/ppmm LJULIljIUlllUII. m Enormous Mineral Resources, Affording: Rare Opportunities for Investment—A Railroad Will be Begun this Year and Prices Must Advance- Excellent Smelter Sites "With Abundant "Water Power—Coal, Agricultural and Timber Lands—Placer and Ore Gold,*Copper and Iron; Vol. iv. No. 44. PRINCETON, B.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY J 3, J 904. $2 a Year, in Advance. LOCAL PARAGRAPHS. Br -A fi» 1 m A Brief News Notes and Personal Mention of People Passing., In the letter of A. Bell in last week's Star the product of 3 lbs. of potatoes reads "19^" lbs. whereas it should be 191^ lbs. Rev. Mr. Lang preached last Sunday in the school house and will [D.V.] preach every second Sunday hereafter. J. J. • McDonald of the Similkameen Sawmill Co., was in town Monday and put a gang of loggers at work on A. McDonald's flat. The logs are banked on the river from whence they will be driven to the mill when the water rises . The Jolly Glee Club is to be reanimated and will include light opera and melodrama in the curriculum, possibly terminating the season with a real leap year wedding accompanied by an old- time charivari. Jas. Clarke, watchmaker and jeweller at Hedley has built a shop on Scott av.. in that town and is prepared to do any thing in his line. F. P. Cook and two daughters leave for England next week going by way of L/ondon-in-the-bush, where they will visit relatives, sailing from Halifax per Allan steamer a little later. Mr. Cook goes on business and pleasure but chiefly to see his aged mother, at whose 80th birthday reception he hopes to be present at the old home in Bedford. His daughters will remain in England to be educated. He will be absent about three months. L- 1 A.D. Worgan, of Allison, has been I/appointed agent for the London & Lan jcashire Life Assurance Co. and is now making a canvass of the district for clients. It is reported that the immense water power at Okanagan Falls is to be harnessed and the electric power generated will be used in manufacturing, mining, lighting and irrigation. M. K. Rodgers, manager of the Daly Reduction Co. and Nickel Plate mine states that the plant for the concentrating mill will be installed shortly and about 150 tons of ore will be treated daily. There is more than an acre of roofing in connection with the works. The greatest need of Hedley is railway communication. E. Voigt states that he will install a compressor on one of his Copper mountain properties this spring. F. W. Groves, P.L.S., has been gazet- f ted a justice of the peace. The cold dip at the beginning of the week was the coldest this winter the thermometer falling to 20 ° below zero on Monday morning and 27 ° below Tuesday night. The latest reading is 40 ° above zero with beautiful sunshine and a springlike sniff of air. Bob Cramer and Bert Bryant are doing development work on the Silver Dollar, at Copper mountain. 04iJ 0MLY GQML Good! Quality* Lartg& Area Similkameen and Nicola Districts Embedded With Coal—Has no Superior in Steaming Qualities and Will Coke—Coal Basins and Metal. liferous Belts Intermingle—Ideal Smelting Advantages. The advancement and prosperity of the province of British Columbia, with the unending development of its great metalliferous deposits, are so dependant upon coal and its product that any information or intelligible advice regarding the vast coal areas of the Similkameen and Nicola districts will be appreciated. It has been a matter of history for half a century that coal existed here but no systematic effort to prove its extent and quality had been made up to three or four years ago. Since when it has been demonstrated beyond all doubt by borings, tunnels, analyses and actual use of that there is no better steaming or heating coal known, and that its coking qualities are undoubted, notwithstanding adverse opinion of interested persons. It is not at all likely that large sums of money would be invested in coal claims if there had not been proof of value and extent. There is every reason to believe that not only will the known coal deposits throughout the districts mentioned realize all that is expected of them but that other discoveries contiguous to these will be found equally good and valuable. The coal deposits of the Similkameen are so situated that a smelter could make and use its own coke' without having to haul it or ore more than a mile. Nature has poured out with a lavish hand all the requisites for making the Similkameen a great industrial center and coal is not the least important commodity to make it such. As depth is obtained the coal shows marked improvement in quality, the lower seams being of greater solidity and better color. The Similkameen river has cut the formation exposing coal at many places along the banks. This is a decided advantage as it cheapens mining more than by the shaft method. The coal is very suitable for domestic purposes and is used altogether in blacksmithing. It is delivered for $3 a ton to all parts of Princeton. As a coal for naval purposes it has the peculiar property of giving off a thin, vapory smoke, invisible except at much closer range than is usual with other coal. It is believed to be the nearest approach to smokeless coal that has yet been discovered. In an interview in Montreal a well known mining engineer and coal expert said: "Important discoveries of coal have been made in the Similkameen district. I inspected and reported upon these, and I am able to say that I located at least one first class seam of coking coal, which analyzed : per cent. Fixed carbon 62.00 Ash 7.00 This result was obtained from raw coal taken at the outcrop." The area of the coal basin, of which the principal outcrop is at Princeton, is some six miles north and south by four miles east and west. The Similkameen river, flowing north through this basin, has cut a channel through the soft shales and has in many places exposed the coal. The outcrop on the east bank, immediately opposite the town of Princeton, on land owned by the Vermilion Forks Mining & Development Co., has had considerable development done on it. The seam is dipping to the south at an angle of 13 °. About 50 feet below the bridge crossing the river an adit level has been *run fn DTI tUe"-strike ot the coal almost due east for a distance of 160 feet. At 107 feet from the mouth a level drift has been- run for 77 feet, cutting foot wall and section of the seam which proved to be over 24 feet thick and which also disclosed a 3-foot seam of fire clay. Another tunnel has also been run from the east approach of the bridge at an angle to strike the adit level, thus affording ample ventilation and also facilitating the work of getting out coal. This tunnel is 187 feet long on a five per cent, grade. Assays from face give: Fixed carbon 54-°7 Volatile matter 39-93 Ash 5.70 Sulphur 30 During the last three years considerable prospecting has been done by drilling. The Holt syndicate sunk a hole on extreme western edge of basin some 900 feet deep and passed through several seams of coal of varying thickness. A Toronto company, for whom W. Blake- more, M.F., was acting sunk a bore hole 1,000 feet on west bank of Similkameen river, some i]/2 miles south of Princeton and ran through a good seam of coal 10 feet thijbk at 680 feet depth. The V.F.M. & D. Co. working with a calyx drill sunk three holes on the town- site of Princeton, the first on the western approach to the Similkameen bridge at the junction of Bridge street with Endcliffe avenue, the second a mile south on the bank of the Similkameen river and a third hole 440 yards south of the Similkameen bridge. The log of these bore holes is summarized as follows: First hole—Depth sunk, 280 feet; coal seams varying from 1 foot 6 inches to 18 feet 5^ inches thick were bored through —total thickness of seams, 24 feet; fire clay, 1 foot 10 inches. The remainder of boring was composed of shale, sandstone, clay and gravel. Second hole—Depth sunk, 303 feet; coal seams varying from 1 foot 7 inches to 5 feet thick were bored through—total thickness of seams 16 feet 7 inches; remainder of boring composed of shale, clay and sandstone. Third hole—Depth sunk, 340 feet; three seams of coal, 6, 7 and 19 feet 3 inches thick, respectively, or a total of 32 feet 3 inches of coal. Remainder of boring composed of shale, sandstone and clay. KThe British Columbia Collieries Com- nany own 8,000 acres of rich coal lands near Princeton and have recently had • their property surveyed by Thos. Parr, P.L.S. The seams are well defined and the coal is bituminous, which, by actual test is shown to be of good coking qualities. The first seam is only 35 feet below the surface and is 4^ feet thick ; the second seam is 6 feet 7^ inches thick, directly under the first, and the third, at a depth of 47^ feet below the surface, has the phenomenal thickness of 18 feet 5% inches. This property is easy of access and is on the proposed line of the Coast-Kootenay railway and within five miles of the location line of the Columbia & Western Extension of the C.P.R. A recent assay of the coal gave the following result: Fixed carbon 74-58 ■ Volatile matter 21.52 Ash 3.90 Following are some of the owners of coal properties: Vermilion Eorks Mining & Development Co., B.C. Collieries Co., Ashnola Coal Co., Tuiameen Coal Co., B. G. Goward Co., G. K. Burns, O. Marstrand, E. B. Tingley J. E. Church, J. E. Smart, J. C. Mcintosh, W. A. Davis, J. H. Hoare, W H. Hagermafr, J. Harris, W. M. Dean, W. R. Morrison, W. F. Draper, John Brown, S. DesBricay, A. DesBrisay, J. Desbrisay, J. Clarke, E. L. Trodden, J. Stewart, A. Stewart, R. Clark, Chas. Richter, C. Summers, K. Revely, Geo. McCoskery, J. Long, M. K. French, A. P. Nicol, J. Corbett, J. Hislop, R. O. Cramer, J. McHarlin, C. B. Murray, J. Clapperton, J. Amberty, C. DeBarro, Duncan McPhail, Donald McPhail, H. S. Cleasby, J. W. Lloyd, T. Oliver, E. Richards, J. R. A. Richards, E. M. Warner, J. Stott, D. Gavin, J. Foster, J. Mer- ryfield, Z. Gordon Goldberg, R. Kelly, [Continued on page 3.] ami THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR February 13, 1904 The Similkameen Star Published Weekly at — Princeton, B. C. — —BY— The Princeton Publishing Co. A. B. Howse, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Domestic, One Year, ------- $2.00 Foreign, One Year, - $3-°° Payable Invariably in Advance. Subscribers will confer a favor on this office by promptly reporting any change in address or rrejjularity in receipt of their paper. Advertising rates furnished on application. Legal notices 10 and 5 cents per line. Four weekly insertions constitute one month advertising. All cheques to be made payable to A. E. HOWSE. EDITORIAL NOTES. The sum of $5,000 has been placed in the government estimates for a commission to enquire into the financial condition of British Columbia. The very work that a government is supposed to do and for which big salaries are paid is thus shifted onto a commission which with incidental expenses will, in all likelihood, run up a bill of $5,000 . more. This is economy with a vengeance ! But the government has a lot of campaign heelers to provide for and a useless commission will relieve the congestion. All that the commission can possibly do is to report that the province is spending more than it receives. Not a tramp in the world but can for a "square," tell the government that he is always "broke" for similar reasons. The department of public works should have a commission to enquire why roads are not built, and so on through the other departments ! Oh, that some Crom- E well or village Hampden might be round to revolutionize or remove the legislative disabilities under which British Columbia is groaning. It would be a great satisfaction and no little convenience if the department of public works would be more prompt in issuing coal licenses and crown grants on mineral claims. Months frequently elapse before the applicant receives the document for which he has had to pay in coin of the realm and for which he is kept in unnecessary suspense until the spirit moves some of those important underlings which infest the legislative precincts of James's Bay. Official business of the government should be conducted in a model manner and worthy of imitation by the people. For promptness, procrastination; for decision, delay ; these are some of the lax business methods with ^twhich this province has been, and is now, afflicted. Is it not time for a change, and is it not time that government business be transacted as promptly as that of the successful private individual ? At this distance from the seat of government and with news gener ally four days old it is difficult to foreknow the result of the government's railway legislation. Of the fifteen railway projects before the government none are more worthy than those affecting the Nicola and Similkameen districts, for there are no two districts in the province as rich in mineral resources. It would be nothing short of suicide for the government to block railway construction in these contiguous districts, whose interests are identical on the questions of development and transportation. The efforts of the Nicola people to secure a railway have been unceasing. The expenses in connection with deputations and legislation are no light matters and no one in the Similkameen is so narrow as to deny or begrudge them the fruits of their exertions for a railway, for what is Nicola's gain is also beneficial to the Similkameen. Looking at the reasonableness of the request it is almost certain the government will not refuse the aid required. The legislature was, no doubt, prorogued on Thursday last, as foreshadowed by a government organ. In connection with it the Vancouver News-Advertiser suggests that the house meets again next summer to consider the unfinished railway business of the recent session. Evidently the paper does not consider the great cost, the inconvenience to members and the public nor the useless ness of such a proposition. Not satisfied with an empty treasury it seems as if certain persons are bent on the complete ruin of the country. If not mistaken, it was this same paper, or its manager, which advised the province to bonus the Pacific cable with $1,000,000. The cable is now lying worm-eaten at the bottom of the Pacific and has never earned enough to pay for the greased- lightning it is supposed to convey. So much for the organ's judgment. A General Banking Business A general banking business transacted by the Bank of Hamilton. Capital $a.uoo.ooo. Reserve Fund $1,700,000. Interest allowed on Savings Bank deposits of one dollar and upwards from date of deposit to date of withdrawal. A. H. SKEY, Agent, Kamloops, B. C. SALE of GOVERNMENT LAND BY TENDER. NOTICE is hereby given that under instructions, sealed tenders endorsed "Tender for Lot 2465, Osoyoos," will be received by the undersigned up to noon on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, next, for the purchase of Lot 2465, Group I, Osoyoos Division of Yale District, lying west of and adjoining the townsite of Similkameen City, and containing 100 acres by admeasurement. Every tender must be accompanied by cash or marked cheques equal to 20 per cent, of the amount tendered. This deposit will be forfeited in case the balance of the purchase money is not paid within sixty days of the notification of the acceptance of a tender, and returned if the tender is not accepted. The highest or any tender uot necessarily accepted. L. NORRIS, Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works. Vernon, B.C., January 29th, iqo4. In the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In the matter of Charles Johnson, deceased, and in the matter of the " Intestate Estates Act." Pursuant to an order made' herein, tenders, addressed to the Administrator in care of the undersigned, will be received up to the SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1904, for the purchase of the pre-emption claim of the above named deceased, situate in the Nicola division of Yale district, and described as being situated on the north side of the Tuiameen river, about four miles west of Princeton, B.C. and formerly occupied by Charles Johnson. Tenders shall state (i),the amount offered for the preemption before Crown grant, (2) the amount offered for the same after Crown grant. It is required that the party or parties whose tender may be accepted shall execute an agreement for the purchase of the lands and shall upon the execution thereof pay to the administrator thirty per cent of the purchase moneys or as the Court may direct. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Further particulars may be obtained upon application to the undersigned. Dated the 18th of January, iqo4. L. P. ECKSTEIN, Morrison block, Grand Forks, B.C., Solicitor for Charles B. Peterson, the Administrator, Grand Forks, B.C. NOTICE. In the matter of the Estate of Charles Johnson, deceased, late of Tuiameen river, near Princeton, Farmer. Notice is hereby given that all persons'having claims against the estate of the said Charles Johnson, who died on or aboul the 15th day of January, 1903, are required on or before the TENTH DAY OF MARCH, 1904, to send to the undersigned Administrator or his solicitor, full particulars of their respective claims. And further take notice that after such date the administrator will proceed to distribute the assets among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which he shall then have notice and that the said Administrator will not be liable to any person of whose claims notice shall not have been received at the time of distribution. Dated the 18th of January, 1904. CHARLES B. PETERSON Administrator. Grand Forks, B.C. L.P.Eckstein, Grand Forks, B.C., solicitor for • said Administrator. NOTICE. TPHIRTY days from date I intend to apply to * the Chief Commissioner of Lauds and Works for a license to prospect for coal on the following described lands:— Commencing at a post marked Jos. Graham's N.W. Corner, adjoining W. McDonald's S.E. corner. And running 80 chains south, 80 chains east, 80 chains north, 80 chains west, back to post, in all 640 acres. JOS. GRAHAM, Locator, Nicola, Dec. 8, 1903. NOTICE. HpHIRTY days from date I intend to apply to *■ the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for coal on the following described lands:— Commencing at a post marked L. Quinville's N.E. corner and adjoining W, N. Murray's N.W. cornea, And running 80 chains south, 80 chains west, 80 chains north, 80 chains east, back to post, in all 640 acres. L. QUINVILLE, Locator, JOS. GRAHAM, Agent. Nicola, Dec. 11, 1903 NOTICE. '"phirty days after date I intecd to apply to the * Chief Commissioner of I ands and Works for a license to prospect for coal on the following described land:— Commencing at a post on the east and adjoining Jos. Graham's coal location; And running 80 chains north, 80 chains east, 80 chains south, 80 chains west, back to post, containing in all 640 acres. H. W. ELLIOTT, Locator, JOS. GRAHAM, Agent. Nicola, Dec. 8,1903. NOMCE. Anuie L. mineral claim. Situate in the Similkameen Mining Division of Yale^district. Where located : Copper Mountain. Take notice that I, F. W. Groves, acting as agent for A. W. Smith, free miner's certificate No B71517 and Patrick H. Kennedy, free miner's certificate No. B56376, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 24th day of November, 1903. JAS. CLARK WATCHMAKER i and JEWELLER ALL WORK WARRANTED Hedley and Princeton NOTICE of FORFEITURE To GEORGE H. SPROULE or whomsoever he may have transferred his interest in Mount Temple mineral claim, situate on Rabbit Mountain on the Tuiameen river and about one and one-half miles from Otter Flat in the Yale mining district in the province of British Columbia. You are hereby notified that I have expended $214.00 in labour and improvements up*on the above mentioned mineral claim under the provisions" of the Mineral Act, and if within ninety days from the date of this notice you fail or refuse to contribute your proportions of the above mentioned sum, being $107.00, which is now due and payable, together with all costs of advertising, your interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned, under Section 4 of the Mineral Act Amendment Act, iqoo. Dated this 21st day of November, 1903. M. McGONIGLE, Fairview. NOTICE of FORFEITURE To GEORGE H. COLLINS, of the City of Greenwood, B.C. Take notice that after the publication hereof once each week for ninety days, 3 ou fail or refuse to contribute your portion of the expenditure required by section 24 of the " Mineral Act," being chapter 135, Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1897, in respect of the Little Pittsburgh, Whale, Bullon Beck and Florence mineral claims, situate on Twenty-Mile creek, in the Osoyoos Mining Division of Yale District, British Columbia, together with all costs of advertising, your interest in said claim shall become vested in your co-owner, Thomas Brad- shaw, of Twenty-Mile Creek, Free Miner, who has made the required expenditure. The amount due by you in respect of each of the said mineral claims, not including costs, is $25.6234. Dated this 21st day of November, 1903. THOMAS BRADSHAW. NOTICE of FORFEITURE To ANTONIO SCARPELLI and any person to whom he may have transferred his interest in the Victoria and Two Brothers mineral claims situate at 16-Mile Creek in the Osoyoos mining division of Yale district. You are hereby required to take notic e that I have expended for recording certificates of work done on the above claims for the years ending Tune 10, 1901 and June 10, 1902, the sum of Ten Dollars, being an expenditure nee essary to enable me to hold said claims and you are herety required to contribute vour share or proportion of such expenditure, namely, Three Dollars and thirty-three and one-third cents, together with all cost of advertising. If you fail or refuse to contribute such amoupt, including advertising, within ninety days from date of first publication of this notice in the Similkameen Star, your interest will become vested in me, your co- owner, under the provisions of the Mineral Act and Amending Acts. Dated this 12th day of December, 1903. FRANCESCO PER A. NOTICE. HpHIRTY days after date I intend to appiy to I the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for coal on the following described lands: Commencing at a post placed on the left bank of the Similkameen river about 5 miles south of Princeton and marked E. Waterman's S.W. corner and adjoining A. Hickling's N.W. corner. And running 80 chains north, 80 chains east, 80 chains south, 80 chains west to point of commencement, in all 640 acres. E. waterman, Locator, Dated January 31st, 1904. NOTIGEl '"Phirty days after date I intend to apply to the * Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a licence to prospect for coal on the following described lands: Commencing at a post marked A. Hickling's N.W. corner placed on left bank of Similkameen river about 5 miles south of Princeton, And running south 80 chains, east 80 chains, north 80 chains, west 80 chains to point of commencement, containing 640 acres. A. Hickling, Locator, E. Waterman, Agent. Dated January 31st, 1904 NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that sixty days after date I intend to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase 160 acres of mountain land, described as follows: commencing at a post marked Frank Bailey's S.E. corner, at the S.W. corner cf lot 1968, thence north to the N.E. corner of lot 2465. thence following the boundary of said lot 2465 to the S.W. corner' of same on the norJffS bank of the Similkameen, thence down the Similkameen river to point of commencement and containing 160 acres more or less. 1 FRANK BAILEY, Applicant. Dated November 6th, 1003. NOMCE. Arlington, Canadian Belle, Canadian Boy Fraction, mineral claims, situate in the Similkameen mining division of Yale district. Where located : On Copper mountain, east of Wolf creek. Take notice that I, N. F. Townsend, acting as agent for Richard Seeman free miner's certificate No. B75477, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorderifor a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claims. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificates of Improvements. Dated'this 21st day of August, A.D, 1903. N. F. Townsend. m .-A i 1 K ^ February, i3» j904« COAL, ONLY COAL. [Concluded from page 1.] C. P. Seale, C. B. Murray, G. Knowles, F. E. Goodall, C. E. Mitchell, F. Bailey, W. B. Bailey, P. Godenrath, R. Ledene, A. G. Simpson,^E7~E7~tr Hyde, E. G. Warren, H. A. King, J. B. Dunyea, A. Hartman, C. E. Peterson, C. Uzapooage, G. P. Wright, J. M. Wright, C. O. French. All the necessary ores and other requisite minerals and materials are present in abundance for the establishment of smelters. There is also an unfailing water supply for generating and applying power to any of the various industries required in reducing or refining any class of ore. It is stated on the authority of men competent to judge that in no other locality on the continent are the natural facilities for smelting cheaply so generously provided and in no other place are opportunities for small or large investments so plentiful and certain of profit. To all intending investors far removed from here the friendly injunction is imparted to "come and see!" THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR K. Rm Ha ROGERS M.A., B.C.I,. SOLICITOR CONVEYANCER NOTARY PUBLIC, Etc. OLALLA P.O. Simikameen, B.C. F. W. GROVES, A. R. COLL., SC. D., Civil and Mining Engineer PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR. UNDERGROUND SURVEYS. PRINCETON. - - B. C. Wood, Vallance & Leggat, HEADaUARTEES FOR Sherwin-WiiliifRS' Paimts J. E. Bate, of Aspen Grove, has com- pleted arrangements for the installation of a stamp mill and compressor at the Aspen Grove mines, of which he is managing director. Altogether the plant will cost $35.ooo. Today's mail will be of great importance as it will unfold the future of the district. A gentleman in Princeton states that we are on the verge of great railwav and mining development to which everyone will say a hearty "Amen !" The death of George Day, brother of Thomas and Davie Day, occurred sud- denlyat jjogsjand, recently, from hemorrhage of the bowels. He was unmarried and about 45 years old. At the board of trade meeting Thursday night reconsideration of the resolution passed at last meeting affecting surface rights to coal claims was discussed and further postponement granted. The first reading ofj^resolutioniayoring a tax on bacheloja_aad--spiuslers caused some excitement The object of the tax is to relieve the province of a modicum of its financial obligations. The board is in a flourishing condition, as the treasurer's report indicated, and it is presumable, at least, that not many years will elapse before a seat at this board will be priced in three figures. The r^rWjjrrprik Pacific survey staff, of which Jas.J^islopr-P-Jr^iorjserly of Princeton, is a member, have made their headquarters at Edmonton. It is probable that Edmonton will be the base of construction operations also for the mountain section. Subscribers who are in arrears for the STAR will confer a favor by pay= ing such as soon as possible. None of the amounts are large but the aggre* gate ol them is too big a sum for the STAR to carry and live, so please pay. PELLEW-HARVEY, BRYANT & GILMAN, PROVINCIAL ASSAYERS THE VANCOUVER A8SAV OfFICE, ESTABLISHED 1890. Analysis of Coal and Fireclay a Specialty* Complete Coking Quality Tests. Reliable PLATINUM Assays. VANCOUVER, B. C. Limited. VANCOUVER, B. C. 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Secretary. *■'■ i Subscribe for the Star, only $2 per annum. If you want First Class Footwear Insist upon ------- T. D. KING CO'S JJ BOOTS & SHOES Nothing equals them for Style, Fit, Finish and Wear, ilaple Leaf and King Quality Rubbers. WHOLESALE ONLY. Vancouver, B. C. J. LECKIE CO., Limited. I THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR February 13, 1904 v WONDERS OF RADIUM. 20th Interesting Address Before Century Club, Hedley. The strange properties of radium and the great unexplored field which is presented for research by its discovery make it far and away the most wonderful and interesting subject that ancient or modern science has had to deal with. Every day brings to light some new feature in its' curious composition, the latest of which cannot fail to interest readers of the Star. A Russian professor claims that with radium the sex, prenatal, of a child may be ascertained; that cancer can be cured by it; hydrophobia prevented, and that the whole system of warfare will be revolutionized by it. Another scientist states that it is possible to change the negro's skin white with it. There is X no doubt it will be found in the Similkameen, where there are so many varieties of injneral. Anything relating to the wonderful properties of radium will always find a place in the Star's scieniific column. It is with pleasure, therefore, that .space is given an interesting address on "Radium" made by C. E. Oliver, M.E., recently, before the Twentieth Century Club at Hedley, as follows : "Your society being a Twentieth Century Club it might be advisable to deal with one of the important discoveries made in the scientific world in 1903. During the past year the epoch making researches into, and discoveries that have been made respecting, the wonderful properties of radio-active bodies, and particularly of radium, have overshadowed other researches. They have brought into much prominence the structure of the atom of matter. In our youth we devoutly held that the atom was the ultimate form of matter—a simple indiyisible thing with which nature built up gases, liquids and solids. But now the atom looms immensely large—a huge shell enclosing myriads of small corpuscleg, termed electrons, that bear about the same proportion to the atom that the planets do to the solar system. J The scientific world has been startled by the theory that electricity is no longer to pe considered as a mode of motion but as a substance which we term matter. Instead of the atom being the ultimate form of matter it is something akin to an astronomical system, but without a sun, a complicated association of bodies akin to Saturn's ring or to a nebula—a vast chamber containing positive and negative electrons, the sizes of which are as one of the jewels out of a watch to the Rocky mountains. The disproportion between the size of the atom and that of one of its contained electrons is vastly greater than of that between the sun and the earth. Within the vast space of the mighty atom go on the perpetual whirling movements of the electrons, they supply the force which moves the atom and which causes it to adhere to other atoms. When the electrons escape they cause phosphorescence by their sudden stop and thus X-rays are produced. Electricit}' promises to solve the riddle of the ultimate constitution of the universe and the radio-active bodies have been therefore aptly termed the foundation stones of which atoms are composed. ■ This is the most fascinating theory of the year—that of the atomic or material ^nature of electricity, the electrons of electricity are probably contained in immense numbers in every atom of matter. If the electrons succeed in getting out of the atoms they issue with a velocity comparable to that of light and the body is termed radio-active. 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An atom of radium is believed to contain over 200,000 electrons, one class of which moves with the speed of light, that is, at the rate of 185,000 miles a second. Professor Crookes states that the energy given out by one gram of radium electrons is enough to lift the whole British fleet to the top of Nickel Plate mountain. Since radium gives off heat and light spontaneously and without measurable loss, which can only be accounted for in our present state of knowledge by change in the structure of the atoms themselves, what ideas and conceptions this new element suggests ! If the heat activity of the sun should be due in purt to emanations of radioactive bodies, all the laborious calculations of physicists and astronomers as to the period when the sun will cease to vivify the circling orbs that depend on him for life, go for naught. It has heen suggested by Prof. Boys that radium emanations may help to explain the phenomena of the swift shooting tails of comets. The suggestion has been made that the dream of transmutation, such as that which possessed the alchemists, is an accomplished fact in radium. Could radium be obtained in large quantities it would prove a valuable source of light and possibly of power, though withal a dangerous substance to have near one. But a ton of pitchblende, the principal ore of uranium, is required to produce a gram, 15^ grains, of radium. A gram would cost $2,000. A five per cent, salt of radium is sold in Paris in small tubes at $5 a tube. A new industry has arisen in Germany and France where radium is being supplied at a rate that works out at $60,000 an ounce. M. Curie has stated that it would probably mean death to go into a room containing one pound of the substance. A particle placed on the bare skin causes blisters. But there is a possibilf|$r that the salts of radium may exercise curative effects. 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