OL Per Copy IUC OCs* w^ VOL.7. / Uvwcui. u»w»5 ANNUAL REVIEW IT8 NELSON, B, C. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 3, 1909 NO. 215 RUNNING RISK King and Queen of Italy in Rescue Work GREAT ANXIETY IS PELT SUBJECTS FEAR THEIR MAJESTIES MAY SUFFER INJURY WHILE ENGAGED AT MESSINA —POPE MAY MAKE APPEAL TO WORLD FOR AID ' ) ROME, Jan. 2.—The great danger which the king and queen of Italy are facing in .their noble efforts among the stricken people of Sicily and the south was brought home to tile people today when word reached here that queen Helena had been injured. Fortunately her injuries proved to be not severe but it la realized that at any moment another calamity might happen involving the serious injury or even the, death ot their majesties. Not one among the rescuers baa shown such Sacrifice as ,Victor Emmanuel, and the qeen too has taxed her health and strength to the utmost in giving assistance to the Injured. Anxiety for the sovereigns Is Increasing In Rome. S Apart' from the great strain which their majesties are unquestionably undergoing there'is danger from earthquake shocks, which do not seem to have ceased; from walls that have not yet been levelled; from great pitfalls In the broken streets and from dis. tress. The injuries suffered by the queen/ resulted from a panic among the patients in one of the improvised hospi- lals at Messina, when the trembling of th«J.irth and the rumbling noise Indicated another momevent of the earth. The queen was caught in the rush of patients who, Panic stricken, were seeking safety In the open. The queen's injuries proved to be little mora than contusions. Despatches received from all Upari Islands state that the earthquake shocks were very heavy there and that a panic ensued. The convicts, of whom a large number are imprisoned there, attempt ed a rising but were suppressed. The Stronrboll volcano showed great activity. The damage, however, was not serious and one was killed but the people are camping In the open air fearing further shocks may come and overthrow their .homes, it is stated that the pope has decided to send an appeal to the Catholic bishops throughout the world for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the earthquake fund. He will place particular dependence, on the generosity of the British and Americans, Premier Glolettl in an interview today said that parliament would be convoked as soon as the king, who is ex- • News Section. . • 1—Mineral production of pro- • • vlnce. Telegraphic and gen- • . • eral news. • • 2—Year's ore shipments. Towns . • of the Slocan. \ • •. 3—Nelson statistics for the year. . • New York fashion letter. • • 4—Editorial. News of the Domln- • • Ion. Church services. ' • • 5—Local bank managers* on year's . • . prospects. The Dally News' • • homo, . • 6—Prospects of Phoenix bright. • • Market prices during year. • • 7—Local news. • • 8—Local news. Fire record for . ■ • year.' ■ . • ' , Fruit growing Section, ■ , ; • • .Page."' .,!';-v' • • 9—Fruit growing Industry In . • Yale and kootenay, by Martin . • BvirtjIt'Jl P. , • ' •' •' •. • lO-^WattsouTg'and its founder. • • 11—Bast Kootenay as a fruit grow- . • ' ing district. • • 12—Nelson, centre of the Industry. . • 13^-Co-operation necessary to sue- • • cess ot growers. • ■ • 14—Kaslo dlBtrlct. • • 15-Creston district. , ,• • 1«—New districts opening up. • • ;, Industrial. Section. . • 17—Nelson power plant. • . • 18—Hunting: and fishing good. * • 19-City of Nelson advertisement. • ' av 21*—Nelson school syBtem. • • 21—Fernle rebuilding after tire. • • 22—Lumbering outlook tor 1909. . • 23—Cranbrook and other East . • -- .Kootenay towns. . • 24—Rossland district. . • Mining Section. . • 26—Rovlew of mining' operations . • * In 1908, by E. Jacobs. . • 26—West Kootenay. Power & Light • is company.", • j • • 27—Sheep Creek district ^ . • 28—Consolidated Mining & Smelt- • • ing company. ■','". • • 29—Trail smelter. . • 30—Mining In.Nelson district. • • 31—New skating rink and Eagles' . *y hall. . '• 32—Review ot the lead mining In- . • dustry, by a .0.. Buchanan. • •s ' , . ■' ."•, •••••••e.«............c... pected to return here tomorrow night, could sign the decree. First of all, he Bald, the financial, question would be considered. It was supposed to take $6,000,000 of the budget surplus which would be devoted to purposes connected with the catastrophe in the south. The government woul appoint a commission of experts to draw up a scheme looking to the reconstruction of cities, based on lessons learned In tie past. This would be codified into law with other matters such as loans to the sufferers.. The premier said the country has to face the three calamities: the earthquake, tho robbers of corpses and the robbers of the bourse. He might add the Journalists who sat at home and freely criticized every one and everything, and a certain class of financiers who had attemepted to raid the Bank of Italy stock. He pointed out -that this had been done by the circulation of false despatches to the effect that the bank had lost $10,400,400 at Messina and Reggie, In the hope that this report would cause a heavy decline in the stock -value, the re-action of which would affect other tanks. The goven- ment. had stopped this manoeuvre by ordering the prefects not to allow V-e bourses to open. MESSINA, Jan. 2.—The town Is thoroughly occupied by troops. The sufferings of persons still hurried in the ruins of fallen buildings here who are slowly dying from hunger is awful to contemplate. Several persons have died. One woman had her teeth fixed firmly in the leg of a dead body. The archbishop of Messina has been found still living in the ruins of his palace. WASHINGTON, Jan.. 2.—President Roosevelt tonight announced that he has sent two supply ships with 1304,004 worth of supplies to Italy and that he will ask congress for additional aid. and that he has ordered the use of the battleship fleet to Italy, Congress will, on Monday next appropriate $500,400 for the relief of the sufferers in Italy. Immediately after convening at noon, both houses will rfr rrtve a special message from the president, recommending the granting of '.sis sum and as soon as the message is submitted it will formally be referred by each house to Its committee on> appropriations. There will be no delay in referring the measure back and the two bodies will vie with each other in its speedy passage. TOKIO, Jan. 2.-A subscription list, headed by an imperial donation of t5,- 000, has been started in Tokio for th. relief of the earthquake 'sufferers In Italy. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—'News reached here tonight in a cablegram to one of the Italian steamship lines that the first batch of refugees from the strick- en dlrtrlfa of Italy had sailed for the United States. The refugees number 700 and they started from Palmero today on the steamship Red Italia. YUAN-SHI-KAI IS DEPOSED GREAT CHINESE 8TATE3MAN SUM- MARILY DISMISSED CAUSES CONSTERNATION IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES PEKIN, Jan. 2—An edict issued today dismisses from office Tuan-shl-kai; grand councillor and commander-in- chief of the forces. The reason given for< this action is that he has rheumatism in his leg. The edict orders him to vacate all his'offices and to return to his home, adding "thus clemency toward him 1b manifested." . A second edict appoints Wa-timg comptroller of customs, governor of Pekin and grand councillor, presumably in Yuan-shi-kai's place;, '-''>,-;*.' The members of tho diplomatic corpB et Pekin are well nigh thunderstruck nt the sudden dismissal of Yuan-shi-kai. The step is believed to be the outcome of a Manchu plot and there are indications that the Japanese representatives alone had any Inkling of what was on foot. .'■,.. The foreign ministers became cognizant of the edict of dismissal at ten minutes' 'before"'. 3 yc'lpckV'this' "afternoon and-two hours * later the British, Ger- maiY and American ministers we're ■ in conference at the British legatlonV'Th'e diplomats were still In conclave at 7 o'clock this evening and It consequently will be Impossible to learn what course the leading powers will take in this surprising development. The home government will act only after an Interchange ot Ideas but there is reason to believe-tonight that prince Chrhg, president of the board of foreign affairs, will be waited upon tomorrow by a' strong diplomatic combination, such as_ the British, Gorman and American rep-1 resentatlvea here. There is nothing to indicate that the dismissal of Yuan-ahi-kai means danger to foreigners but the good fame of China's management of the crisis following the demise of ;ae emperor and the dowager empress and the appointment of a successor, has been swept away by this vindicative act, which will astonish and arouse the outside world, crippieB China's credit, postpones the withdrawal of foreign troops probably five yean. Yuan-shi-kai, the great viceroy of Chili province, was one of the .roost influential and powerful statesmen in the Chinese empire. He had been called the strongest man in China and Infinitely more powerful than waa, Li-hung- YEARS MINERAL PRODUCTION Complete Summary of Operations of the Metalliferous and Non- Metalliferous Mines During the Past Twelve Months- Figures Which Show the Advance That This Important Industry Has'Made in British Columbia in the Past Few Years The aggregate value of British Columbia's mineral production for all years to the end of 1908 is, In'round figures, $323,000,000. This large total may be apportioned approximately as lollows: Placer, gold, $70,000,000; lode metals (gold, silver, lead and copper) $150,000,000; coal and coke, $95,000,000; miscellaneous (building stone brick, cement, etc.), $8,000,000. Up to the end of 1888 the total was within half a million dollars of $70,000,000, of which $55,000,000 was for placer gold and $13,000,000 for coal. Lode metals to the end of 1888 Were of a total value of only $131,000 now they represent a total of $150,000,000 as compared with $165,000,000 for placer gold, coal and coke. It Is therefore quite evident that about three-fifths .of the great increase made during the last 20 years came from lode metals hence the importance of the lode mining Industry to the province. I Another comparison may be of Interest. The total mineral production during 20 years, 1889-1908, was valued at $263,784,000, which' gives an average annual value of $12,689,000 for that period; for the five years, 1904-1908, it was $116,160,000, giving an average annual value for the' five years last past of $23,232,000. These figures Indicate' the very considerable advance made in annual production of minerals in British Columbia during recent years. Two more comparisons will here be made. During ten years, 1898-1907, (the total value of the Dominion production In 1908 Is not yet available), the production of gold, silver, lead and copper in the whole Dominion was of an aggregate -value of approximately, $289,500,- 000. The relative proportions of this total were, In round figures:' 'Yukon (all placer, gold), $120,500,000; .British Columbia, $113,500,000; all other parts of the Dominion, $55,000,000. If all other minerals be also taken into account, though the comparison is not nearly so favorable to this province. The second comparison is this: In two jyears, 1906-1907, the value of the production of the several more Important Industries was as follows: Lumbering, $22,000,000; agriculture, $15,500,000; fisheries, $15,000,000; total for these three, $52,500,000. Minerals made a total of $51,000,000 which was not much less than that of the three first-named industries combined. Adding manufactures ,$23,500,000, an aggregate of $127,000,000 for the two years Is obtained, of which the mining industry contributed 40 per cent. This would suggest that this last industry is deserving of the more generous support of the legislature and the government, - Briefly reviewing last year's mineral production—quantities, not values—It is noted that. there were increases In the following: Lode, gold, silver, copper and building materials. Decreases were shown in: Placer gold, lead and' coal. Increases or decreases in values corresponded to those' of quantities, excepting the cases of sliver and copper, both of which were higher in quantity produced but lower in value, owing to lower average market prices for the year. Comparing districts as to value, only Cariboo and West Kootenay are credited with increases; all other districts made decreases. The comparison of divisions may be made by those interested on referring to the table printed on another page of this Issue; The'following general comment is > OUR REVIEW ISSUE i . . ■ » The Dally Nswb today1 presents \< ■ to Its readers an issue of 32 < ' pages, dealing with the mining, < • lumbering, fruit farming and the « • interests-generally of the Kootenay ■ • and Boundary countries. The in- ■ > formation supplied is by all odds > ' the most complete and comprehen- < • sive that has ever been attempted i • in connection with this country. < > The aim has been to: furnish re- < > liable information, free from any < > suspicion of being of a "boom" < > character. Facts are given and < • these speak eloquently of the great < 1 development that has already taken * 1 place in this country and which Is < 1 extending year by year. After you i > have finished reading your copy of » • the issue send it to some friend < 1 who does not know this country * 1 and thus assist in letting the world < » know what has been and what Is t • being accomplished here, or, if you i 1 desire to keep this Issue for fut- « ■ ure reference, copies for.sending * 1 can be secured at the News office. < submitted: Cariboo, Quesnel and Omi- neca divisions all produced more placer gold than In 1907. Cassiar's production showed a considerable falling off. East Kootenay's decrease is mainly attributable to the suspension of operations at the Sullivan group mine and smelter which caused a decrease In production of both lead and sliver in that district. The average metal contents of St. Eugene ore was lower, which In smaller measure contributed to the decrease. In West Kootenay the comparatively large production of silver and lead was large .production of the, White^ter_apd Deep mines, and- the Bluebell,' of sliver and lead, made Ains worth show an Increase of $1691000. Slocan for the third successive year, made an advance, and it will be well for those who are In the habit of decrying this district to note that It was a substantial improvement, contributed to In large degree by half v. dozen mines and to a less important extent by a number of small ones. The total production- of silver was 953,000 oz. in 1908 as compared with 591,000 oz. In 1907 and 7,000,000 lb. of lead as against 4,306,000 lb. If the production of these metals and zinc by the two Whitewater mines, which aro for official purposes Included in Alnsworth division were also taken into account, as for this comparison it should be, the Sloc&n's advancement Would be still more evident. Before passing on it may be well to mention that evidences of progress in Slocan are: The transformation of Whitewater from a deserted camp to a source of substantial production in silver, lead and zinc; the abundant justification of the policy of the Rambler-Cariboo management In having at great expense driven a deep-level cross-cut tunnel 5,000 feet into the mountain to obtain greater depth, important bodies of ore having been reached, two of them new shoots, on three new levels (the lowest at 1050 ft depth) below the old Workings; the development of much ore of good grade in the Richmond-Eureka mine, near Sandon, and the adjoining claim of the Slocan Star group, these together having shipped 3,400 tons of ore containing more than 200,000 oz. of sliver and 1,500,000 lb. of lead; the finding of n chang. Ho inspired a national patriotism which isi today doing much" to weep away middle.- age superstition and rebuild the empire. He ^rgftrtjzed^ atniy in China thai was the wonder and' amazement of foreign military critics. He substituted modern text books,for ancient classics, he compelled the aboli- titon of torture and he transformed Feign from the filthiest city in the world, Into a metropolis well paved and cleanly kept. At the time of the deaths of the emperor and dowager empress of China, the* following dispatch was received at the New York branch of the Chinese reform association. "Yuan-shi- kai poisoned the emperor. Please cable to Pekin to attack him." I It was declared at the Matt street headquarters of the association that identical dispatches had been sent to branches of the reform'association in all. sections of the world, and that . demand would be made on prince Chun, the new regent to depose Yuan-shi-kai from power and "do away with him." Hurry Call Results Fatally. BUFFALO, Jan. 2—-A special from Cornell, N. Y., says' Dr. Basterd, 70 years of age, dropped dead, of 'heart disease lost evening at the home bf William King where he had been hastily summoned to attend James Kirnerney who bad broken .through the lee. i f«;:AGA!N tfUlIS IN .RACE AGAINST LONG. BOAT AT BUFFALO COVERS ONLY EIGHTEEN OUT OF TWENTY-FIVEr MILES BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 2—Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian, tonight, for the second time took the measure of Dorando Pietrl the Italian, who almost won the great Marathon at the London Olympic. Dorando, as in his race with Longboat in New York, failed to go the distance. Time and again he sprinted in an effort to get away from the Indian without success. Longboat was a 7 to 10 favorite oyer Dorando in what little betting there was just before their 25 mile race tonight. The Canadian contingent got In early and snapped up all the money offered down town at slightly better figures. Dorando was not without a host of admirers and backers but they were not prepared for the avalanche of money offered by the Indian admirers. The crowd was a record breaker one for an event of the kind In this olty. As early aa 7 o'clock the Ions lines stretched down the front and sides of the 74th regiment armory and every minute add- large hew shoot of ore of good grade In the Reco; the encouraging result of driving a deep-level tunnel a long distance into the Surprise property, . the vein having been found at 760 feet vertically below the old workings (which were down 300 feet); the substantial advance made In Sllverton camp, with the Standard an Important producer, of silver and lead, the Vancouver having valuable ore deposits, In the possession of a financially strong English company and under fully competent management; and the further satisfactory development of the Hewitt; the improvement of the Westmont from a prospect Into a paying producing mine; the considerable promise given by the Howard Fraction group; and, generally, the better situation In regard to a number of small mines In the district which have been adding their quota to the sum total ot production and are looking well for the future. Reverting to comment In a less particular way—the success met with at the Bluebell (both at the mine and the new mill) on Kootenay lake, is distinctly gratifying, and its manager, Mr. S. S. Fowler Is to be congratulated accordingly; Nelson division, which has for the time lost the production of the La Plata, has the advantage of the Silver'King being in excellent hands for good results, the Queen Victoria being thoroughly prospected by New York men with abundant means for making a mine «f it should developments prove that it can be so made, and the Granite-Poorman doing well, while Erie mines are continuing to steadily produce gold and Sheep- creek is giving promise, ' in an Increasing yield of gold from several properties, of becoming one of the most Important lode-gold camps in the province; Rossland, is in a. better position for permanent mining of gold and gold-copper ores than 'Over before, with ore bodies that are being worked at a profit encountered down to 2,000 feet (on the incline) and an Increasing tonnage; and, In the Lardeau .the Silver Cup steadily maintaining an average production of 130 tons of high-grade silver-lead ore per month the year through, deeper mining being undertaken concurrently. As to the Boundary—Its very substantia production of about 1,450,000 tons of ore, an. increase over last year's tonnage ot 300,000 tons. Indlcatth uatdah nage of 300,000 tons, Indicates a material improvement; further, though one company which was operating on borrowed capital went to the wall, two strong companies are opening up new properties, the while continuing to work their productive old ones. There Is little change to note In the Similka- meen, which must await the completion of the railway, now being constructed, before conditions there wll Ihe favorable to much Improvement in mining. Finally, the Coast district, where much development work Is being done on the enormous ore deposits ot the Britannia in readiness for an improvement in the price of copper; where, too surprisingly rich bornite ore has lately been developed in 'quantity on the 920-ft. level in the Marble Bay mine, Texada Island, which Is a leading feature in the year's mining on the coast ,and where trail trut Ing on the coast, and where the Tyee Copper company is preparing for tho considerable developments its management are confident will take place there within their field of operations, which w0stdcu2g colohrud wa trua wtdau dtar (Continued on Pace Two.) ed. to^e cjxjwjl ffl®§ih-){i:d$Pk$l $£ buiiatnji, „.■'_-, 7' ,''-\ .'.. ,7 '.', •'Look ■orirfor that' Boston record," said Tom Longboat after he had tried the specialty prepared dirt 'tra'cT on the armory floor early In the evening. The track was six feet wide and slightly banked, It was made of clay and well packed and held in place by stout timbers. The course was almost oval and nine laps to the mile. Francis Nelson, of Toronto acted as referee and, William Conners, chairman of the state democratic committee, fired the starting signal. It was 9.05 when the men were sent away to a good start, Dorando sprung Into the lead and set a terrific pace for the first few laps. Longboat with a broad grin on his face struck close to the Italian, not allowing him more than three or four yards lead. The time for the first mile, 5.07, was 7 2-5 seconds faster than the first mile of their race In Madison square garden on December 15. The' pair moderated the pace considerably after the first nine laps.' Dorando, maintained a lead of two yards throughout the first two miles. The time of the second mile Was 10;37. In the third mile Longboat's left' leg struck the timber on the inside of the track breaking the skin. He: was bleed- log slightly hut appeared unconcerned over the mishap. This gave the Italian a lead of 25 yards. Longboat sprang to his feet like a flash and sprinted, overtaking Dorando before another lap of the race was completed: The crowd cheered Longboat's burst of speed and his gameness lustily. He lead Dorando for a short distance but soon dropped back and let the Italian take up the pace* The time at the end of the fifth mile was 27.32 1-2. Dorando still led by a couple of yards. ' Dorando sprinted frequently in the 5th and 6th miles but Longboat lengthened out his stride and never allowed the'Itallan to get very far away. Tom Flanagan, Longboat's trainer, was greatly worried over the Indian's Injured leg. Longboat never faltered and he nodded smiling to his Canadian friends In the boxes. The time at the end of the 10th mile was 56.30 1-5. The time of the 10 miles in their New York race was 6S.38. Dorando continued to sprint in the 13th and 14th miles his leads stretching out at times to 1Q and 15 yards, trainer Flanagan said the Injury to Longboat's knee was not bothering the Indian. It had ceased to bleed and there was no perceptible change in his stride. Just to show he was all right Longboat sprinted in the last lap of the 14th mile and finished it with a lead of two yards he again waited for Dorando to set the pace and the 15th mile saw the Italian again in the lead. The time at the end of the 15th mile was 1.26.342-5 compared with 1.30.02 2-5 in the New York race. In the nineteenth mile Dorando tried again and again to sprint away from the Indian but the Canadian could not be shaken off. It was the Italian's last effort. In the sixth lap he began to falter and when he neared the finish line he stopped. His trainers rushed to his support and he was led from the track. The Canadians went wild with enthusiasm and cheered their champion lustily as he plugged around tho oval to complete the race. Father John is Dead. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2—The not- ed priest. Father John, of Oronstadt is dead. ■ He had for some years been suffering from chronic dropsy and internal complications. Father John was born in 182!t. He became prieBt of the Andrew church at Cronstadt. He drew about him hosts of followers. The em peror constantly befriended him. A pilgrimage of the present empress to the shrine of St. Seraphln, which among pious Russians was believed to have been responsible for the birth of the desired heir of the throne, was undertaken on Father John's advice. Fire Visits Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Jan. 2—Fire tonight did about $70,000 damage to D. A. Smith's furniture stock on Granville street. The inside of the block was gutted. Several firemen received Injuries In endeavoring to quench the blaze. The stock is fairly well covered by Insurance. CORPSES Mtf ROBBED CHINESE MAKE BIG HAUL FROM STORM'S VICTIMS ALSO MURDER SURVIVORS WHO REACHED SHORE VICTORIA. Jan. 2.—News was brought by the steamer Monteagle, which arrived today from the Orient, that some survivors of the lost Japan* ese steamers Glnsei maru and Nagatc maru, wrecked near Chefoo, reached the shore, but were murdered by the Chinese inhabitants of the coast village, who also mutilated the corpses. The death list of the disaster totals 750 and as the bodies were washed ashore they were not only stripped of tnejr clotniug and robbed of money and valuables found on them, but even teeth were pulled out to get the gold fillings, fingers were cut off for the sake of rings. Among those lost were many laborers returning from Manchuria with their season's savings, and a number of merchants who had been to An Tung to purchase wild silk cocoons, produced north of the Yule and carried yearly to Chefoo to" be reeled and spun. One Chinese alone survived, he hiding him- sell away -from the murderous coast pe6ple. •-.. Mi • Have Apthus Fever. ROCHESTER, Jan. 2.—The state department of health at Albany, after reading the report of D. S. C. Hermance and others sent to Clarkson, near this city, to investigate the Illness of children supposed to be afflicted with foot and mouth disease, has ordered the quarantine, of all houses In Clarkson where the children are III, The announcement is also made that, the children have apthus fever, or foot and mouth disease. Dr. Hermance says that he thinks the disease has been checked and that the children affected will recover, as all are progressing nicely toward health. - Goes to Ausutralla. VANCOUVER, Jan. 2—H. Carl Bel- linger, n well known western mining man, who built the Crofton smelter, left yesterday for Sydney, Australia to take charge of the great Cobar smelting works located at Lithmow and Co- bar. Mr. Bellinger has been elected as metalurgtcal director of the company and will practically reorganize the great works owned by them. TRADEfOtlCY London Times on Question of Preference LORD MILNER'S SPEECHES ARTICLE IS BASED ON HIS ADDRESS DELIVERED RECENTLY IN THE VARIOUS CITIES OF CANADA WHICH IT ADVISES COLONIES TO TAKE TO HEART LONDON, Jan. 2—The London Times prints lengthy extracts from Viscount Milner's speeches In Canada, and edi' torially dealing with prospects of tariff reform says: "The moral of the re- ceftit by-elections has not been lost on the dominions over the seas. They are waiting now upon fiscal controversy in this country. So far from regarding Great Britain's adhesion to free trade with impatience, the Times thinks the dominions may take this very reluctance to show that when at last the nation's faith Is shaken, as It is now shaken in free trade, they may await with confidence the triumph of the policy which the imperial cause requires. It will he well meanwhile IE every nation within the empire, and every tariff reformer at home would take to heart the clenr and single-minded statement of the Imperial idea which a series of Canadian cities have lately been privileged to hear. As the only need of equaling conditions is to enable them to meet their foreign competitors, but not to buttress shaky Industries which can only exist under the shelter of a protective wall, trade should be as free as possible with two provisions, that where we can dp so without violence we should turn it into Imperial channels and that where conditions are unfair we Bhould make them fair." The TimeB adds that lord Milner's definition of the purpose of reciprocal arrangements as tending not to divert trade from its natural course, "but to keep It in an imperial course rather than another where both are natural has a bearing even upon the domestic aspect of the tariff and our purposes should be to defend such of our industries as require assistance. In connection with International system of wireless meteorological reports the Canadian Pacific, Dominion and Allan lines, amongst other Atlantic lines, will send to the meteorological office reports of the weather r^ Atlantic beginning with February. It is hoped that valuable data will be obtained in this way. OLD COUNTRY FOOTBALL Results of Yesterday's Games in Various Association Divisions. (Canadlun Associated Pre»u) LONDON, Jan. 1—Today's football results were as follows: First Division. Woolwich Arsenal l. Notts county 0. Leicester Fosse 0, Newcastle United Everton 5, Bristol City 2. Manchester United 0, Preston North End 2. Bradford City 0, Middlesboro 2. Blackburn Rovers ;!, Manchester City 2. Chelsea 3, Liverpool 0. Sunderland 3; Bury 1. Nottingham Forest 0. Sheffield United 2. Sheffield, Wednesday 4, Aston Villa 2. Second Division. Birmingham 2, Gainshoro Trinity 2. Blackpool ;!, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2. Rolton Wanderers 3, Barnsley 0, Chesterfield Town 2, Bradford 1. Clapton Orient ?,, Hull City 2. Derby County 1, Oldham Athletics 0. Cllossop l, Burnley 2. '•' Stock'nor? County 1, Fulh'am 2. Tottenham- Hotspurs 3, Leeds City 0, West BromWich Albion' 1; Grimsby Town 0. Southern League. West Ham United 1, Brighton and Hove 1. Ley ton 2, Crystal Palace 0. Southampton 1, Brentford 0. >! Reading 2, Luton 2. •''. Norwich City 0, Swindon 0. ) Watford 1, Portsmouth 1, , j Bristol Rovers 5, Exeter 1. '' 1 j Coventry 1, Northampton 4. ' 1 Southend 1, New Bromptnn 0. Plymouth Argyle 0, Mfllwall 3. Explosion Wrecks Building. CHICAGO, Jan. 2—The "Tom Jones" restaurant building across the street ■from the board of trade was partly wrecked by gas explosions early today. The explosions occurred in the basement and blew out entrances to the buildings on Jackson boulevard and Qnlncy street. An engineer.who was Just about to enter the building was blown across the street and a watchman's uniform was almost torn from hia body by the force of a second explosion. Both men escaped serious injury. Fire followed the explosion. The damage was $130,000. *WP*F PACE TWO QPite SfaUQ gUai**. SUNDAY .. JANUARY f. wdmm YEARS MINERAL ^PRODUCTION Continued from Page One. include smelting as well as mining. In the northwest of the province there is not yet much advancement to report In mining, development awaiting the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway .which Is expected to work a transformation industrially in the country through which It is being built. There Is progress being made at the Hidden creek company's mine on Observatory Inlet, also on one of the Queon Charlotte islands, a Japanese company having shipped to the smelter from the latter between 5000 and 6000 tons of copper gold ore of good grade, but apart from this nothing has yet been proved, by smelter returns to be of commercial value on those Islands. Turning to individual minerals—gold, silver and copper peed not have particular notice, hut of lead It may be said that the renewal of the federal legislation authorizing the payment of a bounty on lead has saved the situation in the Kootenay, for without that assistance the operation of the lead side of the Trail smelter would be very problematical, which means that the position of the silver lead mines of the district, while prices of these metals remained low, and customs duties hamper exports, would be precarious—a condition fortunately averted by this timely renewal of assistance granted by the Dominion government. Thanks to the courtesy of the efficient supervisor of bounty matters, some Interesting and valuable Information concerning the lead industry in the province is today made public. Next, zinc—while the total output was comparatively unimportant, it was the largest made by the province In recent years and, what is more encouraging, it proved the practicability of .utilizing to some extent the zinc which Is associated with lead in some of the larger mines of Ainsworth and the Slocan. Finally as to coal the commencement of production by the Hos- mer Mines, Ltd., with its big plant for handling a considerable quantity of coat and coke, and of the Corbin Coal & Coke company In another part of the Crow's Nest district, together with the Crow's Nest Pass Coal company extending its operations, will have the effect of ensnrlng a more abundant supniy of fuel than in some past years. In Nicola valley, too, the enterprise of the Nld>la Coal & Coke company Is on a basis of production on a emmercial scale, while on Vancouver island the South Wellington company will soon be a competitor for some of the coal trade of the ocast. Other developments of coal properties are being prepared for, Ibut the above mentioned are of most present importance. Other matters worth noting are the large additions to plant and machinery made or being made at the smelters— at Trail fcr both copper and lend, at the Granby works and at those of the B, C. Copper company at Greenwood, for copper, and too, at Ladysmlth, Vancouver Island, by the Tyee Copper company also for copper ores; the building of new and the improvements made to old concentrating mills in both east and west Kootenay for lead and zinc ores; the successful inauguration of the electric lead-zinc smelting process at Nelson, and several Installations of small new stamp mills for gold ores. Railway construction, too, is adding to the transportation facilities of some mineral bearing districts, notably in the northern country, in the Simllkameen, and on Vancouver island. The construction of the Kootenay Central, In East Kootenay, and of the Midway- Vernon line, in the Boundary Is still anxiously awaited. The additional useful work done In the province by the Dominion department of mines should be noted. The Geological survey branch had field parties at work last year in the Boundary. Simllkameen and coast districts: and on Texada and Vancouver Islands, while preparation was maoV for work next year In the Slocan. The visit of "the acting director of the survev, R. W. Brock, who is thoroughly familiar with 'much of the kootenay and Boundary country, In company with the Dominion minister of mines, was welcomed In the mining districts. The largely increased interest taken in British Columbia by the Canadian Mining institute is also a matter for congratulation. The western branch of the institute, organized at Nelson in January, 1908, with a membership of about 120, held Interesting meetings at Rossland in May and In Victoria In September, and will meet a fortnight was "an event the significance of which hence In Greenwood. Its membership Is now about 185 and the Interest In its proceedings Is steadily increasing. The visit to British Columbia last September, under the auspices of tbe Institute, of a number of influential mining engineers and geologists from Great Britain and continental Europe New Year's service, Mr. Perkins was 69 years old. He had a large acquaintance In Wall street. Fatalities at Coast. VANCOUVER Jan. 2—A young man from tNew Westminster but previously from Ontario, was drowned in Trout conditions, the output or ore Is increasing rapidly. Up to a year ago something over 13,900 tons of high grade ore was shipped from SHverton, having an aggregate value of much more than $81,000. During the past three years the annual average output has increased about 300 who laid the foundation ot what la hes- tined to become an Important industry, He rightly reasoned that where wild bush fruits were so prolific, the larger varieties would flourish. True, he wot compelled to hear much good natured chaff at the outset, but when in the following spring the young trees were =£==^^^=5^ NEW DENVER, B. C, THE "LUCERNE OF NORTH AMERICA" will probably later be evident In the Introduction of move BrltlBh capital tor the development ot mines In this province. John Ashworth ot Manchester, England, an engineer o( International reputation afterwards said: "My own opinion Is that British Columbia will become In the near future the great mining center for British capital. At all events it should be. What impressed me and those who were with me on the excursion through the various mining centres was tbe magnificent opening for British capital which bona fide flotation ottered. This will be the view generally expressed." And this leads up to the remark that there has during the last year been a marked increase in the amount of outside capital obtained for the exploitation of Kootenay mining properties. The persistent and efficacious work in the Interests of the mining industry (among others) of the associated boards ot trade of southeastern British Columbia, under, the long continued and useful presidency of G. O. Buchanan, of Kaslo, also merits appreciative ackuewl- edgement. / Much else might be written of matters affecting the mining Industry of the province, but since space limitations will not permit of more extended comment at this time, only one other subject will be here referred lo, name y, the exposition to be held in Seattle, Washington, next summer. The importance of taking full advantage of such opportunities Is recognized in the district of which Nelson Is the centre It should though be much be more widely realized that by comprehensive exhibits of minerals and the publication of thoroughly dependable Information relative to the mining Industry of the province its further development may be very considerably assisted. Governments may, and should, be urged to do a great deal, but It Is for the many Individuals to co-operate and so compel a successful result ot whatever effort shall be made In this direction. Firemen Frostbitten. AMHERST, N. S„ Jan. 2-The bentle- mon's furnishing store of S. Coates & Co was damaged to the extent of »16,- 000 by fire this afternoon. Several firemen were badly frostbitten. Drops Dead In Church. NEW YORK, Jan. 2—Thomas Perkins, a member of the New York cotton exchange, died suddenly today In his pew at First Presbyterian church Brooklyn, Just after malting a speech at the lake at noon today while skating. The body was not recovered for several hours. Ambrose Clark, was fatally Injured yesterday at Magee station by a log slipping during clearing operations and crushln; him so badly that a Tib penetrated his lungs. He died this morning. Steamer Takes Fire. SAVANNAH. Jan. 2—With 17 passengers aboard, tho Nopwegiuri steamer Texas, £rom Cliristlnna, for Havana, In sight of five below Savannah, caught tb e early today. The niimi'B weie discovered in tlte aft hold. The Savannah fire department sent an apparatus to fight the times. Captain Peterson, commands the ship. per cent., and the tonnage for the present year will undoubtedly show an .even larger increase. When you couple the above figures with the fact that some of the best looking mines have :been providing for the future by leaving large ore reserves thoroughly block, ed out and ready for stoplng. you will realize that the prospects for Increased prosperity are excellent. . Concerning 'New Denver—and his remarks apply equally to Slocan city, Sandon and other Slocan towns—J. J. Atherton, editor of the Slocan Mining Review, writes: We are not oblivious of the fact that luxuriant in bloom and the domestic fruit and vegetables grew so abound, antly and of suoh startling dimensions, others were swift to follow Ma example, and In a Ww years thousands of trees were blooming In the fair town of New Denver. Fleet Nearing Suez. SUEZ. Jan. 2.—The United States battleship fleet homeward bound, last night was C19 miles from Sues. Tho fleet Is due here Sunday morning. While passing through Babel Mandeb straight Into the tiled sea on December 29th, Jesse Schot- Innd. an able seaman of the battleship Illinois fell overboard and was drowned (before the boats, which were at once lowered, could reach him. Le Rio No. 2, milled 11, Evening Star.. I Blue Bird fit Elmo..; NostHgg.... Mayflower Josle Con '.. Giant-California.. ;.. Iron Horse .'.;.. Sunset Silver Bell Homestake , Red. Eagle I. X. I. H&ttie Brown TOWNS Of THE SLOCAN SILVERTON FAST FORGING TO THE FRONT AS MINING CENTRE NEW DENVER, SLOCAN CITY AND SANDON Situated amidst the moat beautiful of surroundings, and having the finest aarbor on Hiocaa lake, the to#n of Sllverton is located at the very nerve- centre of a district that is rapidly do. veloplng Into the richest portion of the Slocan country. There is no "boom on" in thia progressive community, but It forging steadily ahead, strictly on the merits of Its unsurpassed resources, now dally growing in importance, as a logical result of the splendid showing obtained from careful developments, Foremost of these resources are the vast mineral deposits; and though development Is yet in its infancy, many of the mines are even now on a firstclass paying basis, though work has been retarded in this line through adverse conditions of the metal and money markets, making it a difficult matter to secure capital necessary for the economical prosecuting. Owing to this fact much of the work mined In tie past was hand- sorted, but as this la being rapidly done away with, on account of the improved considerable mischief has 'been done, and serious pecuniary lose sustained, in times past, by most indiscriminate misrepresentations made by enterprising and precocious land agents In the Old Country, with a view to tempt people to venture their future lot in the Dominion of Canada. Strange to relate, comparatively little effort has been made (previously) to attract Immigrants to this charming, healthy, and promising district W* trust that the all powerful and enter prising c. P. R. company will aid us In our efforts to bring "Slocan" (generally), more prominently' to the "front" • As a place of residence, and for mining, lumbering and fruit cultivation there is no more desirable resort than the Slocan, offrlng, as It does, exceptional advantages. Time was when the man who aug. gested the Silvery Slocan as a coming fruit growing centre would have been laughed at, but what a change has come over the scene since the early invaders, Imbued only with the mad desire for speedy wealth, first Ut their camp fires and set up their tents. Still there were those among the early pioneers who reasoned that it was quite within the possibilities and when the tents made way for shacks, and these gave place to substantial dwellings, the test was made. Charles Aylwln has the dlstlnv gulshed honor ot planting the i tint apple tree Id the district. It wan h» m YtARS ORE SHIPMENTS WKh »• exceptions noted henaund*** the l»Kurea appended, have been supplied from time to time during the year oy the various mines and smelters and can be regarded as «eml official. Corrections In every instance have hot .been made to date but the figures are approximately correct, dose enough for the purpose tor which this aiie given and abeoutely correct >n almost every caae. The Marysvllle figures are estimated, and the milling returns oro approximated, but care has betn taken In each Instance to get the estimates at ftrat hand. The ore shipments fo.* 1907 amounted to 5.611,M tons and the smelter receipts (or the same year amounted to 1,600,461 tons' The figures given hereunder are in tone. The total ora shipments from noutheast- ttm BtilBh Columbia during 1906 were r.,09G,S92 tons made up as follows: Boundary 1,476.147 Slocan-Kootenay i 2W.824 BxMBland .', 386,831 Total.. .% W»81HH Appended1 will be found the oro ship* ftnenu* In detail from south eastern British Columbia In tons, BOUNDARY smPWENT3 Oratiby.. , 1,049,671 Mother Lode 302,069 Oro Denoro 67,286 Snowithoe , 44,60V Rawhide 10,740 Brooklyn 6.800 Phoenix ; 964 Mountain Rose -, 690 8al!y M8 Sunset ' 3,802 Orescent 83 Athelstan.. .. .. 120 Curlew | .. 17, , TotM 1,476,147 ROSSLAND SHIPMENTS Centra Star. .,'. 177,» Le Rol ...,.,...., 76,067 Le Roi No. 2 Sim i Total 206,021 SLOOAiN-KOOTENAY SHIPMENTS. Whitewater ". 1,047 Whitewater Deep 1,027 Whitewater Zinc (Okla.) 6,800 Wh.tewater Zinc, (Europe)..., 350 Whitewater Deep, milled 30,600 La Plata 731 St. Eugene 26,000 St. Eugene, milled 146,000 Queen.... 1,063 Queen, milled 11,860 Elva 1S7 Second Relief 360 Second Relief, milled 3,606 Queen Victoria 220 Fern 17 Fern, milled .... , 350 Hewitt 682 Vancouver 684 Vancouver, milled 2,000 North Star 4,111 Aldington, Erie 2,284 Arlington, Slocan..., 420 Blue Bell 2,163 Blue Ball, milled 21,600 Silver King 880 Last Chance 44 Standard ., 1,202 Lono Bachelor 23 RainbloV Cariboo 1,147 Emerald , 426 Jessie Blue Bird 84 Ruth 711 Spokane 13 Ottawa 36 Montezuma 86 Bismark.. • 20 Sunset 24.0 California 7 Sullivan F100 Granlte-Poorman 230 Granlto-Poomian, milled 10,800 Kootenay Bell 160 Kootenay Bell, milled..., 2,320 Idaho Alamo 818 Slocan Sovereign 70 Keystone 70 Mother Lode 160 Mollio Btughes 60 Canadian Group.... 66 Province 28 Reco 629 jRiehmond-Eurckii 2,7t» Lightening Teaks 21 Nugget 317 Nugget, milled 930 Silver Cup 988 Westmuot.. 394 Nnmber One.. ,, 14 Black Diamond , 6 American Boy 20 Empiciifl , 6 Ferguson.. 437 Gallagher : 26 Maestro 89 New Jerusalem IB Silver Nugget • 4 Krao 62 Evening Star SI Revenue 35 Sunshine 11 Summit 68 Silver Glance 26 MonaiiWi 182 Daly Co 82 Wellington 8 Grant 26 Slocan Star 448 Ruby 181 Royal Irish 4 Nevada 2 Milly Mack 128 Sierra Verdo 8 True Fiwsure 126 Maggie 3 Charleston.... , 2 Murray and Henderson 10 Alphn 16 Giant (Golden) 68 ^Little Robwt 1 Colvllle Co 4- Cork. 16 Fisher Maiden 22 Silver Hustler 20 St. Eugene No, 2 24 Rio 16 Cu Oxide.. 1 C. H. Pollen 2 Hot Punch 16 B. C. and Tilbury 22 Queen Dominion 5 EajflJi Bird 2 Elkhorn 17 Nepawn 3 Mountain Con 14 Comstnrk fl Snow Top (Crestdn) 1 Texas :,,. 3 Selkirk Mining Co 19 Total .' 234,824 SMELTER RECEIPTS. The total ore ;receipb» at the various jfrieltea from 1908, hb set out in detail In the appended statement, amounted to 1,860,084 tons. Grand Forks 1,049,671 Greenwood , 384,916 Boundary Falls 21,877 Marysville.. 6,730 Trail 332,563 Northport (Le Rol) 85,314 Total : 1.860.094 GRANBY SMELTER RECEIPTS. Urn ml Forks, B. C. Granby 1.049,671 B. C. COPPER CO'B RECEIPTS Greenwood. B. C. Mother Lode 302,039 Cto Denoro * 67,286 Snowshoe 6,690 Total ....■ 304,846 .DOMINION COPPER CCS. RECEIPTS. • Boundary Falls, B. C. Rawhide , 10,740 Sunset 3,802 Brooklyn '. 6,800 Mountain Rose 630 Total 21.872 MARYSVn.B SMEJLTER RECEIPTS. Maryavllle, B. C. Sullivan . 6,100 First Thought,... 630 Total 6,730 TRAIL SMELTER RECEIPTS. Trail, B. C. Centre Star 177.389 Snowshoe 38,912 Le Rot No, 8 28,871 Queen Victoria 110 La Plata 734 North Star 4,111 S'lver King 880 St. Eugene. 86,000 (WhttowMer 1,047 Whitewater Deep LOW Spokane 18 Arlington, Erie ... 2,284 Arlington, Slocan 429 Last Chance 44 Vancouver 684 T -one Bachelor B iRmmWdr Cariboo L147 Sunset, Slocan. 224 Ottawa ........ .. 86 Standard WJ02 Montezuma 89 Granlte-Poorman 280 Sally .... 128 Jeps'e Blue Bird ........ 84 ■Hewitt , 682 Maestfro 89 Idaho Alamo 818 Slocan Sovereign * 70 Canadian Group 66 Richmond-Eureka 8,739 Province 88 Keystone 70 Mayflower J3 Westmount ^ 8M Lightening Peaks 21 Bummlt ; 68 Reco 520 Number One, i ' • 14 Ferguson 437 Fern ,. 17 Gallagher 26 Btack Diamond 8 Ruth .... ., 711 New Jerusalem.. .* 81, Silver Nugget .,,' ,.., 4 Evening Star (RoMland).. .... 880 Krao ,,., ..' , ,. U Evening Star (Slocan) 81 ' Nugget 817 Sliver Cup .' 988 Sunshine .... 11 Emerald . 428 Revenue >.... 16 Eva.. ..., .. 1 ...,;, 187 Sliver Glance 28 Mollle .Hughes .60 Monarch ., ...... 182 Daly Reduction Co ; 82 , Wati' Eagle (Kamloops).. 8,674 Blsmark 20 Crescent ; 88 .Wellington 8 Grant 26 Slocan Star.. , 448 Ruby 181 California (Slocan . 7 Royal Irish 4 Nevada,. '. 2 •Willy Mack 128 First Thought 6.B06 Mother Lode (Ymir) 15 Hattle Brown .... 16 Selkirk Mining Co >..,..< 19 Iron Horse 88 Snowstorm J , 18,744 Sierra Verdo 9 True Fissure.. 125 City of Cobalt (Cobalt).... 62 Nancy Helen (Cobalt) 72 Maggie , 3 Red Eagle .. .. 8 Blue Bird .... » 177 Clant-Callfornln -. 80 Charleston 2 Blue Bell 2,162 Curlow 17 Sunset.. .. ..; 26 Wunrny and Henderson '. ' 10 Josle Con 33 Empress , 6 Giant (Golden) 68 Alpha ' 16 Little Robert 1 St. Elmo 68 Cork ;-.. 16 ColvllleCo ' 4 Fisher Maiden 82 Silver Hustler 20 St. Eugene No. 2 24 Phoenix Amalgamated 394 Nest Egg 62 KlO 15 Cu Oxide • 1 Sliver Bell 16 I. X. L 6 C H. Pollen 2 Hot Punch 16 B. C. and Tilbury '23 Queen Dominion 5. Early Bird 2 Etkhdrn 17 Nepawa. ,,,,, g Mountain Con 34 Comstook.. ,,, { Snow Top (Creeton) 1 Texas .. 3 Total , 332,562 LE ROI SMELTER RECEIPTS. Northport, Wash. Le Roi First Thought.... , Second Relief , Queen Kootenay Bell Mother Lode Queen Victoria i( Other Mines 1,063 160 110 L008 Total.. To the Electors of the West Ward We respectfully solicit your votes and Influence In our support as candidates for aldermen In the West Ward at the coming civic elections. If elected we undertake to deal.with all questions that may come before the council In 1909 In a thoroughly Independent manner. We are emphatically In favor of municipal ownership of all public utilities and the general policy outlined by W. Q. Gillett as candidate fer the mayoralty. J. E. Amiable W. S. Drewty W. H. Jones To the Electors of the East Ward We respectfully solicit your vote sal influence Is our support as candidates for'aldermen In the Bast War* at tbe coming civic election. If sleeted we undertake to deal with all questlois that may come before the council la 1909 In a thoroughly Independent manner. W*. are emphatically In favor of municipal ownership of all public utilities and the general policy outl|ned by W. S. Olllelt as candidate for the mayoralty, J. A. Irving M. R. M'QuatUe * T. G. Procter ItlNftAV .. JANUARY I POte fpjxtiu flews \0 •Ml THUI A Dainty Meal is always assured when the housewife uses • PURIty FLOUR She is happy in the knowledge that she has the nicest and most nourishing bread to offer her guests. WESTERN CANADA FLOUR MILLS CO., LIMITED Mll.Lt »T WIKNIPtO, OODERICH *NO BRANDON. MS I If You've Been Using "Cheap" Tea The rich, full flavor of Blue Ribbon Tea will he a delightful surprise to you. No 25c or 30c tea has a flavor to compare with It. The choice leaf tuaed In blending Blue Ribbon Tea costs too much to sell at any such price. And as bo much less le reoulred to the cup, BLUE RIBBON TEA Is REALLY THE HOST ECONOMICAL, as well as the best A pound of Blue Ribbon will make over 200 cups, rich and strong, so It costs less than 1-lc per cup. Just try a pound ot Blue Ribbon and judge it for yourself. Something Doing In Motor Boats 18-foot Kootenay Special with 2 borse power motor, seven miles per hour, complete »250 What's the matter with one of these beautiful boats for a Christmas present The Kootenay Motor Boat Co. Good Cheer Specialities The finest of Turkeys, Geese, Ducks* and Chickens. Sea foods of all kinds from a shrimp to a halibut. Mince meat and chopped suet for pies and pastry, etc., etc. See our shop display. f. BURNS tte OO, Limited Nelson, Rossland, Greenwood, Grand Forks, Pboenlx and Kaslo. JOHN BURNS OONTRAOTOR AND BUILDER Cabinet and Turned Work Offict Fittings, Sash and Doors. BRICK AND LIME FOR SALE Estimates Cheerfully Given Office and Factory: Carbonate Street, Nelson, B. C. HEFRESHING^ fhe World over by discriminating «z jutL i ._ TeadrinkeKs — •2a'°l*>y 9000/GROCERS everywhere. ROUGH LUMBER MBSSBD _nooii, Windows, Ibmldliis, flhlaflss, Tims* Works and Brackets. Ob*. »*^ ans s» to aata stock alwajs on hand. Hall orders promts attaWee t*. STATISTICS FOR YEAR LESS CRIME IN NELSON AND THE DISTRICT. FIGURES SHOW DEVELOPMENT IN TWELVE MONTHS. During the past not only the city of Nelson but the county of Kootenay has been wholly free of serious crime. A man named Cedlo was In the provincial gaol in the city for a short period previously to he taken to Greenwood and tried and convicted there on a charge of having set fire to a building and murdered a girl at Niagara in the County of Yale and who was afterwards hanged at Kan-loops in July. The number of prisoners received at the gaol during 1908 was 182 compared with tfl in 1907. The daily average of men in the cells during the past year has been 40 against 27 In 1907. The largest number of prisoners in gaol on any one jUy has been 56. Six men have been discharged during the past twelve mdfths on ticket of leave and on the last day of the year there were 44 prisoners In the cells compared with 36 in the previous year. It shoudl be noted that these figures represent not only the city of Nelson but the whole country of Kootenay. There has been an Increase of 275 over 1907 in the number of mining claims recorded and a decrease of 27 In the number of certificates of work granted. The figures are as/follows: claims located 490 against 215 in the previous year, certificates of work granted 372 compared with 309 in 1907. during 1908 was 182 compared with 131 in 1907. The dally average of men in the cells during the past year has been 40 against 27 in 1907.' The largest number of prisoners in gaol on any one -2 and 303 of tho Railway Act, and tor other purposes, Montreal, December 12th, 100S. DANDL'RAND. HIHBARD, HOVER AND GOSSELIN, Solicitors for Applicants. CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NELSON Bylaw No. 196. A By-Law to raise Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), for Lite completion of the construction of the Public School In the City of Nelson, and uTrpVovement of the grounds and appurtenances in connection therewith. WHEREAS the Board of School Trustees of the City of Nelson has prepared and laid Irpfore the Municipal Council or the City of Nelson an estimate snowing that such Hoard requites Fifteen Thousand Dollars, (J15.0IXJ), to meet an extraordinary expenditure for the purpose or •completing the construction-of a Public School in tne City of Nelson and improvement of the grounds Hind nppintt nances in connection therewith: AND WHEREAS such estimate lias been duly considered and finally approved 'of by he said Council: AND WHEREAS for the purpose afore- BOjkl it will he necessary to borrow tihe sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars (tlu.OWj, and le Issue debtntu es of the City of Nelson for the purpose of raising mien. amount AND WTTBREAS the whole amount of the rateable land of the wild city according to Lite last revised assessment roll Is One Million Two Hundred und Ninety Eight Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Dolkliia (fliatytJSO.) AND WH'KHEAS it will he requisite to raise annually by rate the sum of One Thousand Three Hundred and Eight Dollars and Twenty-live Cents ($1,808,28 for paying the debt and interest: NOW THEREFORE- TUB MUNICIPAL OOUNOIL of- the Corporation of thu City of Nelson enacts a« follows: J. Jt shall and may be lawful for tho Mayor of the Corporation of the City of Nelson to borrow upon the credit of the said Corporation, by way of tha Debentures hereinafter mentioned, from any person or persons, 'body or bodies corporate, who may be willing to advance the same tm a loan. a. sum of money not to exceed In tho whole the sum of [fifteen Thousand Dollars (M5,00Q), and to cause all such sums Ho raised or received to be paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the sa.iti Cor- [poratlon for the purpose und the object hereinbefore recited! 2. It shall be lawful for the'Mayor of the said Corporation to cause any number of Debentures to be made, executed and issued for such sum or sums us mny b« required for the piltposa and object aforesaid, not exceeding, however, the sum of Fifteen Thousand DollorB ($16,000), each or" the said Debentures being of tho denomination of One Thousand Dollars (Jl.uOOj, and all such Debentures shoN be sealed with tho seal of the Corporation and signed by the Mayor thereof: 3, Tho said Debentures shall hear dale- tlie 1st day of February, Iftay, and shall be made payoiblo in Twenty cm years from (lit! said (late. In lawful money of Canada, at the office of the Hank of Montreal 'it Nelson aforesaid, which place of payment shall be designated by the said Debentures and .shall huv attached to them coupons for the payment of interest mid the sigua- .tiircs to the interest coupons may bi> either written, stamped, printed of lithographed. ■I. The said Debentures shnll bear interest at the rate of Five (5) per cant from the date hereof, which Intaresl shall he payable semi-annually at the said of- ,.Vc of tho Hank of Montreal In Nelson aforesaid, in lawful money of Canada >on the first day of August and the first day of t'obruary respectively in each year during the currency thereof; and it shall bo expressed In ssitti Debentures and Coupons to he so payable. G. It shall be lawful for the. Mayor of thfl wait! Corporation to negotiate and sell the said Debentures or any of them for ef.H than pur, but in no case shall tho De- benhiri's or any of them bo negotiated or sold far loss than Ninety-live (06) per Centum of their value, including the cost "jtokcrugo and all oi!i clil. '■X|»-t| WHEN IN SPOKANE •top at tha Hotel Raymond, tho moot centrally located hotel In •pokane. Ratio moderate. Itiao moots 11 trains. There cannot be a more acceptable New Year's Present at a moderate coBt than a season ticket for the New Skating Rink Tickets are now on sale at TOYE, TAYLOR A McQUARME'S Officii. CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NELSON Bylaw No. 195. A By-Law to stop up anil dose a certain portion of Fulls and Hoover Streets in the City of Nelson. WH13REAS it is deemed advisable to cKutju up a certain portion of Fa lid and Hoover Sttvets hereinafter described, being within the limits of the City ut Nol- 8011. AND WllHTlBAS in Iho opinion of the Council such portions of Bald streets Is1 not required for oqrporate purposes; N(.W TUKIJKJ.'OKK I'HK MI'NlOlt'Ai. COUNCIL of the Co.partition of the City of Ne.son in Council assembled enacts us follows: 1. Thai tho following portions of Falls Street ami Honvur Street within the limits of tho City of Nelson, be and the same aro hereby declared stopped up and duBtxl, namely: Those portions of said Hoover und Fall* Streets lying1 within the limits of an arat created by the following boundaries. Commenoing ju a point on th^ westerly limit of Falls Street HO feet in a motherly direction (N. W degrees (13 minutes W.J from the southwest comer or Block "C." accord- ing to a plan of a Subdivision of Lot 150, tlrnup 1, Koolcnny; such corner b: Ing the intersection of tho Westerly limit or Falls Street with the .Northerly limit of observatory Street according to the said plan; thence In a northerly direction (N. rat degrees OJ minutes W.) from tho suld point so created nlong the westerly limit of Falls Street 190 feet to a point; thence across Fitlls Street and a portion of Hoover Stieet to the intersection of the Northerly limit of Lot 17. Block 6, according to Bald plan with tho Southerly limit of Hoover Street; thence Westerly (S. 59 degrees 67 B. There si all bo raised and levied i ibentnres the Fifty Dollars (¥760.00), for payment of it ■ sum of Five Hundred an Fifty-eight 1* liars and Twenty-five Ceni (W68.26) for i nyment of the .said Dehen turcs by rate sufflc rate; .le land : th of or iltl M It shall be lawful fur the said •clpal Council to to-purchase nny said [Debentures upon such terms i bo agreed upon with the legal ho my part thereof a -tho tit •itlw time ir tl: d nil Debentures so re- purenaaed ehau forthwith be cancelled and destroyed and no ru-lssue of Debentures so re-purchased shall l« made In consquence 8. This By-Ln.w shall lake effect on or after the 20th day of Junuary, vm !i. This By-Law nitty be died for all Purposes as tha "city of Nelson Publlo School Loan By-Law, IBCO.-' I.Ktne and passed in Council assembled this day of m , NOTICE Take notice that the above is a true enpv of the proposed By-Low, upon which the vote of the municipality will bo taken at the City of Nelson, on Thursday, the lHli day of January, next, between'the hours «f 3 0 clock a. m. ami 7 o'clock p. ni., for the hast Ward, at the Council Chaimber, ■a! the corneir of Victoria and Josephine 'Streets, and for the West Ward, tit tho form-i- ot Victoria un,\ Kootenay Streets. No, 301 Vlctt-iiu Street. Ncbon, B. c, January 1st. itKft W. E. WASSON. ffl4-M- 1 , City Clerk. Notice of Application for Renewal of Liquor Licence, .NOTICE Is hereby given that T, G. S. Coleman, of Ymlr, It. C, intend to apply to the Superintendent of Provincial Police ht the expiration of one month from the date hereof, for a renewal of my retail liquor licence ror the premises known aa the Waldorf Hotel, sltUato tit Ymlr, B. c., and transfer of same to Mamie Coleman _V>atcd. Doc. 6th, 1808. G. 8. COLEMAN. Application for Retat Liquor License. NOTICE is hereby given that I C. Robinson or Ymlr. B. C. intend to apply to tho Superintendent or Provincial Police ut tho nxpiimion of one month from tho date hereof for a retail liquor licence for tho premises to be known as the Sheen Creek Hotel, situated on the Queen Road at amnio, B, C. Dated ut Balmo. B. C, Dec 24th loofi 205-M CONRAD. ROBlNBOrtT PAGE POUR ©he SW& |ten». SUNDAY . JANUARY S *,******************************************************* A Special Sale of || White Dress Shirts We hare a large stock at tkeae on hand. The regular prloe Is $1.25, $1.85 and $1.6°. To clear them we offer them, In all sizes, up to January £ (th, neat, Your Choice for 90c Each The Hudson's Bay Store ttt***********t***********************+**************** Imperial Bank of Canada HEAD OFFICE TORONTO Capital Authorized $10,000,00a Capital Paid Up $3,000,000 I Rest $5,000,000 D. R. WILKIE, President I HON. ROiT. JAFFRAY, Vloe-Prea. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: Arrowhead, Cranbrook, Golden, Kamloops, Michel, Nelson, Revelstoke, Vancouver and Victoria. SAVING! DEPARTMENT Interest allowed on deposlte at current rate from date of deposit. 'NELSON BRANCH J. M. LAY, Manager. Canadian Bank of Commerce Established 1857 Paid up Capital $10,000,000 Reserve Fund 6,000,000 Head Office, Toronto. B. E. WALKER, President ALEX. LAIRD, General Manager Branches throughout Canada and In the United States and England. 8AVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Deposits of $1 and upwards are received and Interest allowed at current rates. Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more persons, withdrawals to be made by any one of the number or by the survivor. J. L. BUCHAN, Manager Nelson Branch. BANK OP MONTREAL (Established 18171 Capital All Paid Up ....$14,400,000 Rest $12,000,000 HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL Rt Halt. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G, C. M. «. Hen. Preeldeirl Han. Sir. George Drummond, K. C. M. G., President Sir Edward S. Clouston, Bart, Vice President and Gen. Manager, jl ■RANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Armstrong, Enderby, Greenwood, Kelowna, Nolton, New Denver, Nloela, New Westminster, Rossland, SummsrlantL Vancouver, Varus* Victoria, Chlllawack, Hoemer. NELSON BRANCH L. B. DEVEBER, Manager. The Royal Bank of Canada INCORPORATED 1861 Capital Paid Up $3,»oo,ooo Reserve Fund $4,3M,000 Total Aeeets $46,800,001 HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL. Branehee In Csnada extending I A general banking business from the Pacific to the Atlantic. | transacted. SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS. Received In sums of $1.00 and upwards. Interest allowed thereon st current rate, Depositors are subject to no delsy whatever In tha withdrawal of the whole or any portion of the amounts deposited. 0. A. SPINK, Manager. NELSON, B. C. BRANCH We thank the people of Nelson and readers of the Dally News everywhere, for a liberal patronage throughout 1908, and we extend to all our slncerest wish that you may enjoy all happiness and prosperity throughout 1909. W. Q. THOMSON Bookseller and Stationer Phons 84. Nelson, B. C. ffiiie ©athj |Uw*e jrxausked at MeUea «ver» Metaeag ■htoest Konaay, ear News Publishing Company, Limited if. a. HcMORBIB „ "" THE ANNUAL REVIEW. SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION We Will Buy 100-200 B. C. Copper $825 6-80 Consolidated Smelters $85 1000-3000 Diamond Vale Coal ... 14 l-2c 5-26 Granby I'02 600-2000 International Coal 72c 500-2000 Royal Collieries otter 100-300 Western Oil ordinary 76c We Will Sell The Daily (News presents its many readers this morning with a 32-page edition containing 224 columns -of. matter and illustrations which, with the exception ot the news ot the day, consists wholly ot a review ot the mining, lumbering and fruit growing industries in Southeastern British Columbia tor 1908 together with the outlook for the present year, statistical figures in connection with the industries named, and also In connection with other matters of local interest, such as usually appears at the first of the year, descriptive sketches on sport, scenery, and places in Kootenay, and In addition an unusually large number of well chosen and well executed cuts. The New Year's number of The Daily News has been a special feature for the , past fiix or seven years and has come to be very generally looked for, but It is safe to say that the edition, presented to the public today far exceeds anything attempted in past years and In its review features la easily; the best ever published in the province. No pains have spared to obtain exact information from the best available sources and to make the issue unusually Interesting by numerous illustrations, the modern newspaper method of attracting the public. In connection with the compiling of the review this year a vast amount of detailed Information was collected regarding the various properties and industries in the several mining districts ot Southern British Columbia and this information will be furnished our reefers in next Sunday's issue. While tbe thanks of the management are due to several kindly contributors to this number, special mention must be made of the able and untiring efforts of Mr, E. Jacobs, the well known editor of the Mining Resort., Victoria, and acknowledged as the most accurate journalistic authority on mining in B. 6., who has most carefully prepared tb# comprehensive mining review of the whole province presented to our readers this morning, including the valuable tabulated statements. This review entailed an immense amount of patient labor and adds greatly to the usefulness of this issue, One of the chief objects in getting out an issue like the present °ne 1b to advertise this city and district abroad, a work that this newspaper has success- fully accomplished for the past six years and which it will continue to do during 1909 with the best of the facilities at its disposal. The Daily News is now comfortably housed In Its own handsome brick building, as good as the best in the west, and throughout the coming year will bend its energies unceasingly to promote the. best interest* of Nelson and th« Kootenay and Boundary districts. The Daily News la now the morning paper for a large and rapidly growing section of tha prorlnca, two-thirds of its dally circulation being outside of its home city, and the earnest desire of its management la to still further increase Its sphere In usefulness during the present year. This opportunity lg taken of wishing our,many readers and patrons a very bright and prosperous and happy New! Year. NEWS OF THE DOMINION LONDON, Ont„ Jan. 2.-0 Central Park west, made trips In the shopping district yesterday, when she lost a parcel necklace valued at 110,000. Results of Celebration, Slw YORK, Jan. 2—A summary of the mishaps attending New York's new year's ere festivities show that thirteen persons were shot, none fatally, during the late hours of last night and early hours today. We the undersigned candidates for election to the city council respectively pledge ourselves if elected to support during the year 1909 the following platform:— (1) The full and proper completion of the electric power plant and the public school building. (2) The speedy resumption of the tramway service, by private enterprise, because under the statutes we are precluded from considering the construction of the same as a municipal venture inasmuch as our borrowing powers for any such purpose have been exhausted. (3) The extension of the city's limits in order to advance the city's prestige, and also to Improve the sections thus acquired. (4) The securing the establishment of new enterprises within the city, but at the same time duly considering the protection of those already established. (5) The continuation of the policy of past councils of the city in levying taxes against lands and relieving improvements as much as possible, thus encouraging the expenditure of money In the building up of the city. (6) The maintenance of our public utilities at the highest point of efficiency. (7) The encouraging the laying of permanent sidewalks upon a frontage tax basis. (8) The continuance ot the present civic policy regarding Sunday closing and the maintenance of public order, (9) The maintenance of the recognized standard of wages upon all public works. (10) The doing of all In our power to Improve the city's appearance, including Its parks and cemetery, , Dated, December 30,1908. Harold Selooi Candidate for the mayoralty. BPNAnTVS HN1MBNT CO., UMITKI>. SIVs:—I have need' your MINARD'S iTjINIMKNT for tha past 25 years and Whilst I have occasionally uned other liniments, I can nafely say that I have never wed any equal to youri. Tf nibbed between the hands and Inhaled frequently, tt will never fall to euro a cold In the bond In twenty-four hours. It Is also the beet for brnltwfl. sprains, etc. Tours truly, Dartmouth. J. G. LESLIE. . Sauer Krout and Weiners Young turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens, prime roasts of beef, pork, mutton or veal. What more would a king want. Prepared English mince meat, pork sausage and bologna, In fact every line of meat and dellcatessan, usually carried in a butcher shop at Braidwood Bros. Phone A370 Do not break—never wear out—can be sent by mail, price II. Columbia Double-Sided Discs Two records In one, poeltlyely a loratcb, last longest, play »se* 10-Inch double disci 12-inch double discs . Catalogues on application. FLETCHER BROS. Vietorla, B. «., Sols Distributers W. G. THOMSON, Local Agent. after Christinas. 8-a. m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. morning prayer and Holy Communion 2:30 p. m. Sunday school Rev. P H Graham rector. CATHOLIC-Church of Mary Immaculate, corner of Ward and Mill streets Low mass. 8 a. m; Mich mnn£ 10:30 n. m.: evening service 7:30. Rev. Father Althoff, priest, will preach at till Bar-vices SALVATION ARMY-Barracks on Victoria St., went of Josephine. Knee .drill, '7 a. m'.; holiness meeting, 11:00 n. m.; praise meeting 3:00 p. m.; evening meeting at 8 o'clock. J. K. Josllng, Adjutant. BAPTIST-Stonley Street, near Mill, Morning service 11 n. m. Evening service 7:30 p. m'| Sunday school 2:30 - tor, METHODTST-Services held In the Congregational church, corner of Silica and Stanley streets. Morning service 11 a. m.; Sunday School and Bible Classes. 2:90; Evening servlcft 7:30. Morning subject, "A Motto for 1909." Evening subject "Tho Earthquake in Italy, a Parable for tho New Year." Tho saorajnerit of the Lord's suppnr will bo administered at the close of the evening service. Rev. R. Newton Powell, .pastor. VANCOUVER Jan. 2—Ambrose Clark a young man who was well known and liked In local sporting, circles, died at the Central hospital yesterday morning . as the result of being badly crushed by a log on Thursday evening. He was working In Praser's logging camp* near Magee. . ' .:|'tV G A L T Mines : Lethbrldge ALTA. . com is cir tin igsri to •A« SIX SUNDAY JANUARY S A Residential Site Three choice level lots on Houston Street, just off Stanley Street, all cleared. Price $250.00 TOYE, TAYLOR & McQUARRIE Box 51 NEISON, b.C. Telephone 254 Miner's Union hall. William Hunter, M. P. P., was announced aa chairman but pressing business compelled his absence and R. J, Dodds presided. After the chairman's speech and a few words from J. C. Harris, Rev. Mr. Gllmour of New Denver gave a capital address in which he dealt with the commoner arguments used to combat the local option programme. His statement of the case for and against the movement was well received. Rev. W." A. Glfford followed with a speech full of carefully chosen statistics to prove the enormous growth of temperance sentiment throughout the world. A great amount of work and study had been put Into 'his speech which carried conviction to many that whether they desired It or not local option is; coming and that very soon. Committees to circulate the petitions to the legislature and to the local member will be formed and tbe work carried forward. PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT EVERYTHING POINTS TO A GOOD YEAR AT PHOENIX. LAST YEAR ESTABLISHED RECORD FOR ORE TONNAGE. (Special to The Daily News,) PHOENIX, Jan. 2—While evidences cf the lull in mining activity which followed the financial panic of fifteen mouths ago are still to be found In Fhoenix, tbe industrial life of the camp Is gradually reviving, the horizon of the incoming year has the rosy tinge that restores confidence and bids fair to see the return of the ''good uU days" of the Wg Boundary mining camp, when the wheels of industrial machinery revolved at top speed, money flowed frrely pud business life smiled. But notwithstanding the fact that the general activity of mining development has been quiet here during the past year, it has nevertheless been a record twelve months for oro tonnages from Phoenix camp. This has been due to ■ftW Improved shipping facilities and increased tonnages from the Granby. This year Boundary mines have shipped close to a million and a half tons of pre, as compared with 1,148,237 tons, ln 1807, and 1,1(51,5.17 tons In l!)0ty— pr^dj. tally all 'of which waa treated at. Uoimd- ary smelters, Economy Id mining RW-. thods now In vogim here is shown In 0*e fact that Phoenix mines just befoc the (Slump in copper, were eauployln/' \ 000 S^niS"! ShiP"in* fielwGen 9f'"°<>0 'an(I juu.uuij ^. ej 6re 1)er mont|^ whl)e -cpfl&y only some 75G to BOO vt\&a are em- ■pio^ed and ihd tonnages are greater. phoenix is the great copper camp of Canada, by reason of having the largest output of ore, and the Granby Is the big producer, the other companies with mines In this camp being the Canada Consolidated, and the Dominion Con- per. Following tbe slump In copper all producers in the Boundary dosed tight on November 1.1, 1007. On Jan. 1, 19DS, the Granby resumed ore shipments which steadily increased until March, when 110,223 tons were shipped. During the month of Marc1.' the entire battery of eight furnaces were in blast for the entire 31 days. In succeeding months one or more of the furnaces have been out of commission tor days while various improvements were being made, oach having. to be connected wltli the new steel flue 'dust chamber, and latterly the enlarging of the first of the battery of furnaces required some weeks. Then the Pernio fire and the uncertainty of coke » supply resulted In four of the furnaces being out of commission for some weeks. Then the Fernie fire and the Uncertainty of coke supply resulted in lour of the furnaces being nearly cut In two. The total shipments from Granby mines, for the year, however, ran over the million mark, being approximately l.OCO.OOO tons, as compared with 613,537 tons In 1907 and 801,404 tons in 190*>. The smelter treated over a million tons this year as compared with 637,026 tons in 1907 and 828,879 tons in 1906. During the past year the Granby company has made steady advancement with increased facilities for the production of blister copper, the Improvements completed and in progress representing an expenditure of $500,000. The bulk of the money Is being spent at the smelter, however, where a new steel dust chamber, with endless chain syBtem, was Installed, new steel buildings over furnaces.and blower erected as Well aa an addition.to the concentrator bulling, and new air compressors and convenor installed. At the mines the number of crushers has been increased to four, each of whicb has a capacity of 1,500 tons per hour, automatic dump cars have been installed and much other new and Improved machinery to facilitate in shipping ore has been added and tho Granby mines equipment is tbe most complete In the province. Its CO-drlll electrically driven air compressor furnishes the power needed for drilling', pumping, hoisting and many other uses at the properties, including diamond drilling machine shop purposes. The ore. is broken down In immense stopeB, run into chutes, thence into mine cars, thence to the crushers and ore bins, and on to the smelter—never being handled by hand or shovel from the time It is blasted till it comes out In the shape of marketable blister copper at the smelter—gravity being used in, all operations for handling, as far as po»Blble. The mines am now capable of shipping 5,000 tohs of ore dally and with tho completion of the improvements at the smelter, now going on, about next April tho furnaces should consume about 130.000 tons odd monthly. The second most Important feroup 0f copper producers in Pftnp*abc camp are tae m,IlGs 0f the. J> jilnton Copper com- •W-Jiy, which shipped to the company's Own smelter at Boundary Falls. When operating at full capacity Dominion Copper mines at Phoenix employed 200 to 300 men and shipped about 1,000 tons of ore daily. The mines closed down in common with other producers 4n 1907, resuming operations again in July last. When shipping only a few weeks the smelter was overtaken with, fuel shortage resulting from the fire at Fernie coke ovens and since that time the Dominion Copper company have gone into liquidation, und a re- organiztlon of the company is now pending! The company largely increased its production of copper anticipating a continuance of the 26-cent copper market .last before the disastrous slump of a year ago. When the metal declined It had a large amount of copper on hand, and as It had expended the bulk of its surplus In the purchase of new properties, smelter enlargement and development work, it was unable to continue the payment of Interest on lis $SOO,00Q of bonded Indebtedness. , The ore shipments from the Dominion mines while in operation this year were: Brooklyn,'5,780 tons;. Rawhide, 16,740; Sunset, 3,802; Mountain Rose, 530; Ath- elstan 120. The' smelter treated 22,666 tons. The Snowshoe mine of the Canada Consolidated company, which resumed operations In August, has been gradually Increasing Its tonnage and adding new improvements, The mine is employing over 100 men and shipping close to 600 tons of ore dally. The greater part or the ore goes to the company's 'smelter at Trail and the balance to the Greenwood smelter. Since resumption tbe Snowshoe has shipped about 50,000 tons. But the future of Phoenix is brightened by the prospective new shippers for 1909, among which will be the Phoenix Amalgamated, the Consolidated company's newly developed property. Only 245 tons of test ore have as yet been shipped, but. the development work done on the property has been particularly encouraging, with an ex tensive vein of good looking ore now disclosed. The route for a tramway and shipping .acuities Is now being surveyed and the Phoenix Amalgamated promises to be a big shipper before the close of 1909. .Another prospective producer la the Wellington group of properties recently bonded by the B. C. Copper company The development work has already justified the commencing of construction of shipping facilities which will require an aerial tram line to carry the ore to the Great Northern railway. The B. C. Copper company is the second big copper producer in the Boundary and since resuming last June has been conspicuously successful In its operations, the financial sheet of tbe company being now clean with prospects for the payment of a dividend in the course of a few weeks. Mother Lode mine is the big shipper of the company, where much new machinery was added this year, nearly doubt. ing the shipping capacity, which now runs close to 2,000 tons dally. Since resumption in June the Mother Lode has shipped 326,029 tons of ore to the company's smelter. The other important shipper of the company is the Oro Denoro mine, three miles from Phoenix, which shipped 66,800 tons during the seven months. The company also own the Lone Star and Napoleon mine at Washington, the latter of which Is at present everting with a tonnage of 100 tons dally. The cam pany :s smelter at Greenwood *as had a very successful seven months' run, the equipment being constantly improvedS the furnaces consuming close to 400,000 tons of ore In the past seven months. Other mines in the Boundary cOuM- butlng shipments during 11108 wera the Saly, 108 tons, and the Crescent, 53 tons, both high grade properties. One carload of ore from the Bally mine (21 tons) after paying all shipping and smelting expenses netted $3,175. LOCAL OPTION AT 8ILVERTON (Special to The Dally News.) S1L.VERTON, Jan. 2^The notice of a local option meeting to be held in Silverton drew a large audience to the FOR SALE A very comfortable cottage on Stanley street, newly renovated throughout and two lots, close to schools, With all modern conveniences, containing five rooms and bath room. Price $2500. A six-roomed house and one lot, close in, very convenient, in the best ot repair, modern. Price 12000. Terms can be arranged for both these properties. Call and' see' me 'for full particulars. :-: '": ••' R. J. Steel MARKETS DURING YEAR FINANCIAL STRINGGENCY AFFECTS LOCAL DEALINGS SHEEP CREEK DI8TRICT ATTRACTING ATTENTION Owing to the effect of the financial otrlngencv diirlnp the past year, tradings In all local securities have been somewhat curtailed; These conditions were felt until the elections In -Canada nnd the United States had taken plnco, when a great revival was manifested, with the return ot confidence and the greater strength in the hi'etat market. The copper stocks of the Boundary attracted a good deal of money, the nellinff .prlv* of tJieflp 'securities toeing* very low at the first of the year. The coal securities alsn were dealt In ■largely." Heavy buying being- In evidence on all breaks. During the past few months, Sheep Creek "district has been largely developed and one company's shares, operating there, offered to the public. With the Interest be- injr shown In the district, not only locally, but all through tho west, and.where **ver the result* obtained haVe /become known, there will In all probability -be a/ legitimate mining boom witnessed there next spring. . With the exception of one or two stock of the -companies operating sliver and lead mines In the Stocnn. there has been little of Interest to record of that district. The following- are tho approximate high and low quotations for the year. low high Alberta Conl and Coke $ .10 .» B, C. Copper 4.25 8.50 B. C. Amalgamated Coal.. ..03^ .07 PanMlldated Smrlter dS.oo ioc.00 Canadian Gold Fields.. 04 .00 Cnriboo McKlnney 01U .02% Canadian Marconi 93 1,78 Dominion Copper 60 2.75 Diamond Vale Coal f». ,18 D'amond Coal .50 .67 Cranny 80.00 110.00 Oalbraith Coal : .15 ..27 International Coal R4 .78 North Star 07 .14 Nicola Valley Coal A Coke.. 75.00 95.00 Nugget Gold Mines.. .. .... 40 ,75 gambler Cariboo.. 14 .% lloy'ah Collerles 25 .38 Sullivan 00H .Wk Tel Kwa Mines .06 .09 Western Oil 40 ,80 White Bear 00% .03 Our Aim In the Past has been to please our customers so that it will become a pleasure to buy groceries from' us. Our Future Policy li to do even better In the coming year of 1909, so that we may retain your patronage and please you and yours. Joy's Cask Grocery Cor. Josephine and Mill Streett. P. O. Box 637. Telephone 19 PROFESSIONAL CARDS 8,8. FOWLER M1NINQ INQINKMt OTLBON, a a WM.8.DREWRY A. It Cu. toe. 0. B. DOMINION AND BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND SURVEYOR Mining Work a Specialty. OKice: Room 10, K. W. O. Block, P. O. Box 481 Baker St Nelson, B. C. Drawings and Specifications Prepared lor Patanta, Etc., ana Patent Rights tenured. Apply to O. C. MACKAT P. O. Box 876 Nelaon, B. a Mechanical and Structural Work De- elgned and Superrlaed. W. J. H. HOLMES CIVIL ENGINEER AND MINE SURVEYOR, PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR, KASLO, B. C. Ten yean' experience In the Kotte- aays. Honor graduate, 1881, Royal Military Colleg, ot Canada. Kingston. Tfc DAILY NEWS •LAMIFIID ADaV-Ona east a ward. Ml lnaorttona tor tha prts* ad low when paid In adranoe. No el taken tor Ml thu He. • 144 THE DAILY NEWS BUSINESS DIRECTORY PAINTERS AND DECORATOR! THOMPSON * DOUOLAB-aouae and ■Sign Fainter., Paver Hanger, and Da- aerators, ibop CM Ward Burnt, Nation, B. O. PUBLISHERS AND PRINTER* FubUitara of Tbe Dally News; sutwcrlp- tloa Jti-UU per year by earner; lo.tw per year by mail. Commercial job priming or all kind* neatly ana promptly executed, lug). Baker street, Nelson, B. C. Phone 14k AUCTIONEERS L'HAU. A. WATKUMAN * CO.-f. O. BOX MUJtPHT & FISHES Ottawa. Barristers, solicitors, etc. Supreme and exchequer court agents. Practice In patent office and before railway commission, "HON. CHARLES MURPHY, M. P. HAROLD FISHER. F. C. Oretn, F. P. Burdei. A, H. Green. Green Brothers ic Burden CIVIL BNOINBHRS Dominion and British Columbia Land . Surveyori P. 9. Box 146 Phone BM1 Oor. Victoria and Kootenay rite. NELSON. B. C. i A. L. McCULLOOH HYDRAULIC ENGINEER PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR P. O. Box It OBlee Phone B86. Residence Phone B7t Office: Oyer McDermld and McHardy, Baker Street Nelson, B. C. KOEBEL & BELL DIAMOND DRILL CONTRACTOR! Hand power machine (or prospecting, Box 72, Rossland or Salmo, B. O. Public Stenographer 309 Baiter St., Nelson, B.C. 'Phone 878 a. a buok B. C. LAND SURVEYOR OFFICE-OVER ROYAL' BANK P. O. Box 147 Nelson B. a CHAS. MOORE, C. E. I, C. Land Surveyor ARCHITECT • P. O. Ron U. Creeton, i. c J. C. DUFRESNE Engineer. Plans, specifications, estimates, ma' chinery and construction work. NELSON, A C. 322 Baker Street ' Phone A247 FOR RENT FOR RENT—Cottage JJ10 per month. Ap> Ply Mrs. Turner. 912 Silica at. 211-6 FOR RENT—Housekeeping rooms. 616 Cnrbonate street. FOR RENT-Small house.. Apply Nelson Brewery ■ la-flo For Quick Sale Fifteen minutes drive from Grand Forks, surrounded by fine orchards, we have for sale a fine cottage home, outbuildings, well, windmill and tank, 19 acres all fenced and under cultivation, 100 fruit trees1 in bearing, 2 acres In small fruits. Paid $1500 last year and about the same year before, this year will pay more. Price only |4000. $1200 down, balance easy terms. Owner very, old, must sell. For further particulars, address The Wright Investment Co Grand Forks, B. C JOHN KAY & SONS BOILER SBTTER8 FURNACE and OVfjN BUILDERS iBtlmatei Qlven on All Kinds of Masonry Work. P. O. Box 4. Nelson, B. O. jACuii GHEEN & CO., Auctioneer).; ap- pnnstiib; valuators; general and euuimw- siua agents. UauU auvauced uti consignments. Apply to P. o. Box Us, Nelson, B. O. HAIHDKES8INQ AND MANICURING juAtLi. AAiiiitiuiiiiM aNuah, UeUrumwiuK xuid luaiiiuuiiua; parlora. fcoom U. K. ft. C. block. HILP WANTED NELSON EMPLOYMENT AGENCY J. H. LOVE, Manager. WANTESD-Tfemakera. Help of all kind* furnished. THE WORKWOMAN'S EMPLOYMENT AND REAL ESTATE AGENCY. WANTED—Team star, girls for housework,. ' nurse girl, housekeeper. Shuck to rent W PARKER, 313 Baker Btieet, Phone A INTERNATIONAL COLONIZATION COMPANY. RING UP PHONE »1-Real estate and em- Sloyment offloe. Help of all kind* turned. 417H Ball street. Through ticket* to al polnte In Europe, Orient, North Af- ika and South America. NUHttlNti. tfUOKUINOmtt AND HUUNU iNtiwii BUbuaaiNu uuMxjanx, Lm- Ali aiuua oi oiucti luruid ru.ua aud puuen- ed lor luuan lutu biiiuem. iuu luuut cum- plelt) booa- biiiuina tn^uipiutuit la the u* tenor ot Jiriutm coiuiuuut. u; Gold, Buyer-Cop- pur or jUutd, t)&ivu. Accurate astwys; caie- iui sauipuug, and prompt atteuuva. Jf.U. Jhml Alius, tielftou, U. c. ASSAYERS' 8UPPLIE8. b. C. AEfbAX & Cki&tolCAL CiUPJVLl CU., Ltd., Vancouver, U.C. Agents In Britisn Columbia tor the Morgan Crucible Company, l-oimuii, Hiiigiuuu: i'', w. brauu, Los Augelee and baa Francisco; Baiter auu Adaiusun'e C.P. Acids and Chemicals; Way's jfocaet buieiters. Write tor information auout UltMie emelters, mvaiu- able to the p.ospector, assayer or mluer, Complete assay ouiuta turnlshed at snort notice. DRUGS AMO ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES. Wholesale; and Retail. WM. BUTHBRFOKD. WARD BrillflEfT, iNeieuii. l.a>g«st und best stock in ivouL- «imy of wrugrt, Aledlcuws, Assay oup- plies and Uuruuii boeas. Makers of Wnd - Cnerry, Bpiuto and T«r, tiie best cough syrup, Cuseara Tablets, the Deal laxative; C&rnution ci<-atii, vvltou Huael Cream, l'erl'oct Cold Cream. Headache T'abicu, K.ant-y Tablets, Tooiliacbe Jelty, Corn Cure, \>hitw On, Rheumatic Uii, CarboLc Uintment, Pile Omtnieut, CUlll- biain Cure, condition jfowders, bug Poison, tied Mite Killer for Poultry Housed, True spray, etc. l'rescrlptioiui a specialty, Mud urders nlled pronipny. LADIES CAN MAKE MONEY by soiling to their friends Swiss Embroideries, .tiluuungs, olouaus, costuiileti, DunU- keruiileft), 8,iiuiidid novelties, onered by iii»i-ctubs Swiss laciot-y. uoous sunt by l-eiurn, isee oi' cliuige, no puatugo nor duty, no trouble wim customs house. Uy 'peicem coumnssion, pnymeut oy relni- bursument on receipt ot goods. Write lor sumples to za G, aiifi, Kuuulf Mouse, bt. Guii, bwiuerlund. JOSEPH LANG Dealer In Hides and Furs, Rossland, B. C. Highest prices paid for all kinds ot Hides and Furs. All goods will be kept separate until satisfactory prices are agreed upon by both parties. It prices are not satisfactory, will return furs at my expense. . CLEANING AND PB1SSINO ■site Called for and DeUtere*. A. J.DRISCOLL Paone W6.-Bax.r St Oppodto Qneei't Hotel. ' _ Fort KENT—Furnlahed rooms. Apply 411 Silica stieet. 211-12 FOR RENT—Nicely furnished front room In private family, all modern conveniences, steam, heated house; central location; 17 per month.1 Apply p, 0, Box 912. 195-tf. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms and hoard for aenUemen. DOT Carbonate street or P. O. BOX 333. lM-tf. FOR RENT—Three furnished bedrooms with bnlh. 701 Victoria street. 2M-tf.' FOR RENT-6 roomed cottaga cor of Co*1 dar and Observatory streets. ■ Apply Q. H. Frnser. Eally News office. tf. 1R RENT-« roomed house on Victoria HI. 009, opposite city hall, Apply J. Rad- ollff. 212-6 NURSINQ. Nuralng maternity cases In town or out ot town. Mrs. H. Bermmu, Mum AIM Nalloo. B. C. Watch Repairing ' Clock Repabing Jewelry Repaittng Jewelry repairing is our specialty and we absolutely guarantee the most satisfactory work in B. C. Satisfied customers are our recommendation, H. WILLEY Jeweller Nlckereon's old stand, Baker Bt H. J, WILTON, TaUor LidlM' ■nd Gento' Clethti Clainid, Repaired and Prtmd. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Cloth* Called -for and Dtllvorod. H« Joiephlna SL, Opposite Manhattan Hotel, Nelaon, B. C. PRODUCE. ■TARKHY * CO., WWOLESALB DEAL- si's lu nutter, higgi, Uiteeue, rroduce aud Vrult. lloiibtou jaiock, Joseulilue iliaut, Neisoa, a. c. GROCER) E8. k. MACDONALD & CO.-WHOLBBALB Grocers and Provision MercUoius—importers oi Teas, Cotfees, bpices, Dried *'ruits, btapie aud Fauoy Groceries, To- bacoos, Cigars, Butter, Jiiggs, Cbeese and jfaciuug House Jfroduots. Ottlce and wareUouae, eurner ot front and Hall Btreeta 1', O; box 1UB5. Talepooaa a. LIQUORS. D. FERGUSON *% CO.-WHOLBSALB Ud Contuiisalon Mercbanta-luipoiteia and Wliolesaie Dealers in Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Kootenay agents tor Fattst Mllwauaetj Beer. Agents lor tbe Bruns- Wlck-Uullte-CoUender Co., Billiard and Poole Tables and.Supplies, Bar Fixtures, Cigar Counters, Bowling Alleys, eto. Prices and ■pQeincatlon* on application. OIQce aud retail department, Vernon. St., Nelson, two doors east oi postofflse. Telephone 260. F. O. Boa lttW. WANTED—MISCELLANEOUS WANTED-Teacher for .Williams' fiidlag school. Duties to commence next term. Apply J., JMarsden, secretary-treasurer, Walllams' aiding, U. C. DW-S U.UUU POSITIONS jKOK OUK OKAUbATiiS last year. Men and'women to learn bar* bar trade id eight weeks; tools ir*.-e; more pusiUoiis than we van supply; graduates earn |I6 to 126 wee'tlv. Catalogue free. Moler System ■ Colleges, 40J Front Ave,, Spokane. WANTED-Ladles to do plain and light sewing at home, whole or spare time; good pay; work sent any distance; charges paid. Bend stamp or full particulars. National Manufacturing Company, Montreal. WANTED—Good reliable business man wanted to sell subdivision lota at one of tbe most important Grand Trunk Fttciho divisional points. Good commission allowed. References required. W. A. Camp- btll. Nan ton Biook, Winnipeg. UM WANTED—5 or 10 acre orchard In bear- ' Ing; lake or river frontage; also prices on Improved bottom land, front 10 to M0> acres in jNuuton district. Sena lull parr tieulure, terms, etc. No agents. Box F- D. Q.t News. m-lW WANTED-airls to learn knitting . Ages from 9 to 16, on Saturday afternoons.. Apply P. O. Box 487, Nelson US-* FOR SALE FOR QUICK SALE-1 linger sewing machine, 1 baby ctiriiitege, 1 p-honoarapli. Apply 616 Carbonate' etreet. Ui-2. FOR SALE—Cheap—Piano, English make;. walnut frame; ivory keys, iiiquhe at Fire Hull, Jogephina stieet. j InVa. PETERBOBO MOTOR CANOEd WHiCH promise to be as ramous as tha world wide known Petenboro Canoes. They are f ul lines. We have them on too way. Come ful lines. We have .hem on the woy. Come and Inspect, loouwlll be pleased. Prices, right. Hole ngenht. Lindsay Launch and Boat, Limited, successors to H. L, Lindsay & Sons. WlANTED^Age nts-We want two or three, men who have had experience in selling, real estate. Write for particulars, State age and other qualifications. The Wright Investment Company, Box XH, Grand fc'aiikB, B. C. sH-tf, FOR SALE—A snap. 4 lots in Addition tO> Nelson, on tramime, Woo cash. Owner has to sacrli.ee. Apply Procter & Black- wood. ats-tf.. FOR SALE—Good strong ' liese—gentle, reliable Just the tiling lor rancher. ITS If taken at once. AddreSB Henry Hammond. 3-MUe Point, NeiBon. 2J&-8 FOR SALE—Lots In Bogustown from (15*1 p'-r lot up. Nelson City Land and Improvement Co., Procter and BlaciiWood, Local Agents. ffla-tt. FOR SALE—3 building lots on corner of Stanlty ami Observatory streets, $800 cash.. The linest -building Bite In the city. Apply Procter and Uiackweed. aid-if. FOR SALE—One of the leading licence hotels. In Greenwood, on-Main street, just repainted- and remodeled'. Hot air furnace. 31 rooms and two baths. Price' $7,000, half cash", balance easy terms. Apply Nelson News- or P. O. Box. 7, Greenwood. B. C, 200-96. FOR SALE—The best- land, in an old< tried and well unproved district. At Mirror Lake, which has proved what other are only trying. Four boats dally to - Kaslo and Nelson. Land cleared or uncleared und oicharda- In bearing, 2& miles • flrom Kaslo; plenty of water; no summer frosts; prices reusonable. Raw lands on. Kootenay lake with good roads and -best of transportation at (U> per acre up; K. K. BJBrkneas or E. Norniun, Corner Ba- Iter and Ward streets, Nelson. 190-tf. FOR SALE—Several blocks of choice fruit lands, very easy to clear, in Kaslo district, on Kootenay lake. Lake frontage and bench lands; prices ranging, from (li t9 J20 * per acre. Greatest snup ever offered In fruit lands In this famous fruit district. For further particulars apply at Lindsay's boat house, foot of Josephine street, Nelson, B. C. 1M-28 . MINERS' FURNISHINGS. A, MACDONALD & CO..-WHOLEBALE Jobbers In Blankets, Underwear, Mitts, Gloves, Boots, Rubbers, Overalls, Jump- ant, Macklnawa and Oilskin Clothing. Gamp and Mlnera1 Sundries. Office and Warehouse corner ot Front and Hall Bta. P. O. Box 1085. Telephops 28. Sl! CANADIAN PACIFIC I ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS UUtbtWb From Bt. John, N.B. From Liverpool Nov. 27 Empress of Britain .Nov. 13 Deo. 5 Lake Erie..., Nov. 18 Pec. 11 Empress of Ireland......Nov. 17 Dec, 26......Empress of Britain......Deo. 11 IMI. Jan. 3... Lake Manitoba... Dee, 16 Jan. 8 Empress of Ireland Dec, 26 not Jan. 22 Corsica.. (Allan line! Jan, I (Chartered by C.P.R.) Jan. n Empress of Britain Jan. II For turthar lnfonnaOci Mgardliit rata*, tat* of aalltaaaj #to., apply . W. B. DEACON. CFAj Natoao, ft. ft Q. MoL. BBOWrt, O.A.P., Montrtal, P.Gv MINING MACHINERY WASHINGTON MACHINERY A SUPPLY Co.—Dealers In Engines, Band and Circular Sawmills, Atkins' Saws, Wood and Iron Pulleys, Leyner Compressors and Drills, Pumps and, Hoiats. Prompt attention. Reasonable pricea. Courteous treatment Spokane, wash. FOUND FOUND—Near post office, gold ring!" Own- on can have same by calling at China Hall and paying costs.of advertising. 315-tf. Send to E.CNZZULE.nefit. Nelson, B. c. For Cholc. Chrysanthemums and Carnations AIM Pataw, Ferw tail Flowering Fluti. Arttftto Floral De«tf&t t/l W dMcrtp- Hob Bcda tv9*: g^g^r^ FOR SALE—Delivery or. express outfit. Team, hum ens, eloign-and wajjon. W. J. McKIm, Chatham St., Fair view, Nelson. Phone 120. • 211-6- FOR SALE—Set new delivery sleighs. W. J. McKlin. Chatham St., Fuirvlew, Nel* aon. Phone 120. - : 2U-8. FOR SALE—Good team of horses. Nelson Brewflry. IBtt-tf. FOR SALE—Gasoline launch-25 feet long. 6 foot beam, 12 h. p. engine in first class condition. Price S4G0.W. Address Launch, The Dally News. , 168-tf. PETERBORO MOTOR CANOEB WHICH promise to be ua famous an the world wide known Peterboro.canoes They are superior In aea going quality and of beautiful' lines. We have them on the way, coma. and inspect. You will be pleased. Prices right. Sole agents. Lindsay's Boat House, foot .Josephine 'street LOST LOST—Between post office and Braid- wood's butcher store chain bracelet. Please return to News offloe. LOST—Either in the nost office or on Ward, Water or Josenhino streets a bunch ot keys.. Finder please leave at News Office. . S02-tf. LOST—Right hand fur lined glove (Fownea make), Monday, 28th Inst. Please return to 316 M Baker street 212-tf. NOTICE. We beg to announce to our ouatomew that the price of Bankhead (w^JSjT and stove coat will be advanced to POM Agents. Bankh«a4 Mines, lxd„ Bang- neaa, Alto. , ""* Read Daily News Want Ads < OJNOAV ..... >.' . ... JANUARYS Cite §ttf*8 $Uro*. MOIIIVIH Kootenay Coffee Co. Dealers la all grade, and varieties of Teas and Coffee Boasters of high grade coffee. Router, of hlga grub r" The beet In then household lax- arte, at moderate price.. Freeh routed coffee at 15c to Mo per lb. Teu, all grade, end varieties, at 12.00 to S6o per lb. Pure ground and whole aploee. Baking, powder, cocoa, cream Tartar, baking soda, flavoring extract.. Kootenay Coffee Go. 306 Baker Street Canadian PACII-'IC Christmas Excursions Nelson to any point In Ontario and Quebec west of Montreal and return $80.25 Three Months'Limit Ticket, on .ale daily December 1 to December 81, Corresponding low rate, to maritime province.. Xmas Ocean Rates Nelson to Liverpool or London and return (148.76 to 1360 according to .hip and accommodation chosen. Five Months' Limit Tickets on .ale dally November II to December 31. Dally standard and. tourist sleepers, reservation, made, on application. For rate, and other particular, call or write, ' , J. B. PROCTOR, D. P. A„ Calgary W. H. DEACON, O. P. A., Nelson Chimney Sweep Cleaning furnaces, pipes and stoves; , Also patting np stoves. Phone A114. J. RADCLIFF ...For quick-delivery of your. New Year's presents ring 'Phone 41 or any messenger call box in the city. Full staff of boys on band. Office open 8 a. tn, to 2 a. m. Start the New Y6ar With a clean page and enjoy something you have not heretofore experl- I enced. Deal With Reputable Druggists enjoy the same treatment as your neighbor—They deal here. A drug store, it's an easy matter to call any store a drug store, but there Is a vast difference in stores termed as such. Our store Is a drug store— a store stocked with drugs and druggists sundries—a store.who's druggists are experienced—a store that is widely known as far above the average store in our line—a store that you are given every privilege ''that is coming to you—a store that is always waiting to comply with your own command. You cannot compare our store with others In our line. WHY? Because we pride ourselves with having the most complete stock. Because we pride ourselves with having the largest drug trade. Because we pride ourselves with having the most thoroughly equipped prescription department in the west. Because we put up more prescriptions than any store in the city. Because we give you better service than any store in the city. Because you always have an experienced druggist to serve you. Because wo guarantee every article we sell as the finest quality. When Your Doctor Comes Do you stop to think where he is going to have your 'medicine prepared? Do you know that you are getting what he prescribes? Do you know your speedy recovery rests with the druggist who follows the doctor's direction. He is the one you have to look to. We Are Complimented dally on our promptness. On our all**.-. lo customers nut of town folks, know of our neverfaillog attention, send your mall orders and he assured of receiving them as fast as the C. P. It. can get them to you. They Don't Wait On Our Account Competition is dally furnishing our success ladder with another We Lead Others Try to Follow Poole Drug Co, Ltd. '3§r3S98r*"@989§SS®3S§*i Fred Irvine & Co. A Few New Year Specials Commencing Monday we are going to sell and clean up the balance of our Winter stock regardless of price or cost, some of the bargains are Ladles' tailor made cloth skirts which, are all new lines, latest styles at 20 per cent, discount. A beautiful lot of black voile dtrectoire skirts satin trimmed at same discount, i We have only a few ladies' costumes left these we will sell at bargain prlcee. We have only 10 ladles' winter coats left, we will sell these at half price, all new style coats. AU Children's Coats at Half-Pricc Bargain. In ladle.' black sateen waists, flannelette blouses. We also will nil our ladle.' ellk waists, lace waists, nett waists at reduced prices. See the bargains In ladies' black and colored sateen, and heather bloom underskirts. We have nothing left In our millinery department in ladles' trimmed or pattern hat. as we are completely Bold out. But we will take orders and re- trim your old hat. at'very low price.. Bargains in ladies' and children', underwear, skirts and drawers. Bargains In wool comforters, quilts, blankets, dress materials' woolens wrapperettes or any winter line of goods, I Fred Irvine & Co. NELSON NEWS OF THE DAY », There will be a meeting of the city council as usual tomorrow night A eerie, of abort studies on Tenny- *on'. "Idyll, of the Una:" will he taken by W, 8. Clapham'a boy. clan during the next tew week.. The subject this afternoon will be "The coming of Arthur." Hugh W, Robertson has moved Into new offlceB at 419 Ward street. The next social In connection with the Churchman', club will be held, on Wednesday next at 8.15 p. m. Progressive whlat will be the feature of the eve ning after which there will be a "fish pond.". The ladies will furnish refreshments. I. O. O. F, Kootenay lodge No. 16 meet tomorrow night at 7.30 In Oddfellow's hall. . At the request of many who were un- able to he present at the concert given METALS New York, Jan. 2.—Silver, 60%; Electro- lytic Copper, U% to 14%, (steady. ' London, Jan. 2.—filler, 23 3-16; Lead, £18. Jan. 2.-Closing- quotation.! on the New Vork curb and Spokane exchange, report* ltd by Mlghton and Cavanaugh , Bid Aiknd Alberta Coal.. . 10 .14 B. C. Copper 8.50 8.68% elms. Dickens.. Can. Con. Smelters 80.00 05.00 Copper King .*. .03 .04% Dominion Copper..,. ~~" Oaihrnlth Coal Gertie ■.; .03 .03% Granby , 100.00 115.00 Hecla '. 3.00 3.50 International Coal 72 .86 Kendall 1.10 Missoula Copper 03% .03% Nabob M Com Paul 01 Panhandle 031 Rambler Cariboo 15" .15% Rex «7 .10% nowshoe 07% .07% Snowstorm, 2,12 2.13 Sullivan., j 00% .01% Sullivan Bonds Stewart k% ,75 Tamarack-Chesapeake a .t>6 OPENING COPPER QUOTATIONS (Reported by McDermld and McHardy) Granby ',,' lOi.OO 108.00 B. C: Copper 8.13% 8.37% Dominion Copper .50 .63% last Tuesday by the Churchman's club it has been decided to give a similar entertainment on the evening of Jan. 13. A meeting of the executive committee of the Churchman's club will be held In the parish hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. A rally, of the supporters of W. G. Gillett candidate for mayor will be held In his committee rooms on Monday night at 8.30 'city time. All of the aldermanlc candidates and others will address the electors.' A public meeting will be held In the Congregational church, Stanley street, at 8 p. m. tomorrow, to consider the necessary steps to petition the provincial government to secure tbe passage, at the next sitting of the legislature of an act giving to any municipality the privilege of voting upon local option. The meeting Js to be held under the auspices of the local option league of Vancouver. A meeting of the local lodge of tbe Scandinavian Aid and Fellowship Society of America will be held in the K. of P. hall at 8.30 city time, tomorrow evening at which there will be a large number of initiations. Election of officers for the ensiling year will also take place and after the business meetitng a spct*]l will be held at which refreshments will be served. The committee who have had the arrangements for the social in hand have left nothing undone that would add to its success and a gen. eral good time is assured all who may attend. Ladles desirous of aiding the organization of a sister's lodge of the order here are especially invited to attend the social. A conference to discuss questions relating to both rati and steamship transportation In the Kootenay district will be held on Thursday next the 7th Inst. The following offlicals of the C. P, R. will be present: Allan Purvis, superintendent of the Nelson district; capt. J. C. Gore, superintendent of the lake service; J. lirownlee, superintendent at Cranbrook; T. Kirkpatrick, superintendent at Revelstoke; J. B. Procter, district passenger agent at Calgary, aud R. Larmour, general freight agent for the Nelson district. Hoth railway and. steamship, passenger and freight service questions will be discussed. It Is hoped that this conference will be the beginning of a series of regular monthly meetings between representatives of the various districts In this vicinity and that the services generally will be greatly improved by such discussions. Muscular Pains Cired. "During the summer of 1903 I was troubled with muscular pains In the Instep of my foot," says Mr. S. Pedlar, of Toronto. Ont. "At times it was so painful I could hardly walk. Chamberlain's Pain Balm was recommended to me, so I tried It and was completely cured by one small bottle. I have, since rcccotnmended It to several of my friends, all of whom-apeak highly of it." For sale by all druggists and dealers . _; Heavy Lou by Fire. SKOWHAGEN. Jan. I—A stubborn tire destroyed and damaged three 'business To Bay a topcoat, overcoat or raincoat—There's no place like Emorv & Wailey's. To Boy a pair of trousers for any purpose — There's no place like Emory & Wailey's. To Boy a stylish, correct hat—There's no place like Emory & Wailey's.! To Boy choice toggery of any sort—There's no place like Emory ft Wailey's. To Boy wearables at fair prices—There's no place like Emory ft Wailey's. Pointers, That's All EMORY & WALLEY Nelson. RC Showing a first class moving ■ picture entertainment together with comfort and safety. Change Monday, Wednesday and Friday. PROGRAM: Monday and Tuesday A Venetian Tragedy 2000 Miles Without a Dollar. Why the Wedding was Put Off. Kind Grandfather. Prudence Eden will sing Continuous performance 7 to 10.30; matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2 to 5. ADMISSION: Adults 15e Children 10c blocks nnd burned five tenement houses on Water stireot in the heart of this town e(J|r]y today. Two of 1/ e houses were Blown up with dynamite In an effort to tahech tho rirogress of the (hunt's and it Was only niter eight hours work that the local lire department assisted by apparatus flroiw Watervllle nnd Fairfield succeeded In bringing the flrrf under control. The lose is estimated at about (400,000. LOCAL MARKETS ON THE STREET, NELSOX. Jan. *.. MEAT AND POULTRY Hams, per lb $ .20 Uiicon. net' lb 3> Beef, per lb 8 to .20 Pork, dressed 12Uj to .19 Mutton, dressed, per lb 10 to .20 Veal per lb 12^4 to .20 Turkeys, per lb .26 Chickens, per-lb 22 to SB Goose, per lb .20 Ducks, pfer lb .23 FISH Halibut, per lb 12*6 to .15 Snlmon. pi-f lb ..!?«. to ,lfi Manitoba White Fish, per lb ....12H to .15 Bloaters, per lb .15 Smoked Herring, per lb .' Smoked Halibut, per lb Smoked Salmon, per Ih Finnan Huddle, ner lb Herring, per Ih Smolts, per lb 1214 MINCE MEATS. BU lb. pail 12*4 lb. pail 2S lb. pull OYSTERS Eastern, per quart j Olympia, per quart FOODSTUFFS Lake of the Woods, per bag Royal Household Purity Flour Rising Sun.... Gold Drop ., Hay, American timothy DAIRY PRODUCE Butter, creamery, per lb Butter, hulk, per lb Butter, dairy, per lb Choese, Canadian, per lb.. Cheese, Swiss, per lb Eggs, fresh, per dozen Eggs, case, per doz Lard, per lb 15 to VEGETABLES Potatoes, new, per bag Carrots, per lb Beets, per lb 2,00 2.00 2.00 Alan Block, Baker St To the Electors of the City of Nelson Ladies and Gentlemen: I am a candidate for the mayoralty of this city for the year 1909. I am In favor of a progressive policy for the city. I stand for the re-establishment of the car service, either by the municipality or by private enterprise, holding myself free to take either course according as the best interests of the city appear to dictate. For the extension of the corporation limits to include the adjacent and rapidly growing suburbs, with a view to the completion of tbe present sewerage, water and light systems. For the rapid completion of the power plant and for the distribution of power to new and old industries at the lowest possible rate. For the proper completion of the school buildings. For a more general adoption of the frontage tax system, as applied to street improvements, as sidewalk construction, boulevarding, etc. For the general beautifying of the city, especially improvement ef tbe parks, so that the public of Nelson, and particularly the children, may receive the full benefit of money already expended in park Improvement and in the building of the car line. On the grounds set forth above and on my past record I ask for the support of all electors of the city who believe with me in the future of Nelson and are willing to embark upon a progressive policy. W. G. GILLETT. Nelson, B. C, Dec. 9, 1908. Onions ; Cabbage, per lb M Sweet potatoes, per lb 0 FRUITS Oranges, per doz 85 to .60 Bananas *) to .50 Lemons, per doz 25 to .40 Green Apples, per lb 00 Cranberries, per lh 20 1.75 . .a . 3 Good Cough Medicine for Children. The season for coughs and colds -is now at hand and too much care ennnot be used to protect the children. A child is much more likely to contract diphtheria or sear- let fever when he has a i>oW .The quicker you cure his cold Ihe less the risk. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Die sole reliance of many mothers, and few of those who have tried It are willing to use any other/ Mrs. F. F, Sturdier, of Riploy, W. . , says: "I have never used any other than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for my children and it has always given good satisfaction." Tills remedy contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given as confidently to n child as to an adult. For sale by all druggists and dealers. Mlnard's Liniment cures Garget in cows The new Edison records for January and Victor records for December are to hand at W. G. Thomson's Bookstore. Everybody smokes at the Old Chum Cigar Store. Leu Matthew, proprietor. Tho full Hut of Harry Lauder records, In both discs nnd cylinders are «ow In stock at W. G. Thomson's Bookstore. 215-2 Houses For Rent S-roomed house on Carbonate street $11 Small furnished house In Pairvlew $18 For Sale, Large house tn splendid condition on Carbonate street. Three lots planted with bearing trees cloBe In, splendid value '.. »3400 Lands We Will Sell 500 Acres Near Trail on Columbia rlrer, long river frontage, good' creek runs through property. A Sn«p--$ 12.00 per Acre Stocks We have clients who want 10 Consolidated - - $65 2 War Scrip - - $400 MeDERMID & McHARDY Baker Street, Nelson, or 210, Portage Ave., Winnipeg i,Mt»>M.MHM,WIMM»M»MMnt>MM<>MH. > PAGE ilOHT ©he ®a\\& Sleim •UNDAY JANUARY t To Let At $25 a month. 5-roomed furnish* ed house In good location, (or full particulars, apply immediately to H. £. Croosdoile <& Co. Budding Sites Central locations, suitable for ■tores, factories, apartment houses, residences, etc. To encourage building the only tax levied on improvements (In the city) Is one mill on assesssed value. Houses and Lots In all parts of the city and suburbs. Land For market gardens and poultry, etc., on wagon road near the city. F. B. LYS Real Estate Agent, 315 Baker St. HAND PICKED CROW'S NEST COAL GOOD DRY WOOD GAIT COAL City Transfer Sll Baker St. Phone IT NELSON NEWS Of THE DAY A. C. Lttckmund ot Arrowhead Is a guest at the Stmtliconft. T*he coast train was five hours Into lost night having, been delayed on the main line. Mrs. J. L. Warner, Wife of the eminent engineer returned last night alter a visit to relatves in New York. TheMcCaualand shoe store has moved from the premises next to Choquette Bros, to 403 Baiter street opposite. Tlie executive of the bout club are holding a meeting tomorrow at 6 p. in. at tho Bell Trading company's store, The annual convention of the British Columbia. Conservative association la to be held in Victoria on January U3. A meeting of the Woman's Hospital Aid society -will be held In tho schoolroom of the Presbyterian church at U p .in., city time tomorrow, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wheeler returned homa to Ainswonth yesterday after spending the Christmas- and new yean s hull days In the city. An entertainment will he given In the Baptist church on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock by the children, of thu Baptist Sunday school. Owing to pressiier of space an article on the scenic attractions or Kootenay by H, W. Power has been omit led from this Issue but Will appear Inter. , A full attendance of the members of the Good Templars is requested at a meeting to ibe held In K. of P. hull for church parade at 7 o'clock, city time, tonight. Rev. M. E. Anderson of Tacbma, Wash- will meiich in Swedish in the Methodist flhUreh at 1 o'clock this afternoon. All Scandinavians are invited to attend. A. K. Sillier who for the past five years A E. Mfllerwho for the past five years has been principal of the public schools at Itevelstoke lias been appointed an Inspector of public, schools Itu- the province of Britten Columibla. The whole of yesterday's Issue of The Daily News wns disposed of before noon and the management hod W beg back a couple of papers for theofllce ill,?. The mayor's mensiig.-! an>f.'ar.s to have attracted great attention In Nelson. A new provincial police district known as the Boundary district and including the terrltoTv comprising the electoral ridings of Grnnd Forks, Geenwood and Siinlka- meen will be formed from the present provincial police districts of Nelson, Kamloops and Vernon, i '■"The sacrament of .the Lord's, supper wi|| be dlspenst*d nt the morning aorVoo in1 Bt. Paul's Presbyterian church today. At the evening sen-Ice there fill DB a church parade of the t 0. U. T.. ChurchhilVB antliem "Behold I Bring You Good Tidings" will be in part repeated. ■The earthquake in Italy, a parable for the Hew year." Is the subject of the fier- mon to *be preached by Rev. It Newton Powell in the Methodist church tihtn eycn- ing. The Christmas music will he re- ncatetl in part. In the morning, the subject is, "A Motto for 1909." The saarament of the Lord's mrppcr will he administered. All Christian people are welcome to thla aacramental service. The now tllms at the Empire tomoriiow ■wll consist of the following dramatic and Humorous mib-jeds: "A Venetian Tragedy," "3100 Miles Without a Dollar," "Why the Wedding was put Off," nnd "Kind Grandfather." Prudence Eden will as ■usual sing an Illustrated song. Two of the .special films to be shown during the rest of the week will be "The In ten-national Horse Show" nnd a hnndpainted romance ' entitled "The Waters of Life, " Nelson l(*dge Knights of Pythias are making preparations to hold a public ln- •ttellttton of officers for the coming term on janunry 12. The members and officers of the Ymir lodge have been Invltod to be present. The Installation ceremony for tooth lodges will be performed by past Sy R. G. Joy. <*"■• R-, T>r. W. O. Hose. R. i Steel and others. Reports of tho officers for the past term will be read, en •nterUliunlent given and refreshments will be served The Pythian Bisters will be present and a general Invitation to the public Is extended. J. H. Wallace Men's Outfitters. Wishes all his many customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year i.i........,.,,,........... For Rent A seven roomed residence on Carbonate street containing 3 bed room and bath room, din* Ing room, parlor, kitchen, pantry and basement, furnace and electric light (27 per month. A five roomed cottage on the corner of Stanley and Observatory streets containing two bed rooms, dining room, parlor, kitchen, bath room and pantry, electric light, $20 per month. Offices in old Bank of Com* merce building. H. & N. BIRD j Nelson, B. C. ....,.>><*........... *..... Archie Kay of Nelson won the mile roes at Iho roHer rtns lost evening. Lnrlo 11c- nae tho other conteatant waa In the leau for tho tlrat nnurte but tell and waa passed hy Kay who retained hla lead to the end. Mcltae la open to accept a challenBe up to J1W from any local skater. Several en- trlea hnve been received for a ladles race at the rink nest Saturday night. NEW PARISH HAU. Old School Will bs Pitted by St. Mary's Church. iriliic Althoff. whoa tender for the old school bulldlns h»» been accepted by tho school board. Intends to convert hla port S Into a parish hell In connection with St"Mary's church. The structure wll bo moved Win Its pesont alto ond Placed In poaltlon on Mill street between the church nnd St. Joseph's convent A. Carrie Li now enunBOd upon the plana (or the foundation of the hall .which ».» bo of the following dimensions: SOxJIxll. To building Is lo he completely furnlahed SS room which will be Bitted1 up wltlh a Bailor)- and st.-iBe for entertainments, etc. nnd a basement will ha excavated later nnd used tor the purpose of Miumiuli such as billiards, bowls and L'vmnastle oxercls»s. Tenders for the renin™! of Ihe building to the now location are now being culled for. FIRE RECORD FOR YEAR THREE SERIOUS BLAZES SWELL THE TOTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO BRIGADE Thomas Den*ry, chief of the flro department Tor the year IMS, submits the follow- Ing report for tho past year of Uie work of the brigade. . ' Tlio firemen nnd horses hnve suffered no Injury of any kind nnd there has 1>een no loss of life or serious injury to anyone attributable to lire. Xo toulldinff In the residential section n-nd only one in the whole city has been destroyed by fire. Great attention has been paid to tho prevention as well as to the extinguishing or During the year 1908 a new hall has been opened on Observatory street, covering the residential district, anil a team of horses with a combined truck and hose wagon has. been Installed there. This ha-s been dono at small expense and o. permanent driver Id .kept In tho new hall with two permanent men on night duty, without increasing: the force. A hose cart and 600 feet of hose have been taken from Observatory street and placed on Front street, forming a substation there witch covers the wholesale district. A team of horses and 500 feet of first class hose have been purchased giving the department 3,500 feet of hose for emergencies. To one and alt we wlih a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Cabinet Cigar Store Q. ■.MATTHEW Seasonable Gifts A choice selection ot articles suitable for Christmas presents, consisting of Smokers' Sundries Leather Goods Ladies' Hand Bags —AT— Hotel Home News Stand It may be mentioned that in spite of tho high water pressure in tho business, section of the city no hose has burst at a (Ire or at a drill. Twelve fire alarm boxes have been purchased and are now being Installed. The coming year should not be an expensive one as the city owns a first clnss equipment and every thing needed In the way of hydrants, appliances and running gear, There have been 27 alarms and fires compared with 23 In 1907. The loss Incurred through fie totals $11,241 against $2,470 In 1907. Tills increased loss Is accounted tot by three serious blazes which have taken place at the substation, the Wood-Vallanco Hardware warehouse and at the street car barncs respectively These have alone accounted for losses amounting to over $40,000. (fire record—1901 to 1908, Inclusive.) Sept. 7. 'box 21, Are at 11:40 p. m. Box of rublsh burning at rear of Wood-Val- Innce store. Josephine street. Cause unknown. No loss. Sopt. 14. 11:30 p. m. Test alarm turned in by mayor and council from box 32. Sept. 23, telephone alarm. Fire at Club hotel, corner of Stanley and Silica streets. Cause defective chimney. Loss $5. Spot 28, d a. m,, telephono alarm. Tire at , Grnnd Cential hotel, corner of Ward and Vernon streets. Cause—lodger placing electric light in bed) and setting fire to boding. Loss $10. Insurance $12,000. Insurance over loss. $11,995. We Have Moved Our New Address is 419 Ward St where we will tip pleased to welcome all our clients arid friends. We can supply you with Insurance policies/ covering fire, life, accident, sickness and health, employers' liability and plate glass at lowest rates and in reliable companies. REAL ESTATE—Houses and lots In the city and suburbs also the very best of fruit land.. MONEY—To build, Improve or buy, yourself a home. Get particulars and use your rent money to build. , We can Invest your.money on first clasB security and get you big interest. South African land scrip, purchased. Hugh W. Robertson Phone AM, Bex M4, Nelson, S.C Happy New Year . To our many friends and patrons who have helped to make the past year and particularly the Christmas holiday season so successful. Profiting by our experience we hope to make our business this year even better than previous and'respectfully ask your cooperation that It mjay continue to be mutually advantageous. J.O.PATENAUDE MANUFACTURING JEWELER, WATCHMAKER AND OPTICIAN. Baker Street Nelson, B. C. MmmmmtMcmoum Money Makers for Wise Ones Double house close In, nays over 20 per cent, price $1100; only 1801 cash. 97 acres with railway and steamer service; 75 per cent good; station; post office; .We at your gate; some improvements. 12500; small casta payment. WOLVERTON A CO., Baker Street Men's Dress Shoes We're on the threshold of the social season, and every correct dresser will be interested In' something choice in full dress footwear. We wish to say we are showing some snappy styles In men's dress footwear. Both in patent and plain leathers. The Royal Shoe Specialists. Sept. 29, telephone alarm. Bush fire, no Oct 10,11:30 a. m.. telephone alarm. Fire at frame founding, corner of Btanley and Victoria streets. Cause, sack of tooaoco Igniting from tire tn stove. Loas ^■insurance J1600. Inmirunfio over loss S14SS. Oct 18, 6:60 ip .m.. Fire .at frame warehouse, Water street. Owners, Wood-Val- lance Hardware company. Cause unknown. Losb on building1 nm -.I**'JB?1 stock ItLMB. Insurance on buildintr 11600; value of building 12500. Insurance on stock (£9.000. Vahie of stock »W,00. Insurance paid on''building J1200; on stock $11,915. Inaunancu over losses, *lt>,2bB. ■Oct; 1% 10; a* ,m.. box ». Fire at woo4- •#^cc. 13. 4:05 p. m., telephone and «ox 23* Fire at kitchen of Silver King hotel. No. 418 Baker street. Cause unknown. Loss on building $490; on contents $183. Insurance $9000. Insurance over losses $3,227. Fires and Alnrhw during 190B. ■ Jan. 7, H:W a. m. A telephono alarm from the residence of R. W. Hannington, Carbonate Street. Causa overheated stove prpe,.iNo loss. ■ ' ; Jan. 10, 6:15 p. m, telephone alarm. Firs at residence or Oapt . I feed oats, good clean bran, erushM oatr and barley, whole flax, Unseed • meal, Pratt's animal regulator, In fact most everything a horse can desire. The Brackman-Ker Milling Co., lid. We wish to thank pur many friends and customers for their liberal patronage during 1908, and wish them a. Happy and Prosperous New Year in 1909 BELL TRADING CO. m Hmmmtmimmmmmm \.m mum ■iirnrnr mm A Happy N^vv Year To All Nelson Hardware Co. 802 Baker St, Nelson, B. C. &MMNM mmmmmme»mBM*HtammKMtm AMILT0N J .. A Happy New Year We have a fine assortment of goods suitable for holiday gifts luoludlng SKATES 8AFETY RAZORS CASE CARVERS POCKET KNIVES CUTLERY, ETC., ETC. Wood-Vallance Hardware Co., Limited WINNIPEG NEL80N, a C. Wholesale Retail TORONTO VANC0UYH For Ten Prc-lnvcntory Sale E**,1 Sale begins this mornlug. We are going, to take stock about Jan. 5th, hence this ten days ■ ■ ' I Great Price-Cutting Sale We are are not going to take into consideration the cost or value of any article. This sale calls for a sweeping disposal, The power ot price is one of the Inducements. 30 Per Cent. Less Than Regular Price ' i ii ' ii-ii ■"• t Canada Drug & Book Co., Ltd. n^si Nelson's Oreatcst Store Ui I >|MllllHMIIlillllMMII. ■ We will mall a copy of ttiti isMe of The Daily Newa to aay pert of \ Canada, the United States, o» the < United Kingdom fotfOc Let tn haw yoot otdef at once. The Dally News, Nelson, B.C ,S,,M> I H,M<»>IHMM>. ^«taM«S dWSSMSB Fruit Growing Section THE DAILY NEWS NELSON, B. c, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1909 YALE-KOOTENAY FRUIT INDUSTRY By MARTIN BURRELL, M. P. The past year has been marked by • steady Increase of British Columbia orchard acreage, a large output of fruit, greater attention to Improved methods of culture, and also, one has to admit, some discouragements in regard to financial returns. These discouragements are, t believe, only of a temporary character, and will be touched on towards the end of this article. Mean. while those who are Interested In tn development of our horticultural industry have ample ground's for the must buoyant faith In its future. It has been -j o marvellous development, and the more so from the fact that It is practically within tbe last decade that anything like a great Industry of this kind has come into existence. Within' the memory of living men the first fruit trees were planted In the province which is destined to achieve so prominent a place in the world with Its orchard products. Sir James Douglas, then James Douglas, chief factor of the Hudson Bay com- pany, obtained a few trees from Washington territory either in 1849 or 1850 and planted a small orchard near what Is now known as Victoria. Somewhat later John Work, grandfather of Mr, Tolme, the present deputy minister of mines, also planted a small orchard, and between 1865 and 1875 the Indians were In the habit of coming round and paying 25 cents a bucket for the fruit of these trees. In the interior of tbe province one of the SrBt plantings was by the Mission fathers ot the Okanagan who brought their trees over the Hope mountains. The veteran Thomas Earle of Lytton was another who In the sixties planted fruit trees, and who lived to see tbe industry, ot which he then foresaw the potential possibilities, grow to its present dimensions. Today we'have between fifty and sixty thousand acres In orchard, have achieved an International reputation for ■ our fruit, and our people are clearing the wilderness and vigorously continuing'the work of converting the wild landB and cattle ranges of this great province into the Orchard of the Empire. The Kettle River valley, in the centre of which Is the thriving little city ot Grand Forks, dates Its first orchard planting back to the early eighties, the name of W. H. Covert being inevitably associated with the earlier worko of a horticultural kind. With the recognition ot Its adaptability for fruit tbe valley woke up, and for the past two or three years planting has gone rapidly on, there being at the present time several orchards of from fifty to one hundred acres In extent, the heaviest planting being of winter apples. During the past season about 35 carloads have been produced In the valley, finding a market partly of a local nature, but largely being shipped to the Northwest and Australia. The development going on In the Kettle valley Is a type of the development elsewhere in the interior. To the Kootenay I need not refer as it is dealt with by otherB In this paper, but will point- out briefly the rapid Increase in orchard acreage In other interior ponits. The country along the upper Fraser will some day without doubt be a great fruit producing district. In Llllooct during the past season I was shown five sped- * mens of Wolf River apples, the smallest one of which weighed 26 ounces and the largest 31 ounces, and of a glorious color. This district, however, Is at the present time without transportation facilities and commercial orchard work will be retarded for a time. In the Ash- croft country are some good orchards, and some very large holdings are now being sub-divided for fruit purposes.' . This section, In common with moat ot the Interior points, la essentially a district where Irrigation must play a necessary and important part. In the neighborhood of Kamloops there are about 1,000 acrea under fruit, a considerable portion of which 1b situated up tha North Thompson, much ot it not yet In full hearing. The Salmon Arm district has now thoroughly proved It- self aa an excellent fruit country and this year will have shipped out at lesat 80 cars of excellent fruit. Spence'B Bridge has grown some ot the best fruit In the province, and eastward through the Nicola valley the tree fever Is spreading. Southward, throughout the Simllkameen, tbore 1b much development, especially In tbe Keremos country. Here the veteran, Frank Rtchter, was the Brat planter, bringing his trees by pack horse across the Hope mountains under all kinds of drawbacks and difficulties. Today hundreds of acres of young orchards are In existence and one of the best built irrigation ditches is almost completed, a ditch which will bring Water from Ashnola creek, eight miles away, and crossing the Simllkameen river in a big pipe, subsequently winds Its way along the base ot the big hills Into the Keremeos valley whose dry but' fertile soil eagerly awaits the delivery of the much needed water. To describe the Okanagan country In detail would take too long and one can only point out roughly what has been, and Is being, done In this, the greatest orchard section of B. C. at the present time.' I should, place the acreage under orchard between Bnderby and Pontic- ton at about 18,000' acres, the larger part ot which Is, of course, not yet In bearing, in the Armstrong district are MOO sores, of Which probably 85 per - fli ■ ''s'v'-"''" '■'-:.,.. i Ii w Jp$. lev -": ll fj WBl !ar-^* . ^H m£'$l :'«ttski '.atasatl-' ' ' |||||T|lsj|'sMiif' !*"■"■ : ^* "Sc; YJ"'v>- •" ^iS&trtirft?- '■ jy,rWW>v ".".' ■ " :w~ '• " ■■■'■\\ W ' 'r-^tzt ■' s nts»- B- * ' ^ F \r ^W- l'--z _J»t_«. iWtpm ** —5BJ ^d!A'*>i'.'*:>;'; ■>■' '■■-■'■ '-^i$$i ">«-* *5s?,'«*S§ lis* Sa ^3rJs3xU ^J^J \>* y ^y , ^~* " i 9 % 7 ■st? ':■■ rfiB^^P ^J' —* 3 ass* |i-.,-"'A. N^|yr >««i ^"''\S^^s':'->| ■.;■■» >k fa,.-- ;.;f';j-,-:.- _,-«""■ ' - -■•■ I! •,• >> S&5&' . if aWfflBSBrWSaa,^ - '. %■}[ ..., VXBBPWUaOML. KOOTENAY PEACHE8 DISPLAYED AT NEL80N FRUIT FAIR, 1908. cent, would be apples. 15 carloads were shipped this season. In the Vernon district, where the Coldstream company has done so much good work, not only for the Okanagan but for the whole country, there are between three and four thousand acres In fruit, of which I judge 70 per cent to be apples. About 90 cars would represent the product, the great bulk of this being from the Coldstream estate. The varieties chiefly grown are Jonathan, Wagner, Newtown Pippin, Spitzenburg, Rome Beauty for winter, and for the earlier kinds Duchess, Mcintosh Red, Wealthy and Cox's Orange. Of a large block of the oldest Wealthy trees on the Coldstream this season an amount of fruit was taken which averaged gross sales of $19 per tree. Thorough cultivation U practised, and the acreage yet available for planting In this district would probably run to thirty thousand acres. Between {his point and Ketowna are some big orchards and some very promising fruit sections. At Kelowna, which has made a splendid showing at Spokane recently, there are somewhat over 3,000 acres In fruit and the shipments this year amounted to 800 tons of the tree fruit alone. About 30,000 acres are well adapted for fruit tn the Immediate district. Here the percentage of apples to other fruits would be about 70. Stirling and Pitcalrn are the principal growers and packers and have done much towards the securing of a first'class name for British Columbia products in the outside market. Below Kelowna we get into the peach country, touching it first at Peachland where about 500 acres are under fruit, with about 85 per cent, peaches, and half the trees already In bearing. There was a splendid production there this season and growers are thoroughly alive to the buBinesB side of their work, At Summerland, the next southerly point, we come to a development which Is simply astonishing. Seven years ago a cattle ranch owned by Mr. George Barclay was taken hold of by the far- seeing and indefatigable J. M. Robinson who Induced outsiders to invest and build up what he believed would make a magnificent country. Today there are between two and three thousand acres under orchard, about half of which consists of peaches, and the municipality of Summerland itself has an assessed value of over one million dollars. Growers here have already seen the wisdom of accompanying their production of peaches with the establishment of twining establishments and this enterprise Is likely to assume large proportions In the near, future. . Pentlcton, the most southerly portion of the Okanagan valley, is also making (huge strides, and, largely owing to the energy displayed by the Southern Okanagan land company, has, now nearly one thousand acres under fruit, chiefly peaches. Moat of the orchard! here will commence bearing next year. Throughout the Okanagan are irrigation works, some of them ot great magnitude, notably In the case of tha Grey, canal at Vernon, w&lch will probably cost over 8800,000 before completion but which will bring nearly 90,000 acres of land under cultivation. This brief description will give readers some rough Idea of the hoWthy lines along which this industry Is progressing outside the Kootenay district, ana it might be well to touch, lor aloe- Ins, on other, aspects of tha industry. We have now passed' long ago tha ax* perlmental stage aa far aa tha production goes. It hiss been abundantly proved that nearly every section of tha interior can produce a magnificent class of fruit with ordinary methods of culture and due care In the suppression of all pests, it remains for us to secure the desired financial results. Tha present time may M retarded as a period of transition. Co-operative methods are being adopted but are by no means perfected. , In many districts the fruit produced 1b not sufficient to make co-operation effective, or to grapple with the market difficulties on * satisfactory basis. It may seem to be the few hundred which were the output during the past season. When that day arrives, and it will not be long, questions of transportation, of co-operation and of distribution will be more readily adjusted than they are today. Meanwhile anything wihlch can tend to can be helped, and without dealing with the first two one might point out that the growers of B. C. have been put to an unfair advantage In regard to tbe third during the past season. In the great Northwest market, which muBt always remain our principal mar- AN APPLE DISPLAY—KASLO FRUIT FAIR, KASLO, B. C. a paradox but It is a fairly safe statement to say that the province generally will be In a better position in dhe ■great outside markets when it has two thousand carloads to ship instead of pave the way for a profitable market on a b'ig scale should be looked after. Transportation, the tariff, and thorough inspection are the three chief ways in which tha market end of the industry ket, we have been face to face with a severe competition from Washington and Oregon, a competition wHiich we shall always (have to reckon with, but whlie the B. C. fruit grower must ne cessarily expect to take his chances against the Wahlngton grower, provld- ed the product is equal in character, he has a perfect legitimate grievance if it is not equal. It is true that the big crop on the other side of the line this year, and the fact that the industrial conditions ot the United States had not entirely recovered from the depressed condition of last winter did to some extent account for the lowering of the prices in our market this fall. But we are confronted with a somewhat peculiar state of things inasmuch as we have a Fruit Marks act to the provisions of which we as growers are compelled to live up, while the act cannot reach the American competitor. There is abundant evidence that an immense amount of fruit lias come to our prairie markets unmarked, and, In a manner, ungraded as our own is. We have reason, too, for believing that much of this fruit is marked and sold as No. 1 when It could hardly do more than hold Its own in quality with our No. 2. This is an anomaly which should be remedied, not only In the Interest of the B. C. grower but of that of the prairie consumer. Apparently the wholesale houses, Borne of the largest of which are American, mark the fruit themselves, and it is perfectly obvious that with only one Inspector In Manitoba and one In the other two prairie provinces adequate inspection of all this imported fruit must be to a large extent farcical. Growers as a unit should bring the strongest, pressure to beur to see that the Fruit Marks act Is rigidly carried out against tbe Imported fruit. Not a case of American fruit should be allowed to leave the wholesaler until it is marked, packed and graded In a way that absolutely complies with our act. Fair competition we must expect to meet, unfair competition we should not stand for a minute. In conclusion one may say again that the drawbacks or discouragements which in some cases have been experienced this year are to a great extent of a temporary kind, and are such as hns been experienced by every section on the continent in the initial stages of the Industry. We have caiiBe for gratification in surveying the present status of horticulture In B. C, and with the expansion and growth of the Immense countries east of the Rockies and the proper distribution of our orchard products, the outlook Is of a most hopeful character. MARKETING OF FRUIT. By James Johnstone, Nelaon, B. C. In compliance with the request of The Daily News to contribute an article on the progress made in 1908 and the outlook for 1909 in the fruit industry I shall do my best to give your readers an unprejudiced statement of the situation as 1 find It in Kootenay and throughout the province at the present time. The past season has been a most trying one to the local growers. Everything started out with the best promise of success; a large number of our growers took every care to ship their strawberries in first-class condition and the fruit undoubtedly left the majority of the ranches In far better shape than during any previous year, and yet, as we all know, the cash received has been far less than on any previous season's business. The association appointed a thoroughly reliable auditor and business man to investigate the cause of this deplorable result and to report Ills conclusions on same. I consider Mr. Beeston's report has been prepared In a most thorough manner'and that it states the true causes of the failure and points out how to avoid such disasters In future. Unfortunately human nature always wishes to shift the re- A TABLE OF KOOTENAY GRAPES, NEL80N FRUIT FAIR, 1908, sponBibillty and blame onto other shoulders, and the enemies of co-operation have been hard at work spreading all sorts of slanderous reports about the Central Provincial Exchange, so much so that because Mr. BeeBton did not make a scapegoat of the Central, but placed four-fifths of the blame on the method of loading the cars at Kootenay Landing. A majority of those attending the meeting to hear the report seemed to hail with delight the reading of a letter blaming tbe Central Exchange, from another section of the province. The writer of this letter referred to has since written stating as follows: "I regret that M saw fit to refer to a letter written some time ago when things were not satisfactory, mainly from the one-Bided view and hearsay that reaches here. Everything seemed to me satisfactory at the meeting, and at no time have I made a report against the Central, in fact I have been upholding it all season." I cannot do better than quote remarks made by Mr, Beeston after presenting his report and referred to In your Issue of December 11th: "Strawberries can be successfully and profitably grown here." "The most notable losses have been In connection with damaged and unsaleable fruit. The cause of this was want of proper care and method at THIS end. The practical remedy 1b a cooling warehouse for collecting1 and shipping the fruit under proper conditions." "Co-operation is necessary (a) for the proper shipping; (b) through some central association to obtain and control the best market" "Co-operation must be complete or It v. falls. No one should ship outside the association. Remember that the work done now is not for the present alone, but for the future, with its great possibilities.'* With reference to the great co-operative movement throughout the province, the past season has been a very trying one owing to the want of confidence shown by many of the growers in not shipping their whole crop through their association and by the malicious reports which were kept in constant circulation throughout tbe province to the effect that the Central Exchange was financially insolvent. These reports were kept in circulation by Interested parties who have benefited through lack of co-operation on the part of tbe growers In the past and who have used a few Ignorant growers as their tools. On December 1st a meeting of the directors of the Central Exchange, embracing the most experienced and representative growers from every Important fruit section of B. C, was held In Revelstoke. Mr. Beeston, in his report ol: the meeting, states as follows: "The meeting which was spread over eleven hours, was In three sessions, and it is with much pleasure that I state that the whole proceedings were not only harmonious and pleasant but were contsidered in a deliberate and businesslike manner and should be of benefit to all the fruit growers of British Columbia." Mr. Pickle, the representative from Victoria and Vancouver Island, In a printed circular issued to his people, dated December 4th, 1908, has the following to say regarding his trip to Revelstoke: "I do not wish to miss the chance of } impressing upon growers certain facts relating to co-operation and its results. As this association is practically only one year old it is astonishing the great strides it has made In a province noted for being antagonistic to such a cause. It has done away to a great extent with the jealousy of neighboring growers and has assisted new comers by being able to give condensed information and past experiences. There have been big losses this year by growers accepting outside offers and shipping away from their associations only to find prices cut in half and in some cases express charges against them. The desire of responsible buyers of fruit today is to deal with associations as being more responsible, and tantalizing offers on the outside are very often a blind from firms having no standing or who wish to check a movement already encroaching on their ground." Aa president of that meeting of representative provincial fruit growers I wish to say that I am Indeed proud to be associated with such men. We had many questions of great importance before us, but not for a moment did anything break the absolute harmony aid good will of that meeting. I know of no finer body of thorough business men and I could desire to see no better at tbe head of this great co-operative movement which must and will place Erltish Columbia In the front rank of all the fruit producing sections of the world. In conclusion let me urge upon ev»ry grower that this Central Exchange and local exchange business is our own business and not the business of some firm with whom we are dealing. The mistakes which are made are our mistakes and must be remedied" and not treated as a local grievance. We cannot all be of one opinion, but we oafl carefully consider every suggestion and then act In the true spirit of co-operation and unity which 1b the only road leading to success in our most important Industry. TEN Che jtotUj jtogg. 8UNDAY JANUARY 3 WATTSBUR.G-ITS FOUNDER AND HIS WORK Probably there is not in all British Columbia a more interesting little town nor one that will better repay a visit to it than Wattsburg, called after A. E. a member of Mr. Watts' family or is I connected either directly or. Indirectly with his enterprises. All are therefore more or less dependent upon him. mining with an irrigations system which he will install next year to serve his 3000 acres of ranch land. For this purpose he intends laying a pipe line SB- ^ wsm"-vi^ - 150 ACRES OF ORCHARD, HONSBERGER RANCH, GRAND FORKS, B. C. i Watts, its founder, and located about 125 miles east of Nelson on the Crow's Nest Pass railway line. Up to the present the mainstay of the town has been Mr. Watts' sawmill and wood working factory, one of the features of the lat- , ter being the manufacture of wire wound wooden pipe, but Mr. Watts Is now going into the ranching on an extensive scale, and In a manner that is unique in this country, while gold and Iron mining are among the possibilities of the future. Mr. Watts Is not conducting his ranch. Ing operations along trodden paths but Is engaging in a lot of experimental work. For example, he is using electricity as an aid to plant growth and has also Introduced a system of Irrigation by means of sprays that he finds gives much better satisfaction than the ordinary ditch system. A visit to Mr. Watts' ranch and greenhouse cannot but repay anyone interested in fruit growing or in horticulture. In addition there are many other things about the town worth seeing. Included In these is a plant for the treatment of tamarac roots by which turpentine, paint oil, creosote and tar Is extracted from them. This is done by means of steam. The sawmill is operated by steam and Mr. Watts has taken advantage of this fact to make use of the surplus energies from the boilers In several ways. Steam, for example, Is conveyed under41 ground for 2,000 feet to heat Mr. Watts' residence and his greenhouse, and besides is Bupplfed for an electric light plant and also to operate a waterworks system. In fact there Is no modern convenience that Mr. Watts has not at his hand as a result of his own inventive genius and of taking advantage of the resources at his command, and steam is one of the agencies of which he has especialy taken advantage. The town of Wattsburg is appropriately named, for Mr. Watts Is practically lord and master of ail he surveys. He owns the mill and all connected with it, has large timber holdings In That the exact location of Wattsburg is not better known is due to the fact that the C. P. R. station close by is called Swansea. At present, however, Swansea consists of a railway station, Wattsburg having observed the rest of it. It is now twelve years since Mr. Watts founded his town and while It may not have grown as fast as some other places In that time it has grown the way that Mr. Watts has desired. When Mr. Watts arrived from the Old Country in 1897 it was with the Idea of establishing such a place and after travelling over all the surrounding districts including Kootenay lake chose the place where he has since made his home. He did not, however, confine his investments to Wattsburg at first, for hie bought quite a large tract of land on Kootenay lake and also erected the Procter sawmill, which be subsequently sold to Its present owners, At the time of his arrival the country was In Its primeval state. There was then no railway and Mr. Watts packed his belongings most of the way In from Calgary. He has never regretted the exchange of life in Liverpool, the city of his birth, for pioneering in Canada's richest province. He feels that In the past twelve years he has accomplished something and the feeling naturally carries with It a goodly measure of satisfaction. But while modern Wattsburg has only some twelve years of existence to its credit, the locality was well known nearly fifty years ago. The famous Palmer creek from which millions in gold was taken In the early sixties runs through Mr. Watts' property and the old diggings are only a stone's throw from his residence. That there is still gold in the neighborhood can be taken for granted, but how much of it there may be is another question. The reason that the diggings were abandoned was lack of water, the cause which has \v% to the abandonment of so many other camps which have afterwards proved paying propositions when the a distance of three miles from an excellent head of water. When this has been done Wattsburg may become a greater producer of gold than Palmer The development of this property will be a matter of some time, but that it will come eventually there can be no doubt. Mr. Watts takes a special interest and pride in his experimental work in connection with the use of electricity as an aid to plant life. One of his experiments In this direction is the use of electric light Added to the. daily sunshine Mr. Watts gives the plants in his greenhouse enough electric light to bring the total number of hours that they receive light each day up to 19%, leaving the plants 4% hours out of every 24 for rest. Another of his electrical experiments Is the passing of a current of electricity through the roots of the plants. This Is done chiefly by connecting a dry battery with a carbon In one side of the box containing the plant and another on the opposite side to a zinc plate to make a circuit In this way a current is established which passes through the roots of the plants. No matter what doubts anyone may en- tain as to the theories upon which Mr. Watts 1b working the cold, hard facts remain that everything in his' greenhouse has made remarkable progress since the greenhouse was opened on' Nov. 15' and that the plants through the roots of which the electric current passes have made more rapid progress than similar plants set out at the same time and under Identical conditions, which have not received this treatment. Concerning his experiments Mr. Watts Bald to a representative of The Dally Nowb: "It Is a well known fact that the growth of vegetation near the Arctic ' regions is much more rapid than in the temperate zones, not on account of greater beat, but because they secure a greater amount of sunlight owing to the nights being short. My experiments show that plant growth Is accelerated to a marvellous degree by the application of intense electric light, about In connection with the cucumber and i tomato plants, Mr. Watts has tried some successful experiments with the use treated with electricity was producing t duct Is discharged. It Is therefore only ripe tomatoes, Its neighbor, which did 1 Accessary to turn on the gear after not have the benefit of the treatment, | filling the upper bio and the mill will of electricity. For example, he allowed one cucumber plant to grow along ordinary lines, while another, planted the KASLO, B. C, SHOWING BENCH OF ORCHARD LAND IN FOREGROUND Creek ever was, Iron mining is also a possibility of Wattsburg, for within a short distance of the town is what is ONE STRAWBERRY PLANT-AS THEY'BROW IN KOOTENAY DISTRICT the neighborhood, controls 3,000 acres of excellent bench land, well adapted for ranching, adjoining the townalte, which, with all It contains, Is his. Every resident of Wattsburg Is either hydraulic system was introduced. Mr. Watts believes that there Is still considerable gold higher up than the old diggings and In order to get It out In* tends combining a system of hydraulic described as a solid mountain of 11m- inlte ore of the best quality, while hematite and lignite, tbe other two ores required for smelting with it, also abound in portions of Bast Kootenay. equal to the early morning sunshine. In my greenhouse ten feet apart are placed 16 candle power lamps supplied With 120 volt current In midwinter for 19% hours of 24 the plants have the advantage of this light with an occasional dose of an intermittent current ot galvanic electricity applied through the soli and a change from that to constant current from batteries. "Plants breath through their pores and tbelr Bap circulates as does the blood In animals. A current ot electricity, It is well known, accelerates the circulation of blood in animals and there Is no reason to doubt that It does the same in regard* to the sap In plants. Electro-chemical action In the soil prepares the plan food ready for assimilation by the plant and the current assists the circulation of the sari, thus benefitting the plant In two different ways. Without going into details or dp^ bating whether it'is the electric light or the current which causes this wonderful growth that has taken place in my greenhouse since Nov. 15, It is there all the same. As' an instance, Chinese Illy bulbs planted on Dec. 5 had by Dec. 17 grown to a height of 12% Inches and were in bloom,, This Is only one instance. There are over one thousand plants making equally rapid growth In proportion." Vv; ..* In the greenhouse where Mr. Watts 1b carrying on these experiments he has a wonderful display of flowers, which he has been collecting for the past month or so. These Include practically every variety of ferns, palms, cacutus, hyacinths, begonias, carnations, chrysanthemums, prlmela, Chinese, Japanese and Nile lilies, and many other varieties. Among the latter are fifty nice pots of shamrock which have been grown from one small pot since Nov, 15. In addition to the flowers Mr. Watts has In, his greenhouse cucumber and tomato plants, raspberry bushes, rhubarb and other kinds of garden produce. same day and under similar conditions, he treated with electricity. The result was that when the first mentioned was only a few inches high the other was had nothing more than a few small green tomatoes to show. Similar results In development have followed In other plants treated by electricity. The raspberries were not given the benefit of this, but in the month between Nov. 15 and Dec. 15 they grew four feet and on the latter date were all either in bloom or had berries already formed on them. The rhubarb on the latter date was ready for use. As an adjunct to his greenhouse, Mr. Wattshas 1,000 square feet planted in mushrooms. Most of this Is in a steam heated roothouse specially fitted up for the purpose, although a considerable portion Is in a storehouse which ad- joints the greenhouse. In both places ihe mushroom beds are In tiers one above the other, like bunks In a sleeping house, with about a foot of soil in either. In this soil the mycelium," Imported from England, Is planted. From this mycelium, which resembles a white mould, fibres form in 'due course and the next step 1b the formation of the mushroom which soon rears its head above the ground. The store house adjoining the greenhouse is quite an interesting place. Here Mr. Watts has stored the potatoes, carrots, turnips, cabbages, onions, etc raised on his ranch last year and If one doubts the success which Mr. Watts has met with In his gardening operations he has only to take a look through All the vegetables are of large size and' of exceptionally good quality. One of the features of the store house Is a provender grinder. Originally this store house was merely the understructure of a windmill, but has been enlarged for the purpose for which it is now used. The windmill, however, has been left on top and, not being 'required for pumping water as the steam plant now does this work, the power which It is capable of generating 1b used for grinding -provender. In the centre of the store house is a bin which feeds Into the grinder and Into which oats and operate without any attention until the bin is empty. The system of irrigation employed by Mr. Watts is unique and Interesting and has passed the experimental stage having been In use for several years, and shows what it 1b posBlble to do In high altitudes and in a semi-arid die-' trlct The advantages of this Bystem of applying water to growing crops are numerous and It is easily applied where 30 to 40 foot head of water can be obtained or where water can be raised that height by wind, water or other power. In this case for initial experiments the water was raised to a tank 50 feet high by windmill. The piping consists of a main line of 6-Inch wire wound wood pipes laid through the length of the garden; wood pipes two Inches In diameter are laid from tho main line 30 feet apart and paralle with rows of fruit trees, and close to them. Into these wood ptpeB are screwed three-eighth inch iron pipes standing: 4 to 8 feet high, and 30 feet apart each way; on the tops of the pipes are attached rotary sprinklers which throw sprays of water a radius of 30 feet and a height of 10 to 15 feet as may be desired by regulating the angle of the nozzles. In high altitudes and other localities subject to summer frosts, tender classes of plants and blooms of fruit can be protected from damage by applying the water in the evening, and If the frost shows signs of being severe allowing the sprays to run through the night. This has been proved.beyond the realm of theory. Practical experiments ex- tending over several years, show that within a radius of the sprays, tender* plants usually destroyed by light frosts,. such as tomatoes, squash, melons, marrows, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes and: the bloom of fruit trees, have suffered', no injury, whereas those standing: where the water was not applied an*, within a short distance of the others were killed by the frosts. in bloom and small cucumbers had al-1 other material Ii conveyed by means ready formed. The result was the of a hoist, while below the grinder Is same with tomatoes. When a plant I another bin Into which the ground pro- The amount of water required an compared with ordinary Irrigation br (Continued on Page Eleven.) m^ sew ^BSSBBSSee -r ■A /* SUNDAY ...:....... JANUARYS ©he §alhj item*. PAGE ELEVEN EAST KOOTENAY IS PAST COMING TO THE ERONT The following article dealing with the possibilities of East Kootenay, but particularly those of the district around Cranbrook, In the matter of fruit grow- Ing, appeared in a recent issue of the Cranbrook .Herald, over the signature of Joseph Ryan, than whom there is perhaps no man better qualified to write on the subject; - ' In the-reviews for 1905 and 1906 some stress was laid upon our agricultural and fruit growing resources. Facts were piled on facts, concrete examples were quoted of practical success. Fruit growing was then looked upon by the great majority of people as a chimerical dream of some mere enthusiast, The very absurdity of the Idea pushed the thought clear Into the consciousness of men who previously had never given the matter a moment's consideration. Even today there are those who are not wholly converted to the sound doctrine that we can grow all manner of fruit here around us. To five an example: The other day a Cranbrook man stated that the apples and pears had been frozen on the trees during the very severe frost of September last, Within ten minutes after the statement was made the positive contradiction waB forthcoming from the very man whose fruit was said to have been Injured. He said that never in his experience had there been a froBt at that season that reached the high ground where he grows his apples and so on. He was picking his plums at the very time of this visitation and It affected those that were just ripe to the extent ot taking the .BUgar out of them. His pears and apples were absolutely uninjured. If the true facts of the case were not thoroughly understood it Is in the last degree Improbable that people would be willing to pay present prices of fruit land In the immediate vicinity of Cranbrook, prlceB that fairly rival those prevailing in Creston and tbe most favored districts in East Kootenay. This dealing In a general manner with general conditions is of small use to those who know not our land in giving them an Idea of its possibilities and resources. As things exist around us Just now there are probably ten men Interested In the future of agriculture In East Kootenay for one who is Interested In minerals outside of coal. In connection with agriculture in East Kootenay. the certainty of the construction of the Kootenay Central railway in the very near future should never be lost sight of. This road will run from Golden on the main line of the Canadian Pacific down tbe valley of the Upper Columbia river, along by the upper and lower Columbia lakes, Canal Flat, Findley creek, Skookumchuck. Waaa, Fort Steele and connect with the Crow'B Nest branch of the C. P. R. at some point near Jaf- fray or between that point and Elko and will open up a country that has compelled the admiration of the governor general of Canada and the chief officials of the Canadian Pacific organization In whose hands will He the construction of the railway. Aa a matter of fact the road is even now under construction at its northern end and it is expected that work will start within a few months on the southern extremity. The distance from Elko to Golden is rather more than one hundred and eighty miles and throughout that stretch the floor of the valley may he said to be all adapted for agriculture, fruit raising and cattle raising. Speaking in general terms, the floor of the valley is free from timber, that Is, there Is much more open ground than there is wood land. The forest does not close down close on the flats, and Is confined to the foot hills on either side. For the entire distance the west side of the valley is sheltered by the Selkirk range just as the main range of the Rockies , shelter it on the east In short, it is tbe trough between the two ranges and 1b watered as to Its northern moiety by the slow moving Columbia even as the Kootenay lends its influences to the southern parts. Both of those great rivers receive a large number of creeks from the Rockies and the Selklrks and these can be controlled to yield the very necessary irrigation. That at once raises the question of water supply so needed for general agriculture. It may be said at once that there are very few spots In East Kootenay so situated naturally that the idea of irrigation can be wholly dispensed with. Provision of Irrigation 1b a thing that can never be lost sight of. It is essential, and creek. Again, the lands formerly held by the Kootenay Valleys company have all been acquired by lord Vivian, of Swansea, England, and he, so it Is said, Intends to go in for Irrigation works of an extensive character. Lord Vivian is credited with the intention of erecting a splendid permanent residence at some point near Canal Flats, at which place there will be a station and round house of the new line. Earl Grey, the governor general of Canada, has purchased the Santo ranch above Thunder hill and will, no doubt, have a residence there a wonderfully fertile tract which is entirely free from summer frosts. The market for fruit, etc., Is practically unlimited and the prices highly remunerative. These facts have induced parties In the immediate vicinity of Cranbrook to lay out considerable tracts of land in convenient lots of about ten acres each, all Irrigated and In these are springing up a number of very pretty homes. Some of these tracts have been sold at prices averaging over eight times the original cost, but there are still some' large holdings that can therefore, that if water is given by the natural method, overhead, as fast as foliage and roots can absorb it the growth must be rapid, and during the hottest sunshine there Is no danger of scalding the foliage by this method of spraying, and Insect pests are checked in their growth, and most of them cannot attain maturity. The question will arise, can this system of Irrigation be made a commercial success? At Wattsburg it certainly is a decided success. Two inch wood pipes cost about ten than cast Iron pipes, will last longer and are not affected by electrolosls, which plays such havoc with the water mains In many places. In addition it has been found In many cases tbe soil Is such that It eats holes into the iron pipes, even where there Is no electrolosls. Wooden pipes are never affected In this way. Discussing this product of his plant Mr. Watts told a representative of The Daily News that wooden pipes laid during the Roman occupation of England, about the dawn of the Christian era, when dug up in London FRUIT EXHIBIT, NELSON FAIR, 1908 once provided it makes the great difference between the certainty of good and unfailing crops and the possibility of failure In achieving profitable results, As an illustration of this It may be said that the Canadian Pacific railway 1b now putting in the necessary ditches and so on for irrigating over 50,000 acres directly opposite the little town of Windermere, just as C. Hunger, ford Pollen Is making like preparations to Irrigate some 10,000 acres between Wasa and the mouth of Skookumchuck TKe Riverside Nurseries 10. ACRBS-E8TABLISHED 1000 Largest grower* of Fruit and Or namental Trees* and Small Fruits In B. C. GRAND FORKS, B, C. ' \ a, * also. It Is also the Intention of the governor general to acquire some fifty acres on or near the summit of Toby creek for the purposes of a hunting camp, where he and his friends may enjoy the magnificent scenery of that locality concerning which earl Grey spoke In the highest terms In a recent open letter to the hon. Richard Mc- Brlde, the premier of the province. These references will show at a glance the tendency of large English capital to come Into this part of East Kootenay, and It Is only reasonable to think that its effect will be widened on the general public. It should be, If men take heed of the signs of the times. Tbe land Is worthy of all that can be said about It, and the climate is beyond compare. The level of the valley of the Kootenay and Columbia may be placed at 2600 feet above the sea, while the level ef the surrounding country available for fruit growing and general agriculture can be placed at 3000 or a shade over it The best fruit around.Cranbrook Is grown at the Sunnyslde ranch which Is fully 3200 above sea level. In this connection it may be said that th* liability to summer frost Is greater on the lower grounds than on the higher. since the cold air has a natural tendency to sink to the less exposed situations. Exposure in this sense means that the lower the ground the less chance the light airs that prevail In the district have of dispersing the chilled atmosphere that result In the frosts. Where the brush has been cut away and the ground broken up frosts never occur, since the broken ground absorbi the moisture of the' day and radiate them during the night. Dealing with what can be produced In the land around the city of Cranbrook and the valley of the Kootenay, It can be said with entire confidence that everything In the way of fruit* grain and vegetables can be raised with the exception of peaches, grapes and canteloupes. These latter have, however, been this year successfully grown 'by George Tlsdale, on St. Mary's pralrte br acquired at only a shade beyond what they would sell for a year or two ago. WATTSBURG--ITS FOUNDER AND HIS WORK (Continued from Page Ten.) ditches, especially on a porous soil with course subsoil, can readily be under stood, A two inch pipe is of sufficient capacity to irrigate"*20 acres of land, while a ditch with that amount of water would bo practically useless in porous soil. The economy of labor In the application of the water by this system is a considerable item. There is no opening and closing of ditches nor fear of drowning the crops in spots. All that has to be done is to open the main taps and there is an imitation rain, which cleam.es the foliage and feeds the plants through their pores and what they fall to absorb passes to the roots. In the dry belts where continual sunshine prevails during the dry season, the growth of plants and trees is almost equal to the rapid growth of vegetation in the tropics, provided the foliage Is not allowed to wilt, but If this does occur growth is retarded. Many plants when subjected to dry winds and hot sun wilt even If veil supplied with water at the roots, but the growth is contlnuouB if the foliage Is also supplied, and fruits or vegetables consequently are much' more succulent. Coarse sandy soils lack humus or decayed vegetable matter, considered one of the most essential of plant foods, but great success can be obtained with this method of Irrigation where the soil Is almost absolutely tree of humus, which shows that tbe latter serves rather as a medium to retain and convey water to tile root fibres than as a food actually assimilated by the plant. Root crops and' vegetables can be grown to an enormous stse, on almost pure sand, the principal constituent of vegetation being water. It follows, cents per foot, and it takes 1,500 feet per acre while the other pipes and attachments bring the cost up to about |250 per acre. The initial cost may appear rather high, and the next question, Is, will the earning capacity of the land warrant the outlay? On dry sandy soils it Insures a certain crop and will grow from 50 to 100 per cent, more produce. Unlike other methods of Irrigation the first cost is the whole cost, and one item of importance Is that there is no necessity to level the most uneven ground. A rolling country that could not be Irrigated by ditches can be effectively and economically watered in this way. An acre of fruit and vegetables In the west is worth from $500 to $1,000, and a slight frost Is liable to ruin the whole crop. This method of irrigation, however, Is a certain Insurance against drought and frost. The success of this system of irrigation is shown by the fact that last season Mr. Watts raised over $3,000 worth of produce from four acres of land. This Included half a ton of raspberries, secured from 15 rows of bushes, and a large quantity of strawberries. One- fifth of an acre oi ground produced five tons of carrots and another plot of the same size four tons of onions, while from a quuarter acre were taken 2,000 cabbages, many of them over 25 pounds In size. The carrots and potatoes were also ot large size, many of the former running over two pounds In weight, When Mr. Watts puts in his gravity system of Irrigation next year the water will be distributed In the same way as on the four acres under cultivation and ultimately he will have the whole 3,000 acres of land which he controls at Wattsburg supplied ln'thls way; At the present time the principal manufacturing work In progress at Wattsburg is the making of wire wound wooden pipe, Mr. Watts having the only factory engaged in this business between 'the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. This class of pipe Is daily growing in favor. It is urged In their favor that these pipes cost much less recently were found to be In a good state of preservation. Provided wooden pipes are kept full of water and free from atmospheric influence their life is indefinite and might safely, Mr. Watts says, be guaranteed for 2,000 years. Another advantage of wooden pipes, which Mr. Watts points out, Is that tiiey do not contract when subjected to a low temperature, and conse quently do not burst as do metal pipes if the water is frozen solid in them. As might be expected from a man who has taken such interest and has shown such enterprise In regard to his business, Mr. Watts has fitted up his house with every convenience and there, with the proverbial hospitality of the Englishman, he is always ready to entertain his friends when they drop off the train at WattBburg. His house is fitted with all modern accessories and comforts. It Is heated by steam, brought 2,000 feet from the boilers at the mill, and Is lighted with electricity. It has several kinds of baths, including Turkish and electric, the latter being a device resembling the ordinary vapor bath but Instead of vapor the rays from scores of electric lamps are used to produce the effect desired. Even In the wash house Mr. Watts' has considered the comfort of those engaged about the house, clothes being cleaned by means of steam admitted Into the bottom of a large tub In which the clothes have previously been placed. The action of the steam as it is admitted washes the clothes. Mr. Watts has also fitted up a brew room where.he can make his own beer, while his dairy is equipped with all the lateBt labor saving devices known. :i Altogether Mr. Watts has a remarkable establishment and one that will repay a visit from' any one. ARROW PARK By Kootenay Orchard Association, 1M. The work of subdividing Arrow Park sub-division was undertaken by the owners early In the spring of 1908. Arrow Park Is located at the entrance to Mosquito valley, 16 miles south of Nakusp and six miles north of Burton City. It is beautifully situated on both sides of the Columbia river (Arrow lakes.) The area of 2,951) acres was surveyed into orchard tracts," and townsites established on opposite: sides of the stream at a point where it.ts less than half a mile wide. Good wagon roads were cut out, graded and improved with bridges and culverts, all leading to the town- sites. Roads were also cut to the water front at various other points. The place was thrown open to settlement late in June, 190S; number of acreB sold to date, 1010; selling value of same, 1103,350;'number of settlerBon the ground, 41; number of dwellings erected, 16. . ' , Arrow Park has one general store and meat market, a post office, and is a regular port of call for C. P. R. freight and passengers steamers. Various enterprises are contemplated. Land is being cleared rapidly, but the acreage actually in fruit at present Is small. Ten acres or more will be ready for spring planting. There has been formed a local association to Insure the planting of proper varieties of trees and the best cultivation thereof. THE MYSTIC MISTLETOE. Much legendary lore and many a quaint story has been woven around tho mystic mistletoe. "Kissing Is free where the mistletoe hangs," Bays an old song; and wherever the succulent yellow-hued leaves and white waxen berries are suspended there a man may kiss a maid—or a maid may even kiss a man If her fancy so dictates! In different countries it draws its life from several trees, and in England It flourishes at its best perhaps on the apple tree. Huge clusters of this Christmas shrub are often seen springing from a cleft in the branches of many a fine old apple tree in English orchards. It also thrives on the poplar and hawthorn, but very rarely on the oak, RENATA AND DEER PARK Lower Anow Lakes, B. C. About 4000 acres subdivided into orchard tracts in different sizes. Prices from $25 an acre and up Terms one-quarter down, balance in four years at seven per cent per annum. Improved orchards for $150 an acre and up Several good mineral claims on reasonable terms A big timber limit close to transportation For full particulars and free booklets address F.F.SIEMENS Rcnata, B. C. PAGE TWELVE the ©mug $Uwfe, SUNDAY* JANUARY 3 NELSON-CENTRE FRUIT GROWING INDUSTRY It is only a few abort years since the man who spoke of fruit growing as an industry In the Nelson district was looked upon with, to say tbe least, good natured toleration, nothing but mining being thought of in those days. Since then the possibilities of this section ot the Kootenay have been demonstrated beyond question and it Is only a question of a very short time until the revenue from fruit growing will go tar toward increasing the prosperity of Nelson. For miles in either direction along tbe Kootenay river and along the West arm of Kootenay lake on which Nelson 1b situated fruit ranches fronting on the water have been taken up. Thousands of acres have been brought under cultivation In the past few years and this amount is being Increased annually. At present, ot course, fruit growing Is only In Its infancy In the district tributary to Nelson, but even at that a large amount ot fruit was produced last year, Including 12,000 crates of strawberries, 1000 orates of raspberries, 1500 of cherries, 500 oj) other small fruit and 1500 of apples. With such a return from the comparatively small section of tbe country now producing, it Is easy to see that the Industry has a great future and that Nelson will shortly be as well known as a fruit growing district as it Is now Is as a mining centre. In connection with apple growing it may be pointed out that practically all the trees have been planted within the past couple of years, so that it will he two or three years more before they are hearing. ■ When, they are tbe people of Nelson wlli begin to realize what the development of fruit growing means to tbe district. It was perhaps unfortunate that better success did not last year attend the marketing of the fruit from NelBon district, but better things may be looked for in future for it Is safe to say that every one connected with the Industry learned some lessons during the past year. That the returns were not more favorable last year was not due to the fertility of the soil or the adaptability of the district to fruit growing but was the resnlt ot mistakes, which perhaps might have been avoided and which undoubtedly will be avoided in future sc-asonB, for experience has taught Its lesson. Because ot the trouble last year, there have been statements made that were detrimental to the district. All that is necessary to refute these Is to talk for a few minutes to any ot those engaged in fruit growing around Nelson and tbe figures and facts they can produce aa to the frultfulness of the soil and the conditions generally will disprove, even In the mind of the most prejudiced, disparglng remarks that may have been heard. The fruit district tributary to Nelson comprises the valley of the Kootenay river up to West Robaon on Arrow lakes as well as both sides ot Koot- ejuty lake as far east as Proctor and along the west shore up as far as Kaslo. along the west shore up as far as Kaslo also Including Slocan River valley and the territory lying between Nelson and Waneta on the N. & F. S. railway. This Ib the district in which fruit growing was started in the Kootenay, but so recently did this occur that the possibilities of the country in this direction are not yet realized. The lake shore and river banks afford exceptionally favorable locations for fruit growing. Here not only can land of the most productive kind be secured but at the same time ideal sites for homes are afforded. Especially is this so of the West Arm, where, the ranches being within a comparatively short distance of Nelson, the ranchers own their own launches, in which they visit the city at will, aa business or pleasure demands. The water also provides easy means for transporting the product of the ranches on the first stage ot its journey to the market In which it is to be disposed. The district west to West Robson 1b supplied with excellent transportation facilities in tbe shape of a line of the Canadian Pacific railway over which two trains pass each way daily. A new departure in this district is the embarking in the grape growing Industry ot a number of Russians, who, acreage being in strawberries, AH theee fruits are In demand on the prairies, where the market is growing year ) by year, bo rapidly, In fact, that it is at present absolutely Impossible to supply the demand. As the prairies become better settled and the farmers there get In better shape financially the teed, there is always bound to he considerable fruit that cannot be .disposed of in this way, small fruits that have ripened too much to stand the transportation, and apples, pears, plums, j etc., that are a little off In color or | size. The problem that arises Is how to dispose of this class of fruit, but tbe the canning and preserving of fruit it Is only another step to the canning of vegetables of all kinds and there is no reason why the two should not be combined. In this way a greater season of operation Is guaranteed the plant and its profits thereby increased, while the same men who are growing the fruit NAKUSP-A THRIVING FRUIT RAISING CENTRE, ARROW LAKES Hart of Kelowna. Even with this record, Mr. Bealby's exhibit was not by any means as fully representative of the product of his orchard at it might have been for be had disposed of all his sampIeB of some of the varieties of apples which he grows. Had tbe exhibit been complete It would have com* prised over thirty varieties. The showing is particularly gratifying In view of the fact that the other growers of the district made no effort to compete at the show. Mr. Bealby's exhibit practically represented the district and that It was so successful snows ("what Nelson can do In the line of tbe growing of apples.. Besides second prize for the bost collection by any individual, Mr. Bealby took eleven other prizes as follows: First prize, Alexander and Baxter; second prize, Blenheim Orange, Ontario, Rhode Island Greening and Westfleld- seek-no-further; third prize, Golden Russet; fourth prize, Mann and for Wallbrldge; fifth prize, Grimes' Golden and Wolf river. previous to coming to Canada, followed this branch of horticulture all their lives In their home land. These men hare taken up land in different parts of this district and hope to make a success of grape culture. They know the conditions under which grapes grow best and they have chosen their lands demand will be still furlher increased so that a permanent fruit market Is guaranteed this country for all time to come. But the fruit growers of Kootenay, including those arohnd Nelson, Are not depending entirely upon the prairie market. They aim to compete in the London market with their tip- answer Is at hand. It lies in the establishment of janning and preserving fatcories. In t^se, fruit that It would not be advisable to ship, aan be treated and good'financial returns obtained. Nelson is the natural centre for the establishment of works of this kind and one company has already realized this will also be in a position to supply the vegetables necessary. Tbe canning and preserving business therefore, bids fair to become an important factor in Nelson's industrial development as a direct result of the Introduction of fruit growing in the surrounding district tributary to Nelson. 7 KOOTENAY STRAWBERRIES TO 17 INCHES accordingly so that there should not be any question of their success. Practically every other kind of fruit that thrives in a moderate climate is also being grown In the district around Nelson, Including apples, plums, cherries, pears, peaches, grapes and all kinds of small fruits, an especially large pies, at least, and this they have already shown that they can do successfully. As the years go on and the superiority of Kootenay apples becomes more generally known in the Old Country the market for them there will be still further Increased. But even with these markets guaran- and is now engaged In the erection of a large canning factory and preserving factory here and others can be confidently looked forward to to follow this example. Nelson will thus benefit Industrially as well as commercially through the development of the fruit growing industry in this district. From What the Nelson district can do in the way of raising prize winning fruit is shown by the record made at the Sppkane apple show by J, T. Bealby, whose ranch Is at Two-mile point Mr. Bealby exhibited 21 plates of fruit and secured 12 prizes, a record surpassed by only one man at the show, Mr. De QUEEN'S BAY. Brydges, Blakemore A Cameron state that they have actually settled thirty- five families on land this season. Most ot these settlers have ample means to carry them safely through the first few years apart from all considerations of revenue from their holdings. They are well pleased with the country and conditions here and are without doubt made of the right stuff, as a visit to one of the settlements containing at least one- half of the settlers will show. They have each erected modern dwellings with every convenience, and have each cleared from one to five acres of each ten-acre farm. The Queen's Bay settlement particularly 1b a community of Intelligent, hard working pioneers—a settlement of people that any country might be proud of—they are doing things. -On this property there is a splendid waterpower which the settlers propose to utilize for tbe generating of power for electric lighting, the running of light machinery, etc. With the right kind of people settled here, those combining intelligence with a willingness to work and a determination to succeed, this country will in a few years not only present a totally different aspect but convince the outside world, still more vividly than It has done already, that as a fruit growing country it cannot be beat. Lord Aylmer, who was one of the purchasers of land In the Queen's Bay settlement, has written to say that he and his family are coming out next spring to permanently make a home there. Tbe past year has been a notable one 'fof this country if the bringing, in of actual bona fide settlers means much, and it undoubtedly does. This firms deals during the past year have been negotiated on a safer basis than heretofore. They have dealt with a safer class ot people, that is to say those afiie to complete their purchases without having to depend on tbe purchases from "retail sales" of small parcels of the large areas speculated in. The "wild-cat boom stage" of the exploiting of fruit lands Is passed, and in the future all that Is necessary for those Interested to first of all seek the right kind of people, those who will make the best and most desirable class of settlers, and to avoid the plan of "making a deal, anyway"—perhaps to people, who are to say the least, unfitted for the life of a Kootenay fruit grower. Messrs, Brydges, Blakemore & Cameron believe that the holders of land here should not be too anxious to sell, but should carefully select their customers beforehand. The fruit lands of the Kootenays, as the Scotchman says regarding Scotch whiskey, improve with age. The future is a bright one; in a few years time the whole countryside will be. a veritable Garden of Eden, HARR0P-A THRIVING COMMUNITY At a point thirteen miles east of Nelson on the north shore of Kootenay river at the entrance to Trafalgar Bay where some six years ago the first subdivision was taken up with a view to starting fruit growing on a commercial basis is now located among productive orchards a thriving settlement with a post office, public school, general store, railway station and steamboat landing. Still known to old timers in the district as "Sawmill Point," having been the site of G. O. Buchanan's sawmill in the earlier days, Its residents now look upon It as "Harrop, the coming orchard' town of Kootenay." In the person of Rev. Charles H. Reynolds, a retired Church of England clergyman, it has a resident minister and church and Sunday school services are held regularly. The land In the vicinity Is now practically all taken up and the large proportion ot it is planted out In fruit trees and small fruits while, thanks chiefly to the provincial government, the ranchers in the district are favored with good wagon roads, the chief of which is that between the settlement and Proctor, at the outlet of Kootenay lake, a distance of five miles. The first settlers, all of whom took up large holdings of land, have now disposed of the greater part of their tracts, feeling that a five, ten or twenty acre block, well cultivated, would serve to produce for them an independent income on its reaching* the producing stage while the recent settlers who came chiefly from the prairie provinces and the old country are now busily engaged In getting their newly acquired properties Into a higher state of cultivation. Among the earlier settlers who are now the proud owners of highly cultivated fruit farms In the vicinity can be mentioned Thomas Greenwood, Clarence D. Ogilvle, J. Qulnn, A. T. DavlB; Fox Brothers, J. Jerram, L. McClure John, Francis Brothers, J. Allen, W. Hill, W. B. Hill, Gordon Hallett, Rev. C. H. Reynolds, F. Rlsden, and others, while its founder Ernest Harrop is now well established in a general store. Fred A. Starkey, George Motion, W. Rutherford and other Nelson merchants have well cultivated fruit tracts In the settlement and Charles O. Rodgers, lumberman of Creston, has just purchased a well developed orchard In the South- worth ranch and Ib making extensive improvements to the property. , About one mile east of the settlement Is located the famous Coldsprln'g ranch upon which large hothouses have been erected at enormous cost. Dlreatly opposite the settlement on the south bank of the river Is located the jam works of the Kootenay Jam company. Passenger communication Is made by the steamers of the C. P. R. and G. N. railway which call at the settlement six times daily. A DISCOURAGED. (From tlie Washington, Star) "No," said Mr. Sirlus Barker, "I shall not play Santa Claus. You Bee, my children are precocious and I may say a trifle critical." "But you came in last Christmas with furtrlmmed clothes and white whiskers and all the rest of the disguise." V'Yes. I'll go as far as anybody to make home happy. That experience Is what decided me. I pictured smiling faces and expected to hear shouts of childish glee. But the only comment was from my youngest daughter." "What was It?" "She said, 'My! Isn't father a bad actor!"' The Original—Diogenes was the original secret-service man; only he was after the other kind. WIRE WOUND WOOD PIPE Costs Much Less Than Metal Pipes and More Durable Much Easier to Lay or Repair Cannot be Injured by Frost / Are not Affected by Electrolysis I Carrying Capacity not Diminished by Age Manufactured at Wattsburg, tht only factory between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. I When writing for prices state head or fall of water as prices depend largely on the pressure the pipes have to withstand. We m&kc irrigation pipes a specialty WATTSBURG LUMBER ,■•/ Hume Hotel, NELSON J. William Cockle W, Vldler Papworth Hie Kaslo Hotel Cockle &. Papworth, Proprietor* Headquarters of the Kaalo Beard of Trade, Kaslo Fruit Growere' Association, Kaele Rod and Real Club, Kaslo Entomological Society, Kootenay Lake I/..1. He!"* Firmer,' Institute. . IMMIWa. Do V* ■• SUNDAY JANUARY 3 fsm /a. ©he if nttjj "$teim PAGE FIFTEEN CRESTON-WHERE RESULTS ARE OBTAINED There is probably no section ot British Columbia with brighter prospects in the fruit growing line than the Creston district. The capabilities or the district have already been demonstrated beyond question and it is now only a matter of time until' the land not now under cultivation will be producing and.Creston will not only be growing as fine fruit as can be raised anywhere but will be shipping it In immense quantities. Its facilities for the latter are especially good, for, being on the Crow's Nest line with a first-class train service to the prairies, the growers are in a position to ship their produce direct and lay it down in the cities and towns east of the Rockies with a minimum loss of time. This guarantees the arrival of the fruit at its destination In the best possible condition for the roar- , ket, for the art of loading the cars has already practically been reduced to perfection by the growers of the district. The area of fruit land In the district is estimated at upwards of 50,000 acres, probably about one-fifth of which is now under cultivation. Practically all this land is owned by., men who are developing it as fast as their means will permit, so that It is only a question of a few years until all the land is under cultivation. As to the quality of the fruit, the prices obtained for the strawberries and other small fruit and tbe prizes taken by the apples not only at the British Columbia fairs but also at the recent apple show at Spokane speak for themselves. At the latter, the greatest apple show ever held, CreBton took no less than nine prizes out of fifteen en tries. Comment on such a showing is unnecessary, and doubly so when It is stated that the fruit shown on that occasion was the seventh picking of the season. The-apples of the district had been gone over six times for other displays, before there was any thought of sending an exhibit to Spokane. The fruit that did so well there was, therefore, not by any means the best produced in the Creston district last season. The centre of this great fruit district is the town of Creston, to which the whole surrounding area of fruit lands must for all time remain tributary. The town is therefore assured of a permanency. Each additional acre brought under cultivation means so much more fruit to be shipped and bo much more money to be spent In Creston. When the entire area suitable for fruit growing has been brought under cultivation It will mean that millions of dollars will be coming Into Creston each year. What this will mean to the town's development Is not hard to foretell. The town already has several fine business - establishments, two good hotels, and a rapidly Increasing population. A water works system has been Installed and water rights have been secured for an electric plant. A good system of telephones serves the district as well as the town. In addition to the land now It for cultivation there is in the neighborhood of 25,000 acres of good bottom land along the river bank, which, It Is hoped, will some day, probably In the very near future, be reclaimed and also brought under cultivation. This land is ot tbe very best quality, but is flooded every spring. Several schemes are now on foot to prevent this and a satisfactory solution of the difficulty may be looked for. During the past year the provincial government introduced a novelty in tbe matter of disposing of its lands in the Creston district. It put over 1,600 acres up for sale by auction, realizing in the neighborhood of $60,000 as a result. Hundreds of buyers' were present from practically all over the continent and it Is a tribute to the faith of the local people In this district that most of tbe land was bought in by men who already bad holdings In the valley. The town of Creston, which Is 68 miles east of Nelson, or 16 miles east of Kootenay Landing, was first located about twelve years ago, when the railways were being built through.A large number of people settled there at that time and are still residents of the district Fruit growing, however, commenced only five years ago. At that time there were only 150 fruit trees in the district, while last spring no less than 48,000 were received for planting and it Ib expected that double that number will be brought in during the coming season. Last spring there were also several hundred thousands or Btrawberry plants and berry bushes brought In and the number of these to be set out during the coming year will, it Ib expected, be very much larger. Tbe climate of the Creston district is especially adapted to fruit growing. It Ib mild in winter, the thermometer seldom or never touching zero, while in the Bummer there Is the warmth so " I Hear the tread of nations yet to be The first low wash of waves whtre soon shall roll a hultaan sea;; The ashes of an empire hers are plastic yet and warm,x The chaos of a mighty world Is rolling into form." KRUIT GROWING and general farming Is as yet In its infancy in the famed KoQtenay-CoIumbla Valley, but * no section of the Dominion of Canada surpasses it in posssibllltles. The fame of Kootenay apples, pears, peaches, plums; cherries and small fruits grown in this Garden Spot of B. C, Is fast becoming world wide. .First place has been awarded her proudcts in competition with the British Empire and shipments of apples made to England have Invariably*commanded the highest price, and have resulted in repeat orders far beyond the present supply. Apart from the fame of Kootenay fruit in foreign climes, there Is her unassailable geographical shipping advantage. Fruit can be gathered and shipped to the non-fruit producing provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, arriving at its farthest eastern destination within 48 hours. • Taken in conjunction with the admitted fancy quality of the fruit produced, there Is a combination which places Kootenay in a position to control the vast Northwest fruit market when her productiveness has reached the point where the demand can be supplied, sb that added to Good Soil Perfect Climate Certain Oops KOOTENAY HAS AT HER DOORS THE \ BEST MARKET IN THE WORLD Land that originally sold for $10 an acre is now paying 10 per cent on a valuation of $5000 an acre, and as the fruit trees come to maturity the percentage of profit will be greatly Increased. That Is the estimate of O. J. Wigen, Creston, B. C, tbe celebrated strawberry culturlst. I have studied land, talked land and sold land in this district for a' good many years now, and I have learned a great deal that may I* of benefit to you. Wouldn't It give you a great deal of satisfaction to know that you could get land that you could absolutely bank on? Wouldn't you like to buy land from some one who has enough faith In It to guarantee It absolutely?—a case of your money's worth, or your money back. I have placed a large number or bona fide settlers on land during the past year; settlers who have In the majority of cases been so well pleased that they have paid spot cash for their land and the kind that have money to go ahead and develop their tracts, and each and every one has been a walking, talking advertisement for me, and are influencing friends and relations to come and make their homes here In this Ideal climate. What I have done for others I can do for you. Now is the time to procure a tract that will make you Independent. During this year there will be a large Influx pi settlers and prices will surely advance sharply on good land, and that Is the only kind we deal In. , «. Write, or call and let me tell you more about the wonderful possibilities' ot the fruit growing Industry In the famous Kootenay-Columbla valley, that country of Your Opportunity Ideal Climate finest Temperate Zone fruits Best fruit Market in the World No Small Monthly PaymenfSchemes S. M. BRYDGES Brydges, Blakemore & Cameron, Ltd. NELSON, B. C. necessary for bringing the fruit to the proper state of perfection and giving It the coloring so essential to securing the -best prices. Cool evenings, however, make life enjoyable. The early springs are especially suited to gardening and the, fruftincatlon of the orchards. The autumns are delightful, the weather be- may be cleared for agriculture; There are mills at Creston and at Erlckson to transform the timber so secured into marketable lumber. ■ One particularly favorable feature of the valley is the amount of moisture which it receives. (It>ains practically every month, the fall being sufficient growers received the higheBt price going. Altogether over 6,000 crates ot this fruit were shipped and the price received averaged well onto $3 per crate. Among the products now being grown in marketable quantities, in addition to strawberries and apples, are peaches, plums, pears, cherries, nectar- Ing largely of the character of a prolonged Indian summer. Soil to suit almost every kind of vegetation may be found in the district. for crops of all kinds. Although its apples are prize winners wherever shown, it is for its strawberries that the Creston district Is at Ines and grapes, as well as every variety of small bush fruit. Vegetables also do remarkably well and there Is abundance of wild hay for stock and mulch- Most of It Is clay subsoil. ever, are of while in the of an alluvial clay on a The lower benches, how- a black vegetable mould, Erlckson section, a few present more particularly known. Apple growing Is, however, rapidly developing and Creston apples will soon be as well known on the markets as Ing purposes. The principal markets for Creston's fruit and vegetables are the big centres further east along the Crow's Nest PasB X •:*? z>%$,» s \>j£ hW ■ '!«, A KOOTENAY ORCHARD HOME miles east of the town of Creston, It Is of a Bandy character. One advantage of the valley Is that It Is free from stones and gravel, while the land is practically level. Originally the valley was covered with fine timber, which, however, Is fast disappearing in order that the land Creston strawberries now are. In this connection it may be said that last year Creston strawberries enjoyed tbe reputation ot arriving at their destination on the prairies in better shape than those from any other part of British Columbia and the result was that the line and all the cities of Western Canada as far east as Fort William and,as far north as Athabasca Landing. In the matter ot transportation Creston enjoys a distinct advantage over most other fruit growing, centres. It has direct connection with both the Canadian Pacific and - Great Northern systems. The train schedule on the former Is so arranged that fruit picked in the morning can be loaded direct Into the cars and.goes.east at noon the same day, no further handling being required until It arrives at Its destination. The advantage of this Is apparent. Needless to say the announcement of the success of the district at the Spokane apple show In the early part of December was hailed with satisfaction by every resident but general regret was heard that more care was not taken in getting an exhibit together that would be. thoroughly representative of of the valley. It was felt that tbe number of prizes secured would have been very much increased If this hod been done. Those whose apples secured prizes at Spokane were as follows. Alex. Duperry, 1st prize, Bisinark; 2nd prize, Wallbrtdge; 2nd prize, Wealthy. J. Compton, 1st prize, Blenheim; 2nd prize, Stark; 3rd prize, Ontario. J. Cook, 1st prize, Golden Pippin of Westchester county. W. S. Watson, 4th prize, Gano. R. Hood, 4th prize, King of Tompkins county. The sale by the government of its lands by auction In October last was an experiment that was unique In this country but Its success mors than Justified the course taken. In all 127 parcels were offered for Bale, and all but one, a . rocky piece wi(h little or no timber on it, which was bid in, was disposed of. The sales amounted to 1,640 acres, for which a total of 158,796 90 was realized. The prices obtained varied, the highest being $300 per acre, while on an average tlie land brougbt 300 per cent, more than the government's upset price. The most of the land disposed of was bought by men already engaged In fruit growing In the district who knew its capabilities, and the price obtained by the government can be Bald to have established, for the time being at least, the price for wild fruit lands In Southern British Columbia. SLOCAN JUNCTION By Prank Tarry In the lower end of the Kootenay valley from Slocan Junction to tbe Columbia river considerable progress Is being made. When one considers that thirteen years ago the first settler came In, and that this part of the valley, fourteen miles long, was unbroken bush with the exception of the railway right- of-way, that the idea of growing fruit was scoffed at, that tbe new settler was told by the miners and prospectors (the only population at that time) that mining was all the country was good for, one can realize, even by riding through on the train and seeing a small portion of what has been done, that this district can now boast of upwards of five hundred acres, cleared and under cultivation, a large proportion of which is planted with fruit trees which are making a fine growth and give great promise of future profit. The soil is in the main the best possible from a fruit growing standpoint, varying from a friable clay to a fine sandy loam. As an Instance of the way In which fruit trees grow here, It might be remembered that a tree planted eight years ago produced thirteen boxes of apples this season. Many who come to the Kootenay to buy land think tbe prices asked are too high. From $100 to $400 pre arce may seem large figures to those coming from the prairie, but when, even at the highest figure the land Is shown to be capable In many instances of paying for itself out of the first crop, the price asked cannot be regarded as excessive. Among the many advantages of this part can be counted the splendid shipping facilities furnished by two passenger trains and a freight each way dally, giving a closeness to market so needed by tbe fruit grower. The lack of this one feature of good transportation should be enough to bar any location to the prospective settler. Several miles of a government road have been made through the district and the completion of this road from Castlegar to Nelson, expected the coming year, is eagerly looked forward to. The fruit grower If he is to be successful must be progressive and anything which Is an aid to the free exchange nf Ideas between members of the district must help the progress of the Individual. If the ratio of progress that has prevailed for the last few years is maintained, of which there is good evidence, I.II the land suitable for the purpose will be producing fruit lu the near future. WALDO AND BAYNES' LAKE. The Waldo and Baynes' lake dlBtrlct on the line of the Great Northern, south of Elko, Is one of the new fruit growing sections that is just opening up. At present the district Is the centre of large lumbering operations, but a company has successfully placed, a large amount of fruit land on the market and setitlers are beginning to go In. The C. P. It. is also putting 3000 acres of its lands on the market so that a big settlement may be looked for within the next few years. This district Is immediately north of the fine fruit farming districts of northwestern Montana and it is expected that as good results will be secured there as in the territory to the south, . PAGE SIXTEEN ©he fPaily tptew># SUNDAY .; JANUARY 3 MANY NEW DISTRICTS ARE BBNG OPENED UP PEND D'ORHUE VALLEY Br A. O. Lang WANETA, B. C, Dec. 31—In the obituary notice of Nels Demars, who died the other day no mention wa9 made of the fact that In tbe early days he carried the mall from Colvllle, Wash., up this valley and on Into East Kootenay. Probably, too, the old French Canadian was amongst the gold seekers who already before the Cariboo excitement ot 1860 made big money on the Pend d'Orellle trenches. Now, however, there is little placering along tbe river, nor do pack trains travel the Dewdney trail to and from the one time busy mining campB of Wild Horee creek, East Kootenay. The old trail Is now a good wagon road; timbered flats have given place to meadows and young orchards. The Indians hnve forsaken their once fashionable hunting grounds, where cattle now roam Instead of deer; neat bouses and barns stand where formerly was tha miner's cabin, and In Bhort this valley Is In the same state ot transition as other parts of the Kootenays. The past year has witnessed a decided advance in the direction of more settlers, more clearings, mora fruit trees planted, more mixed farming and better roads. Until recently the farm- L ers confined themselves entirely to the raising of beef cattle and their herds were free to roam over a wide tract. Labor wsb scarce, the cattle brought in good money with little attention, nor was it necessary, owing to the mild winters and good range, to break up much land for hay. But as farm produce was In Increasing demand and prices kept high, gradually butter making has been taken up, pigs and poultry kept, potatoes, etc., grown. During the mat two years also the valley has done a remunerative business In the supplying of milk cows to new settlers along the line of the N. F. & S. railway. As regards fruit growing there are several small orchards about 15 years old. Those however, planted on a commercial Bcale, date back only a few years. But as a fair start has already been made, as labor is now easily obtained, as results from the older orchards are most encouraging and as a good class of settlers is coming in it is certain that this valley before long will become a great fruit producer. Unfortunately this locality does not yet enjoy the advantage of being advertised by a resident expert in the raising of fruits for choice shipments and exhibition. However, the samples, for instance, of Gravenstein apples grown here without any particular care would, as regards Clavor and appearance, amply satisfy the practical orchardist. Where climate and soil are such that all kinds of vegetables, small fruits and perfect apples and pears can be grown; further, tobacco, tomatoes and melons regularly ripened In the open air, the conditions seem Ideal for the small laud holder. But It Ib to be noted that there are no owners of 10-acre blocks here and for the simple reason that prices being still so moderate new settlers do not feel called upon to tie themselves down to a few acres. The system of small holdings has Its advantages and its drawbacks. Those who prefer It have plenty of choice elsewhere in the Kootenays but those who wish to retain for thtmselveB room to expand and who desire to engage in dairying as well as fruit growing can. find what they want here. With regard to irrigation, although there are a number of creeks available, It has not been found necessary to put them to use. As In most valleys of the Kootenays the rainfall is quite sufficient for fruit trees, but in some seasons and on some soils crops, such as bay, would probably be benefitted by irrigation. There has been little land speculation here and most Is still held by tbe early settlers who pre-empted here and who showed their confidence In the future of the valley by making additional purchases direct from the government. Until land rises considerably In price it is probable. that new comers will continue to-buy tracts of from 20 to 100 acres. While those situated near the railroad are likely to go In for various side lines the main output of farm produce in the near future will be apples, beef, pork and butter. Early potatoes might also be a feature, as good crops of such varieties as Early Rose and Eureka have repeatedly been dug here already the first weeks In July. In some lines co-operation will be necessary and it is a healthy sign that those planting apple trees are endeavoring to agree on three or four varieties which shall be planted by all and so later facilitate the shipment of one variety in carload lota. It is probable that Gravenstein, Wealthy and Wagner or Jonathan will be chosen. DEER PARK By F. F. Rameni Deer Park, situate on the lower Arrow Lake, about sixteen miles north from West Robson, Is famous as a summer residential district ,and is claimed to have the finest climate in tbe Kootenays. Some years ago considerable mining operations were conducted at Deer Park, but these were discontinued when the depression in the mining industry occurred, and since then the land fronting on the lake has been taken up for agricultural purposes. About 2000 acres have been sub-divided into orchard tracts by the Provident Investment Co. These tracts range in size from ten acres up, and are being offered at a very moderate price and on liberal terms. The soil Ib a red loam, with a good subsoil, and is particularly well suited for fruit growing and market gardening. It Is especially adapted for the growing of small fruits, strawberries doing exceptionally well. One fruit grower Mr. F. Hamblln, claims that his strawberries were ready for marketing In May of last year. About seven families located at Deer Park during 1908, all with the intention of growing fruit, and a considerable planting of fruit trees has resulted. The settlement Is now one of good proportions, and many more settlers will arrive In the spring. A number of old timers have their homes here, who spend their time principally in prospecting and hunting. Mr. Hamblln, a Rossland solicitor, who owns an orchard tract here, has embarked In tbe growing of peaches, and In 19C8 has planted out about ten acres of trees, all of which are bo far promising well. Deer Park has a post office, a boat industry and a general store Ib to be "U7E ARE the largest individual owners of first-class Fruit Lands on direct existing lines of transportation in British Columbia, Wholesale blocks of 200 to 6000 acres each on the Arrow Lakes, Retail Orchard Tracts in the model subdivisions of Fruitvaie and Arrow Park, Correspondence Solicited. Kootenay Orchard Association Limited Nelson, B. C. Bankers: Bank of Montreal y J opened during this winter. Dally transportation north and south is maintained all the year round. In the townslte many lots have been sold during the past year, chiefly for private residences, and it is expected that several business enterprises will be opened up during the summer of 1909. All the land adjoining the townsite was disposed of during 1908. In regard to timber, Deer Park can safely be considered as having the very best that can be found on the Arrow lakes, there being millions of feet of yellow and white pine, fir and some cedar, all located within easy distance of the settlement. Logging operations are carried on all winter, enabling the settler to work practically at home, and at the same time earn sufficient to keep tha wolf from tbe door, and also to provide a fund for the further improvement of their orchard tracts. The mining industry in tho vicinity of Deer Park has again been resumed, chiefly by syndicates and considerable development work has already been done, with the result that arrangements are now under way for the erection of a modern plant next spring to treat the ores of the district. As previously stated the climate at Deer Park cannot be beaten, and with a valley of about 16,000 acres, containing good fruit land, timber and mines, It Is one of the best districts for investment, and it Is quite certain hundreds of settlers will locate there In the very near future. BURTON CITY AND FIRE VALLEY By J. B. Annit'l, Probably no part of the Kootenay has made such'rapid strides in. fruit growing during the year as the Arrow Lake country. The Arrow Lakes are about 20 miles In length, and It Is estimated that there Is at least 100,000 acres along these lakes which are suitable for fruit culture. The principal valleys that have attracted so much attention are Nakusp, Arrow Park, Orchard Beach, Burton City, Needles, Fire Valley, Renata, Deer Park and Robson. Nakusp is situated at the mouth of Kuskunex creek, and the valley extends in an easterly direction to Slocan lake. A large number of settlers have purchased land there during 1908 and are Improving it. Seven miles below Nakusp the lake narrows and fine stretches of land are found on both sides for 40 miles, and small towns are springing up every few miles. The first place Is Arrow Park, a prosperous young town with hotel, store and post office. Then comes Orchard Beach, where new houses are going up in all directions, Pour miles further down the lake Is Burton City, and It Is estimated that 400 people have purchased fruit lands during 1908 within a radius of 10 miles of Burton City. This Ib probably greater progress than any other part of the Kootenay country has had. The real eBtate men who are operating in that vicinity claim that 10 years from now Burton City country will produce more apples than any other valley in the Kootenay. • Leaving Burton City, the next place of Importance is Needles. Here there are well developed orchards on both eides of the lake. This Is the upper or north entrance to Fire {Valley, which Is probably the oldest settled valley on the Arrow Lakps. This valley Is from two to three miles wide, and Is suitable for fruit culture for about 15 miles back. The government has made a good wagon road up through the valley with branches running out on each side, This valley Is dotted v'.h farm houses tor a distance ot at' c 10 miles, most of the farmers having large holdings which they secured from the government aa pre-emptions and some are now sub-dividing them Into 10 and 20 acre fruit farms. The rush of new settlers has not started In Fire Valley yet, but It Ib expected that during 1909, hundreds of fruit growers will find their way to Fire Valley, and I do not hesitate to say, that some day Fire Valley will eclipse the famous Hood River Valley of apples, both In quantity and quality. Renata, Deer Park and Brooklyn are only three miles apart and It Is estimated that Deer Park is the earliest part In this section of the country. This Is accounted for by the extra amount of sunshine of the southern exposure. The whole country Is park like, wild gross, which reaches a height of two feet, growing between the trees, and it Ib a most favored spot for wintering live stock, as they require very little attention during the winter season. Standard fruits, such as apples, pears and plums are also successfully cultivated, the climate and soil making this valley an Ideal place for orchardlsts. The land Is quite level and easy to clear. No irrigation has yet been found necessary, but a very fine creek runs through the valley, with an abundance of water the year round, so that In case of an exceptionally dry season, Irrigation can be easily secured. Renata commands one of the best situations of any spot on the Arrow lakes, the sun shining on it from morning till evening all the year round. There Is a nice sandy beach on the lake front, affording good boating and bathing facilities, and It is within the range of possibilities that In a very short time there will here be established one of the most popular summer resorts In the interior. There was but one fruit grower in the valley In the year 1907, while today there are fourteen settlers located there and eighteen more have made final arrangements to locate In the spring of 1909. There Is a public school, general store, poBt office, with a dally mall service throughout the year. The government has provided fairly good roods throughout the valley, and bridges are placed where necessary to allow uninterrupted traffic. The most distant block in the settlement Is only about one and one-half miles from the steamer landing. Twenty acres have been reserved on the water front ,and subdivided into residence lotB for the convenience of summer residents In connection with the summer resort above referred to. Within the last few months a promising mineral claim has been located within two miles of Renata, on which considerable development work has already been done. Good results are anticipated from this claim In the near future, as Renata lies within the gold belt, and traces of gold are found' In the bed of Dog creek, which rune through the valley. About six miles from the lake shore a promising mineral spring has been located quite recently. An analysis of the water shows sodium, calcium and Ilthlo, It te'ei-J pected that a bottling plant will !>,■ erected In connection with this spring, when the winter monthB are over, and this will provide an additional revenue producer for Renata. Arrangements are now being made for the erection of a Bawmill at Renata, nnd It is expected work on same will commence this winter. A 3000-acre timber limit, located back of and closa to the valley, will provide the Umber necessary to make this enterprise ■ success. This Industry will result In great benefit to the settlement in general as manufactured building material will be available right on the spot. Renata, viewed from any point, can be classed only as sn ideal spot, and taking into consideration Its fruit grow. Ing possibilities, and the numerous other industries in contemplation, th* little settlement of today will. In all probability, within a very few years, be the most progressive and flourishing burg on the Arrow Lakes. • RENATA 1 P. F. Slemus FRUITVALE By Kootenay Orchard Association, LUt Renata Is a sub-division, situated about 20 miles north of West Robson, on the lower Arrow lake, Kootenay district, and Is owned by the Manitoba & Western Land Co., Limited. This section of the country Is well, known for Its mild climate, the seasons opening about three Weeks earlier than In other parts of the Kootenays, and remaining open to a longer period In the fall months. The soil Is • red sandy loam, and cherries, peaches and watermelons, In addition to all kinds of vegetables do exceptionally well there. If the history ot Fruitvaie were written It would read like a fairy tele. The object of this article, however. Is to give a plain statement of foots, showing by cold BtatlBtics what is being done In the fertile valley ot the Beaver. Fruitvaie is located 50 miles south ot NeUon, on the Spokane branch of tho Great Northern railway. Beaver creek runs through Fruitvaie and empties Into the Columbia river three mileB away. In the spring of 1906, six thouBan'd four hundred acres, comprising «the heart of this beautiful valley, were ac: quired by purchase from the Great Northern railway and others. A whole year and large sums of money were spent on preliminary surveys and cru'lB- ing to demonstrate the most practical plan of laying out an up-to-date orchard sub-division In accordance with the topography of the'country, also to ascertain what land was first class and what rough and waste. Early In 1907 surveyors were put In , the field, over 3,000 acres of land surveyed out as waste, and the b'alance, lying on both sides of the railway, carved Into 322 orchard tracts of practically ten acreB each. A townslte wbb survey, ed, as nearly as possible In the centre of the sub-dlvtslon, 25 miles of wagon roods leading to the townslte and rail- ' road station were cut out, graded, and Improved with bridges and culverts, and the place thrown open to settlement. The first settler arrived on the ground July 4th, 1907. Present population of Fruitvaie 350. The place has four general stores, a meat market, post office, broom factory, hotel, school with 38 children. Number of dwellings erected, 105; number of acres cleared and cultivated, 360; number of acreB set-out to trees, 240; number of acres sold to date, 2,130; price of land Bold, 1208,160; number of town lots sold, 30; price ot town lots sold, $3,082; actual selling value of all land sold, *211,240. We might add that It has been the dim of the settlerB at Fruitvaie to plant only those varieties of trees which have proved to be the best for. commercial purposes, with the ultimate end In view ot having the Fruitvaie brand of apple world famed tor quality,,., :- ;>J Industrial Section (3 THE DAILY NEWS Pages 17 to 24 VOL.7 NELSON, B. C„ SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1009 NO. 216 NELSON, THE CAPITAL OF THE KOOTENAYS—THE ELECTRICAL CITY Of all the public utilities owned and controlled by the corporation none have been the cause of as much contention, differences of opinion and fair and unfair criticism as the hydro-electric plant at Bonnington Falls. At the same time it may he fairly and truly said that no other public utility in the municipality will be the source of bo much revenue as the same plant once the city is In a position to reasonably guarantee a continuous supply of power to consumers. The Installation of the second unit now In progress, will place the city In such a position. As any description of Nelson would be Incomplete without an extended reference to this municipal enterprise, The Dally News takes the liberty of extracting from the report of the late city engineer, Mr. A. L. McCulloch, the following information respecting the initial steps taken, to secure a site and the subsequent operations up till the time the first unit was installed. Following that will be a resume of tho further work performed and contemplated In connection with the plant. Mr. McCulloch reports: "Instructions were given by the munl- pal council in November1, 1900, for me to examine the available sites for the construction of a proposed hydro-electric power plant. In pursuance of these instructions I immediately made examinations of the available sites on the Kootenay river, and selected the Bite on the south Bide ot the upper Bonnington Falls as the one best lending itself to economical construction for the site of the plant proposed. Accordingly, in Pe- cember, 1900,1 staked, on behalf of the city, a water record and also 40 acres of land on the south side of the Kootenay river at the upper Bonnington Falls, including the site required for the power plant, "Both these applications were oppos- W byi the West Kootenay Power & Light company, but the city eventually secured both. The water record was granted on January 15, 1901, but it was not until January 22,1903 that the city secured title to the site for the proposed plant. 'Trior to this, however, I was instructed by the municipal council to complete surveys, prepare plans and estimates and report to the council on the construction of a power plant capable of being utilized up to 3000 horse power capacity. This report, with estimates, was made on December 5, 1901, and covered the construction of a plant providing for three units of 1000 horse power each, the estimate cost of which, with one unit of 1000 horse power in machinery installed in the initial construction, was $135,000, the plan adopted being that of the horizontal type of wheel setting, necessitating the wheels being set above extreme high water below the falls. "A bylaw to raise $150,000 for power plant purposes received the assent of the electors on December 17, 1902, the vote polled being 271 for the bylaw and 89 against. Immediately after tbe passage of the bylaw, speclflcationns and Instructions to bidders were prepared, but on account of the delay in selling the debentures, tenders were not called for the construction ot the works until March, 1905. "Tbe municipal council in January, 1905, engaged Mr. Clemens Herschel to report on the best plan for developing the power at the proposed site for a plant ot an ultimate capacity ot 5000 horse power. Mr. HerBCbel's report fa-, vored the vertical type of wheel setting, with umbrella type generators, this setting having the advantage of utilizing full head at the falls at all stages of water, with the wheels ''submerged in high water—'the head at high water being estimated at 40 feet and at low water *0 feet. His plan provided for a plant of four units of 1250 horse power each under the minimum head of 40 feet, the same four units being capable ot developing under the 60 feet head 6700 horse power. Mr. HerscheTs plans, with some modifications, suggested by myself, were* the lines upon which the< power plant-has been built, that is a four unit plant, with the umbrella type setting of generators. "On March 29, 1905, the tender of D. McBeath for excavation and masonry foundations was accepted, the price being $10 per cubic yard ot masonry, and $1.50 to $2 per cubic yard of excavation, according to location. Work was commenced by the contractor on April 3, 1905, on the canal excavation, and very shortly afterwards on the power house excavation, the amount of work called for under their contract being 17,000 cubic yards of rock excavation and 4100 cubic yards of masonry. "On May 23, 1905 a temporary injunction was granted the West Kootenay Power ft Light company agalnBt the city, restraining them from disposing of any rock below high water in the river, on the ground that It was detrimental to their 'existing power plant at the middle Bonnington Falls. The effect of this Injunction was to .stop all excavation for the power house site and ' greatly curtailed operations.. The temporary injunction wsb made permanent by the courts on August 8, 1906. .. "On August 18, the city agreed to W D. McBeath ft Co. 40 cents per cubic yard for 8500 yards of rock' excavation* as compenst^onTfoT-tto-Bxtre-t»tt"ot disposing of the excavated rock on account of the Injunction and an agree* ment was nude with the West Koote nay Power & Light company by which we were enabled to recommence work on tbe power house excavation. On account of the difficulties of disposing of this rock the work progressed in a desultory manner until proceedings were instituted against tbe city and the contractors for contempt of court, when the work ot rock excavation at the power house ceased. On November 29, 1905 the contractors and the city were found guilty of contempt of court, but the application for sequestration of city property was ordered to stand over to be heard at a time fixed on 24 hours' notice. This order, of the court also stipulated that , the defendants will cease to carry on their work until they shall have constructed a substantial crib work of timber or walUof masonry along the outer bank of tbe dump oi rock or debris between high and low water of tbe Kootenay river. The construction of this wall, however, provided a manner in which the work could be carried on with the permission of the court. The contractors, however, on account of the difficulties and expense of carrying on the work, asked to be relieved of their contract. By this time the season had so far advanced that unless the work was carried on in an energetic manner, it would be impossible to complete the power house foundations before the water commenced rising in the spring, and thus causing an indefinite delay in completing the work. After considering all the circumstances the municipal council decided to relieve the contractors and complete the work by day labor. Accordingly, on December 12, 1905 an agreement was made with D. McBeath & Co., paying them for work done at contract prices and taking over supplies and plant at an agreed valuation. Under this agreement the contractors received $23,401 for total value of work done on contract and $11,820 for plant and material. "On Dec. 12, 1905, the city assumed the management of the works, assuming the payroll, however, from Dec. 1. The work was at once pushed as energetically as possible, as soon as some necessary rearrangement of machinery and plant was completed. During the construction of the works contracts were let for the steel supply pipes, steel beams and Iron gratings, etc., required. "Tenders were received on July 17, 1905, for furnishing one 750 k.w. umbrella type generator and all the necessary power houses and substation accessories, as also for one turbine water wheel and governor for operating the generator. Only one tender was received for the hydraulic installation. In July the municipal council awarded the contract to the Allls-Chalmers-Bullock Co. for both the electrical and hydraulic Installation for the sum of $43,485, but it was not until Sept. 11, 1905, that the contract was signed by this company. The contract called for the shipment of the machinery from the works In five months from the date of signing the contract, viz., Feb. 1, 190G. There was an unfortunate delay. In the shipment of the machinery, and it was not until the beginning of September that the last of the electrical machinery arrived. The installation of the machinery was completed and water turned on the turbine on Dec. 28, 1906. The terms of the contract call for tbe contractors to furnish, instal, and successfully operate the plant for a period of 30 days. "Following are some of the particu- Fall and Complete History of the Hydro-Electric Power Plant F*om Its Inception-Detail of Work and Cost of Same lars of the power house construction: Height from wheel pit floor to turbine tion walls, 68 feet; height from generator floor to ridge of roof, 38.6 feet; sulator pins, the wires of the circuit being spaced thirty Inches center to floor level, 28.6 feet; from turbine floor to thrust deck floor, 33.6 feet; from total height of building, 106.6 feet. The i foundation walls are built of solid con- | center In the form of an equilateral triangle. The pole line Is built on a thrust deck floor to generator floor | level, 8.6 feet; total height of founds- crete masonry, the vertical walls being six feet thick, there being also a six foot wall between each unit. Width of each unit, center to center of crosswall, 25 feet; the turbine floor is a masonry arch with a depth of crown of arch of 4 feet; the thrust deck floor is a masonry arch with a depth of crown of arch of 2 feet; the generator floor Is a j masonry arch, with a depth of crown of arch of 2.6 feet. Between tbe turbine floor and the thrust deck floor there are two other floor levels of steel beams, which also act as steady bearing stiff- oners for the vertical shaft. The foundations are completed to the elevation of the turbine floor level for tour units, but above this level for'two units only; everything being in readiness for the addition of a second machine. The power house superstructure Is built of brick laid In cement mortar. The walls are thirty-two inches thick for a height of twenty feet to the ledge for the travelling crane, then for a height of ten feet to tho wall plate, It Is eighteen inches thick. The roof is supported by heavy roof trusses, the roof covering being three-ply malthold roofing. The Interior half of the generator room now completed Is 29 by 53 feet. ' "A frame dwelling house 22 1-2 by "4 1-2 feet, one and one half storyB high has been built for tbe accommodation of the employees. Tbe bouse has four bedrooms, sitting room, dining room, kitchen and cellar; has a bath room, with closet, bath and wash bowl, and fitted with hot and cold water, and has been built to provide for an addition when necessary. "A water supply system, consisting of 480 lineal feet of two inch Iron pipe and a small storage tank, has been installed to furnish water to the house for domestic purposes and to provide fire protection for tho power house and residence. ....,- ,, ■/.' ■ v . "The transmission line Is nine and a half miles in length and consists of a seven strand aluminum cable,, equal to No. 2 aluminum wire, carried on No, 16 Locke glass insulators and locust In- right of way purchased by the city excepting for a distance of 1 1-2 miles from the power house to 49-creek, where It is on the public road allowance. This right of way, for a width of 60 feet, was cleared of all treos and brush, and all standing trees along the right of realize! on,the sale of plant and sup- realized on the sale of plant to date is approximately $185,600. "On account of the Injunction of the court, and of the court having found the contractors guilty of contempt of court, on the city assuming charge of the work, great care had to be exercised in disposing of the waste rock. The excavation for the wheel pit was placed along a narrow strip above high water, at the foot of a perpendicular cliff. To find a place to dispose of the rock from the fntake it was necessary to change part of the canal training wall from masonry construction to a timber crib construction, and disposing of the rock within this, making It wide for the purpose. The balance of the intake excavation was disposed of by building a dry stone retaining wall at the foot of a rocky cliff. "With the vertical type of Installation used at the plant, the total bead at all stages of water can be utilized, so that the capacity of the turbine varies from time to time according to the high and low stages of the river. As designed, the present turbine Installed is Intended to have a capacity of 1250 horse power, with a head of 40 feet. This minimum head occurs only with high water conditions such as happened in 1894. An average high water condition would give a head of about 52 feet with a wheel capacity of 1600 h. p. while the maximum low water head is 65 feet, with a wheel capacity of over 2200 h. p. "Our present plant was designed before the West Kootenay Power and Light Co. commenced the construction of their new plant. The improvements they intend to make in widening the river channel below the falls will have the effect of materially lowering high water conditions at our power house tall race, when the maximum high water will give a head of not less than 53 feet, and at low water a head of 65 feet. This will give a range of power with the present turbine of from 1650 to 2200 h. p. The plant, as at present constructed for four units, has an ultimate capacity ranging from 6500 to 8800 horse power, between minimum and maximum beads. As the city has a water record of 51,000 miners' inches, equal to a capacity of 8000 h. p. under 65 feet head, there will be ample water to meet the requirements. The generator at present Installed has a nominal rating of 750 kilowatts. To be able to utilize the hydraulic capacity of the plant, It will be advisable In future extension to instal generators of 1000 kilowatt capacity. (signed) a. l. Mcculloch, c. e." During 1907 tbe municipal council, after a lengthy test of tho machinery by the contractors, under the supervision of the city electrical engineer, agreed to take over the plant with Ibe exception of the governor, which did not satisfactorily perforin the work required of It. Repeated efforts were made to have contractors replace the governor with one better suited for tbe requirements, but these were met with the statement that the governor Installed was adequate. Matters continued In this condition unltl 1908. When the council of 1908 assumed office an Inspection of the plant was Immediately made, and many improvements were suggested and carried out. Principal among these was the building of a concrete draught tube to replace the metal one washed out by the surge of the waters in the pit. The forebay wall was also raised seven and one-half feet, a necessary precaution as was subsequently proved, when the water raisr Work Is now: progressing pn these lines' and contracts are being let for the supply and installation of the machinery. •The installation of the second unit necessitates the enlargement of the sub-station in the city to accommodate the transformers, switch board and other apparatus required. The fact of the provincial government having granted the old court house to the city, enables the council to avoid the expense of a new building for a sub-station, by utilizing tbe present city hall on Victoria street Already considerable work has been done there in the necessary transformation of tbe interior, and a part of the apparatus has been installed. When completed and In operation this will bo one of the best equipped buildings of its kind for the purpose required. A second transmission line will also be erected, the wire For same being now on hand. When the full Installation at present proposed Is completed. Nelson will be in a position to supply a continuous current every day In the year, and every hour of each day ,and will also be In a position to enter into contract for the supply of power and light to any and all who may deslre,lt. NELSON, THE BEAUTIFUL. By J. C. Dufrcsne. In my capacity as late City Engineer, I have been asked to contribute a Bhort article on tbe year of progress end prosperity through which Nelson has just passed, I may say the greatest era of progress and prosperity that Nelson has yet known, and this in spite of the wave of financial panic, depression and calamity, that has struck this whole continent, and the world In general, for the past eighteen months. Twelve years ago Nelson was but a little smelter camp, her streets ungraded, her buildings unpalnted, her popular tlon of about a thousand, depending almost entirely on the ore production of the Silver King Mine. When good fortune smiled on the Hal] Mines Co., Nelson smiled with it, when the smelter had to shut down awaiting the development of further ore bodies, Nelson mourned, and her business men trembled for her future. Today she stands preeminently the Queen City of the Kootenays, the greatest wholesale, commercial and manufacturing centre between Winnipeg and Vancouver, with a population fast approaching ten thousand; beautiful marble government buildings, schools, churches, banks, business blocks, municipal water works, sewerage system, electric light and power plant second to none for any city of her size between' the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Nelson of today is not a city of mushroom growth. Year by year from the time some eighteen w twenty years ago when a few ot her oldest inhabitants walked over tbe mountains In search of precious metals, railroad right of ways, hunting and fishing, etc., and . settled in this beautiful garden spot on the shores of the mighty Kootenay, giving it. the name of Nelson, down to the culminating era of her prosperity rtw evidenced by her progress during the current year, Nelson has known no year of retrogression. True, her growth has been marked by periods of greater or less acceleration, and would In all probability have continued so, bad she not awakened to find herself the centef of what is destined tg become one of the most important fruit growing dis* trfcts on this great continent. Of the Nelson of the ftiture who can say? Will the Nelson of 1918 have a ssB MMsflLJKp^£J^__ "* 'IsWFm^* • "%4^iSBiW^ii | *? ^M ''/^^8M § !{:|i^§; --wm • ■ ■ V i ■ '! TRANSFORMERS NELSON HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT. way that were a menace to the power circuit were cut down. "The total payment on power plant to December 1906, Is $167,055, and there remains yet to be paid on account of machinery contract $28,090. This, together with $300 due on payroll, etc., will bring the expenditure up to $196,- 750. Deducting legal expenses amounting to $8810, and allowing $2600 as a safe estimate ot tbe amount to be ed to a height of eighteen inches over tho old wall. Concrete weirs wore built In the tall race to overcome tbe surge and wash of tho falls. Later In the year a cottage was erected for the use of the superintendent and his family, and preliminary steps taken for the installation of a second unit. This necessitates the enlargement of. the power house, besides many alterations In the Interior arrangement of the appliances. population of 20,000? It should, aye and more, Who shall stty that the Nelson of five years henco will not have that population? With her fruit lands more fertile and widely known year by year, her mines opening up all around and her manufactories and Industries increasing and becoming more productive day by day, Nelson should make rapid strides within the next few years. (Continued on Page Twenty-two.) —— PAGE EIGHTEEN Krw §ottg Slews, SUNDAY JANUARY! IDEAL COUNTRY FOR HUNTING AND FISHING ; By M. R. McQuarrle. . Very few people In Canada or the United States hare the advantage of living in an up-to-date town like Nelson and at the same time have such splendid opportunities of big game hunting aa are to be had in the Kooteay district. The whole surrounding country abounds in different varieties of big game. Along the shores of the Arrow lakes, far instance, and In the vicinity are to be found gristly bear, black and brown bear, cougars, lynx, timber wolves and coyotes and possibly on no place In the continent are mountain goats to be met back to tbe camp where be expected to find some men who were working on'a mining'claim In the vicinity and hoped to get their, assistance .to bring In his kill. He discovered, however, that the men had left for Nelson on a passing barge and that they would not return for some days. The only person left In camp was Mrs. Rose the wife of one of the miners. Next morning he told her that he woudl go out and bring In what he could of the deer, hanging the rest up out of reach of marauding animals. He promised to be back by It appears that soon after the hunter. left in the morning the grizzly had invaded the meat house at the camp and carried off what food it could obtain. Mrs. Rose noticed that the bear, had gone oft directly in the tracks ot Mr. Burden and fearing that the hunter might come to some harm, the plucky woman started to follow In order to render what assistance aha could. Fortunately her help was only needed to carry In the skin o! the enemy. Paul Andrews also had an exciting experience, In this esse near the Arrow Ml ' 4 ih ^&m*M '■•>J wPr •ZBf ***Tfm^L\ ^ ItiflKH H |SL\T 1 " 1BC Y^Lw^M A 1 \ ^ I ■•:,.?-WMWK.-'-fll':t:+Wm^mt§WEaM ",-i k > & ll. , 9 w ■■■''-■%:<*sa~**P.jf,pr at bow the influx of many visiting fishermen from the south, who had magnificent sport, one of the' largest fish taken by them scaling twenty-two pounds. '' A fine cast of a splendid specimen of this trout, caught some two years ago by Mr. Whellams of Kaslo can be seen In the Nelson board of trade rooms. The time Is fast coming when the preservation of our game fishes must be a matter of moment, if we ere to encourage visitors to come here for the sport.. The Dominion government last June enacted regulations under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, providing amongst other matters that no trout shall be taken in B. C. waters under 8 inches In length, and that no trout under three pounds in weight shall be sold or exposed for sale In thlB province. This will prevent tbe slaughter that to my mind has been going on for years past, especially in the Kootenay river west of the city. Many professional fishermen have made a living from the catching and sale of trout, which are readily disposed of in the home cities at from' 25 to 30 cents per pound. The rivers have not been stocked and the time will come and that not far distant when It will take an expert ."to make sure of a catch. The provincial government have promised to take the matter Into consideration next year, and • it regulations similar to those already passed by the Dominion government are enacted, It will do away with the conflict that at present exlste as to which government has the right to pass laws governing tbe taking and sale of trout. Qnce the sale of trout Is absolutely prohibited by both governments. It will mean that the vocation of the professional fisherman la gone, and the amateur will stand some chance of making a catch and the fish will have t fair chance of multiplying. This is a matter that vitally concerns the people of Kootenay and the City of Nelson In particular, for we naturally wish to advertise the fact that we have some of the finest fishing in the world at pur doors, to be had for the cost of a visit here .and It would be a thousand pities to have our visitors come and leave disappointed, oMng to the fact that our streams are being exploited for the benefit of the market. For all information relating to Nelson and district, their resources and all attractions, write to Secretary Peblicity Bureau, Board of Trade, Nation, B. C HHPI- •UNDAY ........... JANUARY I ? / (Hite ©ally llerw. it PAGE NINETEEN THE CITY OF NELSON ELSON, the capital of the Kootenays, • has a population of over 7000 persons. . Situated in the midst of the most charming and picturesque mountain scenery on the Continent. A mild and equable climate, unbroken by severe storms, throughout the year. V A lake frontage affording facilities for shipping and railroad purposes and unsurpassed opportunities for boating and the use of motor launches, '^.y.y.--■,::.: .-.-'■.■';•: .r...,'yy:y";:!■:: Health records of the very highest standard Good gravelly soil and perfect drainage. Public and high schools of the very highesf efficiency, with modern and well equipped buildings. Churches and public buildings of the best iii the province. L The railway and banking centre of the mining, lumbering, fruit growing and commercial interests of southern British Columbia. Excellent hotel accommodation. Possesses its own waterworks, sewers, and hydro-electric power plant. Value of exports through Nelson port of entry to U.S. for 1908 $2,600,000 The City of Nelson With the cheap power it affords, its central position, and the local and district demand for manufactured articles now imported from distant points of production Affords Great Opportunities to those seeking new fields for manufactories. The policy of the Mayor and Council is to afford assistance to new industries. Btefctrjc Light and Power Department DOMESTIC UTENSILS A large stock of electrical appliances for the use of householders is carried in the Electrical Department of the City. - Amongst these the following may be mentioned :— Heating Stoves Water Heaters Coffee Percolators Toasters Chafing Dishes Srnoothlnjg irons "y^arming Pads Tea Kettles Disc Stoves Curling Iron Heaters Industrial Enterprises There are a number of manufacturing and industrial enterprises which might profitably be established in Nelson, an assured market for the products of the same being ready to hand. Amongst these may be mentioned a canning factory, a flour mill, a pulp mill, as well as works for the extraction of turpentine and other by-products from sawdust. These, articles are all sold at the lowest possible price, and terms of payment, spread over a period of months, can be arranged for. A very low rate per month is charged for the current for each article. Por all Information relating to electric lighting and heating enquiry should be made of the City Electric Light Department ■» PAOE TWENTY ©he {potty Heme. SUNDAY JANUARY I NELSON'S SCHOOL SYSTEM-A SHORT HISTORY The public schools of the city of Nelson, which have now for many years been a source of advantage to the city and district and of pride to all citizens, had a very modest beginning. The first class was assembled on May 25th, 1691, in an unfinished room la the residence of Dr. Arthur, corner of Victoria and Stanley streets, Rev. Thomas H. Rogers, B. A., Presbyterian missionary, taking charge. About a "dozen pupils took their Beats on a pile ,of rough boards, the teacher had no chair and only an empty packing case it'or a desk; his black-board was a piece of window blind tacked upon a rough wall. During the summer of 1891 a petition, adopted at a citizens' meeting, was addressed to the provincial government praying for tbe establishment of a school. The government promised to pay the salary of a teacher If the citizens would furnish the building. Rev. Mr. Rogers offered the use of the room then used as a church. Miss Jennie Rath (Mrs. John Hamilton) was then appointed teacher and the first regular school was opened on Oct. 1, 1891. During the same year the govern ment Instructed its agent, T. H. Griffin, to select a site for a school. He chose the present site, block 32, the best available. Early in 1892 the government, which had already provided for the clearing of the site, let a contract to McDonald and Duhamel to erect a two-roomed building. It was then discovered that the half of the block fronting on Stanley street had been laid out in lots for the C. P. R. company, A struggle then began. Two of the provisional trustees, Dr. Arthur and G. O. Buchanan, appealed ^ by telegraph to the government. The result was a decision in their favor communicated by Col. Baker, then minister of education. One room of the new building was opened at the beginning of tbe autumn term of 1892, Miss Rath having been succeeded by Mies Stella Kane (now Mrs. Klernan of Kaslo) who taught until midsummer, 1894, when she was succeeded by Miss Nellie Delmage (Mrs. Isaac Day, Orillla, Ont.) In August, 1896, a second division was required and J. R. Green was appointed principal, Miss Delmage remaining | as assistant. A year later Miss Annie Ihe Nelson Brewing Co., Ltd. Nelson. B. C. Princeton, B. C. W. GOSNELL, Brewers of Kootenay's Finest Lager Beer Bottlers of Red Ribbon Beer ManokctaretB of Soft DfiflkS To Our Patrons Throughout East and West Kootenay In wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year we beg to intimate you will find complete stocks of food products AT ALL OUR DEPOTS Poultry, Fish, Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal and Cured Meats P. BURNS & CO. Nelson, Kaslo, Rossland, Trail, Greenwood, Eholt, Phoenix and Grind Forks Rath became second assistant, a third room having been added to the building. Six months later Miss Nora O'Reilly (Mrs. John Fox) was appointed third assistant, temporary quarters being found for Miss Bath's division in the building then used as Salvation Army barracks, afterwards the Waverley hotel. Early in 1898 the Increasing school population made imperative the provision of new quarters, and the four- roomed building now in the rear ot the new school was erected. The staff of the school was reorganized. Mrs. W. S. Pearcy, B. A., held the position of principal in August and September. Then J. H. Soady, B. A., was appointed, Mrs. Pearcy remaining as first assistant aud the other members of the staff being Miss Dellnage, Mibb O'Reilly and Miss E. VV. Wick- ham, B. A., (Mrs. Jas. Castleman, Chilli wack.) In 1899 two additional teachers were required and the retirement of Miss Delmage made a third vacancy. The new appointees were G. W. Clark, M. A., Miss K. Scanlan and Miss Annie Macleod. In the same school year Miss O'Reilly retired and Miss A. Rath was reappointed. Tbe next changes in the staff occurred in the summer of 1901 when Miss Wlckham retired and Miss E. Thorn was appointed and J. H. Spady was succeeded as principal by A. Sullivan. At the beginning of 1902 the schools passed under the control of the city. In the seven years that have intervened since then the growth of school population has caused an increase in the public school staff from 7to 12 teachers. The staff In January, 1909, will include A. Sullivan, principal; Miss K. R. Scanlan, Miss E. S. DeBou, Miss L. Thomas, B.A., Miss L. Wade, Miss M. Taylor, Miss M. McVlcavMIss C. Milllgan, Miss M. Grant, Miss A. H. Ross, B. A.,' MIsb' L. Smith and Miss E. Thorn. But in the Interval many others have served on the staff who are no longer there. These, In order of appointment, are: Miss G. L. Brethour, Miss E. S. Shrapnel (Mrs. Kenneth Mackenzie), W. J. Balrd, M. A.. J. L. Watson, B. A., MIsb 0. A. Barber, Miss Blakemore, MIbs M. h. Moffatt (Mrs. Ronald Brown) Miss M. H. Moody, B. A., and Miss L, Ahercromble. The growth of tbe school has driven the board of trustees to desperate measures for accommodations for new class rooms. In January, 1903, Miss Scanlan's claBs was transferred to the High School building where It has remained until tho present. Since then another class has found quarters In the basement of? the Baptist church, and two others In Fraternity hall of the Oddfellows' building, temporarily partitioned for the purpose. TheBe troubles, however, will be at an end when the new building Is complete. The history of Nelson High School begins with January, 1901. A succession of entrance examinations had resulted in the required number of pupils (20) being available at that time. In response to urgent representations from the school trustees the government authorized the opening of the school ; and, at the request of the board, nominated Its first master. The High School was opend by R. J. Clark, M. A., the morning of Jan. 25, 1901, in a small room In the old school which Is now the public school teachers' room. The building of a new high school on Latimer street was begun the following term and the new school was opened In January, 1902. For the second half of 1901 classes were held in the small building facing Kootenay street at the rear of the Oddwfel- Iow'b block. The changes in the staff have been few. At the beginning of 1903 Mrs. W. S. Pearcy, B. A., became assistant teacher, being succeeded at Easter by C. McLean Fraser, M. A. In July, 1904, Mr. Clark retired and was succeeded as principal by Mr. Fraser, W. J. Balrd, M. A., becoming assistant. In July, 1907, Mr. Balrd retired and Mrs. Pearcy was reappointed. The staff In January, 1909, consists of Mr. Fraser, principal, Mrs. Pearcy, first assistant and R. 3. Clegg, B. A., second assistant. Apart from the history of the public and high schools and their teachers, the record of the board of trustees is not without Interest. The first trustees, elected provisionally in 1891, were Dr. Arthur, G. O. Buchanan and Edward Corning. They conducted all tbe preliminary negotiations with the provincial government, generally at their own expense, sometimes aided by popular subscription. After the creation of Nelson Into a school district the first regular election waa held on June 25, 1892, and resulted In the choice, by acclamation, of Dr. Arthur, G. O. Buchanan and G. Col well, each to serve for one year, as the school law then required. In June, 1893, Dr. Arthur was elected for three years, W. P. Robinson for two, and G. Robson for one, The next year Mr. Robson was re-elected for three years, and a year later George Johnstone succeeded W. P. Robinson. The first and moat notable contested election occurred In 1896. Dr. Arthur's term had expired and his re-election was opposed by John Houston and Frank Fletcher. After a very spirited contest, In which the ladles took a prominent part, the poll stood: Arthur, 44; Fletcher, 10. In 1897 Dr. Hall was elected to succeed G. Robson. In 1898 Mr. Johnstone sjsssssssj By E. C. Arthur, M. D. eH— was re-elected and In the following year Dr. Arthur succeeded himself for the fourth time. In 1900 Dr. Hall declined re-election and his place was taken by F. W. Swannell, but tn the summer of 1901, on the retirement of Mr. Johnstone, Dr. Hall returned to the board. To the end of 1901 the record of the board's activity was one of ceaseless Btruggle with ihe education department for higher salaries for their teachers, for better buildings, for additional equipment of every kind, and always for more money. The regular allowance In those days was $40 a year for each room, which was to cover the cost of fuel, Janitor service and repairs. That was the only fund handled by the board. Teachers salaries were fixed by the department and paid to them directly by government cheque. At the beginning of 1902 a new era began. The complete control of the schools passed to the board of trustees elected by tbe city, subject only to government inspection, and aided by a government grant amounting to about one-third of the coat of maintenance. Since that time the only extra aid Nelson has received has been a free site and $10,000 for the high school. Now the city, through the board of trustees, finds all the money required and has full control of expenditure. To avoid extra cost and Inconvenience a special collection of taxes is dispensed with, and the city council Ib charged with the finding of the money, subject to appeal to the ratepayers In the case of extra? ordinary expenditure. In January, 1902, a new board of five members wag required and the election resulted in the return of Dr. Hall, F. W. Swannell, Dr. Arthur, A. L. McKIllop and J. E, Annable, the first two for two years, tbe others for one, Dr. Hall having 'retired. However, there were four vacancies next year, and the result was: A. L. McKIllop, W. H; Smith, J. E. Annable and Dr. Arthur, with F. W. Swannell still In office. The only change at the next election was the replacing of W. H. Smith by G. Ritchie. The board or 1906 included: Dr. Arthur, Dr. Hall, F. W. Swannell, R. J. Steel and G. Ritchie. The board of 1906 was the same except that A. D. Emory replaced G. Ritchie. In 1907 W. Irvine took the place of Dr. Hall, and In 1908 R, G. Joy succeeded F. W. Swannell. Dr. Arthur has been a member of tbe board, provisional and regular, for 18 years. Among his colleagues he has had F. W. Swannell for 8 years, Dr. Hall for 7 yearB, George Johnstone for 6 years, G. Robson and R. J. Steel each for 4 years, and A. L. McKIllop and A. D. Emory each for 3 years. Of the general record of the schoolB It Is : unnecessay to say much. The annual roports of the departmental examinations for many years have shown Nelson public school decisively In the lead and the high school always there, too, or very near It. Wmmmmmmmmmmmimm wire glass, which Is more translucent than transparent, and will withstand more stone throwing than ordinary glass. The superstructure of the building Is brick, with selected brick facings, trimmed with cement The ground floor is divided into six clans rooms, each 27x36 feet, with 14- foot ceilings. Each room is provided with two exits, opening into corridors, the main corridor being 20 feet wide and the branch corridors 7 feet wide. Two cloak rooms are provided for each class room. In addition to the class rooms on this floor there are also two smaller rooms, each 8x30 feet, oner for the use of the principal, the other for teachers use. The main stairway lead* Ing to the second floor is 10 feet vide with a landing about midway between the floor and celling, where two stairways each 6 feet In width, branch oft (Continued on Ftege Twenty-*©** ( THE NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL. One of the most imposing and massive structures in the city Is the new public school building nearlng completion, and which Is expected to be ready for occupancy when the schools re-open after the present holidays. The archi- tectjiral design Ib what Is classed '•composite," embracing many features which at once attract the eye and command attention. The building fronts on Stanley street and the main entrance Is approached by a flight of cut stone wteps leading into a vestibule through a large semi-circular arch. The pediment over this arch Is finished with moulded coping and ornaments. From tbe second floor, over the main entrance, the gable is carrle.. up with brick, with round turreted columns, surounded by cement copings and ornaments, the name and date panels being In the lower portion of the gable. The upper portion of the gable Is filled In with a circular top triple window, the whole effect being pleasing and attractive. The new building Is 150 x 90 feet, which with the part ot the old building retained, gives a total ground area of 150 x 135 feet The basement Is of stone, the full size of the new building with a ten-foot celling, and is sub-divided Into playrooms, having a superficial area of 4,000 feet, furnace room, coal room, lavatories and the necessary corridors. The boiler room is located at the southeast corner, and Is 16x26 feet in area with a 10-foot celling. Here are installed twin boilers to heat the water necessary for the heating of the whole building. The connections are so arranged that any one floor can be cut off when necessary. Wall radiators are used throughout the building. Adjoining tbe furnace are the. eoal room 16x18 feet, and a repair room 7x18 feet. All of these rooms have been made as fireproof as possible, metal lath covered with plaster, and concrete floors belLg laid. At each end of the basement are located the lavatories for the use of the pupils. In the corridor running through the center of the basement are located the fan rooms intended to provide ventilation for the whole building, with fresh air chambers, etc. The janitor's quarters are fitted up in the south end of the basement under the old part ot the building, and consist of sitting room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and closets. The remaining portion of the basement under this part of the building will be utilized for play room, storage, etc. All windows in the basement are glazed with Merraneae INSURANCE ftlJWMWIMWWa'llMllli WHEN BUYING Insurance buy the best; it pays. Investigate the standing of the Company offered you. Don't buy a policy in a Company not able to meet its losses in case of a fire. These Companies may try to tempt you by "cutting the rate a little" (and as a rule the cut is mighty little—not\ worth the lyhile of a Westerner to consider), and you get very little. We represent the very best Fire, Life, Accident. Employers' Liability, and other Insurance Companies —the kind that meet their obligations under all conditions, the financial statements of which we are proud of and will be pleased to furnish you with on request. Read the following about "third-rate" Companies (the kind we DO NOT represent), and size the situation up for yourselves:— PLACING RISKS IN WEAK COMPANIES An Organization That Assumed Liability and Could Not Meet It, Fernie Losers Defrauded. (From the Reglna Leader). . The collapse of the Globe Fire Assurance company with liabilities of over $59,787.50, and assets less than $10,000, would seem to show the urgent neces- BiUy for the passing of some stringent Insurance legislation in Saskatchewan. The insolvent company, for the winding up of which an application Ib now before the Supreme Court was incorporated under a provincial charter some two years ago. On the $49,950 of stock said to have been subscribed, some $3,000 has been paid up. To meet the losses Incurred by the company In the Fernie fire, $69,787.50, there Is no cash whatever the total assets of the company apparently consisting of $7,500 re-Insurance and the -amount due from out standing premiums and office furniture, probably between $300 and $500. It should not be possible for such companies as the Globe to exist and tout for business, and the fact that it is possible for such a company as the Globe to go after business with the sanction of a charter granted by tbe provincial legislature shows very forcibly the need for radical legislation, A business such as was carried on by the Insolvent company Is nothing more than a gamble, pure and simple. Provided that no tires occur, everything goes swimmingly; the directors draw their fees; the shareholders draw their dividends; the agents draw their commission, and the people who are paying In the premiums, out of which dividends, tees and commissions are paid, live under the fond delusion that their homes and businesses are protected against loss by tire. One big fire, and the bubble bursts. Without charging those connected with the Globe with absolute dishonesty, we do not hesitate to say that the methods, sanctioned though they presumably were by the legislature, were essentially not honest; with no assets worthy of the name, the company was piling up heavy liabilities which those responsible for the company's management knew perefctly well they could never meet should they ever be called upon to do so. It was just a huge gamble on the part of Messrs. Dean and their associates—and the principal losers are the unfortunate people who were so Ill-advised as to place confidence In them. When a man pays money to Insure against fire, he should have a very good guarantee that in the event of fire he will receive the compensation he had been paying for. With such a company as the Globe he has no guarantee of the sort—rather, Indeed, a guarantee that he will not get back a penny of the good money he has paid away in premiums. For the protection of that large section of the public which Is preyed upon by such jerry-built concerns as the Globe, It Is necessary that legislation be introduced providing a reasonable amount of guarantee that the policies issued and upon which premiums are paid are worth something more i than waste paper. When a man sees all his worldly possessions go up In smoke, It Is poor consolation to he left with an Imposing document, signed by directors and sealed with the company's big seal, but which cannot be turned Into cash representing its' face value. The lesson of the Globe Fire Assurance company Is unmistakable. Brydges, Blakemore & Cameron, Ltd IMPERIAL BANK, JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON, B. C. SUNDAY JANUARY I ©he $jUtUg lUnnt. i5 PAQE TWINTV-ONt FERNIE HAS ALREADY RISEN FROM ITS ASHES By E. P. Ambery la Tlew ot tbe great catastrophe which overtook Fernie on the first day ot August obliterating tbe town entirely from tbe map, it is difficult to give a resume Of the year's progress Industrially and commercially. A careful review of. tbe situation, however, cannot but interior of British Columbia. Vast improvements have been made at the collieries at Michel, where a great steel tipple Is In course of construction which when completed will be one ot the most modern and up-to-date in Canada. Improvements have also been made to -*' . ..' "v'' •(.'"•- •,,'>4 w»MSra View OF FERNIE ONE MONTH AFTER FIRE. reveal the fact that it has been a year of steady advancement and prosperity, notwithstanding the staggering blow which for a time rendered (he great mass ot the population homelesa and left the city a heap of ruins' and a desolate waste. While other portions ot the country were suffering from flnan- the compressor and haulage plants at both Michel and Coal Creek, while at Fernie thirty new coke ovens have been built. The mines at Carbonado have been working steadily for some time and though only about 100 or 125 men are employed, the development and reopening of these mines after a long VICTORIA AVENUE, FERNIE, FOUR MONTHS AFTER FIRE. cial depression In the earlier part of the year, conditions here and throughout the Immediate district were exceedingly bright and most encouraging. The town Is mainly dependent upon two great industries, but it has also the advantage from Its central position in the Pass of being the distributing point of close down has been a distinct advantage to the district and especially to Fernie from where most of the necessary supplies are secured. The C. P. R .mines at Hosmer though only having commenced shipping in December have been the means of building up a thriving town at that point and the popula- mm VICTORIA AVENUE, FOUR MONTHS AFTER FIRE. an extensive and rapidly developing country. The coal output of the mines at Coal Creek has not during the twelve months been as great as In previous years owing to the fact that a considerable amount of very important and necessary Improvement and development work has been carried on for the tlon has Increased In a phenomenal manner during the year. Coke ovens have also been constructed and are now In operation and will do much to relieve the coke situation In the Boundary country. The Corbln mines In the Flathead country have also entered the market as shippers during the year, and VICTORIA AVENUE, FERNIE, ONE MONTH AFTER BIO FIRE. - purpose of substantially increasing the tennage at an early date, but the monthly payrolls have put into circulation a targe amount of money which combined with other sources ot revenue has enabled the town to maintain Its enviable reputation as one of the best In the at the present time are producing about one hundred and twenty tons a day, a railway having been built into that district during the last few months. Prior to the great lire In the Pass the lumber' mills gave employment to a large number of men and the payrolls from this source had reached a very substantial figure, and when the present mills that are under construction are completed, the payrolls will be larger than ever. Prospecting and development wbrk have also been carried on up the Elk Valley, railway surveys have been made and government roads extended, all combining to make conditions prosper* ous. The completion of the Fernle-Mlchel extension of the Great Northern railway has also added largely to the business coming to Fernie, besides giving Increased facilities for passenger and freight traffic between the towns scattered through the Pass. During its brief existence Fernie has passed through more trying ordeals than usually fall to the lot of a Canadian city; It has twice been partially destroyed by fire; a terrible explosion in the mines at Coal Creek In the early days of the town swept Into eternity without warning over one hundred and thirty of its citizens; there have been long and disastrous strikes with the usual accompanying hardships, but it remained for the year 1908 to witness the most frightful and calamitous visitation that has ever been inflicted upon ft Canadian town. The great fire that swept through the Crow's Nest Pass on August 1st completely wiped it off the map, only twenty-six buildings escaping from the awful fiery blast. Over nine hundred buildings went up In smoke In the space of a few hours, and the whole populace were left homeless and destitute, and for some weeks depended upon the generosity and hospitality of the citizens of neighboring towns who came to their assistance with a spontanlety and whole months after the terrible calamnity, there have been erected over seven hundred and sixty new residences, public buildings and stores, and many of them on a better, grander and more perman- A CRE8T0N CITIZEN heartedness that has seldom or ever been equaled. Incredible as It may seem to those who have not visited the town the fact remains that now, five ent Bcale than ever before. Handsome brick, Btone and concrete buildings line the business streets, while in the residential districts the private dwellings are such as would do credit to any town. The debris has been removed, sidewalks relald, telephones installed, and tho usual business of the city resumed, and but for the charred timbers and blackened walls that are here and there to be seen, it is difficult to realize that the town has so recently passed through such an appalling catastrophe. To a people who have had the energy and enterprise to rise superior to such an overwhelming blow, prosperity is bound to come, and it Ib doubtful If in the whole Dominion there Is a community who has a greater confidence In the future of their city than the people of Fernie. None of the merchants who were doing business here prior to the fire have deserted the town but rather has their number been added to, and the class of shop that has been rebuilt Is a decided Improvement on the old ones. During the year a very important industry has been established and is in full operation, namely, a modern up-to-date brick manufacturing plant of large dimension, which has been for some months working overtime to meet the unusual demand for this class of building material and tbe output of which has been a factor in the rapid rebuilding of the city. As an illustration of the money Invested in new buildings during the year It may be mentioned that a new brewery baa been erected at a cost of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars and will be In operation In a few weeks. No account of the year's happenings, would be complete without an acknowledgment of what the people of the city and district owe to the citizens of other towns in Canada and the United States, for the generous aid and sympathy extended to them In the hour of need, and the ready response given to the appeal for assistance when the town was destroyed, acted like a ray of sunshine to dispel the gloom of those dismal days, giving hope and courage to the afflicted and filling their "hearts with gratitude to those who relieved their distress and gave them a refuge. A LLOYD-GEORGE YARN. — (Exchange) It seemB that lately, Mr. Lloyd-George found himself on board one of our latest battleships, and a lieutenant was detailed off to show around tbe apostle of reduction of naval armaments. They Inspected this, that, and the other thing until at length Lloyd-George paused in front of the putent lifebuoy. "At last," said he in his best platform manner, "I see something on hoard your Rhip worth seeing. Everything up to now has been for destroying life; this is the first thing I have seen for saving it This is a greater thing than youri 12-inch guns!" "It's certainly likely to be more useful to us if we go to war and this bally government stays in office much longer, agreed the lieutenant, ingenuously. The Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company Limited Producers of the Best Coal and Coke in the Northwest Mines and Coke Ovens at Fernie, Coal Creek, Michel and Carbonado On the Great Northern Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway and the Morrissey. Fernie and Michel Railway Office, Fetnie % t British Columbia '• MM TWENTY-TWO ©he §a\tQ $Iot». SUNDAY JANUARY *. OUTLOOK FOR 1909 LUMBERING OPERATIONS In considering the development of the resources of the Interior of British Columbia, It Is only fair to say that the lumbering Industry is one of the most Important. The beginning of the lumbering industry was coincident with the commencement of railway construction and mining in' B. C. some 25 years ago when saw mills sprang up at various points for the manufacture q|of bridge timbers, mine timbers and other material necessary for the successful carrying out of these undertakings. From the small start made in the pioneer days there are now plantB operating in the interior that compare favorably with the best mills in America. At the beginning of 1908 the mills associated with the Mountain Lumbermen's Association, with headquarters at Nelson, had on band 190,000,000 feet of sawn lumber and 120,000,000 feet of logs cut in the woods. It was estimated in January, 1908, that the manufactured product for the past year would be about 410,000.0110 feet, that Is an additional 100,000,000 feet ot logs would be got out and added to the stock in hand. The year 1909 opens with bright prospects tor the lumbering industry of the Kootenay. Last year, it is true, was anything but a good one for this Industry but during it lessons were learned which will, it is hoped, put lumbering on a better footing for all time to come. A better demand is expected during the coming year than in 1908 and higher prices are looked for. . The cause that led primarily to the depression in the lumbering industry was the financial stringency which swept over the United States and to a less extent over Canada tn the latter part of 1907. In such depressions the lumber trade is always first to feel the effect and this was no exception to the rule. When money becomes tight building operations practically cease, thus . cutting off the market. In the beginning of 190S the harvesting of the prairie crop was looked forward to by lumber men, but the returns did not come up to the early expectations and this meant another Betback to the manufacturer's hopes, especially as the country was still only recovering from the effects of the depression of the previous year. The result was that there was little or no demand from the prairies for lumber, as compared with the few years preceding. On the strength ot their advices from the east the lumber men, however, are looking for a revival beginning within a few weeks time. One thing that Is tn favor of these hopes Is the fact that tn many parts of the prairies tire farmers have not yet realized on last year's crop. "When they do, it Is hoped, money will be freer. , One result of the small demand for lumber last year has been that the ■trade has been placed on a better footing in many respects. Many of tho 1907 Accounts were not paid that year but ^tnost of these were collected last year fcnd, as very little lumber was marketed while this collection was going on. the "Various lumber companies will start the ■business of 1909 with a clearer sheet than at the beginning of any previous $ear. The failure to collect accounts in 1907 was taken to heart by many of itlhe lumber manufacturers who, rather than sell on account, kept their lumber Ih their yards and will In future transact business on more of a cash basis. iffhls in Itself will prove of benefit to !le trade and in future years will more lan recompense the manufacturers for le dullness in trade during the past ear. If, however, the business done by the lumbering manufacturers during the past year was not as great aa It should ttave been, It must also be remembered that the cost of operations was also "jgVeatly reduced. When the year 1908 opened it found the lumber men not to be felt acutely, but many Canadian tlmbermen have been attracted by the phenomenal yields and high products of the British Columbia forests, and have Invested largely In standing timber. The yield of from 20,000 to 100, 000 feet per acre is not at all uncommon, nor is it uncommon to get single the combined capacity being 160,000 feet per day. The company is capitalized at |1,000,000, and has Invested In mills $175,000, and in timber limits $500,000. There is also a considerable sum invested in tugs and railways operated In the delivery of logs to mills. The estimated acreage of Emits 80ME EAST KOOTENAY TIMBER 'o'nly with large stocks of lumber on band but also with large supplies of logs ready for tbe milts. Owing to lack of a market there was not tbe same necessity to cut large quantities of lumber during last season, with the result that many ot tbe mills have large quantities ot logs on hand and bo have been able to make a large saving this Winter in the getting out of logs. J It will thus be seen that the lumber camp as a whole has come through a trying time with benefit rather than permanent injury to the trade, but what has been said of the state of the trade last year did not apply to all manufacturers owing to special conditions. For example, a large amount of lumber was required for the building operations that have gone on in the Kootenay during the past year and the mills tn the neighborhood profited thereby to an extent which largely made up for'the lack of orders from the prairies. During the latter part of the year the rebuilding ot Fernie also provided a market for a large amount of lumber, which otherwise would have been carried over . until this year. . Notwithstanding the fact that the operations ot the interior lumber men have not been as successful during 1908 as could have been desired, Kootenay in conjunction with the other districts ot the province of British Columbia, occupies an unique position in the timber wprld. . That the last great stand of conl- tenuis Umber in the world Is to be found In British Columbia Is beginning to be realized by lumbermen throughout this continent at last, and during Ihe last two years more particularly there has been a great rush to secure control of the forests ot the province. The timber seekers have come mainly from the United States, where the ■owelty of virgin forests is beginning trees yielding 5,000 to 10,000 feet. Any one possessing the Idea that British Columbia Is covered with such forests, however, will be greatly disappointed. The Bupply is far from inexhaustible, and Is situated chiefly in rather narrow valleys between ranges of rugged mountains. It would be a safe estimate that not more than ten per cent, of the total area of British Columbia Is covered with forests yielding over 20,000 feet per acre. As a world's supply, the forests of British Columbia are particularly well situated, so much being either right at salt water or tributary to it, and when the Panama canal is completed the markets or Europe and Eastern America will be made still more accessible to British Columbia lumber. As a reveue producer the1 forests far surpass all other assets in the province. The output of the mines during the last year was valued at $25,000,000 and yielded a revenue of $200,000. The cut of timber Is estimated at 900,000,000 feet, valued at about $20,000,000, but It yielded to the government a revenue of nearly $2,000,000. It must be borne In mind, however, that this revenue does not all come from the timber cut, but that about $15,000,000 comes as an annual ground rent from timber lands, and Is an assured revenue whether tbe forests are exploited or not. The remainder was collected In the form of royalties, hand loggers' licenses, etc. The government at first disposed of Its timber In the form of crown grantB or leases^ which are practically Interminable,' and to which there Is attached a very small ground rent. During the last four years the timber has been taken up under special licenses, which are annually renewable for 16, at first, but since 1905, for 21 years, for which an annual ground rent of $115 per square mile for lands east, and $140 for lands west of tbe Cascades Is charged. Under this system about 11,000 square miles of timber land has been taken up, with the result that the beBt accessible timber of the province has been alienated. One man who roamed the foreBts of British Columbia for 20 years In search of timber and who is now In close touch with the industry as a government official was asked to give an approximate of our standing timber. TTo said that no man could do that with any idea of coming near the truth. He has, however, thought a great deal on the subject and then he began figuring on a slip of paper, and pointed to the sum he had figured out. It was 72,000,000,000 feet. He was asked to explain his figures. He said that he had been in businesB for a generation and had watched the depletion of the forests from year to year, and after much thought had decided that in 80 years the timber. of this province would be exhausted! The cut last year was a very heavy one, and would be much larger than this year, was 900,000,000 feet and this multiplied by 80 would make the total cut in 80 years, taking last year as an average, 72,000,000,000 feet; or, if the forests lasted a hundred years, 90,000,000,- 000 feet. _____ held by this company Is 200,000, and the varieties of timber cut in the nulls comprise fir, tamarac hemlock, cedar and pine. About 400 men are on the pay rolls of the company, and of this state their-opinion on the outlook for 1909, they report as follows: "The outlook for 1909 1b better, since, instead of having a poor crop preceding it, as was the case In the prairie provinces in 1908, the crop there has been a good one, and times in the northwest, where our market Is, will be better as a reault, although we do not look for more than aa average year, owing to the fact that It will take considerable time tor the farmers to overcome the hard times consequent upon the poor crop of 1907. The fall of. 1909 wilt probably see a marked Improvement In the lumber trade." PATRICK LUMBER CO. This company began operations in the district some two years ago. The mills are located on the Slocan river some 25 miles west of Nelson, and the headquarters are at Nelson. Tbe officers of the company are: H. Markland Molson, president; Wm. C. Mclntyre, vice-president; J, W. McConnell, sec- treasurer, all of Montreal; Jos. Patrick, managing director, Nelson. The mill is of the most modern type in equipment, and has a capacity of 125,000 feet-per day of ten hours. The estimated acreage of timber limits held by the company Is about 10,000, the timber consisting of cedar, white pine, hemlock, tamarac and spruce. The approximate cut, for 1908 was twelve million feet, and the estimated cut tor 1909 is placed at fifteen millions. Between 76 end 100 men are employed In and about the mill, and 150 are employed In logging operations. The amount invested in the enterprise is about $250,- thousand feet per day. The approximate cut during 1908 was seven million feet, and It Is estimated the cut during 1909 will total not more than four millions. The Umber consists of cedar, fir, pine and larch. Forty men are employed In the mill, and fifty are employed in logging operations. Mr. ployed In logging operations. Replying to the question as to the outlook for 1909, the manager states: "Contracts have been entered into for' practically the whole of the cut." EAST KOOTENAY " U&BER CO, The business of this tympany Is lo- porated and no information Ib given as to the amount of capital invested, nor 1b the acreage of timber limits, given, the officers of the company are: W.H. Griffith, manager, and F. W; Adolph, secretary. Regarding the outlook for 1909 the manager Is silent. PORTO RICO LUMBER CO., LTD. . This company, organized with a capital of $250,000, Is carrying on lumbering" .operations at Moyie, on the line of the (Jtow'b Nest railway,- about 100 miles east of Nelson. The officers are: R..W, Gibson, president, and J. A. Johnston, manager. The amount Invested In mills totals $30,000. The capacity of the mill is forty-five thousand feet per day of ten hours. The cut for 1908 totalled (Continued on Paige Twenty-nlns.) Winlaw says of the outlook for 1909:. "Prospect of a fair market" ' TRAIL LUMBER CO., LTD. This is practically a new company, organised during 1908, and beginning THE ELK LUMBER COMPANY The Elk Lumber company, whose mills and offices are at Fernie, was one ot the big losers in the fire which swept over that city on August 1. Not only did the company lose its mills and lumber yards In which there was heavy stock but much ot Its limits were also damaged or destroyed In the same conflagration. Already a new mill Is well under way to completion and will be ready for operation, It is expected, by June 1 next. The capacity of the new mill will be about 125,000 fet per day and 110 men will be employed In connection with it. The company now have 300 men in the logging camps endeavoring to save as much as possible ot the timber touched by fire. W. U Boynton, the manager, looks for a good year's trade In the lumber business and expects to see a revival aa soon as the farmers of the prairies realize on last year's crops. THE YAt-E^OUJMBIA LUMBER CO. with headquarters at Nelson, is a 11m* ited corporation, operating three mills, number 200 are employed in and about the mills, the remainder being employed in logging operations. The approximate cut during 1908 and eighteen million feet of lumber, and it Is estimated this will be increased to twenty-five millions in 1909. Two tugs are operated on the Arrow lakes and one on Root- 000, of this amount $150,000 being for mills, and $100,000 for timber limits. The manager reports: "The outlook for 1909 seems to be good. The demand Is much better now than some two months ago. We look for a good demand during the coming year, with higher prices." mill operations in December of that year. The mills are located at Paul- son, on the line of the Nelson-Rossi and branch of the C. P. R. about 35 miles west of Nelson. Tbe headquarters of the company are at Trail, and the officers are: A. Donaldson, president; J, F. Miller, secretary; W, Mark DeCew, WW c wife, AN EA8T KOOTENAY LOG PILE cated at Cranbrook, where the bead office Is established. The officers are: A. Leltch, president and B. S. Home, secretary. The authorized capital ot the company" Is $300,000, of which the major portion is invested In mills and timber limits, the figures for these Investments not being given. The capacity of the mill is one hundred and fifty thousand feet per day. One hundred thousand acres of timber limits are held by this company, the timber consisting principally of pine, larch and fir. No figures are given as to the approximate cut during 1908, and fwith reference to the cut for 1909 the company states: "Depends on trade; cannot estimate." The number employed In and about the mill Is one hundred and seventy-five, and one hundred and fifty are employed In logging operations. In reply to the question as to outlook for 1909,. the company reports: "Bright; looks like good business and better financial conditions." ADOLPH LUMBER COMPANY. At Baynes lake, B. C, a few miles south of Fernie, are located the mill and headquarters of the above lumber company. The mill was burned on the 24th of June last and one is being rebuilt which will be ready for operation when the season opens lu 1909. It will have a capacity of forty thousand feet per day. The timber sawn consists ot pine, fir and larch. The 1908 cut of this company was small, owing to. the loss of the mill so early in tbe season, and no estimate Is furnished of the approximate cut for 1909. When In operation the mill employs twenty-five men, and forty-five are employed in logging operations. The company Is not lncor- NELSON, THE BEAUTIFUL (Continued from. Page BeventMi.) It may Interest the reader to know that since the beginning of 1908 up to the .time of writing, there have been erected in Nelson some twenty handsome residences at a cost of about $50,000, besides these there have .been. extensions and improvements to existing dwellings, amounting to over $15,000.00. And not only In her private bot In her public buildings also, this year heads the list, with the completion of her massive and Imposing $100,000.M marble courthouse, her handsome $80,000 brick and stone public school, $30,000 Methodist church, $30,000 Bagftea block, and her $20,000 skating rink In course of construction, making la all a total for the year of over three hundred thousand dollars worth ot buildings and Improvements. Look at the business streets of Nelson today, there Is not a vacant store. Take a walk through her residential sections, you will hardly find a house marked "to let," and this in spite of the buildings that have gone .up In the past year. Look at the' trains and steamers arriving daily, bringing men and families from all quarters of the globe, in search of fruit lands, mines.. Investments or homes; and. all in, or ( In the vicinity of Nelson. Never in the history of the city has the outlook for the future been better; with the abundant cropB in the prairies, the financial panic over, and peace reigning practically throughout the world, Nelson should be entering on an era of progress and prosperity such as few cities even In this great west land have ever- known. Nelson is progressive, she has always- been, her citizens are patriotic- and proud of her, and well might they be. With all the advantages of location and climate, with abounding wealth of productive fruit lands and the mineral treasures of her surrounding mines, who could doubt the success of her future.. The financial panic 1b over, the country rejoices in peace and plenty,, the eyes ot the Investing world are- turned towards British Columbia, the iron is hot, let Nelson strike. enay lake, and a railroad, eight miles In length Is operated near Creston to deliver logs In the Kootenay river for the Nelson mill. The officers of the company are: B. H. Bowman, president; A. F. Dudgeon, vice-president and general manager; W. N. Poole, sec-treasurer. Regarding the business outlook tor 1909, the officers of the company are satisfied conditions will Improve, and that a fairly good demand for lum- beer will prevail. Being .requested to THE WINLAW LUMBER CO. With head office and mills located at Winlaw, on the Slocan branch ot the C. P.R., about 45 mileB from Nelson, 1b a close corporation, and In reply to a query as to the names of the officers and the amount of capital invested, writes: "Private." The amount invested In mills Is $35,000, and no Information is given as to tbe acreage of timber limits, nor the amount Invested In same. 'The. capacity of the mill Is forty-five managing director. The company la capitalized at $60,000, and has invested In mills $20,000 and an equal amount In timber limits, the acreage of which la estimated at 5,760. The capacity of the, mill Is forty thousand feet per day, and the estimated cut for 1909 Is given aa four million feet The manufactured: product ot the mill is stated to be "all kinds of rough and dressed lumber." Twenty men are employed in and.about the mill and the same number are em- The Yale-Columbia Lumber Go., Ltd. Mills at Nelson. Westley and Cascade, B. C. Head Office, Nelson, B. C. ANNUAL CAPACITY 60,000,000 FEET The Largest and Oldest Lumber Manufacturing Concern in the Kootenays MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF Rough and Dressed Lumber. Mouldings, Lath, Shingles, Sash and Doors SUNDAY JANUARYS ©he ©aU0 Heim v,.-i£t-'': . ijl g2*s INT. COAL AND COKE WORKS, COLEMAN, ALTA. Besides being on the Crow's Neet Pass line Hosmer also enjoys the benefit of being located on the branch of the Great Northern running from the International boundary through Fernie to Michel, being eight miles west of the former of these two places. MICHEL. Michel, located on the Crow's Nest Pass railway line, about 222 miles east of Nelson, is a typical coal mining town. Here are located some of the Crow's Nest PasB Coal company's best coal lands, Including five good seams ranging tn width from seven to fourteen feet. Two of these are now being operated an dthe others will be as occasion demands. At present the company is installing an Immense steel triple running all the way across the valley. This when completed, It Is said, will be the most modern plant ot the kind In Canada, If not on the continent The dally output from the Michel mines Is about 1,800 tons of coal and between 700 and 800 tons of coke. The history of Michel begins with the opening of coal mining operations there on June 10, 1899, the year after towns along the Crow. Its citizens are progressive and altogether the place gives the traveller tbe Idea that It Is very much alive. One thing that strikes a visitor particularly is the optimism regarding the town's future that Us residents possess. They are looking forward to seeing Coleman a city of no mean proportions, and In this they point out that they are justified by the progress made since the town was located five years ago, since when the population has steadily grown until it Is now placed at 1,500. The growth of Coleman up to the present time Is coinjldent with that of the International Coal and Coke company. Early In 1903 this company secured possession of the coal lands which It has since developed with such marked success. On October 22 of the same year the company put the town- site on the market and by Christmas the first permanent building, the Coleman hotel, was ready for occupancy. The company pushed development work with all Bpeed and about January 1, 1905, B. E. Reynolds arrived from Pennsylvania to "become mine superintendent. Previous to this a fan and other plant bad been Installed In the mine and since that time operations Have been carried on without a break. While the mine was being developed tbe com* pany also had men at work building coke ovens, and when the former was opened, 100 of the latter were ready for operation. Within six months the output of the mine had Increased to 600 tons per day and by January 1,1906, 1,000 toe per day on a single shift At the present time the company has 216 coke ovens in operation, the output from them being from 12,000 to 15,000 tons per month, while the amount of coal being produced each day Is about 2,000 tons. The company has 600 men regularly employed In Its mines and about the coke ovens and Its monthly pay roll approximates $60,000. While the company was developing and extending its property, the town was going ahead even more rapidly and is now the recognized business centre for miles In either direction. The town is governed by a progressive Improvement board, the members of which last year were: Alex, Cameron, chairman, F. H. Graham, Ed. Holmes and O. W. Benedict, secretary. Under this board, streets have been fixed up, sidewalks built, the latter on the local improvement plan, and much other useful ■work accomplished. A live board of trade looks after the advancement of Coleman's business Interests. The town is supplied with water from a system installed by the International Coal and Coke company, which also supplies light for the streets and also for commercial purposes. Among the other modern improvements of which the town boasts is a good telephone service with long distance connection. An up-to-date school was erected a little over a year ago and all the leading de- uominatlons are represented In the matter of churches. It Is expected that the opening up of the McGUIivary Coal & Coke company's mines, which adjoin the townslte, wll.1 give further impetus to Coleman's growth and that the next few months will see even more rapid progress than any similar length of time in the past But the people of Coleman see other good things for their town. One of these Is the extension of the Great Northern eastward from Michel, a distance of 22 miles. The Coleman board of trade Ib now In communication wtta, Louis Hill, president of tfce great Northern, in regard to Ibis toatter ftfid looita for a favorable reply. It Ib pointed out that J. J. Hill has already announced that the policy of his road is to Ssild an east and west line through Western Canada to the Pacific oceftp. and it Is pointed out that this piece of road from Michel would be a further step In addition to those already taken, which conslBt of the running of lines Into the prairie country and the construction of lines In this province, Including the one from Fernie to Michel which has just been opened to passenger traffic. With the Great Northern in Coleman the town would have connection with all points reached by that railway as It now has with all C. P. R. points. This, the people of Coleman believe, means further rapid advancement for their town. SURE THING. A man may think he Is killing time, but sooner nr later time puts him out of the running. A SUFFRAGETTE "LADY" One of the dissentient ladies engaged in breaking up a public meeting waa armed with, and freely used, a dog- whip. Over 56 years on earth, brought up on a farm (where they farm) Later on railway construction in charge of stores and of work. For yearB a cook and hotel and restaurant man. Over 30 years in the west—16 years of this time In West Kootenay and NelBon prospecting and mining, ranching and selling goodB. My general knowledge of work of all kinds and my very extensive acquaintance Induced me to take up Employment business. x In this I satisfy employer and employee to the fullest extent possible. W.PARKER The Worklngman'i Employment and Real Estate Agency, 312 Baker 8t, P. O. Box 623. Phone 283. Nelson, B.C. PAGE TWENTY-FOUR Wat Skrtlg gteim SUNDAY JANUARY • ROSSLAND-THE GOLDEN CITY OFKOOTENAY I By J. Q. Egsn. I ROSSLAND, Dec. t!l—-The Rossland camp had a very prosperous year during 190S. The mines were kept in steady operation and the production of ore. has been kept up without Interruption throughout the year.' An average of about 800 men were kept at work In the larger and the leased mines and peace and prosperity reigned from January till December. The ore production was approximately the same as It was last year and the result of the year's work has been that each of the three larger mining companies have made good profits. Another gratifying feature Is that the leading mines have largely Increased their visible supply of ore by judicious advance work, thus Insuring large supplies for the coming year and far beyond that . The mines have settled down to enjoy a long period of production. Another matter for congratulation Is tho very satisfactory manner in which the deeper portions of the larger mines are developing, as extensive and valuable ore shoots have been uncovered and are adding each day their due quota to the production of the camp. The leaslns system has been a feautre of considerable importance in the history of the year, and that It will continue to play an Important part In its future history is certain. Most of the leases were in the Boutli belt, where there is a silver-lead pro ducing section of considerable Importance and in which many of the ledges carry ore of a high grade. Merchants and business men report that they have had the most successful year in several past. They say trade has been steady, and that collections have been good, owing to the permanency of employment, and that losses through bad debts, which is often an accompaniment of unsteady employment, were cut down to the minimum. Each year the number of families In Rossland shows a small increase and thus is added something additional to the trade of merchants and business men which augments their profits. Appended is a resume of the leading features of the development and progress of the leading mines of the camp during the past year: Tbe main shaft of the Centre Star and its allied mines has been deepened during the year from the fourteenth to the sixteenth level, a distance of 320 feet, giving it a total depth from its collar of the shaft of 2300 feet . Without going Into actual details it may be said that development has been actively pushed on the Idaho, one of the allied properties of the Centre Star, on the fourth, fifth and eleventh levels by extensions of the working of the Centre Star, and this development Is still in progress. On the fourth level of the Insurance Real Estate and Stock Broker fire, Life. Accident and Indemnity Insurance We Buy, Sell and Exchange Fruit and Timber Lands in all Parts of the Province B. C. MINING STOCKS We are in a Position to Give Special Information. Write or Wire for Quotations on any Standard Stock A. S. Goodeve ROSSLAND, B. G. O. H. Green A. W. Smith BATHS, BOWLING ALLEY STEAM LAUNDRY AND OTHER CONVENIENCES HOFFMAN HOUSE Newly Renovated SMITH & GREEN, Proprietors Commercial travellers given the best attention New, well lighted and comfortable sample rooms A special dining room, nnd excellent accommodations HEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN Washington Street, R088LAND, B. C. American and European Plan Idaho a promising ore shoot has been located and Is being opened up and will be reached later on the other levels when they have been further developed. The most satisfactory results of the development of the'year in the Centre Star group are: The opening up of new ore bodies on the tenth and elev- and Milling Company, under the direction of its manager, S. F. Griswold, has operated the Inland Empire In the Granville Mountain section of the Trail Creek mining division. The shaft has been extajjded down to the 200-foot level, crosscut driven to tap the ledge and drifting is now making good prog- NELSON'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL (Continued from Page Twenty.) to either side. On each side of the main stairway on the ground floor, is a crystal stream drinking fountain. These fountains are said to be the latest and most complete hygiene drinking appar- These stairs also provide an exit'from the old building. All tbe fire escape stairs throughout the building are five feet wide. In the main corridor of the second floor are installed two crystal stream drinking fountains similar to those on the ground floor. The third floor Is utilized for an as- coast fir, finished In natural wood. All doors and windows in the class rooms are finished in plaster, with rounded corners, no wood being used lu these places, the object being to minimize dust catching surfaces. The main stairway on the ground floor is supported by four panel columns reaching to the «gf^y ;.;•>-- ■•*■ CITY OF ROS8LAND, SHOWING HEADWORK8 OF THE MINE8 enth levels of the War Eagle, the finding and opening of high grade ore bodies on the second and fourth levels of the Iron Mask. During the year the development of the Centre Star has been confined almost exclusively to tbe thirteenth and fourteenth level aud good ore shoots have been found there and they are extensive, while the ore is of a good grade. The policy of the management of the Centre Star has been to keep the development as far in advance of production as possible and the result of this wise system Ib that there is enough ore In sight to keep up the rate of production that prevailed during 1908 for several years. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, the profits of the Centre Star group were very good and for the remainder of the year a like satisfactory result has been reached. The principal feature of. the development of the Le Rol has been the satisfactory manner in which the ore shoot on the 1650-foot level has developed and from which a large tonnage of a more than ordinarily high grade has been obtained. This shoot will In the future yield a very considerable tonnage as it is rich, long and wide. The Intermediate vein has also developed satisfactorily on the eighth and other levels. Development work is being carried on to the southern portion of the company's holdings, hut It has not proceeded sufficiently to fully determine the results. The mine for the past several months has been yielding a larger profit tha.n II did for a good many months previously and in October the profits reached the very satisfactory total of $50,000, which was the best month in several years. It Is thought from the good results that are being reached that the mine has entered a new era of considerable prosperity. The Le Roi has produced a very large tonnage during the many years that it has been operated and there Is every reason to believe, from tbe way its lower levels are now turning out that Its prestige will increase rather than decrease. The ore of the Le Rol was sent during tbe year to the Le Roi company's smelter at Northport. This plant besides reducing the ore of the Le Rol also handled a considerable tonnage of customs ore. The most prominent feature of the year's work on the Josle Mine of the Le Rol Two company's group Is the very satisfactory manner In which the main Hamilton vein has opened tip on the 300 and 700-foot levels. It has added a large tonnage of ore of a high grade to the visible supply In the mine and tbe result Is pleasing to the management. Another feature Is the development of the Surprise, a member of the Le Roi Two group. A tunnel is being driven and considerable cross-cut* ting and diamond drilling will be under, taken at a later date. Manager Paul S. Couldrey states that the year 1908 has been the most successful In the history of the mine, as the profits were larger than In any previous time. Development Is kept far ahead ot production and the result is that there Is a great deal of ore in sight and the outlook for the year coming is promising. The Le Rol has a large area of likely territory, the larger portion, of which has never been explored, and hence its possibilities are promising. Mining men predict that it has a long and profitable future ahead of it. During the past year the work of developing the Giant California properties has been steadily pushed. The shaft haa been deepened to the 300-foot level and a crosscut has been run to reach the ore bodies that are tn California territory, adjacent to the Annie claim. During the latter part of the year diamond drilling has been In progress and still continues! It Is reported that some' ore has been found, but the management Ib reticent as to Its extent During the year 280 tons of ore was shipped from the Giant California, but this was from the Giant ledge. ' During the year the Inland Mining ress along the ledge. The ledge Is from, five to six feet wide and the ore runs from $20 to $25 per ton, with the principal value In gold. A boiler, hoist, pumps, sawmill, bunk houses, blacksmith shop and ore bins have been added. A seven- drill compressor plant will shortly be Installed and then the shaft will be deepened to the, 400-foot level. If sufficient ore is found on the 300 and 400- levels a reduction plant, probably a stamp mill, will be Installed for the purpose of reducing the ore. During the year the leasing system atus made. No cups are necessary—all the thirsty one requires to do Is to press the button, hold the mouth open, and the city water main does the rest. From the main corridor on the ground, floor of the new building an iron covered door opens Into the corridor of the old building. At each end of the new building are placed fire escape stairs, which extend upwards to the assembly room on the third floor, with suitable means of egress from the rooms adjoining on each floor. The second floor Is laid out practical- sembly room and is practically the full size of the building. It is provided with three exits, being the main stair, and a tire escape at each end. The roof is supported by four steel columns which leaves the room clear of all obstructions. The celling in this room is 18 feet. The roof of the structure is finished with a deck with an iron railing, access being had to the deck by an iron ladder leading from the rear of the assembly room. A 30-foot flag staff, with gilded ball on top, surmounts the building. has been in vogue to a considerably larger extent than at any previous time. The Evening Star, Blue Bird, I X L, St. Elmo, Homestake, Curlew, Mayflower and Red Eagle have been under lease for varying periods. Each has shipped some ore running from a half dozqn tons In the case of the I X L to nearly 1000 tons for the Evening Star. From the Blue Bird one carload of 30 tons netted the lessees, Messrs. Whit- ford & Jenkins, $2,400 or $80 to the ton. It was the richest carload ever extracted from the south belt. The leasing system has been found satisfactory to a considerable extent and promises to come more largely In vogue. Its extension Is certain to he of much benefit to the camp. There are a large number of properties in the south belt which it Is thought can be operated profitably under the leasing system. The lumber industry in the vicinity of this city has not been as good as It was previous to the financial panic of the latter part of 1897. During the year the Blue & Deschamp'a mill has kept In steady operation, sawing lumber and timber principally for local consumption. A few carloads were sent to the prairies, but the prices of lumber were not sufficiently high to Justify continuous shipments to that section. About 60 hands were employed, The China Creek Lumber mills near this City were.not operated during the.year but as a renewed and increased demand Is anticipated from the prairies during 1909 It la certain that It will resume operations early in the spring. " Some schoolboys are pretty Blow but manage to catch the' whooping cough, ly the Bame as the groud floor, there being six class rooms, with cloak room, corridors, etc., the same. There are also two rooms for the private use of the teachers, each 13 x 22 1-2 feet, with lavatories adjoining. Doors are placed connecting each two rooms In the front adjoining ■ the fire escapes, so that if necessary the Inmates can reach the fire escapes without having to enter the cortrldors. The two rooms at the rear of the building on thla floor open on the fire escape stairs on the outside. The whole building will be lighted by electricity, and an up-to-date telephone system, connecting all the class rooms with the principal, has been Installed. Adequate fire protection Ib provided by aj 3 1-2 Inch stand pipe leading from the basement to the assembly room, with a fifty foot coil of hose on each floor, the couplings on same being uniform with those of the city fire department. . The Interior walls are all finished In plaster, the walnscoatlng and other wooden portions being of selected atteiteteu. TORQAL NOREN, CHAMPION SKI JUMPER OF CANADA MAKINO A JUMP OF 109 FEET AT ROSSLAND CARNIVAL celling, which gives a fine appearance, on entering the building. The building is floored throughout with hard maple flooring. The finish in corridors and halls is plain casings with rounded corners. All the cloak rooms have installed therein a radiator with the object of keeping the clothing warm and dry. The different contractors engaged on the building have all strenuously endeavored to complete their several . parts within the time specified, and ' they are one and all deserving of credit for the capable manner in which they have carried on and completed the work They are: John Burns, general contract; Strac- han & Hebden, heating and plumbing; Pearcy & Herb, painting; Rlngrose & Co., electrical work. The architect is citizen Alex Crane, and the completed citiben Alex Crane, and the completed his ability as well as a credit to the city. REPORT OF KETTLE RIVER VALLEY By McCallum & McArdle, Grand Fork.. The Kettle River valley, in the centre of which is located the city of Grand Forks, contains over 10,000 acres of agricultural land, of which the greater part is excellent fruit land. The vaUey Is well supplied with water, as the Kettle river flows through It, and several smaller streams empty Into the river at, or near, this point. This valley Ib just coming into prominence as a fruit growing district and last year It outstripped ail competitors by the superior quality ot tho fruit grown here, having won cups, medals and prizes both In this country and at the London fruit exhibit. Grand Forks has as good schools, church and railway facilities as any city in the Interior of British Columbia, and has a climate that can compare favorably with any on the continent, and Is admirably adapted for fruit growing. A 15-acre tract of land near the centre of the city has recently been purchased on which It is proposed to construct a Sister's hospital at a cost of $16,000. The city has a payroll of from 150,000 to 140,000 per month, and it is expected this will be greatly increased in the near future by the construction ot railway shops. It Is difficult to estimate the return, from a matured orchard, aa very few of the orchards here have attained full production. There are Beveral hundred acres now In fruit, mostly young trees. Mr. Hornsberger, orcnardlst, has eight acres of prunes, the oldest In.the valley, and they yield Win yearly' $366 per acre above all expenses. Mcrtin Burrell, M. P., has half an acre of pears from which he Bold $400 worth of pears'last year, and clear of all expenses. Apples,, the staple fruit for shipping, grow to perfection; and, though they do not yield such great profits aa pruneB, piumB, pears, cherries, Btrawberrlea, etc., they are ' produced with much less expense after the trees come to bearing, and pay enormous profits on the Investment All fruit trees bear earlier here than In portions of the country less fa* . vorable for fruit As there has been no land boom here, first class land, cleared and cultivated, and ready to plant, can be purchased In 10 and 20 acre tracts at prices ranging from $100 to $200 an acre according to location, soil,, etc. In larger tracts the price Is less. During'the past year this, firm has, disposed of over' 200 acres of land in the vlclnjty of Grand Porks In 10 to 20 acre blocks, representing a total Investment or ' the buyers of from $40,000 to $60,000 and the settler, placed on the land are highly satlBfled with result.. 17 Mining Section THE DAILY NEWS Pages 25 to 32 VOL. 7 NELSON, B. C, SUNDAY MORNINQ, JANUARY S, 1Nt NO. 216 REVIEW Of YEAR'S MINING OPERATIONS IN B. C TABLE SHOWING AMOUNT AND VALUE OF MINERAL PRODUCT8 FOR THE YEARS 1907 AND 1908. 1907 1903 Quantity Value Quantity 1 Value 41,460 196,179 $ 829,000 | 4,065,020 34,100 | $ 682,000 256,000 6,291,520 $ 237.629 2,746,448 47,738,705 40,832,720 2366 1,800,067 222,913 $ 4,883,020 1,703,826 2,291,468 8,166,544 60,600 290,100 3,037,000 43,775,000 43,885,000 10,000 $ 5,973,520 1,618,600 1,654,695 5,792,820 280,000 Total metalliferous Coal, tons (2240 lb.) .. Coke, tons (2240 lb.) .... Building materials, etc ... $17,095,447 6,300,235 1,337,478 1,149,400 1 1,700,000 248,000 . 1 $15,219,535 5,960,000 1,488,000 1,200,000 Total mineral production $25,882,660 $23,857,535 TABLE SHOWING PRODUCTION OF MINERAL BY DISTRICTS AND DIVISIONS FOR TWO YEAR8, 1907-1908. organized in London early in 1908, Standard, Hewitt and Westtnont mines. Alnsworth mining division made an in- creas ot about 10 per cent, largely from the Whitewater and Whitewater Deep mines, In Whitewater camp, and In less degree from the Canadian Metal company's Bluebell mine on Kootenay lake, at which a modern concentrating mill waa completed last summer. Silver from Rossland and Boundary district mines Is chiefly obtained from ores also having copper as an important marketable metal content. Most of that from the Lardeau last year was from the Silver Cup mine, with the True Fissure contributing nearly all the remainder from that district. In Nelson division the La Plata and Silver King mines produced most of the silver from that division. Lead—The gradual decrease In quantity of lead produced In the province during three immediately preceding years was continued last year. ' The productioi*. for several ye&a, as shown In the anriuaT r^tuft of the Minister Cariboo District Cariboo Mining Dlv Quesnel Mining Dlv. ... Omlneca Mining Dlv. .. Casslar District Bast Kootenay District . Weat Kootenay District .. Alnsworth Mining Dlv. . Nelson Mining Dlv Slocan Mining Dlv Trail Creek Mtn. Div... Other parts Lillooet District Yale District Osoyoos, Grand Forks Greenwood MIn. Dlvs Simllkameen Dlv « Yale Div. Coast Districts Divisions 1907 $ 306,500 44,000 10,000 364,868 614395 619,842 3,049,702 144,169 8,354,995 56,564 32,767 Totals , 110$ Districts 1907 360,000 | 60,000 | 20,000 I 360,500 | $ I I | 572,809 [ 225,000 '5,648,880 4,726,060 4,792,976 5,710,690 624,000 414,984 779,740 3,725,142 166,824 16,721 5,000 8,444,326 , 7,160,245 6,994,925 135,000 30,320 6,147,348 5,610,540 $26,882,560 $23,857,635 Note—The foregoing are shown In the order followed In the official report, of the Provincial Bureau of Mine.. Similarly, Rossland is Included In Trail Creek and Greenwood and Grand Forks divisions, which constitute the district generally known In the province as the Boundary, together with Hediey camp of the Osoyoos division are shown as in Yale district, as is customary In the official publications. It should be mentioned that the decrease shown ,agalnst Casslar is partly the result of the transfer of the coast portion of Skeena mining division to the Coast district, while that of Lillooet is the result of a temporary stoppage of gold dredging on that part of the Fraser river. Gold—The production of placer gold In 1908 was still more disappointing than in 1907 which In turn gave the smallest production up to that time of any year since 1898. In like manner it must now be said of 1908 that its metal was the smallest since the total of thi. year 1898. The' greater part ot the decrease was In Casslar district, the estimated shortage from AtUn division of that district having been $183,000, and of the Llard and Stlkine division. $25,000. Individual miners produce comparatively little gold in AtUn camp now, and for one reason or another the hydraullclng companies recovered much less gold than in several previous years. There Is, though, much gold-bearing gravel Still available on three or four of the AtUn creeks, so It Is to be expected that with a more adequate water supply which has been provided for by one or two of the larger producers of the camp, a much better result will be obtained next year. The three divisions of the Cariboo district are each credited with an Increase, as shown in the latter of the foregoing 'tables, their mineral production being entirely placer gold, 'The Simllkameen- V division of Yale district appears to have increased1 Its yield by $9,000, but Lillooet shows $7,000 less than in 1907. The Kootenay districts and the Coast do not exhibit any changes in production ol placer gold. In lode gold the largest proportion ot the Increase Was made in Trail Creek division, In which three mines at RoBBlaad each produced more gold than tn 1907, their total Increase having been rather nore than 48,000 os. In Yale district the Boundary mines yielded some 11,700 oi. more, this having been gold occurring In association with copper. Nelson division contributed 800 os. to the total Increase and a small addition was reported from a mine In the Lardeau section of West Kootenay. The decreases were in the Coast district, chiefly from copper-gold mines Vying greatly reduced production eon- sequent noon a suspension of work during quite half of the year. To the total of 256,000 oz. Roasland mines contributed about 142,000 oz., (Boundary mines and Hediey camp of Osoyoos division together about 94,000 oz.) Nelson more than 14,000 oi. (mostly from Sheep Cftek oattp), the Coast (chiefly the Marble Bay mine, Texada Island) some 4,000 «., and the remainder from the Lardeau. Of the two larger gold mines «t tfc. proviso., the Ymlr tn Nelson div ision and the Nickel Plate near Hediey, the latter Is understood to have maintained Its production on a similar scale to that of several recent years, but the former was practically a non-producer. The development of several gold mines In Sheep Creek camp was one of the features of progress In the year. 8llver—The .production of silver was larger in 1908 than in either 1906 or 1907. For the three yearB the several totals were: 1906, 2.990,000 oz.; 1907, 2,745,000 oz.; 1908, 3,037,000 oz. West West Kootenay continues to hold its lead among the districts of the province producing silver, but since it Includes a much larger extent of mining country than East Kootenay, which comes second, the comparison is hardly a fair one. Further, by far the greater portion ol the silver produced In Bast Kootenay last year came from one mine—the St. Eugene, with two others contributing 60,000 oz. each, while In West Kootenay a dozen or more of tho larger mines and a score of the smaller ones, combined to make up the bulk ot the production of the district. West Kootenays production was from the following locall- ties; Slocan 953,000 oz., Alnsworth division (which includes part of the district generally known os the Slocan) —W—« By E. Jacobs. ■saWBWBWI In silver than that In former years; it required 6.3 tons of ore to make one ton of concentrate. The aggregate of production of the St. Eugene mine for all years to June 30, 1908, was 084,311 tons of ore from which 138,878 tons of concentrate were made, which contained 3,951,141 oz. ot silver and 162,905,421 lb. of lead. The production for the calendar year 1908 was about 23,000 tons of concentrate and 2,600 tons of high grade crude ore. As the St. Eugene Is the largest lead mine In Canada, it is probable the forgoing information will be of general Interest. Approximate lead production of West Kootenay was as follows: From mines In Slocan and Alnsworth districts, 12,- 000.000 lb.; Nelson, 650,000 lb; Lardeau, 900,00 lb.; and Boundary,' 25,000 lb. The chief producers In Slocan were In order of quantity, the Standard, Rambler-Cariboo Richmond-Eureka, Ruth, Vancouver, Reco, Slocan Star and Sunset; In Alnsworth division, tbe Bluebell and Whitewater and Whitewater Deep mines combined; In Nelson division, the Involved any radical departures from well-established lines of ore-dressing, although there have been Introduced a number of minor Innovations. As a corollary, the general scheme of development of the mine adopted haa been such as to make practicable Its exploitation at low cost, thereby ensuring the extraction of the ore under conditions especially favorable to profit-earning results. Copper—The years, production of copper, estimated at 43,885,000 lb. 18 the largest by nearly 1,00,000 lb. .of any year since mining was commenced In the province, that of 1906—42,990,000 lb.—having previously been the maximum production for one year. Of the total for 1908, Boundary district mines produced, about 36,000,000 lb.; those of Rossland came next with 6,300,000 lb„ and then Coast mines with about 2,500,- 000 Ib. The production of other parts of the province was insignificant. The progress of copper mining in the Boundary wiil be evident from the following figures of annual production, y0M' ■:■■ ■•-'•" - ':,\. ., .' , T i,,'"'«.■>....'.••'■• ■ ; ■-;: : •' ' . :■ ' *■ ■ " -< ,..y.» zftS* @£ IT"— . #ssS*P^5 . ^«ssssssKS*SSA»l L ■:~~'f*TM$^ ''"<^"f '*':'•"■'■''' 1 GREENWOOD, B.C.—A FLOURISHING BOUNDARY MINING TOWN of Mines for British Columbia, was in roundn figures as follows: In 1905, 66,- 581,000 lb.; in 1906, 62,408,000 lb.; In 1907, 47,739,000 lb. Now comes a further decrease, for the estimated output for 1908 Is but 43,775,000, this being the lowest total since 1904 In which year It was about 37,000,000 lb. In the production of this metal East Kootenay leads with an output of 30,200,000 lb. or 69 per cent, of the whole, and this nearly all from the St. Eugene mine of which, by the way, It may be mentioned that reporting last August, the managing director of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company ot Canada, Limited, which owns this mine among others, advised the directors that "the probable ore reserves of the St. Eugene group are nearly 60 per cent, greater than a year ago. Ore 50 per cent, better in grade than last year's average has been found between the 600 and 800-foot lev* Emerald and La Plata and In the Lardeau, the Sliver Cup (Ferguson Mines, Ltd.) In connection with the production of lead it may be added that while the lead smelter of the Hall Mining company at Nelson remained closed all tbe year, and that of the Sullivan Group company at Marysvllle, East Kootenay, waa closed in February and has not since been operated the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company has increased both the smelting and the refining capacity of its lead reduction works at Trail, Two more Huntlngton- Heberlelh roasting furnaces {making six In all) have been installed and a new anode plant put In, and the refinery enlarged to a capacity of about 75 tons of refined lead per day. The company haa also made a number of, changes and Improvements at Its concentrating mill at the St. Eugene mine, those tn parentheses being for the whole of British Columbia: In 1904, 22,066,000 Ib. (35,710,000 lb.); 1905, 27,- 070,000 lb. (37,692,000 lb.; 1906, 32,227,- 000 lb. (42,990,000 lb,); 1907, 31,521,000 lb. (40,833,000 lb.); 1908, 30,000,000 lb. (43,855,000 Ib.) Assays of copper ore of the district based upon copper recovered In 1907 averaged 1.34 several large mines of the district, an Idea of the quantity of copper produced by each company is obtainable from the following figures showing tonnage of ore mined and smelted last year: Granby company, 1,023,000 tons; Dominion Copper Co., 22,000 tons; Consolidated M. and S. Co., 41,000 tons; British Columbia Copper Co., 358,000 tons. Dominion Copper company only operated Its smelter for a few weeks, going Into liquidation last summer. This gives a total of 1,444,000 tons of copper ore mined and smelted last year. stalTatlon of a two-cylinder 40x40x42 inch ordberg blowing engine of latest type, capacity 10,000 cubic feet per mln. at 12-lb. pressure, and driven by electric power; and numerous improvements to electric plant, water supply service, etc. The lengthening of the eight 18 feet by 44 Inch blast furnaces to 22 feet each, has been commenced, and when this work shall have been completed—probably by June next—the treatment capacity of the works will be 4,000 tons of ore per day instead of 3,000 tons as at present. The total quantity of ore treated at these works in 1908 waa 1,037,000 tons and the copper produced amounted to 23,535,000 lb., which is the largest production yet made here In any one year. No important new construction work was done at the Granby company's mines in 1908, they having been previously equipped for a dally production up to 5,000 tons of ore. On an adjoining group of claims the Consolidated company opened up what promises to prove to be a large body of ore of workable grade. The B. C. Copper company doubled the air compressor capacity at Its Mother Lode mine, Installing a Canadian Rand 35-drill engine, to be electrically driven by a 700 horse power induction motor connected to it by a rope drive. At its Oro Denoro mine the same company installed an ore crushing and conveying plant, and plant for similar purposes at its k smelter sampling works at Greenwood. Numerous less important improvements and installations were also made at Its several mines and Its smelting works. Recently the company Issued a circular showing that during six months ended November 30 last, it bad produced about 5,548,000 lb. of copper which together with the gold and silver also recovered was of a total value at tbe time of shipment of $1,038,085, and from this there would be a total profit shown as $226,- 700. Rossland mines are estimated to have produced a total of 5,300,000 lb. of copper in 1908, iu the following proportions: Centre Star, 2,000,000 lb.; Le Roi No. 1, 1,705,000 and Le Roi No. 2, 928,000 lb. The ores of these mines contain gold nnd silver as well as copper, Le Roi No. 2 being especially favored in recovering an average gold value fully twice that from the other mines. Extensive developments and at the Centre Star substantial Improvements as well were made at mines. The Lo Rol expended $108,000 In development work consisting of 6,000 feet of drifting, raising, cross-cutting, etc. and between 4,000 and 5,000 feet of diamond drilling. Tho most important results achieved during the year were the finding of ore bodies of ore of good grade in the deeper levels of nil three mines —In the Le Roi on the 1,650 foot level, in the Centre Star down to about 2,000 feot on the incline, and In the Le Rof No. 2 on 700-foot level, and deeper in a diamond drill bore. In the Coast district the copper production to be noted Is that of the Britannia Mining and Smelting company, which last June resumed operations on a small scale at tho Britannia mine, Howe Sound, nnd shipped to the smelter about 10,800 tons of ore and concentrate, containing approximately 646,- 000 lb. of copper, besido values in gold and silver; of several thousand tons of good grade ore the Tyee Copper cora- PHOENIX—WHERE THE LARGE3T MINE WORKINGS IN B. C. ARE 330,000 oz„ Lardeau 206,000 oz., Rossland 156,000 oz. and Nelson 72,000 oz., together 1,717,000 os, East Kootenay produced 676,000 os, from Bt. Eugene, North Star and SulUoan group mines. The Boundary district's proportion was •'696,000 oz., chiefly from the copper mines of the Granby and British Columbia Copper companies. The Coast district yielded 49,000 oz., nearly two-thirds of which .was from the Marble Bay mine, Texada Island and a little less than one-third from the Ikeda mine on Moresby Island of the Queen Charlotte group. The very satisfactory Increase made by the Slocan district, namely of about 61 per cent—953,000 os. In 1908 as against 691,000 oz. in 1907—was contributed to a considerable degree by the Rambler-Cariboo, Richmond-Eureka, Ruth, Reco, Vancouver (now being op* crated by the Van-Rol Mining company, els, on the main vein above the 1,600- foot level, and between the 1,900 and 2,000-foot levels. In the report of last year It was mentioned that the 2,000- foot level did not promise to yield as much tonnage as the 1,900-foot level, but present Indications are that tho former will produce more than the latter, or any other level In the mine. The grade of the ore Is, however, lower than that produced from the upper workings. Some bodies of low-grade material have been found on the 2,100- foot level, and a raise from this level shows ore of workable grade. Drifting and cross-cutting on the 2,200-foot level are progressing, and one or two low- grade ore bodies have been found. It will, however, require work for another six months or a year to determine the amount of ore on this level" The ore concentrated last year In the St Eugene mill averaged lower In lead and whereby an increased saving has been made. A concentrating mill embodying the latest methods for the separation of lead and zinc from the Iron and other gangue of the ore has been erected and fully equipped At the Bluebell mine, Kootenay lake, this mill having been designed by S. S. Fowler, of Nelson, general manager for tbe Canadian Metal company, which also owns the Bluebell mine. In this connection It may be stated that there now being In that mine a sufficient tonnage available and probable to Justify expenditure which will ensure stability of the plant, this has been provided for by making the foundations of the mill of concrete and Its frame of heavy Umbers. The general arrangement ot the plant la such as to permit of large Increase of capacity at relatively small expense. In detail the planning of the mill has not Improvements made at the Granby company's smelting works at Grand Forks are extensive, these Including the construction of additional ore and coke storage bunkers of a capacity, respectively, of 7,000 and 4,000 tons; a steel dust chamber at the back of the blast furnaces to replace the brick chamber formerly used; enlargement of brick dust settling chamber near smoke stack and substitution of a steel and brick building of larger size and having cement floors for the old wood structure used as a blowing engine room; installation of two Connersvllle rotary blowers, each 30,000 cubic feet per minute; capacity and each having 160 horse power induction motors lengthening of the copper converter de- 7x10x16 inch convenors to have a total capacity of 36,000,000 lb. of copper a year and to be electrically operated, In place of these heretofore In use; In- pany shipped from the Indian Chief grbup on the West Coast of Vancouver Island; and of the Awaya, Ike- da company, which shipped from its mine on one of the Queen Charlotte Islands some 5,400 tons of ore containing about 500,000 lb. of copper and fair values In gold and silver as well. The Hidden Creek Mining company opened up a very large body or ore on Observatory Inlet, Portland Canal, along a distance of about 2,000 feet. This ore ranges In copper value from two to ten per cent, but they did not ship any to the smelter. The Britannia company's smelting works on Vancouver Island were not operatedd in 1908. At the Tyee Copper company's smelter, Lady smith, Vancouver Island, many Improvements were made. A wharf was constructed In Oyster Harbor and a trestle built to connect with the, smelting works. On the wharf ore bunkers provided with mechanical equipment for expeditiously unloading ore from vessels, were built and machinery, both, steam and electric was installed to facilitate handling the ore. All plant and machinery requisite for doubling the treatment capacity of the works were purchased and received before the year closed. Zinc and Iron—Although the zinc smelter at Frank, Alberta, has not yet been made suitable for smelting sine ores, there has been In British Columbia fn 1908 some production of zinc concentrate, to an extent of between 9,000 and 10,000 tens. About 8,000 tons were shipped from the Whitewater and Whitewater Deep mines, of which 3,000 tons had been held over from 1907 and the remainder made in 1908. This product averaged about 44 or 45 per cent z'nc and carried as well silver values. Tim Ruth mine at Sandon, Slocan, sent to Kaslo nearly 1,000 tons of zinc concentrate, the grade of which was raised to about 50 per cent, zinc at the Kootenay Ore company's sampling works and 250 tons of the product shipped, leav some 650 tons on band. The Vam .er mine shipped 1,053 tons of concentrate averaging 45 per cent, zinc and 40 oz. sliver per ton. Remaining production was In smaller lots. The works built at Neteon for the treatment of lead-zinc ores by tbe Snyder electrical process were in successful operation during the closing weeks of the year. It is claimed that metallmS glcally the process is distinctly succes- ful, but that mechanical difficulties occasionally occur, the overcoming of which will be a matter of time and experience In the practical working of tho plant. Last summer a laboratory test Elmore vacuum plant was taken to the Hewitt mine, Slocan, where testa were continued over two weeks. Experiments In cleaning iron out of the concentrate, Instead of using a magnetic separation process were successful on a concentrate about 40 oz. silver per ton, 20 per cent, zinc and 18 per cent Iron in the form of slderlte. The Elmore process made a concentrate of 48 to 50 per cent, zinc, and carrying 80 to 120 oz. of Ellver per ton. The proportion of iron left In the concentrate was only six per cent. The extraction was from 88 up to 100 per cent, of zinc from the original feed, and the sliver extraction was equally good. At the Bluebell concentrating mill (.he zinc separation plant is not yet in full operation, The ore here contains about 30 per cent, pyrrhotlte which, with the zinc blonde also in the ore, leaves the Wllfley tables and finer Jigs and, after de-waterlng, is conveyed to a drying furnace; cooled and elevated to a magnetic separator. It Is expected tn make a product of 40 to 45 per cent- zinc, but while the price of spelter continues low experiments with the plant will be extended over a longer period than might otherwise be deemed profitable. Iron mining Is practically non-existent in the province at the present time.. The product of this mineral In 1908 was* of absolutely no importance. The full report of Mr. Efnar Ltndeman. who In 1907 was sent to the British Columbia coast to examine occurrences of iron ore is being awaited. Meanwhile there is no production of this metal, even from properties which in past years have made shipments to a small Iron furnace on Puget Sound. Coal and Coke—The year's net production of about 1,700,000 long tons, which was less by 100,067 tons than that of 1907, was chiefly from Vancouver Island collerles, of which the Wellington Colliery company produced about 740,000 tons, and the Western Fuel company 303,000 tons. On the mainland of the province the Crow's Nest Coal company produced ,r>21!,000 tons and the Nicola Valley Coal and Coke company With recently opened mines in the Nicola district, about .10.000 tons. Coko production was 13,000 tons at the Wellington Colliery company's ovens at Union, V. I., and 235,000 tons at the Crow's Nest Pass company's ovens at Fernie and Michel. Among a number of substantial improvements and additions to equipment the latter company is making is the installation of the Greene Super-poser! track system selT- dumplng car haul at its Michel colliery lo eventually have a capacity for handling 6,000 tons of coal daily. A Canadian Rand four-stage, high-pressure air compressor, having a capactly of 3,000 cubic, feet of free air per minute is also being put In at this colliery. It is noteworthy that the larger companies mining coal in the Crow's Nest Pass region are substituting the most economical type of Corliss condensing engines for the simple slide-valve engine with its excessive steam consumption. On December 18 the Hosmer Mines, Limited, commenced the shipment of coal from its newly openod colliery at Hosmer, on the Crow's Nest branch of the C. P. R. This company's property consists of six sections of coal lands and two sections of surface, on which toe town of Hosmer, and Improvements connected with the colliery are located. There are 18 coal seams on the property, varying in thickness from 4 to 30 feet. The mlno buildings, tipple, trackage, machinery and plant for ventilation, haulage, power and all other requisite purposes are extensive, mod- (Continued on Page Thirty-one) PAGE TWENTY-SIX dHie g>nuyj Slew*. SUNDAY JANUARY 1 UPPER BONNINGTON FALLS BEFORE CONSTRUCTION OF POWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. A L. CO. The Power Developments of the West Kootenay Power and Light Co., Ltd, R08SLAND BRITI8H COLUMBIA No. 1 Power House, Lower Bonnington Falls, British Columbia. No. 2 Power House, Upper Bonnington Falls, British Columbia. No. 3 Power House, Cascade City British Columbia. GENERAL INFORMATION THE DEVELOPMENT Is on the Kootenay river, ten miles west of tbe City of Nelson. The operating head of the wheels Is 70 feet, with ample provision for fluctuation In both reaches. THE SUBSTRUCTURE Is concrete and concrete-steel throughout. The ■ works contain 25,000 cubic yards of concrete. THE WHEELS are Francis inward discharge turbines of the vertical type, having three runners on a shaft. There are four main units of 8000 h.p. each, and two exciters of 300 h.p. each. Two main units are now operating. THE GENERATORS are of the revolving field type, 4500 k.w. each at 80 per cent, power factor, 2300 volts. THE TRANSFORMERS are of the oil-Immersed and watercooled type. THE TRANSMISSION LINE8, Electric energy Is transmitted over two 3-phase, 60-cycle, 60,000-volt lines to the mining districts of Rossland, Phoenix and Greenwood, and to the smelters situate at Trail, Grand Forks, Greenwood and Boundary Falls. HEAD WORKS, POWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. A L. CO. Below Will Be Found Capacity of Motors Operating at the Different Mines and Smelters Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Candaa smelter at Trail; 1800 h.p. Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, refinery at Trail, 1100 h.p. War Eagle and Centre Star mines, Rossland, 1700 h.p. Rossland and Great Western Mining Co., Rossland, 800 h. p. Giant-California Mining Co., Rossland, 160 h. p. White Bear Mining Co., Rossland, 160 h.p. Le Rol Mining Co., Limited, Rossland, 600 h.p. Le Rol No. 2 Ltd., Rossland, 250 h. p. The Jumbo Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Rossland; 100 h.p. Miscellaneous Rossland load 690 h.p.. Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company's smelter at Grand Forks, 1760 h.p. Miscellaneous Grand Forks load, 400 h.p. Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting ft Power Company's mines at Phoenix, D. C, 2850 h.p. Dominion Copper Company's mines at Phoenix, 765 h.p. Consolidated Mining ft Smelting Co. ot Canada, mines at Phoenix, B. C. 600 h.p. B. C. Copper. Company'. Emma mine B. C. Junction, 300 h.p. B. C. Copper Company's smelter, Greenwood; 2375 h. p. B. C. Copper Company's Mother Lode mine,. 1340 h.p. Miscellaneous small motors In Greenwood, 186 h. p. Dominion Copper Company's smelter at Boundary Fall., 860 h. p. . POWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. A L. CO. BONNINGTON FALLS The West Kootenay Power and light Co. Limited W.M. DOTJLL, Esq., President, Montreal L. A. CAMPBELL, Esq., General Manager, Rossland, B. C. J. D. McDONALD, Esq., General Superintendent Rossland, B. C. F. ELWELL, Esq., Superintendent of Generating Station, Bonnington. W. ANDERSON, Esq., Chief Hydraulic Engineer, Rossland, B. C. E. E. GIBSON, Esq., Superintendent Boundary Business Grand Forks. Turbines built by I. P. Morris Company. Electrical Apparatus built by Canadian General Electric Company and Canadian Westinghouse Company. INTERIOR MAIN FLOOR, POWER HOUSE NO. 2, W. K. P. A L. CO. SUNDAY JANUARY* tJChe gtatiB *lcroe V-o PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN SHEEP CREEK-WHOSE GOLD MINES ARE BECOMING f AMOUS No other part of Nelson mining division has attracted so much attention during! the year last past as that known as Sheep creek camp, described In a report by a resident mining engineer, which was published a few months ago. Excerpts from that report, slightly altered to bring up to date the statements as to production, footage of develop ment work done, mill Installations, etc., are reprinted below, these give an excellent Idea of the camp and promising nature of numbers ot tho mineral claims In It There are three creeks and the neighboring mountains on which claims have been located. These are respectively: Sheep creek; Wolf creek and Fawn W. K. P. AND L CO. ELECTRIC PLANT Where the Waters of the Kootenay Are Harnessed. Thereby Making Possibe the Production and Treatment of Low Grade Ores One of the chief factors sustaining mining operations in the Kootenay and Boundary countries at the present time Is undoubtedly the West Kootenay Power and tight company. Were it not for the power supplied by this company, but more particularly for the price at which this Is done, many, If not all, the low grade copper properties would have difficulty in operating Just now and also during the past year or so when the price of metal was much below the average. This company, which Is the only one In the country supplying power on. a large scale, has three plants, one at Upper Bonnington Falls, one at Lower ronningtbn Falls and one at Cascade ' city. The power from these can he truthfully said to operate the mines and smelters of Kootenay and the Boundary. The present generating capacity of the three plants is 23,000 horse power and arrangements have been made for . Increasing this by an additional 6,000 horse power. The company's lines are now connected'with motors using 22,500 horse power and by Maroh 1 this will have been Increased to 30,000 horse power. Like so many other great enterprises the West Kootenay Power and Light company had a small beginning. The first plant was installed at Lower Bonnington Falls, about ten miles west of Nelson on the Kootenay river, work on it being started In August, 1897. The and other work necessary ready for two more 8,000 horse power machines at Upper Bonnington. . Connected to the company's lines by March 1 next will be motors with a capacity exceeding 30,000 horse power, while the total capacity of the motors now connected Is 22,500 horse power. ' ■ The company's No. 1 plant Is located at Lower Bonnington Falls and generates three phase, 66-cycle power at a pressurue of 1000 volts, which Ib step* ped lip by the use of transformers to a line voltage of 20,000 volts. No. 2 plant in located at Upper Bonnington Falls and. generates three phase, 66- cyclo power at a pressure to 2000 volts which Is stepped up by the use of trans- •formers to a line voltage of 60,- 000 volts. No. 3 plant, known as the Cascade, Is situated at Cascade City and generates three phase, 66-cycle power at a pressure of 2,000 volts, which Is stepped up by the use of transformers to a line voltage of 20,000 volts. The three plants are bo arranged that power can be supplied either from the 20,000 volt systems or the 60,000 volt system at Rossland, Grand Forks, Greenwood, or Trail smelter. The Trail smelter Is operated from 20,000 volt lines either from the Upper or Lower Bonnington plants. Owing to the exceedingly low rates given by the company to large consumers of power the treating of low grade ore In large quantities has been made PUMP CHAMBER, POWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. & L. CO., BONNINGTON FALLS Installation consisted of two units of 1,000 horse power each, with transmls- i, slon lines to Rossland and Trail.. At .that time there was nothing to warrant the putting In of a large plant, for the total capacity of the steam hollers In 'use between NelBon and Greenwood then did not reach 1800 horse power. This plant was completed In August, 1898,. the first customers supplied being the War Eagle mine at Rossland, the Trail smelter and the city of Rossland for lighting. By March, 1899, the business had so increased that a further unit of 2,000 horse power capacity was Installed. No further construction was undertaken until March, 1905, when large contracts were made for power In the Boundary country. Following this work was'started on the Upper Bonnington Falls plant, located less than a mile from the plant then existing, and a fall developed for 32,000 horse power and machinery installed for generating 16,000 horse power. This plant was put into operation in December, 1906, or a Jlttle over two years ago. The transmission of power was immediately commenced over lines that had been put up during the erection of the plant, to Rossland, Grand Forks, Phoenix, Greenwood, Boundary Falls, the Mother Lode mine and the Emma and Oro Denoro mines at B. C. Junction. In May, 1907, the West Kootenay i Power and Light company took over the Cascade Power company's plant, giving It i capacity in machinery Installed and tn operation of 23,000 horse power, 'while in addition It haa all the hydraulic possible, even with metal prices away below what Is generally regarded as profitable returns. In fact, during the past, year, If It had not been for cheap power supplied by the West Kootenay company, particularly In the Boundary country, it la questionable whether or not the low grade copper properties of the country would have been able to operate at a profit. If at all. The company's prospects for the present year are exceedingly bright and the additional orders which have already been placed, or are about to be placed, will Increase the motor capacity of the plants by at least 5,000 horse power. There Ib also no reason to doubt that the company's power business will Increase at the rate of from 5,000 to 8,000 horse power per annum for many years to come, This Is based on the mines of Rossland camp and the Boundary country being well managed, as they now are, and the days of "wlldcatting" not being revived. The total tonnage of ore now being treated by means of power supplied by the West Kootenay Power and Light company, month In and month out, amounts to 6,800 tons per day and by April 1 this amount will be increased to 8,500 tons per day, this being based on the present price of metals being, at least, maintained. As a matter of fact, the country as a whole as a power user has only commenced its demands and It Is hard to estimate the possibilities of electrical development In Kootenay and the Boundary in the next ten years. creek the two last named being tributaries of Sheep creek. The best known properties on the' south side of Sheep creek are the Queen-Yellowstone group of 11 claims, the Kootenay Belle with five claims, and the Ore Hill also with five claims. On the north side of the creek, the Mother Lode group of six clatlms and the Devlin group of five claims and on Fawn creek the Nugget with three claims, have all come into prominence. There were at least a dozen other, groups on these creeks located prior to last summer, and since then others have been added to the number. Of all the properties In the camp the Queen takes precedence, by reason of its harvlng been worked longer and more extensively, and from the more generally acceptable fact that it has pitoduced to date gold to the value of about $408,000 which, together with 1100,000 from the Yellowstone, makes a total of $608,000 from these associated properties. Going back several years, ate altitude of the main creek, about 3000 feet, Ib a distinguishing feature, In contrast to the mountain ridges, which rise rapidly to elevations of 6000 feet, while some peaks attain to 7600 feet and even higher. The abundance of timber for mining requirements and the unusual water supply for cheap power for mining and milling of ores, makes exceptionally favorable conditions. Simultaneous shipments the past winter, a dozen or more carloads averaging more than $100 per ton, have es- tabllshed the general occurrence of high grade ore In many veins of the section. This production coming from different properties and from widely separated veins with such uniformity and high grade of ore, Is making its own record for the camp which require no expert endorsement of its future. "The Yellowstone gold camp, on Sheep creek, a tributary of the Salmon river, lies southeasterly, 10 mileB by wagon road from Salmo, a station on the Spokane Falls & Northern branch "The sulphides In the quartz ore consist of Iron pyrite, with occasionally a little galena and zinc blende present*, and very rarely, copper pyrite. The ores are crushed in stamp mills and the values saved on tables as concentrates, after extraction of the free gold on amalgamation plates In the usual way. "A singular occurrence which has much to do with the exceptional richness of the ore is the rare element tungsten associated with the gold In th veins. It occurs In the heavy black mineral wolframite, which has a specific gravity of 7.1, and the yellow oxide alteration product tungstlte, specific gravity 5.6. "The total value of production to date from ore milled, according to records ot shipments made, Is $508,000. The Queen, Kootenay Belle and Nugget are the only mines having equipment and there are as yet but three mills in the camp, with a combined capacity ot only about 100 tons a day The Queen production In 1907 was $104,000 operat- by short tunnels Instead of shafts, by reason of the steeper mountain slopes prevailing throughout tbe Yellowstone section." KOOTENAY BELLE The Kootenay Belle group, consisting of four full sized mineral claims and one fractional claim, is situated on the south side of Sheep creek, adjoining the Yellowstone claim of the Queen* Yellowstone group. There are four known veins on this property, of which two are being developed, the workings being about 100 feet above the creek. The work done Includes cross cutting to the vein, about 360 feet; drifting on veins, 450 feet; and shaft and winze sinking, 200 feet; In all about 1000 feet. In the shaft on the small vein rich specimens of free gold have been met with, and ore from here shipped to the smelter has realized from $150 to $200 per ton. Tungsten is found In association with the ore, and It is stated to be in the purest form yet found in Can- » ■ ■ : ■ :A % i-A ;; y- ■'' ■"'::-y . ', iS^fM* ^ ■ i^tMBSIw. ■ '^HBiiiilsMBI'ffBS » ' ':'' ■' . .' ■ tafJsB1 aS9V§£ifP Kll.fHn'l .-■M.B ' -.^BBBBBBBBBVisl ■IP . VSZi.", '"-r.-S8»*7" w**^.*:; A- "'^w;^;- 1 WAX. ;.",v.-,--.:" ■'..>•*■■-r^V yHBH ■f.xv"'--" -: " ?,. >i ,■■ j«~. ;:r:x\ v-. .- n - .-. ry. •y; iq ■»■ ^V-.'W, —: : ^ 1-—Jl——. : _ ?~f * 'v---^r|P^3Ei..- NELSON'S NEW COURT HOUSE—BUILT OF KOOTENAY MARBLE It may be mentioned that that throughout 1904 the Queen was worked under lease by William Waldle, of Nelson, who also leased the neighboring Yellowstone 10-stamp mill. He employed 14 to 20 men in development work and some production, and that year shipped to the smelter something like eight cars of concentrates and two cars of crude ore. The following year Mr. Waldle became sole owner of the mine, and he installed a power plant, did a lot of development work, and produced about 6100 tons of ore. His shipments for 1905 were about 400 tons of concentrates and 124 tons of crude ore, and the total returns from bullion from the mill plates, concentrates and crude ore were about $65,000. Later he acquired the adjoining Yellowstone property— both mine and mill and these he operated with little Interruption until last May,, when* he sold, out to Wisconsin men for $175,000, after having made a total production to the end'of 1907 of about $308,000. For the year just ended the production Is approximately $100,000, making the total of $408,000 above mentioned. Although twelve years have elapsed since the Queen was located, the greater part of Its production has been made during quite recent years- A summary of the total production of the camp to date is stated to show an aggregate of approximately $650,000, as follows: Queen, $408,000; Yellowstone, $100,000; Kootenay Belle, $72,000; Mother Lode about $30,000 and Nugget nearly $40,000. Some particulars relative to the Queen-Yellowstone, Kootenay Belle, Mother Lode and Nugget properties follows, but first the excerpts referred to above wilt be given, so that a good idea of the camp and its potentialities may be conveyed. The report runs, In part: "Sheep creek Ib attracting much Interest in mining circles by reason of frequent remarkable result from large ship- cent remarkable results from large shipments coming from new development work on properties at some distance from the first established mines. The mountain range is easily approached by the narrow valleys of the tributary streams of Salmon river. The moder- of the Great Northern railway, situated 25 miles south of Nelson, and 175 north of Spokane, Wash. The vein system is regular, with fissure veins, at intervals of 50 to 160 feet, from 3 to 50 feet in width, These traverse the massive white quartzite formation at an angle of 26 degrees. Numerous planes of fracture occur in the vicinity of the veins, all of which have a direction N. 41 degrees E. and enclose parallel bands of talcose schist. These occur in thin layerB up to two feet In thickness, and this laminated structure facilitates the breaking of the ores in mining the quartz In the veins. All the parallel fissures are true In direction and are readily traceable because of the light covering of soli and their exposure by Intersection In the numerous gulches on the mountain sides. Alt the flssue veins are nearly vertical, dipping into the mountain slightly, generally Standing at.an angle of about 80 degrees to th* horizon. They are free from the en closing formation, and paystreaks 6 to 30 Inohes tn width of sulphide or oxidized ore occur on one of the walls or both. The slate-tike cleavage of the quartz adjacent to the paystreaks of the veins makes separation of the two easy In mining. Where the ore Is oxidized, as Ib sometimes the case to a depth of 135 feet or more, these paystreaks are almost picking .ground and are quite easily mined. At times gold is plainly visible, appearing mostly in small particles, distributed through the decomposed ore, but as a rule the richness of the ore Is not evident except by panning or by assay. The ore in the paystreaks is readily distinguishable consisting of honeycombed decomposed quartz, colored yellow to black by oxidation of the sulphides. This ore Ib sacked as broken down In the mine before shipment to the smelter. The remainder of the vein Is milled by stamps and the values obtained as bar bullion and concentrates, the latter going to the smelter. "Mining on the north side of Sheep creek is producing oxidized ores at a depjth of more than 100 feet, while on ■the south side of the creek the unaltered sulphides are hoisted from shafts 300 feet below the creek bed—a difference In altitude of more than 2600 feet. Ing only 10 stamps, 8000 tons of ore having come from the 7 foot vein. Us tn the camp are unprovided for, being without machinery of any kind. They present Inducements to outside capital, good profits being shown to be obtainable by actual returns from ore. "The unexplored section, 12 miles In extent, between the.Bayonne mine, purchased for $100,000 cash, and the Queen at Yellowstone, which sold recently for $175,000, presents an excelent opportunity for the prospector. At Salrao which Is the outfitting point and nearest trading place for this mining region, sufficient pack horses are available, as well aa suitable equipment for freighting ore and supplies. Wagon freight on supplies costs $10 per ton into camp, and on crude ore and concentrates $4 per ton from the Yellowstone mine to the railway at Salmo. "Owing to the fluxing value In smelting, due to the excess Iron in the Queen concentrates, smelter treatment Is practically free of cost. The prevailing rate on the oxidized slllclous ores Is $9 per ton railway freight and treatment. This camp has paid from the grass roots; values show In all of the veins. It has had little assistance from outside capital. It Is Interesting to note that nearly all the properties are still In the hands of the original owners. In consequence the camp presents favorable opportunities for teasing arrangements on proved ground without the tedious complications common to many of the older camps. "Such facts justify the immediate equipment of the established groups of claims which show rich workable veins in the vicinity of Yellowstone. With the advent of ore treatment by cyanide (the present losses In mill tailings being from $2 to $6 per ton, owjng to the richness of the ore), an even higher extraction will cause the, Yellowstone camp to become noted for its gold production. The quartztte range is destined to add many producing properties which wilt have the distinct advantage of far greater richness of ore per ton mined than the Rossland and Boundary districts, with easier breaking of rock for economy in mining, and with the added conditions, most favorable to the opening of properties to great depth ada. The occurrence here of tungsten so interested professor T. L. Walker, of Toronto university that he visited tho property for the special purpose of examining the ore and obtaining particulars relative to this occurrence of tungsten. The main ore shoot has shown increasing values with the depth gained, which, however, is only about 50 feet below the level of the adit. On the surface the vein outcrops almost continuously for a distance of 1000 feet and it has also been found at points along q further distance. A two bucket aerial tramway has been constructed about 1200 feet to a leased four-stamp mill, having two concentrating tables and driven by a Pelton water wheel. The crushing capacity of this small plant Is something like 13 tons per day. The ore now being mined and sent to the mill is practically free milling, and it contains more oxides than sulphides. The property has been worked intermittently during four years, but. since last June operations have been continuous. Production up to June 30 was of a total .value of $53,000; since that-date, Including value of concentrate shipped to Northport, about $10,000 has been recovered. The Kootenay Belle is under lease and bond to J. L. Warner and associates. On It there is bunk and boarding house accommodation for 20 men. and at the mill Blmilar provision tor tho men working there. The Queen wagon road has been extended to tho mill, and transportation Is thereby facilitated. NUGGET GROUP The Nugget group of three claims is on Fawn creek, between which and Sheep creek, to the southward, there Is a divide, tho Nugget and other claims being on the north side of the mountain and the Mother Lode and several more groups on the south side. The Nugget property Is owned by the Nugget Gold Mines, Ltd., organized last summer by Messrs. W. B. Poole and A. H. Gracey. Operations on the Nuggot were practically commenced on September 15, 1907, by Mr. Poole and a partner, who held tbe property In equal shares. In March, 1908, Mr. Gracey purchased the interest of Mr. Poole's former partner. Within four or five months the com* pany was organized and Mr. Gracey made a trip to Albernl, Vancouver island, to examine a four-stamp mill which had been Installed at the Albernl Con- solidated company's mine there when, some years ago, there was attention given to quartz mining tn that locality. The mill was purchased and removed to Sheep creek. Meanwhile development work had been poshed on the Nugget, and three miles of wagon road had been made under difficult conditions to connect with the existing wagon road to the Queen property. So energetically, was work prosecuted that in the comparatively short period of three months the road had been made, the mill hauled from the railway at Salmo to the mine, and the stamps were dropping on Nugget ore, of which there had been a considerable quantity mined ready for milling. In addition, six or seven railway carloads (some 4000 sacks) of high grade ore taken out In the course of development work had been sacked for shipment to the smelter when sufficient snow-should fall to give good sleighing, this ore being too rich to put through the mill whilst It was not equipped with tables to catch the gold that would pass over the plates with the tailings. As the year closed this ore was being hauled down to the railway for shipment to the smelter. The work done In development- of the Nugget to date was as follows: First a prospect tunnel was driven on the vein. Then No. 2 tunnel, which Is a cross cut, was driven 90 feet, at which distance it reached the vein, cutting the ore shoot 65 feet deeper than where It had been opened In No. 1. In the course of drifting 84 feet along the vein from No. 2, ore to the value of $23,000 was taken out and sent to the smelter. Npi 3 tunnel, also a cross cut, encountered the vein at a distance of 144 feet from Its portal. On this level 270 feet of drifting has been done, and the ore for 150 feet averaged rather more than $80 per ton for the full width of the drift, which was a little wider than four feet. From No. 3 to No. 2 a raise was put up on the hanging wall, on which side the ore was high grade, and In this an average assay return from 30 inches of ore was at the rate ot $198 to the ton, some assays running up to $225. Reverting ,(o No. 2 it may be mentioned that In December oro was being taken out from above that level to a width of 14 feet and that with one miner and a half to the shift, that is to say one miner working full shift and another only half shift, sufficient ore was being mined to keep the four stamp mill running. Under present conditions there can be mined weekly for shipment to the smelter 60 tons of ore that will return net $100 per ton, beside about 450 tons per month of second class ore for the mill the latter yielding $15 to $20 per ton off the plates. Prior to the erection of the mill on the property there was shipped, as already stated, about $23,000 worth or ore. Of this about, 200 tons averaged a little more than $100 per ton, while 111 tons of milling ore .also shipped to the Trail smelter, averaged $23.50 per ton. Milling on the property was commenced late in October last. By the end of November about $8500 had been recovered off the plates, and In December something like $7500, together $16,000. With the mill when purchased, there were boiler, engine, and 7 by 9 Blake crusher. Since August 1 a two-bucket aerial tramway, 1500 feet long has been, erected from the mouth of No. 3 tunnel to the mill. Lately two 6 feet. Fme vanners were purchased and those are" being Installed, also 600 feet of 8-incb wire wound wood pipe and a Peltott wheel. The latter are being put In for use next open season, for it is expected that for five or six months of the year it will be practicable to operate the mill by water power. The mill plant will be enlarged as soon as suitable provision can be made for millng a larger tonnage. MOTHER LODE The Mother Lode group, which is also under lease and bond to J. L. Warner and associates, is on the north side oj Sheep creek and opposite the Kootenay Belle group. The Nugget group la on the side of the mountain on which the Mother LMe group is situated. The latter consist? of seven full sized claims and two fructions, all on the same system of veins, which strike about due east und west. There are known to be three parallel veins and indications of the occurrence of others beside. These three veins have been well prospected and two continuous shoots of milling ore have been found, one of which is stated' to be 400 feet in length and the other 482 feet. The mine workings are at an elevation of about 2800 feet above Sheep creek. In addition to numerous open cuts made, three cross cut tunnels have been driven. Two of theBe were driven to cut what is known jis the Mother Lode vein, and one tho Moen vein on the Independence claim. Some 270 feet of drifting haB been done on these several veins. It Is confidently expet- ed that work now In progress will open up on the Mother Lode vein a large body of milling ore, for this vein where prospected Is from four to eight feet In width. In panning the ore which is free milling and in which gold can be plainly seen, there !b always found a heavy "drag" of,gold, indicative of its good values. The Moen vein is two to four feet In width where opened, with a rich pay- (Continued on page thirty-one.) PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT Cite IhrUrj $e*u». SUNDAY JANUARY I. Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd. TRAIL, B. C CONSOLIDATED MINING AND SMELTING CO. SMELTER, TRAIL, B. C. '' '-',''f • *: I 3 Is K * -a • - . .i B -flP^ 1 aissssst '■■rfS^'f 1 1 :-•■• . - ' ' 1 ' ! ' . : • . jar u- .■m '~V .■;'■ k \ \ \ ■ ■'>,'■'' ■ t .;•.>>*. ' ■.■■■ , . 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C tt SUNDAY JANUARY t QQte {potty fumtw PAGE TWENTY-NINE THE TRAIL SMELTER-A GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE AND ITS HISTORY l the e valueless be of i will Next to being possessed of large •deposits there Is nothing on which „, •development and prosperity of a mining country depends so much aa on having adequate and economical means treating ore. The deposits are if means of treating the ore cannot found. Transportation facilities are, course, necessary but even these v not assist In the development of mining unless they connect the mines with a smelter. - The mere fact that smelting facilities are to hand, however, will not of Itself, make mining a success. The .smelter must be equipped for handling the class of ore produced In the district at the lowest possible cost and In a manner which will give the maximum recovery. Only under such conditions can a mining country hope for Us due measure of prosperity. This Is particularly true of the Kootenay where large bodies of comparatively low grade ore are encountered. The character of this ore la such that tt cannot with profit be transported long distances for treatment. It Is necessary to treat It as close as possible to the mines from -which It is obtained, and In a way that will give the best possible results. Without a smelter bo situated and specially equipped for handling the class of ore produced in the district, little would be heard of mining In the Kootenay, That It today occupies such an advanced position is due to the establishment of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company's smelter at Trail and the progressive policy that Its management has since pursued, but particularly since the present company took over the plant In 1906. Since the establishment of this smelter in 1894, the cost of treating Rossland ore has been reduced from $13 per ton to $3 per ton. This liaa been accomplished by the introduction of labor saving devices of various sorts, the adoption ot new methods and the enlarging of the plant to treat ore tn large quantities, the only way in which low grade ore can he successfully handled. As the smelter at Trail stands It Is one of the largest and must modern of Its kind on the continent and produces annually gold, silver, copper, lead, antimony and sulphate of copper, more commonly known as Milestone, In quantities running into the millions of dollar's worth. The Consolidated Mining and Smelting company Is capitalized at $5,500,000, practically all of the stock having been issued, and besides the smelter at Trail also owns the War Eagle, Centre Star, Iron Mask and Idaho mines at Rossland, the St. Eugene mine at Moyle, the Phoenix Amalgamated mines at Phoenix and the Richmond-Eureka - group at Sandon and controls for some years the lead output of the Bluebell mine at Alnsworth and the lead-zinc smelter at Frank, Alberta. It also has a lease on the Snowshoe mine at Phoenix. The ownership or control of these properties guarantees the company a sufficient quantity of the different classes ot ore treated to keep the smelter in operation but In addition it also does a large amount of custom smelting for other mines. The capacity of the smelter at present is 2100 tons of copper ore and 600 tons of lead ore per day. The total value of ore treated since the smelter was established was, on June 30 last, over $31,000,000 and for the year ending that day the amount was $5,428,501, while the figures for the year ending June 30 next will, it is expected, largely exceed this figure. The smelter itself represents a cost of about $1,000,000, while the mines, mineral claims, stock in other companies, products and ores on hand, stores, etc., brought the company's assets on June 36 last up to $7,204,876. The history of the smelter is closely connected with that of Rossland, from which It Is distant about six miles. It was erected In 1S94 by F. August Heinze and for the next two years the ore from tfca Le Rol, War Eagle, Centre Star and Idaho mines at Rossland, the first coppsr-gold mines tn the Kootenay to attract attention, was conveyed to the smelter by wagon down an exceedingly steep and dangerous road. This was a costly method ot transportation and with the cost ot creating ore ran these charge* up to as high as $27 per ton. 1m 1898, however, Mr. Heinze completed a narrow guage railway from the mines at Rossland to the smelter and It was announced with a great flourish of trumpets that ore could he sent to the smelter and treated for $13 per ton. In the sarly days the high cost of transportation was met by the fact that the surface workings of the mines were very rich, some pyrrhotlte ore running as nigh as $100 per ton, while much of It assayed $40 to the ton. Ore ot this kind could be even packed to the smelter and still yield a good profit. Later, however, the values tell off and the ore from atones ranging In width from 10 feet to 100 feet would not average over 910 to the ton, the range being from $40 to $3 or $4 per ton; If the rich ore which was much less plentiful than the lower grades were picked It meant that a large amount of ore was left which waa practically uselss, so far as smelt- ting was concerned at the charges for this work, Including transportation, even with the railway, then prevailing. The policy of picking this rich ore was folowed by the Rossland mines under different management and this fact explains the ups and downs of these mines at the time. For a while good values would' be secured and then a search would have to be made for more rich ore, while the levels already opened contained Immense quantities 1 of ore of too low a grade to smelt at at profit tn those days. In the meantime, however, improve* meats were being made In the methods of mining through the Introduction of machinery and new systems generally, with the result that the cost of the production of ore was reduced from $20 to $5 per ton. Among other things, heavy compressor plants were installed, Immense shafts were sunk to allow of tbe ore being handled In large quantities, powerful winding plants were assembled, electric railways were constructed throughout the mines, and electric lighting, was installed. As a result of these Improvements It became possible to load tbe ore onto the cars with a one-man handling. The ore after being broken down from the breast of the vein was shifted down the chutes to little tramcars In the levels, to the pockets In the shafts, into the Bkips, Into an aerial tramway and down to the ore car on the railway siding. By these methods the cost of loading ore onto the railway cars was reduced from $2 per ton to 60 cents per ton, a large saving in itself. Following this the rich ore was no longer picked and the lower grades left, but the whole was taken out and shipped to the smelter. While this reduction In the cost of mining was going on a corresponding lessening of the smelter charges was also In progress and the price for this work fell by degress from $13 per ton to $4.50, where it remained stationary for some time but has since been reduced to $3 per ton. Mr. Heinze in the meantime had found other fields which, he thought, offered better scope for his energies and In 1897 sold his smelter and his railway to W. H. Aldrldge backed by the C. P. R„ following which the company was re-organized under the name of the Canadian Smelting Works. This company operated the smelter at Trail until the end of 1905 when the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company was formed and took over the plant as well as various mining properties acquired from different interests. Then followed the inauguration of a new and more progressive policy that ever before. One of the first considerations was to make both the smelter and the railway pay and to do this it was necessary to arrange matters so that both might be kept In constant operation. In the old days it not Infrequently happened that while rich ore was being encountered the railway was kept busy night and day hauling it to the smelter, which was then kept continuously in operation treating it. When the rich ore gave out and other veins of a similar character had to be found, there would come an interval when both railway and smelter would be practically idle. One of the first objects of the new owners of the railway and the smelter was to give a constant amount of traffic for the railway and thereby at the same time provide the smelter the amount of ore required for its continuous operation. It had already been shown that the only way in which low grade ore could be successfully handled waa In large quantities, but before equipping a plant for operation on a large scale it was necessary to have a guarantee of a permanent supply of ore. This, It was realized, could not be secured If the smelter and the railway had to depend upon the mining companies, who would operate their properties or not as they saw fit Accordingly the company decided to own its own mines. An attempt was made to secure possession of the Le Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star properties at Rossland, but the shareholders of the first named company at a meeting in London rejected the proposition submitted to them and only the last two were secured. One of the reasons that the company was so anxious to secure the Le Rol mine was that the working of the Centre Star at the time were such that only about 2000 tons per week could be secured from it. This was not sufficient for a single blast furnace of the capacity then in use, let alone for a smelter. It was felt at the time that the very least amount of copper ore that the company could hope to treat successfully was 1200 tons per day, but such has been the company's progress that it Is now handling nearly twice the amount of this class of ore per day. Not being able to secure possession ot the Le Rol property the company succeeded in Increasing its ore supply by Improving the Centre Star, that Is by Increasing the size of the shafts, opening new levels and by the Installation of additional machinery for getting the ore out. In addition, in 1906, the company bought out the Iron Mask group adjoining the War Eagle and Centre Star mines. Following this the workings of the three mines'tw^re connected and all ore from them handled through the Centre Star shaft, the shafts of the Iron Mask and War Eagle being dismantled. This meant the expenditure of a large amount of money but It also meant economy in operation. A Nordberg hoist was Installed at the Centre Star with a capacity ot 1350 tons per ten hours from a depth of 3,000 feet. Electrically driven compressors were also Installed at the Centre Star shaft and also a complete sorting and sampling plant. The same year a lease was obtained on the Snow- shoe mine In the Phoenix camp. The following year the company purchased the Idaho group adjoining the Centre Star and also the Enterprise group which adjoined the Idaho. This gave the company 4,600 feet of ore on the Centre Star vein. The workings of these new properties were connected with those of the Centre Star, War Eagle and Iron Mask and all through the one shaft. Several Improvements were Introduced including a new ore conveyor, electric haulage on several levels under ground, additional water and fire systems and a large amount of equipment for the shops. During the same year also the company, on account of the showing of the Snowshoe and other mines in the neighborhood, purchased the properties of the Phoenix Amalgamated company near Phoenix and also the Four Ace and Keystone groups adjoining these. During tbe past year the company has spent considerable money on Its different properties, the work done including the equipping of the Richmond Eureka group at Sandon, part of this being the building of an aerial tramway, and the erection of new buildings and the installation of equipment at the Phoenix Amalgamated mines. Early in the history bf the Trail smelter a lead stack had been installed as part of Its equipment, but difficulties were experienced owing to the fluctuations In the ore supply. No mine in the district had been sufficiently developed to guarantee a continuous supply of lead ore for more than a few months. There was, however, the St, Eugene mine at Moyle which was capable of supplying a large amount ot this class of ore. The securing of thla mine became as necessary to the successful treatment of lead ore as the Rossland and Phoenix properties had been In regard to copper smelting. A deal for the St. Eugene accordingly was put through and this property, the Rossland mines and the smelter were consolidated Into one company the life of which dates from the beginning of 190b. Since then great Improvements have been made In the equipment of the St. Eugene. In the year ending June 30, 1907, large additions were made to the concentrating plant, the fire protection system was improved, the shops were added to and improvements made to the power plant and boiler house and to the hoisting plant During the year Just closed a most complete ore sorting plant was Installed. One specially Important improvement last year was the introduction of a picking belt which makes possible the picking of the best ore for shipment direct to the smelter Instead of putting It through the mill at Moyle, as Is still done with the lower grades. An electric haulage system was also installed between the mine and mill and also In the mine and the boiler house was equipped with superheaters, which means a great economy In fuel In the production of steam. Improvements were also made In the concentrator and recovery machinery. Callow screens and Callow tanks were introduced thus effecting a large saving in values. As a result of these improvements the St. Eugene Is now equipped for the handling of ore at a minimum of cost and with a maximum of returns. During the year exceptionally good ore has been encountered on the lower levels and tbe mine instead of decreasing in value by reason of tbe amount of ore being taken out is increasing. The company in 1907 also branched out In another direction In connection with the lead department of Its business, and, by advancing $125,000 as a loan to the Canadian Metal company, secured the lend and zinc outputs from the concentrator at the Blue Bell mine at Alnsworth and that company's zinc smelter at Frank, Alberta. The object of this move was to ensure a sufficient supply of lead for the smelter furnaces andi refinery at Trail to guarantee a large enough lead tonnage to enable the Consolidated company to retain Its strong position in the Canadian, Chinese and Japanese lead markets. The Richmond-Eureka group at Sandon, which was part of the old War Eagle holdings, Is a silver-lead property and the object of the company in developing it is to further Increase the supply of ore for the lead furnaces. This group has developed ore of a considerable value and is now a regular shipper thus adding considerably to the company's profits. Altogether in the two years and a half previous to June last the company spent no less than $855,271 In improvements to its various properties including its mines and smelter exclusive of diamond drilling and development work in the mines. Since Its organization the Consolidated company has also pursued a vigorous policy of development in connection with Its mines and in this way has spent close on a million and a half dollars, all of which was charged to operating expenses. Of this amount $802,186 was spent on the Centre Star and adjoining groups, now being operated In connection with that mine, $503,912 on the St. Eugene property, $30,817 on the Snowshoe and $3,802 on the Richmond-Eureka group at Sandon. The company has done 36,165 feet of development work atad about 25,000 feet of diamond drilling In tbe Centre Star and adjoining groups, 26,491 feet of development and 9,266 of diamond drilling at the St Eugene and In addition to this a lot of development work and drilling on the Richmond-Eureka, Snow- shoe and Pheenlx Amalgamated pro* perties. At the end of June last there j was 19 miles ot tunneling In the mines \ at Rossland and 12 1-2 at the St. Eugene, with a 'smaller amount at the other properties. . The company's smelter at Trail Is a marvel of completeness. Following out the progressive policy that has always characterized the management of the enterprise, each year has seen a marked advance Jn the methods of, treating the ore In order to obtain the very best results. To acompllsh this extensions have been made to tbe plant from time to time, new systems have been Introduced and no expense Bpared that would conduce to the .end desired. The result Is that tho Consolidated Mining and Smelting company now own the largest and most complete plant of its kind on the continent. In It two classes of ore are treated, silver-lead and gold-copper, and for this there are to all intents and purposes two separate plants. When the copper-gold ore is brought in it Is delivered on a trestle from which it is dumped into receiving bins from which It is fed automatically into the crushers and samplers where a certain amount is reserved for assaying purpose. Three packages are made of this, one for assaying by the smelter company, one to be sent to the mine owner for the same purpose and the third to be sealed up for submission to a referee In case the mine and smelter assays do not agree. The company's laboratory, in which its assaying is done, Is tie most complete and modern In connection with any smelter In America, Electricity Is used to the fullest extent possible in the work of assaying, but the chemical operations carried on In the laboratory are several times greater in extent than are those in any other smelter assaying office In the country. The coke and lime rock required for the furnaces are brought in on tracks on the same level aa those on which the ore comes In. These pass from the cars Into feed bins extending down to the furnace levels. The ore after being crushed and sampled Is discharged into bins opening on the same levels as those containing the lime rock and coke. From these bins the ore, lime rock and coke Is drawn off as required into the dump cars, which are hauled by electric motors in trains of bIx to the furnace Bide, where the side is run up, and the contents of the cars dumped into the furnace below by the attendants. Thus from the time the copper ore is hauled up on the trestle to be dumped Into the crusher and Bampler bins until it reaches the furnace it Is not touched by hand. The smelter, it may be said, Is equipped with two gold- copper ore samplers, one of a capacity of 175 tons per hour and the other of 75 tons per hour. This latter, however, Is only an emergency mill and Is not ordinarily used. The company has at present four copper furnaces In operation and one in process of being enlarged. Of these two are 42x240 inches in size, with a capacity of 350 tons each dally, one is 42x263, with a capacity of 425 tons dally; another is 42x300 with a capacity of 450 tons dally, and tbe one rebuilding Is of the same size and of a similar capacity. The large one now in operation was also Installed this year. These furnaces are built of steel, with water jackets 4 1-2 inches thick. The necessary blast Is supplied from an adjoining building, the air being conducted through steel pipes which connect with several openings on either side of tho furnaces. The capacity of the blower room is being increased by the Installation of a No. 11 Roots' blower to take the place of two small ones which have been discarded. The capacity of the new blower Is 35,000 cubic feet of air per minute at a pressure of 4S ounces. Over the furnaces are large flues which catch the fine ore and coke forced .upwards by the furnace blast. These flues lead to receiving bins, after which this dust is made into briquettes and put through the furnaces. In the furnaces the ore is reduced to nine per cent, copper matte and Is then put through the Huntlngdon-Heb- erlein roasters and the sulphur reduced to 9 per cent. The roasted material is then taken to the semi-clrcluar converters where the sulphur is. further reduced and the product clntered and put through the blast furnace proper again when It is raised to 42 per cent, copper matte and shipped to the Tacoma smelter for further treatment. This matte nt? shipped Is composed of copper, gold, a little silver and traces of other metals. So far bo attempt has been made at the Trail smelter to complete the treatment of copper matte, but It Is only a question of time until the necessary plant will be Installed. It is necessary) however, before this is done that there be enough copper matte produced by the smelter to justify the establish- m«nt of the large plant that will be necessary to secure the best results. Good progress is being mads In this direction and further additions for the treatment of copper may bs expected soon to be in operation at Trail. But while the Consolidated company does not complete the treatment of copper ore as yet, the same cannot be said regarding lead for there Ib at Trail a large refinery in .addition to tbe smelter and also a plant for making lead pipe from the refined material. This branch of the business has an interesting history attached to It. A few years ago the American Smelting trust controlled the output of lead in the United States and was able to place the price at a certain figure and there keep It, for the government had obligingly placed a heavy duty on this metal which made competition In that market Impossible. Not only this, but, following the usual trust methodB the surplus production in the United' States was "dumped" on the markets of the world against Canadian lead. Even the Canadian home market was Invaded In this way, the slaughter prices of the trust being much lower than those for which lead could be produced In this country and also much below the price that was being charged In the United States by the same people tor the same product. If, therefore, the Canadian lead Industry was to succeed It was necessary that it should have government assistance, either In the way of a tariff high enough to ensure the home market to Canadian producers, or by means or a. bounty, or by both. However, tt waa easily shown that even the Canadian lead market of that day was not sufficient field for the development of the Industry, There was then only from 12,000 to 15,000 tons of lead being used in Canada annually, of which more than one-third was in the Bhape of lead products which came in duty free from the United tSates. The extent of the Canadian market for lead bullion at that time, It Is safe to say, therefore, did not exceed 8,000 tons per annum. Any plant large enough to be operated economically would produce much more than this amount and the result was that Canada's surplus lead bullion had to be dumper on the London market at any price that could be obtained for it. The result was a drop in prices In the old country market, which controls the prices ot the world, which affected the Canadian market, just as It did all others. The Canadian lead producer thus could not count on a fair price even in his own market. The building up of the lead business at this stage looked hopeless and the future of silver lead-mining In the Kootenay dark, indeed. With this situation staring them in the face the smelter and mine people combined and were able to Induce the government to grant a bounty on lead. Tt.j,s bounty Is based on the price of lead In the London market, the government paying the producer the difference between the price obtained and the figure agreed upon. Of course, when the price obtained Is equal or above the figure used as a basis the government pays nothing. This arrangement was made good for a term of years and last year its life was extended another five years. As a result of the evidence presented to tbe tariff commission by the smelter and mining people a duty was also placed on lead products coming into the country, thus further assisting in the development of tho industry. Following this the Trail smelter put in a refinery with a capacity of nine tons per day, which has since been increased to close to 90 tons per day. Pig lead from this refinery is now being sold all over Canada as welt as in China and Japan. The quality of lead turned out is especially good for corroding purposes and three factories are now engaged in the making of white lead from the product of the Trail refinery. Up to the time this pig lead from the Trail refinery was available there waa no faotory engaged in this work in Canada, all the white lead used in the country being obtained from England, while now very little Is being imported. The silver lead ore from the St. Eugene and other mines is brought to the smelter generally In box cars from which it is dumped direct Into the crusher of the sampling mill and crushed to 3-16 inch mesh and from the screen is sampled by automatic sampler and then taken to the ore beds where products of the different mines are ; mixed In order to obtain the best re- j suits.. In preparing the silver-lead ore for treatment much greater care has to be taken than with the copper. The ore and lime rock have to be carefully weighed and used in tbe proper proportions. These are then put in the Huntingdon-Heberlein roasters and converters where the Bulphur.is reduced and the material clntered or agglomerated. This clntered mass is conveyed to the blast furnace feed bins and smelter for the recovery of the lead, gold and silver In the Bhape of lead bullion. The blast furnaces now In operation are two In number, one 45 x 140 inches in size, with a dally capacity of 140 tons, and the other 45 x 160 inches tn sfee and with a capacity ot 160 tons per day. The lead as It eomeB from the blast furnace Is caught and placed In molds and Is then conveyed to the refinery for the recovery of the pure lead and other metals contained In tbe bullion. Here the bullion is re-melted and cast into annodes, weighing about 350 lbs., and measuring 26x86 Inches and being a little over an inch In thickness. These are fitted with lugs on which the whole hangs suspended when placed In the electrolytic refining vats in which the Impurities are removed from the lead. Tbe system ased Is known as the Bette electrolytic. The annodes are placed In tanks at regular intervals and between each two Is suspended a cathode, or thin sheet of pure lead, one end of which haa been wrapped around a bar of copper. The edgea ot these tanks are of copper, so that the hydro-fluorstllc acid with which the tanks arc filled establishes a current. There are in the refinery 240 electrolytic vats each with a capacity of four tons of bullion. These are arranged in sections so that there Ib circulation of the hydro-fluorslllo acid which dissolves the pure lead from the annodes and conveyB it to the cathodes, which gradually Increase In thlcknesB until tbe latter are about the same size as the original annodes. The annodes, how* ever, do not lose their size. At the end ot eight days, when the process has been completed, they are lifted out by an electric crane. It is then found that the annodes consist of a sheet of hard metal, the remainder being a black slime containing all the gold, silver and antimony. This slime Ib carefully removed for the recovery of Its contents. The cathodes, which are then pure lead, are also lifted out and are then melted and moulded when the lead Is ready tor the market Two sizes of pigs are made, one for the Canadian and Japanese trade and the other for the Chinese trade. The latter are much larger than the other, the Chinese insisting on getting the particular size and shape that they have always been accustomed to buying. One reason for the shape is that one side of these pigs Is rounded and thus do not hurt the shoulders of the coolies who carry them as would the other shapes. After the slime has been thoroughly washed and freed from antimony, when necessaTy, it is roasted and Bmelted in a reverbatory type of furnace. The Impurities are all slagged off in this furnace operation, leaving Dore metal, consisting of gold and silver. The gold an silver are then separated by means of sulphuric acid. The gold thus secured Is melted and cast into bars weighing about 600 ounces. The silver solution is transferred to vats and the silver recovered by means of pure copper. The cement or pure silver Is finally gathered and melted In a reverbatory furnace and molded In bars weighing about 1000 ounces. The gold and silver produced In this way are what Is known as 999 fine and the lead 99.98. The gold from the refinery Is at present being shipped to the United States assay office at Seattle, but it is probable that, now that the Canadian mint is in operation, the output of this metal from Trail will in future be sent to Ottawa there to be made Into Canadian money. The silver is disposed of in the usual markets and the lead Is sold all over Canada, the surplus being sent to the Orient. Copper sulphate, commonly known as bluestone, Is recovered as a by-product in the refining of the lead, gold and silver and Is sold throughout the prairie country to the farmers, who use it for bluestoning their wheat before seeding In order to prevent smut. An especially h*gh grade of bluestone Is made at Trail and the market for it Is increasing every year. The company, however, does not stop with the supplying of the purest pig lead that can be obtained but makes a portion of Its output into lead pipe. All sizes are manufactured from 1-4-inch to 4 Inch and any length desired. This lead pipe finds a market In all parts of Canada, the plant being sufficiently large to supply all demands upon It. Adjoining the lead refinery is a power house, equipped with a 600 horse power generator for reducing the electric current to the proper voltage and ampereage for the electrolytic process, and which is also used for supplying the heating required In connection with this work. In another building there Ib a plant for the manufacture of the fluorslllc acid which is used in such large quantities In the refinery. This acid Is made from fluor-spar, brought from Tennessee and Kentucky, silica and sulphuric acid. From there It is conveyed by gravity to the vats as required. There Is a boiler plant for heating the building nnd warming solutions situated close to the refinery. The Consolidated Mining and Smelting company and its predecessor, the Canadian Smelting Works, under W. H. Aldridge, has throughout pursued a progressive and enterprising policy and last year saw no change. During the year many improvements were made at the smelter and others have boen arranged. One of the copper furnaces was replaced by one 25 per cent. larger, i while the same Is now being done with j another, the capacity of each being increased 100 tons a day as a result. These new furnaces are 42 x 300 inches in Blze with a capacity of 450 tons per day. The second furnace will he ready within a short time. A new lead furnace 45 x 216 inches in size nnd with n capacity of 250 tons per day is alao being installed. In order to supply the extra lead furnace capacity two additional Huntingdon-Heberlein roasters and several convertors were added during the past year and two more of tho former and five of the latter, with a capacity of 325 tons per day, are to be added in the near future. At present there are in operation six Huntingdon- Heberlein lead roasters and fifteen convertors and two O'Hnra copper matte roasters, with a capacity of 75 tons each, and nine convertors, with a capacity of 12 tons each. Due to the enlargement of the furnace capacity additional blower power was necessary and to supply this two small blowers, which had a pressure of 32 ounces to the inch, are being replaced with a No. 11 Root blower which will have a capacity of 35,000 cubic feet of air per minute with a pressure of 48 ounces. This will give six large blowers. Another of the big Improvements of the year has been the erection of a new steel furnace building 70 feet by 260 feet in size. Additional stacks for the catching of ore duBt from the blast furnaces and two new storage bins, one for copper ore and the other for lime rock, with a capacity of 2,000 tons, have been constructed. To attempt to enumerate all la minor Improvements of the year would be almost impossible, for the company has its own carpenter, machine and blacksmith shops in which it keeps men employed all the year round adding to and Improving the plant as necessity arises. In this way everything Is kept in the best possible*] shape and It Ib safe to Bay that there is not in the country an enterprise where more attention is paid to keeping the plant in first-class condition than at the Trail smelter. One of the things upon which the success of tbe smelter largely depends but which Is not now controlled by tbe Consolidated, is the supply of electric current, without which the works could not be operated. The necessary power for the Trail smelter and refinery as well as for the company's mines at Rossland and In the Boundary Is supplied from the West Kootenay Power and Light company's plant at Bonnington Falls, about 10 miles from Nelson. The company delivers the power at 1Jn.il for the smelter at a voltage of 20,000, which Is reduced In the Consolidated company's sub-station to 660 volts. At the mines power Is delivered in the same way to substations. OUTLOOK LUMBERING OPERATI0N8 (Continued from rage Twenty-two) five and one-half million feet and it Is estimated that this will be Increased In 1909 to eight millions. The timber consists principally of spruce, larch and fir. The number of men employed In the mill is forty, while fifty are employed In logging operations. The manager reports the outlook for 1909 as "Improving. ROBINSON-McKENZIE LUMBER CO. J. W. Robertson Is presldnet and Win. McKenzie, vice-president. The capital in mills Is $20,000, and tbe timber limits held by tbe company represent a capital of $75,000, they having a total of 3100 acres. The timber Is principally pine, larch and fir, and all grades of lumber are manufactured. The capacity of the mill Is forty thousand feet per day of ten hours. Eighty men are employed and company reports: "Indications at present not very encouraging, though there Is a Blight Improvement on 1908." FERNIE LUMBER CO., LIMITED As the name Implies, this company Is located at Fernie, with A. McDougall as president and general manager. The capital Invested amounts to $60,000, of which the mil! is responsible for $50,000, the balance covering timber limits of 12,000 acres held by the company. The entire plant of the company was destroyed by the fire of August 1st, 1908, the cut of timber up to that date approximating two million feet With the new mill built to replace tbe one burned, it is estimated the cut In 1909 will reach ten million feet. The timber Is principally fir, larch and cedar. The mill and yards require a staff of sixty men to operate, and ninety men are employed in logging operations. The capacity of tbe mill is 60,000 feet per day of ten hours. The manager reports: "The outlook for 1909 looks good to us." SPARWOOD LUMBER CO., LTD, This company In the opening of tha season of 1908 met with serious misfortune in the burning of their mill two days after they started sawing. Immediate steps were taken to rebuild, and now a much larger and better mill has replaced the original one, and It Is anticipated a good season's run will result in 1909. The mill and headquarters of the company are at Sparwood, on the C. N. railway. The authorized capital is $35,000, of which $15,000 is fully paid up, and there is also a surplus of $10,000. E. R. J. Forster is president and manager. The amount Invested in the enterprise Is $10,000, the mill representing $7,000, and the timber limits $3,000. The acreage of limits owned by the company is 1,920 and In addition they also cut timber off other HmltB. The capacity of the mill Ib thirty thousand feet in ten hours. Owing to the burning of the mill there was no cut dnrinc 1908, but it Is estimated that In 1909 the cut will reach five million feet. The timber manufactured is fir, larch, spruce and jack pine. Twenty- rive men are employed In the mill, and thirty are employed in logging operations. The manager reports as to the outlook for 1909: "We have sold four million feet, but prices are low. However, wages are low, too, and we expect to manufacture cheaper lumber than ever before, as added to the reduction in cost of labor, we will have a much faster and better mill than we had before the fire. We expect the lumber trade and prices to pick up next fall as crops on tho prairie are good. No marked Improvement Is looked for until that time, and not even then unless there Is a good crop." THE BAKER LUMBER CO., LTD. This company Is composed of Cranbrook capitalists and business men, with mills and head office located at Waldo, on the line of the C. N. railway, a few miles east of Cranbrook. The company has a capitalization of $300,000 and has invested in mills $90,000, and in timber limits $250,000. Tbe mill has a capacity of seventy-five thousand feet per day of ten hours, nnd employs from sixty to sixty-five men. The acreage of timber limits held by the company Is about 30,000, and the number of men employed in logging operations varies with the cut, at the present time only about fifty men being engaged In this work. The approximate cut for 1908 was five million feet, and it is estimated this will be doubled In 1909. The timber is pine, larch and fir. The officers of the company are: V. Hyde Baker, president; Simon Taylor, vice- president; C. D. McNab, manager, and W. Robertson, secretary. 1 As to the outlook for 1909, the company reports: "It cannet be considered encouraging; the close of the year will find the manufacturers with about as much stock on hand as was shipped during the entire year ending December 81, 1907, and, with the demand weaker. If anything, than at that date. Those qualified to express an opinion expect a rally during the spring of 1909, but It Is not. anticipated this will be tasting, and the general view of tbe manufacturers is that until their interests are adequately protected the lumber business will pass from Its present condition of a mere struggle for existence to a moribund inaction, neither Inviting to- capital nor beneficial to tbe province." PAGE THIRTY tfh* ©HUB ileitnn, •UNDAV JANUARY » NELSON'S BANNER PROPERTIES NOW BEING DEVELOPED During the early part of the year mining operations in the neighborhood of Nelson were not extensive owing to unfavorable conditions, partly the result of low prices of some metals, and partly tor other reasons which need not here be gone Into. However, as the year advanced there was a decided improvement, until now, at the close, there is .much to cause satisfaction with the substantially better position generally. It is true there is room for further Improvement but since there are Indications that this will In some meas- sure, if not to full extent, be made during the ensuing year, there is on the whole good reason to regard the situation as gratifying for the present and encouraging for the future. SILVH3R KING MINE. Prominent among the advances made is the resumption of work at the Silver King mine on Toad mountain, so long worked by the Hall Mining and Smelting company andVits predecessors. During part of the year 1907 this mine was operated by the company, following the expiry In 1906 of the lease of the property that had been held by M. S. Davys. Prior to the suspension of the company, late in 1907, the 'production during the year had amounted to nearly 2300 tons of ore containing some 28,000 oz. of silver and 160,000 pounds of copper. In April last Information was cabled from England to the effect that Mr. Davys had completed arrange- meats to lease the mine for a comparatively long period, and that he had organized a development company to work it again, as soon as It should have been placed in a condition that would permit of operations being carried on with a fair prospect of profit resulting. I The new company, organized and registered in London, was named the iKootenay Development Syndicate, Limited. M. S. Davys Is managing director and the local directorate consists of R. S. Lennie, h. Pratt, and W. J. Wilson, all well known business men residing In Nelson. H. B. Rudd is secretary. In May some ore mined lost fall was sent down the aerial tramway from the mine to the company's smelter at Nelson for shipment thence to Trail. In August the work of overhauling and repairing tbe tramway was undertaken, and extensive repairs were effected. This tramway, it may be mentioned, was the first aerial ropeway erected in Kootenay. and it has done much, service during the years it bos been in use. Its carrying capacity is about 100 tons per day. On September 1st mining was resumed, this work being in the upper parts of the mine, the lower levels being full of water The total quantity of ore shipped during this year is between 800 and 900 tons, of an average value of 22 ozs. silver to the ton and four per cent copper. Many surface improvements have been made at the mine at a total cost, together with the repairs of the tramway, of about $15,000. These include tbe erection of a bunkhouse to accommodate 50 men, to replace that destroyed by fire some time since; tbe construction of an electric power trans- mission line 3-phase for 20.009 volU to be stepped down to 550 volts in the transformer station at the mine; the installation of several induction rnolors \ including one of 100 h.p. for driving the the hoist, and one of 50 h.p, for the botst, and one of 50 h.p. for running the electric pump. By tbe time this shall appear in print It la likely the unwater- lng ot the mine will have commenced, with a 500 gallon bailer, operated by the hoist. After the mine shall have been unwatered down to the 10th level by the bailer, the electric pump wilt be used to keep it free from water. It Is estimated that it will take five or six weeks' balling to get tbe water out, and thereafter a system of development will be entered upon simultaneously with the extraction of ore, the plan of work including both sloping and drifting. It Is expected that about 50 men will be employed at the mine during the winter, under the direction of the superintendent. W. J. Turner, who is an old- timer in the Nelson district In which he is well and favorably krown. incidentally it may be mentioned that one of the chief difficulties in the way of working the Silver Klug mine at a profit In the past was the very high cost of steam power used there. By substituting electric power which will be obtained from the West Kootenay Power & Light company, the cost of power will be much reduced and the profit- earning capacity of the mine he considerably Increased. QUEEN VICTORIA MINE This mine was one of those so affected by the fall in the price ot copper in