c Only Paper Printed in the Kootenay Lake Min ing Districts. For Rates of Subscription and 'Advertising See Fourth Page. FtJMBEB**. NELSON, BEITISH COLUMBIA, SATUEDAY, JULY 11, 1891. $4 A YEAE. THE MINING OUTLOOK BRIGHT. Within the month active work will'have commenced on 4 of the best-known claims oh Toad mountain, namely, the Dandy, the Silver King, the Grizzly Bear, and the Iroquois. The owners of the Dandy will put in machine drills, and shove development work so as to be in a position to determine as early as possible the sized concentrating plant to erect on the property. The present force on the Silver King will no doubt be increased. Men are now at work putting up buildings on the Grizzly Bear ground, to accommodate the forces that will be-.employed' on the Grizzly Bear and on the Iroquois. The Avagon road will be completed to the Silver King within the month, the route being changed so as to run direct to that mine. In Hot Springs district all indications are favorable for a good summer's work. The Skyline crosscut is in favorable ground, small stringers of galena being encountered. The Fourth tunnel is in ore. The Number One ledge is in place. Ashwprth & Jevons will put machinery on their properties. J. O: Swift-..'has returned from the Wood River country, and intends to put in sampling-works near Ainsworth. A. W. McCune and H. Gieg- erich are both elated at their prospects, and will return from Montana to AinsAvorth in a couple of weeks/' Taking it all in all, the outlook for the Kootenay Lake country Avas never brighter. , The FinishingTouches to Be All on By the 18th. The new steamer Nelson is nearing completion. Work has been someAvhat retarded diiring the past 2 weeks on account of rain, but the machinery is airih place, the wheel is finished, three life-boats have been built, and the state-rooms are all but completed. Interior finishing work is being done, and the cabins, pilot-house, officer's quarters, and rooms''for' the crew are well under Avay. It is expected all the finishing touches will be on by the 18th instant, and a trial trip will be made as soon thereafter as the machinery is in working order. The boat presents a handsome appearance and will take front rank among river steamers in British Columbia, and be a credit to the builder, inr. Stephenson. , ��������� ��������� ... New Hotels. The new hotel at the corner of Stanley and ..Bluff streets is beginning to look like a building, and manager Phair is already gathering round him a corps of assistants; the Duhainel building on Josephine street will be ready for- occupancy ; as a hotel in 2 weeks; the Olson & Williamson hotel at AinsAvorth will be opened \vithin the month; and Sicotte & Levesque's "Robson" hotel at the railway 'townsite on the Columbia will be thrown open on Friday next. Good ' Figures Obtained'for Kelson Real Estate. The price of Nelson dirt remains stiff at figures that range as high as $65 a front foot. H. Selous sold 50 feet on West Baker street for* $3000cash, a "Victoria capitalist being the purchaser, and a 50-foot corner on East Baker street for $1575. W. C. McLean and John Lane purchased 2 building conditions in block 14 for $508^dirt cheap. Other sales Avere made, but at figures not reported. t Not in Any Way Exaggerated. Mat Garrity, who has a claim on 49 creek, a short distance above where the government trail crosses the creek, was in town today for the first time in a month. He reports having a tunnel in 42 feet, with a good showing for a silver mine. Mat's statements are at times a little extravagant, but he assures us that the above information is not in any way exaggerated. Jfot a Blessing in Disguise. The advent of the railway has not been altogether a blessing in disguise, if the curses hurled at the head of the local treasurer of the company at Vancouver by our business men are an indication of their feelings. It seems that the agent at Nelson has been instructed to take no checks, except certified ones, in payment for freight. This works great inconvenience, and oftentimes a hardship on business men, for a large percentage ol the circulating medium in the Lake coun- '.vfry is~in checks���������checks issued by mining and sawmill companies on the banks at Victoria and Vancouver. These cheeksare taken by business men at par, and have never yet been returned for lack of funds to meet them. To get them certified would cause long delays, as the means of communication are not of the best. Why cannot the railroad company instruct its agent at Nelson to take in payment for freight checks endorsed by any of our leading business men��������� any one of whom is as responsible as the railroad company, judging by the promptness in w'hich: accounts against them are paid. But, then, a railway, company is never accommodat- ing until forced to be by competition. May the good Lord hasten the day when the Canadian Pacific will have strong, active competition in the Kootenay Lake country. Obtaining Mail Service Under False Pretenses. Last fall, owing to the niggardliness of post- office inspector Fletcher, who Avas unwilling to give the people of the Kootenay Lake country more than a semi-monthly mail service, the railroad company, the railAA'ay contractors, and the people of Nelson agreed to bear the additional expense of a weekly service, the mails to be carried once a week betAveen Ainsworth and Marcus, Washington. The late Joe Wilson was the contractor. His estate .carried out the contract faithfully ; but have the people who avere benefitted by the mail service kept their promises faithfully? The Wilson estate is out of pocket over $500, not because the contract av as undertaken at too low a price, but because business men have either not paid their subscriptions or repudiated them altogether. The Canadian Pacific and the railway contractors agreed to pay $300, of which only $150 has been paid���������$100 by D. McGilliv- ray and $50 by a railway company that has received in the way of cash and land bonuses a sum equal to the cost of the road built. Of course, these people should not have been asked or required to contribute a dollar for adequate mail service, a, service they were entitled to; but so long as mr. Fletcher is postoffiee inspector, and the district represented at Ottawa by men like mr. Mara of Kamloops, adequate mail service need not be expected, and the people should keep faith Avith contractors Avho keep faith with them. ��������� ' ' ��������� A Success Achieved in. Copper Mining. Butte Inter Mountain, 8th : "The payment by the Parrot last week of an extra dividend of $180,000 brings into prominence 2 facts: first, that careful and conservative management and modern machinery are profitable essentials to every mining company; and second, that-even the lowest grade copper mines of Butte can pay heaAry and continuous dividends if proper attention be given to their operation. Messrs. Farrel, Migeon, and Gaylord are to be congratulated upon the splendid success they have achieved in copper mining in Butte." Mr. Farrel' has large interests in the Kootenay Lake country, being one of the owners of the Blue Bell mine, opposite Ainsworth. He is now in Nelson on a visit that may also,result in a "splendid success," not only for himself and partners, but for the province of British Columbia. The Poorman Mine and Mill. The delay in starting Avork at the Poorman mine and mill on Eagle creek is occasioned by the Husseys being unable to get their affairs in shape. It was hoped that by the sale of the Morning mine matters would have been straightened out before this. A. L. Davenport is now at Spokane, and on his return next week it is expected that operations will be resumed at the Poorman. ..HIST A LITTLE EA'OTKD. In the fall of 1889 an -.expert sent in by a Portland company that G; B. Wright had organ ized to purchase and work claims in Hot Springs district reported adversely on the main claim the company intended buying. Considerable development work had been done on the ground, part of'which was a 400-foot tunnel. Somehow, the ledge did not appearin the face of f he tunnel ...when work Avas suspended, and when foj- loAved from the surface by inclines the ledge Avas badly shook up and apparently never in place. After that expert's report the claim relapsed to its original ;"owners'; who worked it off and on until July of last year, when it was purchased by L. R. G. Boyle, "president of the Revelstoke smelter syndicate. Men were at once placed at Avork; but at times the reports were not over encouraging to the OAvner. An upraise from the main tunnel 'drained the upper workings, arid most of the work done afterwards was' in trying to keep with the ore, the result being that 3000 sacks of high-grade are now in the ore- house awaiting the completion of the wagon road and a 7-foot ledge in place, with solid ore from foot-wall to hanging-wall. The pre is equally,as good as any found nearer the surface, much of it showing native and .wire, silver. The ledge has now the ri^ht pitch, and if that tunnel had been extended a few feet farther G. B. Wright would now be the leading mining man in Hot Springs district. Such is luck. This strike in the Number One, along Avith the 9-foot strike in t he 'lower* tunnel of the Fourth, has caused no little excitement among the boys in Hot Springs district. I The ' Provisions of the Law are Plain. It seems impossible to make the:average claim OAvner or prospector understand the proA^isions of the mineral act that AA^ent into effect on April 20th of this year. One of its plainest provisions is that re-recording is done -away with, yet claim owners'til most daily ask to have their claims rerecorded. Another of its plain provisions is, that the OAvners of claims have the full year in Avhich to do the annual assessment work, yet claims are "jumped" because of a supposed failure to do the required Avork. .The'owners of claims recorded since October 20th, 1890, have, a year from the date of their records in which to do the annual assessment Avork. If a claim was located on April 21st, 1890, and the annual assessment work done before October 21st, 1890, the OAvner of that claim has until April 21st, 1892, to do his second year's assessment work, .and his ground is not jumpable, as many prospectors seem to believe. Before relocating or jumping claims, prospectors should niake inquiries as to the provisions of the 'law. Will - Produce $5������-00.a Month Hereafter. After-a run of 60 hours, in-which 16 tons of. ore were crushed, a cleanup was rnade at the Whitewater mill on Rover creek. The cleanup indicates that the mill will turn out gold bullion to the value of $5000 a month, to say nothing of the gold in the concent rates. This sum will more than pay all expenses incident to developing the mine so that a 20-starnp mill and other machinery can be placed on the property. There is enough ore in sight to run the Huntington mill now on the ground 2 years or longer. Fine Specimens. Some as fine specimens of native silver as has been discovered in the Lake country come from the recent discoveries on RoArer creek. The OAAm- ers of the claim from which the specimens are taken say it is looking good, and that before fall they will have a proposition for a mining man to take hold of. The market Value of Metals. On the 7th instant the New York quotations for metals were: Bar siWer $1.00|, lake copper $13, lead $4.47*. THE MUSTEK: KELSON, E. C, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1891. Postoffiee Store, Nelson, 15. ���������. AND GENTS' THRASHING GOODS. also, full linesof ; Toilet Articles and Stationery. CIGARS'..���������:AT: WHOLESALE" ONLY. LD 81 CO. carry large lines of plain,, medium, and high-grade ���������furniture: .".Parlor and bed-room sets ranging in price from $G.50 to $500. Hotels furnished throughput. Office and barroom chairs. Spring-mattresses made to order, and wo\ren wire, hair, and wool mattresses in stock. Mail orders from Kootenay Lake points will receive early and careful attention. Agents for Evans Bros, pianos and Doherty organs. JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON. Will contract for the erection of stores, hotels, dwellings, bridges, etc., and guarantee work finished on time. SEASOK"EI3 LUMBER; always on hand for store fittings, desks, tables, etc. Undertaking attended to. Shop: Cor; Baker and Josephine Sts, ~ E.: J. MmuF������~GoT (Successors to R. J. Hilts & Co.) ������uraotors an >-*-, ,���������1 uilders, SEASONED "LUMBER' always on hand for store fittings, desks, tables, etc. Will contract to erect all kinds of buildings and guarantee satisfaction. Shop: corner Josephine and Bluff sts. I. PIONEER PAINTER AND DECORATOR. Address: Nelson Hotel. fl &TCT B BEIOK AST) STONE MASON, PLASTERER. , Will contract to,do brick and stone work, also plastering and calcimining. Leave orders at J. Fred Hume & Co's, U and 11 East Vernon street, Nelson, B. G. Plasters and Brickmasons WiU Contract for all Kinds of Work.' Materials furnished and estimates given on application Address all communications to Nelson, B. C. NOTICE TO BALFOUR LOT HOLDERS. The payments on account of purchase moiiejr that have been made for those unimproved lots upon which the final payments now overdue have not been paid by Tuesday, June 23rd, will be forfeited and I shall resume possession and resell the same. In fact you must either pay or clear; vou have paid your money and can now take your choice. CHARLES WESTLY BUSK. Balfour, June 10th, 1890. APPLICATIONS FOR CROWN GRANTS. Notice is hereby given that John R. Cook as part owner, and agent for others, has filed the necessary papers and made application for a crown grant in favor of the mineral claim known as the "New Market.," situated on Toad mountain, w^est arm of Kootenay lake. .���������Adverse claimants, if any, are required to file their objections Avith me within sixty (60) days from date of publication. N. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner. Nelson, B,C, 20th June, 1890. Notice is hereby given that John R. Cook as part owner, and agent for others, has filed the necessary papers and 'made application for a crown grant in, favor of a mineral claim known as,the "Forest," situated on Toad mountain, west arm of Kootenay lake. ,'���������'���������>' Adverse claimants, if any, will forward their objections to me within sixty (60) rdays from date of publication.. . , N. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner. Nelson, B. C, 20th June, 1891. Notice is hereby given that James Fox, Aaron H. Kelly, and John R. Cook have filed the necessary papers, and made application for a crown grant in favor of a mineral ' claim known as the "Dandy," situated in Toad mountain subdivision of West Kootenay district. Adverse claimants, if any, will forward their objections to me within sixty (60) days from date of publication. N. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner. Nelson, B.C., June 20th, 1891. Notice is hereby given that Joseph Edward Boss by his agent, John Robertson, has filed the necessary papers and made application for a crown grant in favor of a mineral claim known as the "Iroquois," situated on Toad Mountain, west arm of Kootenay lake. Adverse claimants, if any, will forward their objections within sixty (60) days from date of publication. N. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner. Nelson, B. C, 20th June, 1891. Notice is hereby given that M. D. Mahoney has filed the necessary papers and made application for a crown grant in ���������'favor of a mineral claim known as "The Democrat," situated on Toad Mountain, west arm of Kootenay lake. Adverse claimants, if any, will forward their objections to me within sixty (60) days from date of publication. N. FITZSTUBBS, gold commissioner. ��������� C ��������� ��������� ��������� 0 _ ; ���������_ ; ; _t, " LAND NOTICES. ~~ Notice is hereby given that sixty (60) days after date I intend to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for permission to purchase a tract of land described as follows : Beginning at a post marked N. W. corner post placed on the south shore of Trout lake about 20 chains west of the outlet of said lake, thence south 40 chains, thence east 40 chains, thence north to the Lardeaux river, thence west, following the meanderings of the shores of the Lardeaux river and Trout lake to the place of beginning, containing , 160 acres more or less. / ROBERT F. GREEN. Ainsworth, 10th June, 1891. Notice is hereby given that sixty (60) days after date we intend to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for permission to purchase a tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a post marked N. W. corner post on the west shore of Kootenay lake about three miles south, of the mouth of the Lardeaux river, thence south 40 chains, thence east to the shore of the lake, thence following the meanderings of the shore to the place of beginning, containing 160 acres, more or less. ��������� ������������������ l ���������_ T. J. DA VIES. Ainsworth, B. C, June 1st, 1891. G. B. NAGLE. Notice is hereby given that sixty days after date, we intend to apply to the chief commissioner of land and works for permission to purchase the following described tract of land, situate in West Kootenay district: Commencing at a post on slough bank West of the mouth of Duck creek, and about eight miles from the south end of Kootenay lake; thence running north 40 chains; thence east 80 chains; thence south 40 chains; thence westerly following the shore of the slough to the commencement post; containing 320 acres, more or less. T. G. PROCTER, F. H.FLINT, pryce Mcdonald, Balfour, B.C., June 27th, 1891. R. S. GALLOP. LEASE. Notice is hereby given that, 30 days after date, I intend to apply to the chief commissioner of lands and works for a license to cut timber upon a tract of land described as follows : Beginning at a stake situate about three miles from the south end of Kootenay lake*.on the east side of the valley; thenco north SO chains; thence east 80 chains ; thence south 80 chains, more or less, to the shore; thence west along said shore to the place of beginning; containing 640 acres, more or less. G. O. BUCHANAN. Nelson, B. C, June 20th, 1891. Le Eoi Mining and Smelting Company (Foreign). Registered the 22nd day of June, 1891. CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION. This is to certify that I have this day registered "The Le Roi Mining and Smelting Company" (Foreign), under the "Companies Act." The objects for which the said company is formed are: To carry on the business of mining, milling, smelting and reduction of ores of all kinds; to buy, sell and deal in mines; to buy, sell, lease or bond mines and mining properties, and generally to deal in and handle mines and minerals of every description Avithin the United States and the province of British Columbia, and to erect and maintain mills, smelters and all appliances for the reduction or handling of metals and minerals, and to do all things necessary or proper in connection with the foregoing objects, as aforesaid. . The amount of capital stock of the said company is two million five hundred thousand (2,500,000) dollars, divided into five hundred thousand shares of the par value of five (5) dollars each. The time of the existence of the said conipany is fifty years. The place of business of the said company is located at Trail, British Columbia. In testimony whereof! have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 22nd day of June, 1891, at the city of Victoria, province of British i Columbia. C. J. LEGGATT, Registrar of joint stock companies. DO NOT USE POOR MATERIAL in buildings when first-class JJ_I are for sale in any quantity by the SON SAWMILL 00. Yiiril: At end of Flume in ' Nelson. Mill: Two Miles''Soutii or Nelson. .��������������������������������������������� , ��������� -& '������������������ ' Builders concede that the lumber from our mill is ALL OF 1TIRST-CLASS FINISH, both in the rough and dressed. Parties ordering any of the above material from us \Adll have the same delivered .promptly in any part of Nelson. ,. c CORD-WOOD AND STOVE-WOOD cut and run down the lumber flume, and sold at low prices. The Kootenay Lake Saw-mill is always ready for business. Lumber��������� good, bad, and indifferent--on hand or made to order. GL 0. BUCHANAN. Nelson, January 15th. MANUFACTURERS OF OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. PRICE HIST (DELIVERED AT NELSON, AINSAVORTH, OR BALFOUR). No. 1 flooring, ������ inch, per M........ .. . $32 00 No. 2 " . 6 inch, " 27 00 No. 1 ceiling, 4 inch, " 32 00 No. 2 " 6 inch, " 27 00 Rustic, " ..;��������� '.'... 27 00 Select clear, DD, " 40 00 No. 1 common, D, " . ..'. 25 00 . ��������� " . " DI), " 27 00 Bar and counter tops, clear, per foot 10 uoirttir. No. 1 common, per M. ... $20 00 No. 2 " " 15 00 Culls, " 12 00 Shingles, " * 50 MOU>IN������S. Bead, panel, crown, base, etc., etc., per foot... . .2������@10c Mills at Pilot Bay, Kootenaiy Lake. Geo. GL Bushby, . . . Manager j H������. F. FEBfcKY, Agent sit Nelson. BKESl'SEK & WATSON, Agents at Aiiisworth. r.*Si* i ^.jr&W-r^KXV ?r^7^!$z^ > W *l THE MINEE: JSTELSON,. B. 0.,- SATUBDAY, JULY 11, 1891. OUR NATIONAL HIG-HWAY. Through Passenger e Service from Ocean; to Ocean. LOWEST FAEES TO ALE POINTS To secure quick despatch and lowest freight rates Kootenay JLuke Shippers will be consulting their own interests by shipping by the The Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Company's leaves Sproat's Landing for REVELSTOKE every Tuesday and Friday, making connection with trains for VAtfOOUVEE, g riMioisr'X'i^E^^ii,,0 NEW WESTMINSTER,.o , 3T pATJIj CHICAGO. VICTORIA, to AND all points east. For rates, maps, time-tables, etc., etc., apply to any agent of the company. ROBERT KERR, D. E. BROWN, Gen'l Fr't and Passenger Ag't, Ass't Gen'l Fr't & Pas'r Ag't. Winnipeg, Manitoba. , Vancouver, B. C.,, THE COLUMBIA & KOOTENAY ..STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LB& THE STEAMEE LYTI will leave REVELSTOKE every Monday and Thursday at A A. M. for Robson and Little Dalles, connecting at Robson with the Columbia & Kootenay R.;R., and at. Little Dalles with the Spokane & Northern R...R.. Returning, will leave LITTLE DALLES every Tuesday and Friday at 9 A. M., arriving at Robson between 3 and 5 P. M.,and remaining from 15 to 30 minutes, then proceeding to Revelstoke. " .;' F., G. ���������MIMSTIBE9 Agent,.'-' 'KJEVKLSTOKE, IS. ���������. STEAMEE SUEPEISE Parties wishing to charter the steamer SURPRISE can obtain full particulars by applying to H. Selous, 13 East Baker street, or to R. F. Perry,'the company's agent at Nelson. DAVIES-SAYWARD COMPANY. Nelson, June 18th, 1891. puaue rnorograpners WEST BAKER STREET, NELSON. 9 Views of Nelson and all the most interesting scenery in British Columbia. Dealers in Steel Engravings, Etchings, Photo- ; G-ravnres, Archotyj)es, etc. Picture Mats and all kinds of Framing done to order. NELSON, B. C. are now settled in their new store, No. 2 Houston & Ink building, and have on display a full range of Plain and Pancy "Worsted Suitings and Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges. DPIRIOIES TOSUIT TIOIIE TIUVHIES NELSON CITY7 ~ All persons are hereby cautioned not to remove any timber or sand from Lot 58 A, Group 1, West Kootenay ipstrict. JOSHUA DA VIES, managing director Nelson City Land & Improvement Co. Nelson, June 18th, 1891. tfEEI> NOT LOOK TO ENGLAND FOSE MONEY. A well-known financier of New York, who is now in London, writes: "Everything is very dull here, and the general opinion seems to be that a verydull time may be expected this fall. The English expect to get out of the Argentine troubles without loss, but credit is so attenuated there, has been drawn to so fine a point that it is likely to break at the slightest cause. There is no cohesion among the banks in London like t���������here is among the banks in New York���������the Baring ca.se was an exceptional one���������and it is every bank for itself. The English banks were undoubtedly in a very weak condition, but they have been strengthening themselves very much lately, and are stronger now than they have been for some time past. They expect,.or at any rate hope, to keep the gold imported from the United States, but I do not see how, they can do it. England and France must take a great deal of wheat from America this fall, and they will have to pay for it probably in gold. I do not hear much about silver, but-.the'general opinion among bankers seems to be that the United States is slowly drifting to a silver basis. A great respect is evidently entertained in Europe for America and its , resources, but just at present England does not want any American securities. They are contracting everything as much as possible in the belief thai everything is going to be very dull for the balance of the year. There will be little money for speculation or new enterprise." BALFOUR, B. (J. Wholesale, Kcfail, am! ComssiissHoii. Merchant, ry s ana u-rocenes. FIVE PER CENT DISCOUNT will be allowed on all retail CASH purchases, of over $5, on any line of goods. Liberal discounts on CASH wholesale orders. of the Kootenay Lake Ooimtry, and others whom it may Concern and Interest: My stock of sample goods, consisting of the following lines, is now open for inspection, and I am prepared to receive orders for any amount. Fine clothing of all sorts, (under- and over-), boots, hats, (over 100 different, including men's, boys', and girls'), towels, ties, braces, blankets, carpets, mats, needles, thread, cotton, buttons, etc. Prices will be quoted to merchants f. o. b. at the nearest wharf, thus saving them all trouble with custom or freight agents, and so forth. Special inducements for cash payments on large orders. Call and see the stock before ordering your fall supplies, and I think you "will be pleased. A small stock also on sale to retail customers. CHARLES WESTLY BUSK, Balfour, B. C. FOOT OF. WAKD STREET, ISAIAH STEVENSON, Proprietor. Boats to hire by the hour or day at reasonable rates. Boats built and repaired. BAliFOUR, B. ���������. BOAT BUILDEKS. Hold your orders for Peterborough canoes until you see specimens of our work and obtain our prices. Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, Office: Stanley Street. Barrister at Law, Solicitor* Notary Public, Etc, Office, Victoria street, Kamloops, B. C. CHAMBER, Notary Public, Nelson. ,.'.' A. G. Tiiynne, C. G. HENSltAAVy Vancouver Real Estate, Mining Brokers, AND Insurance Agents. 7 REAL ESTATE. ,: Good BSsi.siiiess .Lois .Tor Sale this Weds. Streets are being cleared and graded in the Hoover Addition.. Lots selling fast from ������135 to ������300 per lot. NO BUILDING CONDITIONS. Terms one-third cash; balance on time. ' Mining claims and mining interests handled adva.ntage- ously on small margin. Quotations given on all classes of mining machinery. Citizens of Canada, fire and accident;.Equitable of New York, life.Good Companies; fliood Eta^es. \ ��������� . NELSON ������������������ OFFICE, 105 WEST BAKEE STLEET. '��������� ���������-'��������� YaSBeOISV'er JLASSOSJSfc. The relation in which this large industrial evolution stands to our problem of the poor low- skilled worker is not obscure. In comparing the movement of capital with that of labour we saw that in one respect the former was clearer and more perfect. The weaker capitalist, lie who fails to keep pace with industrial progress, and will' not avail himself of the advantage which union gives to contending pieces o of capital, is simply snuffed out; that is, he ceases to have an independent existence as a capitalist when he can no longer-rnake profit. The laggard, ill-managed piece of capital is swept off the board. This is possible, for the capital is a property separable from its owner. The case of labour is different. The labour-power is not separable from the person of the labourer. So the labourer left behind in the evolution of labour organization does not at once perish, but continues to struggle on in a position which is ever becoming weaker. 'Organize or starve,'is the law of modern labour movements. The mass of low-skilled workers find themselves fighting the industrial battle for existence, each for himself, in the old-fashioned way, without any of the advantages which organization gives their more prosperous brothers. They represent the survival of an earlier industrial stage. If the crudest form of the struggle were permitted to rage with unabated force, many would be swept out of life, thereby rendering successful organization and industrial advance more possible, to the survivors. But modern notions of humanity insist : upon the retention of these superfluous, low- skilled workers, while at the same time failing to recognize, and making no real attempt to provide against, the inevitable result of that retention. Byallowingthe continuance of the crude struggle for existence which is the form industrial competition takes when applied to the low-skilled workers, and at the same time forbidding the proved 'unfittest' to be cleared out of the world, we seem to perpetuate and intensify the struggle. The elimination of the 'unfit' is the necessary means of progress enforced by the law of competition. An insistence on the survival, and a. permission of continued struggle to the unfit, cuts off the natural avenue of progress for their more fit competitors. So long as the crude industrial struggle is permitted on these unnatural terms, the effective organization and'progress of the main body of low-skilled workers seems a logical impossibility. If the upper strata of low-class workers are enabled to organize, and, what is in ore-difficult, to protect themselves against incursions of outsiders, the position of the lower strata will become even more hopeless and helpless. If one by one all the avenues of regular low-skilled labour are closed by securing a practical monopoly of this and that work for the members of a union, the superfluous body of labourers will be driven more and more to depend on irregular jobs, and forced more and more into concentrated masses of city dwellers, will be present an ever-growing difficulty and danger to national order and national health. Consideration of the general progress of the working classes has no force to set aside this problem. It seems not unlikely that we are entering on a. new phase of the poverty question. Theupper strata of low-skilled labour a re learn ing to organ ize. If they succeed in forming and maintaining strong unions, that is to say, in lifting themselves from the chaotic struggle of an earlier industrial epoch, so as to get fairly on the road of modern industrial progress, the condition of those left bc4hind will press the illogical- it y of our present national economy upon us with a drama-tic.'force which will be more convincing than logic, for it will appeal to a growing national sentiment of pity and humanity which will take no denial, arid will find itself driven for the first time to a serious recognition of poverty as a. national industrial disease, requiring a national industrial remedy. The great problem of poverty thus resides in the conditions of the low-skilled workman. To live industrially under the new order he must organize. He cannot .organize because he is so poor, so ignorant, so weak. Because he is not organized he continues to be poor, ignorant, weak. Here is a great dilemma, of which whoever shall have found the key will have done Winch to solve theprohlem of poverty. DEALERS IN OX3ZE3VCZO-A^IL,S. 'WHOLESALE DKAIiEItS Itf--������M;ARS.. KAYMO.Wfe SEWBNtt MACHINES IS ST������WK. Oor.East Baker and Ward Streets. NOTARY PUBLIC. Town lots, lands, and mining claims handled on commission. Conveyancing documents drawn up. Correspondence solicited. Office: No. 13 East Baker Street, NELSON, B. 0, STORE BUILDING FOR RENT. A store-room on North street, Ainsworth, for rent at $25 a month. The building was until recently occupied by the Lindsey Mercantile Company. Apply to or address E. HARROP, Aiasworth, 13. C. W. JV WILSON. PROPRIETORS OF .... AT. . NELSON AND AINSWOETB:. Will contract to supply mining companies and steamboat! with fresh meats, and deliver same at any mine or landing in the Kootenay Lake'country.' -4 AT NELSON, where saddle and pack animals can always be hired, and teams obtained for job teaming. lyil^IKIZE] COKTBACTS with merchants for hauling freight to or from railroad depot and steamboat wharf. l NELSON OEFICE AND MARKET, IT" Skua ;aker mm i PROPRIETOR OF THE ZPZEOZESTIEIEIR, AND Ware? Stfi'ootf., miv Vowrnmenl Sb5:.i?.<15n^. NELSON, B. C. Will undertake any work or contract in which pack animals or Learns can be used. Will furnish SADDLE AND PACK ANIMALS to parties who wish to examine mines and claims in Toad Mountain district. WILL CONTRACT TO CAEEY PASSENOEES and baggage to and from hotels; also, freight to and from steamboat wharves and railway depots. IELSON. CONTRACT TO GRADE LOTS Stove ami Conhvood for Sale. m mu THE MINEE: NELSON, B. 0., SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1891. Main Street y ear* %J������ Wright Street, . IXE-A-ZLIEIEiS TJST Miners' Supplies, Iron and Dry G-oods, el, Hardware, Groceries, Provisions, Boots and en's Furnishings, Etc., Etc. ZCSsT- IB_ Having bought the stock and , bo ok debts of the late firm of E. S. WILSON & 00., all parties having .outstanding accounts are requested to call and settle them as soon as possible. :' Henry Anderson, ;, ��������� Notar}' Public. John L. Retal'"lack. erson MiX'EKAI,: I'-'LABMS -Bfcfii:flM*fi3B>. A.\������ -'TBUX.SBWBEBeJMft AT Real Estate and Mining Brokers, Conveyancers, Etc. (!i'������wu<*rnul.s 'obtained for Miiici'iil Claims.' ' ' ��������� A*������-eniLs for ''Absentee���������laim Owners. ..";'. . Collection's Made. Coo'i'esooiMlenee SoEieiteayies-Say ward'' SawmillCompany's LuntneiY Moldings, and Shingles. ABNSWW&TIB,''JS. ���������../. Drugs and Medicines, Wall Paper, Paints and Oils, Tobacco and Cigars, Fishing Tackle, . Stationery,'.etc. i'Q. Siitton .Street, "AB:\SWOBtTBB, BS. C. JOSIAH BROWN. ...... ...... PROPRIETOR (Formerly of Virginia, Nevada.) The only short-order house in Hot Springs district. Porterhouse and tenderloin steaks a specialty. Meals at all hours. EgSSa m ��������� PE3S3ESZ ������ u &> i Ainsworth, Hot Springs District, B. C. Miners' Supplies, Provisions,..Tools, Crockery, Clothing, Stationery, Etc., Etc. Persons buying from us will avoid the necessity of paying duty on goods at Canadian custom-house on the river. This rapidly growing town, being the center of the well-known MINING- DISTRICT," presents an unrivaled field for business investment. The townsite proprietors are now prepared to sell on'reas terms a limited number of business and residence lots. F lve ���������-S ap -A-G-EHsTT, STJTTOIsr nm dirieet a.izn~s'wo:rt,:e3::, ib. o re?!? WITT nnr������T3Fi������i; ������SSJ ��������� li vi i ������-* !������������������������ THE MINER: NELSON, B. 0., SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1891. Cor. Baker and Ward Sts. NELSON, &.C. H. 8l T. MADDEN Proprietors. The Madden is c0eiitrally Located, with a frontage towards Kootenay river, and is newly furnished throughout. T H IE T '^l IB LE is supplied with everything in the market, the kitchen being under the immediate supervision of Hugh Madden, a caterer of large experience. THE BAR IS STOCKED WITH THE BEST ��������� (-��������� . brands of beer, ale, wine, whisky, and cigars. '8k Corner West Vernon and Stanley Streets, NELSON, B. C. ONLY TW0-ST0EY HOTEL IN NELSON. The International has a comfortably furnished parlor for ladies, and the rooms are large and furnished newly throughout. by any hotel in the Kootenay Lake country. A share of transient trade solicited. THE SAMPLE-BOOM IS STOCKED WITH CHOICE CIOAKS AND THE FINEST BEANDS OF LIQUORS. PROPRIETORS BAUFOIIK, 18. C. PLINT "&' GALLOP, Proprietors. The BALFOUR commands a fine view of the Outlet and Lake, and will be kept second to no hotel in Hot Springs district. Balfour is easily accessible to the mines in Hot Springs district, and is in the center of a large area of mineral country not yet prospected. It is also within easy distance of the Kootenay Lake and Pilot Bay sawmills. ALL THE BOYS ���������0 TO IVo. 15 Baiter Street, when they are looking for fun. The best of wines, liquors, and cigars always on hand. COPPEIfc -MSCOYEBfcY ON' BUCK ,. CREEK. Jap King has not got the only good thing in Goat River district. It is reported that an 18- foot copper ledge has been discovered on the north side of Duck creek, the ore from which gives good assays. Already a number of locations have been made. A road to the camp can easily be built from the Kootenay, and one too that will be comparatively dry. ��������� ' ���������!'* The Finest Hotel in Toad Mountain District." THE ER KING Corner West Baker and Ward Streets, ./ xmstoN, b. c." JOHIMSON & SVIAHGNEY, PROPRIETORS. The Silver King is a new building and furnished with'new furniture from kitchen to attic. The table will not be equalled by any hotel in Nelson. ��������� .. East "Baker Street, Nelson, Is one of the best hotels in Toad Mountain district, and is the headquarters for prospectors and working miners. The Table is not Surpassed by that of any Hotel in the Kootenay Lake country. At the Ear is Dispensed Fine Liquors and Cigars, and the bed-rooms are newly furnished. MALONG ������������ CLAltK PK,OI������B&IETORS TRAIL CREEK, B. C. W. R. FOOT/TON l"S50FaiIETOR The Gladstone is the best kept hotel in the Trail Creek mining district, its proprietor being a caterer of experience. The table will always be supplied with the best of everything obtainable. The bar is stocked with choice liquors and cigars, including Hiram Walker & Sons pure rye whiskies. Good stabling for animals. The Lindsay Mercantile Company (Foreign). Registered the 24th day of June, 1891. CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION. This is to certify that I have this.day registered "The Lindsay Mercantile Company" (Foreign), under the "Companies Act." The objects for which the said company is formed are: Generally to deal in all kinds of merchandise and securities; to buy and sell groceries, provisions, liquors, cigars, tobaccos and to do a general retail and wholesale jobbing business in groceries and agricultural products in all their branches and details; to own, lease and improve such real' estate as may be necessary and proper for the carrying on and carrying out the general purposes of this business; to lease, sell or otherwise dispose of, in such manner as the board of trustees may think fit, such real estate as it may acquire; to borrow money for the purpose of this business and to issue bonds, notes, bills or other evidences of indebtedness therefor, and to secure the same by pledges of its property by mortgages or otherwise; to loan the money of the corporation on such terms as the board of trustees may deem expedient, and to accept and receive mortgages and other securities therefore. The amount of the capital stock of the said company is fifty thousand (50,000) dollars, divided into live hundred shares of one hundred (100) dollars each. The time of the existence of the said company is fifty years. The place of business of the said company is located at Ainsworth, British Columbia. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 24th day of June, 1891, at the city of Victoria, province of British Columbia. C. J. LEGGATT, Registrar of joint stock companies. HOTEL .EAST-.T^'ZISOX; STBEB3ET,- NKAR HALL. ,-,,",'��������� . ' THE.GRAND.' :': . WILL BE CONDUCTED IN GOOD STYLE . : -AND AS'. ... '.������������������'���������:'���������.. IT FRONTS ON THE OUTLET IT IS ONE OF THE BEST SITUATED jHOTEIlS IN NELSON. THE DINING-ROOM IS NOT SURPASSED, . ;':;,: ���������.'.:'.:..". BY THAT OF ANY HOTEL ON THE LAKE AND THE BAR WILL ALWAYS BE STOCKED WITH CHOICE LIQUORS AND CIGARS. A SSI S E N & B:L.QM BE R G, PROPRIETORS. Vernon Street, near Josephine, 'xBtJiiSOK, 15. ������������������. ^ AXEL JOHNSON, PROPRIETOR. THE HOTEL OVERLOOKS THE KOOTENAY its guests thus obtaining splendid views of both mountain and river. E ROOMS THE TABLE are comfortable in size and is acknowledged the best newly furnished. in the mountains. TIHC B^IR, is stocked with the best liquors and cigars procurable. No whiskies sold except Hiram Walker & Sons' celebrated brands. TEC IE HOTEL AND EESTAUEANT. AEALS AT ALL HOURS OB'B3.\ DAY AffB������ NIUBflT. Eooms and Sleeping Accommodations for 30 People NO. 13 EAST BAKER STREET. PKOPKIKTOIIS. TBtAIBi, 15. ���������. TOPPING & HANNA Proprietors Good Table; ������oo������I I5e