larger furnaces were added to the plant, which now has eight furnaces reducing ore from the Phoenix mines. At first the copper matte, the product of the blast furnaces, about 50 per cent1, fine, was shipped east, where it was converted into blister copper and the gold and silver values extracted. But by doing this the company paid freight across the continent on some '50 per cent, of waste, and as soon as possible a two-stand copper converter, "was added to the plant, which meant a large saving in the item of freight alone. This converter has not only handled the matte of the Granby smelter,- but that of other smelters,in the interior of British Columbia as well, when occasion required, up to the present. Chronology of Granby smelter : Construction started July 1899 First ore received July, 1900 Sampling department started ,\ ..........Aug. 13,1900 No. 1 furnace blew in . .Aug.21,1900 Water over the dam first time .Aug.22,1900 First matte shipped from the Boundary Aug. 29,1901 No. 2 furnace blew in . .Oct. 13,1900 Converters started...... Jan. 14,1902 First shipment of blister copper, 98 j�� per cent. pure,... ; \.' Jan. 20,1902 No. 3 furnace blew in. . .Feb. 17,1902 No. 4 " " . ..Mar. 17,1902 First hot slag run out. . Nov. 5,1903 No. 5 furnace blew in.. .Nov. 5,1903 No. 6 " " ...Nov. 6,1903 Electric chargers started on No. 6 furnace Nov. 8,1904 Last day for granulating ��� slag Mar. 17,1904 New stack completed . . .Aug. 6,1906 Nos. 7 and 8 furnaces. blown in Oct. 20,1905 SELF-CHARGERS UNLOADING IN FURNACES. �����<r^r^t>r^pcifoa(aBtwirfy^ ���^^^^^^K^^m^m^n'r. r&ftsffi JPHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. ir COPPER CONVERTER PLANT AT GRANBY CO.'S SMELTER, GRAND FORKS. In regard to the tonnage of ore treated at the Granby smelter since the first furnace was started, August 21, 1900, the following figures tell the story, the ore all coming from the company's Phoenix mines, with the exception of occasional small shipments from other Boundary, Kootenay and Republic camp mines: Tons I900 62,387 1901 230,828 1902.. 3I2>34�� 1903., 401,921 1904 596,252 1905 (estimated) 670,000 Grand total 2,273,728 For the.fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, the production of gold, silver and copper at the Granby smelter was as follows, the figures given being official: Copper 14,237,622 lbs. Silver 212,180 oz. Gold 42,884 oz. For the same period of time the following official figures have been made public: Mine development. 5,200 lineal feet Diamond drill development . / 3,148 "'" " Granby ore smelted 550,738 dry tons Foreign ore smelted 39,382 " " Great Labor Saver. It has been estimated that the new system, by which the furnaces at the Granby smelter are charged automatically, instead of by hand as heretofore ���and as still practised in all other British Columbia smelters���effects a saving of about $80,000 per annum to the Granby Co. It is the invention of A, B. W. Hodges, the superintendent,' and has worked admirably since being installed last summer. The eight furnaces, are divided into groups of two each, each group being served and charged by one* motor train consisting of two or three cars coupled together The cars are side dumping, and each is divided into four compartments, this arrangement ensuring the proper distribution of the ore in the furnaces. These trolley charge trains operate all over the yards, where there is about a mile of trackage, and are loaded with the proper proportions of ore and coke. The device is patented in the United States, Canada and Great Britain by Mr. Hodges. t This last summer, when the two new and larger blast furnaces were installed at the Granby smelter, other improvements were made, including a brick smokestack, additional electrical equipment, more blowing engines, etc. Electrical energy is obtained both from the company's own water poiver, near the smelter, and from the falls of Kettle river at Cascade, 13 miles distant. The West Kootenay Power & Light Co. is also just completing a high tension line from Bonnington falls on Kootenay river, nearly sixty miles distant, and in a short time there will be no further danger from shortage of power, such as occurred a year .ago Taking it all in all, it is doubtful if a more complete smelting plant can be found on the American continent than that of the Granby Co. at Grand Forks. This, taken in conjunction with the company's mines at Phoenix, now so splendidly developed and superbly equipped, would make ^ it appear that the Granby Co. will, in- LOADING CHARGE CARS WITH ORE AND COKE. 12 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. deed, be a factor in the world's copper market* arid be a profitable undertak- ng for many years, r ���M : ��� ������! ! Dividends Paid by Granby. On the 16th December, 1903, the Granby Co. declared a dividend of one per cent on the issued shares of the company, the amount disbursed at that timebeing $1.33,630;' This was the first dividend declared by any company operating on low grade ores in British Columbia. ; Decern announced a dividend, of three per ^cent on the par value of the outstandings shares, amounting to $405,000, payable January 15th, 1906. . This I:makes a total of $538,630 in dividends sdeClared by this company, and with fthe; excellent condition ,in which the amines are, as well as the smelter, coupled with the good price for copper, \it isjthought that further dividends will f be|forthcoming at more or less regular intervals hereafter. No company in British Columbia, as far as known, |eyer; declared a dividend as large as f the above. - GRANBY HOTEL. i|||S Officials of the Granby Co. JjllfWfiill list of officials of the Granby |��p|is as follows : fgjacob , Langeloth, of New York, president; Jay P. Graves, Spokane, JWash., vice-president and general manager ; G. W. Wooster, Grand Forks, |B. "C, treasurer; Northrup Fowler, jiNew York, secretary; directors, John IStanton, Wm. H. Nichols, Geo. Martin jLuther, s Jacob Langeloth, Geo. F. i-Baker, jun.^and Payne Whitney, all of |New York; Jay P." Graves and A. L. QVhite, of Spokane; W. H. Robinson, of Granby, Quebec; H. L. Higginson, Arthur C. James, Geo. C. Clark, of Boston; general superintendent, A. B. W. Hodges; mine superintendent, 0. B. Smith, jun.; smelter superintendent, Wakefield Williams. Head office, Grand Forks, B.C.; eastern office, 52 Broadway, New York City. Capital, $15,000,000, of which $13,500,000 in shares has been issued Granby holdings in Phoenix camp comprise 25 mineral claims in the heart of Phoenix camp, making all told 692.79 acres of ground. The claims are as follows : Knob Hill, Old Ironsides, Victoria, Myrtle fraction, Phoenix, Aetna, Fourth of July, Grey Eagle, Banner, Tip Top, Triangle fraction, Old Ironsides fraction, Monte Carlo, Monte Cristo, Monte Cristo fraction, Gilt Edge, Gold Drop, Gold Drop fraction, Nuggett, Phillipsburg fraction, No. 13, Monarch, Tamarack, Tamarack fraction and Missing Link. The last thirteen of " these claims were purchased within the last year or two, Nl it* SECTION OF GRANBY-HOTEL DINING ROOM. they adjoining the original dozen properties, and cost the company about $432,000. From the work already done on the recently acquired claims, they are known to have the large ore bodies of the others. One of the important institutions of Phoenix is the large Granby hotel, built, by the Granby Co. for the accommodation of their employees, and rented to W. S. Macy & Co. It is the largest building in the city, situated close to the mines, the structure being three stories in height, and being electric, lighted and steam heated. Accommodations have been provided here for over 200 men, the building having cost the company something like $30,000, Mr. Macy has given the best of satisfaction to the-men who live with him, which is testified to by the fact that he has had the house under lease for nearly six years. Having his own ranch in the -Kettle ��� river valley, about ten miles from Phoenix, from which his table is supplied daily with the best and freshest products of every kind, he is sure of a steady supply at all times. Houses of this character are usually termed " bunk houses," but that name is a misnomer here, as the house is as well conducted as most large hotels. It has the personal attention of Mr. Macy himself, who has a staff of some 15 or 20 employees. ��� The miners are quartered two or'three in a room, and are well cared for in every possible way. Most of them have said that in few hotels in the mining districts have they been able to secure any better fare���which fact speaks for itself as to the manner in which the house is conducted. IIS; ���"ml" ��� i ���msM&M a����MBra*PE!wsreae2ffl^ PHOEiNIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. *3 BRITISH COLUMBIA COPPER CO Now More Than Doubling Capacity of Smelting Plant.' IN THE Boundary district there are three mining corporations that overshadow all others, not only by reason of their importance in the financial world, but because of the large tonnage of ore produced in the past, and which, unless all signs fail, they will continue to produce with 1 increasing ratio in the future. The first one of these to be organized was the British Columbia * Copper Co., Ltd., comprising largely a number of New York capitalists���gentlemen who believed in the possibilities of the Boundary nearly ten years ago, and believe in them to an even greater degree today. It required the strongest kind of faith, when there was no railway within eighty miles of .the mines, and little prospect of any for years, to pay, for instance, an item of some $3,000 for wagon haulage only on machinery to the property, but that is exactly what those gentlemen'did. The British Columbia Copper Company was the outgrowth of investigations made in the Boundary in 1895 and 1896 by Colonel John Weir, of New York. After extended investiga tions, he decided to bond among other properties a prospect known as the Mother Lode. Mr. Frederic Keffer, of Cleveland, Ohio, who was with him at the time, was put in charge of the development work, and from that day to this has retained management of the property, and the success of its operations is largely due to his painstaking and acknowledged ability. The Mother Lode group of mines is situated in what is known locally as Deadwood camp, about three or four miles from the city of Greenwood. The Mother Lode was located on May 28, 1891, and in 1896 was bonded by the gentleman above named, who, together with his associates, Messrs. F. L. Underwood and Jas. F. Tichenor, both of New York, formed the Boundary Mines Co. to develop the claim. Work was started on the property in September of that year, and in March, 1898, the British Columbia Copper Co. was organized in New York, with a capital of $1,000,000, to acquire and operate the Mother Lode and adjoining claims of that group.' The company now owns as its principal group, . the Mother Lode, Primrose, Offspring, Ten Broeck, Sunflower and Don Julio mineral claims, being most conveniently located for economical working. In 1902 the capital of the company was increased to $2,000,000, in shares of $5 each. The officers of the company are as follows: President, F. L. Underwood; vice-president,1 F. L. Sommers; treasurer and secretary, R. H. Eggleston, all of New York city. The general manager of the mines from the start has been Frederic Keffer, M. E., who still holds that responsible position. About two years ago J. E. McAllister became the smelter superinten-, dent, and the success of the smelting department of the company is due, in large measure, to . the ability of Mr. McAllister, he having entire charge of all matters connected with the reducing of the ores of the company.^ For a number of years Mr. Keffer had entire charge of all the business of the company, but on account of the greatly increased field of operations of the company, Mr. Keffer was last fall relieved of the work of the general V >"A v .it .-'���S'3 m K ft BRITISH COLUMBIA COPPER CO.'S SMEWER��� FROM^ATtfBT PHOTQGBAPH. o*M>''A,-'v--')'';;������ ,?:������,-, "���..-��� ������"',, '.'���,.!/.���'. ���'.������.������.,f '������ :;:���������-,���v;|"^l^K''���%���r\?'^���''^���;'',i^''V^Oxa^"^;-Ii;'J : r;;!! Wir *4 '^O^r^%^P BOUN DARY MINING JOUR^ ���in ;i!.- gmanager and. made engineer of the Ifppmpany's mining department, in ^fcharge of all its mines and mining ippperations, with headquarters in New %'-York, while Mr. McAllister was made ^jSlbcal manager in charge of smelter and ;||business operations of the company. Jf��|�� Other local officials are: W. C. H. SjPVilson, cashier, in charge of, account- Sling department; George Williams, as- pisistant smelter superintendent; S. C. ^!;Holman, mining superintendent; Geo. >; |I). Paul, purchasing agent. ]j}Mj: There was not even a 25 foot pros- gSptct shaft on the Mother Lode in 1^1:896 when Mr. Keffer took charge of ||jthe property and proceeded to make a f||mine of it.' Now the foo.age of devel- fllopment work totals over 12,000 feet, ���f: or more than two miles, not taking p'uito consideration the immense |3$ainount of work done and being done ||rjti the extensive' ore .qutrries being g Operated so successfully by the cpm- lS|iiuiy. - |:g| The Mother Lode is well named, |.^;\for the lode found on the property is Exceedingly large, on the surface vary- iQing from 80 to 180 feet in width. This- 4uiode has been explored for a distance of nearly 2,000 feet north from the ,; inain working shaft to where is disappears under heavy drift; and a lar-e ^surface exposure on the Primrose, : some 700 feet in the opposite direction, also showa the continuity to the south, of ore bearing rock, the whole making a gigantic body of ore. ;;::;-;;v^The main double - compartment - ; shaft of the Mother Lode is down 350 feet, with long drifts running from the 60, 3oo and 300-foot levels. This GENERAL VIEW OP MOTHER LODE MINE. shaft is now being deepened and made a four-compartment shaft and will be sunk probably 200 to 300 feet more in the near futuie, recent extensive borings with the diamond drill having proved the existence of excellent ore bodies at considerable depth. . At present the smelter's two furnaces are being supplied to a large extent from the surface ore quarries. , The main ore quarry has been opened well up the side of the Mother Lode hill, other openings having been made at other levels, and tunnels run beneath, through which the ore is dropped from the large quarries, and thence taken at small cost to the crushers, which are located at the mine itself. Ore shipments, from the Mother Lode, by years, have been as follows: Tons ��� �� '��� ��� 1990 1901 1902 .-'. 1903 ������ ��� ������������ ��� 1904 . . .' 1905 (estimated) Total �� ��� �� * f 4 ��� ��� �� ��� ���t�� ��� ��� ��� 99>��34 I4'>326 . :.M38>��79 i74>298 ...;. 180,000 FREDERIC KEFFER, M.E., ENGINEER B.C. COPPER CO., LTD. 7^8,07 7 The Mother Lode has been steadily developed quite as long as any mine in the Boundary, and longer than most of the properties. It was the first mine to have a power plant capable of doing much development. In 1898 a ten- drill straight line air compressor was^ hauled to the mincTiom Marcus, Washington, then the nearest railway point, the cost for hauling alone being about $3,000. In j 901 a 40 drill cross-compound condensing Ingersoll-Sergeant air compressor, with four more boilers, and a first-motion Jenckes hoisting en girie, with other plant, were added to the equipment. The company -has erected comfortable and commodious mine buildings and residences for the employees, the number employed at the mine now being from 100 to 125. The smelter equipment of the B.ut- ish Columbia C()pperCoVv^td>,. comprises the usual complement : of S>re crushers, cornish rc)lls, sainple grinders, e;c.,.jn:tbe\'s& is supplied with two: Allis-Ghalmers stack fornices, 42 inches wide by '*5�� inches long, inside dimensions of tuy- >��� -"'-5 V \:i r.4 $ ** fc'< Bfci r" I L ��� a* i' "���*��&��� Hi m ... ... j^^.s^Sk nCTWWSflrJW: Us ���i'y Wtms^W^&^M^^^;'^i ^pffpps- T3 '*�� '\m r iJi :*- i. PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. i$ |''",V y^ l<: eres, of which there are ten on each side, of s}4 inches in diameter. At first the power for the two No. T/4 Connellsville blowers, as well as for other purposes,; was furnished by a Reynolds-Corliss engine, rated at 150 horse power, there being three 100 horse power boilers to make the steam. This was superseded, however, in 1904, by electric power from Cascade, 25 miles distant, a contract having been made with the Cascade Water, Power and Light Go. "to, furnish all the power- needed ��� The tonnage of ore treated at the smelter, by years^ run : 1901 : 117,611 1902 i 148,600 1903 ; 4 '...:. 162,913 1904 ���...*. 210,484 1905 (estimated) 215,000 *>', Total... % "852,608 ��� ,i transformers to reduce voltage from 2,000 co 550; a 75 kilowatt motor- generator to produce direct current at 250 volts, for driving electric crane, and trolley locomotives; an hydraulic accumulator and pump for tilting converters, rnn by 25 horsepower motor. In the converter room there are two converter stands equipped with all necessary appliances; five shells are provided; a 40-ton��� 4-motor electric travelling crane handles * the matte in 5-ton ladles, which are filled by launders connecting with furnace fort hearth. The flue dust is caught in specially arranged steel and brick dust chambers, and a briquetting plant makes this into bricks for smelting. The building is entirely of steel. A.spur from the main line of the C.P.R. serves the converter department of the works,, and no expense has been spared to make the plant up-to-date in every particular. FACI5 OF ORE QUAKRY���MOTHER LODE MINE. The best of results ��� have been obtained at this smelter in reducing ore, owing to the ore itself being, like most Boundary ores, of a self-fluxing nature, that is^,needing but little outside ores to inixfwith it to make it run well in the furrkces. The first furnace was blown in February 18, 1901, and the second;in June, 1902. , In .June, 1904,' the company began, converting, its own matte.at the smelter, as a coverter*- building had been erected, and two Jtaods of copper converters installed. .The converter plant, designed by Mr. McAllister, includes the following machinery: In power house (81x40), a Nordberg blowing engine, arranged for either steam or electricity, capacity 5,000 cubic het of air per minute, at 12 pounds pressure; a 300 h^rse power Canadian General electric Variable speed induction motor, with switch boards, etc.;: two sets of Largest Furnaces in Canada. Announcement is made this month that the British Columbia Copper Company, Limited, owning the Mother Lode group of mines in Deadwood camp, and the smelter at Greenwood, has definitely decided to enlarge the smelting plant along broad lines���-giving the concern much greater scope than heretofore. Contracts ruive been let to the Power and Mining Machinery Company for three blast furnaces that will be the largest in Canada. They will have a'capacity of from 500 to 000 tons daily each, with health area of 48x240 inches. Furnace c.hai.ging will be done from side dum|>ing cars, which will be hauled by trolley locomotives, The molten slag will be hauled a way from the furnaces by electric locomotives in cars of 25 tons capacity each. The cars are to be furnished by the M. H.Treadwell, Company, and each will be ��� provided with an electric motor for tilting the car. Three large blowers for the furnaces will be furnished by the Roots Company, each being driven by a 300 horse power, motor. In addition to these motors a too kilowatt motor- generator will be installed^ together with several smaller motors. The smelter ore bins will be practically rebuilt, and made ten feet higher to increase their capacity, and all the railway spurs connecting with these bins will be elevated to correspond. Five trolley locomotives will be installed to haul ore from the bins to the furnaces and slag from the furnaces to the waste dump. A completely equipped machine shop will also be installed at the smelter, with all the necessary tools. It has been definitely decided to substitute electrical power at the Mo.ther.Lp.djejmine for the steam-driven compressor. For this purpose a 500 horse power motor has been contracted for,- and also three 50 kilowatt step-down, transformers will be located at the mine. The ore crushers will be diiven by the electric motors now in service at the smelter, and they will be replaced by larger machines. Elec, trie apparatus will be furnished by the Canadian Westinghouse Company, while the new pumping plant comes from the Canadian Foundry Company. Steel will be used in the construction of the new-furnace building, and a track scale of greater capacity than that now in use will also be installed. It is the announced intention ot the company to push forward the construction work as rapidly as the weather conditions will permit. In some respects the Mother Lode is fairly representative of the larger copper-gold ore deposits occurring in the Boundary district; The croppings are in places soft oxides of iron from decomposition of ore-bearing rock, and in others unaltered magnetic iron oxides, very solid and compact, carrying copper pyrites and gold. In still, other places they are calcite with copper pyrites, iron pyrites, more or less quartzose material, and carrying some gold. These croppings differ from those on the Granby company's Knob Hill mine, in which specular iron occurs, a fine-grained magnetite being more ��� generally characteristic of the Mother Lode outcrops, the chief of which was a big copper-stained blowout, standing out prominently and distinctly noticeable from all of the surrounding thinly timbered hills. ���ix' $*��������>!��� 10 Mr Mil 'm K.f-. :n j'i W4 MS n i ;���!'.- PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. '���:';::.':Thfe:fpptwalV- as disclosed by development work, is for the most part limestone; and the hanging wall a diabase. ���Oh the footwall side there is ���^ot';^:a;'ir^e^:.5h:^p transition from NOS. 1 AND 2 QUARRIES, MOTHER LODB. ore-bearing to barren rock, but the ore often grades into the country rock so that it is often difficult to tell within a few feet where the pay ore will run out. On the other hand, the ore gives place to the barren country rock on the hanging wall side with comparative abruptness. The- chemical composition of the hanging wall and of the ore lying against it���leaving out the pyrites���is often quite similar. Here, as at the Old Ironsides, Knob Hill and B. G, porphyry dykes intrude, and it is considered quite probable that these intrusions affoided means of ingress for the ore carrying solutions from beneath, consequently the presence of a porphyry dyke is usually regarded in this district as a favorable indication when prospecting for ore. The general trend of the lead or ore deposit is north and south. The ore bodies pitch to the east at an angle of 65 to 75 degrees. The ores themselves may be classed in three general groups: 1. A calcite carrying copper pyrites and iron pyrites, these sulphides sometimes being massive and sometimes scattered in small crystals throughout the rock. Some quartzite is also often present. 2. A silicate of liine, iron, magnesia and alumina, carrying both copper and iron pyrites, massive or scattered, and frequently also quartz, garnets or serpentine; often all three together. Occasionally, too, a small quantity of zinc blende occurs in this class of 01 e. '3., An ex cessively hard magnetic wide of iron, with silica andr coppei pyrites; not often,much iron pyrites. All these ores carry gold, and small quantities of silver as well- There has been found near the lime wall on the 200 foot level, ore with calcitic gangue, carrying galena and zinc blende, and assaying well in silver, but not in sufficient quantities.to regard it as a separate class. The several varieties of ore above described blend into one another, more or less, but this general classification holds good with the Mother Lode. The ore body on the Mother Lode group is similar in- many respects to that in the Granby mines, except v.hat it is not so large. For several years development work was done underground, and much crosscutting and drifting at^the 200 and 300-foot levels .has proved that here, too, a large body 0/ ore of shipping grade is available. , Taken altogether, there seems, 111 conservative minds, no doubt that, inasmuch as the British Columbia Copper Company has secured a group of mines which are well equipped with machinery and whose ores are admirably adapred for blending, and has a smelter of its own, it will at no distant date join the profit sharing column.. The Emma Mine. [N POINT of shipments and men employed the Emma mine, in what is known as Summit camp, about five miles from Phoenix, is the most important mine in that camp. This property originally belonged to W. T. Smith, a well known Boundary pioneer, and Mackenzie, Man & Co.; the latter of Toronto. Some three years ago Mr. Smith sold his interest, one quarter, to the Hall Mining and Smelting Company, of Nelson^ that company finding the iron ores of the Emma, with some copper values, just the thing for fluxing purposes���for which previously barren iron- ore had been 'purchased. .The Nelson smelter people operated the propeity and took out many' thousands of tons of ore, some of which they used themselves, the balance going to the different smelters of Kootenay and Yale. It was found by experience that the ore was admirable for the special purpose intended, having be sides some values therein. In June, 1904, J J. Campbell,comnK:r- cial agent of the Hall Mining and Smelting Company^ secured the interest of Mackenzie, Mann & Co. in the Emma, and later disposed of this three-fourths interest to the B. C. Copper Company, of Greenwood. An arrangement was then entered into between the two owners by which the mine was to be, and is being, operated by the B. C. Copper Company, of which,Frederic Keffer is engineer. During the year 1905 a double- compartment incline shaft has been sunk to a depth of 185 feet, and a drift, some 150 feet in toward the ore from the 150-foot level. This drift has been in excellent ore for over 65 feet, the face of the workings now showing up very well indeed. x\ new gallows frame has been erected and D ... shipping bins built/ It is the intention of the management to replace the present steam plant as soon as possible with an electrically driven plant, which when done will put the Emma in thorough shape for continuous underground working. To the present time . much the greater portion of the ore has come from open quarries. In the last five years the Emma mine has produced approximately 78,- 000 tons of ore, as follows: " 1901 650 tons 1962 '.��.'.; ���'. 8,530 tons 1903 \ ��� 22,937 tons 1904 f) 38,000 tons 1905 (estimated)........ 8,20b tons Total ..; 78,317 tons EMMA MINK ORE QUARRIES, m m m ^5W-T.T5WES5SM!fflifejra3 ..ft'. PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 17 *3�� IBS ft v*. -fit ��*���� A MILLION FOR BOUNDARY POWER To Supply Mines and Smelters of This Section. ADEQUATE and cheap power is an essential to the economic operation of low grade mines ���wherever they may be located. When "bres run an average of $5 per ton, more or less, in all values, the question of cheap power becomes a vital one for both mines and reduction works. Last winter the mines and smelters of the Boundary were face fa-face-with a shortage of the much required power, owing to the low water in the Kettle river at Cascade, where the power is now generated and delivered by the Cascade Water, Power and Light Com pany, Limited. With the increasing requirements of both mines and smelters here, it seemed for a time a grave question, as the generating plant at Cascade was then,running to its limit and delivering all the power obtainable from Kettle river. At this juncture the West Kootenay Power and Light Co., Ltd , .which had been doing business in supplying light and power for the mines, smelters and cities of Rossland, Nelson,7-- etc., announced its intention of constructing a high-tension power line from the generating works at Bonnington Falls, on Kootenay river, ten miles below Nelson, across two ranges of mountains and into the Boundary district��� a distance, all told, of some 80 miles. Contracts for the delivery of power were made with the mining and smelter men of the Boundary, and ; L. A. Campbell, general manager of the Bonnington concern, immediately awarded contracts for the necessary additional generating machinery and for the construction of the double pole lines to the Boundary. This solution of the threatened power troubles was received with much satisfaction by Boundary mine owners, as the Bonnington people owned thousands of unharnessed horsepower in the Kootenay river, vwhich only awaited: devel opment and harnessing to be made available for industrial purposes. At Bonnington the present plant has an output of 4,000 horsepower, being distributed in Nelson, where it is used for running part, of the city lights, the reduction works of the Hall & Smelting Co. and P. Burns & <3o.'s refrigerating plant. At Trail it is;;.-us^.;^f6ri.pt>%eir''fdr the- operation of the Canadian Smelting Works, being the only power used there in both smelter and lead refinery. At Rossland this power is used for lighting the city, and for running the air compressors at the War Eagle, White Bear and Jumbo mines, and also to operate the crushers and other machinery at the LeRoi, LeRoi No. 2, Centre Star and Spitzee mines. This plant has been in operation for several years, but the demands of the Boundary mines and smelters have called for the expenditure of about one million dollars additional by the company for generating machinery and in constructing the Boundary high tension long distance transmission lines. New Plant for Boundary Work. The plant now being installed is situated at what, is known as the upper Bonnington Falls, the old plant being at the lower falls. The new plant will have a capacity of 32,000 horsepower hydraulically, and at the present time the company is installing two 8,000 horsepower waterwheel settings, manufactured by the I P. Morris company, of Philadelphia. The two new generators being installed will have a capacity at 100 per cent, power factor of 8,000 horsepower each, and are being manufactured by the Canadian General Electric Company. That company is also supplying two 300 horsepower exciters, while the I. P. Morris Company is supplying the waterwheels for the driving of said exciters. All step-up transformers at the Bonnington plant have a total capacity of 20,000 horsepower and are being supplied by the Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company. All switchboard apparatus is being supplied by the Canadian General Electric Company. For some months there have been under construction two 69,000 volt power lines from Bonnington to Greenwood, a distance of very close to 80 miles. These lines go through Traili Rossland, Cascade, Grand Forks and Phoenix, and each line will be capable of delivering 7,000 horsepower at Greenwood. In fact, the lines, switching apparatus, transformers and generators are all in duplicate, in order to insure continuous service. It is pro posed to carry a pressure of 60,000 volts at the generating station at Bonnington, and deliver 55,000 volts at the different distributing stations in the Boundary country. At Phoenix the company is erecting a sub-station having a step-down capacity of 3,000 horsepower in the transformers, and at Grand Forks an exact duplicate of- this , sub-station is being erected which will have a total step-down capacity of 6,000 horsepower. At jGreenwood a duplicate of these two houses will be erected,which will have 3,000 horsepower capacity^in step-down transformers. Thec step- down transformers for the above three sub-stations are being supplied by the Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company, and all switchboard apparatus by the Canadian General. Electric Company. The insulators which are being used on this new - Boundary power line are being supplied by the Locke Insulator Manufacturing Company, of Victor, New York. Each insulator weighs 36 pounds and is tested to. 120,000 volts for 15 minutes. New Distributing Company. The West Kootenay Power & Light Company, Ltd., has closed a contract with the British Columbia Construction and Distributing Company, Ltd., to supply it with 10,000 horsepower in Rossland, the two corporations being affiliated. The latter company is doing all the work of constructing the pole lines, etc., from Rossland to Greenwood, and will have charge of the distribution of the power over the new lines. Manager Campbell expects to have the complete plant in operation and ready for business by the first of May next, although power will probably be supplied before that date to the Granby smelter at Grand Forks, over one of the lines, should there be a particularly dry season this winter, as there was last, thereby cutting down the present supply of power- already available in the Boundary. It is.the intention of the company to supply the low grade mines and the smelters of the Boundary with an abundance of cheap power and to give a continuous service. The apparatus which has been purchased is the ���'I i. m w r?H 'I , !m i ���1 "If I!.!'!! 2-H: 7*' w�� Li! Pi'-'' !;['"������ , 41-;' if- ijtr' Hi ��� ill: ..'��� lie;! ��� t].Ki' il* m I "ii'l!1 ,PHV' r'i'vi' ���"��� !i;if j.,:, . I h: I1W.VL : hit'; > 1 a.'sr '��� i !,r4- .: ill ." iijllli: .'. - ! l,'5'c! ! ��� nine! ���������'- 111. Ui': ��� #1 '��� V 1 - $' ���4 w l\ ft {���' ��� K I'l ��.i i^>A 18 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. If 5E52515E5H5E525E5E 5^5,5^^^ Leading Hotel of Boundary's Busiest Mining Camp *i< Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Men ��i�� Convenient and Well Arranged Sample Rooms ��� . * * < , : Rooms Largs and Airy, Dining Room the Best JOHN A! McMASTER, Cor. Khob Hill Ave., 9Pp, Eastern Townships Bank,-PHOENIX,B.C. s*HS5525E5H5asa5^^ D D D D G D I) 0= 0 D C C G G: ru T-f'T \v..������ -.^"IC���s-v�� J'~'���2^r".*-*ra��Wr ?i��P SJS^^SI ..^. L**o*fflr**rm,K.^m^fl?rrwx^ ^^��$ PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. *9 best that money could secure in the best markets of the world, and the entire lay-out of the power plant has been arranged in such a manner that there will be no trouble in keeping up uninterrupted service. The company figures that, when this plant is in operation, it will be but a comparatively short time until the produccion of copper from the mines of the Boundary will have reached much greater proportions, the element of cheap power being largely responsible for this condition of affairs. In the Boundary country announcement was made some months ago that pany, with its chief mines in Phoenix camp and its smelter at Boundary Falls, the latter having recently been blown in, will doubtless wish to utilize the cheaper electric power for the present steam plants���it being merely a matter of dollars and cents. And in the low grade mining operations of the Boundary district a few cents saved per ton means considerable amounts saved in the aggregate. Then, it is known that the Canadian Pacific has in mind the use of electricity for the operation of its system into and through the Boundary, in due course, where it is ' believed that tension electric power line from Bonnington to Boundary's mines and smelters, Mr. Campbell himself has had the personal supervision of the work from the beginning. With a corps of able assistants, he has let no grass grow under his feet, but has pushed the construction from the very start with all possible speed, the result being that tremendous progress has been made oh the large task before him, its completion being in sight. Among other things, he was forced to build miles of a wagon road into the mountainous country between Rossland and Cascade, spending many fr* 2,4 ETT-* ���Ml rRESENT POWER PLANT, LOWER BONNINGTON FALLS. contracts for power had been made with the Granby company for use at both mines and smelter, and also with the British Columbia Copper Co., Ltd., at Greenwood. The latter company has just recently announced extensive enlargements at the smelter, by which the capacity of those reduction works will be doubled, the contracts already having been let for the necessary machinery. At this company's Mother Lode mine the present steam- driven air compressor will also have electricity for motive power. In addition to these large companies using and needing more electric energy, the Dominion Copper Corn- ore, freight ,and other trains can be operated on the comparatively heavy grades prevailing, at much less cost than with steam power, as at present. Economy in costs of operation is the word that has gone forth in this section, and every year sees some reduction somewhere, by improved methods, nevy inventions, greater output, etc. Even a novice can realize that electricity will play an important part���if not the most important���-in this matter. And that there is ample power to be had at the magnificent falls of Kootenay river at Bonnington is equally self-evident. In the construction of the new high thousands of dollars on this matter alone, in order to get supplies in to the construction camps and the heavy cedar poles, crossarms, wire and insulators on the construction line itself. In addition to the double pole line, carrying the power wires, a private telephone line was also constructed on the right of way, for the exclusive use of the company's employees. This line is now working across the mountains, being a great convenience. The poles and wires are now all in place from Rossland to the Granby smelter, the right of way being cut clear of timber and underbrush about ioo feet wide the entire length of the line. ,;7te;i$.g,t;.._ .( .... ... . sir ������' m ...ft w ' ui- ���ill"' ml ?���&;/?0- :v":;������^������4^.; .:':;-c^^ivsi^i^ipl|liigip| ~��~����lMiai��t'JHI.iil81^_ ! PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. m ilUll. 4 Hi;., 'il Mir, ���it m: 'Iff: ���H ;���'.���: MINES and REAL ��� ������'&!���.��� ���:���.��� ���.���:���!; flii 111 ?R0Ma residence o( fifteen years in the Boundary county, mAUjH ' rhwougWy familiar with Mining Properties, Investments and I.Hes, I am in a position to. give clients at home and abroad the information desired. . Can Ornish the particulars that intending investors wisK for regarding :^0^1$�� and Prospects in the several camps of the Boundary. Re^^ confidential information given and correspondence solicited. llllll EASTHr^ G. W. RUMBERGER PHOEtflX, BRITISH COLUMBIA LIVERY STABLE GOOD DRIVING TEAMS SENT TO ANY PART . . . OP THE BOUNDARY . . . BAGGAGE TRANSFER AND ... HEAVY DRAYING. & - COAL, WOOD, ICE, HAY, GRAIN, OATSy WHEAT, PEED, etc. ... 25' HEAD OP HORSES CONSTANTL Y IN USE Et Prop. Knob Hill Ave., PHOENIX, tifti ���:-.������ t?^a lltt M ���:i��'sp�� fe!; ���Vy.'.:f^li!v.;'?'l v.��S 1=.-: ���m PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 91 W l *7J l. v>ii m r v.��B i-riSS saSS G38* ^>3 ft DOMINION COPPER COMPANY, Ltd. One of Three Largest Companies Operating in the Boundary. EXPERIENCE of mining men in the Boundary has taught the lesson that success in mining and smelting the low grade copper-gold ores of this section can only follow the investment of Jarge amounts of capital, coupled with the most modern and approved 'methods of development, extiaction and treatment���and all of it on an extensive scale. Three corporations are head and front above all others in Boundary mining���the Granby Consolidated, the British Columbia Copper Co. and the Dominion Copper Co. The. latter company has done the least development of the three, but is generally acknowledged to have in its Phoenix camp properties mines of no little merit. Outside of the company's officials, it is the general opinion in the Boundary among the old timers and others familiar with the Brooklyn group of mines, in Phoenix camp, that this group is one of the best in the Boundary. While the ore bodies may not be as large as some others, they are known to make up in values, to a large extent, what they lack in comparative size���and their size is not small, by any means. In the past the Brooklyn group has gone through several vicissitudes of various kinds, but it is a source of satisfaction to note that the properties are now in the hands of men who thoroughly understand their business ���that of mining and smelting���and what is more, these men have already made unquestioned successes of the metallurgical enterprises they are engaged in. The properties are controlled by the Newhouse Untermeyer- Guggenheim people, now profitably operating mines and smelters in Utah and Colorado. Seven years ago the Dominion Cop per Co., Ltd., was incorporated by Hon. George A. Cox, Mackenzie, Mann & Co., and others in Toronto, they having acquired the six claims in the Brooklyn group in 1898 from the original owners. For a time the properties were worked under charge of Frank Robins, M. E., and later James Breen, well known in the northwest as a smelterman, spent $125,000 on the mines in development, with what are said to be satisfactory results. As superintendent Mr. Breen had John L. Parker, who is now in charge of the Brown Alaska Co.'s properties at Had- ley, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Mr. Breen, however, had a disagree ment with the Toronto people regarding the construction of a smelter, and for nearly three years the Brooklyn group lay idle. In the summer of 1904 the Montreal & Boston Consolidated secured a contract for the purchase of the Brooklyn group from, the Toronto people, and started working on the mines and shipping the ore to the latter company's smelter at Boundary Falls. This was continued for about eight months, when the smelter and mines were closed, the M. & B. Co. having defaulted on the payments to the Dominion Copper Co., the vendors, to the extent of many thousands of dollars, and having taken out the ore in the mines without doing any development work worth mentioning. Financial men in New York who had advanced funds called for an ac- DOMIKION COPPER CO.'B SMBI^SB. BOUN��ABY>AMB. ',.{ i; 1\\[ Mtft ���,ww& ��� %%&����������� J3- mm :fl-lfe j ; PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. w S��' A. l.f �� f>.t \ .\. h Fr& I * ** ? V: -> n ^ V \ * r; ' *��� i O t t.�� ���������� , p***!^ $ <* vl, \ i i ���& -^ ft m^ pfFj^ i * n < * "/-^ ">^�� , J><'>��. -^ ^*, ywRr^. I, ;h > I . . .'>'���' :!' ('Vis- eburitihg, and matters were at a stand- '35i^Ss^a result, of the closedown in fey^;i905, and the events that led up \ tq it, the financiers in New York who |r^Jadvanced funds to the Montreal i&lJBbston Consolidated made an ar- ^ra||^iiient with the Dominion Copper IGcifix* complete the payments on the |p>ro|^rties, and to take over the mines, iasiwell as the original mines and |smel|er of the Montreal & Boston ^Consolidated. It was also decided to ^issue:f$7oo,ooo in six per cent, ten- fyeaj|l)6nds, which were promptly sub- Iscribeid for by those already interested. SThus Mr. Samuel Newhouse, Mr. pUntermeyer and their friends came intp|cpntrol of the properties and took :^ief the Dominion Copper Co.'s char- terMsp. ^kgPipeyious to this, Maurice M. Johnsonian engineer of high standing from Salt Lake City, in the employ of Mr. Newhouse, made an exhaustive examination of all the mines of the compa- j ny, and gave a detailed report concerning them. This report contains much interesting matter not previous- ly published, and we give some extracts therefrom: The property of the company in--, eludes^ tlies srhelter and thirteen mineral claims and fractions in various Boundary camps, as follows: Phoenix- camp, Brooklyn, Stemwinder, Idaho, THE BROOKLYN MINE, PHOKNIX, B.C. Rawhide, Montezuma and Standard (see map, page 54), 148 acres; Wellington camp, Athelstan and Jackpot fraction, 34 acres; Summit camp, y�� interest Mountain Rose, 27 acres; Deadwood camp, Sunset, C. O. D., Crown Silver and Morrison, no acres; making a total of three hundred and nineteen acres. In the Brooklyn, eleven samples from the 25o-foot level gave average values of r.43 per cent, copper, $1.32 gold, 25 cents silver. Mr. Johnson's estimate of ore available from the Brooklyn for the smelter was 260,000 tons, which would contain on safe figures, with copper at 15 cents, $5.86 per ton. At 100 feet additional depth he estimated another 250,000 tons available. As the Granby mines had proved ore to a depth of 700 or 800 feet, just across the valley, he saw no reason why the Brooklyn lode should not be as deep. In the Stemwinder. he found the ledge parallel to that of the Brooklyn, and his samples gave 1.4 per cent, copper, $1 gold and 25... cents silver. The Stemwinder is equipped with, hoisting engine, shafthouse, etc., but no available tonnage was allowed for. Yet Mr. Johnson expected the mine to develop and return a large number of tons, and mining is easy and cheap, ��� While nothing had been done oh the Idiho to speak of, it adjoined the Granby properties and had large surface indications, which had been extensively cut by the Great Northern railway grade, the line running across the claim, and the engineer believed it would prove to be a very valuable asset of the company. Of the Rawhide Mr, Johnson said that his gross average assays of numerous samples gave returns of $5-3^ per ton, and it was his opinion that 230,000 tons of ore of this value were available, and after proper development he would expect to mine 1,000, 000 tons from this property. Of the Mountain Rose and Sunset group, he stated that they were chiefly valuable for fluxing from their iron contents. The Athelstan, from the books of the previous owners, showed that 4,000 tons had given returns of $7.67 per ton, and he thought it a good prospect. Summing up, Mr.,Johnson stated that with the expenditure of $250,000 for additional furnace, converting plant, electric power equipment, compressor and mine development, the properties of the company could be made to produce 1,500 tons of ore daily, and that a profit of $1.25 Per ton could he earned with copper at 12% cents per pound. Coupled with this, however, should be competent skilful and economical management. & **���* -"�� ' * PP>-nffi^^^^i��*SKiP^P5^;i'SS!^5E?'^^ flftlfl^ la*���"*P��i��KW��W��!W"��MV��?W.WSw^a^ M.twv-1-.*?!} vw^r 'S,5iJ2^y~.,-J>��>*-*,"��� .A 1 1 | t -SI 1 * ASS t \,sg t ,u ��� r '* t. PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. *3 H Wi B ,'�� rV,J iff l" ^ft gVB *�� '.i-\fi >-'* with modern equipment and improved methods in both mining and smelting. Acting upon this report of Mr. Johnson, which was dated February 18, 1905, the control of the properties was secured, and the company practically reorganized. The officers of the Dominion Copper Company, Limited, now are: President, Hon. Warner Miller; secretary and treasurer, Leopold Hermann; "managing director, Samuel Newhouse; consulting engineer, M. M. Johnson; resident manager, Thomas R. Drummond; smelter superintendent, W. C. Thomas. The last three gentlemen have been associated with Mr. Newhouse in his Colorado and Utah mining enterprises, and have sary, to place them on a paying basis. It was also intimated that the construction of a new smelter of ample capacity was under consideration, which would be more advantageously located and fitted up than the present reduction works. Since then Mr. Thomas, in; charge of the smelting operations of the company, has visited several smelter sites throughout the Boundary, but no decision regarding the location of the new smelting works has yet been definitely announced by the company. In fact, it has been practically decided to do the smelting at the present location, 'Meantime Mr. Thomas went on with placing the old smelter at Boun- mines in Phoenix camp and from their Sunset mine in Deadwoo^camp, the latter adjoining/tlie Mother Lode, a large shipper. For the present the comparatively small machinery equipment which, has been used at the company's mines heretofore, is in commission, with the addition of a small air compressor? which has ^��een, purchased for the Rawhide Imkie, to be operated by electric power, the machinery for the othe^ mines being steam driven. v> i" It is the announced intention of the. Dominion Copper Company's management, however, to install a large/ central machinery plant to serve all their mines in this camp, which will be. & had years of practical experience to fit them for the work in hand. Last August work was resumed at the company's mines in this camp���- Phoenix���-and a systematic course of development was undertaken by Mr. Drummond, which has been steadily pursued since starting. In that month also a party of those connected with the undertaking from New York and Salt Lake City, including President Miller and Messrs. Newhouse and Un- termeyer, visited this camp, and thoroughly inspected the properties of the company. At that time it was announced that the company had the funds on hand and was willing to spend i,ooOjOoo on the properties, if neces- THB 8TEMWINDEE MINE, PHOENIX, B.C. dary Falls in the best shape possible, under the conditions, for operation. Additional ground was secured at Boundary Falls for dumping the slag, sufficient to last for years to come, and about the first of December (this month) one of the two furnaces at the smelter was blown in, the other one to be placed in blast about January 1,1906. This meant the shipment for one furnace of some twelve cars, or 360 tons, of ore daily from the company's mines, which is now being done regularly, the ore being carried by the C. P. R. a distance of some 20 miles from the mines to the smelter. This ore is being taken from the company's Brooklyn, Stemwinder and Rawhide driven by electric energy. This will doubtless be ordered and installed whenever it shall have been determined by the company's engineer the best position for the location of such an extensive plant for serving the several large mines of the company. Thus far the mines owned by this company have had a total output of about 214,000 tons of ore, as follows: Brooklyn-Sremwinder ...... 80,000 Rawhide ............. 27,000 Mountain Rose 6,000 Sunset . ......... 28,000 Athelstan .......... .. 10,000 Morrison .... 3>500 Total ........ ....154,500 ��: .s��� .:.;?r-;-..~"':���.'������'���; v '������;;;.;���:/;"���';������, .;;-'p ;'-������,.��� . ��� '.���.���:;'. ��� ������: ?,���������:;������������ Vc*:i*��&*;;^ , * JsiCi&to ::;;i���vV;f':-���;���"'...;: .-,-���'���- ^-^.? 0yyy. -.^^vr^.:,^-^.-:-;-^ ���'������ ���'"'' ���'-'.,���������''"��� V'1'r.i-'"-;.; i'f;">J-^' ..'.���, ���:-.:'''.1'.'.',"..''. ���'.:���'.��� ''-:��� ���';".-'���'��� "'���'.',' ^ '.'.O1 *?���'.'���"J'.sV-if i -**Jr/ '\ 1 *s rj?K^:f^*'A* i\ ������"%,"*4' '' -i^ * *''���i-r*-'^pJi^^i^^CT^i^ffli^ffi^SP^^SfiSSw'^^^^^^^^^^^^a . . .,, ��� ���.>. .....';, ��� ..;.,. ���... ��� c1 -i .��� v .;-���-��� .-������. ,-::y-;'P''.'j^-.{-.p.'.'.> i.\. f Z,,^ c-t. 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W'.E'jM-An'WAC m my w Steam Hoists Eleetrie Hoists Smelting Furnaces ; Crushers and Crushing" Rolls Concentrating Tables and Jigs Mechanical Roasters and Dryers Etc., Etc. ��� Automatic Samplers ^ Engines and Boilers ;:;:rr''^:.^,;-:.,r;; Ore Buckets, Cages and Cars Mine Timber Framing Machines Stamp Batteries and Accessories Slag Pots, Cars and Refining Kettles Eta Etc. $ SEND US YOUR SPECIFICATIONS/AND GET OUR ESTIMATES. Address Inquiries to EDWARDr^^S b'-V THE DENVER EN6iNEERIN6 WORKS CO., GREENWOOD, B. C, .. '���."��� ���������.;;.. ������,-.--���..������.. lt ' .-. .McPhee Building, -.'... - Agent for Southern B. C. DENVER Colo. 'mm $$ Smfi v.i:'.:.': ipsa!;;"';: :i ^ tf^l ;a '}* '"% 1 J tip? t-rs Mffffire^figwrwtwrTO^ ^?5|Si5RfP?7^^^��^^^ :^��i ri-Ul '.Ji,' *�������� 'A '^���V ,^.,5 .1 1.* a ; Ki ^ J ��w ���- PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 25 **s 1 V ��1 '-W fef RAWHIDE MINE, &IIOWING TR\MWAY AMD ORB BINS. But a few thbusand tons of this ore, however, has been sent out by the present company, for, as stated above, the smelter only resumed operations three or four weeks ago under r the present management. Sufficient is known of the mines by those in charge, for the statement to be made that the properties certainly have great merit, and, given the energetic yet conservative management they are now receiving, for a sufficient length of time, they should be getting into the class with their elbow neighbors���the Granby mines���that is, in the dividend class. Regarding present development at the mines, the following is a summary of the work accomplished to date at the leading properties of this company: /The Brooklyn mine has a shaft 425 feet in depth. On the 150-foot level there are 1,500 feet of drifting, etc.; on the 250-foot level 2,500 feet of drifting, and about 400 feet of work on the 350-foot level. In addition to this there are some 500 feet of raises, etc., making over a mile of workings in this the leading property of the company. The mine is regularly sending out its quota of the ore needed at the company's smelter, which will probably be doubled when the second furnace is blown in At the Stemwinder the main incline shaft has attained a depth of about 400 feet, but there has not been nearly as much work done on the levels as in the Brooklyn. At the 114-foot level about 600 feet of work has been done, .about 60 feet at the 250-foot level, and some 80 feet of work in other ways, giving a total of 1,290 lineal feet of development in this property. The values of the Stemwinder, however, are commonly understood to be rather better than in other claims owned by the company, and the ore is desired at the smelter. The Rawhide adjoins the Snowshoe and Granby mines, and is an immense management thinks,., that the mine is well worth exploiting further... The iron ore from this property, is now being sent down to the smelter- daily. Since Mr. Thomas had the smelter blown in, the works have been operating steadily with what are reported to be excellent results. At both mines and smelter about 150 men are now employed, and this force will be increased somewhat about the first of the year, when the second furnace is blown in. At the Dominion Copper Com - pany's smelter at Boundary Falls there are two water-jacketed blast furnaces, having an inside tuyere line of 40x176 inches, larger than any other furnaces in this.district with the exception of the two installed at the Granby works this last year. These furnaces have a rated capacity of about 300 tons per day each, but in reality the capacity is , somewhat larger than this. Three Connelsville blowers supply the necessary blast, being directly connected with two Erie steam engines, one of 75 horsepower and the other of 125 horsepower. Steam will doubtless - - ��� ... .. 1 ��� give way here to electricity as motive quarrying proposition, the ore being �� / , . ���, J, . , . ^ J *=> r r } n power, in due time. The slag is taken broken down easily and economically. The old management opened up a large quarry and shipped upwards of 25,000 tons of ore therefrom. The new management has opened another surface quarry on the same p claim, running also a tunnel 100 feet long, with some 40 feet of a raise. A large tonnage of ore is expected to be had from the Rawhide at little expense of extraction, and the installation of a small compressor this month would indicate that shipments from this property will be increased. At the Sunset mine, Deadwood camp, a small force of men is employed, and while values are very low, the away from the furnaces by a small locomotive, while the matte is shipped to the B. C. Copper Company's smelter at Greenwood for converting. The ore treated at this smelter, under the various managements in the past, was approximately as follows: tons tons i9��3 132,570 i9��4 3��>93�� 1905 (estimated) 80,000 tons Total 243,500 tons When the programme outlined by this company is carried out in its entirety, the Dominion Copper Co. should be an important copper producer. .'...,:yy ;.i-miy;yy>C���.������." ;pr;���;i^���iU^l5itKfrto#!,^���!*:#^ MS?'-;:;-,.: ' , ���KB" $&;.���'��! Ti I ..'���" Iff-U-; I" .-���: ���������: ������ r(tiis*iil ��������� ; '���:5^r?!ii..;- j ' ^ai*. ?;���!���������; " ��; ���������!.-. yy- IjtJtK1 ���HI .rH;-;.���;,������ PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. fH5H52Sra5E5H5Z51!5E5��53H5i3J^^ C. ��. HUNTER, Sec-Tkbah. !' ;ii ''I I ��� iH;! ��'!' t j-> ��� - i ���'-.���:. tiffin "it-:'!���! 'Ml���.���������' ��� Ik Ms THE BIG tSTOFrEr f! Tpitn.r-v-���.;���.. ���.:--'..?-- ���fa- 1-:!! r;.-jl ���'J <N ������1 ���] ���I ���ii m J��!pp . li-:- ���'I s'l' |>HOElgXv B,G, GREENWOOD, B.C. iSSlMJIlSfeSffij FORKS, B.C. ". . .. ���p| ii;iijfc-*vA 11 li 1 mi <j!i! p-y0y-L l!;r" - lillliill ?':!��� irus m i S^ i G General Merchandise in the Boundary��� ��|p|^ GOODS, etc-and purchasing in car lots |||mg^ times in a position to serve Customers i-iiiij..'"'"' iili 111! i^v^'i.- MSSZSE a Hip liSiiji'f ���..,��� ���ijpi'ij; t'j^ & SMITH Kft^t Hill Ave. !5! *' I ��tmi i& ���iljlirii'.' " !l IIP' ��� ^ ��� p. !p;!'*t ;' i': "P 5 fe1; ��� K* ^ - - PHOENIX, B.C. LEADING ... Stationers, Booksellers Wall Paper and . . . Fancy Goods Dealers in the Boundary .... 'lie LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK . . Choice Imported and Domestic Cigars . . . . Pipes and' Tobaccos . . Full Line of Kodaks and Photographic Supplies -'<���" ffifi��?5ai'*i -G1 f- ���'������ ?y-&i ������-������������;; ;������".�� at ^ ^ KaSiSES GREENWOOD and MIDWAY ''V;-;; ggUB����3flifBg^^ ��� TO^mr-iyri^i^^ i ���."r^tf-^wiBja. T*f3aw��n���� rw illflifl, i ,"��,,' �� a.**. ..J r.j.. pMoMara>;pm��umjg��li8Hra^ *��otiHmraj��&ffiK .4 -sSt .:-pa :fcg s, I--., PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 27 Ri THE CITY OF PHOENIX Premier Mining Camp of the Dominion of Canada. WHEN the mineral claims in the neighborhood of what is now known as the city of Phoenix were discovered by the trail blazers of the Boundary, there were not wanting those who predicted that the values were altogether too low to permit of a profit being made from the ores. In fact, only a faithful few believed that they would pay to operate. The contrast between that time, some fifteen years ago, and the present is not a little remarkable, for it has been demonstrated by shareholders in our largest mining company getting- the profits from dividends to their bank accounts that such a thing is possible and is being done���with the likelihood of its being continued for years and years to come. The growth of Phoenix has all been within six or seven years. From the forest primeval in this short time has been built a substantial and permanent little city, with all modern conveniences, such as electric lights, telephones, telegraphs, two railways, graded streets, churches, fraternal societies and even x-rays���a city that is incorporated and is in the best financial condition of any municipality in the Boundary country. How such a thriving community could grow to its present stage in such a short space of time, and retain its full vigor and even continue to grow, is a wonder to the novice. . Here we are, nearly 5,000 feet high, with no suburbs almost and nothing to draw from except our own immediate resources. And yet prosperity" reigns here. and peace and plenty prevail for the most part. The explanation is not far to seek. We have here admittedly the greatest copper-gold mines in Canada and perhaps on the , American continent, which are being successfully operated by what some claim are the best companies that ever worked a mining property in the Dominion. Be that as it may, on other pages of this issue will be found fuller details of these mines, with illustrations. In the fall of 1898 the first post- office was established here under the present name, Thomas Roderick, now a councilman, being the first postmaster. He was succeeded by D. J. Matheson, the present incumbent, who is also city clerk. Mr. Matheson has been postmaster for some six years and has given general satisfaction. In 1898 and 1899 a realization of the vast extent of Phoenix camp ore bodies began to percolate through the minds of the public, and when the C.P. R. began to spend some $5,000,000 in the construction of its Columbia & Western branch line, from the Colum- Fv." y V ��.* .���*"*�� ��� ia .-*��-*��-�� ���.- ,4��� BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THB CITY OF PHOENIX, ,H0^X: PIONEER AND BOUNDARY M��OU^ ;.;'i|' ilii ������il-1 -i.UV'ft;'''- i iQyy!'y;'--y'f'- yyi- y.:i.;- THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATEr HOTEL IN PHOENIX. BATHROOMS IN CONNECTION. NEW FROM CELLAR TO ROOF. BEST SAMPLE ROOMS IN THE BOUNDARY. i|^OPPpSITE:;':..>.'. GREAT NOIITHERN fillip ! JAMES MARSHALL, Proprietor. Millfefe^ l\ . UrJ' mmm * ?��� v��* ^ussspssasw*^*f��*gsrvV^"< " - V >'~^WSIIlMl5l��l The ��l( H!'..Sst. \vV::- \i\y. ;:�� .. DEALERS M �� io^dsii|. pes Erc> Ere. We thank our manx Customers {or their Liberal patronage in 1905, and hope for a continuance ef the same in 1906. dominion Ave. >X- a: file-;' 'M'' ;������.': ������'��� iii)a!i>aBW*^ i*y^^P^^5r^ "UJ^^i-! " n> s^a^c^j^v^;^^ ^^^^^^^M'^^^^^Wl PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 2 8a LOWER TOWN. PHOENIX���GREAT NORTHERN DEPOT. bia river to the Boundary, largely for the purpose of reaching the mines of this camp, the overwhelming importance of this section was still more realized. Then Phoenix started to grow by leaps and bounds, and in the fall of 1899 and for the next year it experienced a genuine boom. Tp give an idea of conditions, the writer of these lines was forced to. walk five miles to Greenwood on his advent here, to secure sleeping accommodations one night���or lie in the snow. Hotel accommodations, were not adequate in Phoenix for the incoming thrones. This was soon remedied, however, and Jonah's gourd was not to be compared with the growth of Phoenix for a time. From a typical straggling mountain mining camp, it took on more permanence, had a board of trade, which was successful in accomplishing much good for the town, and a year later became incorporated as a municipality. In the fall of 1889 the first town lots were placed on sale in Phoenix, and the occasion was a record breaker. Before G. W. Rumberger, owner of the lower townsite, could get his lots surveyed properly, the most desirable were sold at good figures, while many had bought on the so-called New York townsite up on the hill. But the Granby townsite sale was the most remarkable in this section. On the day announced for the sale, every business lot platted was sold���-$600 for corners and $500 for inside lots���and many who had travelled hundreds of miles to buy went away sorely disappointed because there were none left. It has been said that the proceeds of: this sale of part of the surface rights of the Granby .claims were sufficient to meet the initial expense of building the company's smelter at Grand Forks. The summer of 1901 saw the Dominion Copper Co.'s addition platted and placed on the market, thus completing the connection between the upper and lower parts of the city. During the times of unusual activity Phoenix thrived and waxed mightily, and. in the years following, like all places of quick growth, it had a chance to settle down to legitimate business, which it did in good shape, and yet continued to have a steady and permanent growth. The 500 or 600 miners, more or less, employed in the properties adjoining the place caused the distribution of from $35,000 to $60,000 per month in wages, year in and year out, thus affording a legitimate basis for growth and permanence. This has continued, uninterruptedly, and each year sees some improvements of a substantial and lasting character being carried on here. I One thing that contributed largely to helping Phoenix was the building of the Victoria, Vancouver & Eastern extension of the Great Northern railway into this camp, which was completed last year, the first passenger trains- beginning running regularly in March, 1905. Since that time Phoenix has had the most direct connection with the outside world* by way of' Spokane, and the Great Northern railway has secured its share of tonnage from this camp. The city is served with an excellent light service, which is provided by the Phoenix Electric Lighting Co., Ltd., ..which company also furnishes water to all parts of the city, the water being pumped from a nearby lake to storage tanks, conveniently located for domestic ��and fire purposes. During the past year alone several large buildings have been erected in Phoenix, which show the faith possessed in the place by its people. The new Brooklyn hotel, shown on page 28 of this issue, would be a credit to any place, and is complete in every detail. It cost James Marshall and G. W, Rumberger about $20,000 when recently thrown open to the public. The city itself built a new city hall at a cost of some $6,000, arranged and adapted for the many municipal uses, the city government never before having had a home of its o\y,n. On page 28c r y-ti^viriTi'anaifar tiiMiirtmMiiihkiitiMMn ,*-'��� -'- 2H0ENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. m+yy J.A-MORRIN. J. E. W. THOMPSON. A. H. RUMBERGER. ESTABLISHED 1899. i..;>i.i ���il ll^t-iv )H\.}\,pi^y :���/������ ������ qip .i m '^(C id-:i.yi-i;r.r.������:'���;::��� j-#3/.1.-- 1|B I ��!��� w GROCERIES 5) ��� mmm 1|| HI SASH- DOORS AND BUILDERS' SUPPLIES, RETAIL '!'l'ii!i::i fill 111111 km HEADQUARTERS FOR IND FAMILY .tl'jilp'^p^i-../ till Mm life ;|ei^'soiiiciT';:;-:a;'SHAhe of your patronage :����������^^ P.U. BMi m Www PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL H. ,fll$$ hvi-i ;��� :y-yMm -k*:\\. :,]: \k^i$y\; y. ft j M;iMv'1 ift Mi sr Is Jo] tot ��� I ��!'��� The Phoenix Pioneer was established in 1899. Since that time it has never changed editors or managers, but has always made a special effort to gather and print all the reliable mm ing news to be had about the Boundary. It is the only paper in Boundary issued from its own building, and the only one to gather its own statistics; those published from Vancouver to New York generally appear first in the Phoenix Pioneer. The Pioneer costs but $2 per year, and is worth five times that sum to any man having mining interests in the Boundary. Send alone; your name with the cash and try 52 copies. Address: Pioneer Publishing Co., B.C. mrewSwrcJvmiKfSwi '^^ggZs^SS^^ JSr^S'SWISZ^RSK^E^ ���r.>,;<^���wj��mm8m> _..**M WJUllWP PHOENIX - PIONEER? AND�� BOUNDARY MINING' JOOOWAtL 28"C E3Kg= J.-*1 ������fa l:f Ss St*'* G. W. RUMBERGER, MAYOR OP PHOENIX. will be seen a view of the new Miners' Union hall and opera house, in course of construction. This building is now being finished by Phoenix Miners' Union No. 8, at a cost of some $15,- 000, and is complete in every detail, being 45x95 feet and three stories high. It is probably the best and largest structure of its kind, built by an organization of this kind, in the province, the opera house alone not being approached by anything of the kind in this section. Unlike some municipalities in the west, the city councils of Phoenix have not run the city into an overwhelming debt. The entire debt of the city today is but $10,000, and this is being gradually reduced, the income from realty taxes, licenses, etc., being more than sufficient to meet running expenses. For the year 1905 the mayor was George W. Rumberger, who has been elected six times to succeed himself. The council board consisted of James Marshall, L. Y. Birnie, Edward Brown, Thomas Roderick, Julius Carson and Dougald Mclnnes. D. J. Matheson is city clerk, W. R.Williams police magistrate and W. H. Dock- steader chief of police, these three being the only salaried city employees. Phoenix has a branch of the Eastern Townships Bank, one of the most solid insiitutions of. this kind in. Canada, of which A. B. Hood is the manager; thus the chartered banking facilities here are of the best. This bank also lias branches in the Boundary at Grand Forks, Wm. Spier, manager, and at Midway, E. C. Moe, acting manager. t To any one desiring to see just what important mining claims are located in and around Phoenix, we refer them to toe map of this camp, ^printed on page 48 of this issue)-..which is accurate and reliable, being drawn by C. M. Campbell and engraved specially for this issue of the Pioneer. The big Granby group of mines is plainly outlined there, the Dominion Copper Co.'s group, the Snowshoe group, and all other surveyed claims within a mile or two of the city hall. As has been noted, Phoenix is well represented with fraternal organizations, all of them being in a flourishing condition. Among them are the Masons, Odd Fellows, knights of Pythias, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Good Templars, etc. Besides these there are a well managed Miners' Union, Carpenters' Union and Industrial Workers of the World. One of the best hospitals in the province is conducted in Phoenix, and the amount of good done in the Phoenix General Hospital, which is non-sectarian,would be difficult to estimate���not only to men injured in the mines, but also in large degree to other residents of Phoenix. The hospital cost nearly $10,000, ' and Miss Howe is the efficient matron. In church organizations Phoenix is not behind, either. The Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, Church of England and Congregationalists all have comfortable church homes of their own, the first three mentioned being '. particularly active. * Phoenix is well represented in busi-'- ness houses in every line, with large/ and varied stocks of merchandise... The place also has excellent hotels, the most representative and progressive r business concerns and hotels having- cards in this number. The Dominion census of 1901 gave a population of 866 souls within the Phoenix corporation limits, which, however, did not include the mine boarding houses, etc., the corporate limits being small. At the present time the population of the camp is between 1,500 and 2,000. If the proximity of large mines to any community adds to the general prosperity of the place, as is commonly believed, then Phoenix is extremely fortunate in its location. The big properties are alongside of, all around and literally underneath the city of Phoenix itself. NEW CITY HALL, PHOENIX. p_KjgsaBaBi����*>��*"*' In 'I hi i i ���i'i i i'l It'. ' ' II ��� ! i .111 ��� |!"i;ii ��� ' I ' 'i'i ' ��� i! 'p'Vi'pi; i H'PJ )H| f(T : j j .V i 1 1 1 1 1 i 1?" 1 t l 1 '! 1��� V' 1 i ii ^ i w < j F ' ii I1 1 ��� 28d PHOEHK HONKER AND MKBMW^; WEST FORK OF KETTLE RIVER A Section of Great Promise aud Vast Mineral Resources. ��� ONE part of the Boundary that is little heard of, comparatively, is that of the West Fork of Kettle river, with which also may be coupled the upper main Kettle river section. Because of lack of transportation, up to the present the West Fork has not received the attention that it deserves, but with a railway in operation it is sure to become one of the most important parts of the Boundary. Already considerable development has been done there, despite the difficulties encountered in the^way of getting machinery and supplies to the mines and the expense of taking ore out over wagon roads for 50 or 60 miles. The West Fork has an advantage in one respect over some parts of the Boundary, in that many of the ores are generally of what may be termed high grade. Otherwise the shipments already sent out could never have been made���and these shipments have given splendid returns, as will be noted farther on. SCENE ON WEST FORK. The Sally Group. The most important group of claims up the West Fork is the Sally, owned by the Vancouver and Boundary Creek Mining and Development Co., Ltd., which is composed mainly of Greenwood men, Ralph Smailes and Robert Wood being largely interested. The Sally group is located on Wallace mountain, near Beaverdell, at an .elevation of 4,350 feet, or nearly 2,000 feet above the valley of the West Fork. The mines were located in 1897 by Stewart and Felto, who sold.them to the present owners. The Sally is distant about 50 miles from Midway, but. will soon have transportation by the Midway & Vernon, the survey of which runs close to the property. Thus' far the ore taken out and shipped to the smelters has been hauled to Midway on wagons at a cost of $15 or $20 per ton. Some 25 or 30 men are employed at the mine, and shipments are madefwith more or less regularity, some returns giving $200 per ton, mostly in lead and silver. The ore now being shipped is taken from a tunnel tapping the lead at a depth of about 150 feet, the pay- . streak being 30 inches wide arid requiring but little sorting. In addition to the development work being done on the No. 1 and No. 2 leads, Superintendent Va- cher, who has been, in charge from the start, is able to get out from 20 to 30 tons of shipping ore per week, the ore now running in the neighborhood of $200 per ton. The first shipment was made from the Sally in April, t 901, when 16 tons were sent to the Nelson smelter and returned gross values of $59 per ton. The second shipment was in February,, 1904, when a car containing 42,820 pounds, sent to the Trail smelter, returned 31519 ounces of silver, valued at $1,876. The following month a second car was shipped to Trail. The lot weighed 43,424 pounds, and contained ,4,778 ounces silver and 2,086 pounds of lead, together valued at $2,627. This carload netted $2,318 above cost,of railway transportation and treatment. In April, 1904, 32,206 pounds were shipped, containing 3,175 ounces of silver and 840 pounds of lead, from which the gross amount realized was $1,698. A recent car of Sally ore, sent to the Trail smelter, gave returns of $4,143^50 for 20/tons. Notwithstanding the discouragement of lack of transportation, the Sally owners have kept steadily at the property, and now have it in a shape where it bids fair to make the camp one of the great silver-lead camps of British Columbia. Tke Rambler Group. One of the most promising claims on Wallace mountain is the Rambler, located about three miles from Beaverdell. The group includes the Rambler , and Standard fraction, being owned by W. J. Nelson and W. Ji. Rarnbo of Greenwood, and Francis J. Finucane, of Spokane. A shipment of 32 tons sent to the Trail smelter returned values of $74.23 Per ton, mostly in silver. Preparations are being made to ship from 80 to 100 tons ot Rambler ore this winter, it being necessary to rawhide the ore to the moutti of Dry creek, whence it will be hauled 45 miles by sleighs to the railway at Midway. ^'u:^\r\ ��� n fnot On the Rambler there is a 70-1001 shaft, with crosscuts at the Go-tooi level, and considerable drifting, btop ing and drifting is now going on, ana ore of a good grade is being taken out for shipment. The ore contains zinc blend and ruby silver, and that now being taken out assays over $i5�� P ton, the paystreak being from 10 to inches in width. ., In Carmi camp, located a few mues from Beaverdell, and close to u townsite of Carmi, is located tne Carmi mine, another well known vve Fork property. There are sevei claims in the group, all located on i same lead- most of the work navu& 1 .V^^r-^trry, .*nrtSre*-*Wfy��% mm PHOENIX PlOtf��ER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 28E fc.-a fta si "<0> I ft? Ssi- been done on the Carmi, which has a discovery shaft down 100 feet, besides an. 80-foot tunneh There are two other shafts on the property, one being down 183 feet, with drifts at the 100 foot and 165-foot levels, from which nearly 900 tons have been extracted. Some years ago the Carmi was purchased by an English syndicate, at the head of which is E. H. Thruston. Since then development work has been carried on intermittently. The property has a hoist, boiler, pumps, seven-stamp mill, a small concentrating and amalgamating plant, and clearing is being done for a cyaniding plant. It is understood that five more stamps will be added next spring and the,mine opened up more extensively. No statement has been made of the results obtained from the stamp mill, but. the ore of the camp generally runs from $37 to $100 per ton, the Carmi having big quartz ledges, carrying gold, silver and copper. West of the Carmi is the Butcher Boy, with 85 feet of drifts from the 60-foot level of a 75 foot shaft, from which 65 tons of ore have been shipped to the Greenwood smelter. Other claims in the neighborhood of the Carmi are the B.'H. fraction, May, Hartford, Lillie, the Rossland and Detroit groups, Observatory, Duncan, Great Hopes, Chloride, Jumbo, St. Lawrence, Copper Queen, Crown King, Emma, Colorado Maduro, Coldstream, etc. Some of these have quite a little development done on them and show up most promisingly. Something like 50 claims have been located on Wallace mountain. Seven miles up the WTest Fork from Carmi is Arlington camp, in which the Arlington, Sundown and Dalhousie are the most important claims. Lottie F. Group. Perhaps the most important group up the Main Kettle river is the Lottie F. group, located about , 50 miles up that stream from Midway." The group is composed of three claims, and has a most favorable showing for the development thus far. Over 100 feet of shaft work and drifting have been done, besides numerous open cuts. The ore is a bbrriite, with gold and silver, the copper values alone running as high as 30 per cent., while an average of all values is given as from $27 to $50 per ton. This group is owned by William Ferriie,Alex Strachan, G. W. Rumberger, James Marshall and J. B. Macaulay, all of Phoenix, and it will be worked this coming spring. Near Canyon City,; on the Main Kettle, is located a waterfall, which has been taken up by a Phoenix syndicate, and the Horse Shoe Power Co. organized to develop it. ���fc/^/TA-# Mat?*iL WEST FdfftfkmilL "METTLE E?/VEf? ���'/fining Districts ���^7-r0P the ^Sinter rWisKmgft, Pho.n.x^BjU^ wm&tmg&BSk t *v i I" -P . . I^n ,. J . . J. ',/��� r��,- I' , -I s p Ik Stilt .1.',! r ,i s& -! ii, I .'I a I ii i' i V >-ii nip it i!-|!ii; I ii' il'i^pjJ il" I1-! pj- ii i ��� i r li.!,1 ii i 11 | ':��� I'll-1 '!.'! :'Hi , ii 1 :.','!,ii ; 'in'"'.i pi i' I iiJ 'Vil 1,1 I'.V'J. i-1 1,11'I.) i'l.-.ii'v i.i 11' 1 '\! ���,* * XL 28H PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. Betts and Hesperus. Nearly three years ago a Chicago syndicate secured the Betts and Hesperus group of copper-gold claims, located on Hardy mountain, a few miles from Grand Forks and not much further from Phoenix. The Hesperus Gold-Copper Mines Company has the following officers: President, Charles J. Magee; vice-president, M. S. Mossier; secretary, John Claney; treasurer, P. B. Fridkyn, all of Chicago; other directors, A. B. Claney and H. B. Bishop; manager, T. H. Rea, of Grand Forks. These properties were located in 1896 by E. E. Alexander, of Spokane,. and up to the time they were purchased by the present company about $5,000 in development had been done. This company has expended about $50,000 to date, and the officers express themselves as well satisfied with the results thus far obtained. A tunnel has been driven in over 825 feet to strike the lead, and some good ore bodies encountered. In a week or two the Spokane Diamond Drill Contracting Co. will begin boring at least 1,000 feet in holes to further lest the property. When the tunnel was in 575 feet, some crosscutting was dene into a fine chute of pyhrrotite BETTS AND HESPEKUS MINE. ore, which is highly desired by the smelters. About a year ago the management of the Betts and Hesperus, on the recommendation of Mr. Rea, installed a small air compressor plant, since which time the costs of development have been materially reduced., President Magee has made three trips to the Boundary, to visit'the company's properties during the progress of development; other Chicago men interested , have done likewise, and they feel more than ever con vinced that the sulphide copper ores in the Betts and Hesperus, which are similar to the big bodies in Phoenix camp, can, with the proper development, be made to yield an immense tonnage and become profit producers. A large amount of surface work was done in the shape of open cuts, before much work was performed underground, thereby proving to a large extent the continuity of the leads. The Phoenix extension of the Great Northern crosses the property, giving good transportation facilities. ^j^j^^4i^^^M^^^^^^r^4^*^��^^^ **+<+***4w******f***f***^ ��>V^^<* \2Ss -TW$*~, ,,-tf BOUNDARY IRON WORKS. LTD.. J. McKIE. President. C. BROWN, Managing Director. Engineers, If on and Brass Founders, Pattern Makers Blacksmiths and Boiler Repairers, Machine Work and Repairs, Mining and Smelting Work of All Kinds a Specialty. TELEPHONE No. 113 GRAND FORKS, B.C. *MW***l**!*&tt4^ 1 Greenwood Liquor Company Wholesale .Dealers in CHOICE' BRANDS of . . '. e ��� 9 �� p Sole Boundary Agents for . . . * . " , PABST BREWING COMPANY'S MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER Also Manufacturers of all kinds of CARBONATED BEVERAGES. $ JAMES McCREATH, Proa, Greenwood, B.C. 1 ft PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. at) THE MIDWAY & VERNON RAILWAY A New Line that Will Open Up a Marvelously Rich Territory. L.-J ft -s ^ mi #1 �����sf w KVfo! VWi ra�� :,v% ^ ESS &5 8? THE distance between the town of Midway, in the Boundary, and Vernon, the capital of the Okanagan lake country, is approximately 150 miles. Little need be said of the Okanagan lake district, which is being opened up so wonderfully, its horticultural and agricultural products being exceeded by few, if any, grown in any land. It is often called the garden of British Columbia, and there seems good reason for this title. Up to the present there has been no connection whatever by rail between the Boundary and the fertile Okanagan district? except by a long and expensive detour by the C.P.R. One of the most promising mineraL sections of the Boundary, for the amount of development done, is that of the West Fork and Main Kettle rivers, from 4.0 to 100 miles north of Midway. The Midway & Vernon railway, when completed, will traverse the heart of this admittedly rich mineral district, and go on into the Okanagan country. It will bring the bountiful products of the Okanagan to the Boundary by the shortest possible route, giving them a ready market in this mining section, and will create and maintain a large ore tonnage from the West Fork and Main Kettle rivers. For some years a tew men, largely interested in Greenwood and the Boundary, have been more or less quietly working to secure the needful capital to construct this line of railway. They were finally successful in securing a charter,for the road, with a subsidy���and that gave them a working chance for the line. Then came the question of inducing financiers to take hold of the project and carry it tto a successful conclusion. It need hardly be said that none ot , the other railways in this section offered a helping hand along these lines, though probably any of them would be glad .enough to take a hand when the road is completed���which it will be doubtless in another year: Finally Ralph Smailes, of Greenwood, who has been identified with the enterprise from the start, succeeded in getting spme New . Yorkers interested, and this last fall a contract was let to McLean Bros., of Vancouver, and about ten miles of the roadbed were graded out of Midway as far as Rock Creek. For the construction of the road a company was organized, called , the Okanagan Construction Co., the officers of which are as follows: President, Frederic H. Allen, of New York; vice president, Alexander A. Arthur, of New York; secretary-treasurer, A. E. Best, of New York. Mr. Arthur spent some time in the Boundary last fall, looking into the matter, and is more than satisfied with the bright prospects for the new line of railway. This railway is being constructed for and will be operated by the Midway & Vernon Railway Co., Ltd, with a capital of $1,000,000, and having the following officers: President, John Cain, New York; vice-president, Charles S. Stule, Pittsburg; general manager, A. R. Pope, New York; secretary-treasurer, D. H. McDowell, Victoria, B. C; other directors being L. S. Cook, Pittsburg, and Ralph Smailes and Robert Wood, Greenwood. ' Among the original promoters of the Midway & Vernon railway are: Ralph Smailes, Robert Wood, Christopher Wood, Duncan Mcintosh, James Kerr, Robert Kerr, all of Greenwood, and Charles Wilson, of Victoria. It is understood that the line has been subsidized by the provincial and Dominion governments for approximately $11,500 per mile. MIDWAY���LOOKING SOyflH, rl'2 'A t& PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL.' res'ii fi'.ii ������ ft (ill ���'������" M :5 jMi ���llillli I m qifljl 'li'-i'l'-filll MIDWAY���SHOWING GRADES OF THEKE RAILWAYS. In October last Mr. Arthur arrived in the Boundary, accompanied by two men who are said to be at the head of their professions, for the purpose of examining and reporting upon the territory through which the,Midway & Vernon railway will be constructed. One of these was Frederic O. Harvey, M. I. M. M., of London, England, a mining engineer of world-wide,reputation, who makes reports for the Rothschilds and other financiers in Europe and America. Mr. Harvey went through the country, that will be served by the new line, and spent some time in examining, its metalliferous resources. While his'report has not yet been cmade public, it is definitely known that- Mr. Harvey was more than satisfied with what he saw and examined, and there seems to be no doubt whatever that his report will be favorable, and that the railway will open up a territory that will prove to be exceedingly rich in a mineral way. The other expert was C. B.Schmidt, of Pueblo, Colorado, who is an acknowledged authority on irrigation and ' agricultural matters, and who has been connected with some large enterprises of this character in the west. Mr. Schmidt paid particular attention, as expected, to the rich farming lands that are contiguous to the Okanagan lake section. His report, like ��hat of Mr. Harvey, has not been given to the public, but Mr. Schmidt was not only charmed with the Okanagan lake district, but agreeably surprised with the degree of success that can be and has been maintained there in the tilling ot the soil. His examination was not of the cursory variety, but was carefully and conscientiously made, with a view to ascertaining just what could be done with the soil in that section, so many miles of which will be tapped by this railway. It is, therefore, a foregone conclusion that the reports of both of these gentlemen, so high in their respective professions, will be to the effect that the country is ready and ripe for a new line of railway, to which it will certainly give a generous and profitable support. Mr. Harvey had just arrived from New Mexico, California and Nevada, where he was examining mining prop erties for English clients, and while in the Boundary took occasion to examine some of the large producers here, such as the Granby and B. G. Copper. He stated that English capitalists had no idea of what is going on here in a mineral producing way, and that it was a revelation to even a man of affairs in mining matters like himself. The bonds for the construction of the Midway & Vernon railway have been underwritten by English/French and German financiers to the extent of $30,000 per mile, or approximately $4,500,000, so that when the details are all arranged there will be no trouble about financing the road. The technical men referred to here were GRADE ON MIDWAY & VBBNQN, 1 Ml PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 3* MIDWAY & VERNON GRADE. sent out by the financial interests in the underwriting syndicate, to make independent reports on the, potentialities of the territory tributary to the line to be constructed. During 1905, as stated, some ten miles of grading was done, beginning at Midway, for the purpose of getting the work under way. Bids have been put in at Mr. Arthur's office in New York for the entire balance of 140 miles of the road, and it is now understood that the contract will be awarded and active construction of the whcle line be undertaken as soon as weather conditions will permit it in the spring, when it will be rushed to completion. Possibilities of Extension. RECENT issues < of the British Columbia Gazette, the official organ of the provincial government, contain a number of notices in regard to railway legislation which will occupy the attention of the provincial legislature during the forthcoming session. Robertson & Robertson, of Victoria, are giving a notice of amendments to existing railway charters and also are outlining a plan of amalgamation' of several railways into one system. A notice snowing what is to constitute the system sets forth that application will be made to incorporate a company wi<h power to acquire the following charters and operate the following undertakings: The Vancouver and - Coast-Kootenay Railway Compa-1 ny, the Alberni and Cowichan Railway Company, the Kamloops and Atlin Railway Company, and the Midway and Vernon Railway Company. Accompanying notices show how^ these are to be connected up into orie system. The first one, that of the Vancouver and Coast-Kootenay, is a charter held by McLean Bros., the route being from the Kootenay to Vancouver city,, along much:the same route as the V.,V- & E., now in course of construction. It is sought to extend the time for the completion of that line and to authorize the building of a branch to Kamloops. The Midway and Vernon charter is sought to be amended so as to permit of building v to Kamloops also, and permission is asked to build a branch to Penticton. The Kamloops and Atlin act is sought to be revived, ratified and confirmed. The time for constructing the line is asked to be extended and an alteration in the line is asked.to be permitted so that it may run from Kamloops, where it will meet the Coast-Kootenay and the Midway and , Vernon, and up the North Thompson. Permission to build a branch to Ques- nel lake will also be asked. In connection with the Vancouver Island branch an application is to be . made to revive and confirm the Cowi- chan-Alberni and Fort Rupert railway 9 FABMS ON MIDWAY & VEEHON BAILWAY���BIGHT MILES FBOM MIDWAY. ��]*��������"" if: '..' Eh!'i ; i i i .ii ' ' ' !' !h! P ' 1 'I. I'll 'ill: I"! ill n,i , " ,, iv j'ld ik"' -���' |!V-:.ii' ��'ii' i.' V I (Ull I' |l M i! !JI> 11 'lIf, II IIP i. i ^ ,p .i'" : ', J ! .'I ' I 'l-i'!' iii'i Hi''1?:, ii'r M||l!ii��v: iBlllli' Jfel$!i��.-- PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINlTO|5||f|| fcsftfe few i. mil act by extending the time for construction and permitting the extension of the line to Victoria or Esquimalt harbor. The whole system will be known as the B. C. Central Railway Company, and A.A.Arthur'is the executive head. He is also identified permanently with the railway recently incorporated to build from Port Angeles to Victoria or Esquimalt tarbor. It is reported that connection is to be given by ferry with Victoria from the line of the Coast- Kootenay also. The suggestion has been made that possibly the Chicago, Milwaukee and , St: Paul compauy was behind Mr. Arthur in his amalgamation plan. Many well informed on transportation subjects hold the opinion that this is the corporation which is entering the field in a fight against J. J. Hill. Additional color is lent to this by the fact that ' the Coast-Kootenay project, which practically parallels the V.-, V. & E., is included in the system. Those intimately associated with the plan will only state that it is to be a part of a gigantic system of railway with ramifications in many directions. The present terminus of the Cowi- , chan, Alberni and Fpr't Rupert railway is at Mill Bay, in Cowichan district. To reach Victoria city the new line would have to parallel the E. & N. railway,' or by an alternate route via Cowichan and Sooke. - D. H. McDowall, of Victoria, and - John Cane, of Port Angeles, are re sponsible in a large measure for bringing the plan to the attention of capitalists, and their success is indicated by the promptness with which the Midway-Vernon section is being built. It is stated that European capital (is behind the venture, which is even more comprehensive than the British Columbia portions of it indicate. m,- GRADE ON MIDWAY & VERXON. Couhtry to Be Served. Few countries through which new railways are constructed, for the first time have had as much advance development' in a general way as that through which the Midway & Vernon will be built. For years before the charter was even granted, far-seeing ones predicted that such a road would be a good financial proposition almost from the start, because it would open up such a rich territory, bringing in direct connection the fertile valleys of the Okanagan with the mining camps of the Boundary, and making also a short line to the coast, with its connections. Believing that the road would be constructed some day, many a prospector has gone into the West Fork country and located really valuable mineral properties. Not only this, but, /or such a remote section, as far as transportation is concerned,- an unusual amount of development has been GRADE ON MIDWAY & VERNON. done on the claims; with results that are indeed gratifying. Some of the big mines of British Columbia are sure to be developed here. Some ore has been shipped to the smelters, even though it required 50 or 60 miles of a wagon haul, which is an index of its value, when it would stand such heavy expense and yet pay a profit. The route of the Midway & Vernon runs about ten miles west from Midway to Rock creek, as will be noted from ' the map, whence it follows up the West Fork of Kettle river almost to its head waters. It then crosses the divide at or near Mission creek, and meanders down into the Okanagan valley, and winds up. its 150 miles at the thriving city of Vernon���the last 20 to 50 miles being through as fair a territory as can be found in Canada, and withal, as prolific. , A good gradient for the roadbed has been found by the company's engineers for the entire distance, and there are no unusual difficulties either in engineering or in construction. In fact, as .western railways go, for the most part, the line can be constructed at moderate ex pense. Engineers have been in the field for several months, laying out the line, and A. R. T. Lackie, the chief engineer, reports that they have been successful in getting the. grade desired, and that he would have no trouble in putting the line through to a completion when the contract for its construction is awarded. Thus it appears that, after long and weary years ot waiting, the mining man interested in the country to be traversed and the farmer of the lake district will, by the end of another year, hear the whistle of the iron horse on the Midway���'''&. Vernon, and secure connection with the outside world. wr����IUUU��MaBW^J?I^ffV! PHOEtilX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOUkNAL. 33 TOWN OF* EHOL,T ' V 4 Canadian Pacific Railway Headquarters in the Boundary. EHOLT is the railway divisional point on the C. P. R. in the Boundary district, it /being here that the largest amount of ore traffic on that railway converges, and here that the majority of the train crews employed by the C. P. R. in the district have their homes. The town of Eholt is located on the divide over which the C.P. R.'s. Columbia & Western branch passes in crossing from the valley of the North Fork of Kettle river at Grand Forks to that of trict use, it also having a round house, etc There are many mines and good prospects surrounding Eholt. The B. C. mine, in Summit camp,'has shipped over 100,000 tons of ore^though not now working. The Emma mine, owned jointly by the Hall Mining & Smelting Company and the B. C. Copper Company, is being operated steadily by the latter, and for the amount of work done stands well up in the list as a producer. Adjoining the Emma the few English companies doing any mining in the Boundary. For several years the mine was not operated, although it has a good equipment of machinery with a large amount of development, and having in the past shipped several thousand tons of ore via Eholt. A force of several men is now at work there. ' Like all well regulated towns, Eholt has daily mail communication, with telephone and telegraph facilities for the transaction of business. There is Boundary creek, near Greenwood. The place came into existence with the coming of the railway, five or six years ago, and depends to a large extent upon the railway for its trade, although the mines and prospects in that locality are most promising. It is at Eholt that the railway branch, ten miles in length, diverges to Phoenix, and all the ore traffic over the GP.R. from Phoenix, Wellington and Summit camps must pass through Eholt. Here the railway company has machine shops, and keeps the main supply of coal and ice for dis- RAILWAY SCENE AT EHOLT. is the Oro Denoro, which is being operated and is a shipper also. ^ These mines are but two miles from Eholt. ' Northwest of Eholt a few miles is Long Lake camp, in which the Jewel mine is being operated, though .not now a shipping property. Other well known properties in that locality are the North Star, Ethiopia, Lake View, Roderick Dhu, Gold Drop and Boulder, etc, and Eholt is the nearest trading point for them all, a wagon road giving direct connection. The Jewel, referred to above, is owned by the Jewel Gold Mines, Ltd., one of a public school and religious services are held periodically by different denominations.' The town has several hotels, the most important of which is }he Hotel Union, and a number of stores, that of the Eholt Trading Co. . carrying a large and varied general stock of merchandise. It is the trading center for several miles around. While the resident population of Eholt is not large, when the surrounding mining properties become developed so as to join the list of steadily producing mines, the town is sure to grow and prosper as an immediate result,^ Slip llfl tolls. 34 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JQURN^ ������Y'Jl'W "!l' :;it. sfc ������*$(�����)������ JIPH? m Mums, -yy <mmsms '.��: J;3lt)'li|*:|i'V*r" ������';���.:'-���: ��� :���:'��� 1111*1 Iliill -mmiy^t mmmms 'iamon< Icwcr ;s an< lass lr||;^ek. | Quality is always our first consideration and Piice next Goods Guaranteed exactly as represented or rloriey Refuhded '^���^���ip" ;;.l'^.;|V- ' ���'��� '���'v'V'":^; 3:- !p!!|lu:?:v^vC Wh:S!i::fe��.:^ ,U;^jhi;ii;:/-.-:..!.>;v'': Mm mmmm ��!'.B:i-,{iH-.-.;---:--..-.:p-.;.,.-ii FIRST STREET M mmm ihommmgco. LTD. Stores kt vy ���<��� yicpagi^^ f||j^Kfo^ and lift :-. [i!;:V"ijtli!: siplli':;; 1*1^:1 tin :'.:.���; 5p'^^v' I ������fJ*A,,tiiii:.?ilS'.'.:"i Stores and Residences Lighted on the most Modern Plan. Wiring done according to the rules of the Board of Underwriters. Fixtures and Electrical Supplies always ���:W':'l'^.Y'':';r..r-1' in Stock.'. ��� Most Complete Assortment of DRUGS, TOILET REQUISIT] DRUGGISTS' ke i BANK BLOCK/PHOENIX, B.C. IN THE BOUNDARY Prompt Attention to Mail Orders g ,fj ��� V9 si rmmM SMJSi;;.^ iiljj' iMS^lllSti '��?'?' K��W" w ^^���^rwy-vwyw^iKPi ^.cwe^^VMSWranaS^iUSl-' -^S5 tHim p'' ���fSS PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 35 .'jjtWj \4& &ar. m U ��� *���' THE TOWN OF MIDWAY Centre of Railway Construction in the Bmiridapyx IT would be difficult to find a town more beautifully located than is Midway, at the present terminus of the Columbia & Western branch of the C.P.R., eight miles below Greenwood, where the limpid waters of Boundary creek flow into the main Kettle river, Midway being the oldest town in the Boundary. For years the town was known as Eholts, and in 1893���a long time ago in the Boundary���the site was pur- chased from the pre-emptor, Louis Eholt, by Capt. R. C. Adams, of Montreal, and H. P. Palmerstott, of town took on additional life, but the residents always felt that the time would come when any and all railways from the coast to the Kootenays must pass to or through Midway��-and in 1905 their predictions were verified, and are likely to be verified still further this coming year. The surveys of the C.P.R., Great Northern (V., V. & E.) and Midway & Vernon railways all start west from Midway, arid this last summer all three lines had forces of men at work near the town. The CP.R., while building but two or three miles west of the town, will undoubt* designed to connect the Boundary With the Okanagah lake district. The route is about 15a miles in length, and will open up a rich mineral and agri* cultural country, being assured of a good tonnage from the start. During 1905 contracts for grading ten miles of the roadbed were let, and next year it is expected to see the entire line completed through to Vernon. The road is being financed by New York capitalists, and is said to be a part of an extensive system of railways, the details of which have not yet been made public. Spokane, for themselves and several associates. The townsite was platted that year, and the Midway Company, Ltd., was organized with a capital of $60,000, to acquire this and other property of the original syndicate. The officers of the Company are: President, Peter Lyall; vice-president, "George. A. Greene; secretary-treasurer, A. M. Wovenden, all of Montreal; local agent, CM; Crpuse. The townsite comprises about 646 acres, most of it as level as a board~-an ideal spot for the building of an ideal town. r When the C.P.R. construction was completed to Midway in 1900, the VIEW OF MIDWAY. edly continue its line through the Similkameen, or surrender the tonnage of that section entirely to the Great Northern���which would hardly be done with any pleasure. The Great Northern, however, now has about 1,200 men at work on the railway grade west of Midway on this side of the international boundary line, and several hundred on the other side, the route of the railway dipping into the United States to secure a better gradient. This work has been going on for months, and will be continued all winter, The Midway & Vernon railway was Midway has been the headquarters of these railways this last year, the business all being done here, and the engineering and grading staffs being' located here when not in the field. In 1904 the Great Northern graded its line for 14 miles from the Republic branch at Curlew, Wash., to Midway, but the rails were not laid tiil last fall, and on December 10th last, passenger trains from Spokane, 167 miles distant, began running into Midway seyeii days in the week, giving the most direct connection with the outside world, such as Grand Eorks and Phoenix enjoy. ��-������... ���-'.:_������_' i- . -I : ���-. ,'.1'.'..*, aJrjvtni-'i.V>T_I.V-"i^OL-*'>'-*-^*t'-!:-i fSl! .iiiK!'. Mi P. ��� ii- vi ���; I !h!: . 4. Wl ��� ���,"������ ;i|:!i!��!if'ii ���-..������ ���������- riifiiyi,:?;-'::v i:ill,;5, :���!''! p' ; -. ��� ������ -' ;[j( r ��1 -;.! ������. -��� ���'������ i-j mmy��r : -��� IliiS^K^'-'p ������.���������''���-������,' 0 liiir a'I sip- k I; Jit m ii !!!;: il ;i!n IP 'if i li ! ii 3. ,��i-ll II ill # ���jjjfj! I if iM-p -tilr ���ijfei!fii|if fe it�� .MM hi ���' ii' Pi ��lift? pli?ii! i,|p ���: I.? jilt- ;:i;'J' ^i?:). I HI1 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY^NG JOURNAL. Mills at ��� . NAKUS^ WESTLEY, CASCADE and NELSON Head Office: Columbia flAKUSP, B.C. i^S^ISS!i^D!v; PHOEMX Lumber Co. Manufactotersj of kinds of , / T tjpijfi'dr* AND DRESSED LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH, etc. MININi MlVEBERilA SPECIALTY UBBER GOODS description for MINING PURPOSES Rubber Belting, Fire Hose, Steam and Air Hose, High Pressure "Star ReqJ" Sheet packing, Valve and Piston Packings, Sheave and Pulley Fallings; Rubber Bumpers and Springs, Rubber CIc>th3rig and Boots, etc. When you see this Trade Mark on a Rubber Article��� IT'S RIGHT B!A! ER SOMPANY Sales Branches and Warehouses: 172 Granville St. - HALIFAX, N.S. Imperial Bank Building MONTREAL, Que. Front & Yonge Sts. - TORONTO, Ont. Princess Street - WINNIPEG, Man. #��riiova Street - VANCOUVER, B.C. View of Factories, Montreal, Quebec. Floor area, 21 acres. to. 3.} T ^ ���-? '������:ij5 '.^ r.. An ta-'C 1.-0 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 37 $0#.\"\ m 33 "i-^ v.. -V lis &$ CONSTRUCTION OF V.,V.<SLE. Afca; Zjw ^/^ ^/V/^ /toAa* Through to the Coast. Ei,; SINCE the construction of the Canadian Pacific main line no railway building has attracted more attention on the outside than that of the Victoria, Vancouver & Eastern Railway and Navigation Co., Ltd., the title of the Great Northern on this side of the boundary, that is being put through to Vancouver as fast as men and money can perform the task. This particular piece of railway building has, to a large extent, occupied the centre of the stage, on account of the intense and bitter opposition shown to it by the C.P.R7. A tull story of this opposition would fill several volumes, but it is well known, at least in the Boundary, how every conceivable obstacle was thrown in the way of progress oi.the new line. This happened first at Ottawa for yeirs, and then this last fall it was carried to the construction camps thern- elves. It is almost superfluous to add that the opposition will, after all, probably be of little avail, and that the Boundary some day, in the not distant future, will have a direct line of railway to the coast of this province—if no" two of them. A year ago last summer the V.~*V. & E. was constructed from Grand Forks to Phoenix by John W. Stewart, whose manager of construction was Patrick Welch. Some of the fastest time ever made in railway building was made then and there, notwithstanding the unusually heavy rock cutting entailed. In six months the steel was laid on 25 or 30 miles of line, with sidetracks, etc., ancb'J^ains were running. Thus James J. Hill's lines secured a part of the great ore tonnage from the Granby mines, and incidentally considerable business in addition. This last year another link in the road to the coast was started, running west from Midways 3he line having been graded 14 miles from Curlew, on the Republic line, to Midway the previous summer. Sohje|miles west from Midway, in order to secure a satisfac- factory grade, the road dips back into the State of Washington, and then across the line again on into the rich Similkameen district^ the grading contracts having been let as far as Keremeos. On the U^^ States side of the line, the road is known as the Washington & Great Northern. Reference to the map on the next page, specially engraved for the Pioneer, will show the route on both sides of the line from Laurier to Keremeos. Mr. Stewart was again given the contract for the building of the line on the Canadian side, and his partner, Mr. Welch, was once more in charge, pushing things in a construction way as only he knows how. The chief engineer of the V., V. & E. is James H. Kennedy, who is now well known all over the Boundary, every part of which has been visited and surveyed by him over and over. Mr. Kennedy was recently seen by the editor of the Pioneer after an extended trip over the line of the road as far as Princeton. He stated that the work from TETER LARSON, MINER, BANKER, RAILWAY CONTRACTOR. Midway to the boundary line, where the crossing is made into Washington, some 30 miles fmm there, is making excellent progress, though the contractors could use many more men if they could be had. Altogether theie are now about 1,200 men on this 30 miles, some of the work being heavy rock cutting. There'are two tunnels,.one about 850 feet and another some 400 feet in length. It was at the mouth of one of these cuts, where the excavated rock was being dumped on C. P. R. land, that the recent sensational trouble occurred between the grading gangs of the two rival railways, which fs expected to be decided in the courts in favor of the V., V. & E. Work will be continued all winter. The grading contracts let to the sub-contractors by J. W. Stewart, who has the work from Seims, Shields & Co., are in the form of stations of 100 feet each, as is usual, the following being the names and number of stations of each contractor, fiom Midway to the boundary line: Burns & Jordan, 259 stations; Johnson & Anderson, 97 stations, including 85c foot tunnel; Johnson & Welch, 142 stations; D. J. Brown, 56 stations, George Chew, 104, stations; Burns & Jordan, 96 stations, including 400 foot tunnel; Johnson $. Welch, 82 stations; T. J. Gallagher, 123 stations^ E. A. Carleton, 65 stations; P. S Hughes, 144 stations; Gorman & Pierce, 124 stations. The distance on the line in American territory, to where it again enters Canada, is about 47 miles. This* work is all well under way also, but is not making as good progress as that on this side of the line. At the point where the line comes into British Columbia again, a distance of some 17 miles from Keremeos, the work is just being opened up, some 40 or 50 teams having gone through this week to be used in grading, etc. It will probably be done by Mr. Stewart's men direct. From Keremeos to Princetop, via Hedley, the distance is some 48 miles, and whether this will be let this winter or not is not known. It was supposed that it would not be given out till spring, but a change may be made and "the work rushed all winter, as is being done just west of Midway, for it Js known that Mr. Hill is anxious to finish the line into the Similkameen with the least possible delay. Mr. Kennedy makes his headquarters at Midway, where he has his office and engineering staff headquarters. J. W. Stewart, who has the contract for the V., N. & E. lines on the Canadian side of the boundary line, is a partner of Peter Larson, probably one of the best known railroad contractors in the northwest. Mr. Larson, who started years ago on the construction of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, with absolutely '.nothing but a willingness tcfc work and an indomitable will, is now. wealthy, -.being a large realty owner in Spokane and owning extensive interests in mines and banks 53 ft' 38 1 1 i; 1 ij 7 ,1,! <��� ���' |p 1 > ���'MM: I M1! .���' |i;',!.; j.,-. J. H.J l> ,1 |-.|..i;1Si;-m i . hi ' Sill!.' .-'r jifp!;:-: ���I ii1!,.., I i'i- ��� ���ini!'-:! - 1 ' : 1 Hi! .'���''I' Hi fK1 lite* �� CO .0 W S w w k*" O r h W g s [L, O o �� P o at O J3 G O �� * o *4 *-�� W 6 Cl) a s 00 C p *4 a o 3 u a 3 o PQ o �� d S ��S Q C C O u c a a o 04 u o 4> 8P o CO PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL, t�� ��* ���ii.VJ i .&? fc-y" fc-" lb _. l . .Ail IV '4 ' i fM m ���; pi* 1 i-i E. iv. ��fi swv. ft -v PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 39 worth millions ot dollars. He is essentially a self made man, and, withal, .s as democratic as when he could count his dollai s on the fingers of his hands. ������ Remarkable Railway Dispute. As heretofore stated, the construction of the V., V. & E. by the Great Northern 'people has been blocked at every possible step by antagonistic interests, but the action that created the most interest was that which happened about the middle of November in the railway camps six miles west of Midway, where the V., V. & E. grade is being built. A view of the ground in dispute then, with a bunch of the disputants, will be seen oh this page. It appears that, the V., V. & E. right of way runs across the corners of two or three blocks Of land recently acquired by the C. P. R. by virtue of its Columbia & Western (the title of the C.P.R. Boundary extension) land grant. As the legal right to expropriate land was undisputed, the V., V. & E. people went to work ^across these particular blocks, and then the trouble began. Already the C.P. R. had sent a gang of laborers west of Midway to build a few miles of grade and lay track, and these men were h '.rried to the disputed property. Then the V., V. & E. men were called in from all over the grade, and soon there were from 500 to r,ooo men on the scene, and trouble was imminent. Cooler heads, however, prevailed, constables were on hand, and nothing more serious than some shoving and pushing occurred. The matter was taken into the courts on one piece of land, and the V., V. & E. granted expropriation proceedings. Following this they went to work on the other disputed pieces of land, never thinking there would be further trouble, but again they were opposed by the C. P. R. graders, led by the contractors and sub-land agent. This time the trouble was where the mouth of a tunnel is to be, and it was desired to dump the material onC. P. R. land, but the agents of that company would net have it. Recourse to the courts was again had, and work is now going on as usual���and the V., V. & E. is being extended into the Similkameen and on to Vancouver as fast as money and men can perform the work. One of the best equipped of the contractors on the V., V. & E. construction is the firm of Burns & Jordan, who also graded about ten miles of the Phoenix extension last year. This firm now has six or seven miles of grading work west of Midway on this side of the international line, besides considerable on the other side on the same railway, including two tunnels. The work has the personal supervision of both the members of the firm, Edward Burns and John Jordan, several hundred men being in their employ, and their construction outfit and paraphernalia being one of the most extensive along the line. They expect to be kept busy on their contracts until some time next summer, the making of tunnels being rather a slow process as compared with other railway construction. Mr. Burns and Mr. Jordan were residents of Phoenix for some six months, with their families, and made many friends . in this camp during that time, while their < work was in progress. s& *Jk ���v^ i^Zyitf'tfiiYS'&FX 1 I1 HI I -1 l 8CBNS OP V., V. A S. AND C. P. R. RAILWAY DISPUTE. 40 ��� PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. At/^6^ 2Oj0*s AW&SffitM, wmmti (j.lj ���������Ij, p. J,..'.���-;(. ���'ii!'^;:-::rv.;r i'.-f >r m?m mmm pfft: i:! life's^,. ;/ ' lHv>:1'..':p'p'('-> .-v.-p {!;.|li{|W.'���������:;;���:; illilli; ���!]iiii:H!?*ifil'.:'-!Lv-;���:';���:. ���'...' !lili#��;l�� ��jHli':t ptp4tt&, !i*i!i:[.I,-.l^!:'.;.P..', - li-i.v.H' .'^t- "1 -,- : ��� bifiijitr1;'!:;.. p. ���MM!i;Til.'fe s>v A tort* 5s*, ^. MAP Of r/m/(iM% 0 & <& CA0P KHS/rjE- sSc*M 4 Af//es =�� ///rch *��ir��#&r�� 'fcrinctpo/C/otms ./vwrxr T7CEfi\ t <fi fl f 9M Cj/osfor San/per 4/0X AkatafM AtorfefU/M Atofffyrey #**- VCMTTtYA fORNeXt *>. 9mts/r�� w m Mm ilifl m lit Wife. \l/ON, B" - i ^ &* B B I**0** iv/r t}\ %\ f&/lL/Mt .& BO/WSTft Twwr w l/ff/eBerfha f Jctoft/?/x/er Jt70M<tVA AMX .{X <Sfra*v6erry^ <?oe9/?of#eM7/j X Ti*! p|~ -8C T#(ror* \cmwc ?T0I6ES A**��/ttOf, &��k 0/#C���of $ [* Mil v v. \ Cascc 'i&er^ Jo /fe/x/&//c /nret/iatroaa/ ��o(//?<&/-y !//?��� i,#��B...tl%v ,(K!H ��'-t3 p > ���p.:"p}?S w^^^^s?^^^ ^^^^.���'^���^'^f^w^a/'.^Trr. ssBfiasSf ;..i-&s JPfioENiX PIONEER ANt> BOUNDARY MINING- JOURNAL. 4* i��& IS m ���T>m % ** FRRNKLIN CAMP AND NORTH PORK Exceedingly Rich in Minerals and Destined to be a Large Producer. Franklin Camp. RANKLIN camp is 45 miles north of Grand Forks, and has a known area of abont ten by six miles. The formation consists of lime, porphyry and conglomerate, surrounded by granite hills. The district is locally subdivided into three camps, namely, McKinky, Banner and Mineral Hill. The principal claims on McKinley mountain are the Mckinley, Ajax, Jumbo, I. X. L., Manhattan and ..Gold King. All of them have had considerable surface stripping done, and jhave every indication of large and permanent ore bodies. . _ The McKinley claim is the only one on this mountain which has been/even paitially developed. Surface croppings indicate the existence of parallel ledges, and the largest is estimated at 300 feet in width. This ledge ��� has been tapped by a tunnel 220 feet long, and at a depth of 175 feet the ore is of good grade and carries a high percentage of iron. At a distance of 104 feet from the portal of this tunnel, a drift 115 teet long was made to the right. The last 70 feet of this drift is in good ore, with known bodies of high grade ore still to be encountered. A great many test pits and open cuts on the surface of this deposit show it to have at least a width of 300 feet. This ledge will average as far as developed 3 per cent copper, $1.50 in gold and silver. Two ledges were encountered 300 and 1500 feet east of the main deposit, but only one of these has been worked to any extent. Open cuts were made every 50 feet for a distance of 250 feet, and a tunnel 30 feet long driven on the ledge, which appears to be of a uniform width of 20 feet. This ore averages 1 o per cent copper, 10 ozs. silver, and $x in gold. The . ore of ledge number 3 is of similar high grade. On this group of properties there is sufficient water and timber for mining purposes, and a depth of 1,000 feet can be, gained by 1,500 feet of tunnel. This properly is at present under bond for $200^000^ and will be tested by diamond drills in the spring. The McKinley Mines, Ltd., own the Mckinley- group, which was developed for several months in 1905. The offi cers of the company are : President, B. Lequime; directors, C. R. Hamilton and A. B. McKenzie, of Rossland, W. H. Warrington and D. Whiteside, of Grand Forks. Professor R. W. Brock, of the Do minion Geological Survey, is said to be the first competent, authority to lay stress on the favorable geological conditions respecting the genesis of ore . deposits in Franklin camp. He weir oxer the ground very thoroughly several years ago. His report especially noted the presence of lime and porphyry on McKinley mountain. The two. minerals traverse the mountain east and west in two parallel belts, the upper half of the mountain consisting of "birdseye" porphyry. From a point half way down, or 1,50c feet, lime extends down the slope until it gradually shades into conglomerate at Franklin creek: ���* On the I. X. L., one mile west of the McKinley, the owners are this winter sinking a shaft on a promising surface showing. There is every reason to believe that other properties on this mountain will show equally as good results as the McKinley mine, with development. On Banner mountain there are a a number of exceptionally fine show- ings, chief of which are the Banner, Bullion, Home Stake, Alpha, Mountain Lion, Gloster, G. H., and Tiger. On the Banner a tunnel has been run 200 feet, cutting a ledge of $8 copper ore,of a width of 36 feet. A shaft oh the surface is 20 feet deep and shows a three foot ledge of silver- lead ore, said to average $60 per ton. On the Gloster, the bottom of a shaft 50 feet deep,is in ore averaging 13 per cent copper and $2.50 in gold and silver. The other three claims mentioned haye excellent showings, but little work has Been done on them.. On Mineral hill the principal properties are the Mineral hill and Pollard >groups of claims, and'both.of, these groups have phenomenal surface showings of high grade copper-gold ores. They are still held by the original locators, who are each doing a little development. There is a tunnel on the Mineral Hill, 140 feet long, not yet to the ore body, and on the Pollard a shaft 40 feet deep is ali in ore of good 'grade. The chief characteristics of this camp are the regularity of the forma tion, the depth that can be gained by tunneling on the principal ore bodies, , the immense size of the surface showings, and the grade of the ore. Any . mine in the camp can be reached by a railway spur on a one per cent, grade. Nortk Fork of Kettle River. REFERENCE to map will show thai. Volcanic camp is located ten miles due nonh of Grand Forks. Pathfinder camp 16 miles, and Franklin camp 45 miles from Grand Forks. On the Volcanic mountain is'a huge mass of solid ore, 1,000 feet wide and 3,000 feet long, and surface values average $2.00 in copper and gold. The average iron contents are 39 per cent. This mountain immediately overlooks the Kettle river, and ij the easiest worked proposition in this country, once transportation is afforded. Near the Volcanic are the Earthquake and Golden Eagle claims. The Earthquake has a shaft 80 feet deep, and shows three feet of $8 ore. The Golden Eagle is developed to a depth of 125 feet, and sorted ore is said to have given gross returns of $27 at the Granby smelter. Immediately opposite, on the west side of the North Fork, are the Seattle, Humming Bird and .Strawberry groups, all partially developed claims, with every evidence of being able to supply a large and permanent tonnage. In Pathfinder camp are several promising properties, chiefly the Pathfinder, Little Bertha, Diamond Hitch and Bonanza. The Little Bertha is a fairly well developed gold-silver prop erty, shipments to the Granby smelter showing values of $67 per ton. The Pathfinder is developed considerably by shaft and tunnel work, and shows large ore bodies averaging $8 and carrying a high percentage of iron. This gold-copper property is well equipped with machinery, but is seriously handicapped by lack of transportation facilities. The Diamond Hitch and Bonanza have large surface showings which would seem to justify development, but very little has been done on them All these profe/ties are adjacent to the North Fork of Kettle river, and any railroad which will develop this district may be assured of a rich reward. j/v} el s"i�� pi ���-"wwttttffiggj^ ' f '.-'1 It ! i A'Y I1 111" I jllll , I ji! ,! }' I, .'I, (1 , '11 i if,ti; M it��ii it, 14;I nil li.l1! ' A: to''.1'" i(ii'', 11- .|!'l"' ' i y p 'pipi , llt.,v ,i,l I'M Sal luf^i!v11 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. CITY OF GRAND FORKS Metropolis of the Kettle River Valley��� Where Three Railways Meet. ONE might travel far before he could find a more desirable site for the location of a large city than will be found at Grand Porks. The stranger, seeing it for the first time, with the fertile valleys stretching away for miles, is at once struck with its beauty and attractiveness. Located at the confluence of the main Kettle river with the Nbrth Fork of the same stream, it is irMeed picturesquely situated. The valley of which it is the center is said , to hare about 20,000 acres of arable htad, agriculture and horticulture being most successfully carried on. Latterly the larger holdings have been divided, and those tilling the soil in this valley have had their full share of success. For years in the earliest days, the present town of Grand Forks was known as Grand Prairie, but when the mineral discoveries of the Boundary commenced to attract the attention of the miner and capitalist, a thriving fown sprang up, and this was the nucleus of the present enterprising city of Grand Forks. Another town also sprang up adjoining, and was known as Upper Grand Forks and later as Columbia, but three years ago, by mutual consent, the two towns amalgamated and assumed the name of the older place���the combination bein* known far and wide as one of the most enterprising places in the interior of British Columbia. The definite location of the Granby smelter was an instance of the energy of Grand Forks citizens. Jay P.Graves, manager of the company, and his associates, examined no less than five different sites in the Boundary, including Cascade, Carson, Midway," Greenwood and Grand Forks, and the residents of Grand Forks, realizing the advantage of having a large concern of this character located there, made such inducements that they secured it. Another example of what push and enterprise will do was the building of a railway line from Grand Forks to Republic, connecting the well known American mining town with the Boundary. It was due almost entirely to Grand Foiks people that the line was built several years ago. One industry above all others is paramount in Grand Forks, and that is smelting, for, as above noted, here is located the smelting works of the Granby Consolidated, employing several hundred men at good wages, and from year to year increasing its sphere of operations in the smelting as well as in the mining line. Further detaijs of this great enterprise can be gleaned from other pages in this issue, where the works are more fully described 1 and illustrated. Reference also to the several maps printed in this issue will illustrate the strategical position.ot Grand Forks, being the nearest point of prominence in the Boundary to the American side, as well as the supply point for the rich and partially developed mineral fields of the North Fork ' of Kettle river and its tributaries. Grand Forks is the customs headquarters lor the entire Boundary, with srub-ports at Greenwood, Phoenix, Midway, Sidley, Osoyoos, Cascade, Keremeos, Carson and Fair view���all reporting to R. R. Gilpin, who has been the collector of customs since long before there was any settlement at the present location of Grand Forks. Sidney R. Almond, gold commissioner for Grand Forks mining division, has his office and that of mining recorder here. Mr. Almond is also registrar of the supreme and county courts. Grand Forks is essentially a residential center, many fine homes dotting the landscape on all sides of the corporation. The educational facilities of Grand Forks certainly take a front rank with cities many times larger and older in" the province. A modern stone and brick school house has been erected, complete in every respect, having six class rooms, a large basement and modern sanitary arrangements. The building cost over -&�� YAfcE HOTEL, GfiAND FORKg, **" \ i k * i ��^^y���r��.*.T^i,.. r ���-���!-. e��� jf^-v^^y, .������ ii'-^"j..pi,(.. v ^.|��i".gw...p^3i*'~|-w,.l.*'^ L" L\,3 i m 5? ft ffl V I*' ~ i. I \ "^'SOa'P'*"'// f* njwjf.^. t r y.. H* t 1 ,W ***��''<''*'*"TO**^ PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 43 ���tti ���"-'"a h'P $ s >' *3 ���W*r �� $20,000 and is a credit not only to the'city but to the entire Boundary country. The average attendance runs about 250 scholars. In connection with the public school a high school was established in 1903, ',it being the only one in the Boundary. In educational facilities Grand Forks certainly takes a front rank. Banking facilities in Grand Forks have not been overlooked in the growth of the place, there being three such institutions, namely> branches of the Royal Bank of Canada, the Eastern Townships Bank and the; British American Trust Co.,* Ltd." f In another respect Grand Forks can lay claim to being in the 'lead in the Boundary. It has, the'largest and finest hotel in this entire section���the Yalu ��� costing about $60,000 and being the pride of the "municipality. S'.rangers will be 'well cared for in Grand Forks. An illustration of. the Yale appears; Grand Forks was one of the earliest settlements in the Bounc&ry, being the, diverging point for the Christina lake section, the Colville Indian reservation on the American side, the North Fork, for Rock Creek and Greenwood and for many miles of the JCettle river basin. The original site of the town, which was owned by George McRae, was settled on in the early nineties, and in 1893 was sold/to John A. Manly, who shortly thereafter founded, the present town by platting it. From that day to this has been a period of more or less steady growth, and there can re no doubt but that it is destined to be a large and populous centre, as nrUXF) F'MJKS PCBLIC SCHOOL. fa^B^&SSSS^S^SSSfS^^^SSSTXBS^OBKSSi w^kmWUmJ,y::^mm& fflgKHaWY*!mm wWffmmmkmm' -'tHI tmBSSKKtWmSMf/v^.Wlm^''Wt mBbBHIHH^'IM^sKmEHII smm^B^mKmSwWmx- '*?���*- "SSI JBJHHaMHMBBaiaBHBBt '{.V 'Sffi pBpwBBSbwBBHHBR. ������?-������ - f| HJnttgEa 11 i^^^^^^S^'"^ SP^sl p��BranuBgB^^ .- nwtnr JSViiSaBBS >SnfiffiH^fflR9SffiS3S^^BNH8j^rrjK^Hft G. A. FRA6ER, M.P.P., OF GRAND FORKS. the smelting industry and the agricultural and f horticultural potentialities continue to be developed, as they undoubtedly will be. For years the town of Grand "Forks had a modest growth, and at one time the town of Cascade, 13 miles below Grand Forks on Kettle river, threatened to outstrip it. But if the town was small, the spirit of its founders was great, and no sacrifice seemed too much to bring capitalists to see its many advantages. They were noted far and wide for their progressiveness and desire to do everything possible to build up their town. As stated heretofore, the bringing of the Granby smelter there was a case in point. The encouragement of the building of the branch of the Great Northern into the Boundary, as well as that of the Kettle Valley lines, were others, and today the residents feel certain that they will see the smoke of another smelter curling up in the clear atmosphere of that valley, in their neighborhood, at no distant date. At the time of the construction of the C. P. Ry.'s Columbia & Western branch* line into, the Boundary from the Columbia river, 1899-1 goo, Grand Forks received, a great impetus, the boom in Republic being on at the same time. Travel into the Boundary 'all'had to pass through Grand Forks, and before the days of railways that, meant staying thereover night���and the one who did that was not overlooked. Next" to smelting the most important creator of wealth in the Kettle river valley is the tiller of the soil, and nature was exceedingly generous to that valley. For years the land was held in large sections, more than one could cultivate by himself. Of late years, however, it has been divided up into small Lo'dings, and diversified and intensive farming has been coming more and more into vogue. The r..sult has been surprising to those not familiar with the prolific nature of that .soil. 'All crops yield most abundantly, and there is an excellent market right at hand, in the nearby mining camps and settlements all over the Boundary. Fruit does particularly well, and there. is* little or no trouble in securing satisfactory prices for it, as well as for all other products. As the mines and smelters enlarge the market also grows ��r.?ater and would seemingly always absorb whatever may be raised in this beautiful and fertile valley. In the course of time farming will become even more important and be carried on on a greater scale. Another source of revenue of no mean importance to Grand Forks,is -the limbering industry. While the\ Kettle river valley itself is not well wooded, the hills and mountains to which the nearby stieams lead'afford a splendid field for the lumbermatvand logger, with their millions of acres of firs and cedars and other useful trees. More than one railway has l}een projected up the North Fork from Grand VForks, and the Kettle Valley lines, now/ known as the Spokane and BritisbbCo- lumbia railway, has done some surveying up that stream, having a charter that permits construction and a subsidy from the Dominion government. Those whe claim to know, assert that the income from the timber industry alone would be sufficient to warrant the construction of that piece of railway, to say nothing of the mineral resources of the district to,be traversed. From all of this it can readily be noted that Grand Forks has a solid foundation and a cause for its growth. 5��s- ���agljggj^ .44 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 1 p ii 1 iiji i'lt.; 1! 1 in1 i1 ii'l 'I': .111 ii''i,''r ii '.i! '!'. !-i : ("' i, ELKHORN and PRINCE HENRY Two High Grade and Most Promising Mines. The Elkh orit. *HE Boundary Elkhorn Mining Co., ��� Ltd., was incorporated last summer with a capital of $200,000 in dollar shares, for the purpose of purchasing and ^developing the Eikhorn group of claims, situated one mile due north of the court house in the city of Greenwood, adjoining the well known Providence .mine, part of the Elkhorn properties being on the Grernwood townsite. Included in this group are the Elkhorn, Elkhorn fraction and D. H. fraction mineral claims, comprising over 100 acres of valuable mineral ground which has had a large amount of systematic development work done on it in the last few years. A shaft was sunk 142 feet on the vein in the Elkhorn claim by James Sutherland and Phil McDonald, and two levels run north and south on the vein.from the shaft at the 85 and 142 foot levels. Ore was followed on both levels for over .300 feet, and the vein was stoped out in a practical and mining like manner. During the two years that Messrs. Sutherland and McDonald worked the mine $72,000 worth of ore was shipped to the smelters. This ore is high grade in silver, with gold varying from $r2 to $42 per ton. Shipments of first class ore averaged from $90 to $170 per ton net .to the mine. For a few months last summer the Elkhorn was closed while the present company was being incorporated, and on the 9th of last October a meeting of the shareholders was held, officers and directors being elected as follows: President, Phil McDonald; vice presi dent, James Sutherland; secretary and treasurer, H. V. Fuller; managing director, Dr. J. E. Spankie. Directors are Phil McDonald, James Sutherland, Dr. J. E. Spankie, H. V. Fuller, E. G. Warren and R. P. Williams! Twenty thousand shares of treasury stock were set aside for development, which were subscribed at the meeting! and on October 11 work was resumed at the mine with a force of ten men. The main slnft is being sunk to the 200-foot level, when drifts will be run north and south on the vein, and fhe ore stoped out to the 142-foot level. Two crosscuts have been run to the east on both levels, and the ore was encountered in each. On the 142-foot level the ore is very rich, showing a great deal of native silver, antimonial silver, galena and zinc blend. The management is installing an electric hoist at the mine, furnished by E G. Warren, manager of the Greenwood Electric company, which will facilitate the work considerably. It is the intention now to keep on sinking and run levels 75 feet apart for sloping out the ore. At present the mine is worked altogether by hand drilling, but by next spring a complete electric p'ant will probably be installed. Shipments of ore are now beginning. The last sale of personal stock netted the owner 50 cents per share, there being no treasury stock on the market. rmce Henry. *HE Prince Henry - Abercraig Mining and Developing Syndicate last summer secured a bond on the Prince Henry and Abercraig claims, in the high grade bjlt, and due east and close to the city of Greenwood, the claims being first bonded by Dr. J. E. Spankie and G. A. Rendell, both of Greenwood, and later the syndicate was formed. There are 100 shares, and the holder of each share pays in $10 per month, thus forming a development fund amounting to $r,ooo per month.l Work was started with a force of ";en under Walter McDona'd on a i.ch stringer, which proved,as the doctor thought, to be a feeder to a vein "��>t far distant. He then directed the surface to be prospected, and the quartz prince "henry. l'ltlSCB HKXBY. vein was located, which it was decided to sink on. At the depth of 50 feet the quartz was still showing, but was broken up. At 75 feet depth an improvement took place, and it was decided to form the syndicate and bond the property, Mr. Rendell being chairman, and Dr. Spankie . secretary-treas- urert Sinking was continued steadily, and" at the 112 foot level the vein was found stronger than ever, it having a strife from north to south, and dipped to the east at an angle of 40 degrees. A drift to the north was started at this level a few weeks ago, and in a few- feet'good ore was encountered, and has been continuous, without any barren quartz or breaks to the present distance (November 22nd) of 52 feet. It is the intention to make an upraise and start stoping the ore for shipment to the smelter, while the drift will be continued north at the same time. Prince Henry ore is a galena, zinc blend, native silver, and iron and copper pyrites in a granular quartz gangue, and the property should soon rank among the many high grade shipping mines surrounding Greenwood. At present the Prince Henry is showing a good deal of native silver, the last two tests returning $194 anc* $822���14 ounces in the latter being gold, balance silver. Thus it wn be ^tt\\ thaVthe ore will average hiidi. ;.Both in the raise and in the face of tlie drift 10 inches of clean ore was encountered. Being on the main Greenwood-Phoenix wagon road, shipments can be readily made. When the new hoist is in place it is the intention to sink another 100 feet. W. H. Jeffrey, M.E., is engineer for the property, the development being under his direct supervision. Eg V? ^wto-^V"* ��n mz?z-f?tz*?'"'-tfiv-t?*"v fA**?- -ha^v' ��tniifir^f.r,��wi1r'jrs; tfTsr^ir^^mms^fil m*s$ J?k6iiNlX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL m m CITY OF GREENWOOD Encircled bv High and Low Grade Mines. FEW men have done as much for the place of their adoption as did Robert Wood for the city of Greenwood���that prettily located incorporated town so advantageously situated in the valley of Boundary creek. Mr Wood has been aptly called the father of Gretnwood, and the name is well applied, for, since he first came into the almost uninhabited',: Boundary district in the fall of 1895, having journeyed from Armstrong, iri the Okanagan country, and established Greenwood, Mr.Wood has been steadily and untiringly working for the building up of Greenwood. Mr. Wood literally hewed his way in the primeval forest in building Greenwood, and, as may be surmised, it was no easy task in those days. When promising mines were located in every direction around Greenwood, form one to fifteen miles distant, Mr. Wood and his friends were the first to see the wisdom of building trails and wagon roads to the various camps, thereby securing a profitable trade for the enterprising Greenwood merchants. And so Greenwood grew and waxed, strong. When the iron horse was heard snorting in the distance, getting ready to cross the range from the Columbia river, Greenwood grew even faster than before, and prosperity shone on it in large degree. This was in 1898 and 1899. The C. P. R. "began its work of blasting its rocky way into the Boundary in the former year, and in the fall of 1899 the first trains were run into Greenwood. For years the railway had been promised and at last it was a reality, and Greenwood thrived mightily as the direct result. In the meantime many of the mere prospects had been extensively developed, and some of them had the right to claim the name of mines, ready to begin steady ore shipments when the steel monster should reach the dumps. Some of the mines were low grade, and required many men to develop them; and then again there were scores of high grade properties that gave the greatest promise���a promise which in increasing numbers is being verified today. It was the day of progress and growth. . . In July, 1897, the municipality of the city of Greenwood was formed, and the place began to take on metropolitan airs by grading streets, build ing sidewalks, securing water and light systems, etc. The first assessment roll of the new city showed a valuation of $211,035, while that for this iyear was six or seven times as large. Debentures were issued for making improvements, and so well were they taken care of that many thousands of dollars worth have already been called in and cancelled. As, an instance of business sagacity on tne part of the mayor and aldermen of Greenwood, eariy this year there was an opportunity to buy in some of the debentures at something like 65 cents on the dollar, and it was arranged. Later in the/ 46 PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MININ(j JOURNAL .i'��:.i*r LOWXW OmCE- NE^ YORK OFFTCE- SJl <l% .:kri!|; .;;,*&-, ���jl.tl; ��s-?y^. ":--h I Jiji!;[* .*��;.< ���ijiji.ll.1'!':!.1,'^';'. ���''���'', 13-15 Wibon Sf., Finsfeu*y, E.C. WHOLESALE DEALERS Iron Morton's Shards and Snielter Bar 127 Duanc Street. IN "B.C. Steel Drill MM ml ^iPOLLO" GM^MNIZED STEEL BEST* BESSEMER BliAOK SHEET STEEL Mff&iy 'H ��!ii;3l!',"-.ri;<;;p.'...!,-:"..���.':���". Hiilllill mi fillip and Light Rails ^^^^^^^^^^Q^l^^^^ AND WASHERS 1^ Wire Ropes m/. mm ; ill !! ) ! 111^ VALVES SEND FOR |M||pipMl HARDWARE ^i^^ilETE ;SlCE^|LlifioF MIXING SUPPLIES TOW?! liS; H ,1} I ���iWi! pH l.i !������ I if .r;..,-.3.; ... ifilili^.^ ... 'mm* ���toil .iliSs! ; teMv-i: il'i ��� m If! mm \ 9^^JH^^0^^J^^PJ^H^^PP����P��0, CO CON. ��.--f ���:���'���; *V:V mm' ��� ��� ''Is! |ii(!f4-i��i '$\?& ���'���' ��� ~# '������lill! iif fl!&J#t.^# ; if.: ;'^3p(pO v^ ������';.-���'��� * I^E MANUFACTURERS OF^^.;^iBM^^^S m tt sNb'GJANT'GELATINE Al^Q MANTjFXeTURERS �� GELATINE DYNAMITE ill' All KiNbis of Explosives for -V MINING, RAILROAD STUMPING Dealers in .'. f USE, DETONATORS AND BLASTING APPARATUS i! Factory : TELEGRAPH BAY, B.C. Head Offices for B.C.: VICTORIA, B.C H. P, DICKINSON, kterior i^nt. Offices of Interior Agent : ROSSLAND, B.C. ^^i^i^ss ss^^kp*' ^r jf,^, p^i��|g���� w aa��iM!r^ni5ETM^T?aj^ 3,^f^MMff^.fr:.Lse:.fi PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 47 m MS* BftE R*7*J l*g SSX ���vfi K�� *,i>'j year it was thought wise co issue $15,- 000 in new debentures to improve the water system, and these debentures were sold at 95 cents in Toronto. Greenwood is provincial government headquarters for Greenwooti (formerly Kettle mer) mining division, and the gold commissioner and mining recorder, William G. McMynn, resides here. A couple of years ago. the government erected a substantial- court house in Greenwood at a cost of $20,- 000, Mr. McMynn being registrar for both supreme and county courts. An illustration of the building will be noted here. * No city or town in the Boundary has better banking facilities than Greenwood. When the railway graders were blasting their way to Greenwood, three great chartered banks had a friendly race to see which could first open a branch in Greenwood. Almost simultaneously the Bank of Montreal, the Bank of British North America and the Canadian Bank of Commerce were doing business in the Boundary creek mining and trading centre. In other ways Greenwood? is favored better than many places. A fine public school building has been built, with ample accommodation for years to come, while five religious denominations have edifices of their own. Fraternal and secret orders are also well represented with strong branches, and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace are doing good work in a well equipped hospital. In common with all places in the Boundary, Greenwood felt the quiet times that followed the completion of the C P.R. into the Boundary. As in all new places, many came into the GREENWOOD COURT HOUSE. country on a " shoestring," hoping to make good in the boom that was oh. The quiet times eliminated this class, legitimate mining became more and more in vogue, and it was found that the mines were even better and richer than many of the argonauts of 1 he district had dreamed, and dividends were paid. With its happy location, at the confluence of several creeks,, which were naturally followed by roads and trails from contiguous mines, Greenwood's old-timers stayed with the place and gradually received the reward which they so richly earned. The men who laid the foundations of Greenwood appear to have been gifted with a prescience in the matter GREENWOOD SCHOOL HOUSE. of its location. Midway in the valley of Boundary creek, between the divide at Eholt and the beautiful Kettle River valley where Boundary creek flows into the Kettle, it challenges a rival geographically. Long ago nature made it the objective point of descent from the mountain ranges on either side���mountain ranges filled with vast resources of gold and silver and courier. Obeying nature's law, here the streams from the mountain ranges flow into Boundary creek. Through the heart of the city Twin creek comes down from the east. One mile north of the city Providence creek follows its course from the east into the valley. A half mile further on Eholt creek pours a generous flood into the valley. At the southern limits Copper creek comes out of the west through a pass which leads by easy, grade to Dead- wood and Copper camps beyond. *\ half mile further south Lind creek pours its pnre waters into the valley. Along the courses of all these streams Nature decreed the future travel of the district. And so today up the valley of Boundary creek to Kimberly camp, up the valley of Eholt creek to Summit camp, up Providence creek $0 Providence camp, up Twin creek Phoenix camp, up Copper creek Deadwood and Copper camps, Lind creek to Wellington camp, do\p Boundary creek to Smith's camp, tjpe traveller takes his way. In the paths of pioneer and prospector the hi^i- ways of the freighter, whether by team or railway, have been laid. Greenwood is the meeting point of the waters from the mountains, the meeting place of the roads which seek their valleys. to to m PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL; 49, ETO M P- -',i & #3 THE SNOWSHOE GROUP Developed to Shipping Stage by English Capital. THROUGHOUT the length and breadth of the Boundary there is but one group of mines that has been steadily developed for years by English capital and brought to the point where it can be made a steady producer. This does not mean that no English capital has become interested in this later relocated. �� Then Patrick Clark, the Spokane mining operator, took a bond on the property, but failed to do sufficient work thereon to prove its value. A bond was finally taken on the Snowshoe by the British Columbia (Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, Ltd., and that concern at once entered upon period of development, practic- a long GENERAL VIEW OF SXOWSIIOE PROPERTY. section, but rather that one company in particular has done more than all the rest combined���we mean when operated with English capital���in the shape of development and getting a mining property to a point where it can steadily maintain ore shipments. This property is the Snowshoe group, adjoining the Granby mines, and located only ten minutes' walk from the C.P.R. station in Phoenix That the Snowshoe is one of the groups of important Boundary mines is generally admitted, and the fact that it has already shipped approximately 100,000 tons of ore tells its own story. The further fact that it is not now being operated does not lessen its importance one'whit. Reasons for this will be explained later in this story. This group comprises the Snowshoe, Pheasant, Alma fraction and Fairplay fraction mineral claims, crown granted and adjoining. The principal claim of the group, and the one on which most of the development has been done, is the Snowshoe. This claim was originally located in 1891, and ally bringing the mine to the condition it is in today���where it has ore bodies of sufficient size to permit of the prop erty shipping 500 or more tons per day for an indefinite period���a number of vears at least. After the British Columbia [(Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, Ltd., had performed about $130,000 worth of development work from 1899 to 1901, the Snowshoe Gold and Copper Mines, Ltd., was organized in^ London with a capital of ^250,000 to take over the group and operate the same. This company was organized by the promoters of the old syndicate and was floated without trouble in England at a time when it was difficult to float anything. The chairman is the Earl of Chesterfield; vice chairman, George S. Waterlow, Esq. Mr. George S. Waterlow, who is a son of Sir Sydney Waterlow, of London, is one of the best friends that this district has in England, having always taken a deep, personal interest in the property, and has* visited it several times. The tonnage of ore shipped from the Snowshoe for four years, the product going mostly to the Boundary Palls and Greenwood smelters, was as fo lows : Dry Tons I9OO 297 1901 I��73I 1902 20,800 1903 71,212 Total shipments of ore .. 94,040 ORE QUARRY, SHOWING MOUTHS OF RAISES, 2i||'HB-i;;^:l:': ':lH]'i!''.j;ii!i;I:'i::'i 'ifell ;:: ;! :;W ������lf-> Jr |fe J*feJ.i.*.!-\ lllljfjlllp ;!'--'j!4iJ..'}y.!;!ii!.;'-:|-' WMmi^ iiii! fe illftft <;|il!vi|!:>: ipv jSji Umm kmmm *l$l��iii?b.''��,/i; |i|l4ii��iSi'.;:.:''lv-.;; pi: lijli llii Pi ��� ��� W pill 1 ,11 Mi I .ill! )|V*!3iii|:.1>.>;.. ni ���i\m m^'mipyyy- IlIK iltl |��ilil/;^;:: : pi'!!' '.;;i.::?r' ���:���.��������������� iwitr'iifiiit.-,-.- pi; iiilji':!;':;, it. 'it! ]i!tepii;!l'.jiiil!jiV *W��a !i'Pp::"Hi '��: ������)>< : WMifc^.'-ft!^' ^.W'-'iSpiiH-;:,;'!^:;!' ��11s:jii:���&;B :��' ��� {'mm iliW!ip-!i I r. ��� ksn . ��a V;f: ��� if jMMpr 0im iS"--iiis. h pp<; te^r;s:.'#.1 ;>,;l--p iM,..'i-p ^Mlvifi!!! I.:ir-lFi ��������� Hi Mf. ��M*; IP .JSwr^ THE rib Mh mmwmmwa EETWEEN SEATTLE, ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND POINTS IN THE EAST VIA THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (. THE COMFORTABLE WAY Leaves \^9 Limited Leaving VANCOUVER Daily 8 p�� m. for St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Points East! *-"3r; dP %$&i * ���+,< ^ New Dining Cars (Meals a la carte.) New Palace Sleeping Cars. Through Tourist Sleeping Cars. Comfortable Roomy Day Coaches. For further information, rates, berth reservations, call on M. M. STEPHENS, Agent, PHOENIX, B.C. or S G. YERKES, A. G. P, A. SEATTLE, Wash. (HSS&lliSSW^^ ^mmmsmmmmi^^^^mM r.'Hj; '���� M 'rt��A p��"4 ��� PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL 5* [.-. ;���'< All the Snowshoe ores carry gold and copper, the copper either sprinkled freely throughout, or more generally disseminated in fine particles. The ores vary in character, the ganc;ue being sometimes silicious, sometimes calcarous, while again it is magnetic'or specular hematite! In parts of the property the several varieties occur in pressor, with accessories, were supplied by the Jenckes Machine Co., of Sher- brooke, Que., in addition to electric hoist and 150 horse power boiler heretofore mentioned. In addition to the excellent equipment of machinery for the Snowshoe, the management provided good boarding and bunk houses for the employees, SNOWSHOE ELLCTKIC HOIST. quite distinct bodies and in others as well as residences for the superin- they are mixed. tendent and foremen. With the C.P.R. Development work during 1903 in- running across the property, aiready eluded about 700 lineal feet of driving/ having built three sidetracks on the crosscutting and raising and ihe sink- Snow-hoe ground, and the survey for ing of the main three-compartment a spur of the Great Northern to lJhoe- incline shaft another 50 feet, making nix doing the same, the Snowshoe is ils depth 350 feet. The development in the best of positions as far as work is now 7,010 lineal feet. A considerable amount of surface stripping was done during that year also, and stupes were opened up and timbered on the different levels. In 1903 ore was extracted to ihe extent ol over 70,000 tons from what is known as the Tunnel or No. 1 level, the 200-foot and 300-foot le\els, and from several ore quarries opened from the surface. The mine is now in excellent condition, with numerous ore faces accessible, workings conveniently arranged, power equipnii nt adequate, and ore bins and trackage provided, so that'a daily output of 500 tons can readily be maintained. From 60 to 106 men were;'regularly-employed at the mine. The improvements and additions to'-machinery, plant and buildings during 1903 included the completion-of ore bins with a capacity of 2,500 tons, building of head frame ai:d skipways, and live installation of a 150 horse power double conical drum electric hoist with motor .'to operate ii, and another steam boiler, 150 horse pov<-iy hi,i;h-pressure���-then the largest hoist in'', the Boundary. Tlie hoist Was operated by electricity, the cm rent having been supplied by ihe Cascade Water, Tower and Li-bt Co., which also supplies the Granby company's mines. The; power plant of the mine included two air-compressors, hoisting engine, an auxiliary hoist, etc. In 1903, the first half of a Rand Corliss 30-drill air-com- transportation facilities are. concerned. On the 16th of December, 1903, operations at the Snowshoe were suspended, pending the completion- of details of an amalgamation plan with the British Columbia Copper Co., Ltd , owning and operating the Mother Lode mine and smelter, the Snowshoe having heretofore been shipping to customs smelters, which did not prbve to be satisfactory to the management. It was confidently expected that this consolidation would be made effective, but in February, 1904, the announcement was made that the directors of the two companies had not, after 2II, agreed upon a basts ot amalgamation. When the Snowshoe mine was closed in December, 1903, the announcement was made that it would resume operations and ore shipments when it owned a smelter of its own or haa an interest in some reduction works. Like the great majority of ore bodies in the mines of the Boundary, the values in the Snowshoe mine are low, and not high enough to pay a'profit to a smelter not owned by the company itself. The proposition is nothing less than the consolidation of the LeRoi, Centre Star and War Eagle, the most prominent mines in Rossland camp, with the Snowshoe. During the fall of 1904, Prof. R. W. Brock, of the Dominion geological survey, and a piofessor at the Kingston Royal School of Mines, spent a month with a dozen assistants in an exhaustive examination of the Snowshoe mine, and the matter of consolidation is now receiving attention. ������*��� > v * * * 1 ���*"-$ \ $ 1 �� �� J^ "�� * ^ ORIGINAL SNOWSHOB CABIN. # PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARYmNI^U^AL. jfitfiUaMJW*'-*" anadian TairbanKs \%mmm,... 'lit iiM'-.iiii.Jf, '-!' ' MI0BB VANCOUVER, B.C. ::y .y^f:"' ���: MONTREAL TORONTO WINNIPEG If ill! 1111 M\Ml\iJy., . . 0myjm SOLE AGENTS IN CANADA FOR m 'Ml: m "I m W ill Ml im 11 iiiiii IS ill- 3ilii|il|b' ipi MS! m w im :1 SSI! I! Ji i!|:'���'','; i-itefe* W'', >.���,.,.- $���&'���* ipiit^ ���.'���it l.l'l'.-. iJf -���. .���; - ��� FAIRBANKS, MORSE c> O.. NILES BEMENT POND MACHINE CO. AMERICAN SAW MILL MACHINERY CO. CANADIAN BUFFALO FORGE CO. CLIMAX ENGINE CO. RELIANCE MACHINE "1UUJL, CI/. E. M. DART MANUFAC TURING CO. PRATT & WHITNEY CO. AMERICAN TOOL WORKS SA. WOODS MACHINERY CO. AMERICAN WOOD WORK- . ING MA CHINER Y CO. HO USTON, STANWOOD& GAMBLE CO. BIGNALL, KEEPER PIPE MACHINE CO. E. W. BLISS CO. J.J. McCABE AMERICAN STEAM GA UGE cV VAL VE CO. Ill 'Mill Fairbanks St; s i ies/ true sir* V Ives .Ji! 'is.VV! ]il|j|||.f';|iffi��|:p;.'. illlilil- ��� o.i HiV'i l;p bite- 1 !>] lli,::^;!:!;; i'- LARGEST MACHINERY SUPPLY HOUSE IN CANADA jixj^.j?: SlJa'iii'i-'','^' :��j���!������(!-' Bl||||; ;s1IS:|ip- isSSW^'i'K 6^ >$ ��i=s=3 Office 6�� Warehouse: 101 WATER STREET (Corner Eaker) Machinery Warehouse: POWELL STREET VANCOUVER B.C S&SZ5H5HSHSHSH5HS1525H5E^^ II ;1;:l! iifc^^ BK&*B��!��w*'^^ if w EG PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 53 m i "CM* m m zw ������* Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy. MILE James J. Hill was horn in Canada, Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy, the president of the C.P.R., is a native-born American, having first seen the light c?f day at the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1853. At the age of sixteen Mr. Shaughnessy entered the service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. Ten years later he had worked himself up to the position ol general storekeeper of that great line, continuing as such for three years. In 1882 .Mr. Shaughnessy was attracted to the Dominion of Canada and its boundle' s resources, to devel- ope which the C P R. was then preparing. He accepted a position with Canada's great railway as general purchasing agent, and in a short three years was made assistant to the-general manager of the entire system. In 1891 he was appointed assistant to the president, in 1897 he became vice- president, and in 1898, when Sir William Van Home retired as president, Mr. Shaughnessy was made president of the company. On the visit of-the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall to' Canada last year, he was knighted. Mr. Shaughnessy has been in the railway business all his life, and the splendid condition as a revenue producer of Canada's ocean-to ocean highway is largely due to Mr. Shaughnessy. Expansion in railway building in the tar west is the order of the day, and the C.P.R, is doing its share of new work.- ���:��� TWO RAILWAY KINGS Who have spent Millions to give tlie Boundary Country adequate Transportation Facilities. Boundary Tonnage the Goal., 'N no part of the Northwest has the competition by two great railways for tonnage been keener than in the Boundary���especially for the last two or three years. In 18989 the C.P.R. constructed its Columbia & Western branch from the Columbia river into the Boundary country at a cost of some $5,000,000 for the 125 miles. For a few years the C.P.R. had the tonnage of this count! v to itself; What this amounted to may be seen in part when it is recalled that in about five years nearly 3,500,000 tons of ore have been produced here, all of which had to be hauled to the smelters, not counting the bullion and coke or coal tonnage. Then there were large revenues from general freight, express, passenger service and telegraph, nearly all going into the coffets of the C.P.R. For several years the Granby Consolidated alone paid to the C P.R. an average of more than $1,000 per day for freight charges. So it is evident that the Boundary was a profitable field for the C.P.R., and Mr. Hill, with his lines penetrating the Kootenays at different points, was sure to throw a bianch into the Boundary from Marcus, Wash., when the time was ripe. About three years ago it seemed propitious, and the line was built some 43 miles to Grand Forks, and thence 35 miles further south to Republic, Wash. In May, 1904,-,-announcement was made that the Great Northern president would build 23 miles from Grand Forks to Phoenix, and do it at once. Of a sudden, contractors swarmed in with some 1,500 laborers, and although the engineers did not think it could be done, the rails were laid into Phoenix that winter, and in February last the Gre.it Northern began hauling ore from this camp. This, however, was but a part of Mr. Hill's plans. The V., V. & E. railway, as his lines in the Boundary are known,, were to be extended right through to Vancouver on the Pacific coast, and this last year construction on another link of this line was started, about 150 miles, which will bring the railway next year into the heart of the Similkameen district. In two or three years the Boundary will have direct connection with the coast by this new line. James J. Hill. JAMES J. HILL was born of hardy Scoto-Irish ancestry near Guelph, Wellington county, Ontario, September 16th, 1838, and is now in his sixty-eighth year. At fifteen he left home to make his way in what was then the west���St. Paul and Minneapolis���and has since made his home there. After experience as shipping clerk and in other positions on a steamboat line, he became agent . of the Pacific & St. Paul railway, with some miles of rusty track and $33,000, 000 of indebtedness. He gradually worked himself up in the railway world, each step showing the genius of the man for system and organization, till he became president of the .Great Northern railway, certainly one of the most extensive systems in the United States, paying large 'profits to the owners, and in many ways setting an example that is followed by other lines. Preaching the doctrine of low grades, heavy power, large capacity cars and heavy trainloads when these things seemed visionary to others, Mr. Hill's lines have created business wherever they have penetrated. He is ever seeking to haul a bigger tonnage at lower rates than competitors and yet leave a profit for himself. He is a remarkable man in many ways, and the west feels his impress, and will feel it for decades to come. iBpa����app*wa����-��"- BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. ."ig ; ii'.'ii. ��� '-ft'ir : i'1 it ��� . l��fr!l '- ���''I'iM1. ji : if: .i,',i; 1 i.jp " 1 .'.���i'i:<, ��� i| l"i" : ,r I!' ��� ��� I ill, I'I' iMf- i, !1 lil t ' if 'i;'y'iiiiii.fi' ������fS5s$i ..'if'pp;1^';.; :5viiilii:iri;i;l. |iP'-l;:ill ;ii:i:'ipJai;3aiti5JL 3f> <U en .c c +* o S > w <V o c cj Si C w C �� fcfl & w a .8 p, bO C , 0> JO V o> c c '5 o .o a$ ��� ���������% y a) i/i > ��-. tJD C a> O T3 O ^ O *����� > u <���< c 4) 0) c }-> 3 o 0 'd e 4. rt J^ 4-1 t/J o ���J 4-1 c fe 0) 4-1 3 0 S' JO. <0 ~ ^ C d O 73 C O to ^ <u 5? 5f c a ^ 4J r , ��s o toJD C vO a) c d C 3 O ��J o r���* ^3 ,n Cfl 3 Pw a o O o i/5 PQ VuJ > C/! ���'eS ^ W- >- 0) > o P��4 13 C/3 ���X3 o 4-�� C O �� ��J 0/ O # Ui ___ N c 3 O PQ <L) ^3 s.-g O O .3 4) "d u. C u 4) c c t: .Oi s c o t3 C O C O ^- -*-> <y ' -a 4-> o G JO T3 O ���� IT) ���- s > aJ C 3 O S3 3 O -.'^V ".*��� ^fii ...'.v-X '.�� t-%a fm*^w'*��'w^Trr^^��".��T^n,T^;^^u^cT?!rr^ Kwswiss;??��!! PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL; 55 Sr#' Jfii aa E& St! If Boundary's Copper Foundry. In these rock-ribbed hills of Boundary There's almost a copper foundry, , , And it's worth your^while to take a closer look. For we've copper ore by acres, But no room here for fakirs, As we're busy "making good" by hook or crook. - So we'll tell our little story, Even though there's naught of glory, In this old, prosaic searching for the "stuff." We are setting an example, That the world can see is ample To show that we"have diamonds in the rough. In the nineties of the first part Our prospectors made a good start;" And they found some gold and silver in our hills. But without some transportation, And with little information They could hardly pay their grub and powder bills. So the Boundary had a rest, For a few years at the best, Till the iron horse should hither wend its way. Then it took a sudden leap To a place that it could keep, And has kept it, safe and sound, until this day. When our copper lodes were found By the delvers. in the ground, It was learned that they were very low in grade. Yet the ledges were immense, So, with coin and much hard.sense, Costs were gotten where some money could be made. Five or ten years thus were spent,. While some millions also went Just to prove that Boundary's mining zones would pay; And today three thousand tons Is the average of the runs Taken out oy two great railways every day. Which are these mines, you ask, That are worthy of this task ? The answer is now known from sea to sea. First of- all's the giant Granby. And there's naught that's namby-pamby In the daily tale of tonnage all can see. Then comes the Mother Lode, Which is on the same high road, With a goodly dozen others great and small. Then the Brooklyn and Rawhide Are looked upon with pride, And many that are far from least of all. There's one thing we'ddike to say: If it ever comes your way, Do not fail to take a look at Boundary mines, In the future they'll be famous, And none but an ignoramus Will wish to be in darkness on these lines. Take advantage of the chance, Don't look at them askance. But see them when you can on every hand. Dividends will soon be coming, And the monied men a-running, And then the shares will soar to "beat the band. Altitudes in British Columbia. f . ��� ��� * The following table of elevations of cities, towns, mints, lakes, ttc , in this province i9 compiled from a Dictionary of Altitudes of Canafca rectjiv.'d by the" Phoenix Pioneer from the Department ul the Interior at Ottawa : Feet Arrowhead. ��� 1,4r3 Arrow Lake. 1,384 Ashcroft 1,004 Atlin Lake 2,200 Bonnington Falls 1,658) Cascade. .:... .......... 1,587 Castlegar^ , :.... 1,418 Christina Lake . ., -.. 1,531 Coryell 3,135 Cranbrook 3,014 Crow's Nest Pass 4,4^.9 Eholt 3,096 Farron... 3,985 Fernje' .... 3,303 Field 4,062 Fife 1,972 Fisherman ��� 2,241 t Gl.xier . . 4,093 Golden 2,580 Grand Forks 1,746 Greenwood 2,464 Hartford Junction 4,300 kamloops 1,160 Kaslo 1,750 Keremeos 1,390 Kootenay Lake 1,735 Lardeau 2,400 Lillooet 840 Lytton 695 McGuigan '.'. 3,515 Midway 1,913 Mother Lode Mine .. 3,450 Moyie 3,046 Naksup r,4!3 Nelson 1,769 New Denver 1,800 Nicola Lake 2,127 Okanagan Lake i,*35 Omenica Lake 4,IO�� Oro Denoro Mine 3,4���� Osoyoos Lake 946 Phoenix 4,625 Princeton ^885 Quesnelle Lake 2,250 Revelstoke i,5��3 Robson r,4x4 Rogers Pass. . . . ........ .. .'.-4,309. Rossland .......... .. . . . .. . 3,471 Sandon ...... ... . ........ 3>5*6 Slocan Junction 1,637 Slocan Lake . . . ,. . .... . ... . 1,761 Smelter Junction,.... ...... 1,565 Spences Bridge ............. 776 Teslin Lake.. . .- 2,600 Trail .'.. .... 1,364 Trout Lake . .. . "... . . 2,400 Windermere Lake . . 2,700 Vancouver -i !��������� Vernon ....'' ��� ��� 1>2$5- Victoria 57 Wardner . .. 2,484 Vale. 223 * nut ,��o��.����������.��������������� �����������������.��. *s 3y�� J��.���< T'j 1 l! > i'-'l "'I'I r:i 1 'p.; * i < '.'���i ���'I,-, )���" it .Hi' Il ll' ,���!*��� I f [ 1 i t*, 11 ��� ^,, , 'p 1 ! ?r lllft'l p. !������ '������ p'-!r. u i ' >,M< < . ��� ' M^Mli,','1:' "i,1! r.(ii M'l'l 111',! ill'-lF lj!!fl' Ijl-l!!' lil 'IV ill ififc! i'v \\KJ.\ ;d " 'ii'i!'1' li . ii !' ��� ..'���i'.v. It! ! p.>;'i' r>:' i " i j, . , . ,p p l ' i, .' |p " 'i '. I. ., i j n-|. ., - '!.,. 'I l'|''l I ' '��� I'1''.,!' (', k'.ii' .'ji.' C'h-, I'��� ! Hi ii ii , ' i ,!'" i ���'. ��� >' lil!:!'h:i-;!i i ������/;,' ::i :i .-- I, ��;,!' !i( ' n'l" ��� ' pf: iii tw Mi������;"���!' nip i- lip-'p-lii-i ifi, ,ii- f - - i 1 - : '��� uBiffflPi'.- Pi-Pii j|!:):;'^liiir flip: li^ifp '"��$-. mm PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. BRITISH COLUMBIA THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF CANADA. Gold, Silver, Lead, Coal, Coke, ^^iIL^ur^ PIatin��m> �������� THE MINeTot^^^ HAVE PRODUCED OVER $226,000,000. ~^^^ Products for 1902, i9<>3 and 1904. Gold, placer ��� Gold, lode Silver Copper Lead Coal Coke Other materials Customary Measure. Ounces. <( Pounds Tons, 2,240 lbs., 1992. 19C3. . Quantity. 53,647 236,491 3,917,917 29.636,057 22,536,381 1 397,^94 128,015 Value. $1,073,140 4,888,269 1,941,328 3,44.6.673 824,832 4,192,182 640,075 480,051 $17,486,550 Quantity. 53.021 .232.831 2,996.204 '34 359921 16,089,283 1,168,194 165,543 Value. $1,060,420 4,812,616 1,521,472 4,547,535 689,744 3,504.582 827,715 A31,870 $17,495,954 1904. Quantity. 55,765 222,042 3,222,481 35,710,128 36,646,244 1,V53,628 334,102 Value. $1,115,300 4,589,608 1,719,516 4,578,037 1,421,874 3,760,884 1,192.140 600,000 $13,977,359 GOLD���Placer gold mining, which in early days .formed the chief mineral industry of the province, and made it famous all the world over, still continues to be important, while improved methods of working the gravel deposits, together, with cheaper transportation and cost of mining, have rendered the working of large deposits, long known to exist, now profitable where previously impossible. The area of country known to contain placer gold is enormous and has. only been touched, leaving still virgin grouud well worth the prospecting for this, the only class of " poor man's mine." Recent discoveries in the placer fields of the Atlin district, and the large extent of unworked deposits in the Cariboo district, are proof that the field is not yet exhausted, and promise a revival of this important industry. HYDRAULIC MINING plants costing large amounts of , money are being installed in Atlin, Cassiar, Omenica and Cariboo, at points widely separated, indicating the extent of the gold deposits. One company recovered $350,000 in gold during 1900. Of the total output of 1904, 532,426 tons of coal and 1< tons of coke were exported to the United States. 1 V DREDGING FOR GOLD is receiving deserved attention, and dfedges are at work on the Fraser, Thompson, Quepnel and other rivers, on all of which streams good gionnd may yet be obtained. * COPPER GOLD ORES are being extensively worked at Rossland by the LeRoi, War Eagle and associated companies, while other mines in the camp are rapidly becoming important producers. The tonnage of this camp alone in 1904 was 312,991 tons, and there will be an increase this year. SILVER-LEAD���In 1900 the silver production was $2,309,- -200..and.the.lead production $2,691,887. Since that time the mining of silver-lead ores has been somewhat suspended owing to temporarily unfavorable market prices. "COPPER is being produced to a limited extent at Ross- landjWhere the chief value of the ore is in gold, but the feature of this branch of the industry is the development and mining of a large tonnage oriow-grade ores in the Boundary district, of which there seems to be an almost unlimited amount. The output of ore from this district alone amounted to-801,926 tons ia 1904, valued at $4,i90,281. The product of the Coast district in copper in 1904 wag valued at $764,148, and will this coming year show a "v'erv considerable copper production from the Vancouver Island and Britannia copper mines, Capital can now find here many excellent opj If proper business care is used" andTthe experience of competent men utilized, these investments shoujd be safe as wen . profitable. MINERAL LANDS-Mineral lands are open to location jo any person over 18 years of age, who has obtained a miner's certificate, and perfect title to lode claims cai easily secured after $500 worth of work has been done ^ claim. A great extent of territory has yet to be prospecteu. For information, report?, bulletins, etc , Hon. the K&nisteir of Mines, VICTORIA,������B.C�� free ���in be Provincial Mineralogist, VICTORIA, B.C tta Prospecting for copper is receiving great attention, and, the discoveries made 011 the Coast, in tlie Similkameen Valley, etc., give great promise. J IRON-With the great probability of an iron-smelting plant on the Northern Pacific Coast in the near future, what promises to be extensive bodies of magnetic iron ore nave been developed on the Coast, while other deposits of iron ore are now under development in the Goat liiver and roit Steele mining divisions, and *till other bodies occur near Kamloops. COAL AND COKE���In 1904- the Vancouver Island cnl- leriea made a net output of 784 169 tons of coal anil l-,J-* tons of coke. In 1904 the Crow's Nest collieries made a net output of 287,168 tons of coal, aud 216.694 tons of coke. These mines alone are putting out from 2,000 to 3,000 tons of coal per diem. ' ��� 100,281 he remainder was consumed in .local smelters and other industries. SMELTERS-In the province there are smelters inactive K| operation at Trail. Nelson, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Bouna- ary Falls, Ladysinith and Crofton; while this past year mw seen one erected at East Kootenay. CAPITAL portui.ities for investment, as the value placed on mines undeveloped properties has reached a reasonable basis ~..~~���-u.-,.: ��� . * 1 .1 *_ ��� �� n.( nr��mn< * mm' T*5 te^; WS3 ;Mg �� fc& a? a .* .'.V sfci ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� ��� PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. 57 Back of the *- Work You Do i t Befit the Country Produces in PISH, FLESH and FOWL t SOLD B^ 7 X 9 IN THEIR MARKETS AT *emwoodf Gttmd -Forks* Phoenix, Midw&y AND OTHER POINTS IN BRITISH COMUMBIA, ALBERTA AND THE YUKON. ������^apwraaw^ atttaiHtawftwa-"*-" ' ��� 'til - ..i'P;'; !i ���: l' r-;p ;���'��� < ���; ;;-���!:';������ ���ii ];i^!i^^;5r^:;p;-";: ^1-!p^l^.:Ji-iffi'!:ip>;i;- mmmkm !���;��� it!'!..-<i ���:j;|jff}'. 11 ���i'li-lf: WW ,.��j���. .,. 'i'j'..':;!!,-: IMljii'*!:!' ili^i.!]!!:!!];. ii if ��wmm mmmimm^ |j;.i";in',H.| iiyfiiili jy|]i!i||,! dill 11;!' m m. i P 1! Mit!.i mm. illiiili �� ^i- i ;ii lili IS ���ii'-iiiiinf ;'!iH!i Iff ���ji$ i;lli \m !p?Mr; Pf 5 Hi i !,.' jipHJlf;��� !jv,;!! B$ SvMi* S:^! i-'t: fillt'lttf ���Illllill ;|ii!li-B;?ii '���������riptir'-;'lii '������!; m mmnwi PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY! MINING/jOimNAfc. THR0K.il THE CANADIAN ROCKIES tp^ap^eJ* BANFF, Sftc Beautiful tAGfiilN, IC RCSIIU r9 sup E. J.COYLE, A.G.P.A., VANCOUVER, B.C. THE GREAT GLACIER, GLACIER, B.C. J. S. CARTER, D.P.A., NELSON, B.C. ���^ff.gy��rm^��:t&t^flffife^] raWscra��^��fc^��4l^t��!ic3p ��.^.^^T����sffi'ni!^:SSSa aiafogs sent on-iequest fy��*T (iV vasfcouver, kenora, halifax, rossland; Toronto;'st. john's, nm. ..���'. Gene^f Es^S Offkk SOVEREIGN BANK BUILDING, MONTREAL, Que. -v f > it if ^ ' ,' v >*���, \\ % > *-S* ��J- -^ ~\ Canad �� sww-v* ht ^^'a^j.WL:r farrel Bacon Stvle <B" Ore Crusher Built for the Granby Con. M., S and P. Co. Receiving opening 42 in. by 30 in. Capacity 1,400 tons to 8 in. cube every 10 hours. Shipping weight 120,000 lbs. Special car required. Weight of heaviest piece 75,000 lbs. : Two already furnished to the Granby Co. The third is now building. WRITE FOR NEW CATALOG F-602. LIMITED HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: HBRBROOKE :rk / HOLIDAY-MIDWINTER NUMBER wtiecr tj> % S. A MIV I 2 FEB 7-1805 ~j AND X... TORIA, ���.:���* Devoted to the Interests of the Boundary Mining District Sixth Year. MINING JOURNAL PHOENIX, BRITtSH COLUMBIA, JANUARY, 1905. �� ^r^'-'->'^'^.~��-^'C\ FEB 7-1905 ���'��)} '*s^V��< ! Price 25 Cents. te & MONTREAL & BOSTON SMELTING PLANT, BOUNDARY FALLS, B C. Capacity, 750 tons daily. ig^^^^gmm��^xmB^mmmmm^mmm8m^mmmmamami^&mm mms$��&S!zmss^mmimsmm88mEmmmmmmm��m��!smsm& %mmmemmm��s^m i -ffii-' '^.H'AfevJiTiU'.iyV1!;.^^^^ ���-T^T'-wrraBrrT'TTrwTrrn'^srK TcT-^���S?^r^^^ :W*;��i! ,i'(,1t��T?-1TT��T!!7i: i i m i ft m q��B2iSKSs?��W��Tgarfi IW* m.%7?lf =v\ ft- ^y*. TiV ' I / Z > -i^ ^���^^a****^^ .*�� "r ,j> rf . * 5*4J i^-i l)k , ������.-iJffltaTWStl . <���* * TSf, J V rf W\���fV% ^ y-^^krj'///' ���4/ in !: Mil ��->��� frs % W id 5 i M M f i $? ^V't i,r j> o # i* i^ fill MM ���>^*\i " ��� ?�� '^'^WM^lSHFil^ ^l! \ t �� ���^rtA�� L��tt| ikl fe^* KfeWS ��\1 Mfa r^Va :?#i$$V -ii They \m n^rT^^vv^-k^' ^aj^.^ *? *W4 ^g**wy &-m��*m* ���* ���'.# V &i $ ea^i v* "TV ���h ( VM ^os�� r-filA, ��ji*.* a i?i^ ami\ Wm4$i l^r rW# ^rl* %HardTOre^ V **$���*! It*<j! 1^1 ^rai ! . * :A S (" iW^l ���s, all sizes. mmmaSL ^jMORTdlfS B.G. DRILL STEEL !��* ^w;a^ ^ Wiy ev^ | 1 ' 4. large Mine and Smelter m B.C. j, ;J? 4 i^���YiQtqria, B.C. 1< \,r- <��� / P'T' -- Y ' ' " ' vi " ' I i'n "in i ��� y ' '? t, 7 ^^. pp^ir ^ * V>J %\ '* rf-t l (J ��>��� ������ '"���Si-"���*l-r > I ^ -t?^ * 1 t * ^ i pl-1 L It ��^^^/i^<?~GEO. t>. WOOD & CO. ' VA&CQVVE&-^WOQb, VALLANCE" & LEGGAT, LTD. f ' If TO��OJVT0~~94r BAY STREET. Leibet's Code. V*��*-*iw* V��*( t, MiH. 3&f ���-���?* r ^ %^ -y^ t \> i ", Viri l,f <. ����� I *> gmMmmmniaTgaji.iai^ man HOUDAYMIDWfNTER NUMBER carat 3 <!��� AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of the Boundary Mining:-District, Southeastern British Columbia. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BOUNDARY THE history of a great mining, ally unknown, as far as its resources camp is always of more or were concerned. It was 70 or 80 less interest, whether it refers miles from the nearest railway, at Mar- - > to the productive and well cus, Washington, and was little thought known mines themselves w to the com- of or heard of. Still, a few hardy pro- first man to come into what is now known as the Boundary Mining District of Southeastern British Columbia, was Charles Deitz, who arrived in this section in the year 1857. Mr. Deitz By this time the pioneer prospectors were beginning. to cross over the, valley to where the city of Phoenix now stands, and Matthew Hotter located the Old Ironsides in July, 1891, and munity.that has been built up as a spectors were in here in the late eighties is still a resident of the Boundary, now Henry White located the Knob Hill , consequence of the existence, develop- and early nineties, and some of them living in a comfortable old age on his about the same time. James Atwood ment and profitableness, present or found high-grade claims that were ranch a few miles from Midway, and, James Schofield located the future, of those mines. It is, therefore, worked with some profit, notvvithstand- Old "Jolly Jack" Thornton was sup- Stemwinder and G. W. Rumberger probable that Phoenix camp, on ac- mg the long mule and wagon haul to posed to be the second man to reach and. Joe Taylor located the Brooklyn, count of having been so far'one of the .'��� the railway. The drop in silver, how- this now well known" mining region most successful camps in British Col- ever, gave them all a setback from VIEW Of IIIUKMX UKKOiiK IIVI.N A W.U.nS 1JO.VI) HAD ISiiliS HUII.T- L-'ALLliD GltKENWOOD CAMP -THEN umbia, with every prospect of a steady which they never recovered till within growth for years, to-come, will hold its own in interest,'not only of the past but of the future. However, it is of what has gone before with which we now have to deal. Up to the year 1890 there was slight knowledge of the mining riches of the last three or four years. The Skylark and Providence were among these. Prospectors had tramped over the thickly wooded hills where the city of Phoenix now stands, and had seen the mammoth iron ledges that gave small Kootenay-Boundary. Many years be- values in copper and less in gold and fore that the Blue Bell mine'on Kootenay lake, had been known and worked in.a primitive way, the Indians using the almost pure lead from which to mould bullets. But with the build- silver, and they thought little of them. Many \vere allowed to lapse, while still others were relocated, the operation being repeated if necessary. P'ew were fond of doincr assessments when ing of the railway line from Spokane provisions had to be packed from 50 to Kootenay lake at Nelson in 1892, to 80 miles. It was expensive and the tide of prospectors began to flow disheartening, especially as there was in. Then followed the rich silver-lead discoveries of the Slocan district, and the temporary growth of a number of places in that locality. Before this, the silver-lead mines around Ainsworth. had been worked also, to some extent, as they are now. so little chance of securing that great need of all new countries���or old countries either, for that matter���a railway. Many of the old time prospectors who stayed with this camp in those tiresome days, have done well, but no In 1893 silver was demonetized in one will grudge them with what they the; United States, and immediately have come by, as it was undoubtedly dropped in price, so thac many silver well earned---every dollar of it. Others miners lost interest in looking for or let go���dropped everything���and went digging out the white metal. Follow- to other districts, only to wish later ing that, attention was paid to the gold that they had stayed with the Bound- ahd copper mines of Rossland,which,ary. But when the C.P.R. actually likeall the other camps/had its season of great -prosperity, to be followed by a shrinkage, and that in turn by legitimate, systematic mining���especially in camps that had the worth to Back them. All these years what is now known as the Boundary country was practic- beran the construction of its Colum- bian & Western line into the Boundary ���chiefly to reach the immense tonnage of the mines of Phoenix���then there was a decided change. But this will'be-referred to later. According to the genera] understanding of the oldest of the old settlers, the As early as 1862 Boundary creek was worked for placer gold, and there was a small settlement south of the, international boundary line, near where the town of Midway is now located. Robert , Densler located the North Star, allowed it tp lapse, and it was relocated, as^ the present Jdaljo by _G._ W. Rumberger. Densler also located the War Eagle and Snowshoe. Joe Taylor and G. W. Rumberger located In the year 1884 the first mineral the ground that is now the Rawhide claims were staked in Southern British and . Monarch; and allowed them to Columbia. These were the Eagle, on iapse, when Densler relocated the Hardy Mountain, by James McCon- Rawhide, and Keightly, Humphrey , nell, and the Victoria and Washington, and Lind staked the Monarch. Other afterwards Old England, on Rock' locations in this camp followed in rapid creek, a few miles above Kettle river, succession. Atwood and Schofield W. T. Smith and John-East came to also discovered what is now Summit the Boundary district in 1887, and Jo- camp, and made locations. The rich cated the Rocky Bar claim, now the Providence, which is now paying divi- Tunnel, on Boundary creek, near the dends, was located in 1892 by William falls. In the same year they also lo- ��� Dickman. About this time Howard C. Walters, an energetic mining man from Spokane, came into the Boundary and ��� acquired a number of high-grade claims, as no others would then pay to .work, with the nearest railway 75 miles away, and no wagon roads or trails in the country. However, Mr. Walters, who had organized a company known cated the Nonsuch, in Smith's camp. In the same year, 1887, the Bruce claim, on Ingram mountain, near Midway, was also located hy East. Three prospectors, George and David Leyson, and George Y. Bowei- man, located the Big Copper, in what is now Copper camp. The claim was then known as the Bluebird. After wards they went over the Dewdney as Spokane & Great Northern Mining trail to Rossland, where some locations Co., finally succeeded in getting in a were als-o made, and the Boundary two stamp mill, which was set up at claims were allowed to lapse. The Boundary Falls, to treat the ore of the King Solomon, in Copper camp, was American Boy and Boundary Falls staked by Ed. Lefevre and James claims. Mr. Walters also bought the Lynch, and in 1888 it was acquired by . Providence, and made some shipments D. C. Corbin, of Spokane Falls anfa to the Everett smelter, which notwith- No'rthern railway fame. In 1890-91 some locations were made by James Atwood and John Lemon near the Buckhorn in Deadwood camp. On the 23rd of May, 1891, William Mc- standing the great cost of packing on mules to the railway at Marcus, Wash., netted several thousands of dollars. Silver went down, however, in 1893, and this discouraged the prospectors Cormack and Richard Thompson in the Boundary, and for a while this staked the Mother Lode in Deadwood section was pretty nearly deserted, camp, and on June 2nd of the same However, the Skylark, which was lo- year John Ease and William Ingram cated in 1893 by James Atwood, is located the Sunset and Crown Silver said to have shipped ore which netted in the same camp. more than $30,000. AN EARLY CABIN IX PIIOKNIX. ���WLwmmmBM nwmpnan srewswraBSiniimHmBBsnffflSffliffi^ mnennnnrRBvmnRvai Lf THE PHOEmX,PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MN^GJOURNA^^ BOUNDARY'S NEW RAILWAY. m^v -*~r T*~r . tQ _from the city of Sr. . ��� r..���jn m���nh were emnloved for a long time, iu j t SIX years ago, when the Canadian Pacific Railway Company willingly spent its millions to construct over ioo miles of new railway, through its Columbia & Western charter, to reach Phoenix and the Boundary, it was a notable piece of work. But the great Canadian corporation had practically all the tonnage here to come for, the great objective point, of course, being the then growing-famous mines of Phoenix. Its officials knew that the tonnage to be developed would be tremendous���but even at that, they did not realize in full the potentialities, in a revenue producing way, of the Boundary. When, however, one mining company, operating at Phoenix, another con.rac.or in Canada, much were employed for a^ long ttme, <�� facilitate matters���night and day. ah less in the United States, who could have handled the labor situation in the successful manner in which Mr. Stewart has handled it, especially as regards the alien labor and union questions. It is quite apparent to anyone that, as long as Mr. Hill, with his extensions in British Columbia, sees fit to award his contracts to such men as Mr. Stewart, the likelihood of complications will be reduced to the minimum la- from the city of Spokane, in the neighboring state of Washington. SOMETHING OF J. W. STEWART. John W. Stewart, who had the contract for this new railway line, was born in Scotland 42 years ago, securing his began to pay into its coffers a thousand that these two gentlemen have accom- dollars or more per day for freight plished this last summer and fall, and alone, year in and year out, the Bound- yet have it done with satisfaction gen- ary district certainly looked very good erally. to the head officials. When the word finally came in June For years James J. Hill, president to proceed, it was a rush job from the told, there were at one time 1,600 borers working on the line, there being scarcely a mile of the grade that was not occupied by some of them. Tames H. Kennedy, the chief en- education in Edinburgh, and is one of gineer of the line, with a corps of four the best known men in British Colum- assistant engineers, had charge of the bia. Mr. Stewart did his first work in new line during construction, and this province as an engineer on-the looked after the details of that part of construction of the Canadian Pacific the work. They succeeded in securing Railway in 1882. Later on he took Patrick Welch" an able assistant of a grade of not more than three per part in the construction of many pieces Mr. Stewart, had immediate charge of cent, and there are many long stretches of railway in the interior, including the of one per cent and less than two per Nelson & Fort Shepherd, the Red cent. This favorable grade will per- Mountain, the Kaslo& Slocan and the mit of hauling heavy loads up the hill, Columbia & Western, the latter built there being a difference in elevation for the C.P.R. six years ago. Atpres- between Grand Forks and Phoenix of ent Mr. Stewart has from 800 to about 2,500 feet. The maximum curvature is 14 per cent, the actual construction, which it was admitted was an evidence of wisdom on the part of Mr. Stewart. Few men could have produced the same results 1,000 miles of new lines under contract in Manitoba, Ontario and the Northwest, and is probably one of the largest contractors in the railway construction business in the Dominion. He is a hard worker himself, and June and July to organize the working to reach Phoenix, as does the C.P.R., thoroughly understands the,business to ROUTE OF THE NEW LINE. The new line, instead of following first day. It required practically all of up the North Fork of the Kettle river forces, get camps established and se- follows the valley of Fourth of July cure the necessary laborers and sup- creek from the Kettle river valley, till plies, but when this was done rapid jt reaches Summit camp, where it progress was made, and the bulk of cr0sses the C.P.R. line. Then it runs the work was completed in about four Up to the headwaters of Eholt and months���a record in railway construe- .Providence creeks, circling around the tion rarely equalled. point within a mile or two of Green- the minutest detail���which accounts for a large measure of his success. Mr. Stewart has many friends in British Columbia, especially in this part, where he is best known. The contiact for the bridge building and the track-laying on the Great Nor- A MILLION DOLLAR LINE. of the Great Northern Railway, had also been proposing to reach Phoenix camp by building a line from his nearest point���Grand Forks���a distance of about 25 miles, but necessitating some . of the most expensive railway construc- < tion in the west. Three years ago ' surveys were run, and again they were carefully checked over nearly two years ago. But it was not until 1904 that something tangible was the result of these -surveys. This little piece of railway, which Mr.Hill had built his line to Grand with spurs and sidetracks is about Forks and Republic two years before, thirty miles in length, has cost the and the lack of tonnage for that line is Great Northern people in round num- supposed to have been a tender spot. bers a cool million dollars, or say a winYhim, after the heavy,cost entailed, little more than $33,000 per mile. It However, he was learning that there , was built for .the special purpose of was no lack of tonnage if he reached securing a share of the tonnage of the The route is certainly a scenic one, used. Porter Brothers also secured Phoenix, for was not the C.P.R. secur- large mining concerns of Phoenix, and and will be enjoyed by travellers com- the contract for building the stations, ing that rich plum entirely? So, in the road will undoubtedly receive its ing into the chief mining town of the freight sheds, round houses, etc., on May of 1904 it was decided to go on share of that tonnage. Its heavy cost Boundary. It will also be a great ac- this piece of road, and at this time with the work to Phoenix, and when it is due largely to the extensive rock commodation to those coming here this work is now proceeding. was so decided no time was lost. cutting necessary to construct the from the east, south or west, and will Taken altogether, J. W. Stewart has In looking for a .man who could grade, the bulk of which was within a give Phoenix direct connection with every reason to feel well satisfied with contract for the entire work, a man few miles of Phoenix. In one place a another transcontinental railway. who was a British subject, Mr. Hill thorough cut had about 40,000 cubic The corporate title of the company .selected John W. Stewart, a gentleman yards of rock taken out, and in another building the new line is the Victoria, of many years of experience in railway a bridge' was constructed that required Vancouver & Eastern Railway and Na- ���construction. It was a happy selec- about a million feet of timber���and all vigation Co., Ltd., the charter allowing are rarely completed' within from six tion for Mr. Hill and his advisors, for this is expensive work. it to build through to the Pacific coast, months to a year of the time set it is doubtful if the work could have But cost made no difference, for it which it is anticipated will be done in therefor, and in this respect it is to the "been done so quickly and with so little had to be put through, and put through' the near future, a start to be made in credit of Mr. Stewart and his able friction had it been in charge of others, quickly. In fact, on many of the 1905, it is believed. By the new line, lieutenants that this contract has It is also questionable whether there is heavy rock cuts two shifts of men Phoenix is but 175 miles���a few hours proved a notable exception. wood, but at a much higher elevation, thern from Grand Forks to Phoenix, and enters the city of Phoenix at the was let to Porter Brothers, one of the western end���opposite end from the best known firms of its kind in the C.P.R. The engineers state that the Northwest. The improved Roberts route or the line is an excellent one, * traclc-laymg machine was used to put when the difficulties of reaching this down the steel, which was imported point are considered, and it would from England. In the course of the seem that such is the case from the trestle and bridge building something substantial work that has been done. like two million feet of. timbers were the progress made with the construction of the Phoenix extension of the Great Northern. It is only too well known that, as a rule, railway contracts rf. fe?��^��waiiB(TOw^roT3^-,Tri^ "TiTX'-arS'S )" -"* ^ ���"fln-T ���*-��� v-'xstfr" -�� 1 THE PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. VI A f\ WORK OF RAILWAY CONTRACTORS IN PHOENIX. PROBABLY the largest single piece of work on the new railway to Phoenix was that at the Phoenix end, comprising, with the sidetracks, spurs, etc., nearly ten miles of construction. This work was sub-let to Burns & Jordan, a firm of contractors that has done a large amount of railway work in the Boundary in the last six or seven years. On the C.P.R.'s Columbia & Western construction, Messrs. Burns & Jordan had half a dozen, sub-contracts,, during the progress of the work, and did them all up in satisfactory shape. Regarding the work in and around Phoenix, however, the railway contractors did not have an easy job, for the reason that the city streets were torn up, in accordance writh the agreement of the city's council with the railway company, and much blasting had to be done close to buildings in the city. In. fact, the railway line cut a wide swath through the centre of the, corporation. Yet, so skilfully have Burns & Jordan done their work that there have b.een almost no complaints at carelessness from the blasters. Some damage was done, when it could not be avoided, but it was proinply repaired. The Pioneer itself can testify to this from actual experience. Beginning at a point about five miles from Phoenix on the Great Northern grade, Burns & Jordan':; contract ran into Phoenix, with the sidings that were necessary for the large share of traffic which the railway expects to secure from here. Several camps were established, and men were set to work as fast as they came in, Burns & Jordan alone having above 600 men at work in and around Phoenix when the greatest number were employed. In the course of their work they have moved some 300,000 cubic yards of rock alone, besides hundreds of thousands of yards of other material. With an excellent construction outfit���one that was up-to-date in every respect���they were "able to push'the work in a manner most satisfactory to those who were anxious to get the railway completed at the earliest possible date, Both of the partners being present during the entire construction; they looked personally after perhaps fifteen different gangs of men, sub-contractors, etc., who were in their employ. In this way no grass grew under their feet. The firm of Burns & Jordan is composed of Edward Burns and John Jordan���both members being of long experience in the railway construction field, having done contracting for the last 18 years in all parts of the Pacific Northwest. The business men of Phoenix generally, with whom they <have come in contact this last summer and fall, are unanimous in saying that it has been a pleasure to do business with them. During the progress of the construction both Mr. Burns and Mr. Jordan had their families in Phoenix. HOW BOUNDARY TOWNS WERE STARTED. IN a publication of this character it is quite in keeping that something should be said about the cities ��� and towns of the Boundary country. Nearly all of them, in the last five or ten years, have had their times of prosperity and otherwise. They would not be typical of western mining camps if they had not. But it is pleasant to record the fact that general business all over the Boundary was never before on as substantial a basis as it is today���which means, as a matter of course, that legitimate mining ���was never in a better condition. Phoenix���the most important point in the Boundary because the bulk of the ore tonnage originates here��� which was originally known as Greenwood camp, and from which the town of that name was called, was virtually established in 1899. When the gigantic ore bodies of the Old Ironsides and Knob Hill mines began to be appreciated on the outside, that and the building of the C.P.R. into the district attracted a great deal of attention to this camp. About the same time McKenzie & Mann and associates took over the Brooklyn and Stemwinder groups for the Dominion Copper Co., the Snowshoe began active development, and other properties also came to the front, to add to the fame of the camp. Geo. W. Rumberger platted the Cimeron mineral claim in the fall of 1899, J. B. McArthur also platting the New York claim as.a townsite in the same year. In November of that year the Miner-Graves syndicate, as the owners of the present Granby mines were then known for brevity, placed the Old Ironsides sub-division to Phoenix on the market, all of the Phoenix property having one of the most remarkable sales in the history of town- ��� ... * ��� . .������ site selling in British Columbia. It is within the memory of the writer that some persons travelled hundreds of miles to buy Phoenix business lots at the opening sale, only to find them already sold, much to their disappointment. As far as the records show, the first townsite platted in the Boundary creek district, as it was then called, after the creek of the same name/, was Midway, first called Eholts. This was acquired by Captain R. C. Adams, of Montreal, and associates, in 1893. It is now the Boundary terminus of the C.P.R. The site of the present town of Greenwood was acquired by Robert Wood and associates in 1895, who immediately founded the town and platted the lots, the town being incorporated in 1897. Anaconda, adjoining, was founded previously, and Mr. Wood made an unsuccessful attempt to purchase it.first. Grand Forks, located at the junction of the main Kettle river and its North Fork, was one of the earliest settlements, being a diverging point. The site, which was owned by George Mc- Rae, was sold to John A. Manly in 1893, who shortly thereafter founded the town by platting it. Grand Forks is fortunate in being the location of the immense Granby smelting works, now about to be enlarged for the third time. the district, and the . communities growing up around them. The valleys are admirably adapted to fruit raising, and fruits of all kinds are cultivated in the greatest profusion. BOUNDARY DISTANCES. Railway distances in the Boundary from Nelson, the C.P.R. divisional headquarters, are, approximately, as follows: Miles Cascade 83 Grand Forks 96 Eholt no Phoenix 130 Greenwood 118 Midway 127 OKIGINAL CABIX BUILT IV PHORNIX, WITH SKVKN OMVTIMERii.,..DOMINION AVKN'UE IS NOW GBADEI) OVKR THE SITE Small settlements also grew up at altitudes in British Columbia. Deadwood, Carson, Boundary Fails, The following table of altitudes of Eholt, etc., the latter when the railway citieSj towns> mjneS) lakes, etc., in was built, and it was found that the thi rovincej is compiled from a Phoenix line of the C.P.R. would . \u->-A e r*���A�� Dictionary of Altitudes of Canada branch off there. ���, . ���. r Cascade is one of the oldest towns received by the Phoenix Pioneer from in-the Boundary, having been platted the department of the interior at in the very early nineties, and during Ottawa: the railway building enjoying a genu- Feet ine "boom," and being at that time Arrowhead. . '1,413' one of the most important of Bound- Arrow Lake. ............... 1,384 ary towns. , Ashcroft i,oc4 A conservative estimate of thepopu- Atlin Lake. 2,200 lation of the Boundary district has B. C. Mine 3>�� placed it at about 10,000 persons. As Bonnington Falls ........... 1,658 is 'well known, the most important Cascade. . ..... . .-..... I��5S7 industry is that of mining, being the Castlegar ... . . 1,418 industry on which all others practically Christina Lake r.531 depend. Other industries and occupa- Coryell ....... 3,135 tions are well represented, lumbering Cranbrook . 3>��*4 being carried on to a considerable ex- Crow's Nest Pass '. . 4,449 tent, and farming becoming more and Eholt . 3>��96 more important each year, with a Elko ��������� 3>oS2 splendid market close at hand, being Esquimalt 33 the numerous mines and smelters of Farroh ��� ��� ��� ��� 3>985 Feet Fernie : 3,303 Field 4,062 Fife 1,978 Fisherman 2,241 Glacier 4,093 Golden , 2,580 Grand Forks 1,746 Greenwood ; . 2,464 Hartford Junction 4,30�� Hope 216 Illecillewaet 2,710 Kamloops 1,160 Kaslo 1,752 Keremeos !>390 Kootenay. Lake 1,735 Lardeau 2,400 Lilfooet 840 Lytton 695 McGuigan 3,515 Midway 1,913 Morrissey 3,101 Mother Lode Mine 3>45�� Moyie 3,046 Nakusp 1,413 Nanaimo 125 Nelson 1,769 New Denver 1,800 New Westminster 13 Nicola Lake 2,127 North Bend 495 North Star Junction 2,981 Okanagan Lake I>135 Omenica Lake 4,100 Oro Denoro Mine 3,400 Osoyoos Lake 946 Phoenix 4,625 Princeton 1,885 Quesn^Ue Lake 2,250 Revelstoke... I>S��3 Robs'on..: 1,414 Rogers Pass 4,309 Rosebery 1,7.95' Rossland . 3,461 Salmo 2,181 Sandon 3,516 Shields 2,025 Silverton.......... ........ 1,799 Slocan Station... 1,777 Slocan Junction. 1,637 Slocan Lake.. ��� ��� ��� ��� 1,761 Smelter Junction. x)5^j Spences Bridge 776 Teslin Lake 2,600 Trail......". . i,364. Trout Lake 2,400 Tunnel... 3��2��6 Windermere Lake. 2,700 Vancouver n Vernon '.. 1,255 Victoria 57 Waneta ��� ��� i,358 Wardner 2,484 Wellington 377 Yale 223 Ymir 2,39s o "-������.its THE PHOENIX PIONEER AJ5D BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. THE GRANBY CONSOLIDATED ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE CANADA'S GREATEST COPPER PRODUCER. most of the mines of so low a grade, the Old Ironsides claim, and before The original locators became discour- the end of that year it became known a-ed, and it was not until 1895 that that an ore body of almost fabulous Stevens ran an open cut on the Knob width, length, and no one knew how Hill, showing more plainly what an deep, had been explored, and the attention of the mining world began to be attracted. About, or just before this time, THE story of the Granby Con- were the Old Ironsides and Knob solidated is one of the most Hill, and were made by Matt Hotter interesting, as well as one of and Henry White, respectively, on the the most important, of any 20th day of July, 1891, and were re- minin.? concern in British Columbia��� corded five days thereafter, at Camp ^ZZlX the entire Do- McKinney, the recording office for this *"��^X^^<** minion of Canada. Those most familiar entire section in those days, and near- J^^^^^ oi with the subject concede this to he a ly 50 miles distant. The contrast with half interest to H. I. Palmerston, , , t* r th* the~ situation here today is a remark- Spokane, and he advised Jay P. Graves, Mr. White and Mr. Graves succeeded statement or fact. From one of h ta��*u*�� -re ^ ^ 0f Spokane, to take it up. Mr. Graves in interesting S, H. C. Miner, of most insignificant of groups 01 coppe abkon^ he ^ J^ ' J ^ finall de_ Granby, Quebec, in the ^ as weU claims, six years or more ago, m a course havmg been ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Qf ^^ ^ ^ ^ S?J^ftj^^^ ��nry White and Matt Hot- Ironsides Mining Co., A. L. White ern Townships of that province. Some c^t^i^Snce the world ter toiled up the valley of Boundary alsoof Spokane,' being interested with o the Spokane men had 1become tired over fo "he rlon that it is now real- creek on that hot summer's day in the him in the enterprise from its inception of waiting, and sold out their shares- M ^to^by m���� are becor, early nineties, there were no trads or This was the winter of 1895-6, and always at a profit, however, as Old "g more and moreL important factor wagon roads of any kind in this sec- Mr. Graves, although he had confid- Ironsides dollar slwes were quoted at in the copper producing industry of the tion, and but few locations had been ence in the properties, did not find ita $r.xo at one time, and Knob Hill American continent, and as years go thought worthy the attention of the bed of roses in getting others interested went as high as 95c ^ ; by they are likely to become more so. few hardy prospectors that had ven- However, in 1897, Mr. Graves deeded More claims were acquired when it w; GSAKBV bMKLTKB���FHoM LATEoT I'llO'lXKJB.iI'U. In the nhistory of .mining concern? there are always a large number of ups .'.'<'and ' downs���successes and failures. 11 ^-ih-the nature of things this must neces- ���' 'saqly be so, as it is in all business ' enterprises of whatsoever nature, But "no mining concern of this day���at ' least in this province���can show the steady, uninterrupted' progress of the Granby Co. It has become only too well known here in the Boundary that during the last few years no concern has done so < much to foster confidence in this district as has the Granby. When mining in general had a setback two or three years ago, and it seemed to be the fashion for hitherto supposedly strong concerns to curtail or entirely stop operations, the Granby Co. not only kept on itea^'ly, but was constantly enlarging its scope of usefulness in the Boundary as a labor employer, and at the same time was making greater preparations for turning out an increased qpantity of copper, gold and silver bullion from the company's smelter. With its six furnaces it is today sending out about a million and a half pounds of copper bars per month. But further details of the product will be given in another part of this tale. Exactly thirteen years ago last July, the first mineral locations were made in what is now Phoenix camp, being antedated by but few prospects in the, boundary country. These locations tured some sixty or eighty miles from the nearest railway, which was at Marcus, Wash. But White and Hotter believed ..they had found something good at last, one of the claims being named after the famous old frigate of the United States navy, and the other after Hctter's old home, Knob Mill, San Francisco. John Stevens was a side partner of Matt Hotter, and on August r, 1894, he located the Victoria adjoining the Old Ironsides, which is also included in the present Granby group of mines. Times were hard in the Boundary, however, and it was next to impossible to get capital interested here, so far from railway communication, and with to prosecute active development, and sent John F. Hemenway here with a small force of men to undertake ir. Mr.- Hemenway had sole charge for some munths until Win. Yolen Williams arrived in the spring of 1898, to assume, the local control. Mr. Williams whs the ' superintendent of the Granby mines up to July 1, 1904, when he resigned, and was succeeded by A. B.- W. Hodges, who then assumed charge of both mines and smelter. Up to 1897 there had not been 150 feet of work done on the Old Ironsides, the No. 1 shaft being down 100 feet, with some drifting. Mr. Williams started work on the Knob Hill No. 1 tunnel, as well as continuing the exploration of Cl-MiUAL .\ItW 01' t.Jl.\MJ\ MLNi.S. came to be more and more realized what a tremendous proposition was here, and the first Granby smelting company was organized, as well as the Gre\ Eagle company. Eventually these four companies were consolidated in the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelling and Tower Co., Ltd., with a capital of $15,000,000. - ' The smelter had been erected at Grand Forks with an initial capacity of two furnaces, which was later increased to four, and about over a year ago to six, with a total capacity of treating 2,000 tons of ore daily. And now two more furnaces are to be added, giving a total battery of eight. . From the beginning the owners of the Granby mines were favored ty having an ore that needed no outside mixture of ores to help it to flux���being almost a perfect self-fluxing ore itself. This was greatly in its favor, and the most was made of it, reducing the expense of treating it to the minimum. The first steam plant was brought to the Old Ironsides mine in September, 189 7, and the next spring two drills were operated with it. It was hauled over poor roads from Marcus. In 1898 the first half of a ten-drill compressor was installed, and shortly after the second half was put in. Then in 1900 a ten-drill compressor was placed at Knob Hill nine, and the two connected. Contrast this with the presen ����s ��: 11 fnmw ��-J*����,��Hisnas[��jpsssAn immmtmsmmammmMmmmsamm r^Tmrvr <v -tout "rrrv^^Tg^^EV THE PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. magnificent equipment of machinery, a sixty-drill machine, operated by two 700 horse po*ver electric motors, all of which are the largest of the kind in operation in Canada, and which furnishes ample power for pumps, hoists and a splendid machine shop. One can then get some idea of the changes that have taken place and the importance, in a commercial way, of the undertaking- In the month of July, 1900, the first ore train was sent down to the company's smelter at Grand Forks, then just finished with two furnaces. At first the ore shipments were at the rate of about 350 tons daily, but were shortly increased to 700 tons per day. The next year two more furnaces being added to the smelter equipment, the shipments were again increased to some 1,400 tons daily. This rate continued for a year or two, and in the meantime the smelter equipment was again being augmented. After many delays, in the fall of r9P3 six blast furnaces be- brought economies that have heretofore been unthbught of in the history of mining, at least in this province. Going more into detail as to what has been done by this company in the last year or two, the following maybe mentioned : New machinery installed during two years includes two Canadian Rand class P cross-compound duplex air compressors, electrically driven and connected to motors by rope drives, high-pressure cylinders 16x36 inches, low-pressure cylinders 28x36 inches, rated capacity together, 8,228 cubic feet of free air per minute, or 60 3^ inch machine drills; two 700 horse power type C Westinghouse induction motors, to operate compressors ; one type No. 1 Thew automatic, single-truck steam shovel, rated capacity_5oo to 750 cubic yards in 10 hours, built by the Thew Automatic Shovel Co., of Lorain, Ohio; one type No. 3 automatic, single-truck steam shovel, capacity 1,000 to 1,500 cubic yards in 10 hours, and two 9x14 ore bins, having jaws opening 42x32 inches, and a capacity for crushing rock to the size of 7 or 8 inches at the rate of 150 tons per hour. It is well known that the Granby Company is steadily working in the direction of obtaining a large proportion of its ore by quarrying and tramming through the tunnels rather than by hoisting from the lower levels, thus reducing mining costs. At the present time the steam shovels are handling nearly one half of the ore output, and the question of their use in the underground workings is now under consideration, with a view to determining their practical use jn the extensive tunnels and slopes. As to the size of the ore bodies in Granby mines, several statements have - been published, and while not always official, it is hardly too much to state ' that most of them, large as they appeared, were probably not exaggerations.. When it is said that there are 50,000,000 tons of ore, the boundaries Kettle river, about a mile above the town of Grand Forks. ��� The science of smelting has been reduced here to the least possible expense, with the greatest possible results, when cost of labor and coke are considered, of any smelter in this or any other land. At least this is the opinion of experienced smelter experts from abroad, who have come to examine, half disbelieving, but who have gone away thoroughly convinced. Of course, there are excellent reasons for this most satisfactory state of affairs. In the first place, the management of the Granby Co. secured the best man available to be superintendent of the works. Then they utilized the waterfalls nearby for power, being transmitted by wire. Every known device for working out the economical side of the question was introduced, and old ones were improved upon, including even the automatic furnace chargers, the invention of Mr. A. B. W. Hodges, the superintendent. Last, but not i '.1 ���A i i m* THE GRAXBY BMEI/rKR���FKOM l.ATK 1'IIOTOGRAPII. !��VJ m &. i gan the work of reducing nearly 2,000 tons of Phoenix ore per day, which rate has since and is now being maintained steadily: The machinery plant at the mines in) Phoenix has a capacity of getting out a least 5,000 tons of ore daily. Ore shipments from the Granby mines for the last four years have been as follows: * 1900............. 64,333 tons 1901..-..-'.' -.'.-. .231,762 tons 1902. 309,858 tons *9��3 393,718 tons 1904 (estimated) .. .542,000 tons Total 1,541,871 tons It is probably a fact that no mining company in British Columbia is constantly adding to and bettering its equipment more than the Granby Co. The necessity of saving every few cents possible on each ton of ore sent to the smelter, oh account of the acknowledged low grade of the ore, has saddle tank locomotives, built by the Davenport Machine Works, Davenport, Iowa, for hauling the mine ore cars from the workings to the ore bins. This machinery has cost the company something like $150,000 alone, and is constantly being added to. It is all of the most modern and approved manufacture, and calculated to materially assist in the reduction of. costs in the production of ore. , In addition to the above last fall new ore bunkers were constructed for the No. 3 tunnel, and electrical equipment for hauling ore, including the first electric locomotive in the Boundary, has been ordered and is now being installed. All of this electrical machinery was supplied by the Canadian Westinghouse Co., of Hamilton, Ont., and is of the latest and most improved type. A huge style B Blake- Farrell ore crusher is also being installed for the No. 3 ore bins, similar to that in use for some time at the No. 1 of which have been explored, the figures seem almost incomprehensible, yet mining men conversant with the conditions have made statements even broader than this. It can readily be seen that at the present rate of nearly 2,000 tons of ore daily for shipping and smelting, this ore body will last for many, many years. Then the company has announced its intention, some time in the future, of driving a long and deep tunnel, to reach the ore bodies at a depth of upwards of 1,500 feet, thereby opening up untold millions of tons more. GRANBY CO.'S SMELTING WORKS. It has been a surprise to the most experienced of metallurgists when they observed the economy which is common practice at all the Boundary reduction works, including those of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting.& Power Co., Ltd., which are located on the North Fork of the least, they were favored in the nature of the Phoenix ore which they had to treat���this ore being practically of a self-fluxing nature, thereby requiring no roasting or mixing with other ores, and comparitively little fuel to make it run well in the furnaces. All these things aided in the magnificent results, in which also ample capital and executive ability of a high degree played a most important part. The reader will do well to remember that at Grand Forks is located the largest copper-gold smelter in Canada, which is turning out approximately 1,500,000 pounds of copper bars monthly, besides the gold and silver values. Not only is it the largest reduction works in.the Dominion, but it is operated at the minimum of cost, and with a success that has enabled the company to already begin the payment of profits to the shareholders, with the probability of its being continued for an indefinite period, the I-. ��� JWWMS^^ ���n 1 1 ' . ': I J THE PHOENIX PIONEER AND BOUNDARY MINING JOURNAL. First sampler started. 1 .Aug. ij,! 1900' First furnace started.. .Aug. 21, 1900 Second " " ...Oct. 13, 1900 Third " " ...Feb. 27, 1902 Fourth " " ...Mar. 17, 1902 Fifth " " ...Nov. 5, 1903 Sixth " " ...Nov. 6, 1903 Converter started Jan. 14, 1902 In' regard to the tonnage of ore '.-Mine-development. ^5,69*Jineal.feet Granby ore shipped to smelter 514,387 dry ton*- Granby ore smelted 516,059 Foreign ore smelted 36,182 Foreign matte treated 4>29�� (i A brief description of the plant and machinery in use at the Granby smelter may be found of interest. While treated at the Granby smelter since the in;t;al p]ant consisted of but two the first furnace was started, August b,ast fumaces> with blowers, electric 21, 1900, the Allowing figures tell the fixtureS) etc., each-year has seen a con- story, the ore all coming from the company's Phoenix mines, with the exception of occasional small shipments from other Boundary,��Kootenay and Republic camp mines : Tons ��� 62,387 . 230,828 .3 * 2.340 .401,921 1900 1901 1902 1903 , A. B W. HODGKS, GENKRAL fcUPBUINTKNUKNT, GUANBY CO. company's Phoenix mines, 25 miles 1904 (estimated) 578,000 siderable' addition to the.machinery,' until now it is believed to be as complete as human foresight and energy can1 make1 it. <* In the plan of increasing the capac- city of the reduction works during 1903 by one third, extensive additions were made to the plant Two new double-decked water jacket blast furnaces, 160x44 inches at the tuyeres, were put in (bringing the treatment Grand total i,585>476 capacity of the smelter, now having For the fiscal year ending June 30, six furnaces, up to nearly 2,000 ions O R. tiMITH, JR., GRANBY MINK SUPKRINTKNDENT. below the smelter on the North Fork distant, having an almort inexhaustible 1904, the production of gold, silver per day); three standard Connellsville of Kettle river, the Granby company supply of ore. After working on the construction for perhaps a year, the first furnace of the-Granby smelter began the work of, reducing the ores from the company's mines August 13th, 1900. Inside of eight weeks the second furnace was in operation. The success of these two furnaces was so satisfactory that it was at once decided to double ,the capacity - of the plant, and in February, 1902, the third furnace was started, the fourth being blown in the following month. . Still greater things. in the . smelting line were projected, however, .. and two more furnaces were ordered, and, after many delays, were started in the fall of 1903���making the full bat- ��� tery of six furnaces' how in operation " at this smelter, besides the reverber- atory furnace. It has recently been announced that in 1905 two more- furnaces will be added to the smelter, giving a total daily capacity of reducing ' about 2,700 tons of ore. At first the copper matte, the product of the blast furnaces, about 50 per cent, fine, was shipped east, where it was converted into blister copper and the gold and silver values extracted. But by doing this the company paid freight across the continent on some 50 per cent.1 of waste, and as soon as possible a two stand copper .converter was added to the plant, . which meant a large saving in the item of freight alone. This converter has -' not only handled the matte of the Granby smelter," But that of other smel-," '���'���-'. ters in the interior of British Columbia, and copper at the Granby smelter was blowers, and three 100 horse power as well, when occasion required, up to as follows, the figures given being Westinghouse electric motors to oper- the present. * " official': - -The following table gives in chronological order some data in regard to the starting of operations at the Granby smelter: J. P. GRAVES, GENKRAL MANAGER, GRANBY CO. Copper Silver., Gold . Construction started.. .July First ore received. ... July 1899 1900 16,024,415 lbs. 275,960 oz. 54,231 oz. For the same period of time the following official figures have been Works slag cars, for dumping the slag made public: ate them; a full. complement of receivers and cast steel 5-ton matte ladles; two 12x14 Canadian Rand Rock Drill Company's locomotives, one Davenport saddle-tank locomo- Wash, vice-president and general manager; G. W. Wooster, Grand Forks, B. C, treasurer; Northrup Fowler, New York, secretary; A. B.W. Hodges, -.uses electric power .supplied by the Cascade Water, Power and Light Co., with which it has a contract for up to 1,000 horse power. A brick sub-station was built at the smelter early in the year, and a double-circuit three- phase line was brought in three miles from the main transmission line between Cascade and Phoenix. The electrical equipment placed in the* smelter sub-station includes one set of 1,000 horse power Canadian , General Electric air-cooled step-down transformers, with m
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Title | The Phoenix Pioneer and Boundary Mining Journal |
Alternate Title | [The Phoenix Pioneer] |
Publisher | Phoenix, B.C. : Pioneer Publishing Co. |
Date Issued | 1904-12-31 |
Description | Devoted to the interests of the Boundary Mining District. The Phoenix Pioneer was published in Phoenix, in the Kootenay Boundary region of southern British Columbia, and ran from April 1898 to May 1916. The Pioneer was published by the Pioneer Publishing Company, which was managed by W. B. Wilcox (from 1899-1908) and Thomas Alfred Love (from 1908-1911). On August 12th, 1910, the headquarters of the Pioneer burned down, together with a large portion of the town of Phoenix itself, and the paper consequently suffered serious financial difficulties. On April 11th, 1911, the Pioneer was sold to Gilbert Kay, who published and edited the paper until May 1916. The paper was published under a variant title, the Phoenix Pioneer and Boundary Mining Journal, both from 1903-1910 and from 1911-1912. |
Geographic Location | Phoenix (B.C.) |
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Notes | Print Run: 1900-1916 Frequency: Weekly Titled "The Phoenix Pioneer" from 1900-01-06 to 1903-06-20, 1910-09-10 to 1911-10-14, and from 1912-03-30 to 1916-05-27. Titled "The Phoenix Pioneer and Boundary Mining Journal" from 1903-06-27 to 1910-08-06 and from 1911-10-21 to 1912-03-25. Published by Pioneer Publishing Co. from 1900-01-06 to 1910-08-06, by T. Alfred Love from 1910-09-10 to 1911-03-25, by Kay and Conway from 1911-04-01 to 1911-06-17, and by G. Kay from 1911-06-24 to 1916-05-27. |
Identifier | The_Phoenix_Pioneer_1904-12-31 |
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Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2011-08-05 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0185572 |
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