QUAMICHAN HOTEL DUNCANS Now Open. Re-built and Re-furnished. Heated by Hot Air. Sample Room for Commercial Travelers. Boats for Fishing. F. Nelson, Prop. • ••11 lL«« • • J. H. WHITTOME, Duncans, V. I. Agent for Loudon and Lancashire Fire Insurance Co., Royal Insurance Co. Crofton Gazette an* Cowichan IHews Devoted to the Mining and Agricultural Interests of Vancouver Island, Texada Island, and Coast Mainland Districts. VOL. 1. CROFTON, B.C., WEDNESDAY, SEP I EMBER 3, 1902. No. 26 MAKING PAPER PULP. THE process by which this tree (white spruce) is turned into pulp, and the qualities possessed by it which make it suitable for this purpose form a subject of much interest. The woody paits of the tree are largely built up of cellular tissue or woody fibre, a fibre of good length and toughness ensures a strong paper, and clean white wood is a requisite for the production of a properly coloured pulp. These qualities are found pre-eminently in the wood of the spruce tree. There are! however, other substances such as resin, etc, in the tree structure, and the object of the manufacturer is to separate the wood fibre from the incrusting substances. The most simple method adopted is that for the the pressure developed in consequence the sulphide is driven into the pores of the wood, lissolving the resin, and leaving finally the clear white pulp of wood fibre which is drawn oft. washed and prepared for shipment by rolling and drying. ROD AND GUN. MINING NEWS. PROMISING DISCOVERY NEAR CHEMAINUS. M ESSRS. J. VIPOND and W- Birkenstock are amongst the latest lucky prospectors. Fresh mineral discoveries on Vancouver Island have come to be matters A Portion of the Engine Honse, Crofton Smelter. production of mechanical pulp, which simply consists of breaking up the wood by pressure against a grindstone under a stream of water. This is a comparatively cheap process, but it results in the breaking up of the fibre and does not remove the impurities to any extent. The chemical process which results in the production of what is called "cellulose" to distinguish it from mechanical pulp is much more intricate and expensive, involving an additional output for boilers, chemicals, etc. The two main chemical agents used are sulphide and caustic soda, and the resultant products are designated sulphide pulp and soda pulp. The wood is barked, cleaned of knots, and imperfections and after being cut into chips by a strong revolving knife is placed in the boiler. By the assistance of heat and of weekly occurrence, and familiarity with them is apt to minimize their importance. The daily more numerous signs of increasing miming .ctivity on the Island, however, point to very important developmens in the near future. Messrs. Vipond and Birkenstock were employed in the logging comp of the Victoria Lumber Co., near Chemainus. and discovered the outcrop of ore whilst working along the Hne of the logging railway. The "Happy Thought" and "Wonder" claims were very soon staked out by them, and development work has shown these to be as promising as any mineral prospects yet found. Mr. J. H. McMillan, a well- known mining man of Nanaimo, having satisfied himself as to the value of the new discovery, has secured a bond from the owners for the purchase of the property, and is proceed- 2 THE CROFTON GAZETTE AND COWICHAN NEWS. ing with development work. Assays of some of the ore (taken as average sample,) and recently made by Messrs. Pellew Harvey, Bryant & Gilman, have given 23 per cent, copper with values in gold and silver, bringing the estimated value of the ore body as at present exposed up to $60 per ton. Further developments will be awaited with interest QUATSINO SOUND. The Copper Mountain Mining and Development Co., a Tacoma flotation with a capital of $2,000,000 in shares of $1.00 each, has been formed to take over the June group of tour claims situated just across the southeast arm of the Sound immediately opposite Comstock Mountain on which are situated the shipping properties of the Yrekt Copper Co. Messrs. Clarke, Gwin & Lea, the well-known mine promoters, are so well satisfied with the prospects of this property that they have elected to take out their interest in it in 50,000 shares in lieu of $50,000 cash. The ore veins traceable throughout the whole extent of the property run from four to one hundred and twenty feet in wiidth, and assays made from them give Q to 10 per cent, copper with gold values going to $5 per ton. A trail two and a half miles in length has been made from the mine to salt water, and active development work is being proceeded with. The Yreka Copper Co. are rapidly opening up their very promising property on the mountain. The aerial tramway is already under construction, and Mr. N. S. Clarke, the superintendent, has just returned from California, where he has placed orders for a ten-drill compressor plant and a Pelton water wheel. The erection of a smelter in the near future is ander consideration. The ore in Clyde's cut on this property, from which the bulk of the test shipment to Crofton was taken, is turning into higher grade, and the mass of it is now proved to be solid. The crosscut, at a depth of 20 feet, is in 15 feet of good ore. and the vein appears to be from 40 to 50 feet wide. It is the intention to continue this crosscut until the wall is reached. No. 2 cut also shows a large body of high-grade ore. Two shifts of miners are driving a crosscut tunnel which will give a depth of 150 feet when the ore is struck. The tramway head house and ore bins will be at the mouth of this tunnel, which will greatly facilitate the handling and shipping of ore. Examination of the property has ievealed the existence of a dozen large ore bodies, besides those which are being developed, many very high grade. The shipment made to Crofton recently was not by any means an average sample of the Comstock ores, and although it gave satisfactory results. Mr. Gwin does not consider it representative of the true value of the propery. Yet another group of claims is being developed by Messrs. Clarke. Gwin and Lea in this neighbourhood, and will shortly be floated into a company. The vein which is being proved is a true one. traceable four to six feet in width and continuing the whole length of the claims. Mr. A. F. Gwin cannot speak too highly of the wonderful mineral promise of this section of the Island. He is satisfied that at Quatsino Sound will be developed one of the best mining camps in the province. The country has not as yet been half prospected and offers a splendid field for the prospector. NOTES. The first bucket of rock sent down the Tyee aerial tram was dumped into the bins at Stratford's Crossing at 3:15 Pm- on Saturday, the 31st August. The line will r»e in regular working order In a few days. Mr. Wm. Dwycr, of the Tyee and of Duncans, has be.'ii appointed superintendent of the lower section of the aerial tramway. Mr. Ridsdale, of the same company, will have charge of the upper portion. Mr. A. F. Gwin has gone up the West Coast again, prospecting. Mr. N. S. Clarke, of Messrs. Clarke, Gwin & Sea, leaves for Grand Forks to-night. The Lenora mine will soon be shipping ore to Crofton with both No. 2 and No. 3 engines. Mr. T. Frayne, of Shawnigan Lake, ha) struck a rich find (,f mineral in the neighbourhood of the San Juan River, on the West Coast. AMERICAN CAPITALISTS BUSY LOOKING ROUND. Mr. Hayward, manager of the Tacoma Steel Co., has re- cei.tly been expressing himself as strongly of opinion that Vancouver Island holds more values to the square mile than any other ground of its size in the province. On the Island are iron, coal, timber, copper and gold, and any amount of marble. He had recommended Mr. Hewett (his principal) to look at the spruce limits on Quatsino Sound, and Mr. Hewett had seen enough to make him want to investigate! further. Cruisers were now on the limits, but it would be another month before they could cover the ground, as it was a big proposition. When they did report, he believed they would report favourably. If the report was favourable the limits would be purchased and a pulp mill erected at once. He was at present deveoping iron properties on the Island, which also promised well. Although very little work had been done on British Columbia's magnetite deposits, he was of the opinion that there was enough iron for everybody who wanted to go into the iron business for the next few hundred years, and it had been demonstrated that as regards quality it made the best manufactured iron, as good as any ever produced in the world. This was proven by the sheet iron turned out by the Union Iron Works from British Columbia ore. He thought red hematite was exceedingly scarce. He had as yet heard ol no red iron deposits within easy reach of salt water that were worth investigating. Either silica or red iron would have to be mixed with magnetite to render the magnetite iron sufficiently malleable, but this red iron could not be handled if it was more than two miles from the coast, and contained less than 40 or 50 per cent, of iron. They had had a property presented to them away in the interior, running 60 per cent, iron, a magnificent proposition, but railway and other expenses of getting it out rendered the proposition impossible. His company, however, had located hematite on Puget Sound suitable for their purpose, and they were relieved from all anxiety on that score. Northwestern Smelting and Refining Co. Purchasers of GOLD, SILVER and COPPER ORES, MATTES, COPPER BULLION and FURNACE PRODUCTS. «Jt««tatatt*«Mt««*ttM«M«Matt*t<«t*tdt.*«*at«jt Location of Works, CROFTON, VANCOUVER ISLAND, B. C. THE CROFTON GAZETTE AND COWICHAN NEWS. At Butte, Montana, the ore has cost about $4 per ton to produce, '/y cents per ton to concentrate, smelting the concentrates costs about $6-50 per ton, converting the copper, $17 per ton. A compound engine is one having two or more cylinders— usually two, however, a high-pressure cylinder and a low- pressure cylinder, the latter being the larger. The steam from the boiler enters the high-pressure cylinder, and after performing a certain amount of work it is exhausted into an intermediate vessel or cylinder called a receiver, whence it is admitted into a the low-pressure cylinder; after performing a certain amount of work in this cylinder it is allowed to escape into the condenser in a compound condensing engine, and i'Ho the. ftmo.spherc in a non-condensing engine. In the same gulch or river channel the smaller pieces of water-worn gold are purer than the large ones. The exterior layer of water-worn nuggets is finer than the interior. Native gold always contains silver. On an average, about one-tenth of a gold nugget is silver, which is more easily corroded than gold and readily attacked by sulphuretted hydrogen, common salt and other ingredients of surface waters. Soch substances work upon the silver close to the surface of a nugget and dissolve it away, or convert it into the compounds which wear away as the nugget is rolled forward beneath the heavy gravels at the bottom of a stream. C. H. Dickie, Esq., M.P.P., and Mr. Harry Smith, also Messrs. F. Price and E. M. Skinner, of Duncans, have been amongst distinguished visitors to Crofton during the week. Messrs. D. Hunter Gordon and J. M. Healy, of Victoria, spent the ist on Mt. Brenton and managed to secure a fair bag of game. KITTO & GOOCH BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS AND CONVEYANCERS Office, Oddfellows Bldg., LADYSMITH, B. C. P. 0. Box 243 HAMILTON POWDER CO. (Incorporated 1861) Manufacturers of High Explosives, Stumping Powder, Blasting Mining and Sporting Powder. Dealers in Electric Blasting Apparatus, Safety Fuse, Detonators, etc. Head Office, Montreal. Branch Office, Victoria. Local Offices* Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland & Greenwood. Works, Nanaimo E. M. SKINNER Civil Engineer and Provincial Land Surveyor. DUNCANS TO LET Several Stores at Crofton, B. C. Apply to THE LENORA MOUNT SICKER COPPER MINING COMPANY, LIMITED Non-Personal Liability MacGregor Block VICTORIA, B. C, THE WESTSIDE THE GREAT MAIL ORDER HOUSE SHOPPING BY MAIL !! Out-of town Customers can shop very easily by mail if they only care to use the advantages of our Mail-Order System. II you can't come in person write for anything you want, a postcard will bring you samples aud information. Experienced Clerks will execute order the same day as received. MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED MAIL ORDER ADDRESS— THE HUTCHESON CO., Ltd. 80 Government Street VICTORIA, B. C. R. P. RITHET & CO., Ld. WHOLESALE MERCHANTS GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, CEMENT, CUMBERLAND COAL VICTORIA, B. C. Furniture, Carpets WALL PAPER, CROCKERY, AND Complete Housefurnishings For Hotel, Store or Home. Write for Catalogue. WEILER BROS. VICTORIA, B.C. THORPE'S THORPE'S Ginger Ale Prize Medal World's Fair VICTORIA VANCOUVER NELSON MEN'S CLOTHING STORE HATS AND UNDERWEAR AT ARTHUR HOLMES' 78 Yates St., Corner Broad, VICTORIA, B. C. THE CROFTON GAZETTE AND COWICHAN NEWS. The Crofton Gazette and COWICHAN NEWS PUBLISHED BY THE CROFTON PUBLISHING CO. Managing Editor, Henry H. Newim, RATES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS. 75 cents per inch per insertion. Larger spaces and contracts by arrangement. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER ANNUM. All communications lor the present to P.O. Duncans or Crofton WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1902. VISIT OF THE FOURTH ESTATE. i/t ORDS " and "Commons" have more or less declined W.4 from their-once high estates, but the King remains, and—the Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate—in other words the newspaper press—has grown to wield perhaps the most powerful social, political, and even educational influences in this or any other country. Individual charges of corruption against it are no doubt justifiable, but on the whole its character is above suspicion, and its power proportionately so great. Some twelve gentlemen representing as many "Old Country" newspapers are in our midst to-day, having come to see for themselves the aspects and possibilities of this great country. They will visit Crofton, Mt. Sicker and Chemainus according to the itinerary which has been arranged for them by their hosts '.he Provincial Government; and we heartily bid them welcome, and throw open our doors. All the information that we can give then is simply a valuable investment for ourselves. One of the mo^t important results we look for from their visit is an active campaign on their return against the present prohibitive postal rates imposed on newspapers and magazines sent from England to Canada. In journalistic matters a little more English roast beef would at least add variety to our present forced consumption of American pie, tcothsome though that may be. LABOUR DAY. Labour Day has come and gone, and the victories of united labour have been duly celebrated. In connection, however, with the speeches delivered on the occasion we are sorry to notice an increasing tendency generally on the part of labour leaders to picture every capitalist as necessarily the enemy of the working man. Nothing but continued strife and disorganization of industry can result from such false and dangerous conclusions. The labour unions of the world with their vast power and influence are treading a dizzy eminence. With cool heads their position is secure and their interests are assured; but one false ftep and the plunge is into world devastating industrial anarchy. CROFTON SCHOOL DISTRICT. We note in the last Government "Gazette" that a school district has been formed with Crofton as its centre. This is good news, and the best that we can now hear is that a teacher has arrived and a school actually established, even though it be but in temporary quarters, We draw attention to the meeting which has been called for Tuesday, the Qt" inst., at noon for the purpose of electing school trustees. The shooting season has commenced and guns have been popping all round us ever since the 1st inst. Several good bags have been made in the district. The birds are very plentiful but wary. Excellent sport offers, Prof. Silkhani. in the San Francisco "Chronicle," states that there are few oeople who realize the value of water as a beverage, or how to obtain the best good from it. Sipping water is a powerful stimulant to the circulation, which ordinary drinking is not. During the action of sipping fluid there is also a favourable effect upon the liver. Sipping cold water will often allay the craving for alcohol, probably due to the stimulant action of the sipping. A glass of cold water slowly sipped will act as a stimulant or tonic, and produce a greater acceleration of the pulse for .1 time than will a glass of wine taken at a draught. FLOREAT CROFTONI\. Felicitations to Mrs. G. A. Allen on the birth on Friday last, the 29th August, of a daughter. This is the first child born ' within the townsite of Crofton, and the very happy event will be an historical one in the annals of this rising smelter city. May it be for the "Crofton Gazette" to chronicle many more such happy tidings. The honour that has thus fallen to Mrs. Allen is not the first, she having previously given birth to the first child born at Tagish Lake in the Yukon. Mr. G. A. Allen is, of course, the much respected manager of Mr. A. Howe's butchery establishment. FOR SALE. Black Geldings, three years old, thoroughly broken; weight, about 1100 lbs. Apply to Malcolm Elliott, Crofton and Westholme stage, Crofton V. 1. Victoria Terminal and Sidney Railway Co NEW TIME CARD In Effect June 14th, 1902 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Train No. 1—Leaves Victoria (Market Station), 7 a.m. Arrives Sidney 8 a.m. Train No. 3—Leaves Victoria (Market Station), 10.30 a.m. Arrives Sidney 11.15 a.m. Train No.. 5—Boat Express—Leaves Victoria (Market Station), 2 p. m. Arrives Sidney 2.35 p.m. Train No. 7—Leaves Victoria (Market Station), 5 p.m. Arrives at Sidney 6 p.m. Train No. 2—Leaves Sidney 8.30 a.m. Arrives Victoria 9.30 a.m. Train No. 4—Boat Express—Leaves Sidney 11.40 a.m. Arrives Victoria 12.15 p.m. Train No. 6 -Leaves Sidney 3 p.m. Arrives Victoria 3.45 p.m. Train No. 8- Leaves Sidney 6.15 p.m. Arrives Victoria 7 p.m. SUNDAY. Leave Victoria 9 a.m., 5 p.m. Leave Sidney 11.40 a.m., 5.30 p.m. JAMES ANDERSON, General Manager Sidney and Nanaimo Transportation Company STR. "STRATHCONA" FOR NANAIMO, CROFTON, and CHEMAINUS DAILY. Leaves Nanaimo at 7 a.m. daily. Arrives at Victoria at 12.15 p.m. Train leaves Victoria at 2 p.m. Arrives at K anaimo at 7.15 p.m. STR. "IROQUOIS" Makes the Island calls, as usual. . JAMES ANDERSON, General Manager. A THE CROFTON GAZETTE AND COWICHAN NEWS. Crofton THp to Date. I : i ^■■■•■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■•■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■^■•^■■■■■■•^■■■■■■■■■■■•■•■•■■■••■■■■■•■■■•■■■■■■■■■■••■••■■•« " THE SMELTER. THE samplers are now running again; shipments of ore from the Lenora mine are arriving regularly, and in about a week's time engine No. 2 of' the Lenora Mt- Sicker Railway will be available for this purpose. At present only the new No. 3 engine is running to Crofton. A cargo of 186 tons of coke has arrived from Union, and regular shipments will now be received from the Dunsmuir collieries. Portions of the "copper jacket" Garretson furnace are to hand from Victoria, and in some five or six days' time the Victoria Machinery Depot Co. will probably be through with their work on this constat etio.i. It is being superintended by Mr. F. C Garretson himself. Some twenty tons of copper alone are being utilized in the ''copper jacket," and much interest is being manifested in this new smelting patent, of which Mr. H. C Bellinger and the gentlemen associated with him hold the patent rights for British Columbia and the Pacific Coast. If the new furnace does what is expected of it, the cost of ore reduction and the production of blister copper will be very considerably reduced. No reverberatory furnaces are being installed in this plant. The new "copper jacket" alone with the "water jacket:" and the cupola furnace already in place will be capable of smelting seven to eight hundred tons of ore a day without any trouble. Progress with the new machine and blacksmith shops is proceeding rapidly. CROFTON SCHOOL DISTRICT. The following important announcement is made in the British Columbia "Gazette" of the 28th ult.:— Education Office, 21st August, 1902. Whereas the Council of Public Instruction is empowered, under the "Public Schools Act," to create School Districts in addition to those already existing, and to define the boundaries ehereof, and from time to time to alter the boundaries of existing districts; it is herebv notified that the Council has been pleased to create the tract of land included within the under-mentioned boundaries a School District, under the title of "Crofton School District":— Commencing at the north-east corner of Section 2, Range 10, Chemainus District, being a point on the sea-shore; thence due west to the north-west corner of Section 2, Range 9, of said district; thence due south, following the range lines to the south-west corner of Section 18, Range 1, Comiaken District; thence due east to the south-east c6r- ner of Section 18, Range 5. of said district; thence northerly following the shore line to the point of commencement. Also, that the Council has been pleased to alter and redefine the boundaries of "Chemainus School District," as follows:— All that tract of land in Chemainus District lying south of the southern boundary line of Chemainus Landing School District, and not included in Crofton School District. Also, that the Council has been pleased to alter and redefine the boundaries of "Maple Bay School District," as follows:— All that tract of land known on the official map as Connia- ken District, except such portion as is included in Crofton School District. ELECTION OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES Mr. Alexander Robinson, Superitendent of Education, announces that a public meeting of the householders and freeholders of Crofton School District will be held on Tuesday, September 9th, at the Presbyterian Church Room at the hour of 12 noon, for the purpose of electing three fit and prper persons to serve as School Trustees to hold office until the next annual meeting lor the election of trustees, and no longer. Any householder or freeholder having been resident in any School District for six monthsh previous to the election, and being of the age of 21 years or ovet, Ks also any wife of such qualified.elector, is entitled to vote at the election. Indians and Chinese have no vote. A candidate for a school trusteeship must be a British subject of full age, a resident householder or freeholder, and otherwise qualified. The wife of any acting School Trustee is not eligible. LOCAL NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bellinger and Mr. Fred Young have been on a trip to Cowichan Lake, where Mr. H. Smith has placed the steamer "Walbran" at their disposal. On Saturday last another large party of picnickers arrived from Salt Spring Island in the yacht "Nancy Jane." The party comprised the Rev. Mr. Wilson and the Misses Wilson, and Messrs. Bittencourt, Frank Scott, Mahon and others. They had a glorious day for their sail. Mrs. Marshall, of Ladysmith, and Mrs. Holland and Mrs. Conway, of Chemainus, with a large party of ladies and gentlemen, not to mention a cocker spaniel pup, came down by the boat to view the sights of Crofton on Friday last, and were never more delighted in their lives than when they found that due to the lateness in arrival of >4th and 25th September. Messrs. Jackson and Cotterell. Messrs. Ticehurst and Hicks-Beach have bought Fallside Farm near Cowichan. The property covers some 200 acres. In the raffle at the Tzouhalem Hotel for a double-barrelled gun with extra barrels and case, by Tolley, late the property of Mr. Fred Lomas. competition was very keen. Mr. Frank Price shook 42 with the dice and thought his chances of gaining possession of the coveted weapon pretty good, but Mr. Harry Smith, shaking on behalf of Mr. E W. Molander of Port Townsend, was too many for our genial host of the Tzouhalem. and throwing a total of 44, gained the prize. At the Tzouhalem Hotel during the week the following have registered:— Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Barnard. Victoria; Dr. and Mrs. Tolmie, Victoria; Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Waldy of Victoria; Mr. A. Fraser. Cowichan Lake; Messrs. T. Jones and E. F. Johnston of Golden; Messrs. B. Wilson, A. Coles. N. McAfee, and C. H. French of Victoria; Mr. James Rughley Cowichan Lake; Mr. J. Reiter, Winnipeg; and Messrs. W. Andrews and H. Snell of Vancouver. During the week at the Quamichan the following- have registered: Mr. and Mrs. S. Franklin. Winnipeg; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Franck; Mr. and Mrs. L. Pither, Miss R. Smith, Mr«. A. Campbell and Miss C. Campbell of Victoria; Mrs. A. McGregor. Mt. Sicker; Messrs. D. Hunter Gordon and J. M. Healy of Victoria: Mr. N. S. Clarke; Messrs. O- Graham: F. C Beech and W. E, Baker of Mt. Sicker; Messrs. F. Pannell. C. Holland. John Douglas. E. Bartlett. Joh. Curry, Nanaimo; Wm. Galbraith, T. M. Johnston, Victoria; A. Bellamy John Graham, Geo. Kitchen. Victoria; Mr. J. McLennan, Ladysmith: and Mr. A. E. Thorne, Toronto. Mr. D. S. Fotheringham, of the Smelter Co., went down to Victoria on Mondav last feeling indisposed. The doctor at once sent him to St. Joseph's hospital, where, we much regret to hear, is suffering from an attack of pleurisy, but under Dr. Jones' care and treatment is doing as well '.s possible. Established 1878. W. P. JAYNES Wholesale Importer and Dealer in all .Kinds of Merchandise. Depot for Giant Powder Co. Duncans. B. C. Pottery Co. Quamichan. DOMINION HOTEL, VICTORIA, B.C. BETTER THAN THE RATES INDICATE Board and Room $1.25 and up per day. Room only 50 cents to $1.50 per day. THE CROFTON GAZETTE AND COWICHAN NEWS. WHY ARE POULTRY VALUABLE TO THE FARMER ? PROF. A. G. GILBERT, of the Ottawa Experimental Farm, answers the above question thus: Firstly, because he ought by their means to convert a great deal of the waste of his farm into money in the shape of eggs and chicks for the market. Secondly, because with intelligent management they ough: to be all-year-round revenue producers, with the exception, perhaps, of two months during the moulting season. Thirdly, because poultry will yield him a quicker return for the capital invested than any of the other departments of agriculture. Fourthly, because the manure from the poultry house will make a valuable compost for use in either vegetable garden or orchard. The bird5 themselves, if allowed to run in plum or apple orchard, will destroy all injurious insect life. s Fifthly, because while cereals p.nd fruits can only be successfully grown in certain sections, poultry can be raijed fo.* table use, or layers of eggs in all parts of the country. Sixthly, because poultry raising is an employment in which the farmer's wife and daughters can engage and leave him free to attend to other departments. Seventhly, because poultry raising will bring him the best results in the shape of i.ew-laiw eggs during the winter season when he has most time on his hands. Eightly, because to start poultry raising on the farm requires little or no capital. By good management poultry cen be made, with little cost, a valuable adjunct to the farm. TZOUHALEM HOTEL =zz— DUNCANS, Stage to Lakeside Hotel, Cowichan Lake, every Monday, Wednesday aud Friday. PRICE BROS, THE COWICHAN AGRICULTURAL AND POULTRY SHOW. The catalogue of this show, to be held at Duncans on the 26th and 27th inst., has been issued, and contains a very gratifying list of presentations of special prizes by the B. G Land and Investment Co.. the B. C. Drug Store, Messrs. Reller & Co., Bordeaux (through Messrs Pither & Leiser); tne B. C. Saddlery Co., Mr. Norris, Victoria; Messrs. Henry Short & Sons, Messrs. T. N. Hibben & Co.. Messrs. Challoner & Mitchell, Messrs. E. G. Prior & Co., Messrs. E. B. Marvin & Co., Messrs. McCandless Bros., J. McL. Campbell, Esq., Duncans; S. C Bell, Esq., Duncans; Messrs. A. & W. Wilson. Messrs. Walter S. Fraser & Co.. Messrs. Henderson Bros., S. Shore, Esq., Victoria; Edwin Johnson, Esq., K.C., Comiaken; Messrs. Fell & Co., Messrs. M. R. Smith & Co., Mr. Arthur Holmes, Victoria; Messrs P. McQuade & Son, Messrs. R. P. Rithet & Co., Victoria; the Vancouver Island Flockma^ters' Association, the Blackman-Ker Milling Co., Mr. Skene Lowe, Victoria; The Times Printing & Publishing Co., Mr. D. Spencer. Victoria; The Colonist Printing & Publishing Co., T. R. Cucack, Esq., Victoria; J. T. Par- geter, Esq., Nanaimo; D. Alexander, Esq., Duncans; Messrs. R. Baker & Son., Chas. Bazett. Esq., Duncans, G. H. Hadwen, Esq., Duncans; Mr. B. Williams, Victoria; Dr. L. Hall, Victoria; Messrs. W & J- Wilson, C Dobson, Esq.. Dun cans; Mr. R. Layritz, Victoria; C. H. Dickie, Esq., M.P.P.; C. E. Redfern, Esq., Victoria; The Saunders Grocery Co.. Ltd., The Hutcheson Co. (Westside). Victoria; Lindley Crease, Esq., Victoria; Messrs. Dixi Ross & Co.. Mr. Young, Victoria; J. Wenger, Esq., Victoria; Messrs. Weiler Bros., Victoria; Messrs. Pitt & Peterson. Duncans; A. J. Clyde, Esq., Victoria; Messrs. J. Piercv & Co., Thos. Plimley, Esq., Victoria; Messrs. Watson & Hall, The P?terson Shoe Co., Messrs. Clarke & Peprson. Messrs. Dean & Hiscocks. Messrs. Chas. E. Stevenson & Co., Nanaimo; and Messrs. W. M. Waitt & Co., as also the following contributors of $10 each to the plize fund: F. Nelson, Esq., Quamichan Hotel, Duncans; J. Rogers, Esq., Alderlea Hotel, Duncans: and Messrs. Price Bros., Tzouhalem Hotel, Duncans, and Lakeside Hotel, Cowichan Lake. Proprietors QUEEN'S MARKET Cor. Govt. Johuson Sts., Victoria B.C. Tel. 32. P.O. Box 18. LAWRENCE GOODACRE & SONS, Wholesale and Retail Butchers. Contractors by appointment to His Majesty's Royal Navy, the Dominion Government, etc. Shipping supplied at lowest rates. THE DOMINION HOUSE PRIVATE BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT Home Comforts. Moderate Rates. Joan Avenue, - - - CROFTON, B. C. Proprietor, - A. B. WHITTINGHAM. A. HOWE BUTCHER, Established for six years at Chemainus. Best Meat at Most Liberal Prices. Joan Avenue, CROFTON, B. C. H. COLLINSON, Late Assayer Van Anda Smelter. PROVINCIAL LICENSED ASSAYKR THE VICTORIA ASSAY OFFICE 46 langley Street Reliable Analyses of Ores, Coals, Ktc. . P.O.Box 8g (Next to the Law Courts) VICTORIA, B. C. FELL & COMPANY, Limited Liability GROCERS, WINES, AND LIQUORS. Victoria, B. C. W. DYKE PIONEER MERCHANT. DRY GOODS. BOOTS AND SHOES. Confectionery a Specialty. Agent CROFTON GAZETTE Joan Avenue, HOTEL CROFTON FIRST-CLASS WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Rates—$1.00 per Day and Up. Free Baths for Guests. Propr., M. J. Conlin HOTEL OSBORNE CROFTON, B. C. PRIVATE DINING ROOM BATH ROOM First-Class Accommodation CROFTON, B. C. Rates—$1.00 and up per diem. Propr., T. J. 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