MtiiiMMtr'Wwymnammty* m THE OLDEST MINING CAMP NEWSPAPER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Vol. XIX. ���������GREENWOOD, B. C.,'.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1912. &***. ��������� - , ���������������* 1 Winter Clothing ��������� 1 CAPS, MIJTS, OVERCOATS, SWEATERS AND MEN'S UNDERWEAR OF...EVERY X DESCRIPTION X 1 P. W. GEORGE & CO. 1 f= COPPER STREET ��������� GREENWOOD, B, C, =2 For the, Holiday shoppers in Stoves, Blankets, Quilts, Mattresses, Dishes, Trunks and Valises, ^ -; Ml Phone 16 Greenwood, B. C. tPz =^v \mmmmmxmmmmm Only One Quality THE BEST William C. Arthurs THE BREAD & CAKE BAKER Vienna Bakery, Greenwood J Around Home f^^S^S^S^i^^i^SS^^-^Sr^r^: GreenwoocPs Big Furniture Store Seasonable Presents' Rockers and Chairs for the Kiddies, X "^l^f Morris Chairs, Pictures, ,Rugs, Carpet Sleepers,., Centre Tables and a lot of of other articles suitable for the grown/ups. X T. M. GULLEY & Go; Opposite Postoflice. GREENWOOD, B. C. Phone 27' ATTRACTIVE JEWELRY has seldom been gathered in such an extensive display as the one we are now showing. We know you ��������� -*will become ���������interested.--Not-only-in. THE ODD DESIGNS but with the prices that we have placed upon the articles. .. If you want to see the prettiest Chains, Lockets, Brooches, Pins and Stone Set Jewelry ever shown . in this town, come now. WALTER G. KENNEDY GREENWOOD, B. C A. LOGAN & Co. GREENWOOD. - B. C WHOLESALE (I I) AND RETAIL % ������. A Full Stock of First Class Pipes. Pipe Repairs a Specialty. J St. Jude's Anglican Church Services: Holy Communion 8 a.m. the ist & 3rd Sundays this month; Matins, 11 a.m.; Evensong, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday School, 2:30 p. m. Rev. Franklin Watson, Vicar. ROOMS TO MT In the Swayne House, Silver Street. Clean, private and comfortable rooms in a quiet locality at reasonable rates. Hot and cold baths free to guests. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $12,500,000 MONEY ORDERS Issued by The Canadian Bank of Commerce, are a safe, convenient and inexpensive method of remitting small sums of money. These Orders, . payable without charge at any bank in Canada (except in the Yukon Territory) and in the principal cities of the United States, are issued at the following rates: $5 and under 3 cents Over 5 and not exceeding $10 :'6 "..���������'. ��������� ���������"��������� 10 "��������� '' 30. .....10 " " 30 " ". 50 .....15 " ao REMITTANCES ABROAD should be made by means of our SPECIAL FOREIGN DRAFTS and MONEY ORDERS. Issued without delay at reasonable rates. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT J. T. BEATTIE, - Manager of Greenwood ana Rock ���������Creek Branches WANTS. Etc For Sale.���������A No. 1 Westman & Baker, Gordon Ledge, Greenwood. press. Tbe For Rent. A. L. White. -Furnished houses. Bank of Montreal ��������� '.���������������������������- ������������������"������������������;'��������� ' ; :;: :���������*���������; ESTABLISHED 1817 ,-: . Capital, all paid up, $16,000,000 Rest, $16,000,000. ' UNDIVIDED FIIOFITS, 191,855,185,30 Hon. President: Lord Strathcona and Mount Rovai,, G. C. M. G. President: R. B. Angus, Esq. Vice-President: Sir E. S. Cr.ousTON, Bart. General Manager: H.V. Mbrbdith, ESQ. Branches in London, Eng.{#^ Buy and Sell Sterling Exchange and Cable Transfers. Grant Commercial and Travellers' Credits, available in any part of tbe world. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT '"fct.fllX^ Greenwood Branch - O.-B. Winter, Mgr. Wanted.���������To know if Austin Louis Bishop is alive. Last heard from five years ago, from Boundary Falls, B. C, aged fifty years, medium height, gray-blue eyes, small scar on right temple. Trade, machinist. Any in for. mation thankfully received by his sister.uMiss Lois Bishop, 281 E. Market St.. Akron, Ohio. For Sale. ��������� A four-roomed house on Church street. Price $150. Apply to D. A. MacDonald, Automobile Skates Striking New Models New Shipment Just Arrived A. L. White, Phone 16 Extreme Honesty Stanley���������Barnard is honest, anyway. ' Wayburn���������I've heard he'd always take the ^poorest umbrella in the rack. Coaches wore first used in Eng- lang in 15G9. Skates ground at A'-. L. White's. The Voigt deal is'still in the airp'but may/'be finished this -week. ,- ���������-'M-; W.'v Ludlow is visiting Republic. :.. -i , <���������������,, . The Jewel mine .closed for two days this week. ' ,r. Greenwood had a quiet aud sober Christmas. Office and pocket diaries for 1913 at J.'L. "Coles. Tom Paine is the new night chef at the Pacific. " Robert' Keffer 'is 'spending his holidays in the city, ���������i Archie Aberdeen is spending the short days in the city. Ed, Rowland;. the old-time printer, is now in Spokane. Alex Broomfield has gone on a visit to Beaverton, Ontario. Wheat; oats and barley $1.25 per hundred at Brown's, Ferry, Wash. In Rock Creek on'^ Friday evening there will be"-a dance in Larsen's Hall. ��������� ��������� Mrs. McCutcheon will not be At Home until the fourth Thursday in January. ,r Your old pipe may be made like new at a small cost, send it to W. G. Kennedy. Christmas is the beginning of tbe longer days, arid should r.eally be called New Years, Dan Olsen has returned from Sweden. Dan has been across the Atlantic about sixteen times. C. 'M.' Shaw, accompanied by Ross Fleming arrived on Tue**- day +o spend Christmas in the city. _ , C*55jnes,Finiay. ,wj fe '.and family, of St. Paul, ar������e spending the holidays with his parents in this city- . , Mrs. F, L. White' was called away to Curlew last Tuesday owing' to the illness of her mother. All children will be admitted free to the moving picture sliow in the Auditorium ou Friday evening. Send a copy of Float to your dearest friends. You can get one at The Ledge office for twenty- five cents. Last Tuesday F. L. White was presented with a gold watch and fob by the converter staff of the local smelter. Now that gambling is wide open, the boosters are thinking of striking for higher wages and longer hours. F. K. Brunton has moved into his residence in Anaconda. His wife and family arrived from Montana last week. Seekers for goods that are suitable, for New Year presents should inspect the slock of L. A. Smith & Co., in Anaconda. His many friends presented Archie Aberdeen with a fine bed and mattress, They will come in handy in the cabin on his farm. Six people were recently injured at Orient, while coasting, by their sleigh going over an eubankment into the Kettle river. Wm. Lawley of Prince Rupert is the day chef at the Windsor, and W. Brauderburg of Princeton handles the range at night. Peter H. McCurrach will leave next Saturday on a trip to Nova Scotia. He will not return alone, Kte CUisb tbe Ulorld JT Rappy ilew ������ear , Service in the Presbyterian church next Sunday, December 29th.at 7:30 p. m., Sunday School and Bible Class 2:30 p. m. Rev. J, R, Munro Pastor. Charlns King, the ice-maker, is a Santa Claus personified. Last Friday evening he took fifty children to the picture show and paid their admission. The Knights of Pythias are holding their thirteenth annual ball on January 1st in the Old Masonic Hall. Bush's orchestra will furnish the music. The Presbyterian Christmas Tree will be held on Friday evening the 27th. No admission fee will be charged but for voluntary contributions there will be a plate near the door. L. A. Smith & Co., of Anaconda, have had a very successful year's business, and wish to thank their many customers for their liberal patronage in the past and to wish them all a Happy New Year. Jack Lucy returned from Princeton last week, tired out with long months of hard work on Copper mountain, where be made many locations. He brought back a large amount of money, anirCurly' 'Campbell "'stateVthat he has alrea'dy put six bits in the safe at the Windsor. Jack is as merry as usual, and- has already been elected president of the Queen Heater League at the Pacific. He spent Christmas with Tom and Jerry, but let's say nothing about it. Western Float In,Vancouver there are 20,1S6 telephones. The C. N. R. is laying track east of Hope. Miv Moore of Yale has opened a cafe in Princeton. The' Philistine says that a successful clergyman iB one who does , nothing in the summer but teach V widows to swim." ��������� * * There' are,2,798 miles of railway, in Alberta. For the first ' ten months,of 1912, '698 miles'of new ; railway werebuilt. vJames, Murphy,; who recently ' died in Fernie, was at one time the . owner of the well-known. Murphy - ranch, about four miles from ��������� Lardo.������". "., '. , Mike Shick has a contract. to load cars with lumber at Paulsen for the Trail Lumber Co. Mike has also located several mining claims near Paulsen. The Eeview is the name of a paper just started at Sidney, on Vancouver Island. W. H. Bo- hannan,'. formerly of ChaBe and Vaucouver, is the manager. In front of the courthouse' at ,' Vancouver, a siuglestickof timber 204 feet long will be used as a flagstaff. It is thirty-four"inches1 at tbe base, and tapers to a foot at the top. / ��������� The Merritt Herald states that a ' man came into that ' office "and k.-c u T v -ii ' i talked for an hour upon the evils Athabasca Landing will soon be of daDC* A . P . CITY COUNCIL The Council met on Monday evening. The Council refused to pay an account of $4.23 that was rendered by the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The following accounts were ordered to be paid: E. H. Pope, $11 00; J. Rickers, $44.00; Sing Lung, $3.0S; Russell-Law-Caulfield Co., $9.75; C. J. McArthur, $33.50. The city clerk was instructed to take readings of the C, P. R. water meter, and furnish them to the Council every two weeks. The Health Committee was instructed to interview the city scavenger re his duties, with full power to act in the matter. After adopting the election bylaw the Council adjourned until January 6. !���������<��������� and his many friends wish him joy.5 The case against Sam Roberts for stabbing Hugh Lisle in Grand Forks was dismissed, after evidence had been taken for two days, The case against Owen Boyer and E. J. Cartier for selling liquor to Indians, was again adjourned last Thursday until the day after Christmas. For stabbing Narcisse Martin in a drunken row near Greenwood, Johnnie Qppenheimer was fined $50, or three months in jail. He paid the fine. JIM'S BANK Jim Ward left Monday to spend the winter at the coast. He; expects to have a good time notwithstanding the danger from holdups. Jim carries his wad in his left shoe. When in the U. S. cavalry Jim cached his roll in the forelock of his mount, but the Indians borrowed his horse and ��������� the forelock and the roll. This incident cured Jim of tho forelock habit. Since then the left shoe has been used as a safety deposit.���������Siocan Record. The longest tunnel in the world , is St. Gothard, ou the line of tho line of the railway between Lucerne and Milan, being 9-V miles in length. lit with natural gas. The Peerless hotel at Oroville has been enlarged, The new breakwater at Victoria will cost Sl,800,000. Wm. Kemp has bought'the'Star Cafe in Cumberland. , There are thirty-five telephones in and around Princeton. r < * ��������� * This season seven carloads of coal have been sold in Kaslo.' The pioposed new hotel at Lar- kin has been refused a license. Merritfe, wants ��������� i* curfew bell. Might get one from Greenwood. There are 280 names on the municipal voters list in Merritt. The November payroll at the Cumberland mines was 875,000. In November, thirty carloads of cattle were shipped from Nicola. There are 625 telephones in North Vancouver and 635 in Nelson. , The G. T. P. Inn at Prince Rupert was recently- destroyed by fire.' - ;. 'j���������-; - ��������� -,-*-;- - . The' editor of Kaslo's leading paper is a cartoonist of considerable note. . i . George Bird has resumed operations at his sawmill ��������� in Port Alberni. Greenwood has been always an easy town for the Indians to get firewater. In the Okanagan work has commenced on the Rice coal mine near Trout creek, i This year 4,000 carloads of apples were shipped from Wenat- chee, Wash'. Two steam shovels will soon be at work on the.railway grade west of Coalmont. A semi-weekly mail service his been established between Merritt and Coalmont. In Kelowna, the hotel liquor licences are to be'raised from $300 to S60Q a year. - . Some of the orchards at Mission City this year produced two crops of pears and apples. The head office of the Lucky Jim Mining Co. has been moved from Kaslo to Victoria. During November, 83 new telephones were put in at Kamloops. That town now has 359 step savers. The Fraser Valley Record says that this will not be a cold winter because tbe clams are not so deep. In the Leadville camp, twenty- one miles from Otter Flat, there is six feet of snow at the Indiana cabin. The night schools of Vancouver employ sixty-two teachers, and are attended by more . than 2,000 pupils. Count Vass, a cousin of the emperor of Germany, has bought several more ranches in the Nicola valley. ' ,' Charles Bulger died a few days ago in Fernie from typhoid./ At one time he was a policeman in Michel. i -s At Hope, James Kaunnesky was given three months in jail at hard labor for supplying Indians with liquor. r When the new line to Midway,is completed Greenwood will have the best rural telephone service'in the district. ."*'���������' The Doukhobors are applying for a telephone service for their colonies at Glade, Brilliant ; and Grand Forks. Last week potatoes were $13 a ton in New Westminster and dressed ducks and chickens 25 cents a pound.. The license of the Vendome hotel at Cumberland was deferred because the proprietor did not treat the public right. dancing. A few days later the editor saw the same man throwing rocks at a dog. '' :' '' : The proprietors of the Kootenay hotel in Trail were fined $100 each for selling liquor during prohibited hours. They were also fined $50 each for gelling liquor in larger quantities than a quart. A ' Vancouver man has ��������� bought the property of R. Hazelhurst, on the north shore of Nicola lake, and will build a summer residence upon it. >'He will also put a 30 h. p. launch on the lake. - For the year ending last March, the value oj the fish ��������� caught in British Columbia was over $13,-' 000,000. This was greater' than Nova Scotia by over $4,000,000, putting B.' C. in the lead of all Canada for fish. . * When Peck McSwain took the Pullman route he left his dog, Gold Brick, in Hedley. Since then the grief-stricken - canine has - been haunting the Gazette office, and is - growing fat, upon the handouts of old rollers, hard paste _and delinq-" uent subscribers, thafe"the~Majah\ throws on the junkpile, at the rear end of his palatial printing,, office. Send for a catalogue of headstones and monuments, made by the Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B; C. IDAHO Kellogg.���������Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Company.���������Arrangements have been made with the Engineering Construction company, of Spokane, to replace the timbers recently destroyed by fire, and some of the other timbering in the mine' with concrete snpports. It is estimated ��������� that the initial undertaking will cost * $7,000, and will be made on a percentage basis. Bubke���������E. J. Carter and Volney D. Williamson have purchased control of the Marsh mine, near Burke. Earl W. Greenough will be retained as general manager, Extensive improvements are planned and the sinking of a three compartment shaft, which will, permit operation at (nil capacity, has been started. The shaft, which starts at a place considerably east of the old two-compartment incline shaft, will be sunk 400 .left. An Ingersoll-Rand 12-drill compressor, driven by a 150 horsepower motor, a new air hoist and other necessary machinery, have been installed. Wallace���������Mineral claims, concentrating plant and all appurtenances of the Twin- Star Mining company were advertised'.to be sold at.'auctiou, .at Wallace, Nov. 15. Included in the assets of the Bear Top iB a concentrator of 150 tons daily capacity and a water right. , Don't stoop. Stand up straight. Throw out your chest and breathe through your nose. A knot, iu sailor phrase, is a nautical mile, 6,080 '-.feet, or 800' feet more than a land mile. ^, - ' ���������* V I J'y, ���������-1*-}* i-V ������������������* - fi, * ���������'.',.' fstr < ii,-,- THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE LEDGE. Is located at Greenwood, B. C, and can be traced to many parts of the earth. It comes to the front every Thursday morning, and believes that hell would close up if love ruled the world. It believes in justice to everyone; from the man who mucks in the mine to the kiug who sits on the cushions of the throne. It believes that advertising is the life of trade; and that one of the noblest works of creation is the man who always pays the printer. The Ledge is $2.00 a year in advance, or $2.50 when not so paid. It is postage free to all parts of Canada, Mexico, Great Britain and the county of Bruce. To the United States it is $2.50 a year, always in advance. R. T. LOWERY EDITOR AND FINANCIER. GREENWOOD, DECEMBER 26, 1912. tional system of arbitration established, the world would bound forward toward the golden ago as if touched by the spur of God. This means not only war between capital and labor, and between all other opposing sections of society. Arbitration means intelligence and justice, iu lieu of brute force. Evolution is tlio survival, of the fittest. The fittest brute survives by competition, the fittest men by co-operation.���������Dr. Frank Crane. Pointers on Pneumonia A blue mark here indicates that your Subscription has become deceased, and that the editor would once more like to commune with your collateral. Tins is the day after, walk straight? Can you that puts money in their pockets. The most progressive people are the great advertisers. You can get business sometimes without merit but no repeat orders. Begin the new year right by putting a bigger ad in your local paper. Half of the people in Canada worship the Bible, but have never read it. God must lovo the common people or he would not have made so many of them. He is a gentleman" who adds exchange to his cheques when paying bills at a distance. The land boom is dying out in the west, much to the sorrow of the real estate peddlers. The church is declining because civilization is throwing away the old orthodox beliefs. Those who think cannot accept the many myths that the Bible contains, and reasoning minds today reject much of what was formerly accepted. Upon the ruin of old creeds and beliefs a newer and better religion will be constructed. The golden rule in action is hard to beat. Try it. It was a wise man who said that in time tho human race will evolve a finer perception, abetter recognition, and will find a higher dramatic, a more exquisite pageantry than thoy havo yet done. Then, together, man and woman will labor, and their work' will be constructive. They will havo wisdom to know that man and woman, equal and together, are able to make a world, a country, and a home. In B. C. we need to raise more eggs, butter and chickens, and fewer real estate booms. In six States across the- line, women have the privilege of exercising every "legal right that man has. The editor of the Victoria Week must have grown old. He is trying to drive the Mormons out of that city. Many are thinking today that the world would be brighter if it contained no booze, turkey or plum pudding. If you want to see Dante's Inferno, just fill up on lobsters, cheese, fried onions and mince pie, before going to bed. ��������� Tite ministers of tho gospel' in Nelson heve issued a pamphlet upon the social evil in that city in which they display, at least, a vast thoretical knowledge of the evils and dangers of the oldest profession on earth. Free love is the only cure for this evil, but the world is not far enough advanced to embrace the true meaning of those two words. When it does the millenium will be here, and the whiz of wings will be unceasing. Judging from the way the world keepB on building navies, it is about time Christ wandered back again to this mundane sphere. During the year that is just closing we lost many of our subscribers by death, and nearly all of them wero in debt for their paper. Their poor souls have our sympathy. In England are raised tho finest beef cattle in the world, and yet there is little pasturage in that country. Peas, beets, mangels, vetch and clover raised, and fed to stock will take care o������ eight to ton head, as compared with ono where the average is used for pasture! In Texas tbey are putting the professional gamblers in jail, but not so in some parts of B. 0.. In some towns in this'province the local authorities permit gambling, thinking that it makes business more prosperous. This is an erroneous idea, as the prosperity that is bailt upon the tears of women, and the curses of men cannot be lasting. We have seen right here in Greenwood women weeping, with breaking hearts, because their husbands had been ruined by the gambling mania. Thinking Themes As a rule we uphold anything and everything that redounds to our personal advantage. That is why the booze dealer says that a shot or two will do you no harm, and others pursue the same tactics according to their line of business. Most of people excuse .anything The millennium is hastening on. The greatest foe to human progress has been war. So long as war was tho fashion and men fought continually, society had no chance to develop. It was like a plant which is constantly cut off just as it is beginning to put forth leaves. The human race has never grown so fast in the history of the world as it has in America since the war of the rebellion. More progress, economically, ethically and industrially has been made here in the last fifty years than anywhere else in any 500 years. If war, and all militarism, and military preparedness, could be abolished in the earth, and a ra- That tho man who sleeps between a pair of blankets all winter is on a par with tho individual who wears his underclothes six months and as likely to contract pneumonia was the announcement Monday of Health Officer Dr. J. B. Anderson, who is conducting a campaign to reduce the number of deaths from pneumonia, which, the records of last year show, amounted to more than for any other disease, tuber- colosis not being any exception. Dr. Anderson said that' it was probable that every citizen of Spokane has pneumonia germs in jhis nose and that if he fails to observe the proper precautions he may be one of the four-score victims to pad the city death roll next year. In his crusade against pneumonia Dr, Anderson is producing the records, which show that 101 persons died last .year, many of whom were strong, but failed to observe the proper sanitary precautions. In his admonitions lately Dr. Anderson urged sheets instead of woolen blankets and attacked the practice of visiting where pneumonia patients are being cared for. Dr. Anderson said: "Pneumonia is more"prnvalent during cold weather, probably due to tho fact that during winter we shut ourselves in unventilated houses. "Pneumonia is not contracted in fresh, open air, "The pneumonia germ is a very friendly little fellow. Rarely do you find him absent from the nose and mouth of any one, ready,to go to work at the first opportunity presented by lowered vitality. "The first step in pneumonia prevention is to ventilate our houses. Ventilate in cold weather, in lainy weather, as well as during warm weather. Open your windows and doors and keep them open fifteen or twenty minutes night and morning. You will be surprised to observe how quickly your house will warm up after this treatment. The next time you feel chilly, the thermometer registering seventy, just try opening up the windows five or ten minutes instead of putting more coal in the heater. Be sure and keep your bedroom windows open during sleeping hours. It is difficult for people to believe such rigid action is good for their health, but we know they are more than safe if they are properly covered. Sleep between sheets;; If you find it chilly on going to bed, use tho chauffer of the French���������hot water bottle���������a fow minutes beforo retiring "Look to your living rooms which are usually overheated. A temperature of seventy degrees Farn- heit is plenty warm; sixty-eight is better. Moisture should be continually supplied by having a teakettle on tho stove, or a shallow pan of water on tho radiator. Modern furnaces are provided with a water pot in tho air chamber. Inspect this night and morning; seo that it is continually filled with water. "Then adapt your clothing to the temperature. If you keep a tropical temperature in your house, don't forget that tho Arctic zone is represented outside. "Pneumonia is contagious, so do not visit and come in close contact with anyone suffering from pneu monia. If you have pneumonia you can't get well without fresh air and the recumbent posture."- Spokesman Review. The Indians That wo Canadians are a great good Christian and just people there can be- no doubt. We ourselves are prepared to admit it. But we have a penchant for leaving things unfinished. We trust a great deal in the Lord Almighty. Which is all very well. But we don't' do our part as well as we should, with the result that we find many things well started but poorly finished. Ono of these things is our Indian policy. Which is no doubt one of the best-intended things ever evolved but it works like molasses in water. Away back somewhere about fifty or one hundred years ago the happy thought was evolved to select the choicest parcels of land in British Columbia, and upon this land to put the Indians, where they could have everything they needed to live upon���������if they worked for it. This was all very good of us. Tho Indian was running wild. He owned everything in sight���������so far as he could or can own anything. We confined him. We put him into, smaller quarters to tame him. It was the first step looking to his uplift���������his civilizing. It was the first step. It was also tho last step. We haven't stepped any higher in the civilizing business. Neither has the Indian. We gave him oceans of valuable land, and no implements or knowledge with which to work it. We shoved him off into paradise when ho was only acquainted with tho other place���������and then forgot him. The open church, tho open school, the open door, all was a myth. No doubt the intent and purpose of the law were "most commendable! But we didn't finish the job. We didn't put men on these Indian reserves to teach the savage anything". We gave him no schools; we gave him no implements to work with; we gave him no incentive to work. *j vVe took from him the only honor he was capable of understanding��������� that of the wild���������and gave him nothing to replace it. The whole job has been a bungle. The land���������tens of thousands of acres���������that theindian should make use of lies idle. The Indians never have been taught how to till it, and the Indians cannot sell it, to somebody who would till it because they do not own it and cannot sell what they do not own.���������Enderby Press. books telling how animals may be trapped successfully. There are large wholesale dealers in pelts in the United States who handle annually hundreds of thousands of skins and havo regular trade lists for prices which are printed and distributed by tens of thousand. Wild animal life is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Heartless- nesB and commerce are performing the unholy deed. Be just, for justice is righteousness, and the chief end of the law. Be merciful, for mercy saves, and is the fulfilment of the reign of love. Be kind, for kindness is love made manifest. ���������Dumb Animals. WESTERN - - HOTELS. NEWIIAKKE'I' 1IOTEI. ', Is the home for all tourists and millionaires visiting* New Denver, British Columbia. A. JAC0BS0N, Proprietor. THK PROVINCE HOTEL Grand Forks, B.C., .is in the centre of the city, and furnishes the public with every accommodation at reasonable rates. Emll Lai-sen, Proprietor, THIS KASLO HOTEL Kaslo, B. C��������� is a comfortable home for all who travel to that city. ��������� Cockle & Papwortn. HOTEL KEREMEOS Opposite depot. Extensive alter ations have recently been made rendering this hotel one of the ��������� ' most comfortable in the interior. , A choice selection of liquors and cigars. New pool rooin and sample rooms in "connection. Mrs. A. F. K1HBY HOTEL CASTLEGAR, Castlegar Junction. All modern. Excellent accomodations for tourists and drummers. Boundary train leaves here at 9.10 a.m. W. il. CAGE. Proprietor Rolling Stock That the three leading railways of the Dominion havo this year placed orders for no less than 43,- lG-i freight care and 728 locomotives is one of the facts revealed in a story of the railroads and the crop movement in the Monetary Times last week. It is shown that the Canadian railroads have bombarded every locomotive and foundary company in Canada with orders for new equipment which will keep them busy well into 1913. In addition large orders have been placed with United States companies, so that the risk of congestion in the crop movement may be minimized. There are about 20,000 more cars available this year than last year for the movement and 400 locomotives. SHEBBKOOKE HOUSE Nelson; B. C. One minute's walk from C. P. R station. Cuisine unexcelled; Well heated and ventilated; JLAVINGE & DUNK, Propiletors. TBKMONT HOUSE Nelson, B. C, is run on the American and European plan. Steam heated rooms. All white labor. Special attention paid to dining room. Ranaome & Campbell, Props, GRANITE CREEK HOTEL Granite Creek, B. C. Headquar- ters.for miners, prospectors and railroad men. Good stabling, in connection. Tasty meals and > pleasant rooms. H. G00DISS0N, Proprietor ALGOMA HOTEL Deadwood, B. C. This hotel is within easy distance of Greenwood and provides a comfortable ���������. home for travellers. The bar has..the best of wines, liquors and cigars. JAMES HENDERSON, Proprietor THE SIMILKAMEEN HOTEL Priucetou. This hotel Is new, comfortable well-furnished, and Is close to tlie railway depot. Modern accommodation aud sample rooms. SUMMERS & WARDLE, Proprietors TULAMEEN HOTEL Princeton, B. C. is the headquarters for miners, investors and railroad men. A fine location and everything first-class KIRKPATRICK & MALONE, Proprietors. Forest Fire Fighters imiDESvii,r,E hoxbi.. Bridesville, B. C. This hotel is within easy reach of all the leading Boundary towns and the centre oi a fine farming district. THOMAS WALSH, Proprlotor. Frank Fletcher Provincial Land Surveyor, Nelson, B. C. J. E. CAMERON, Leading Tailor of the Kootenays. KASLO, B. O. liAKEVIEAV HOTEL . in Nelson, B. C, employs all white help and is a home for the world at jl.00 a day. Nap. Hullette, Vroprlotor. H. W. Farmer Notary Public. Real Estate. Etc, Rock Creek, B. C. The Steel Trap Few people know how much suffering is caused by the trapping of wild animals. There are thousands of hunters and trappers in this country who are destroying hundreds of thousand of animals yearly, in order to furnish furs for uncivilized man and, particularly, barbaric woman. No pen can do adequate justice to the tragedy of the steel trap. Laws are urgently required to carefully regulate the use of traps where they cannot be wholly prohibited. Myriads of unfortunate little animals are left to starve or freeze, and suffer for days until death gives them relief or the hunter finally mercifully knocks them on the head. Some states have a law requiring that traps should be visited every one or two days. Such laws should be passed in every state, where trapping cannot be legally forbidden. Enormous numbers of animals are trapped in Canada for their furs, which are largely shipped to the United States. One by one whole species of animals are being exterminated. There are prosperous journals devoted to trapping interests in this conntry and whole libraries of During the coming winter the officers in charge of the Brazeau and Athabaska divisions of the Rocky Mountains forest reserves propose to make "administrative site" surveys at different points on the reserves. Upon these sites it is proposed to. erect ranger and look-out stations which will be no farther apart than one day's trip by pack train, along the primary trail system of the Brazeau reserve. It is the intention to erect, this winter, at least three or four log cabins for the rangeis. A telephone system is also being planned whereby these ranger stations will be connected by telephone to the forest supervisor's office. This office is centrally located and telephone lines will run in from all directions, much in the. manner of the spokes of a wheel with the central office as the hub. This region is one of the richest coal regions in Canada and the further development of these coal fields will-be amazing. A number of large coal mines are already in operation, and, with the completion of the branches of the G.T,P. railway now under construction, will be shipping thousands of tons daily. With the future development of this country, the timber must be preserved. This region has once been forested with very valuable timber, which has largely been destroyed by fires in the past. There is still an abundant supply ARG������ TUNNEL Work goes steadily on at the Argo mine, and indications point to the early striking of the lead. From the amount of lead matter that has recently been encountered it looks as though a large deposit of high grade ore might be struck any day. A few shares of the Argo mining stock make a good holiday present, and at the same time will assist one of the most important enterprises in the district. He who helps his town helps himself. OLA LOFSTAD President JAMES McCREATH Secretary. of mine-prop timber, however, and the whole region is green with young lodgepole pine from ten to thirty years in age. If preserved from fire this will be au invaluable asset to the country, both for economic uses and as protection to the headwaters of all the rivers which rise in the foothills of the eastern slope. lately. The function of the spleen���������an age-long puzzel ��������� Dr. Abrams claims to have discovered. It is to regulate the number of leucocytes, or white corpuscles, in the blood. The corpuscles are Nature's great germ destroyers, he claims. To increase them, a concussion of the eleventh dorsal spine is necessary; to reduce, concussion of the second lumbar spine. they were surmounting the highest barriers ? Surely the man who is doing his work faithfully and well is not only upon the road to success, but whether he knows it or not, has already arrived there.��������� Harlan Bead. When you want a headstone or monument write to the Kootenay Monumental Works, Nelson, B.C. No Need To Fib Cure Consumption Pathway of Success By a method of tapping on the spine Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco, claims today to have discovered the means of curing tuberculosis in its early stages;and also appendicitis. ' This announcement was made by Dr. Abrams beforo the annual convention of the American Association for Study of Spondylothorapy, iu session There are men who inquire the way to success and how long it will take to get there, as though the place for which they pine were far away and only to be reached by some unknown path; whereas, in fact, it is so near, and the road to it so plain, that no one can miss it if his eyeB are not closed or blinded. The thing most characteristic of men who have attained great things is that the hardest work they did, and the most severe trials they passed through, were at the beginning. Shall, we say, then, that they were not moat en- An overdressed woman of a certain age met an old acquaintance on the train. "And how aro you, after all theBeyear? Yes, this is my little girl, just four and one-half years old." The little girl turned, whispering: "Mother, look at his hat. You needn't fib; he's not the conductor." Mean Advantage Count Dodo���������Did he challenge you too duel. Prince Wigwag���������Bah, yes. He knew, that I had pawned my sword for a laundry bill. Subscribers are reminded that The Ledge is $2 a year when paid in advance. When not so paid it is $2.50 a year. titled to be called successful while I ^^o^dVuw' cures colds, and heals :��������� :s ao cents. mmMmmm wm THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH (COLUMBIA. ' ', ������������������'"',, ;'"��������� '������'-���������'. :- (* ��������� ".-'.'-���������-a, '������������������<.���������.;���������'���������'.',���������!���������*���������' '''���������^&'.V'^^K?^ . ,'' ��������� ',..������������������"...������������������ .-.'���������' ;'. - -s v.-/A^^^WiK^ii, - ..������������������ : - ���������'������������������ '������������������ '���������- -V ^~\MMmi TEMPERANCE | is all right if shorn of humbuggery. Too much water drinking is just as injurious as too much liquor or " anything else. OUR PURE WINES AND LIQUORS , are medicinal if notiabused.'*? Every household should have a moderate ��������� supply of pure wines or liquors iu the closet for emergency���������either unexpected visitors or sudden ill��������� ��������� ��������� ness, when a drop of pure liquor in time may forestall all necessity for drugs. I Greenwood Eiquor {Many, Importers, -greenwood, B. & f & **^������������:������x������:������:*>������X"X������<������<>*>M^i,M������>**t-* ������������������>x������X'*<*-*>**'><>,Y>>*4*-**^ <-������-������'2S<-5-H-5-^?s*^-H*5^^ Dealers in Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry. Shops in nearly all the towns of the Boundary and Kootenay. Lord Brougham's Curious Experience With a "Spook." A COMPACT AND ITS SEQUEL, The Creepy Story as It Was Told In tho English ' Statesman's Autobiography���������Goethe Once Saw a Specter of Himself���������A "Ghost" Cuvier Saw. ^���������������������������^���������������������������^���������^^���������S*-^--'^^ f! ��������� 'tl i | Greenwood to Phoenix Stage | |~ Leaves Greenwood Daily at 3 p. m. =������ g Arrives Greenwood Daily at 10 a. m. =s - - CLUB CIGAR STORE ~S ST GREENWOOD OFFICE |h. m. laing, proprietors i9&������fS&9������99������������&&������099������ee99999������������&������9999&eee99e99S&^e@9^ ANALYSIS OF WATER Chlorine 8.14 Sulphuric Acid 3*53*43 Silica 74-29 Lime 84.57 Alkalies as Soda 5.91 Magnesia ..: 232.00 Litlria .86' Sul pi) uretted Hydrogen 32.00 Has recently been thoroughly renovated and re-furnished, and is now the greatest health resort upon, the continent. Natural hot water iu baths, 124 degrees of heat. A course of baths at Halcyon will cure nervous aud muscular diseases and eliminate rheumatism aud metalic poisons from the system. The water heals liver, kidney and stomach complaints. The rates are $2 a day up; or $12 weekly up. Postoffice, express and telegraph offices in connection. a (1 11 o 11 11 ii I William Boyd, Proprietor, : : fialcyon, B. &.������ <&&������&������&&?������&������< The Midway Store for Quality Goods! General Merchandise, Boots, Shoes, Dry Goods, Hardware, Sleighs, Wagons, Buggies and all kinds of Agricultural" and Horticultural Implements and Appliances. i i h JAS. G. McMYNN, MIDWAY, B. O. j LEDGE ADS. BRING RESULTS ?V/tCAJ* M. SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. TT is seldom the enjoyment of tho making of money and the enjoyment of the spending of it Is coexistent in the same person. The fellow who Is fond of his worlJ doesn't trouble the boss much. ' There ar������ a lot of reasonable thlngij that are in no way. connected with reason. Tell me what you' admlro and 1*11 tell you the sort of pel-son you are., But what of it? Being beautiful Is often more a mat j ter of judgment than of accident The wife of a successful man is al* most sure to be a woman of expedients, THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL CIGAR AND NEWS STAND CARMI - - B. C. Is now open to, the public, New builds ing, new furnishings and everything for the comfort of our patrons, Sample room arid barn in connection, ���������fr'/ffX >,'--'''.., ������������������������MPPj ���������;*��������� VwJifel C J, R SHERIDAN " ��������� .. MANAGER mmm&wm NEW ADVERTISING SCALE. It takes a smart man to come right when he gets in wrong. out Good intentions need to be attached to a dynamo in order to amount to anything. ������Ton have to keep going ahead II you would prevent sliding backward. Mature abhors statics. The coal man Is grinning across the street as we pay the last ice bill of the season. Tho Silvery Lining. There's no use In moaning:. In weeping and groaning. The sun may bo shining Ere yet It Is noon. His warm rays may cheer,you And hope nestle near you. So cease your repining And look for it soon. Make end to the sighing, For swift hours are flying And joy at your casement Is calling to you. Make haste, then, to meet It Go smiling to greet It Give care Its effaoeraent And hide It from view. Oh, turn your face sunward' And listen for ono word, A message of sweetness. Of love pure and true! Be happy, my dearie; Be smiling and cheery, And then with completeness Will joy,come to you. The newspapers in Greenwood, Phoenix and Grand Forks have adopted the following scale for legal advertising: Application for Liquor Licence (30 days) .#5.00. Certificate of Improvement Notice (60 days) ��������� ; $7.50 Application to Purchase Land Notices (60 days) $7.50 Delinquent Co-owner Notices (90 " days) $10.00 Water Notices (small) $7-50 All other legal advertising, 12 cents a line, single column, for tlie first insertion; and 8 Cents a line for each subsequent insertion. Noupariel measurement ���������ESTRAY NOTICE STRAYED into Carmi, early in the summer, two bay horses. Brands'cannot be made out. Owner wishing information can notily F. C. Johnson. i> ' ' , ' 1 Carmi, December 12, 1912. ��������� ��������� EHOLT, B, I GOlillE John JVTelfellaK Preprieter. ,' COUNTY COURT OF YALE. * Useful Jack. J* F ' "He is superior to nothing." "Who���������Jack?" "Yes." "Why, he's an expert" "In what?" 5 "Chorus 'girls."- A SITTING of the County Court of Yule will be holden at the Ooitrt House, Greenwood, on TuoHday the 21st day of January, 1013, nt eleven o clock in tlie forenoon. By order, WALTER DEWDfJEY, Registrar C. C. of Y. RE 'OKANAGAN TELEPHONE COMPANY'S ACT." tt ������t Certainly Hard. "That girl is something remarkable." "You think so V" "I know It." "I don't see anything remarkable about her." "She is always so sweet tempered, and she wears a shoe three sizes too small." .work V The Old Adage. "It's a poor rule that won't both ways." "Huh!" i - "What?" "It's a poor rule that won't work always." Appreciated Silence. "How did he make out as toast- master?" "Very fine, indeed." ��������� "What did he say?" "Nothing. He forgot his speech". Once Morn. "Money did it." "What���������spoil somebody?" "That's as you look at it." "What do you tueuu?" "Got her n husband." TVTOTICE is hereby given that appli- -"���������^- cation will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia at its next session for an Act to amend the "Okanagan Telephone .Company's Act," being chapter 55 of the Statutes of British Columbia, 1907, in manner following:��������� 1. By inserting after the word "telephone," in the second line of subsection (b) of section 7 of the said Act, the words "arid telegraph"; and by inserting before the word "line," in the fifth line of said subsection (b), the words "and telegraph"; and by inserting between the words "line" and "along," in the said fifth line of said subsection (b), the words "or lines." 2. By amending subsection (d) of subsection 4 of subsection (b) of section 7 of the said Act by adding at the end thereof the words "or telegraph." 3. By amending subclause (e) of subsection '4 of subsection (b) of section 7 of the said Act by inserting between the word "telephone" and the word "system" the words "or telegraph." ��������� ��������� - - 4. By providing that section 98 of the Companies Clauses Act" be modified so that the "ordinary meetings" of the Company shall be held yearly instead of half- yearly. 5. 'By providing that section 104 of the "Companies Clauses Act" be modified so that seven members actually present and representing in person or by proxy six-tenths of the subscribed capital of the Company shall constitute a quorum. 6. By changing the name of the Company from "Okanagan Telephone Company" to "Okanagan Telephone and Telegraph Company." Generally by making such further amendments to the said Act, in addition to those above set forth, as may be necessary to enable the Company to construct, maintain, and operate a line or lines of telegrapb^asJwellHas a telephone line or lines. Dated at New Westminster, B. C, this 12th day of November, a. d. 1912. WHITESIDE & EDMONDS, Solicitors for the Okanagan Telephone Company. PILLOW RIVER���������On main line of Grand Trunk Pacific and Pacific & Hudson Bay Railway. It is the desire of the Railway Company to make it one of the most important towns in the entire Canadian West. Lots $ 10 down, $10 monthly; no interest; no taxes. Write today for full information. Pac. Bond & Land Corp., Ltd., 425 Pac. Building, Vancouver, B. C. First-class in everything. Steam heat, electric light, private baths. Telephone in every room. First-class bar and barber'shop. - 'Bus meets all trains. Greenwood City Waterworks Company The Surest Way. "He couldn't hypnotize me." "He could hypnotize anybody." "How does ho do It?" "By jingling dollars In his pocket1 V Poor Fellow! "What is your occupation?" "I am a receiver." "Of what?" "Rejected manuscripts." ^ l No man Is so tall that he need never stretch and none so small that be need never stoop.���������From the Danish. It Is well for one to know more than. be sayn.���������Plautus, Need It. "Where Is your father going to spend the second week of his vacation?" "Oh, I think ho will coma homo.jeJ nest then." . Too Bad. -^ "I'd hate to bo a vegetarian." "Why?" "They can't make either end meat' t It Can't Be Dons. You cannot drink with all the lada That round tho barroom ���������wait And all your days go honest ways And keep your head on atrautht ���������^���������^���������'������������������������������������'������������������'S^C'**.'****'*.**^**^ 1 SHOES SHINED I At the Windsor Hotel by I ZACK WATSON MESSENGER SERVICE ADVERTISE IN TBE LEDCE oooooooooo<>oooooooooooooo<)1. T. THOMAS CLOTHES CLEANED PRESSED AND REPAIRED TAILOR - GREENWOOD 0000-000000-OOOOCr3-*>><>^ Synopsis of Coal Mining Regulations. COAL mining rights of the Dominion, iu Manitoba, Saskatchewan aud Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and in a portion of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years at an annual rental of $1 an acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Application for a lease must be made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub-Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub-divisions of sections, and in unsurveyed territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a fee of $5 which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine nt the rate of five cents per ton. The person operating the "mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns accounting for the full quantity of merchantable coal mined and pay the royalty thereon: If the coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. The lease will include the coal mining rights only, but the lessee may be permitted to purchase whatever available surface rights may be considered necessary for the working of the mine at the rate of $ 10.00 an acre. For full information application should be made to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands. W. W. CORY, Deputy Minister of the Interior. N.B.���������Unauthorized publication of this advertisement will not be paid for. About Float Float is not a periodical. It is a book containing 86 illustrations all told, and is filled with sketches and stories of western life. It tells how a gambler cashed in after the flush days of Sandon ; how it rained in New Denver long after Noah was dead ; how a parson took a drink at Bear Lake in early days ; how justice was dealt in Kaslo in '93; how the saloon man outprayed the women in Kalamazoo, and graphically depicts the roamings of a western editor among the tender- feet in the cent belt. It contains the early history of Nelson and a romance of the Silver King mine. In it are printed three western poems, and dozens of articles too numerous to mention. Send for one before it is too late. .The price is 25 cents, postpaid to any part of the world. Address - all letters to i?. T. Lowery GREENWOOD, B. C. QUEEN'S HOTEL, FKCOEHSTI25: B. O. The Newest and Largest Hotel in the City. Everything neat, clean and comfortable. Steam heat and electric light. Meals and drinks at all hours. CHISHOLM & HAKTMAN - Props.. ON PARLE FRANCAIS NATIONAL HOTEL GREENWOOD, B. C. ��������� The Really Best House in the Boundary. Recently Remodelled and Strictly Up-to-Date. Restaurant in connection OWEN BOYER PROP. WINDSOR HOTEL ~The Windsor Hotel is one of the best furnished hotels in the West. It is located in the heart of Greenwood and within easy reach of all the financial and commercial institutions of the Copper Metropolis. Heated with steam and lit by electricity. Commodious sample rooms. The bar is replete with all modern beverages and the cafe never closes. Rooms reserved by telegraph. The Windsor Hotel Co E. J. Cartier, Mgr. GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL Opposite Postoffice, NELSON, B.C. American and European Plans. H. H. PITTS, Prop. TUNING Mr. Charles E. King will visit Greenwood at an early date. Leave orders for guaranteed pianoforte tuning at White's Drug Store. CENTRAL HOTEL PHOENIX. One of the largest hotels in the city. Beautiful location, finerooms and tasty meals. A. O. JOHNSON PROP. NELSON HOUSE NELSON. European Plan. Cafe open day and night. Bar. Merchant's lunch 12 to 2. SMOKE Mountaineer and Kootenay Standard Cigars. Made by J, C. THELIN & Co., NELSON. ASSAY ER E. W. WIDDOWSON, Assayer and Chemist, Box biioS, Nelson, B. C. Charges:���������Gold, Silver, Lead or Copper, $t each. Gold-Silver, or Silver-Lead, i.1.50. Prices for other metals: Coal, Cement, Fireclay analyses ou applica: tion. Tlie largest custom assay office iu British Columbia. WATER NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that I, Thomas Wake, intend to apply to the Water Recorder, at Fairview, B. C, for a licence to take and use twenty-five (25) miner's inches of water out of McCarren creek, to be taken out at a point where said creek is crossed by my East boundary line, and to be used for irrigation, agricultural and domestic purposes on Lot 2084, Township 70, O3oyoos Division of Yale District. TIIOMAR WAKE, Applicant, Greenwood, B. C. pated this 25th day of November, 1912. W. A. WARD Phone 27. PROPRIETOR. O. Box 597. STARKEY & CO. NELSON, B. C. MINING BROKERS PROSPECTS BOUGHT AND SOLD LOWERY'S CLAIM During tho 87 monthn that Lowory'e Claim was on earth it did business all ovor tlie world. It was tho most unique, independent and fearless journal over produced in Canada. Political and theological enemies pursued it with the vonom of a rattlesnake until the government shut It out of the mails, and its editor consad to publish It, pa/tly on account of a lazy liver and partly hecause it takes a pile of money to run a paper that 1b outlawed. Ihere arc still 20 difforont editions of this condemned Journal in print. Send lOconta and got ono or $2 nud got the bunch, R. T. LOWERY, Greenwood, B. 0. ALEXANDRA HOTEL OKANOGAN FALLS This hotel is situated in one of the most delightful sections of the Okanogan and provides ample and pleasant accommodation for the tourist, sportsman and farmer. Information about the district cheerfully furnished. Stage line to Oroville, and steamer on the lake. ARN0TT & HINE ��������� Proprietors GREENWOOD and MIDWAY STAGE Leaves Greenwood for Spokane at 7 a. m., and for Oroville at 2:30 p. m. Leave orders at Terhune'fi Cigar Store. Chakles Russell. your Razors Honed $ and Your Baths at | FRAWLEYS I GREENWOOD, 4; .VW*-i >ii -MG-fe THE LEDGE, GREENWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 0O<><>C>C>O<>0<>0<>OO<>0CK>OCK>00-C>C>CK)CK>0 Last week tho Rawhide shipped 6,075 tons of ore. Last week the Granby mine shipped 24,0*10 tons of ore. Last week' the Granby smelter treated 22,775 tons of ore. , Last week the Mother Lode mine shipped 7,268 tons of ore. , Last week the Greenwood smelter treated 14,585 tons of ore. Last week the Napoleon mine shipped 599 tons'of ore. Last week the Queen Victoria mine shipped 1S1 tons of ore. The British Columbia Copper Company produced in October 1,022,904 pounds of copper, compared with 921,364 pounds in September and 94 L,364 pounds in August. Gold recovered was 1,976 ounces, against 1,819 in tho preceding month while silver increased to "12,364 ounces' from 10,794. Heavy gold values have"enabled British Columbia to land its copper in New York market at a cost of below nine cents a pound notwithstanding a long haul across the continent. Officials of the British Columbia Copper company, operating several mines in the Greenwood district, together with a smelter at Green- wood, B. C, which has declared 8177,512 in dividends this year, or thirty cents a share on an issued capitalization of 591,709 shares, state- that another quarterly dividend pf fifteen conts may be announced before January 1. A meeting of the directors was held in New York recently, but what, if any, decision was arrived at in regard to further payments this year has not been made public, but the prevailing, opinion is that a fourth disbursement will -be presented to the stock holders as a Christinas gift. The closing year has been the most prosperous period in the history of the British Columbia company the net earning having reached approximately 8900,000, according to a statement made recently by an official of the company who was in Spokane. The most of this will be turned into the reserve fund and expended in betterments at the Greenwood smelter, and in different properties. ���������Spokane Review. the Thursday boat and in-company with Superintendent White went up to the site of the big bore on Glacier creek. He will be in camp for the next two weeks residing at the works. To The Miner Mr. Elmendorf said that the Tunnel company had completed the purchase of the Melba, Olga, Kootenay and Little Pearl fraction claims from Peardon & Macdonald. The group is situated directly west and adjoining the holdings of the Port- Canal Mining company and carries the same vein series. "With the exception of one small incorporated company we have been entirely successful in closing contracts with holders of all the claims situated aloug the line of the proposed 2,000-foot tunnel," Mr. Elmendorf said to the interviewer. "Excellent progress is now being made in driving the tunnel, which is 7 x 7 in the clear. At the start we expected some trouble in getting through the heavy wash on the mountain side, but this has been successfully passed through and we are now entering the solid formation. All the necessary steel and equipment has been ordered and thoro will be no let up in prosecuting the driving of the bore." In acquiring the additional claims tho company has decided to become owners as well as operators and the group purchased will add materially to the assets of the Tunnel company, besides tho very valuable contracts already entered into with other mining .concerns and individuals for the transportation and handling of ores and drainage services to be rendered.��������� Stewart Miner. 0000<>0<><>000<>OOOCK>0<>00 | B.C. raise NEWS I 000<>CK><>0OCK>00aO<>0<)OCK>0 W. J. Elmendorf, general manager of the Portland Canal Tunnels, Ltd., returned to Stewart on The placer leases applied for on Bitter creek and Bear river have all been granted. From the report of a local mining engineer and the initial amount of work that is being accomplished this season, consisting of fifteen pits and two shafts, values have been obtained running.from 23 cents to $6 per yard. The same authority states that these leases are what might be termed ideally situated for dredging. The general average value is good, there is any quantity of territory and there is not a boulder on the bars or benches that would interfere with the working of a bucket line. Another thing worthy of consideration is the fact that a railroad runs across the leases, making it possible to bring in equipment and place it in position at a minimum cost. ��������� Stewart Miner. A pure, healthful, Cream of Tartar Baking Powder When buying an article of food you are entitled to know exactly what you are buying ���������its quality and ingredients. If this information is refused don't buy it. Some of the low grade baking powders are advertised, but the ingredients of the powders are scrupulously concealed. A housekeeper would not use a baking powder containing alum if she knew it. It is well when buying to examine the label on the can. Unless it shows the ingredient cream of tartar, don't buy it. Dr. Price's baking powder is absolutely free from alum. The report of the geological survey of the Dominion Department of Mines for 1911, recently issued, contains the summary reports of Mr. Charles Camsell and his assistants, A. M. Bateman and others, on tho mineral deposits of the districts tributary to Hope and Yale. Of what is now, the property of The Aufeas Gold Minea, Limited, Mr. Camsell says: ''A group of three mining claims, known as the Jumbo group, is situated on the west side of Silver 'creek, about four miles southwest of Hope. The claims lie in a steep, narrow gorge, at an elevation of about 1,100 feet above the sea. The country rock is massive grano- diorito, in places sheared and traversed by j fissures. The ore deposits lie in the fissure veins and have a width averaging about eight inches. Thoy contain dull-colored arsenopyrite, and a little chalco- pyrite in a gangue of quart/., and carry gold as the principal valuable motal. The value of the ore in the fissures rangos from $10 to 860 to the ton. The claims are developed by throe tunnels and several open cuts." Of the Skagit Valley Mr. Cam- sell and his staff have not a high opinion. Tho story of theStevens- Greenwalt hoax is told, and as a summary Mr. Camsell says: "The results of tho examination of this deposit shows that the deposits on and around Steamboat Mountain do not.carry gold, and that those at the mouth of tho Snmallow River���������known as Twenty-Throe Mile Camp���������while being more promising, are of low grade." The Steamboat, Yellow Jacket,- Utah and Ella are declared not to contain a trace of gold. ��������� The International, near the boundary has little gold, but some values in silver and copper. The Diamond group on the west side of the Skagit at Twenty-Three Mile is reported to carry 81.20 in gold and about S18.00 in silver. Th'e Horseshoe also has values in gold and silver, but not high. Of the copper deposits Mr. Cam- sell says only: "Some native copper appears in the fracture, planes of the surface rock." The Si wash Creek area which was examined by A. M. Bateman, is considered a very promising field. The gold occure in the porphry dykes, and these are wide and numerous. Similarly encouraging remarks are made about Hidden Creek. The Bridge River and adjacent deposits in Lillooet are also favorably mentioned. "Free gold can be seen in many of the veins and can be obtained by panning from almost any of the outcrops. In places tho ore is exceedingly rich." Apart from information as to probable values of deposits in the different fields, the report is very interesting as it is of tho first geological recconaisance of tho Fraser Canyon and surrounding country since those of Dr. A. R. C. Solwyn in 1871-2, and Dr, G. M. Dawson a little later. If the experts' opinions of the deposits of the districts are less favorable than those of the prospectors, it is not proved that the prospectors are wrong, and the geological information is of value to all engaged or interested - in the district. MANUFACTURING JEWELER The Only Up-to-Date Optical M.JL��������� Department in the Interior. i^eiSOn, Tho old Le Roi is more than holding its own, its output averaging 100 tons a day. The War Eagle and Centre Star have attained a depth of 2,000 feet and the oro and values continue. The old camp is far from being worked out, and apparently has many years of life ahead of it. At the Lilly B. mine near Siocan City sloping has commenced. The vein is from fourteen to twenty inches in width, and the ore is high grade. Ati.in~-The following is from theSkagway Alaskan: "There is a shipment of a ton and a half of ore being loaded into the hold of the Princess Sophia this afternoon which will net the owners more than $30,000. This was recently taken out of tho Engineer mine in tho Atlin district, and" brought down last night for shipment. Assays from this remarkable property have run as high as 8100,000 to the ton, taken from the 70-foot level. One lead which has been opened represents millions of dollars, and when the mining men of the world come to know^this property better a sensation is going to be created that will bring the Atlin country to the front as a mining district. The above is tho gist of a statement made to us by Captain Hawthorn, who with Captain Alexander of the Engineer mine, are leaving this evening for Vancouver' and from thenco will go to England for the purpose of attracting the attention of English capitalists to the mining resources of the Atlin. district. ��������� During the summer a number of prominent -raining men- have visited the Engineer mine, which has had thirty men at work for the past season, and they have expressed themselves as being astounded at the richness of the quartz being recently uncovered. Operations have been handicapped by the lack of proper machinery and it is the intention of Captain Alexander to equip the mine with an efficient plant for future work. The placer operations this year are showing better than hiterto. It is only within the past month that two new strikes have been made. The output for the district has increased, and the owners of claims feel that the time is here when Atlin is to come into her ROCK CREEK IMPLEMENT COM- .* ��������� PANY, LIMITED TAKE NOTICE thai the Rock Creek Implement Company' Limited intends to apply, after the expiration of one mouth, from the first publication of this notice, to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for the approval of the change of name to the Rock Creek Trading Company, Limited. Dated at Grand Forks, B. 0., this 20th day of December, A. D. 1912. MILLER & COCHRANE Solicitors for the Rock Creek Imple: ment Company Limited. ��������� of the Provident and Union Oil companies. W, L. Stewart, his son, is the vice-president. WHY? Why 8honld?jCauadian ham* or bacon bo ten or twelve cents dearer here than in England? There is no use in making the excuse that labor is better paid in Canada than in England. The excuse is bad, because the bacon is produced by Canadian labor. The Englishman in England pays this cost of production, and also the cost of transportation by rail and ocean. Therefore we ought to get the bacon and ham for a good deal less than is paid in England, instead of ten or twelve cents a pound more. Canada is a storehouse of- food, producing more than it can consume, and helping to feed tho rest of the world, yet tho price of food is far higher here than in England, which does not produce nearly enough food for its own needs. . The very best of our products are carried past our doors and sold in England at prices which would not buy the most inferior food in Canada.. ' ��������� Why ?���������Toronto Star. . G. A. REN DEL WE WANT MEN Hockey Shoes and Felt Slippers All sizes for Ladies, Misses and Children. GREENWOOD, B. C HOW CHRONIC COUGHS own. CALIFORNIA In the Siocan there aro thirty men working at the Idaho-Alamo group. It ifc the intention of the company says the Siocan Record to put in a compressor next spring, at the Cumberland with water power. An aerial tramway will be built to Alamo. At present the ore is being rawhided to Alamo station. Mining conditi6ns in Rossland are better than thoy have been for several years. The Center Star, War Eagle and Le Roi employ about 500 men. 1 After years of strenuous efforts to obtaiu control of independent oil companies operating in California and on the Pacific coast that they might successfully combat the Standard Oil in the struggle for supremacy in the Asiatic aud European business, the Shell interest of London, headed by Sir Marcus Samuel, chairman and dominant official of the Shell company, havo virtually completed a deal whereby they will take Over the Union Oil company of California and the outputs of tho General Petroleum company and the independent oil producers. The deal involves $50,000,000. It is reported that the Associated Oil Company, 300,000 of whose 400,000 shares are held by the Southern Pacific and Southern Pacific officials and allied capitalists, are included in the negotiations. Whether this is so is not definitely known. Negotiations wore conducted through Lyman and W. L. Stewart at Los Angeles. The Stewarts are said to figure in the deal to an extent approximated at over $20,- 000,000. Lyman Stewart is tho president We have good laws in Canada, but we want men who are not afraid to enforce them. The following poem by J. G. 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