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SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 3, 1909\nNO. 215\nRUNNING RISK\nKing and Queen of Italy in\nRescue Work\nGREAT ANXIETY IS PELT\nSUBJECTS FEAR THEIR MAJESTIES MAY SUFFER INJURY\nWHILE ENGAGED AT MESSINA\n\u2014POPE MAY MAKE APPEAL TO\nWORLD FOR AID\n' )\nROME, Jan. 2.\u2014The great danger\nwhich the king and queen of Italy are\nfacing in .their noble efforts among the\nstricken people of Sicily and the south\nwas brought home to tile people today\nwhen word reached here that queen\nHelena had been injured. Fortunately\nher injuries proved to be not severe\nbut it la realized that at any moment\nanother calamity might happen involving the serious injury or even the,\ndeath ot their majesties.\nNot one among the rescuers baa\nshown such Sacrifice as ,Victor Emmanuel, and the qeen too has taxed her\nhealth and strength to the utmost in\ngiving assistance to the Injured. Anxiety for the sovereigns Is Increasing In\nRome. S Apart' from the great strain\nwhich their majesties are unquestionably undergoing there'is danger from\nearthquake shocks, which do not seem\nto have ceased; from walls that have\nnot yet been levelled; from great pitfalls In the broken streets and from dis.\ntress.\nThe injuries suffered by the queen\/\nresulted from a panic among the patients in one of the improvised hospi-\nlals at Messina, when the trembling of\nth\u00abJ.irth and the rumbling noise Indicated another momevent of the earth.\nThe queen was caught in the rush of\npatients who, Panic stricken, were\nseeking safety In the open. The queen's\ninjuries proved to be little mora than\ncontusions.\nDespatches received from all Upari\nIslands state that the earthquake shocks\nwere very heavy there and that a panic\nensued. The convicts, of whom a large\nnumber are imprisoned there, attempt\ned a rising but were suppressed.\nThe Stronrboll volcano showed great\nactivity. The damage, however, was\nnot serious and one was killed but the\npeople are camping In the open air\nfearing further shocks may come and\noverthrow their .homes,\nit is stated that the pope has decided\nto send an appeal to the Catholic bishops throughout the world for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the\nearthquake fund. He will place particular dependence, on the generosity of the\nBritish and Americans,\nPremier Glolettl in an interview today said that parliament would be convoked as soon as the king, who is ex-\n\u2022 News Section. .\n\u2022 1\u2014Mineral production of pro- \u2022\n\u2022 vlnce. Telegraphic and gen- \u2022\n. \u2022 eral news. \u2022\n\u2022 2\u2014Year's ore shipments. Towns .\n\u2022 of the Slocan. \\ \u2022\n\u2022. 3\u2014Nelson statistics for the year. .\n\u2022 New York fashion letter. \u2022\n\u2022 4\u2014Editorial. News of the Domln- \u2022\n\u2022 Ion. Church services. ' \u2022\n\u2022 5\u2014Local bank managers* on year's .\n\u2022 . prospects. The Dally News' \u2022\n\u2022 homo, .\n\u2022 6\u2014Prospects of Phoenix bright. \u2022\n\u2022 Market prices during year. \u2022\n\u2022 7\u2014Local news. \u2022\n\u2022 8\u2014Local news. Fire record for .\n\u25a0 \u2022 year.' \u25a0 .\n\u2022 ' , Fruit growing Section, \u25a0 , ; \u2022\n\u2022 .Page.\"' .,!';-v' \u2022\n\u2022 9\u2014Fruit growing Industry In .\n\u2022 Yale and kootenay, by Martin .\n\u2022 BvirtjIt'Jl P. , \u2022 ' \u2022' \u2022' \u2022.\n\u2022 lO-^WattsouTg'and its founder. \u2022\n\u2022 11\u2014Bast Kootenay as a fruit grow- .\n\u2022 ' ing district. \u2022\n\u2022 12\u2014Nelson, centre of the Industry. .\n\u2022 13^-Co-operation necessary to sue- \u2022\n\u2022 cess ot growers. \u2022\n\u25a0 \u2022 14\u2014Kaslo dlBtrlct. \u2022\n\u2022 15-Creston district. , ,\u2022\n\u2022 1\u00ab\u2014New districts opening up. \u2022\n\u2022 ;, Industrial. Section. .\n\u2022 17\u2014Nelson power plant. \u2022\n. \u2022 18\u2014Hunting: and fishing good. *\n\u2022 19-City of Nelson advertisement. \u2022\n' av 21*\u2014Nelson school syBtem. \u2022\n\u2022 21\u2014Fernle rebuilding after tire. \u2022\n\u2022 22\u2014Lumbering outlook tor 1909. .\n\u2022 23\u2014Cranbrook and other East .\n\u2022 -- .Kootenay towns. .\n\u2022 24\u2014Rossland district. .\n\u2022 Mining Section. .\n\u2022 26\u2014Rovlew of mining' operations .\n\u2022 * In 1908, by E. Jacobs. .\n\u2022 26\u2014West Kootenay. Power & Light \u2022\nis company.\", \u2022 j \u2022\n\u2022 27\u2014Sheep Creek district ^ .\n\u2022 28\u2014Consolidated Mining & Smelt- \u2022\n\u2022 ing company. \u25a0','\". \u2022\n\u2022 29\u2014Trail smelter. .\n\u2022 30\u2014Mining In.Nelson district. \u2022\n\u2022 31\u2014New skating rink and Eagles' .\n*y hall. .\n'\u2022 32\u2014Review ot the lead mining In- .\n\u2022 dustry, by a .0.. Buchanan. \u2022\n\u2022s ' , . \u25a0' .\"\u2022,\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022e.\u00ab............c...\npected to return here tomorrow night,\ncould sign the decree. First of all, he\nBald, the financial, question would be\nconsidered. It was supposed to take\n$6,000,000 of the budget surplus which\nwould be devoted to purposes connected\nwith the catastrophe in the south. The\ngovernment woul appoint a commission\nof experts to draw up a scheme looking\nto the reconstruction of cities, based on\nlessons learned In tie past. This would\nbe codified into law with other matters\nsuch as loans to the sufferers.. The\npremier said the country has to face\nthe three calamities: the earthquake,\ntho robbers of corpses and the robbers\nof the bourse. He might add the\nJournalists who sat at home and freely\ncriticized every one and everything,\nand a certain class of financiers who\nhad attemepted to raid the Bank of\nItaly stock. He pointed out -that this\nhad been done by the circulation of\nfalse despatches to the effect that the\nbank had lost $10,400,400 at Messina\nand Reggie, In the hope that this report would cause a heavy decline in\nthe stock -value, the re-action of which\nwould affect other tanks. The goven-\nment. had stopped this manoeuvre by\nordering the prefects not to allow V-e\nbourses to open.\nMESSINA, Jan. 2.\u2014The town Is\nthoroughly occupied by troops. The\nsufferings of persons still hurried in\nthe ruins of fallen buildings here who\nare slowly dying from hunger is awful\nto contemplate. Several persons have\ndied. One woman had her teeth fixed\nfirmly in the leg of a dead body. The\narchbishop of Messina has been found\nstill living in the ruins of his palace.\nWASHINGTON, Jan.. 2.\u2014President\nRoosevelt tonight announced that he\nhas sent two supply ships with 1304,004\nworth of supplies to Italy and that he\nwill ask congress for additional aid. and\nthat he has ordered the use of the battleship fleet to Italy,\nCongress will, on Monday next appropriate $500,400 for the relief of the\nsufferers in Italy. Immediately after\nconvening at noon, both houses will rfr\nrrtve a special message from the president, recommending the granting of\n'.sis sum and as soon as the message\nis submitted it will formally be referred\nby each house to Its committee on> appropriations. There will be no delay in\nreferring the measure back and the\ntwo bodies will vie with each other in\nits speedy passage.\nTOKIO, Jan. 2.-A subscription list,\nheaded by an imperial donation of t5,-\n000, has been started in Tokio for th.\nrelief of the earthquake 'sufferers In\nItaly.\nNEW YORK, Jan. 2.\u2014'News reached\nhere tonight in a cablegram to one of\nthe Italian steamship lines that the\nfirst batch of refugees from the strick-\nen dlrtrlfa of Italy had sailed for the\nUnited States. The refugees number\n700 and they started from Palmero today on the steamship Red Italia.\nYUAN-SHI-KAI IS DEPOSED\nGREAT CHINESE 8TATE3MAN SUM-\nMARILY DISMISSED\nCAUSES CONSTERNATION IN DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES\nPEKIN, Jan. 2\u2014An edict issued today\ndismisses from office Tuan-shl-kai;\ngrand councillor and commander-in-\nchief of the forces. The reason given\nfor< this action is that he has rheumatism in his leg. The edict orders him\nto vacate all his'offices and to return\nto his home, adding \"thus clemency toward him 1b manifested.\" . A second\nedict appoints Wa-timg comptroller of\ncustoms, governor of Pekin and grand\ncouncillor, presumably in Yuan-shi-kai's\nplace;, '-''>,-;*.'\nThe members of tho diplomatic corpB\net Pekin are well nigh thunderstruck\nnt the sudden dismissal of Yuan-shi-kai.\nThe step is believed to be the outcome\nof a Manchu plot and there are indications that the Japanese representatives\nalone had any Inkling of what was on\nfoot. .'\u25a0,..\nThe foreign ministers became cognizant of the edict of dismissal at ten\nminutes' 'before\"'. 3 yc'lpckV'this' \"afternoon\nand-two hours * later the British, Ger-\nmaiY and American ministers we're \u25a0 in\nconference at the British legatlonV'Th'e\ndiplomats were still In conclave at 7\no'clock this evening and It consequently\nwill be Impossible to learn what course\nthe leading powers will take in this surprising development. The home government will act only after an Interchange ot Ideas but there is reason to\nbelieve-tonight that prince Chrhg, president of the board of foreign affairs,\nwill be waited upon tomorrow by a'\nstrong diplomatic combination, such as_\nthe British, Gorman and American rep-1\nresentatlvea here.\nThere is nothing to indicate that the\ndismissal of Yuan-ahi-kai means danger\nto foreigners but the good fame of China's management of the crisis following\nthe demise of ;ae emperor and the dowager empress and the appointment of a\nsuccessor, has been swept away by this\nvindicative act, which will astonish and\narouse the outside world, crippieB\nChina's credit, postpones the withdrawal of foreign troops probably five yean.\nYuan-shi-kai, the great viceroy of\nChili province, was one of the .roost influential and powerful statesmen in the\nChinese empire. He had been called\nthe strongest man in China and Infinitely more powerful than waa, Li-hung-\nYEARS MINERAL PRODUCTION\nComplete Summary of Operations of the Metalliferous and Non-\nMetalliferous Mines During the Past Twelve Months-\nFigures Which Show the Advance That This\nImportant Industry Has'Made in British\nColumbia in the Past Few Years\nThe aggregate value of British Columbia's mineral production for all\nyears to the end of 1908 is, In'round\nfigures, $323,000,000. This large total\nmay be apportioned approximately as\nlollows: Placer, gold, $70,000,000; lode\nmetals (gold, silver, lead and copper)\n$150,000,000; coal and coke, $95,000,000;\nmiscellaneous (building stone brick, cement, etc.), $8,000,000. Up to the end\nof 1888 the total was within half a million dollars of $70,000,000, of which\n$55,000,000 was for placer gold and\n$13,000,000 for coal. Lode metals to\nthe end of 1888 Were of a total value\nof only $131,000 now they represent a\ntotal of $150,000,000 as compared with\n$165,000,000 for placer gold, coal and\ncoke. It Is therefore quite evident that\nabout three-fifths .of the great increase\nmade during the last 20 years came\nfrom lode metals hence the importance\nof the lode mining Industry to the\nprovince.\nI Another comparison may be of Interest. The total mineral production during 20 years, 1889-1908, was valued at\n$263,784,000, which' gives an average\nannual value of $12,689,000 for that\nperiod; for the five years, 1904-1908, it\nwas $116,160,000, giving an average annual value for the' five years last past\nof $23,232,000. These figures Indicate'\nthe very considerable advance made in\nannual production of minerals in British\nColumbia during recent years.\nTwo more comparisons will here be\nmade. During ten years, 1898-1907, (the\ntotal value of the Dominion production\nIn 1908 Is not yet available), the production of gold, silver, lead and copper\nin the whole Dominion was of an aggregate -value of approximately, $289,500,-\n000. The relative proportions of this\ntotal were, In round figures:' 'Yukon\n(all placer, gold), $120,500,000; .British\nColumbia, $113,500,000; all other parts\nof the Dominion, $55,000,000. If all\nother minerals be also taken into account, though the comparison is not\nnearly so favorable to this province.\nThe second comparison is this: In two\njyears, 1906-1907, the value of the production of the several more Important\nIndustries was as follows: Lumbering,\n$22,000,000; agriculture, $15,500,000;\nfisheries, $15,000,000; total for these\nthree, $52,500,000. Minerals made a\ntotal of $51,000,000 which was not much\nless than that of the three first-named\nindustries combined. Adding manufactures ,$23,500,000, an aggregate of\n$127,000,000 for the two years Is obtained, of which the mining industry\ncontributed 40 per cent. This would\nsuggest that this last industry is deserving of the more generous support of\nthe legislature and the government, -\nBriefly reviewing last year's mineral\nproduction\u2014quantities, not values\u2014It\nis noted that. there were increases In\nthe following: Lode, gold, silver, copper and building materials. Decreases\nwere shown in: Placer gold, lead and'\ncoal. Increases or decreases in values\ncorresponded to those' of quantities, excepting the cases of sliver and copper,\nboth of which were higher in quantity\nproduced but lower in value, owing to\nlower average market prices for the\nyear. Comparing districts as to value,\nonly Cariboo and West Kootenay are\ncredited with increases; all other districts made decreases. The comparison\nof divisions may be made by those interested on referring to the table printed on another page of this Issue;\nThe'following general comment is\n> OUR REVIEW ISSUE\ni . . \u25a0\n\u00bb The Dally Nswb today1 presents \\<\n\u25a0 to Its readers an issue of 32 <\n' pages, dealing with the mining, <\n\u2022 lumbering, fruit farming and the \u00ab\n\u2022 interests-generally of the Kootenay \u25a0\n\u2022 and Boundary countries. The in- \u25a0\n> formation supplied is by all odds >\n' the most complete and comprehen- <\n\u2022 sive that has ever been attempted i\n\u2022 in connection with this country. <\n> The aim has been to: furnish re- <\n> liable information, free from any <\n> suspicion of being of a \"boom\" <\n> character. Facts are given and <\n\u2022 these speak eloquently of the great <\n1 development that has already taken *\n1 place in this country and which Is <\n1 extending year by year. After you i\n> have finished reading your copy of \u00bb\n\u2022 the issue send it to some friend <\n1 who does not know this country *\n1 and thus assist in letting the world <\n\u00bb know what has been and what Is t\n\u2022 being accomplished here, or, if you i\n1 desire to keep this Issue for fut- \u00ab\n\u25a0 ure reference, copies for.sending *\n1 can be secured at the News office. <\nsubmitted: Cariboo, Quesnel and Omi-\nneca divisions all produced more placer\ngold than In 1907. Cassiar's production\nshowed a considerable falling off. East\nKootenay's decrease is mainly attributable to the suspension of operations\nat the Sullivan group mine and smelter\nwhich caused a decrease In production\nof both lead and sliver in that district.\nThe average metal contents of St. Eugene ore was lower, which In smaller\nmeasure contributed to the decrease. In\nWest Kootenay the comparatively\nlarge production of silver and lead was\nlarge .production of the, White^ter_apd\nDeep mines, and- the Bluebell,' of sliver\nand lead, made Ains worth show an Increase of $1691000. Slocan for the third\nsuccessive year, made an advance, and\nit will be well for those who are In the\nhabit of decrying this district to note\nthat It was a substantial improvement,\ncontributed to In large degree by half\nv. dozen mines and to a less important\nextent by a number of small ones. The\ntotal production- of silver was 953,000\noz. in 1908 as compared with 591,000\noz. In 1907 and 7,000,000 lb. of lead as\nagainst 4,306,000 lb. If the production\nof these metals and zinc by the two\nWhitewater mines, which aro for official purposes Included in Alnsworth\ndivision were also taken into account,\nas for this comparison it should be, the\nSloc&n's advancement Would be still\nmore evident. Before passing on it may\nbe well to mention that evidences of\nprogress in Slocan are: The transformation of Whitewater from a deserted\ncamp to a source of substantial production in silver, lead and zinc; the abundant justification of the policy of the\nRambler-Cariboo management In having at great expense driven a deep-level\ncross-cut tunnel 5,000 feet into the\nmountain to obtain greater depth, important bodies of ore having been\nreached, two of them new shoots, on\nthree new levels (the lowest at 1050 ft\ndepth) below the old Workings; the development of much ore of good grade\nin the Richmond-Eureka mine, near\nSandon, and the adjoining claim of the\nSlocan Star group, these together having shipped 3,400 tons of ore containing\nmore than 200,000 oz. of sliver and\n1,500,000 lb. of lead; the finding of n\nchang. Ho inspired a national patriotism which isi today doing much\" to weep\naway middle.- age superstition and rebuild the empire. He ^rgftrtjzed^ atniy\nin China thai was the wonder and' amazement of foreign military critics. He\nsubstituted modern text books,for ancient classics, he compelled the aboli-\ntiton of torture and he transformed\nFeign from the filthiest city in the\nworld, Into a metropolis well paved and\ncleanly kept. At the time of the deaths\nof the emperor and dowager empress of\nChina, the* following dispatch was received at the New York branch of the\nChinese reform association. \"Yuan-shi-\nkai poisoned the emperor. Please cable\nto Pekin to attack him.\" I\nIt was declared at the Matt street\nheadquarters of the association that\nidentical dispatches had been sent to\nbranches of the reform'association in\nall. sections of the world, and that . demand would be made on prince Chun,\nthe new regent to depose Yuan-shi-kai\nfrom power and \"do away with him.\"\nHurry Call Results Fatally.\nBUFFALO, Jan. 2\u2014-A special from\nCornell, N. Y., says' Dr. Basterd, 70\nyears of age, dropped dead, of 'heart\ndisease lost evening at the home bf\nWilliam King where he had been hastily\nsummoned to attend James Kirnerney\nwho bad broken .through the lee. i\nf\u00ab;:AGA!N\ntfUlIS IN .RACE AGAINST LONG.\nBOAT AT BUFFALO\nCOVERS ONLY EIGHTEEN OUT OF\nTWENTY-FIVEr MILES\nBUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 2\u2014Tom Longboat, the Canadian Indian, tonight, for\nthe second time took the measure of\nDorando Pietrl the Italian, who almost\nwon the great Marathon at the London\nOlympic. Dorando, as in his race with\nLongboat in New York, failed to go the\ndistance. Time and again he sprinted\nin an effort to get away from the Indian\nwithout success.\nLongboat was a 7 to 10 favorite oyer\nDorando in what little betting there was\njust before their 25 mile race tonight.\nThe Canadian contingent got In early\nand snapped up all the money offered\ndown town at slightly better figures.\nDorando was not without a host of admirers and backers but they were not\nprepared for the avalanche of money offered by the Indian admirers. The\ncrowd was a record breaker one for an\nevent of the kind In this olty. As early\naa 7 o'clock the Ions lines stretched\ndown the front and sides of the 74th\nregiment armory and every minute add-\nlarge hew shoot of ore of good grade\nIn the Reco; the encouraging result of\ndriving a deep-level tunnel a long distance into the Surprise property, . the\nvein having been found at 760 feet vertically below the old workings (which\nwere down 300 feet); the substantial\nadvance made In Sllverton camp, with\nthe Standard an Important producer, of\nsilver and lead, the Vancouver having\nvaluable ore deposits, In the possession\nof a financially strong English company and under fully competent management; and the further satisfactory\ndevelopment of the Hewitt; the improvement of the Westmont from a\nprospect Into a paying producing mine;\nthe considerable promise given by the\nHoward Fraction group; and, generally,\nthe better situation In regard to a number of small mines In the district which\nhave been adding their quota to the\nsum total ot production and are looking\nwell for the future.\nReverting to comment In a less particular way\u2014the success met with at\nthe Bluebell (both at the mine and the\nnew mill) on Kootenay lake, is distinctly gratifying, and its manager, Mr. S.\nS. Fowler Is to be congratulated accordingly; Nelson division, which has\nfor the time lost the production of the\nLa Plata, has the advantage of the\nSilver'King being in excellent hands\nfor good results, the Queen Victoria\nbeing thoroughly prospected by New\nYork men with abundant means for\nmaking a mine \u00abf it should developments prove that it can be so made,\nand the Granite-Poorman doing well,\nwhile Erie mines are continuing to\nsteadily produce gold and Sheep- creek\nis giving promise, ' in an Increasing\nyield of gold from several properties,\nof becoming one of the most Important\nlode-gold camps in the province; Rossland, is in a. better position for permanent mining of gold and gold-copper ores\nthan 'Over before, with ore bodies that\nare being worked at a profit encountered down to 2,000 feet (on the incline)\nand an Increasing tonnage; and, In the\nLardeau .the Silver Cup steadily maintaining an average production of 130\ntons of high-grade silver-lead ore per\nmonth the year through, deeper mining\nbeing undertaken concurrently. As\nto the Boundary\u2014Its very substantia\nproduction of about 1,450,000 tons of\nore, an. increase over last year's tonnage ot 300,000 tons. Indlcatth uatdah\nnage of 300,000 tons, Indicates a material improvement; further, though one\ncompany which was operating on borrowed capital went to the wall, two\nstrong companies are opening up new\nproperties, the while continuing to\nwork their productive old ones. There\nIs little change to note In the Similka-\nmeen, which must await the completion\nof the railway, now being constructed,\nbefore conditions there wll Ihe favorable\nto much Improvement in mining. Finally, the Coast district, where much development work Is being done on the\nenormous ore deposits ot the Britannia\nin readiness for an improvement in the\nprice of copper; where, too surprisingly\nrich bornite ore has lately been developed in 'quantity on the 920-ft. level in the\nMarble Bay mine, Texada Island, which\nIs a leading feature in the year's mining on the coast ,and where trail trut\nIng on the coast, and where the Tyee\nCopper company is preparing for tho\nconsiderable developments its management are confident will take place there\nwithin their field of operations, which\nw0stdcu2g colohrud wa trua wtdau dtar\n(Continued on Pace Two.)\ned. to^e cjxjwjl ffl\u00ae\u00a7ih-){i:d$Pk$l $\u00a3\nbuiiatnji, \u201e.\u25a0'_-, 7' ,''-\\ .'.. ,7 '.',\n\u2022'Look \u25a0orirfor that' Boston record,\"\nsaid Tom Longboat after he had tried\nthe specialty prepared dirt 'tra'cT on the\narmory floor early In the evening. The\ntrack was six feet wide and slightly\nbanked, It was made of clay and well\npacked and held in place by stout timbers. The course was almost oval and\nnine laps to the mile. Francis Nelson,\nof Toronto acted as referee and, William\nConners, chairman of the state democratic committee, fired the starting signal.\nIt was 9.05 when the men were sent\naway to a good start, Dorando sprung\nInto the lead and set a terrific pace for\nthe first few laps. Longboat with a\nbroad grin on his face struck close to\nthe Italian, not allowing him more than\nthree or four yards lead.\nThe time for the first mile, 5.07, was\n7 2-5 seconds faster than the first mile\nof their race In Madison square garden\non December 15. The' pair moderated\nthe pace considerably after the first\nnine laps.' Dorando, maintained a lead\nof two yards throughout the first two\nmiles. The time of the second mile\nWas 10;37.\nIn the third mile Longboat's left' leg\nstruck the timber on the inside of the\ntrack breaking the skin. He: was bleed-\nlog slightly hut appeared unconcerned\nover the mishap. This gave the Italian\na lead of 25 yards. Longboat sprang to\nhis feet like a flash and sprinted, overtaking Dorando before another lap of\nthe race was completed: The crowd\ncheered Longboat's burst of speed and\nhis gameness lustily. He lead Dorando\nfor a short distance but soon dropped\nback and let the Italian take up the\npace* The time at the end of the fifth\nmile was 27.32 1-2. Dorando still led\nby a couple of yards.\n' Dorando sprinted frequently in the\n5th and 6th miles but Longboat lengthened out his stride and never allowed\nthe'Itallan to get very far away. Tom\nFlanagan, Longboat's trainer, was greatly worried over the Indian's Injured leg.\nLongboat never faltered and he nodded\nsmiling to his Canadian friends In the\nboxes. The time at the end of the 10th\nmile was 56.30 1-5. The time of the 10\nmiles in their New York race was 6S.38.\nDorando continued to sprint in the\n13th and 14th miles his leads stretching out at times to 1Q and 15 yards,\ntrainer Flanagan said the Injury to\nLongboat's knee was not bothering the\nIndian. It had ceased to bleed and there\nwas no perceptible change in his stride.\nJust to show he was all right Longboat\nsprinted in the last lap of the 14th mile\nand finished it with a lead of two yards\nhe again waited for Dorando to set the\npace and the 15th mile saw the Italian\nagain in the lead. The time at the end\nof the 15th mile was 1.26.342-5 compared\nwith 1.30.02 2-5 in the New York race.\nIn the nineteenth mile Dorando tried\nagain and again to sprint away from\nthe Indian but the Canadian could not\nbe shaken off. It was the Italian's last\neffort. In the sixth lap he began to\nfalter and when he neared the finish\nline he stopped. His trainers rushed\nto his support and he was led from\nthe track. The Canadians went wild\nwith enthusiasm and cheered their\nchampion lustily as he plugged around\ntho oval to complete the race.\nFather John is Dead.\nST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2\u2014The not-\ned priest. Father John, of Oronstadt is\ndead. \u25a0 He had for some years been suffering from chronic dropsy and internal\ncomplications. Father John was born\nin 182!t. He became prieBt of the Andrew church at Cronstadt. He drew\nabout him hosts of followers. The em\nperor constantly befriended him. A\npilgrimage of the present empress to\nthe shrine of St. Seraphln, which\namong pious Russians was believed to\nhave been responsible for the birth of\nthe desired heir of the throne, was undertaken on Father John's advice.\nFire Visits Vancouver.\nVANCOUVER, Jan. 2\u2014Fire tonight\ndid about $70,000 damage to D. A.\nSmith's furniture stock on Granville\nstreet. The inside of the block was\ngutted. Several firemen received Injuries In endeavoring to quench the\nblaze. The stock is fairly well covered\nby Insurance.\nCORPSES Mtf ROBBED\nCHINESE MAKE BIG HAUL FROM\nSTORM'S VICTIMS\nALSO MURDER SURVIVORS WHO\nREACHED SHORE\nVICTORIA. Jan. 2.\u2014News was\nbrought by the steamer Monteagle,\nwhich arrived today from the Orient,\nthat some survivors of the lost Japan*\nese steamers Glnsei maru and Nagatc\nmaru, wrecked near Chefoo, reached\nthe shore, but were murdered by the\nChinese inhabitants of the coast village,\nwho also mutilated the corpses.\nThe death list of the disaster totals\n750 and as the bodies were washed\nashore they were not only stripped of\ntnejr clotniug and robbed of money and\nvaluables found on them, but even teeth\nwere pulled out to get the gold fillings,\nfingers were cut off for the sake of\nrings.\nAmong those lost were many laborers\nreturning from Manchuria with their\nseason's savings, and a number of merchants who had been to An Tung to\npurchase wild silk cocoons, produced\nnorth of the Yule and carried yearly\nto Chefoo to\" be reeled and spun. One\nChinese alone survived, he hiding him-\nsell away -from the murderous coast\npe6ple. \u2022-.. Mi \u2022\nHave Apthus Fever.\nROCHESTER, Jan. 2.\u2014The state department of health at Albany, after\nreading the report of D. S. C. Hermance\nand others sent to Clarkson, near this\ncity, to investigate the Illness of children supposed to be afflicted with foot\nand mouth disease, has ordered the\nquarantine, of all houses In Clarkson\nwhere the children are III, The announcement is also made that, the\nchildren have apthus fever, or foot and\nmouth disease. Dr. Hermance says\nthat he thinks the disease has been\nchecked and that the children affected\nwill recover, as all are progressing\nnicely toward health.\n- Goes to Ausutralla.\nVANCOUVER, Jan. 2\u2014H. Carl Bel-\nlinger, n well known western mining\nman, who built the Crofton smelter, left\nyesterday for Sydney, Australia to\ntake charge of the great Cobar smelting works located at Lithmow and Co-\nbar. Mr. Bellinger has been elected as\nmetalurgtcal director of the company\nand will practically reorganize the\ngreat works owned by them.\nTRADEfOtlCY\nLondon Times on Question\nof Preference\nLORD MILNER'S SPEECHES\nARTICLE IS BASED ON HIS ADDRESS DELIVERED RECENTLY\nIN THE VARIOUS CITIES OF\nCANADA WHICH IT ADVISES\nCOLONIES TO TAKE TO HEART\nLONDON, Jan. 2\u2014The London Times\nprints lengthy extracts from Viscount\nMilner's speeches In Canada, and edi'\ntorially dealing with prospects of tariff reform says: \"The moral of the re-\nceftit by-elections has not been lost on\nthe dominions over the seas. They are\nwaiting now upon fiscal controversy in\nthis country. So far from regarding\nGreat Britain's adhesion to free trade\nwith impatience, the Times thinks the\ndominions may take this very reluctance to show that when at last the nation's faith Is shaken, as It is now\nshaken in free trade, they may await\nwith confidence the triumph of the\npolicy which the imperial cause requires. It will he well meanwhile IE\nevery nation within the empire, and\nevery tariff reformer at home would\ntake to heart the clenr and single-minded statement of the Imperial idea which\na series of Canadian cities have lately\nbeen privileged to hear. As the only\nneed of equaling conditions is to enable\nthem to meet their foreign competitors,\nbut not to buttress shaky Industries\nwhich can only exist under the shelter\nof a protective wall, trade should be as\nfree as possible with two provisions,\nthat where we can dp so without violence we should turn it into Imperial\nchannels and that where conditions are\nunfair we Bhould make them fair.\"\nThe TimeB adds that lord Milner's\ndefinition of the purpose of reciprocal\narrangements as tending not to divert\ntrade from its natural course, \"but to\nkeep It in an imperial course rather\nthan another where both are natural\nhas a bearing even upon the domestic\naspect of the tariff and our purposes\nshould be to defend such of our industries as require assistance.\nIn connection with International system of wireless meteorological reports\nthe Canadian Pacific, Dominion and Allan lines, amongst other Atlantic lines,\nwill send to the meteorological office\nreports of the weather r^ Atlantic beginning with February. It is hoped that\nvaluable data will be obtained in this\nway.\nOLD COUNTRY FOOTBALL\nResults of Yesterday's Games in Various Association Divisions.\n(Canadlun Associated Pre\u00bbu)\nLONDON, Jan. 1\u2014Today's football\nresults were as follows:\nFirst Division.\nWoolwich Arsenal l. Notts county 0.\nLeicester Fosse 0, Newcastle United\nEverton 5, Bristol City 2.\nManchester United 0, Preston North\nEnd 2.\nBradford City 0, Middlesboro 2.\nBlackburn Rovers ;!, Manchester\nCity 2.\nChelsea 3, Liverpool 0.\nSunderland 3; Bury 1.\nNottingham Forest 0. Sheffield United 2.\nSheffield, Wednesday 4, Aston Villa 2.\nSecond Division.\nBirmingham 2, Gainshoro Trinity 2.\nBlackpool ;!, Wolverhampton Wanderers 2.\nRolton Wanderers 3, Barnsley 0,\nChesterfield Town 2, Bradford 1.\nClapton Orient ?,, Hull City 2.\nDerby County 1, Oldham Athletics 0.\nCllossop l, Burnley 2. '\u2022'\nStock'nor? County 1, Fulh'am 2.\nTottenham- Hotspurs 3, Leeds City 0,\nWest BromWich Albion' 1; Grimsby\nTown 0.\nSouthern League.\nWest Ham United 1, Brighton and\nHove 1.\nLey ton 2, Crystal Palace 0.\nSouthampton 1, Brentford 0. >!\nReading 2, Luton 2. \u2022''.\nNorwich City 0, Swindon 0. )\nWatford 1, Portsmouth 1, , j\nBristol Rovers 5, Exeter 1. '' 1 j\nCoventry 1, Northampton 4. ' 1\nSouthend 1, New Bromptnn 0.\nPlymouth Argyle 0, Mfllwall 3.\nExplosion Wrecks Building.\nCHICAGO, Jan. 2\u2014The \"Tom Jones\"\nrestaurant building across the street\n\u25a0from the board of trade was partly\nwrecked by gas explosions early today.\nThe explosions occurred in the basement and blew out entrances to the\nbuildings on Jackson boulevard and\nQnlncy street. An engineer.who was\nJust about to enter the building was\nblown across the street and a watchman's uniform was almost torn from\nhia body by the force of a second explosion. Both men escaped serious injury. Fire followed the explosion. The\ndamage was $130,000.\n *WP*F\nPACE TWO\nQPite SfaUQ gUai**.\nSUNDAY\n.. JANUARY f.\nwdmm\nYEARS MINERAL\n^PRODUCTION\nContinued from Page One.\ninclude smelting as well as mining. In\nthe northwest of the province there is\nnot yet much advancement to report In\nmining, development awaiting the completion of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway .which Is expected to work a transformation industrially in the country\nthrough which It is being built. There\nIs progress being made at the Hidden\ncreek company's mine on Observatory\nInlet, also on one of the Queon Charlotte islands, a Japanese company having shipped to the smelter from the latter between 5000 and 6000 tons of copper gold ore of good grade, but apart\nfrom this nothing has yet been proved,\nby smelter returns to be of commercial\nvalue on those Islands.\nTurning to individual minerals\u2014gold,\nsilver and copper peed not have particular notice, hut of lead It may be\nsaid that the renewal of the federal\nlegislation authorizing the payment of\na bounty on lead has saved the situation\nin the Kootenay, for without that assistance the operation of the lead side of\nthe Trail smelter would be very problematical, which means that the position of the silver lead mines of the\ndistrict, while prices of these metals remained low, and customs duties hamper exports, would be precarious\u2014a condition fortunately averted by this timely\nrenewal of assistance granted by the Dominion government. Thanks to the\ncourtesy of the efficient supervisor of\nbounty matters, some Interesting and\nvaluable Information concerning the\nlead industry in the province is today\nmade public. Next, zinc\u2014while the total output was comparatively unimportant, it was the largest made by the province In recent years and, what is more\nencouraging, it proved the practicability\nof .utilizing to some extent the zinc\nwhich Is associated with lead in some\nof the larger mines of Ainsworth and\nthe Slocan. Finally as to coal the commencement of production by the Hos-\nmer Mines, Ltd., with its big plant for\nhandling a considerable quantity of\ncoat and coke, and of the Corbin Coal\n& Coke company In another part of the\nCrow's Nest district, together with the\nCrow's Nest Pass Coal company extending its operations, will have the effect\nof ensnrlng a more abundant supniy of\nfuel than in some past years. In Nicola valley, too, the enterprise of the\nNld>la Coal & Coke company Is on a\nbasis of production on a emmercial\nscale, while on Vancouver island the\nSouth Wellington company will soon be\na competitor for some of the coal trade\nof the ocast. Other developments of\ncoal properties are being prepared for,\nIbut the above mentioned are of most\npresent importance.\nOther matters worth noting are the\nlarge additions to plant and machinery\nmade or being made at the smelters\u2014\nat Trail fcr both copper and lend, at the\nGranby works and at those of the B,\nC. Copper company at Greenwood, for\ncopper, and too, at Ladysmlth, Vancouver Island, by the Tyee Copper company\nalso for copper ores; the building of\nnew and the improvements made to\nold concentrating mills in both east and\nwest Kootenay for lead and zinc ores;\nthe successful inauguration of the\nelectric lead-zinc smelting process at\nNelson, and several Installations of\nsmall new stamp mills for gold ores.\nRailway construction, too, is adding\nto the transportation facilities of some\nmineral bearing districts, notably in the\nnorthern country, in the Simllkameen,\nand on Vancouver island. The construction of the Kootenay Central, In\nEast Kootenay, and of the Midway-\nVernon line, in the Boundary Is still\nanxiously awaited.\nThe additional useful work done In\nthe province by the Dominion department of mines should be noted. The\nGeological survey branch had field parties at work last year in the Boundary.\nSimllkameen and coast districts: and\non Texada and Vancouver Islands,\nwhile preparation was maoV for work\nnext year In the Slocan. The visit of\n\"the acting director of the survev, R. W.\nBrock, who is thoroughly familiar with\n'much of the kootenay and Boundary\ncountry, In company with the Dominion\nminister of mines, was welcomed In the\nmining districts.\nThe largely increased interest taken\nin British Columbia by the Canadian\nMining institute is also a matter for\ncongratulation. The western branch of\nthe institute, organized at Nelson in\nJanuary, 1908, with a membership of\nabout 120, held Interesting meetings at\nRossland in May and In Victoria In\nSeptember, and will meet a fortnight\nwas \"an event the significance of which\nhence In Greenwood. Its membership\nIs now about 185 and the Interest In\nits proceedings Is steadily increasing.\nThe visit to British Columbia last\nSeptember, under the auspices of tbe\nInstitute, of a number of influential\nmining engineers and geologists from\nGreat Britain and continental Europe\nNew Year's service, Mr. Perkins was\n69 years old. He had a large acquaintance In Wall street.\nFatalities at Coast.\nVANCOUVER Jan. 2\u2014A young man\nfrom tNew Westminster but previously\nfrom Ontario, was drowned in Trout\nconditions, the output or ore Is increasing rapidly.\nUp to a year ago something over\n13,900 tons of high grade ore was shipped from SHverton, having an aggregate value of much more than $81,000.\nDuring the past three years the annual\naverage output has increased about 300\nwho laid the foundation ot what la hes-\ntined to become an Important industry,\nHe rightly reasoned that where wild\nbush fruits were so prolific, the larger\nvarieties would flourish. True, he wot\ncompelled to hear much good natured\nchaff at the outset, but when in the\nfollowing spring the young trees were\n=\u00a3==^^^=5^\nNEW DENVER, B. C, THE \"LUCERNE OF NORTH AMERICA\"\nwill probably later be evident In the Introduction of move BrltlBh capital tor\nthe development ot mines In this province. John Ashworth ot Manchester,\nEngland, an engineer o( International\nreputation afterwards said: \"My own\nopinion Is that British Columbia will\nbecome In the near future the great\nmining center for British capital. At\nall events it should be. What impressed\nme and those who were with me on the\nexcursion through the various mining\ncentres was tbe magnificent opening\nfor British capital which bona fide flotation ottered. This will be the view\ngenerally expressed.\" And this leads\nup to the remark that there has during\nthe last year been a marked increase in\nthe amount of outside capital obtained\nfor the exploitation of Kootenay mining\nproperties.\nThe persistent and efficacious work\nin the Interests of the mining industry\n(among others) of the associated boards\not trade of southeastern British Columbia, under, the long continued and useful presidency of G. O. Buchanan, of\nKaslo, also merits appreciative ackuewl-\nedgement. \/\nMuch else might be written of matters affecting the mining Industry of\nthe province, but since space limitations will not permit of more extended\ncomment at this time, only one other\nsubject will be here referred lo, name y,\nthe exposition to be held in Seattle,\nWashington, next summer. The importance of taking full advantage of such\nopportunities Is recognized in the district of which Nelson Is the centre It\nshould though be much be more widely\nrealized that by comprehensive exhibits of minerals and the publication of\nthoroughly dependable Information relative to the mining Industry of the province its further development may be\nvery considerably assisted. Governments may, and should, be urged to do\na great deal, but It Is for the many Individuals to co-operate and so compel a\nsuccessful result ot whatever effort\nshall be made In this direction.\nFiremen Frostbitten.\nAMHERST, N. S\u201e Jan. 2-The bentle-\nmon's furnishing store of S. Coates &\nCo was damaged to the extent of \u00bb16,-\n000 by fire this afternoon. Several\nfiremen were badly frostbitten.\nDrops Dead In Church.\nNEW YORK, Jan. 2\u2014Thomas Perkins, a member of the New York cotton\nexchange, died suddenly today In his\npew at First Presbyterian church Brooklyn, Just after malting a speech at the\nlake at noon today while skating. The\nbody was not recovered for several\nhours.\nAmbrose Clark, was fatally Injured\nyesterday at Magee station by a log\nslipping during clearing operations and\ncrushln; him so badly that a Tib penetrated his lungs. He died this morning.\nSteamer Takes Fire.\nSAVANNAH. Jan. 2\u2014With 17 passengers\naboard, tho Nopwegiuri steamer Texas,\n\u00a3rom Cliristlnna, for Havana, In sight of\nfive below Savannah, caught tb e early today. The niimi'B weie discovered in tlte\naft hold. The Savannah fire department\nsent an apparatus to fight the times. Captain Peterson, commands the ship.\nper cent., and the tonnage for the present year will undoubtedly show an\n.even larger increase. When you couple\nthe above figures with the fact that\nsome of the best looking mines have\n:been providing for the future by leaving large ore reserves thoroughly block,\ned out and ready for stoplng. you will\nrealize that the prospects for Increased\nprosperity are excellent.\n. Concerning 'New Denver\u2014and his remarks apply equally to Slocan city,\nSandon and other Slocan towns\u2014J. J.\nAtherton, editor of the Slocan Mining\nReview, writes:\nWe are not oblivious of the fact that\nluxuriant in bloom and the domestic\nfruit and vegetables grew so abound,\nantly and of suoh startling dimensions,\nothers were swift to follow Ma example,\nand In a Ww years thousands of trees\nwere blooming In the fair town of New\nDenver.\nFleet Nearing Suez.\nSUEZ. Jan. 2.\u2014The United States battleship fleet homeward bound, last night\nwas C19 miles from Sues. Tho fleet Is due\nhere Sunday morning. While passing\nthrough Babel Mandeb straight Into the\ntiled sea on December 29th, Jesse Schot-\nInnd. an able seaman of the battleship\nIllinois fell overboard and was drowned\n(before the boats, which were at once lowered, could reach him.\nLe Rio No. 2, milled 11,\nEvening Star.. I\nBlue Bird\t\nfit Elmo..;\t\nNostHgg....\t\nMayflower\t\nJosle Con '..\t\nGiant-California.. ;..\nIron Horse .'.;..\t\nSunset\t\nSilver Bell\t\nHomestake ,\t\nRed. Eagle\t\nI. X. I.\t\nH&ttie Brown\t\nTOWNS Of THE SLOCAN\nSILVERTON FAST FORGING TO THE\nFRONT AS MINING CENTRE\nNEW DENVER, SLOCAN CITY AND\nSANDON\nSituated amidst the moat beautiful\nof surroundings, and having the finest\naarbor on Hiocaa lake, the to#n of\nSllverton is located at the very nerve-\ncentre of a district that is rapidly do.\nveloplng Into the richest portion of the\nSlocan country.\nThere is no \"boom on\" in thia progressive community, but It forging\nsteadily ahead, strictly on the merits\nof Its unsurpassed resources, now dally\ngrowing in importance, as a logical result of the splendid showing obtained\nfrom careful developments, Foremost\nof these resources are the vast mineral\ndeposits; and though development Is\nyet in its infancy, many of the mines\nare even now on a firstclass paying\nbasis, though work has been retarded\nin this line through adverse conditions\nof the metal and money markets, making it a difficult matter to secure capital necessary for the economical prosecuting. Owing to this fact much of\nthe work mined In tie past was hand-\nsorted, but as this la being rapidly done\naway with, on account of the improved\nconsiderable mischief has 'been done,\nand serious pecuniary lose sustained,\nin times past, by most indiscriminate\nmisrepresentations made by enterprising and precocious land agents In the\nOld Country, with a view to tempt\npeople to venture their future lot in\nthe Dominion of Canada.\nStrange to relate, comparatively\nlittle effort has been made (previously)\nto attract Immigrants to this charming,\nhealthy, and promising district W*\ntrust that the all powerful and enter\nprising c. P. R. company will aid us\nIn our efforts to bring \"Slocan\" (generally), more prominently' to the\n\"front\" \u2022\nAs a place of residence, and for mining, lumbering and fruit cultivation\nthere is no more desirable resort than\nthe Slocan, offrlng, as It does, exceptional advantages.\nTime was when the man who aug.\ngested the Silvery Slocan as a coming\nfruit growing centre would have been\nlaughed at, but what a change has come\nover the scene since the early invaders,\nImbued only with the mad desire for\nspeedy wealth, first Ut their camp fires\nand set up their tents. Still there were\nthose among the early pioneers who\nreasoned that it was quite within the\npossibilities and when the tents made\nway for shacks, and these gave place\nto substantial dwellings, the test was\nmade. Charles Aylwln has the dlstlnv\ngulshed honor ot planting the i tint\napple tree Id the district. It wan h\u00bb\nm\nYtARS ORE SHIPMENTS\nWKh \u00bb\u2022 exceptions noted henaund***\nthe l\u00bbKurea appended, have been supplied\nfrom time to time during the year oy the\nvarious mines and smelters and can be regarded as \u00abeml official. Corrections In\nevery instance have hot .been made to date\nbut the figures are approximately correct,\ndose enough for the purpose tor which\nthis aiie given and abeoutely correct >n\nalmost every caae.\nThe Marysvllle figures are estimated, and\nthe milling returns oro approximated, but\ncare has betn taken In each Instance to\nget the estimates at ftrat hand.\nThe ore shipments fo.* 1907 amounted to\n5.611,M tons and the smelter receipts (or\nthe same year amounted to 1,600,461 tons'\nThe figures given hereunder are in tone.\nThe total ora shipments from noutheast-\nttm BtilBh Columbia during 1906 were\nr.,09G,S92 tons made up as follows:\nBoundary 1,476.147\nSlocan-Kootenay i 2W.824\nBxMBland .', 386,831\nTotal.. .% W\u00bb81HH\nAppended1 will be found the oro ship*\nftnenu* In detail from south eastern British Columbia In tons,\nBOUNDARY smPWENT3\nOratiby.. , 1,049,671\nMother Lode 302,069\nOro Denoro 67,286\nSnowithoe , 44,60V\nRawhide 10,740\nBrooklyn 6.800\nPhoenix ; 964\nMountain Rose -, 690\n8al!y M8\nSunset ' 3,802\nOrescent 83\nAthelstan.. .. .. 120\nCurlew | .. 17,\n, TotM 1,476,147\nROSSLAND SHIPMENTS\nCentra Star. .,'. 177,\u00bb\nLe Rol ...,.,...., 76,067\nLe Roi No. 2 Sim\ni\nTotal 206,021\nSLOOAiN-KOOTENAY SHIPMENTS.\nWhitewater \". 1,047\nWhitewater Deep 1,027\nWhitewater Zinc (Okla.) 6,800\nWh.tewater Zinc, (Europe)..., 350\nWhitewater Deep, milled 30,600\nLa Plata 731\nSt. Eugene 26,000\nSt. Eugene, milled 146,000\nQueen.... 1,063\nQueen, milled 11,860\nElva 1S7\nSecond Relief 360\nSecond Relief, milled 3,606\nQueen Victoria 220\nFern 17\nFern, milled .... , 350\nHewitt 682\nVancouver 684\nVancouver, milled 2,000\nNorth Star 4,111\nAldington, Erie 2,284\nArlington, Slocan..., 420\nBlue Bell 2,163\nBlue Ball, milled 21,600\nSilver King 880\nLast Chance 44\nStandard ., 1,202\nLono Bachelor 23\nRainbloV Cariboo 1,147\nEmerald , 426\nJessie Blue Bird 84\nRuth 711\nSpokane 13\nOttawa 36\nMontezuma 86\nBismark.. \u2022 20\nSunset 24.0\nCalifornia 7\nSullivan F100\nGranlte-Poorman 230\nGranlto-Poomian, milled 10,800\nKootenay Bell 160\nKootenay Bell, milled..., 2,320\nIdaho Alamo 818\nSlocan Sovereign 70\nKeystone 70\nMother Lode 160\nMollio Btughes 60\nCanadian Group.... 66\nProvince 28\nReco 629\njRiehmond-Eurckii 2,7t\u00bb\nLightening Teaks 21\nNugget 317\nNugget, milled 930\nSilver Cup 988\nWestmuot.. 394\nNnmber One.. ,, 14\nBlack Diamond , 6\nAmerican Boy 20\nEmpiciifl , 6\nFerguson.. 437\nGallagher : 26\nMaestro 89\nNew Jerusalem IB\nSilver Nugget \u2022 4\nKrao 62\nEvening Star SI\nRevenue 35\nSunshine 11\nSummit 68\nSilver Glance 26\nMonaiiWi 182\nDaly Co 82\nWellington 8\nGrant 26\nSlocan Star 448\nRuby 181\nRoyal Irish 4\nNevada 2\nMilly Mack 128\nSierra Verdo 8\nTrue Fiwsure 126\nMaggie 3\nCharleston.... , 2\nMurray and Henderson 10\nAlphn 16\nGiant (Golden) 68\n^Little Robwt 1\nColvllle Co 4-\nCork. 16\nFisher Maiden 22\nSilver Hustler 20\nSt. Eugene No, 2 24\nRio 16\nCu Oxide.. 1\nC. H. Pollen 2\nHot Punch 16\nB. C. and Tilbury 22\nQueen Dominion 5\nEajflJi Bird 2\nElkhorn 17\nNepawn 3\nMountain Con 14\nComstnrk fl\nSnow Top (Crestdn) 1\nTexas :,,. 3\nSelkirk Mining Co 19\nTotal .' 234,824\nSMELTER RECEIPTS.\nThe total ore ;receipb\u00bb at the various\njfrieltea from 1908, hb set out in detail In\nthe appended statement, amounted to\n1,860,084 tons.\nGrand Forks 1,049,671\nGreenwood , 384,916\nBoundary Falls 21,877\nMarysville.. 6,730\nTrail 332,563\nNorthport (Le Rol) 85,314\nTotal : 1.860.094\nGRANBY SMELTER RECEIPTS.\nUrn ml Forks, B. C.\nGranby 1.049,671\nB. C. COPPER CO'B RECEIPTS\nGreenwood. B. C.\nMother Lode 302,039\nCto Denoro * 67,286\nSnowshoe 6,690\nTotal ....\u25a0 304,846\n.DOMINION COPPER CCS. RECEIPTS.\n\u2022 Boundary Falls, B. C.\nRawhide , 10,740\nSunset 3,802\nBrooklyn '. 6,800\nMountain Rose 630\nTotal 21.872\nMARYSVn.B SMEJLTER RECEIPTS.\nMaryavllle, B. C.\nSullivan . 6,100\nFirst Thought,... 630\nTotal 6,730\nTRAIL SMELTER RECEIPTS.\nTrail, B. C.\nCentre Star 177.389\nSnowshoe 38,912\nLe Rot No, 8 28,871\nQueen Victoria 110\nLa Plata 734\nNorth Star 4,111\nS'lver King 880\nSt. Eugene. 86,000\n(WhttowMer 1,047\nWhitewater Deep LOW\nSpokane 18\nArlington, Erie ... 2,284\nArlington, Slocan 429\nLast Chance 44\nVancouver 684\nT -one Bachelor B\niRmmWdr Cariboo L147\nSunset, Slocan. 224\nOttawa ........ .. 86\nStandard WJ02\nMontezuma 89\nGranlte-Poorman 280\nSally .... 128\nJeps'e Blue Bird ........ 84\n\u25a0Hewitt , 682\nMaestfro 89\nIdaho Alamo 818\nSlocan Sovereign * 70\nCanadian Group 66\nRichmond-Eureka 8,739\nProvince 88\nKeystone 70\nMayflower J3\nWestmount ^ 8M\nLightening Peaks 21\nBummlt ; 68\nReco 520\nNumber One, i ' \u2022 14\nFerguson 437\nFern ,. 17\nGallagher 26\nBtack Diamond 8\nRuth .... ., 711\nNew Jerusalem.. .* 81,\nSilver Nugget .,,' ,.., 4\nEvening Star (RoMland).. .... 880\nKrao ,,., ..' , ,. U\nEvening Star (Slocan) 81 '\nNugget 817\nSliver Cup .' 988\nSunshine .... 11\nEmerald . 428\nRevenue >.... 16\nEva.. ..., .. 1 ...,;, 187\nSliver Glance 28\nMollle .Hughes .60\nMonarch ., ...... 182\nDaly Reduction Co ; 82 ,\nWati' Eagle (Kamloops).. 8,674\nBlsmark 20\nCrescent ; 88\n.Wellington 8\nGrant 26\nSlocan Star.. , 448\nRuby 181\nCalifornia (Slocan . 7\nRoyal Irish 4\nNevada,. '. 2\n\u2022Willy Mack 128\nFirst Thought 6.B06\nMother Lode (Ymir) 15\nHattle Brown .... 16\nSelkirk Mining Co >..,..< 19\nIron Horse 88\nSnowstorm J , 18,744\nSierra Verdo 9\nTrue Fissure.. 125\nCity of Cobalt (Cobalt).... 62\nNancy Helen (Cobalt) 72\nMaggie , 3\nRed Eagle .. .. 8\nBlue Bird .... \u00bb 177\nClant-Callfornln -. 80\nCharleston 2\nBlue Bell 2,162\nCurlow 17\nSunset.. .. ..; 26\nWunrny and Henderson '. ' 10\nJosle Con 33\nEmpress , 6\nGiant (Golden) 68\nAlpha ' 16\nLittle Robert 1\nSt. Elmo 68\nCork ;-.. 16\nColvllleCo ' 4\nFisher Maiden 82\nSilver Hustler 20\nSt. Eugene No. 2 24\nPhoenix Amalgamated 394\nNest Egg 62\nKlO 15\nCu Oxide \u2022 1\nSliver Bell 16\nI. X. L 6\nC H. Pollen 2\nHot Punch 16\nB. C. and Tilbury '23\nQueen Dominion 5.\nEarly Bird 2\nEtkhdrn 17\nNepawa. ,,,,, g\nMountain Con 34\nComstook.. ,,, {\nSnow Top (Creeton) 1\nTexas .. 3\nTotal , 332,562\nLE ROI SMELTER RECEIPTS.\nNorthport, Wash.\nLe Roi\t\nFirst Thought.... ,\nSecond Relief ,\nQueen\t\nKootenay Bell \t\nMother Lode\t\nQueen Victoria i(\t\nOther Mines\t\n1,063\n160\n110\nL008\nTotal..\nTo the Electors of\nthe West Ward\nWe respectfully solicit your votes\nand Influence In our support as candidates for aldermen In the West Ward\nat the coming civic elections. If elected\nwe undertake to deal.with all questions\nthat may come before the council In\n1909 In a thoroughly Independent manner. We are emphatically In favor of\nmunicipal ownership of all public utilities and the general policy outlined by\nW. Q. Gillett as candidate fer the\nmayoralty.\nJ. E. Amiable\nW. S. Drewty\nW. H. Jones\nTo the Electors of\nthe East Ward\nWe respectfully solicit your vote sal\ninfluence Is our support as candidates\nfor'aldermen In the Bast War* at tbe\ncoming civic election. If sleeted we undertake to deal with all questlois that\nmay come before the council la 1909 In\na thoroughly Independent manner. W*.\nare emphatically In favor of municipal\nownership of all public utilities and the\ngeneral policy outl|ned by W. S. Olllelt\nas candidate for the mayoralty,\nJ. A. Irving\nM. R. M'QuatUe *\nT. G. Procter\n ItlNftAV ..\nJANUARY I\nPOte fpjxtiu flews\n\\0\n\u2022Ml THUI\nA Dainty Meal\nis always assured when the housewife\nuses \u2022\nPURIty FLOUR\nShe is happy in the knowledge that she\nhas the nicest and most nourishing bread\nto offer her guests.\nWESTERN CANADA FLOUR MILLS CO., LIMITED\nMll.Lt \u00bbT WIKNIPtO, OODERICH *NO BRANDON.\nMS\nI\nIf You've Been Using\n\"Cheap\" Tea\nThe rich, full flavor of Blue Ribbon Tea will he a delightful surprise\nto you.\nNo 25c or 30c tea has a flavor to compare with It. The choice\nleaf tuaed In blending Blue Ribbon Tea costs too much to sell at any\nsuch price.\nAnd as bo much less le reoulred to the cup, BLUE RIBBON TEA Is\nREALLY THE HOST ECONOMICAL, as well as the best\nA pound of Blue Ribbon will\nmake over 200 cups, rich and\nstrong, so It costs less than 1-lc\nper cup.\nJust try a pound ot Blue Ribbon and judge it for yourself.\nSomething Doing In Motor Boats\n18-foot Kootenay Special with 2 borse power motor, seven miles\nper hour, complete \u00bb250\nWhat's the matter with one of these beautiful boats for a Christmas\npresent\nThe Kootenay Motor Boat Co.\nGood Cheer Specialities\nThe finest of Turkeys, Geese, Ducks* and Chickens. Sea foods of\nall kinds from a shrimp to a halibut. Mince meat and chopped suet for\npies and pastry, etc., etc.\nSee our shop display.\nf. BURNS tte OO, Limited\nNelson, Rossland, Greenwood, Grand Forks, Pboenlx and Kaslo.\nJOHN BURNS\nOONTRAOTOR AND BUILDER\nCabinet and Turned Work Offict Fittings, Sash and\nDoors. BRICK AND LIME FOR SALE\nEstimates Cheerfully Given\nOffice and Factory: Carbonate Street, Nelson, B. C.\nHEFRESHING^\nfhe World over by discriminating\n\u00abz jutL i ._ TeadrinkeKs \u2014\n\u20222a'\u00b0l*>y 9000\/GROCERS everywhere.\nROUGH LUMBER MBSSBD\n_nooii, Windows, Ibmldliis, flhlaflss, Tims* Works and Brackets. Ob*.\n\u00bb*^ ans s\u00bb to aata stock alwajs on hand. Hall orders promts attaWee t*.\nSTATISTICS FOR YEAR\nLESS CRIME IN NELSON AND THE\nDISTRICT.\nFIGURES SHOW DEVELOPMENT IN\nTWELVE MONTHS.\nDuring the past not only the city of\nNelson but the county of Kootenay has\nbeen wholly free of serious crime. A\nman named Cedlo was In the provincial\ngaol in the city for a short period previously to he taken to Greenwood and\ntried and convicted there on a charge\nof having set fire to a building and\nmurdered a girl at Niagara in the\nCounty of Yale and who was afterwards\nhanged at Kan-loops in July. The number of prisoners received at the gaol\nduring 1908 was 182 compared with tfl\nin 1907. The daily average of men in\nthe cells during the past year has been\n40 against 27 In 1907. The largest\nnumber of prisoners in gaol on any one\njUy has been 56. Six men have been\ndischarged during the past twelve\nmdfths on ticket of leave and on the\nlast day of the year there were 44 prisoners In the cells compared with 36\nin the previous year. It shoudl be noted that these figures represent not only the city of Nelson but the whole\ncountry of Kootenay.\nThere has been an Increase of 275\nover 1907 in the number of mining\nclaims recorded and a decrease of 27\nIn the number of certificates of work\ngranted. The figures are as\/follows:\nclaims located 490 against 215 in the\nprevious year, certificates of work\ngranted 372 compared with 309 in 1907.\nduring 1908 was 182 compared with 131\nin 1907. The dally average of men in\nthe cells during the past year has been\n40 against 27 in 1907.' The largest\nnumber of prisoners in gaol on any one\n-2 and 303 of tho Railway Act, and tor\nother purposes,\nMontreal, December 12th, 100S.\nDANDL'RAND. HIHBARD, HOVER\nAND GOSSELIN,\nSolicitors for Applicants.\nCORPORATION OF THE CITY OF\nNELSON\nBylaw No. 196.\nA By-Law to raise Fifteen Thousand\nDollars ($15,000), for Lite completion of the\nconstruction of the Public School In the\nCity of Nelson, and uTrpVovement of the\ngrounds and appurtenances in connection\ntherewith.\nWHEREAS the Board of School Trustees\nof the City of Nelson has prepared and laid\nIrpfore the Municipal Council or the City\nof Nelson an estimate snowing that such\nHoard requites Fifteen Thousand Dollars,\n(J15.0IXJ), to meet an extraordinary expenditure for the purpose or \u2022completing the\nconstruction-of a Public School in tne City\nof Nelson and improvement of the grounds\nHind nppintt nances in connection therewith:\nAND WHEREAS such estimate lias\nbeen duly considered and finally approved\n'of by he said Council:\nAND WHEREAS for the purpose afore-\nBOjkl it will he necessary to borrow tihe\nsum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars (tlu.OWj,\nand le Issue debtntu es of the City of Nelson for the purpose of raising mien.\namount\nAND WTTBREAS the whole amount of\nthe rateable land of the wild city according to Lite last revised assessment roll Is\nOne Million Two Hundred und Ninety\nEight Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty\nDolkliia (fliatytJSO.)\nAND WH'KHEAS it will he requisite to\nraise annually by rate the sum of One\nThousand Three Hundred and Eight Dollars and Twenty-live Cents ($1,808,28 for\npaying the debt and interest:\nNOW THEREFORE- TUB MUNICIPAL\nOOUNOIL of- the Corporation of thu City\nof Nelson enacts a\u00ab follows:\nJ. Jt shall and may be lawful for tho\nMayor of the Corporation of the City of\nNelson to borrow upon the credit of the\nsaid Corporation, by way of tha Debentures\nhereinafter mentioned, from any person or\npersons, 'body or bodies corporate, who\nmay be willing to advance the same tm a\nloan. a. sum of money not to exceed In tho\nwhole the sum of [fifteen Thousand Dollars (M5,00Q), and to cause all such sums\nHo raised or received to be paid into the\nhands of the Treasurer of the sa.iti Cor-\n[poratlon for the purpose und the object\nhereinbefore recited!\n2. It shall be lawful for the'Mayor of\nthe said Corporation to cause any number\nof Debentures to be made, executed and issued for such sum or sums us mny b\u00ab required for the piltposa and object aforesaid, not exceeding, however, the sum of\nFifteen Thousand DollorB ($16,000), each or\"\nthe said Debentures being of tho denomination of One Thousand Dollars (Jl.uOOj, and\nall such Debentures shoN be sealed with\ntho seal of the Corporation and signed by\nthe Mayor thereof:\n3, Tho said Debentures shall hear dale-\ntlie 1st day of February, Iftay, and shall be\nmade payoiblo in Twenty cm years from\n(lit! said (late. In lawful money of Canada,\nat the office of the Hank of Montreal 'it\nNelson aforesaid, which place of payment\nshall be designated by the said Debentures\nand .shall huv attached to them coupons\nfor the payment of interest mid the sigua-\n.tiircs to the interest coupons may bi>\neither written, stamped, printed of lithographed.\n\u25a0I. The said Debentures shnll bear interest at the rate of Five (5) per cant\nfrom the date hereof, which Intaresl shall\nhe payable semi-annually at the said of-\n,.Vc of tho Hank of Montreal In Nelson\naforesaid, in lawful money of Canada >on\nthe first day of August and the first day\nof t'obruary respectively in each year during the currency thereof; and it shall bo\nexpressed In ssitti Debentures and Coupons\nto he so payable.\nG. It shall be lawful for the. Mayor of\nthfl wait! Corporation to negotiate and sell\nthe said Debentures or any of them for\nef.H than pur, but in no case shall tho De-\nbenhiri's or any of them bo negotiated or\nsold far loss than Ninety-live (06) per\nCentum of their value, including the cost\n\"jtokcrugo and all\noi!i\nclil.\n'\u25a0X|\u00bb-t|\nWHEN IN\nSPOKANE\n\u2022top at tha Hotel Raymond, tho\nmoot centrally located hotel In\n\u2022pokane. Ratio moderate. Itiao\nmoots 11 trains.\nThere cannot be a more acceptable\nNew Year's Present\nat a moderate coBt than a season\nticket for the\nNew Skating Rink\nTickets are now on sale at\nTOYE, TAYLOR A McQUARME'S\nOfficii.\nCORPORATION OF THE CITY OF\nNELSON\nBylaw No. 195.\nA By-Law to stop up anil dose a certain portion of Fulls and Hoover Streets\nin the City of Nelson.\nWH13REAS it is deemed advisable to\ncKutju up a certain portion of Fa lid and\nHoover Sttvets hereinafter described, being within the limits of the City ut Nol-\n8011.\nAND WllHTlBAS in Iho opinion of the\nCouncil such portions of Bald streets Is1 not\nrequired for oqrporate purposes;\nN(.W TUKIJKJ.'OKK I'HK MI'NlOlt'Ai.\nCOUNCIL of the Co.partition of the City\nof Ne.son in Council assembled enacts us\nfollows:\n1. Thai tho following portions of Falls\nStreet ami Honvur Street within the limits of tho City of Nelson, be and the same\naro hereby declared stopped up and duBtxl,\nnamely: Those portions of said Hoover\nund Fall* Streets lying1 within the limits\nof an arat created by the following boundaries.\nCommenoing ju a point on th^ westerly\nlimit of Falls Street HO feet in a motherly\ndirection (N. W degrees (13 minutes W.J from\nthe southwest comer or Block \"C.\" accord-\ning to a plan of a Subdivision of Lot 150,\ntlrnup 1, Koolcnny; such corner b: Ing the\nintersection of tho Westerly limit or Falls\nStreet with the .Northerly limit of observatory Street according to the said plan;\nthence In a northerly direction (N. rat degrees OJ minutes W.) from tho suld point so\ncreated nlong the westerly limit of Falls\nStreet 190 feet to a point; thence across\nFitlls Street and a portion of Hoover\nStieet to the intersection of the Northerly\nlimit of Lot 17. Block 6, according to Bald\nplan with tho Southerly limit of Hoover\nStreet; thence Westerly (S. 59 degrees 67\nB. There si\nall bo raised and levied i\nibentnres the\nFifty Dollars\n(\u00a5760.00), for payment of it\n\u25a0 sum of Five Hundred an\nFifty-eight 1*\nliars and Twenty-five Ceni\n(W68.26) for i\nnyment of the .said Dehen\nturcs by rate sufflc\nrate;\n.le land\n: th\nof or\n iltl M\t\nIt shall be lawful fur the said\n\u2022clpal Council to to-purchase nny\nsaid [Debentures upon such terms i\nbo agreed upon with the legal ho\nmy part thereof\na -tho tit\n\u2022itlw\ntime\nir tl:\nd nil Debentures so re-\npurenaaed ehau forthwith be cancelled and\ndestroyed and no ru-lssue of Debentures so\nre-purchased shall l\u00ab made In consquence\n8. This By-Ln.w shall lake effect on or\nafter the 20th day of Junuary, vm\n!i. This By-Law nitty be died for all\nPurposes as tha \"city of Nelson Publlo\nSchool Loan By-Law, IBCO.-'\nI.Ktne and passed in Council assembled\nthis day of m ,\nNOTICE\nTake notice that the above is a true enpv\nof the proposed By-Low, upon which the\nvote of the municipality will bo taken at\nthe City of Nelson, on Thursday, the lHli\nday of January, next, between'the hours\n\u00abf 3 0 clock a. m. ami 7 o'clock p. ni., for\nthe hast Ward, at the Council Chaimber,\n\u25a0a! the corneir of Victoria and Josephine\n'Streets, and for the West Ward, tit tho\nform-i- ot Victoria un,\\ Kootenay Streets.\nNo, 301 Vlctt-iiu Street.\nNcbon, B. c, January 1st. itKft\nW. E. WASSON.\nffl4-M- 1 , City Clerk.\nNotice of Application for Renewal of\nLiquor Licence,\n.NOTICE Is hereby given that T, G. S. Coleman, of Ymlr, It. C, intend to apply to\nthe Superintendent of Provincial Police ht\nthe expiration of one month from the date\nhereof, for a renewal of my retail liquor\nlicence ror the premises known aa the Waldorf Hotel, sltUato tit Ymlr, B. c., and\ntransfer of same to Mamie Coleman\n_V>atcd. Doc. 6th, 1808.\nG. 8. COLEMAN.\nApplication for Retat Liquor License.\nNOTICE is hereby given that I C. Robinson or Ymlr. B. C. intend to apply to tho\nSuperintendent or Provincial Police ut tho\nnxpiimion of one month from tho date\nhereof for a retail liquor licence for tho\npremises to be known as the Sheen\nCreek Hotel, situated on the Queen Road\nat amnio, B, C.\nDated ut Balmo. B. C, Dec 24th loofi\n205-M CONRAD. ROBlNBOrtT\n PAGE POUR\n\u00a9he SW& |ten\u00bb.\nSUNDAY .\nJANUARY S\n*,*******************************************************\nA Special Sale of ||\nWhite Dress Shirts\nWe hare a large stock at tkeae on hand. The regular prloe Is $1.25,\n$1.85 and $1.6\u00b0. To clear them we offer them, In all sizes, up to January \u00a3\n(th, neat,\nYour Choice for 90c Each\nThe Hudson's Bay Store\nttt***********t***********************+****************\nImperial Bank of Canada\nHEAD OFFICE TORONTO\nCapital Authorized $10,000,00a\nCapital Paid Up $3,000,000 I Rest $5,000,000\nD. R. WILKIE, President I HON. ROiT. JAFFRAY, Vloe-Prea.\nBRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA:\nArrowhead, Cranbrook, Golden, Kamloops, Michel, Nelson, Revelstoke,\nVancouver and Victoria.\nSAVING! DEPARTMENT\nInterest allowed on deposlte at current rate from date of deposit.\n'NELSON BRANCH J. M. LAY, Manager.\nCanadian Bank of Commerce\nEstablished 1857\nPaid up Capital $10,000,000\nReserve Fund 6,000,000\nHead Office, Toronto.\nB. E. WALKER, President\nALEX. LAIRD, General Manager\nBranches throughout Canada and In the United States and England.\n8AVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT\nDeposits of $1 and upwards are received and Interest allowed at\ncurrent rates. Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more\npersons, withdrawals to be made by any one of the number or by the\nsurvivor.\nJ. L. BUCHAN, Manager Nelson Branch.\nBANK OP MONTREAL\n(Established 18171\nCapital All Paid Up ....$14,400,000 Rest $12,000,000\nHEAD OFFICE MONTREAL\nRt Halt. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G, C. M. \u00ab. Hen. Preeldeirl\nHan. Sir. George Drummond, K. C. M. G., President\nSir Edward S. Clouston, Bart, Vice President and Gen. Manager, jl\n\u25a0RANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA\nArmstrong, Enderby, Greenwood, Kelowna, Nolton, New Denver,\nNloela, New Westminster, Rossland, SummsrlantL Vancouver, Varus*\nVictoria, Chlllawack, Hoemer.\nNELSON BRANCH L. B. DEVEBER, Manager.\nThe Royal Bank of Canada\nINCORPORATED 1861\nCapital Paid Up $3,\u00bboo,ooo\nReserve Fund $4,3M,000\nTotal Aeeets $46,800,001\nHEAD OFFICE MONTREAL.\nBranehee In Csnada extending I A general banking business\nfrom the Pacific to the Atlantic. | transacted.\nSAVINGS BANK DEPOSITS.\nReceived In sums of $1.00 and upwards. Interest allowed thereon\nst current rate, Depositors are subject to no delsy whatever In tha\nwithdrawal of the whole or any portion of the amounts deposited.\n0. A. SPINK, Manager. NELSON, B. C. BRANCH\nWe thank the people of Nelson and readers of the Dally News\neverywhere, for a liberal patronage throughout 1908, and we extend to\nall our slncerest wish that you may enjoy all happiness and prosperity\nthroughout 1909.\nW. Q. THOMSON\nBookseller and Stationer\nPhons 84.\nNelson, B. C.\nffiiie \u00a9athj |Uw*e\njrxausked at MeUea \u00abver\u00bb Metaeag\n\u25a0htoest Konaay, ear\nNews Publishing Company, Limited\nif. a. HcMORBIB \u201e \"\"\nTHE ANNUAL REVIEW.\nSUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION\nWe Will Buy\n100-200 B. C. Copper $825\n6-80 Consolidated Smelters $85\n1000-3000 Diamond Vale Coal ... 14 l-2c\n5-26 Granby I'02\n600-2000 International Coal 72c\n500-2000 Royal Collieries otter\n100-300 Western Oil ordinary 76c\nWe Will Sell\nThe Daily (News presents its many\nreaders this morning with a 32-page\nedition containing 224 columns -of. matter and illustrations which, with the exception ot the news ot the day, consists\nwholly ot a review ot the mining, lumbering and fruit growing industries in\nSoutheastern British Columbia tor 1908\ntogether with the outlook for the present year, statistical figures in connection with the industries named, and also In connection with other matters\nof local interest, such as usually appears at the first of the year, descriptive sketches on sport, scenery, and\nplaces in Kootenay, and In addition an\nunusually large number of well chosen\nand well executed cuts.\nThe New Year's number of The Daily\nNews has been a special feature for the\n, past fiix or seven years and has come\nto be very generally looked for, but It\nis safe to say that the edition, presented\nto the public today far exceeds anything attempted in past years and In\nits review features la easily; the best\never published in the province. No\npains have spared to obtain exact information from the best available\nsources and to make the issue unusually Interesting by numerous illustrations, the modern newspaper method\nof attracting the public.\nIn connection with the compiling of\nthe review this year a vast amount of\ndetailed Information was collected regarding the various properties and industries in the several mining districts\not Southern British Columbia and this\ninformation will be furnished our reefers in next Sunday's issue.\nWhile tbe thanks of the management\nare due to several kindly contributors\nto this number, special mention must\nbe made of the able and untiring efforts\nof Mr, E. Jacobs, the well known editor\nof the Mining Resort., Victoria, and acknowledged as the most accurate journalistic authority on mining in B. 6.,\nwho has most carefully prepared tb#\ncomprehensive mining review of the\nwhole province presented to our readers this morning, including the valuable tabulated statements. This review\nentailed an immense amount of patient\nlabor and adds greatly to the usefulness of this issue,\nOne of the chief objects in getting\nout an issue like the present \u00b0ne 1b to\nadvertise this city and district abroad,\na work that this newspaper has success-\nfully accomplished for the past six years\nand which it will continue to do during\n1909 with the best of the facilities at\nits disposal.\nThe Daily News is now comfortably\nhoused In Its own handsome brick\nbuilding, as good as the best in the\nwest, and throughout the coming year\nwill bend its energies unceasingly to\npromote the. best interest* of Nelson\nand th\u00ab Kootenay and Boundary districts.\nThe Daily News la now the morning\npaper for a large and rapidly growing\nsection of tha prorlnca, two-thirds of\nits dally circulation being outside of\nits home city, and the earnest desire\nof its management la to still further\nincrease Its sphere In usefulness during\nthe present year.\nThis opportunity lg taken of wishing\nour,many readers and patrons a very\nbright and prosperous and happy New!\nYear.\nNEWS OF THE DOMINION\nLONDON, Ont\u201e Jan. 2.-0 Central Park west, made\ntrips In the shopping district yesterday,\nwhen she lost a parcel necklace valued\nat 110,000.\nResults of Celebration,\nSlw YORK, Jan. 2\u2014A summary of\nthe mishaps attending New York's new\nyear's ere festivities show that thirteen\npersons were shot, none fatally, during\nthe late hours of last night and early\nhours today.\nWe the undersigned candidates for\nelection to the city council respectively\npledge ourselves if elected to support\nduring the year 1909 the following platform:\u2014\n(1) The full and proper completion\nof the electric power plant and the public school building.\n(2) The speedy resumption of the\ntramway service, by private enterprise,\nbecause under the statutes we are precluded from considering the construction of the same as a municipal venture inasmuch as our borrowing powers\nfor any such purpose have been exhausted.\n(3) The extension of the city's limits in order to advance the city's prestige, and also to Improve the sections\nthus acquired.\n(4) The securing the establishment\nof new enterprises within the city, but\nat the same time duly considering the\nprotection of those already established.\n(5) The continuation of the policy\nof past councils of the city in levying\ntaxes against lands and relieving improvements as much as possible, thus\nencouraging the expenditure of money\nIn the building up of the city.\n(6) The maintenance of our public\nutilities at the highest point of efficiency.\n(7) The encouraging the laying of\npermanent sidewalks upon a frontage\ntax basis.\n(8) The continuance ot the present\ncivic policy regarding Sunday closing\nand the maintenance of public order,\n(9) The maintenance of the recognized standard of wages upon all public\nworks.\n(10) The doing of all In our power\nto Improve the city's appearance, including Its parks and cemetery,\n, Dated, December 30,1908.\nHarold Selooi\nCandidate for the mayoralty.\nBPNAnTVS HN1MBNT CO., UMITKI>.\nSIVs:\u2014I have need' your MINARD'S\niTjINIMKNT for tha past 25 years and\nWhilst I have occasionally uned other liniments, I can nafely say that I have never\nwed any equal to youri.\nTf nibbed between the hands and Inhaled frequently, tt will never fall to euro\na cold In the bond In twenty-four hours.\nIt Is also the beet for brnltwfl. sprains,\netc. Tours truly,\nDartmouth. J. G. LESLIE. .\nSauer Krout and Weiners\nYoung turkeys, geese, ducks and\nchickens, prime roasts of beef, pork,\nmutton or veal. What more would a\nking want. Prepared English mince\nmeat, pork sausage and bologna, In fact\nevery line of meat and dellcatessan,\nusually carried in a butcher shop at\nBraidwood Bros.\nPhone A370\nDo not break\u2014never wear out\u2014can be sent by mail, price\nII. Columbia Double-Sided Discs\nTwo records In one, poeltlyely a loratcb, last longest, play \u00bbse*\n10-Inch double disci\n12-inch double discs .\nCatalogues on application.\nFLETCHER BROS.\nVietorla, B. \u00ab.,\nSols Distributers\nW. G. THOMSON, Local Agent.\nafter Christinas. 8-a. m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. morning prayer and Holy\nCommunion 2:30 p. m. Sunday school\nRev. P H Graham rector.\nCATHOLIC-Church of Mary Immaculate, corner of Ward and Mill streets Low\nmass. 8 a. m; Mich mnn\u00a3 10:30 n. m.: evening\nservice 7:30. Rev. Father Althoff, priest,\nwill preach at till Bar-vices\nSALVATION ARMY-Barracks on Victoria St., went of Josephine. Knee .drill,\n'7 a. m'.; holiness meeting, 11:00 n. m.;\npraise meeting 3:00 p. m.; evening\nmeeting at 8 o'clock. J. K. Josllng, Adjutant.\nBAPTIST-Stonley Street, near Mill,\nMorning service 11 n. m. Evening service\n7:30 p. m'| Sunday school 2:30 -\ntor,\nMETHODTST-Services held In the Congregational church, corner of Silica and\nStanley streets. Morning service 11 a. m.;\nSunday School and Bible Classes. 2:90;\nEvening servlcft 7:30. Morning subject,\n\"A Motto for 1909.\" Evening subject \"Tho\nEarthquake in Italy, a Parable for tho\nNew Year.\" Tho saorajnerit of the Lord's\nsuppnr will bo administered at the close\nof the evening service. Rev. R. Newton\nPowell, .pastor.\nVANCOUVER Jan. 2\u2014Ambrose Clark\na young man who was well known and\nliked In local sporting, circles, died at\nthe Central hospital yesterday morning .\nas the result of being badly crushed by\na log on Thursday evening. He was\nworking In Praser's logging camp* near\nMagee. . ' .:|'tV\nG A L T\nMines :\nLethbrldge\nALTA. .\ncom is cir tin igsri to \n \u2022A\u00ab SIX\nSUNDAY JANUARY S\nA Residential Site\nThree choice level lots on Houston Street,\njust off Stanley Street, all cleared.\nPrice $250.00\nTOYE, TAYLOR & McQUARRIE\nBox 51\nNEISON, b.C.\nTelephone 254\nMiner's Union hall. William Hunter,\nM. P. P., was announced aa chairman\nbut pressing business compelled his absence and R. J, Dodds presided. After\nthe chairman's speech and a few words\nfrom J. C. Harris, Rev. Mr. Gllmour of\nNew Denver gave a capital address in\nwhich he dealt with the commoner arguments used to combat the local option programme. His statement of the\ncase for and against the movement was\nwell received.\nRev. W.\" A. Glfford followed with a\nspeech full of carefully chosen statistics to prove the enormous growth of\ntemperance sentiment throughout the\nworld. A great amount of work and\nstudy had been put Into 'his speech\nwhich carried conviction to many that\nwhether they desired It or not local\noption is; coming and that very soon.\nCommittees to circulate the petitions\nto the legislature and to the local member will be formed and tbe work carried forward.\nPROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT\nEVERYTHING POINTS TO A GOOD\nYEAR AT PHOENIX.\nLAST YEAR ESTABLISHED RECORD\nFOR ORE TONNAGE.\n(Special to The Daily News,)\nPHOENIX, Jan. 2\u2014While evidences\ncf the lull in mining activity which followed the financial panic of fifteen\nmouths ago are still to be found In\nFhoenix, tbe industrial life of the camp\nIs gradually reviving, the horizon of the\nincoming year has the rosy tinge that\nrestores confidence and bids fair to see\nthe return of the ''good uU days\" of the\nWg Boundary mining camp, when the\nwheels of industrial machinery revolved\nat top speed, money flowed frrely pud\nbusiness life smiled.\nBut notwithstanding the fact that the\ngeneral activity of mining development\nhas been quiet here during the past\nyear, it has nevertheless been a record\ntwelve months for oro tonnages from\nPhoenix camp. This has been due to\n\u25a0ftW Improved shipping facilities and increased tonnages from the Granby. This\nyear Boundary mines have shipped\nclose to a million and a half tons of\npre, as compared with 1,148,237 tons, ln\n1807, and 1,1(51,5.17 tons In l!)0ty\u2014 pr^dj.\ntally all 'of which waa treated at. Uoimd-\nary smelters, Economy Id mining RW-.\nthods now In vogim here is shown In 0*e\nfact that Phoenix mines just befoc the\n(Slump in copper, were eauployln\/' \\ 000\nS^niS\"! ShiP\"in* fielwGen 9f'\"\u00b0<>0 'an(I\njuu.uuij ^. ej 6re 1)er mont|^ whl)e\n-cpfl&y only some 75G to BOO vt\\&a are em-\n\u25a0pio^ed and ihd tonnages are greater.\nphoenix is the great copper camp of\nCanada, by reason of having the largest\noutput of ore, and the Granby Is the\nbig producer, the other companies with\nmines In this camp being the Canada\nConsolidated, and the Dominion Con-\nper. Following tbe slump In copper all\nproducers in the Boundary dosed tight\non November 1.1, 1007.\nOn Jan. 1, 19DS, the Granby resumed\nore shipments which steadily increased\nuntil March, when 110,223 tons were\nshipped. During the month of Marc1.'\nthe entire battery of eight furnaces\nwere in blast for the entire 31 days.\nIn succeeding months one or more of\nthe furnaces have been out of commission tor days while various improvements were being made, oach having.\nto be connected wltli the new steel flue\n'dust chamber, and latterly the enlarging of the first of the battery of furnaces required some weeks. Then the\nPernio fire and the uncertainty of coke\n\u00bb supply resulted In four of the furnaces\nbeing out of commission for some\nweeks. Then the Fernie fire and the\nUncertainty of coke supply resulted in\nlour of the furnaces being nearly cut\nIn two. The total shipments from\nGranby mines, for the year, however,\nran over the million mark, being approximately l.OCO.OOO tons, as compared\nwith 613,537 tons In 1907 and 801,404\ntons in 190*>. The smelter treated over\na million tons this year as compared\nwith 637,026 tons in 1907 and 828,879\ntons in 1906.\nDuring the past year the Granby company has made steady advancement\nwith increased facilities for the production of blister copper, the Improvements\ncompleted and in progress representing\nan expenditure of $500,000. The bulk\nof the money Is being spent at the\nsmelter, however, where a new steel\ndust chamber, with endless chain syBtem, was Installed, new steel buildings\nover furnaces.and blower erected as\nWell aa an addition.to the concentrator\nbulling, and new air compressors and\nconvenor installed.\nAt the mines the number of crushers\nhas been increased to four, each of\nwhicb has a capacity of 1,500 tons per\nhour, automatic dump cars have been\ninstalled and much other new and Improved machinery to facilitate in shipping ore has been added and tho\nGranby mines equipment is tbe most\ncomplete In the province. Its CO-drlll\nelectrically driven air compressor furnishes the power needed for drilling',\npumping, hoisting and many other uses\nat the properties, including diamond\ndrilling machine shop purposes. The\nore. is broken down In immense stopeB,\nrun into chutes, thence into mine cars,\nthence to the crushers and ore bins,\nand on to the smelter\u2014never being\nhandled by hand or shovel from the\ntime It is blasted till it comes out In\nthe shape of marketable blister copper\nat the smelter\u2014gravity being used in,\nall operations for handling, as far as\npo\u00bbBlble.\nThe mines am now capable of shipping 5,000 tohs of ore dally and with\ntho completion of the improvements at\nthe smelter, now going on, about next\nApril tho furnaces should consume\nabout 130.000 tons odd monthly.\nThe second most Important feroup 0f\ncopper producers in Pftnp*abc camp are\ntae m,IlGs 0f the. J> jilnton Copper com-\n\u2022W-Jiy, which shipped to the company's\nOwn smelter at Boundary Falls. When\noperating at full capacity Dominion\nCopper mines at Phoenix employed 200\nto 300 men and shipped about 1,000\ntons of ore daily. The mines closed\ndown in common with other producers\n4n 1907, resuming operations again in\nJuly last. When shipping only a few\nweeks the smelter was overtaken with,\nfuel shortage resulting from the fire\nat Fernie coke ovens and since that\ntime the Dominion Copper company\nhave gone into liquidation, und a re-\norganiztlon of the company is now\npending! The company largely increased its production of copper anticipating\na continuance of the 26-cent copper\nmarket .last before the disastrous\nslump of a year ago. When the metal\ndeclined It had a large amount of copper on hand, and as It had expended\nthe bulk of its surplus In the purchase\nof new properties, smelter enlargement\nand development work, it was unable\nto continue the payment of Interest on\nlis $SOO,00Q of bonded Indebtedness. ,\nThe ore shipments from the Dominion\nmines while in operation this year were:\nBrooklyn,'5,780 tons;. Rawhide, 16,740;\nSunset, 3,802; Mountain Rose, 530; Ath-\nelstan 120. The' smelter treated\n22,666 tons.\nThe Snowshoe mine of the Canada\nConsolidated company, which resumed\noperations In August, has been gradually Increasing Its tonnage and adding\nnew improvements, The mine is employing over 100 men and shipping\nclose to 600 tons of ore dally. The\ngreater part or the ore goes to the\ncompany's 'smelter at Trail and the\nbalance to the Greenwood smelter.\nSince resumption tbe Snowshoe has\nshipped about 50,000 tons.\nBut the future of Phoenix is brightened by the prospective new shippers\nfor 1909, among which will be the Phoenix Amalgamated, the Consolidated\ncompany's newly developed property.\nOnly 245 tons of test ore have as yet\nbeen shipped, but. the development\nwork done on the property has been\nparticularly encouraging, with an ex\ntensive vein of good looking ore now\ndisclosed. The route for a tramway\nand shipping .acuities Is now being\nsurveyed and the Phoenix Amalgamated\npromises to be a big shipper before\nthe close of 1909.\n.Another prospective producer la the\nWellington group of properties recently\nbonded by the B. C. Copper company\nThe development work has already justified the commencing of construction\nof shipping facilities which will require\nan aerial tram line to carry the ore\nto the Great Northern railway.\nThe B. C. Copper company is the\nsecond big copper producer in the\nBoundary and since resuming last June\nhas been conspicuously successful In\nits operations, the financial sheet of\ntbe company being now clean with\nprospects for the payment of a dividend\nin the course of a few weeks.\nMother Lode mine is the big shipper\nof the company, where much new machinery was added this year, nearly doubt.\ning the shipping capacity, which now\nruns close to 2,000 tons dally. Since\nresumption in June the Mother Lode\nhas shipped 326,029 tons of ore to the\ncompany's smelter. The other important shipper of the company is the Oro\nDenoro mine, three miles from Phoenix,\nwhich shipped 66,800 tons during the\nseven months. The company also own\nthe Lone Star and Napoleon mine at\nWashington, the latter of which Is at\npresent everting with a tonnage of 100\ntons dally.\nThe cam\npany\n:s smelter at Greenwood\n*as had a very successful seven months'\nrun, the equipment being constantly\nimprovedS the furnaces consuming close\nto 400,000 tons of ore In the past seven\nmonths.\nOther mines in the Boundary cOuM-\nbutlng shipments during 11108 wera the\nSaly, 108 tons, and the Crescent, 53\ntons, both high grade properties. One\ncarload of ore from the Bally mine (21\ntons) after paying all shipping and\nsmelting expenses netted $3,175.\nLOCAL OPTION AT 8ILVERTON\n(Special to The Dally News.)\nS1L.VERTON, Jan. 2^The notice\nof a local option meeting to be held in\nSilverton drew a large audience to the\nFOR SALE\nA very comfortable cottage on\nStanley street, newly renovated\nthroughout and two lots, close to\nschools, With all modern conveniences, containing five rooms and\nbath room. Price $2500.\nA six-roomed house and one lot,\nclose in, very convenient, in the\nbest ot repair, modern. Price\n12000. Terms can be arranged for\nboth these properties.\nCall and' see' me 'for full particulars. :-: '\": \u2022\u2022'\nR. J. Steel\nMARKETS DURING YEAR\nFINANCIAL STRINGGENCY AFFECTS\nLOCAL DEALINGS\nSHEEP CREEK DI8TRICT ATTRACTING ATTENTION\nOwing to the effect of the financial\notrlngencv diirlnp the past year, tradings\nIn all local securities have been somewhat\ncurtailed; These conditions were felt until the elections In -Canada nnd the United\nStates had taken plnco, when a great revival was manifested, with the return ot\nconfidence and the greater strength in the\nhi'etat market.\nThe copper stocks of the Boundary attracted a good deal of money, the nellinff\n.prlv* of tJieflp 'securities toeing* very low\nat the first of the year.\nThe coal securities alsn were dealt In\n\u25a0largely.\" Heavy buying being- In evidence\non all breaks.\nDuring the past few months, Sheep Creek\n\"district has been largely developed and\none company's shares, operating there, offered to the public. With the Interest be-\ninjr shown In the district, not only locally, but all through tho west, and.where\n**ver the result* obtained haVe \/become\nknown, there will In all probability -be a\/\nlegitimate mining boom witnessed there\nnext spring. .\nWith the exception of one or two stock\nof the -companies operating sliver and lead\nmines In the Stocnn. there has been little\nof Interest to record of that district.\nThe following- are tho approximate high\nand low quotations for the year.\nlow high\nAlberta Conl and Coke $ .10 .\u00bb\nB, C. Copper 4.25 8.50\nB. C. Amalgamated Coal.. ..03^ .07\nPanMlldated Smrlter dS.oo ioc.00\nCanadian Gold Fields.. 04 .00\nCnriboo McKlnney 01U .02%\nCanadian Marconi 93 1,78\nDominion Copper 60 2.75\nDiamond Vale Coal f\u00bb. ,18\nD'amond Coal .50 .67\nCranny 80.00 110.00\nOalbraith Coal : .15 ..27\nInternational Coal R4 .78\nNorth Star 07 .14\nNicola Valley Coal A Coke.. 75.00 95.00\nNugget Gold Mines.. .. .... 40 ,75\ngambler Cariboo.. 14 .%\nlloy'ah Collerles 25 .38\nSullivan 00H .Wk\nTel Kwa Mines .06 .09\nWestern Oil 40 ,80\nWhite Bear 00% .03\nOur Aim In the Past\nhas been to please our customers so\nthat it will become a pleasure to buy\ngroceries from' us.\nOur Future Policy\nli to do even better In the coming year\nof 1909, so that we may retain your\npatronage and please you and yours.\nJoy's Cask Grocery\nCor. Josephine and Mill Streett.\nP. O. Box 637. Telephone 19\nPROFESSIONAL CARDS\n8,8. FOWLER\nM1NINQ INQINKMt\nOTLBON, a a\nWM.8.DREWRY\nA. It Cu. toe. 0. B.\nDOMINION AND BRITISH COLUMBIA LAND SURVEYOR\nMining Work a Specialty.\nOKice: Room 10, K. W. O. Block, P. O.\nBox 481\nBaker St Nelson, B. C.\nDrawings and Specifications\nPrepared lor Patanta, Etc., ana Patent\nRights tenured. Apply to\nO. C. MACKAT\nP. O. Box 876 Nelaon, B. a\nMechanical and Structural Work De-\nelgned and Superrlaed.\t\nW. J. H. HOLMES\nCIVIL ENGINEER AND MINE SURVEYOR, PROVINCIAL LAND\nSURVEYOR, KASLO, B. C.\nTen yean' experience In the Kotte-\naays. Honor graduate, 1881, Royal Military Colleg, ot Canada. Kingston.\nTfc DAILY NEWS\n\u2022LAMIFIID ADaV-Ona east a ward. Ml lnaorttona tor tha prts* ad\nlow when paid In adranoe. No el taken tor Ml thu He. \u2022\n144 THE DAILY NEWS\nBUSINESS DIRECTORY\nPAINTERS AND DECORATOR!\nTHOMPSON * DOUOLAB-aouae and\n\u25a0Sign Fainter., Paver Hanger, and Da-\naerators, ibop CM Ward Burnt, Nation,\nB. O.\nPUBLISHERS AND PRINTER*\nFubUitara of Tbe Dally News; sutwcrlp-\ntloa Jti-UU per year by earner; lo.tw per year\nby mail. Commercial job priming or all\nkind* neatly ana promptly executed, lug).\nBaker street, Nelson, B. C. Phone 14k\nAUCTIONEERS\nL'HAU. A. WATKUMAN * CO.-f. O. BOX\nMUJtPHT & FISHES\nOttawa.\nBarristers, solicitors, etc. Supreme\nand exchequer court agents. Practice\nIn patent office and before railway\ncommission,\n\"HON. CHARLES MURPHY, M. P.\nHAROLD FISHER.\nF. C. Oretn, F. P. Burdei. A, H. Green.\nGreen Brothers ic Burden\nCIVIL BNOINBHRS\nDominion and British Columbia Land\n. Surveyori\nP. 9. Box 146 Phone BM1\nOor. Victoria and Kootenay rite.\nNELSON. B. C. i\nA. L. McCULLOOH\nHYDRAULIC ENGINEER\nPROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYOR\nP. O. Box It\nOBlee Phone B86. Residence Phone B7t\nOffice: Oyer McDermld and McHardy,\nBaker Street Nelson, B. C.\nKOEBEL & BELL\nDIAMOND DRILL CONTRACTOR!\nHand power machine (or prospecting,\nBox 72, Rossland or Salmo, B. O.\nPublic Stenographer\n309 Baiter St., Nelson, B.C. 'Phone 878\na. a buok\nB. C. LAND SURVEYOR\nOFFICE-OVER ROYAL' BANK\nP. O. Box 147 Nelson B. a\nCHAS. MOORE, C. E.\nI, C. Land Surveyor\nARCHITECT \u2022\nP. O. Ron U. Creeton, i. c\nJ. C. DUFRESNE\nEngineer.\nPlans, specifications, estimates, ma'\nchinery and construction work.\nNELSON, A C.\n322 Baker Street ' Phone A247\nFOR RENT\nFOR RENT\u2014Cottage JJ10 per month. Ap>\nPly Mrs. Turner. 912 Silica at. 211-6\nFOR RENT\u2014Housekeeping rooms.\n616 Cnrbonate street.\nFOR RENT-Small house.. Apply Nelson\nBrewery \u25a0 la-flo\nFor Quick Sale\nFifteen minutes drive from Grand\nForks, surrounded by fine orchards,\nwe have for sale a fine cottage\nhome, outbuildings, well, windmill\nand tank, 19 acres all fenced and\nunder cultivation, 100 fruit trees1\nin bearing, 2 acres In small fruits.\nPaid $1500 last year and about the\nsame year before, this year will\npay more. Price only |4000. $1200\ndown, balance easy terms. Owner\nvery, old, must sell. For further\nparticulars, address\nThe Wright Investment Co\nGrand Forks, B. C\nJOHN KAY & SONS\nBOILER SBTTER8\nFURNACE and\nOVfjN BUILDERS\niBtlmatei Qlven on All Kinds of\nMasonry Work.\nP. O. Box 4. Nelson, B. O.\njACuii GHEEN & CO., Auctioneer).; ap-\npnnstiib; valuators; general and euuimw-\nsiua agents. UauU auvauced uti consignments. Apply to P. o. Box Us, Nelson,\nB. O.\nHAIHDKES8INQ AND MANICURING\njuAtLi. AAiiiitiuiiiiM aNuah, UeUrumwiuK\nxuid luaiiiuuiiua; parlora. fcoom U. K. ft.\nC. block.\nHILP WANTED\nNELSON EMPLOYMENT AGENCY\nJ. H. LOVE, Manager.\nWANTESD-Tfemakera. Help of all kind*\nfurnished.\nTHE WORKWOMAN'S EMPLOYMENT\nAND REAL ESTATE AGENCY.\nWANTED\u2014Team star, girls for housework,.\n' nurse girl, housekeeper. Shuck to rent\nW PARKER, 313 Baker Btieet, Phone A\nINTERNATIONAL COLONIZATION\nCOMPANY.\nRING UP PHONE \u00bb1-Real estate and em-\nSloyment offloe. Help of all kind* turned. 417H Ball street. Through ticket*\nto al polnte In Europe, Orient, North Af-\nika and South America.\nNUHttlNti.\ntfUOKUINOmtt AND HUUNU\niNtiwii BUbuaaiNu uuMxjanx, Lm-\nAli aiuua oi oiucti luruid ru.ua aud puuen-\ned lor luuan lutu biiiuem. iuu luuut cum-\nplelt) booa- biiiuina tn^uipiutuit la the u*\ntenor ot Jiriutm coiuiuuut. u; Gold, Buyer-Cop-\npur or jUutd, t)&ivu. Accurate astwys; caie-\niui sauipuug, and prompt atteuuva. Jf.U.\nJhml Alius, tielftou, U. c.\nASSAYERS' 8UPPLIE8.\nb. C. AEfbAX & Cki&tolCAL CiUPJVLl CU.,\nLtd., Vancouver, U.C. Agents In Britisn\nColumbia tor the Morgan Crucible Company, l-oimuii, Hiiigiuuu: i'', w. brauu,\nLos Augelee and baa Francisco; Baiter\nauu Adaiusun'e C.P. Acids and Chemicals;\nWay's jfocaet buieiters. Write tor information auout UltMie emelters, mvaiu-\nable to the p.ospector, assayer or mluer,\nComplete assay ouiuta turnlshed at snort\nnotice.\nDRUGS AMO ASSAYERS' SUPPLIES.\nWholesale; and Retail.\nWM. BUTHBRFOKD. WARD BrillflEfT,\niNeieuii. l.a>g\u00abst und best stock in ivouL-\n\u00abimy of wrugrt, Aledlcuws, Assay oup-\nplies and Uuruuii boeas. Makers of Wnd\n- Cnerry, Bpiuto and T\u00abr, tiie best cough\nsyrup, Cuseara Tablets, the Deal laxative; C&rnution ci<-atii, vvltou Huael\nCream, l'erl'oct Cold Cream. Headache\nT'abicu, K.ant-y Tablets, Tooiliacbe Jelty,\nCorn Cure, \\>hitw On, Rheumatic Uii,\nCarboLc Uintment, Pile Omtnieut, CUlll-\nbiain Cure, condition jfowders, bug\nPoison, tied Mite Killer for Poultry\nHoused, True spray, etc. l'rescrlptioiui\na specialty, Mud urders nlled pronipny.\nLADIES CAN MAKE MONEY\nby soiling to their friends Swiss Embroideries, .tiluuungs, olouaus, costuiileti, DunU-\nkeruiileft), 8,iiuiidid novelties, onered by\niii\u00bbi-ctubs Swiss laciot-y. uoous sunt by\nl-eiurn, isee oi' cliuige, no puatugo nor\nduty, no trouble wim customs house. Uy\n'peicem coumnssion, pnymeut oy relni-\nbursument on receipt ot goods. Write lor\nsumples to za G, aiifi, Kuuulf Mouse, bt.\nGuii, bwiuerlund.\nJOSEPH LANG\nDealer In Hides and Furs, Rossland, B.\nC. Highest prices paid for all kinds ot\nHides and Furs. All goods will be kept\nseparate until satisfactory prices are\nagreed upon by both parties. It prices\nare not satisfactory, will return furs at\nmy expense. . \t\nCLEANING AND PB1SSINO\n\u25a0site Called for and DeUtere*.\nA. J.DRISCOLL\nPaone W6.-Bax.r St Oppodto Qneei't\nHotel. ' _\nFort KENT\u2014Furnlahed rooms. Apply 411\nSilica stieet. 211-12\nFOR RENT\u2014Nicely furnished front room\nIn private family, all modern conveniences, steam, heated house; central location;\n17 per month.1 Apply p, 0, Box 912. 195-tf.\nFOR RENT\u2014Furnished rooms and hoard\nfor aenUemen. DOT Carbonate street or\nP. O. BOX 333. lM-tf.\nFOR RENT\u2014Three furnished bedrooms\nwith bnlh. 701 Victoria street. 2M-tf.'\nFOR RENT-6 roomed cottaga cor of Co*1\ndar and Observatory streets. \u25a0 Apply Q.\nH. Frnser. Eally News office. tf.\n1R RENT-\u00ab roomed house on Victoria\nHI. 009, opposite city hall, Apply J. Rad-\nollff. 212-6\nNURSINQ.\nNuralng maternity cases In town or out ot\ntown. Mrs. H. Bermmu, Mum AIM\nNalloo. B. C.\nWatch Repairing\n' Clock Repabing\nJewelry Repaittng\nJewelry repairing is our specialty and we absolutely guarantee\nthe most satisfactory work in B. C.\nSatisfied customers are our recommendation,\nH. WILLEY\n Jeweller\t\nNlckereon's old stand, Baker Bt\nH. J, WILTON, TaUor\nLidlM' \u25a0nd Gento' Clethti Clainid,\nRepaired and Prtmd.\nSATISFACTION GUARANTEED\nCloth* Called -for and Dtllvorod.\nH\u00ab Joiephlna SL, Opposite Manhattan Hotel, Nelaon, B. C.\nPRODUCE.\n\u25a0TARKHY * CO., WWOLESALB DEAL-\nsi's lu nutter, higgi, Uiteeue, rroduce aud\nVrult. lloiibtou jaiock, Joseulilue iliaut,\nNeisoa, a. c.\t\nGROCER) E8.\nk. MACDONALD & CO.-WHOLBBALB\nGrocers and Provision MercUoius\u2014importers oi Teas, Cotfees, bpices, Dried\n*'ruits, btapie aud Fauoy Groceries, To-\nbacoos, Cigars, Butter, Jiiggs, Cbeese and\njfaciuug House Jfroduots. Ottlce and\nwareUouae, eurner ot front and Hall\nBtreeta 1', O; box 1UB5. Talepooaa a.\nLIQUORS.\nD. FERGUSON *% CO.-WHOLBSALB\nUd Contuiisalon Mercbanta-luipoiteia\nand Wliolesaie Dealers in Wines, Liquors\nand Cigars. Kootenay agents tor Fattst\nMllwauaetj Beer. Agents lor tbe Bruns-\nWlck-Uullte-CoUender Co., Billiard and\nPoole Tables and.Supplies, Bar Fixtures,\nCigar Counters, Bowling Alleys, eto.\nPrices and \u25a0pQeincatlon* on application.\nOIQce aud retail department, Vernon.\nSt., Nelson, two doors east oi postofflse.\nTelephone 260. F. O. Boa lttW.\nWANTED\u2014MISCELLANEOUS\nWANTED-Teacher for .Williams' fiidlag\nschool. Duties to commence next term.\nApply J., JMarsden, secretary-treasurer,\nWalllams' aiding, U. C. DW-S\nU.UUU POSITIONS jKOK OUK OKAUbATiiS\nlast year. Men and'women to learn bar*\nbar trade id eight weeks; tools ir*.-e; more\npusiUoiis than we van supply; graduates\nearn |I6 to 126 wee'tlv. Catalogue free.\nMoler System \u25a0 Colleges, 40J Front Ave,,\nSpokane.\nWANTED-Ladles to do plain and light\nsewing at home, whole or spare time;\ngood pay; work sent any distance; charges\npaid. Bend stamp or full particulars. National Manufacturing Company, Montreal.\nWANTED\u2014Good reliable business man\nwanted to sell subdivision lota at one of\ntbe most important Grand Trunk Fttciho\ndivisional points. Good commission allowed. References required. W. A. Camp-\nbtll. Nan ton Biook, Winnipeg. UM\nWANTED\u20145 or 10 acre orchard In bear- '\nIng; lake or river frontage; also prices\non Improved bottom land, front 10 to M0>\nacres in jNuuton district. Sena lull parr\ntieulure, terms, etc. No agents. Box F-\nD. Q.t News. m-lW\nWANTED-airls to learn knitting . Ages\nfrom 9 to 16, on Saturday afternoons..\nApply P. O. Box 487, Nelson US-*\nFOR SALE\nFOR QUICK SALE-1 linger sewing machine, 1 baby ctiriiitege, 1 p-honoarapli.\nApply 616 Carbonate' etreet. Ui-2.\nFOR SALE\u2014Cheap\u2014Piano, English make;.\nwalnut frame; ivory keys, iiiquhe at\nFire Hull, Jogephina stieet. j InVa.\nPETERBOBO MOTOR CANOEd WHiCH\npromise to be as ramous as tha world\nwide known Petenboro Canoes. They are\nf ul lines. We have them on too way. Come\nful lines. We have .hem on the woy. Come\nand Inspect, loouwlll be pleased. Prices,\nright. Hole ngenht. Lindsay Launch and\nBoat, Limited, successors to H. L, Lindsay & Sons.\nWlANTED^Age nts-We want two or three,\nmen who have had experience in selling,\nreal estate. Write for particulars, State\nage and other qualifications. The Wright\nInvestment Company, Box XH, Grand\nfc'aiikB, B. C. sH-tf,\nFOR SALE\u2014A snap. 4 lots in Addition tO>\nNelson, on tramime, Woo cash. Owner\nhas to sacrli.ee. Apply Procter & Black-\nwood. ats-tf..\nFOR SALE\u2014Good strong ' liese\u2014gentle,\nreliable Just the tiling lor rancher. ITS\nIf taken at once. AddreSB Henry Hammond. 3-MUe Point, NeiBon. 2J&-8\nFOR SALE\u2014Lots In Bogustown from\n(15*1 p'-r lot up. Nelson City Land and\nImprovement Co., Procter and BlaciiWood,\nLocal Agents. ffla-tt.\nFOR SALE\u20143 building lots on corner of\nStanlty ami Observatory streets, $800 cash..\nThe linest -building Bite In the city. Apply\nProcter and Uiackweed. aid-if.\nFOR SALE\u2014One of the leading licence hotels. In Greenwood, on-Main street, just\nrepainted- and remodeled'. Hot air furnace. 31 rooms and two baths. Price'\n$7,000, half cash\", balance easy terms. Apply Nelson News- or P. O. Box. 7, Greenwood. B. C, 200-96.\nFOR SALE\u2014The best- land, in an old<\ntried and well unproved district. At\nMirror Lake, which has proved what other are only trying. Four boats dally to -\nKaslo and Nelson. Land cleared or uncleared und oicharda- In bearing, 2& miles \u2022\nflrom Kaslo; plenty of water; no summer\nfrosts; prices reusonable. Raw lands on.\nKootenay lake with good roads and -best\nof transportation at (U> per acre up; K.\nK. BJBrkneas or E. Norniun, Corner Ba-\nIter and Ward streets, Nelson. 190-tf.\nFOR SALE\u2014Several blocks of choice fruit\nlands, very easy to clear, in Kaslo district, on Kootenay lake. Lake frontage and\nbench lands; prices ranging, from (li t9 J20 *\nper acre. Greatest snup ever offered In\nfruit lands In this famous fruit district.\nFor further particulars apply at Lindsay's\nboat house, foot of Josephine street, Nelson, B. C. 1M-28\n. MINERS' FURNISHINGS.\nA, MACDONALD & CO..-WHOLEBALE\nJobbers In Blankets, Underwear, Mitts,\nGloves, Boots, Rubbers, Overalls, Jump-\nant, Macklnawa and Oilskin Clothing.\nGamp and Mlnera1 Sundries. Office and\nWarehouse corner ot Front and Hall Bta.\nP. O. Box 1085. Telephops 28.\t\nSl! CANADIAN PACIFIC I\nATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS\nUUtbtWb\nFrom Bt. John, N.B. From Liverpool\nNov. 27 Empress of Britain .Nov. 13\nDeo. 5 Lake Erie..., Nov. 18\nPec. 11 Empress of Ireland......Nov. 17\nDec, 26......Empress of Britain......Deo. 11\nIMI.\nJan. 3... Lake Manitoba... Dee, 16\nJan. 8 Empress of Ireland Dec, 26\nnot\nJan. 22 Corsica.. (Allan line! Jan, I\n(Chartered by C.P.R.)\nJan. n Empress of Britain Jan. II\nFor turthar lnfonnaOci Mgardliit rata*,\ntat* of aalltaaaj #to., apply\n. W. B. DEACON. CFAj Natoao, ft. ft\nQ. MoL. BBOWrt, O.A.P., Montrtal, P.Gv\nMINING MACHINERY\nWASHINGTON MACHINERY A SUPPLY\nCo.\u2014Dealers In Engines, Band and Circular Sawmills, Atkins' Saws, Wood and\nIron Pulleys, Leyner Compressors and\nDrills, Pumps and, Hoiats. Prompt attention. Reasonable pricea. Courteous\ntreatment Spokane, wash.\n FOUND\t\nFOUND\u2014Near post office, gold ring!\" Own-\non can have same by calling at China\nHall and paying costs.of advertising. 315-tf.\nSend to\nE.CNZZULE.nefit.\nNelson, B. c. For Cholc.\nChrysanthemums\nand Carnations\nAIM\nPataw, Ferw tail Flowering Fluti.\nArttftto Floral De\u00abtf&t t\/l W dMcrtp-\nHob Bcda tv9*: g^g^r^\nFOR SALE\u2014Delivery or. express outfit.\nTeam, hum ens, eloign-and wajjon. W. J.\nMcKIm, Chatham St., Fair view, Nelson.\nPhone 120. \u2022 211-6-\nFOR SALE\u2014Set new delivery sleighs. W.\nJ. McKlin. Chatham St., Fuirvlew, Nel*\naon. Phone 120. - : 2U-8.\nFOR SALE\u2014Good team of horses. Nelson\nBrewflry. IBtt-tf.\nFOR SALE\u2014Gasoline launch-25 feet long.\n6 foot beam, 12 h. p. engine in first class\ncondition. Price S4G0.W. Address Launch,\nThe Dally News. , 168-tf.\nPETERBORO MOTOR CANOEB WHICH\npromise to be ua famous an the world wide\nknown Peterboro.canoes They are superior In aea going quality and of beautiful'\nlines. We have them on the way, coma.\nand inspect. You will be pleased. Prices\nright. Sole agents. Lindsay's Boat House,\nfoot .Josephine 'street\nLOST\nLOST\u2014Between post office and Braid-\nwood's butcher store chain bracelet.\nPlease return to News offloe.\nLOST\u2014Either in the nost office or on\nWard, Water or Josenhino streets a\nbunch ot keys.. Finder please leave at\nNews Office. . S02-tf.\nLOST\u2014Right hand fur lined glove (Fownea\nmake), Monday, 28th Inst. Please return\nto 316 M Baker street 212-tf.\nNOTICE.\nWe beg to announce to our ouatomew\nthat the price of Bankhead (w^JSjT\nand stove coat will be advanced to POM\nAgents. Bankh\u00aba4 Mines, lxd\u201e Bang-\nneaa, Alto. , \"\"*\nRead Daily News Want Ads\n <\nOJNOAV .....\n>.' . ...\nJANUARYS\nCite \u00a7ttf*8 $Uro*.\nMOIIIVIH\nKootenay Coffee Co.\nDealers la all grade, and varieties of\nTeas and Coffee\nBoasters of high grade coffee.\nRouter, of hlga grub r\"\nThe beet In then household lax-\narte, at moderate price..\nFreeh routed coffee at 15c to\nMo per lb.\nTeu, all grade, end varieties,\nat 12.00 to S6o per lb.\nPure ground and whole aploee.\nBaking, powder, cocoa, cream Tartar, baking soda, flavoring extract..\nKootenay Coffee Go.\n306 Baker Street\nCanadian\nPACII-'IC\nChristmas Excursions\nNelson to any point In Ontario and\nQuebec west of Montreal and return\n$80.25\nThree Months'Limit\nTicket, on .ale daily December 1 to\nDecember 81,\nCorresponding low rate, to maritime\nprovince..\nXmas Ocean Rates\nNelson to Liverpool or London and\nreturn (148.76 to 1360 according to .hip\nand accommodation chosen.\nFive Months' Limit\nTickets on .ale dally November II\nto December 31.\nDally standard and. tourist sleepers,\nreservation, made, on application.\nFor rate, and other particular, call\nor write, ' ,\nJ. B. PROCTOR, D. P. A\u201e Calgary\nW. H. DEACON, O. P. A., Nelson\nChimney Sweep\nCleaning furnaces, pipes and stoves;\n, Also patting np stoves. Phone A114.\nJ. RADCLIFF\n...For quick-delivery of your. New Year's\npresents ring 'Phone 41 or any messenger\ncall box in the city. Full staff of boys\non band. Office open 8 a. tn, to 2 a. m.\nStart the New Y6ar\nWith a clean page and enjoy something you have not heretofore experl-\nI enced.\nDeal With Reputable Druggists\nenjoy the same treatment as your neighbor\u2014They deal here. A drug\nstore, it's an easy matter to call any store a drug store, but there Is a\nvast difference in stores termed as such. Our store Is a drug store\u2014\na store stocked with drugs and druggists sundries\u2014a store.who's druggists are experienced\u2014a store that is widely known as far above the\naverage store in our line\u2014a store that you are given every privilege\n''that is coming to you\u2014a store that is always waiting to comply with\nyour own command. You cannot compare our store with others In our\nline.\nWHY?\nBecause we pride ourselves with having the most complete stock.\nBecause we pride ourselves with having the largest drug trade.\nBecause we pride ourselves with having the most thoroughly equipped\nprescription department in the west.\nBecause we put up more prescriptions than any store in the city.\nBecause we give you better service than any store in the city.\nBecause you always have an experienced druggist to serve you.\nBecause wo guarantee every article we sell as the finest quality.\nWhen Your Doctor Comes\nDo you stop to think where he is going to have your 'medicine\nprepared? Do you know that you are getting what he prescribes? Do\nyou know your speedy recovery rests with the druggist who follows the\ndoctor's direction. He is the one you have to look to.\nWe Are Complimented\ndally on our promptness. On our all**.-. lo customers nut of town\nfolks, know of our neverfaillog attention, send your mall orders and he\nassured of receiving them as fast as the C. P. It. can get them to you.\nThey Don't Wait On Our Account\nCompetition is dally furnishing our success ladder with another\nWe Lead\nOthers Try to Follow\nPoole Drug Co, Ltd.\n'3\u00a7r3S98r*\"@989\u00a7SS\u00ae3S\u00a7*i\nFred Irvine & Co.\nA Few New Year Specials\nCommencing Monday we are going to sell and clean up the balance of\nour Winter stock regardless of price or cost, some of the bargains are\nLadles' tailor made cloth skirts which, are all new lines, latest styles at\n20 per cent, discount.\nA beautiful lot of black voile dtrectoire skirts satin trimmed at same discount, i\nWe have only a few ladies' costumes left these we will sell at bargain\nprlcee.\nWe have only 10 ladles' winter coats left, we will sell these at half price,\nall new style coats.\nAU Children's Coats at Half-Pricc\nBargain. In ladle.' black sateen waists, flannelette blouses. We also\nwill nil our ladle.' ellk waists, lace waists, nett waists at reduced prices.\nSee the bargains In ladies' black and colored sateen, and heather bloom\nunderskirts.\nWe have nothing left In our millinery department in ladles' trimmed or\npattern hat. as we are completely Bold out. But we will take orders and re-\ntrim your old hat. at'very low price..\nBargains in ladies' and children', underwear, skirts and drawers. Bargains\nIn wool comforters, quilts, blankets, dress materials' woolens wrapperettes or\nany winter line of goods,\nI Fred Irvine & Co.\nNELSON NEWS OF THE DAY\n\u00bb, There will be a meeting of the city\ncouncil as usual tomorrow night\nA eerie, of abort studies on Tenny-\n*on'. \"Idyll, of the Una:\" will he taken\nby W, 8. Clapham'a boy. clan during\nthe next tew week.. The subject this\nafternoon will be \"The coming of Arthur.\"\nHugh W, Robertson has moved Into\nnew offlceB at 419 Ward street.\nThe next social In connection with\nthe Churchman', club will be held, on\nWednesday next at 8.15 p. m. Progressive whlat will be the feature of the eve\nning after which there will be a \"fish\npond.\". The ladies will furnish refreshments.\nI. O. O. F, Kootenay lodge No. 16\nmeet tomorrow night at 7.30 In Oddfellow's hall. .\nAt the request of many who were un-\nable to he present at the concert given\nMETALS\nNew York, Jan. 2.\u2014Silver, 60%; Electro-\nlytic Copper, U% to 14%, (steady.\n' London, Jan. 2.\u2014filler, 23 3-16; Lead, \u00a318.\nJan. 2.-Closing- quotation.! on the New\nVork curb and Spokane exchange, report*\nltd by Mlghton and Cavanaugh ,\nBid Aiknd\nAlberta Coal.. . 10 .14\nB. C. Copper 8.50 8.68%\nelms. Dickens.. \t\nCan. Con. Smelters 80.00 05.00\nCopper King .*. .03 .04%\nDominion Copper..,. ~~\"\nOaihrnlth Coal\t\nGertie \u25a0.; .03 .03%\nGranby , 100.00 115.00\nHecla '. 3.00 3.50\nInternational Coal 72 .86\nKendall 1.10\nMissoula Copper 03% .03%\nNabob M\t\nCom Paul 01\nPanhandle 031\nRambler Cariboo 15\" .15%\nRex \u00ab7 .10%\nnowshoe 07% .07%\nSnowstorm, 2,12 2.13\nSullivan., j 00% .01%\nSullivan Bonds\t\nStewart k% ,75\nTamarack-Chesapeake a .t>6\nOPENING COPPER QUOTATIONS\n(Reported by McDermld and McHardy)\nGranby ',,' lOi.OO 108.00\nB. C: Copper 8.13% 8.37%\nDominion Copper .50 .63%\nlast Tuesday by the Churchman's club\nit has been decided to give a similar\nentertainment on the evening of Jan. 13.\nA meeting of the executive committee of the Churchman's club will be\nheld In the parish hall at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening.\nA rally, of the supporters of W. G.\nGillett candidate for mayor will be held\nIn his committee rooms on Monday\nnight at 8.30 'city time. All of the aldermanlc candidates and others will address the electors.'\nA public meeting will be held In the\nCongregational church, Stanley street,\nat 8 p. m. tomorrow, to consider the\nnecessary steps to petition the provincial government to secure tbe passage,\nat the next sitting of the legislature of\nan act giving to any municipality the\nprivilege of voting upon local option.\nThe meeting Js to be held under the\nauspices of the local option league of\nVancouver.\nA meeting of the local lodge of tbe\nScandinavian Aid and Fellowship Society of America will be held in the K.\nof P. hall at 8.30 city time, tomorrow\nevening at which there will be a large\nnumber of initiations. Election of officers for the ensiling year will also take\nplace and after the business meetitng a\nspct*]l will be held at which refreshments will be served. The committee\nwho have had the arrangements for the\nsocial in hand have left nothing undone\nthat would add to its success and a gen.\neral good time is assured all who may\nattend. Ladles desirous of aiding the\norganization of a sister's lodge of the\norder here are especially invited to attend the social.\nA conference to discuss questions relating to both rati and steamship transportation In the Kootenay district will\nbe held on Thursday next the 7th Inst.\nThe following offlicals of the C. P, R.\nwill be present: Allan Purvis, superintendent of the Nelson district; capt. J.\nC. Gore, superintendent of the lake\nservice; J. lirownlee, superintendent at\nCranbrook; T. Kirkpatrick, superintendent at Revelstoke; J. B. Procter, district passenger agent at Calgary, aud\nR. Larmour, general freight agent for\nthe Nelson district. Hoth railway and.\nsteamship, passenger and freight service questions will be discussed. It Is\nhoped that this conference will be the\nbeginning of a series of regular monthly meetings between representatives of\nthe various districts In this vicinity and\nthat the services generally will be\ngreatly improved by such discussions.\nMuscular Pains Cired.\n\"During the summer of 1903 I was troubled with muscular pains In the Instep of\nmy foot,\" says Mr. S. Pedlar, of Toronto.\nOnt. \"At times it was so painful I could\nhardly walk. Chamberlain's Pain Balm\nwas recommended to me, so I tried It and\nwas completely cured by one small bottle.\nI have, since rcccotnmended It to several\nof my friends, all of whom-apeak highly\nof it.\" For sale by all druggists and dealers . _;\t\nHeavy Lou by Fire.\nSKOWHAGEN. Jan. I\u2014A stubborn tire\ndestroyed and damaged three 'business\nTo Bay\na topcoat, overcoat or raincoat\u2014There's\nno place like Emorv & Wailey's.\nTo Boy\na pair of trousers for any purpose \u2014\nThere's no place like Emory & Wailey's.\nTo Boy\na stylish, correct hat\u2014There's no place\nlike Emory & Wailey's.!\nTo Boy\nchoice toggery of any sort\u2014There's no\nplace like Emory ft Wailey's.\nTo Boy\nwearables at fair prices\u2014There's no\nplace like Emory ft Wailey's.\nPointers, That's All\nEMORY & WALLEY\nNelson. RC\nShowing a first class moving\n\u25a0 picture entertainment together\nwith comfort and safety.\nChange Monday, Wednesday and\nFriday.\nPROGRAM:\nMonday and Tuesday\nA Venetian Tragedy\n2000 Miles Without a Dollar.\nWhy the Wedding was Put Off.\nKind Grandfather.\nPrudence Eden will sing\nContinuous performance 7 to\n10.30; matinees Wednesday and\nSaturday 2 to 5.\nADMISSION:\nAdults 15e\nChildren 10c\nblocks nnd burned five tenement houses\non Water stireot in the heart of this town\ne(J|r]y today. Two of 1\/ e houses were\nBlown up with dynamite In an effort to\ntahech tho rirogress of the (hunt's and it\nWas only niter eight hours work that the\nlocal lire department assisted by apparatus\nflroiw Watervllle nnd Fairfield succeeded\nIn bringing the flrrf under control. The lose\nis estimated at about (400,000.\nLOCAL MARKETS\nON THE STREET,\nNELSOX. Jan. *..\nMEAT AND POULTRY\nHams, per lb $ .20\nUiicon. net' lb 3>\nBeef, per lb 8 to .20\nPork, dressed 12Uj to .19\nMutton, dressed, per lb 10 to .20\nVeal per lb 12^4 to .20\nTurkeys, per lb .26\nChickens, per-lb 22 to SB\nGoose, per lb .20\nDucks, pfer lb .23\nFISH\nHalibut, per lb 12*6 to .15\nSnlmon. pi-f lb ..!?\u00ab. to ,lfi\nManitoba White Fish, per lb ....12H to .15\nBloaters, per lb .15\nSmoked Herring, per lb .'\t\nSmoked Halibut, per lb \t\nSmoked Salmon, per Ih\t\nFinnan Huddle, ner lb\t\nHerring, per Ih\t\nSmolts, per lb 1214\nMINCE MEATS.\nBU lb. pail\t\n12*4 lb. pail \t\n2S lb. pull\t\nOYSTERS\nEastern, per quart j\t\nOlympia, per quart\t\nFOODSTUFFS\nLake of the Woods, per bag\t\nRoyal Household\t\nPurity Flour \t\nRising Sun....\t\nGold Drop .,\t\nHay, American timothy \t\nDAIRY PRODUCE\nButter, creamery, per lb \t\nButter, hulk, per lb\t\nButter, dairy, per lb\t\nChoese, Canadian, per lb..\t\nCheese, Swiss, per lb\t\nEggs, fresh, per dozen \t\nEggs, case, per doz \t\nLard, per lb 15 to\nVEGETABLES\nPotatoes, new, per bag \t\nCarrots, per lb \t\nBeets, per lb\t\n2,00\n2.00\n2.00\nAlan Block,\nBaker St\nTo the Electors of the City\nof Nelson\nLadies and Gentlemen:\nI am a candidate for the mayoralty\nof this city for the year 1909.\nI am In favor of a progressive policy\nfor the city.\nI stand for the re-establishment of\nthe car service, either by the municipality or by private enterprise, holding myself free to take either course according as the best interests of the city appear to dictate.\nFor the extension of the corporation\nlimits to include the adjacent and rapidly growing suburbs, with a view to\nthe completion of tbe present sewerage,\nwater and light systems.\nFor the rapid completion of the power\nplant and for the distribution of power\nto new and old industries at the lowest\npossible rate.\nFor the proper completion of the\nschool buildings.\nFor a more general adoption of the\nfrontage tax system, as applied to\nstreet improvements, as sidewalk construction, boulevarding, etc.\nFor the general beautifying of the\ncity, especially improvement ef tbe\nparks, so that the public of Nelson, and\nparticularly the children, may receive\nthe full benefit of money already expended in park Improvement and in the\nbuilding of the car line.\nOn the grounds set forth above and\non my past record I ask for the support\nof all electors of the city who believe\nwith me in the future of Nelson and\nare willing to embark upon a progressive policy.\nW. G. GILLETT.\nNelson, B. C, Dec. 9, 1908.\nOnions ;\nCabbage, per lb M\nSweet potatoes, per lb 0\nFRUITS\nOranges, per doz 85 to .60\nBananas *) to .50\nLemons, per doz 25 to .40\nGreen Apples, per lb 00\nCranberries, per lh 20\n1.75\n. .a\n. 3\nGood Cough Medicine for Children.\nThe season for coughs and colds -is now\nat hand and too much care ennnot be used\nto protect the children. A child is much\nmore likely to contract diphtheria or sear-\nlet fever when he has a i>oW .The quicker\nyou cure his cold Ihe less the risk. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Die sole reliance of many mothers, and few of those\nwho have tried It are willing to use any\nother\/ Mrs. F. F, Sturdier, of Riploy, W.\n. , says: \"I have never used any other\nthan Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for my\nchildren and it has always given good satisfaction.\" Tills remedy contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given as\nconfidently to n child as to an adult. For\nsale by all druggists and dealers.\nMlnard's Liniment cures Garget in cows\nThe new Edison records for January and\nVictor records for December are to hand\nat W. G. Thomson's Bookstore.\nEverybody smokes at the Old Chum Cigar Store. Leu Matthew, proprietor.\nTho full Hut of Harry Lauder records, In\nboth discs nnd cylinders are \u00abow In stock\nat W. G. Thomson's Bookstore. 215-2\nHouses\nFor Rent\nS-roomed house on Carbonate street $11\nSmall furnished house In Pairvlew $18\nFor Sale,\nLarge house tn splendid condition on\nCarbonate street. Three lots planted\nwith bearing trees cloBe In, splendid\nvalue '.. \u00bb3400\nLands\nWe Will Sell\n500 Acres\nNear Trail on Columbia rlrer, long\nriver frontage, good' creek runs through\nproperty.\nA Sn\u00abp--$ 12.00 per Acre\nStocks\nWe have clients who want\n10 Consolidated - - $65\n2 War Scrip - - $400\nMeDERMID & McHARDY\nBaker Street, Nelson, or\n210, Portage Ave., Winnipeg\ni,Mt\u00bb>M.MHM,WIMM\u00bbM\u00bbMMnt>MM<>MH. >\n PAGE ilOHT\n\u00a9he \u00aea\\\\& Sleim\n\u2022UNDAY JANUARY t\nTo Let\nAt $25 a month. 5-roomed furnish*\ned house In good location, (or full\nparticulars, apply immediately to\nH. \u00a3. Croosdoile\n<& Co.\nBudding Sites\nCentral locations, suitable for\n\u25a0tores, factories, apartment\nhouses, residences, etc.\nTo encourage building the only\ntax levied on improvements (In\nthe city) Is one mill on assesssed\nvalue.\nHouses and Lots\nIn all parts of the city and suburbs.\nLand\nFor market gardens and poultry,\netc., on wagon road near the city.\nF. B. LYS\nReal Estate Agent, 315 Baker St.\nHAND PICKED\nCROW'S NEST COAL\nGOOD DRY WOOD GAIT COAL\nCity Transfer\nSll Baker St. Phone IT\nNELSON NEWS Of THE DAY\nA. C. Lttckmund ot Arrowhead Is a\nguest at the Stmtliconft.\nT*he coast train was five hours Into lost\nnight having, been delayed on the main\nline.\nMrs. J. L. Warner, Wife of the eminent\nengineer returned last night alter a visit\nto relatves in New York.\nTheMcCaualand shoe store has moved\nfrom the premises next to Choquette Bros,\nto 403 Baiter street opposite.\nTlie executive of the bout club are holding a meeting tomorrow at 6 p. in. at tho\nBell Trading company's store,\nThe annual convention of the British\nColumbia. Conservative association la to\nbe held in Victoria on January U3.\nA meeting of the Woman's Hospital Aid\nsociety -will be held In tho schoolroom of\nthe Presbyterian church at U p .in., city\ntime tomorrow,\nMr. and Mrs. A. D. Wheeler returned\nhoma to Ainswonth yesterday after spending the Christmas- and new yean s hull\ndays In the city.\nAn entertainment will he given In the\nBaptist church on Tuesday evening at 8\no'clock by the children, of thu Baptist\nSunday school.\nOwing to pressiier of space an article on\nthe scenic attractions or Kootenay by H,\nW. Power has been omit led from this\nIssue but Will appear Inter.\n, A full attendance of the members of the\nGood Templars is requested at a meeting\nto ibe held In K. of P. hull for church parade at 7 o'clock, city time, tonight.\nRev. M. E. Anderson of Tacbma, Wash-\nwill meiich in Swedish in the Methodist\nflhUreh at 1 o'clock this afternoon. All\nScandinavians are invited to attend.\nA. K. Sillier who for the past five years\nA E. Mfllerwho for the past five years\nhas been principal of the public schools at\nItevelstoke lias been appointed an Inspector of public, schools Itu- the province of\nBritten Columibla.\nThe whole of yesterday's Issue of The\nDaily News wns disposed of before noon\nand the management hod W beg back a\ncouple of papers for theofllce ill,?. The\nmayor's mensiig.-! an>f.'ar.s to have attracted great attention In Nelson.\nA new provincial police district known\nas the Boundary district and including the\nterrltoTv comprising the electoral ridings\nof Grnnd Forks, Geenwood and Siinlka-\nmeen will be formed from the present provincial police districts of Nelson, Kamloops\nand Vernon, i\n'\u25a0\"The sacrament of .the Lord's, supper wi||\nbe dlspenst*d nt the morning aorVoo in1\nBt. Paul's Presbyterian church today. At\nthe evening sen-Ice there fill DB a church\nparade of the t 0. U. T.. ChurchhilVB\nantliem \"Behold I Bring You Good Tidings\" will be in part repeated.\n\u25a0The earthquake in Italy, a parable for\nthe Hew year.\" Is the subject of the fier-\nmon to *be preached by Rev. It Newton\nPowell in the Methodist church tihtn eycn-\ning. The Christmas music will he re-\nncatetl in part. In the morning, the subject is, \"A Motto for 1909.\" The saarament\nof the Lord's mrppcr will he administered.\nAll Christian people are welcome to thla\naacramental service.\nThe now tllms at the Empire tomoriiow\n\u25a0wll consist of the following dramatic and\nHumorous mib-jeds: \"A Venetian Tragedy,\" \"3100 Miles Without a Dollar,\" \"Why\nthe Wedding was put Off,\" nnd \"Kind\nGrandfather.\" Prudence Eden will as\n\u25a0usual sing an Illustrated song. Two of the\n.special films to be shown during the rest\nof the week will be \"The In ten-national\nHorse Show\" nnd a hnndpainted romance\n' entitled \"The Waters of Life, \"\nNelson l(*dge Knights of Pythias are\nmaking preparations to hold a public ln-\n\u2022ttellttton of officers for the coming term on\njanunry 12. The members and officers of\nthe Ymir lodge have been Invltod to be\npresent. The Installation ceremony for\ntooth lodges will be performed by past\nSy R. G. Joy. <*\"\u25a0\u2022 R-, T>r. W. O. Hose. R.\ni Steel and others. Reports of tho officers for the past term will be read, en\n\u2022nterUliunlent given and refreshments will\nbe served The Pythian Bisters will be\npresent and a general Invitation to the\npublic Is extended.\nJ. H. Wallace\nMen's Outfitters.\nWishes all his many customers a Merry Christmas\nand a Happy and Prosperous New Year\ni.i........,.,,,...........\nFor Rent\nA seven roomed residence on\nCarbonate street containing 3\nbed room and bath room, din*\nIng room, parlor, kitchen, pantry and basement, furnace and\nelectric light (27 per month.\nA five roomed cottage on the\ncorner of Stanley and Observatory streets containing two bed\nrooms, dining room, parlor,\nkitchen, bath room and pantry,\nelectric light, $20 per month.\nOffices in old Bank of Com*\nmerce building.\nH. & N. BIRD j\nNelson, B. C.\n....,.>><*........... *.....\nArchie Kay of Nelson won the mile roes\nat Iho roHer rtns lost evening. Lnrlo 11c-\nnae tho other conteatant waa In the leau\nfor tho tlrat nnurte but tell and waa passed\nhy Kay who retained hla lead to the end.\nMcltae la open to accept a challenBe up\nto J1W from any local skater. Several en-\ntrlea hnve been received for a ladles race\nat the rink nest Saturday night.\nNEW PARISH HAU.\nOld School Will bs Pitted by St. Mary's\nChurch.\niriliic Althoff. whoa tender for the old\nschool bulldlns h\u00bb\u00bb been accepted by tho\nschool board. Intends to convert hla port\nS Into a parish hell In connection with\nSt\"Mary's church. The structure wll bo\nmoved Win Its pesont alto ond Placed In\npoaltlon on Mill street between the church\nnnd St. Joseph's convent\nA. Carrie Li now enunBOd upon the plana\n(or the foundation of the hall .which \u00bb.\u00bb\nbo of the following dimensions: SOxJIxll.\nTo building Is lo he completely furnlahed\nSS room which will be Bitted1 up\nwltlh a Bailor)- and st.-iBe for entertainments, etc. nnd a basement will ha excavated later nnd used tor the purpose of\nMiumiuli such as billiards, bowls and\nL'vmnastle oxercls\u00bbs. Tenders for the renin\u2122! of Ihe building to the now location\nare now being culled for.\nFIRE RECORD FOR YEAR\nTHREE SERIOUS BLAZES SWELL\nTHE TOTAL\nIMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS\nTO BRIGADE\nThomas Den*ry, chief of the flro department Tor the year IMS, submits the follow-\nIng report for tho past year of Uie\nwork of the brigade. . '\nTlio firemen nnd horses hnve suffered no\nInjury of any kind nnd there has 1>een no\nloss of life or serious injury to anyone attributable to lire. Xo toulldinff In the\nresidential section n-nd only one in the\nwhole city has been destroyed by fire.\nGreat attention has been paid to tho prevention as well as to the extinguishing or\nDuring the year 1908 a new hall has been\nopened on Observatory street, covering the\nresidential district, anil a team of horses\nwith a combined truck and hose wagon\nhas. been Installed there. This ha-s been\ndono at small expense and o. permanent\ndriver Id .kept In tho new hall with two\npermanent men on night duty, without increasing: the force. A hose cart and 600\nfeet of hose have been taken from Observatory street and placed on Front street,\nforming a substation there witch covers the wholesale district. A team of\nhorses and 500 feet of first class hose have\nbeen purchased giving the department\n3,500 feet of hose for emergencies.\nTo one and alt we wlih a Happy\nand Prosperous New Year.\nCabinet Cigar Store\nQ. \u25a0.MATTHEW\nSeasonable Gifts\nA choice selection ot articles\nsuitable for Christmas presents,\nconsisting of\nSmokers' Sundries\nLeather Goods\nLadies' Hand Bags\n\u2014AT\u2014\nHotel Home\nNews Stand\nIt may be mentioned that in spite of tho\nhigh water pressure in tho business, section of the city no hose has burst at a\n(Ire or at a drill. Twelve fire alarm boxes\nhave been purchased and are now being\nInstalled. The coming year should not\nbe an expensive one as the city owns a\nfirst clnss equipment and every thing needed In the way of hydrants, appliances and\nrunning gear,\nThere have been 27 alarms and fires compared with 23 In 1907. The loss Incurred\nthrough fie totals $11,241 against $2,470 In\n1907. Tills increased loss Is accounted tot\nby three serious blazes which have taken\nplace at the substation, the Wood-Vallanco\nHardware warehouse and at the street\ncar barncs respectively These have alone\naccounted for losses amounting to over\n$40,000.\n(fire record\u20141901 to 1908, Inclusive.)\nSept. 7. 'box 21, Are at 11:40 p. m. Box\nof rublsh burning at rear of Wood-Val-\nInnce store. Josephine street. Cause unknown. No loss.\nSopt. 14. 11:30 p. m. Test alarm turned in\nby mayor and council from box 32.\nSept. 23, telephone alarm. Fire at Club\nhotel, corner of Stanley and Silica streets.\nCause defective chimney. Loss $5.\nSpot 28, d a. m,, telephono alarm. Tire at\n, Grnnd Cential hotel, corner of Ward and\nVernon streets. Cause\u2014lodger placing electric light in bed) and setting fire to boding. Loss $10. Insurance $12,000. Insurance over loss. $11,995.\nWe Have Moved\nOur New Address is 419 Ward St\nwhere we will tip pleased to welcome all our clients arid friends.\nWe can supply you with Insurance policies\/ covering fire, life,\naccident, sickness and health, employers' liability and plate glass\nat lowest rates and in reliable\ncompanies.\nREAL ESTATE\u2014Houses and\nlots In the city and suburbs also\nthe very best of fruit land..\nMONEY\u2014To build, Improve or\nbuy, yourself a home. Get particulars and use your rent money\nto build. ,\nWe can Invest your.money on\nfirst clasB security and get you big\ninterest.\nSouth African land scrip, purchased.\nHugh W. Robertson\nPhone AM, Bex M4, Nelson, S.C\nHappy New Year\n. To our many friends and patrons who have helped to make the past\nyear and particularly the Christmas holiday season so successful.\nProfiting by our experience we hope to make our business this year\neven better than previous and'respectfully ask your cooperation that It\nmjay continue to be mutually advantageous.\nJ.O.PATENAUDE\nMANUFACTURING JEWELER, WATCHMAKER AND OPTICIAN.\nBaker Street\nNelson, B. C.\nMmmmmtMcmoum\nMoney Makers for Wise Ones\nDouble house close In, nays over 20 per cent, price $1100; only 1801\ncash.\n97 acres with railway and steamer service; 75 per cent good; station; post office; .We at your gate; some improvements. 12500; small\ncasta payment.\nWOLVERTON A CO., Baker Street\nMen's\nDress Shoes\nWe're on the threshold of the\nsocial season, and every correct\ndresser will be interested In'\nsomething choice in full dress\nfootwear.\nWe wish to say we are showing some snappy styles In\nmen's dress footwear. Both in\npatent and plain leathers.\nThe Royal\nShoe Specialists.\nSept. 29, telephone alarm. Bush fire, no\nOct 10,11:30 a. m.. telephone alarm. Fire\nat frame founding, corner of Btanley and\nVictoria streets. Cause, sack of tooaoco\nIgniting from tire tn stove. Loas ^\u25a0insurance J1600. Inmirunfio over loss S14SS.\nOct 18, 6:60 ip .m.. Fire .at frame warehouse, Water street. Owners, Wood-Val-\nlance Hardware company. Cause unknown. Losb on building1 nm -.I**'JB?1\nstock ItLMB. Insurance on buildintr 11600;\nvalue of building 12500. Insurance on\nstock (\u00a39.000. Vahie of stock \u00bbW,00. Insurance paid on''building J1200; on stock\n$11,915. Inaunancu over losses, *lt>,2bB.\n\u25a0Oct; 1% 10; a* ,m.. box \u00bb. Fire at woo4-\n\u2022#^cc. 13. 4:05 p. m., telephone and \u00abox 23*\nFire at kitchen of Silver King hotel. No.\n418 Baker street. Cause unknown. Loss on\nbuilding $490; on contents $183. Insurance\n$9000. Insurance over losses $3,227.\nFires and Alnrhw during 190B.\n\u25a0 Jan. 7, H:W a. m. A telephono alarm\nfrom the residence of R. W. Hannington,\nCarbonate Street. Causa overheated stove\nprpe,.iNo loss. \u25a0 ' ;\nJan. 10, 6:15 p. m, telephone alarm. Firs\nat residence or Oapt . I\nfeed oats, good clean bran, erushM\noatr and barley, whole flax, Unseed \u2022\nmeal, Pratt's animal regulator, In fact\nmost everything a horse can desire.\nThe Brackman-Ker\nMilling Co., lid.\nWe wish to thank pur many friends and customers\nfor their liberal patronage during 1908, and wish\nthem a. Happy and Prosperous New Year in 1909\nBELL TRADING CO.\nm Hmmmtmimmmmmm \\.m mum\n\u25a0iirnrnr mm\nA Happy N^vv Year\nTo All\nNelson Hardware Co.\n802 Baker St,\nNelson, B. C.\n&MMNM\nmmmmmme\u00bbmBM*HtammKMtm\nAMILT0N\nJ .. \t\nA Happy New Year\nWe have a fine assortment of goods suitable for\nholiday gifts luoludlng\nSKATES 8AFETY RAZORS\nCASE CARVERS POCKET KNIVES\nCUTLERY, ETC., ETC.\nWood-Vallance Hardware Co., Limited\nWINNIPEG\nNEL80N, a C.\nWholesale\nRetail\nTORONTO\nVANC0UYH\nFor Ten\nPrc-lnvcntory Sale E**,1\nSale begins this mornlug. We are going, to take stock about Jan.\n5th, hence this ten days \u25a0 \u25a0 ' I\nGreat Price-Cutting Sale\nWe are are not going to take into consideration the cost or value of\nany article. This sale calls for a sweeping disposal, The power ot price\nis one of the Inducements.\n30 Per Cent. Less Than Regular Price\n' i ii ' ii-ii \u25a0\"\u2022 t\nCanada Drug & Book Co., Ltd. n^si\nNelson's Oreatcst Store\nUi\nI >|MllllHMIIlillllMMII. \u25a0\nWe will mall a copy of ttiti isMe\nof The Daily Newa to aay pert of \\\nCanada, the United States, o\u00bb the\n< United Kingdom fotfOc\nLet tn haw yoot otdef at once.\nThe Dally News,\nNelson, B.C\n,S,,M> I H,M<\u00bb>IHMM>.\n^\u00abtaM\u00abS\ndWSSMSB\n Fruit Growing Section\nTHE DAILY NEWS\nNELSON, B. c, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1909\nYALE-KOOTENAY FRUIT INDUSTRY\nBy MARTIN BURRELL, M. P.\nThe past year has been marked by\n\u2022 steady Increase of British Columbia\norchard acreage, a large output of fruit,\ngreater attention to Improved methods\nof culture, and also, one has to admit,\nsome discouragements in regard to financial returns. These discouragements are, t believe, only of a temporary character, and will be touched on\ntowards the end of this article. Mean.\nwhile those who are Interested In tn\ndevelopment of our horticultural industry have ample ground's for the must\nbuoyant faith In its future. It has been -j\no marvellous development, and the more\nso from the fact that It is practically\nwithin tbe last decade that anything\nlike a great Industry of this kind has\ncome into existence. Within' the memory of living men the first fruit trees\nwere planted In the province which is\ndestined to achieve so prominent a place\nin the world with Its orchard products.\nSir James Douglas, then James Douglas,\nchief factor of the Hudson Bay com-\npany, obtained a few trees from Washington territory either in 1849 or 1850\nand planted a small orchard near what\nIs now known as Victoria. Somewhat\nlater John Work, grandfather of Mr,\nTolme, the present deputy minister of\nmines, also planted a small orchard,\nand between 1865 and 1875 the Indians\nwere In the habit of coming round and\npaying 25 cents a bucket for the fruit\nof these trees. In the interior of tbe\nprovince one of the SrBt plantings was\nby the Mission fathers ot the Okanagan\nwho brought their trees over the Hope\nmountains. The veteran Thomas Earle\nof Lytton was another who In the sixties planted fruit trees, and who lived\nto see tbe industry, ot which he then\nforesaw the potential possibilities, grow\nto its present dimensions.\nToday we'have between fifty and\nsixty thousand acres In orchard, have\nachieved an International reputation for\n\u25a0 our fruit, and our people are clearing\nthe wilderness and vigorously continuing'the work of converting the wild\nlandB and cattle ranges of this great\nprovince into the Orchard of the Empire.\nThe Kettle River valley, in the centre of which Is the thriving little city\not Grand Forks, dates Its first orchard\nplanting back to the early eighties, the\nname of W. H. Covert being inevitably\nassociated with the earlier worko of a\nhorticultural kind. With the recognition ot Its adaptability for fruit tbe valley woke up, and for the past two or\nthree years planting has gone rapidly\non, there being at the present time\nseveral orchards of from fifty to one\nhundred acres In extent, the heaviest\nplanting being of winter apples. During\nthe past season about 35 carloads have\nbeen produced In the valley, finding a\nmarket partly of a local nature, but\nlargely being shipped to the Northwest\nand Australia.\nThe development going on In the Kettle valley Is a type of the development\nelsewhere in the interior. To the Kootenay I need not refer as it is dealt with\nby otherB In this paper, but will point-\nout briefly the rapid Increase in orchard\nacreage In other interior ponits. The\ncountry along the upper Fraser will\nsome day without doubt be a great fruit\nproducing district. In Llllooct during\nthe past season I was shown five sped-\n* mens of Wolf River apples, the smallest\none of which weighed 26 ounces and\nthe largest 31 ounces, and of a glorious\ncolor. This district, however, Is at the\npresent time without transportation facilities and commercial orchard work\nwill be retarded for a time. In the Ash-\ncroft country are some good orchards,\nand some very large holdings are now\nbeing sub-divided for fruit purposes.'\n. This section, In common with moat ot\nthe Interior points, la essentially a district where Irrigation must play a necessary and important part. In the\nneighborhood of Kamloops there are\nabout 1,000 acrea under fruit, a considerable portion of which 1b situated up\ntha North Thompson, much ot it not\nyet In full hearing. The Salmon Arm\ndistrict has now thoroughly proved It-\nself aa an excellent fruit country and\nthis year will have shipped out at lesat\n80 cars of excellent fruit. Spence'B\nBridge has grown some ot the best fruit\nIn the province, and eastward through\nthe Nicola valley the tree fever Is\nspreading. Southward, throughout the\nSimllkameen, tbore 1b much development, especially In tbe Keremos country. Here the veteran, Frank Rtchter,\nwas the Brat planter, bringing his trees\nby pack horse across the Hope mountains under all kinds of drawbacks and\ndifficulties. Today hundreds of acres\nof young orchards are In existence and\none of the best built irrigation ditches\nis almost completed, a ditch which will\nbring Water from Ashnola creek, eight\nmiles away, and crossing the Simllkameen river in a big pipe, subsequently\nwinds Its way along the base ot the big\nhills Into the Keremeos valley whose\ndry but' fertile soil eagerly awaits the\ndelivery of the much needed water.\nTo describe the Okanagan country In\ndetail would take too long and one can\nonly point out roughly what has been,\nand Is being, done In this, the greatest\norchard section of B. C. at the present\ntime.' I should, place the acreage under\norchard between Bnderby and Pontic-\nton at about 18,000' acres, the larger\npart ot which Is, of course, not yet In\nbearing, in the Armstrong district are\nMOO sores, of Which probably 85 per\n- fli\n\u25a0 ''s'v'-\"''\" '\u25a0'-:.,.. i\nIi\nw\nJp$.\nlev\n-\": ll\nfj\nWBl !ar-^* . ^H\nm\u00a3'$l :'\u00abttski '.atasatl-'\n' ' |||||T|lsj|'sMiif'\n!*\"\u25a0\"\u25a0 :\n^*\n\"Sc;\nYJ\"'v>-\n\u2022\" ^iS&trtirft?- '\u25a0\njy,rWW>v \".\".' \u25a0 \" :w~ '\u2022 \" \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0\\\\\nW ' 'r-^tzt \u25a0' s nts\u00bb-\nB- *\n' ^\nF\n\\r ^W- l'--z\n_J\u00bbt_\u00ab.\niWtpm\n**\n\u20145BJ\n^d!A'*>i'.'*:>;'; \u25a0>\u25a0' '\u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0'\u25a0 '-^i$$i\n\">\u00ab-* *5s?,'\u00ab*S\u00a7\nlis*\nSa\n^3rJs3xU\n^J^J\n\\>* y\n^y , ^~* \"\ni\n9 %\n7\n\u25a0st?\n':\u25a0\u25a0\nrfiB^^P\n^J' \u2014*\n3\nass*\n|i-.,-\"'A.\nN^|yr >\u00ab\u00abi\n^\"''\\S^^s':'->|\n\u25a0.;\u25a0\u25a0\u00bb\n>k\nfa,.-- ;.;f';j-,-:.- _,-\u00ab\"\"\u25a0 ' - -\u25a0\u2022\u25a0\nI!\n\u2022,\u2022\n>>\nS&5&' . if aWfflBSBrWSaa,^ - '. %\u25a0}[ ..., VXBBPWUaOML.\nKOOTENAY PEACHE8 DISPLAYED AT NEL80N FRUIT FAIR, 1908.\ncent, would be apples. 15 carloads were\nshipped this season. In the Vernon district, where the Coldstream company\nhas done so much good work, not only\nfor the Okanagan but for the whole\ncountry, there are between three and\nfour thousand acres In fruit, of which\nI judge 70 per cent to be apples. About\n90 cars would represent the product,\nthe great bulk of this being from the\nColdstream estate. The varieties chiefly grown are Jonathan, Wagner, Newtown Pippin, Spitzenburg, Rome Beauty\nfor winter, and for the earlier kinds\nDuchess, Mcintosh Red, Wealthy and\nCox's Orange. Of a large block of the\noldest Wealthy trees on the Coldstream\nthis season an amount of fruit was\ntaken which averaged gross sales of $19\nper tree. Thorough cultivation U practised, and the acreage yet available for\nplanting In this district would probably\nrun to thirty thousand acres. Between\n{his point and Ketowna are some big\norchards and some very promising fruit\nsections. At Kelowna, which has made\na splendid showing at Spokane recently,\nthere are somewhat over 3,000 acres In\nfruit and the shipments this year\namounted to 800 tons of the tree fruit\nalone. About 30,000 acres are well\nadapted for fruit tn the Immediate district. Here the percentage of apples to\nother fruits would be about 70. Stirling\nand Pitcalrn are the principal growers\nand packers and have done much towards the securing of a first'class name\nfor British Columbia products in the\noutside market. Below Kelowna we get\ninto the peach country, touching it first\nat Peachland where about 500 acres are\nunder fruit, with about 85 per cent,\npeaches, and half the trees already In\nbearing. There was a splendid production there this season and growers\nare thoroughly alive to the buBinesB\nside of their work,\nAt Summerland, the next southerly\npoint, we come to a development which\nIs simply astonishing. Seven years ago\na cattle ranch owned by Mr. George\nBarclay was taken hold of by the far-\nseeing and indefatigable J. M. Robinson\nwho Induced outsiders to invest and\nbuild up what he believed would make\na magnificent country. Today there are\nbetween two and three thousand acres\nunder orchard, about half of which consists of peaches, and the municipality\nof Summerland itself has an assessed\nvalue of over one million dollars. Growers here have already seen the wisdom\nof accompanying their production of\npeaches with the establishment of twining establishments and this enterprise\nIs likely to assume large proportions\nIn the near, future. .\nPentlcton, the most southerly portion\nof the Okanagan valley, is also making\n(huge strides, and, largely owing to the\nenergy displayed by the Southern\nOkanagan land company, has, now\nnearly one thousand acres under fruit,\nchiefly peaches. Moat of the orchard!\nhere will commence bearing next year.\nThroughout the Okanagan are irrigation works, some of them ot great\nmagnitude, notably In the case of tha\nGrey, canal at Vernon, w&lch will probably cost over 8800,000 before completion but which will bring nearly 90,000\nacres of land under cultivation.\nThis brief description will give readers some rough Idea of the hoWthy\nlines along which this industry Is progressing outside the Kootenay district,\nana it might be well to touch, lor aloe-\nIns, on other, aspects of tha industry.\nWe have now passed' long ago tha ax*\nperlmental stage aa far aa tha production goes. It hiss been abundantly\nproved that nearly every section of tha\ninterior can produce a magnificent\nclass of fruit with ordinary methods of\nculture and due care In the suppression\nof all pests, it remains for us to secure the desired financial results.\nTha present time may M retarded\nas a period of transition. Co-operative\nmethods are being adopted but are by\nno means perfected. , In many districts\nthe fruit produced 1b not sufficient to\nmake co-operation effective, or to grapple with the market difficulties on *\nsatisfactory basis. It may seem to be\nthe few hundred which were the output during the past season. When that\nday arrives, and it will not be long,\nquestions of transportation, of co-operation and of distribution will be more\nreadily adjusted than they are today.\nMeanwhile anything wihlch can tend to\ncan be helped, and without dealing\nwith the first two one might point out\nthat the growers of B. C. have been put\nto an unfair advantage In regard to\ntbe third during the past season. In\nthe great Northwest market, which\nmuBt always remain our principal mar-\nAN APPLE DISPLAY\u2014KASLO FRUIT FAIR, KASLO, B. C.\na paradox but It is a fairly safe statement to say that the province generally will be In a better position in dhe\n\u25a0great outside markets when it has two\nthousand carloads to ship instead of\npave the way for a profitable market\non a b'ig scale should be looked after.\nTransportation, the tariff, and thorough\ninspection are the three chief ways in\nwhich tha market end of the industry\nket, we have been face to face with a\nsevere competition from Washington\nand Oregon, a competition wHiich we\nshall always (have to reckon with, but\nwhlie the B. C. fruit grower must ne\ncessarily expect to take his chances\nagainst the Wahlngton grower, provld-\ned the product is equal in character, he\nhas a perfect legitimate grievance if it\nis not equal. It is true that the big\ncrop on the other side of the line this\nyear, and the fact that the industrial\nconditions ot the United States had not\nentirely recovered from the depressed\ncondition of last winter did to some extent account for the lowering of the\nprices in our market this fall. But we\nare confronted with a somewhat peculiar state of things inasmuch as we\nhave a Fruit Marks act to the provisions of which we as growers are\ncompelled to live up, while the act cannot reach the American competitor.\nThere is abundant evidence that an\nimmense amount of fruit lias come to\nour prairie markets unmarked, and, In\na manner, ungraded as our own is. We\nhave reason, too, for believing that\nmuch of this fruit is marked and sold\nas No. 1 when It could hardly do more\nthan hold Its own in quality with our\nNo. 2. This is an anomaly which should\nbe remedied, not only In the Interest of\nthe B. C. grower but of that of the\nprairie consumer. Apparently the\nwholesale houses, Borne of the largest\nof which are American, mark the fruit\nthemselves, and it is perfectly obvious\nthat with only one Inspector In Manitoba and one In the other two prairie\nprovinces adequate inspection of all\nthis imported fruit must be to a large\nextent farcical. Growers as a unit should\nbring the strongest, pressure to beur\nto see that the Fruit Marks act Is rigidly carried out against tbe Imported\nfruit.\nNot a case of American fruit should\nbe allowed to leave the wholesaler until it is marked, packed and graded In\na way that absolutely complies with\nour act. Fair competition we must expect to meet, unfair competition we\nshould not stand for a minute. In conclusion one may say again that the\ndrawbacks or discouragements which\nin some cases have been experienced\nthis year are to a great extent of a\ntemporary kind, and are such as hns\nbeen experienced by every section on\nthe continent in the initial stages of\nthe Industry. We have caiiBe for gratification in surveying the present status\nof horticulture In B. C, and with the\nexpansion and growth of the Immense\ncountries east of the Rockies and the\nproper distribution of our orchard products, the outlook Is of a most hopeful\ncharacter.\nMARKETING OF FRUIT.\nBy James Johnstone, Nelaon, B. C.\nIn compliance with the request of The\nDaily News to contribute an article on\nthe progress made in 1908 and the outlook for 1909 in the fruit industry I\nshall do my best to give your readers\nan unprejudiced statement of the situation as 1 find It in Kootenay and\nthroughout the province at the present\ntime. The past season has been a most\ntrying one to the local growers. Everything started out with the best promise\nof success; a large number of our\ngrowers took every care to ship their\nstrawberries in first-class condition and\nthe fruit undoubtedly left the majority\nof the ranches In far better shape than\nduring any previous year, and yet, as\nwe all know, the cash received has\nbeen far less than on any previous season's business. The association appointed a thoroughly reliable auditor and\nbusiness man to investigate the cause\nof this deplorable result and to report\nIlls conclusions on same. I consider\nMr. Beeston's report has been prepared\nIn a most thorough manner'and that it\nstates the true causes of the failure\nand points out how to avoid such disasters In future. Unfortunately human\nnature always wishes to shift the re-\nA TABLE OF KOOTENAY GRAPES, NEL80N FRUIT FAIR, 1908,\nsponBibillty and blame onto other\nshoulders, and the enemies of co-operation have been hard at work spreading\nall sorts of slanderous reports about\nthe Central Provincial Exchange, so\nmuch so that because Mr. BeeBton did\nnot make a scapegoat of the Central,\nbut placed four-fifths of the blame on the\nmethod of loading the cars at Kootenay\nLanding. A majority of those attending the meeting to hear the report\nseemed to hail with delight the reading\nof a letter blaming tbe Central Exchange, from another section of the\nprovince. The writer of this letter referred to has since written stating as\nfollows:\n\"I regret that M saw fit to\nrefer to a letter written some time ago\nwhen things were not satisfactory,\nmainly from the one-Bided view and\nhearsay that reaches here. Everything\nseemed to me satisfactory at the meeting, and at no time have I made a report against the Central, in fact I have\nbeen upholding it all season.\"\nI cannot do better than quote remarks\nmade by Mr, Beeston after presenting\nhis report and referred to In your Issue\nof December 11th:\n\"Strawberries can be successfully and\nprofitably grown here.\"\n\"The most notable losses have been\nIn connection with damaged and unsaleable fruit. The cause of this was\nwant of proper care and method at\nTHIS end. The practical remedy 1b a\ncooling warehouse for collecting1 and\nshipping the fruit under proper conditions.\"\n\"Co-operation is necessary (a) for the\nproper shipping; (b) through some central association to obtain and control\nthe best market\"\n\"Co-operation must be complete or It v.\nfalls. No one should ship outside the\nassociation. Remember that the work\ndone now is not for the present alone,\nbut for the future, with its great possibilities.'*\nWith reference to the great co-operative movement throughout the province,\nthe past season has been a very trying\none owing to the want of confidence\nshown by many of the growers in not\nshipping their whole crop through their\nassociation and by the malicious reports which were kept in constant circulation throughout tbe province to the\neffect that the Central Exchange was\nfinancially insolvent. These reports\nwere kept in circulation by Interested\nparties who have benefited through lack\nof co-operation on the part of tbe growers In the past and who have used a\nfew Ignorant growers as their tools.\nOn December 1st a meeting of the\ndirectors of the Central Exchange, embracing the most experienced and representative growers from every Important fruit section of B. C, was held In\nRevelstoke. Mr. Beeston, in his report\nol: the meeting, states as follows:\n\"The meeting which was spread over\neleven hours, was In three sessions, and\nit is with much pleasure that I state\nthat the whole proceedings were not\nonly harmonious and pleasant but were\ncontsidered in a deliberate and businesslike manner and should be of benefit to\nall the fruit growers of British Columbia.\"\nMr. Pickle, the representative from\nVictoria and Vancouver Island, In a\nprinted circular issued to his people,\ndated December 4th, 1908, has the following to say regarding his trip to\nRevelstoke:\n\"I do not wish to miss the chance of\n} impressing upon growers certain facts\nrelating to co-operation and its results.\nAs this association is practically only\none year old it is astonishing the great\nstrides it has made In a province noted\nfor being antagonistic to such a cause.\nIt has done away to a great extent with\nthe jealousy of neighboring growers\nand has assisted new comers by being\nable to give condensed information and\npast experiences. There have been big\nlosses this year by growers accepting\noutside offers and shipping away from\ntheir associations only to find prices cut\nin half and in some cases express\ncharges against them. The desire of\nresponsible buyers of fruit today is to\ndeal with associations as being more\nresponsible, and tantalizing offers on\nthe outside are very often a blind from\nfirms having no standing or who wish\nto check a movement already encroaching on their ground.\"\nAa president of that meeting of representative provincial fruit growers I\nwish to say that I am Indeed proud to\nbe associated with such men. We had\nmany questions of great importance before us, but not for a moment did anything break the absolute harmony aid\ngood will of that meeting. I know of\nno finer body of thorough business men\nand I could desire to see no better at\ntbe head of this great co-operative movement which must and will place Erltish\nColumbia In the front rank of all the\nfruit producing sections of the world.\nIn conclusion let me urge upon ev\u00bbry\ngrower that this Central Exchange and\nlocal exchange business is our own\nbusiness and not the business of some\nfirm with whom we are dealing. The\nmistakes which are made are our mistakes and must be remedied\" and not\ntreated as a local grievance. We cannot all be of one opinion, but we oafl\ncarefully consider every suggestion and\nthen act In the true spirit of co-operation and unity which 1b the only road\nleading to success in our most important Industry.\n TEN\nChe jtotUj jtogg.\n8UNDAY JANUARY 3\nWATTSBUR.G-ITS FOUNDER AND HIS WORK\nProbably there is not in all British\nColumbia a more interesting little town\nnor one that will better repay a visit\nto it than Wattsburg, called after A. E.\na member of Mr. Watts' family or is I\nconnected either directly or. Indirectly\nwith his enterprises. All are therefore\nmore or less dependent upon him.\nmining with an irrigations system\nwhich he will install next year to serve\nhis 3000 acres of ranch land. For this\npurpose he intends laying a pipe line\nSB- ^\nwsm\"-vi^ -\n150 ACRES OF ORCHARD, HONSBERGER RANCH, GRAND FORKS, B. C.\ni\nWatts, its founder, and located about\n125 miles east of Nelson on the Crow's\nNest Pass railway line. Up to the present the mainstay of the town has been\nMr. Watts' sawmill and wood working\nfactory, one of the features of the lat-\n, ter being the manufacture of wire\nwound wooden pipe, but Mr. Watts Is\nnow going into the ranching on an extensive scale, and In a manner that is\nunique in this country, while gold and\nIron mining are among the possibilities\nof the future.\nMr. Watts Is not conducting his ranch.\nIng operations along trodden paths but\nIs engaging in a lot of experimental\nwork. For example, he is using electricity as an aid to plant growth and\nhas also Introduced a system of Irrigation by means of sprays that he finds\ngives much better satisfaction than the\nordinary ditch system. A visit to Mr.\nWatts' ranch and greenhouse cannot\nbut repay anyone interested in fruit\ngrowing or in horticulture. In addition\nthere are many other things about the\ntown worth seeing. Included In these\nis a plant for the treatment of tamarac\nroots by which turpentine, paint oil,\ncreosote and tar Is extracted from them.\nThis is done by means of steam. The\nsawmill is operated by steam and Mr.\nWatts has taken advantage of this fact\nto make use of the surplus energies\nfrom the boilers In several ways. Steam,\nfor example, Is conveyed under41 ground\nfor 2,000 feet to heat Mr. Watts' residence and his greenhouse, and besides\nis Bupplfed for an electric light plant\nand also to operate a waterworks system. In fact there Is no modern convenience that Mr. Watts has not at\nhis hand as a result of his own inventive genius and of taking advantage\nof the resources at his command, and\nsteam is one of the agencies of which\nhe has especialy taken advantage.\nThe town of Wattsburg is appropriately named, for Mr. Watts Is practically lord and master of ail he surveys.\nHe owns the mill and all connected\nwith it, has large timber holdings In\nThat the exact location of Wattsburg\nis not better known is due to the fact\nthat the C. P. R. station close by is\ncalled Swansea. At present, however,\nSwansea consists of a railway station,\nWattsburg having observed the rest of\nit. It is now twelve years since Mr.\nWatts founded his town and while It\nmay not have grown as fast as some\nother places In that time it has grown\nthe way that Mr. Watts has desired.\nWhen Mr. Watts arrived from the Old\nCountry in 1897 it was with the Idea\nof establishing such a place and after\ntravelling over all the surrounding\ndistricts including Kootenay lake chose\nthe place where he has since made his\nhome. He did not, however, confine\nhis investments to Wattsburg at first,\nfor hie bought quite a large tract of\nland on Kootenay lake and also erected\nthe Procter sawmill, which be subsequently sold to Its present owners, At\nthe time of his arrival the country was\nIn Its primeval state. There was then\nno railway and Mr. Watts packed his\nbelongings most of the way In from\nCalgary. He has never regretted the\nexchange of life in Liverpool, the city\nof his birth, for pioneering in Canada's\nrichest province. He feels that In the\npast twelve years he has accomplished\nsomething and the feeling naturally carries with It a goodly measure of satisfaction.\nBut while modern Wattsburg has only\nsome twelve years of existence to its\ncredit, the locality was well known\nnearly fifty years ago. The famous\nPalmer creek from which millions in\ngold was taken In the early sixties runs\nthrough Mr. Watts' property and the\nold diggings are only a stone's throw\nfrom his residence. That there is still\ngold in the neighborhood can be taken\nfor granted, but how much of it there\nmay be is another question. The reason that the diggings were abandoned\nwas lack of water, the cause which has\n\\v% to the abandonment of so many\nother camps which have afterwards\nproved paying propositions when the\na distance of three miles from an excellent head of water. When this has\nbeen done Wattsburg may become a\ngreater producer of gold than Palmer\nThe development of this property will\nbe a matter of some time, but that it\nwill come eventually there can be no\ndoubt.\nMr. Watts takes a special interest\nand pride in his experimental work in\nconnection with the use of electricity\nas an aid to plant life. One of his experiments In this direction is the use\nof electric light Added to the. daily\nsunshine Mr. Watts gives the plants in\nhis greenhouse enough electric light to\nbring the total number of hours that\nthey receive light each day up to 19%,\nleaving the plants 4% hours out of every\n24 for rest. Another of his electrical\nexperiments Is the passing of a current of electricity through the roots\nof the plants. This Is done chiefly by\nconnecting a dry battery with a carbon\nIn one side of the box containing\nthe plant and another on the opposite\nside to a zinc plate to make a circuit In\nthis way a current is established which\npasses through the roots of the plants.\nNo matter what doubts anyone may en-\ntain as to the theories upon which Mr.\nWatts 1b working the cold, hard facts\nremain that everything in his' greenhouse has made remarkable progress\nsince the greenhouse was opened on'\nNov. 15' and that the plants through the\nroots of which the electric current\npasses have made more rapid progress\nthan similar plants set out at the same\ntime and under Identical conditions,\nwhich have not received this treatment.\nConcerning his experiments Mr. Watts\nBald to a representative of The Dally\nNowb:\n\"It Is a well known fact that the\ngrowth of vegetation near the Arctic\n' regions is much more rapid than in the\ntemperate zones, not on account of\ngreater beat, but because they secure\na greater amount of sunlight owing to\nthe nights being short. My experiments\nshow that plant growth Is accelerated\nto a marvellous degree by the application of intense electric light, about\nIn connection with the cucumber and i\ntomato plants, Mr. Watts has tried some\nsuccessful experiments with the use\ntreated with electricity was producing t duct Is discharged. It Is therefore only\nripe tomatoes, Its neighbor, which did 1 Accessary to turn on the gear after\nnot have the benefit of the treatment, | filling the upper bio and the mill will\nof electricity. For example, he allowed\none cucumber plant to grow along ordinary lines, while another, planted the\nKASLO, B. C, SHOWING BENCH OF ORCHARD LAND IN FOREGROUND\nCreek ever was, Iron mining is also\na possibility of Wattsburg, for within\na short distance of the town is what is\nONE STRAWBERRY PLANT-AS THEY'BROW IN KOOTENAY DISTRICT\nthe neighborhood, controls 3,000 acres\nof excellent bench land, well adapted\nfor ranching, adjoining the townalte,\nwhich, with all It contains, Is his.\nEvery resident of Wattsburg Is either\nhydraulic system was introduced. Mr.\nWatts believes that there Is still considerable gold higher up than the old\ndiggings and In order to get It out In*\ntends combining a system of hydraulic\ndescribed as a solid mountain of 11m-\ninlte ore of the best quality, while\nhematite and lignite, tbe other two ores\nrequired for smelting with it, also\nabound in portions of Bast Kootenay.\nequal to the early morning sunshine.\nIn my greenhouse ten feet apart are\nplaced 16 candle power lamps supplied\nWith 120 volt current In midwinter for\n19% hours of 24 the plants have the advantage of this light with an occasional\ndose of an intermittent current ot galvanic electricity applied through the\nsoli and a change from that to constant\ncurrent from batteries.\n\"Plants breath through their pores\nand tbelr Bap circulates as does the\nblood In animals. A current ot electricity, It is well known, accelerates the\ncirculation of blood in animals and there\nIs no reason to doubt that It does the\nsame in regard* to the sap In plants.\nElectro-chemical action In the soil prepares the plan food ready for assimilation by the plant and the current assists the circulation of the sari, thus\nbenefitting the plant In two different\nways. Without going into details or dp^\nbating whether it'is the electric light\nor the current which causes this wonderful growth that has taken place in\nmy greenhouse since Nov. 15, It is\nthere all the same. As' an instance,\nChinese Illy bulbs planted on Dec. 5\nhad by Dec. 17 grown to a height of\n12% Inches and were in bloom,, This\nIs only one instance. There are over\none thousand plants making equally\nrapid growth In proportion.\" Vv; ..*\nIn the greenhouse where Mr. Watts\n1b carrying on these experiments he\nhas a wonderful display of flowers,\nwhich he has been collecting for the\npast month or so. These Include practically every variety of ferns, palms,\ncacutus, hyacinths, begonias, carnations,\nchrysanthemums, prlmela, Chinese, Japanese and Nile lilies, and many other\nvarieties. Among the latter are fifty\nnice pots of shamrock which have been\ngrown from one small pot since Nov,\n15. In addition to the flowers Mr. Watts\nhas In, his greenhouse cucumber and\ntomato plants, raspberry bushes, rhubarb and other kinds of garden produce.\nsame day and under similar conditions,\nhe treated with electricity. The result\nwas that when the first mentioned was\nonly a few inches high the other was\nhad nothing more than a few small\ngreen tomatoes to show. Similar results In development have followed In\nother plants treated by electricity. The\nraspberries were not given the benefit\nof this, but in the month between Nov.\n15 and Dec. 15 they grew four feet and\non the latter date were all either in\nbloom or had berries already formed\non them. The rhubarb on the latter\ndate was ready for use.\nAs an adjunct to his greenhouse, Mr.\nWattshas 1,000 square feet planted in\nmushrooms. Most of this Is in a steam\nheated roothouse specially fitted up for\nthe purpose, although a considerable\nportion Is in a storehouse which ad-\njoints the greenhouse. In both places\nihe mushroom beds are In tiers one\nabove the other, like bunks In a sleeping house, with about a foot of soil in\neither. In this soil the mycelium,\" Imported from England, Is planted. From\nthis mycelium, which resembles a white\nmould, fibres form in 'due course and\nthe next step 1b the formation of the\nmushroom which soon rears its head\nabove the ground.\nThe store house adjoining the greenhouse is quite an interesting place.\nHere Mr. Watts has stored the potatoes,\ncarrots, turnips, cabbages, onions, etc\nraised on his ranch last year and If one\ndoubts the success which Mr. Watts has\nmet with In his gardening operations\nhe has only to take a look through\nAll the vegetables are of large size and'\nof exceptionally good quality. One of\nthe features of the store house Is a provender grinder. Originally this store\nhouse was merely the understructure\nof a windmill, but has been enlarged for\nthe purpose for which it is now used.\nThe windmill, however, has been left\non top and, not being 'required for\npumping water as the steam plant now\ndoes this work, the power which It is\ncapable of generating 1b used for grinding -provender. In the centre of the\nstore house is a bin which feeds Into\nthe grinder and Into which oats and\noperate without any attention until the\nbin is empty.\nThe system of irrigation employed by\nMr. Watts is unique and Interesting\nand has passed the experimental stage\nhaving been In use for several years,\nand shows what it 1b posBlble to do In\nhigh altitudes and in a semi-arid die-'\ntrlct The advantages of this Bystem\nof applying water to growing crops are\nnumerous and It is easily applied\nwhere 30 to 40 foot head of water can\nbe obtained or where water can be\nraised that height by wind, water or\nother power. In this case for initial experiments the water was raised to a\ntank 50 feet high by windmill. The\npiping consists of a main line of 6-Inch\nwire wound wood pipes laid through the\nlength of the garden; wood pipes two\nInches In diameter are laid from tho\nmain line 30 feet apart and paralle with\nrows of fruit trees, and close to them.\nInto these wood ptpeB are screwed\nthree-eighth inch iron pipes standing:\n4 to 8 feet high, and 30 feet apart each\nway; on the tops of the pipes are attached rotary sprinklers which throw\nsprays of water a radius of 30 feet and\na height of 10 to 15 feet as may be desired by regulating the angle of the\nnozzles.\nIn high altitudes and other localities\nsubject to summer frosts, tender classes\nof plants and blooms of fruit can be\nprotected from damage by applying the\nwater in the evening, and If the frost\nshows signs of being severe allowing\nthe sprays to run through the night.\nThis has been proved.beyond the realm\nof theory. Practical experiments ex-\ntending over several years, show that\nwithin a radius of the sprays, tender*\nplants usually destroyed by light frosts,.\nsuch as tomatoes, squash, melons, marrows, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes and:\nthe bloom of fruit trees, have suffered',\nno injury, whereas those standing:\nwhere the water was not applied an*,\nwithin a short distance of the others\nwere killed by the frosts.\nin bloom and small cucumbers had al-1 other material Ii conveyed by means\nready formed. The result was the of a hoist, while below the grinder Is\nsame with tomatoes. When a plant I another bin Into which the ground pro-\nThe amount of water required an\ncompared with ordinary Irrigation br\n(Continued on Page Eleven.)\nm^\n sew\n^BSSBBSSee\n-r\n\u25a0A\n\/*\nSUNDAY ...:....... JANUARYS\n\u00a9he \u00a7alhj item*.\nPAGE ELEVEN\nEAST KOOTENAY IS PAST COMING TO THE ERONT\nThe following article dealing with the\npossibilities of East Kootenay, but particularly those of the district around\nCranbrook, In the matter of fruit grow-\nIng, appeared in a recent issue of the\nCranbrook .Herald, over the signature of\nJoseph Ryan, than whom there is perhaps no man better qualified to write\non the subject; - '\nIn the-reviews for 1905 and 1906\nsome stress was laid upon our agricultural and fruit growing resources. Facts\nwere piled on facts, concrete examples\nwere quoted of practical success. Fruit\ngrowing was then looked upon by the\ngreat majority of people as a chimerical\ndream of some mere enthusiast, The\nvery absurdity of the Idea pushed the\nthought clear Into the consciousness\nof men who previously had never given\nthe matter a moment's consideration.\nEven today there are those who are\nnot wholly converted to the sound doctrine that we can grow all manner of\nfruit here around us. To five an example: The other day a Cranbrook man\nstated that the apples and pears had\nbeen frozen on the trees during the\nvery severe frost of September last,\nWithin ten minutes after the statement\nwas made the positive contradiction\nwaB forthcoming from the very man\nwhose fruit was said to have been Injured. He said that never in his experience had there been a froBt at that\nseason that reached the high ground\nwhere he grows his apples and so on.\nHe was picking his plums at the very\ntime of this visitation and It affected\nthose that were just ripe to the extent\not taking the .BUgar out of them. His\npears and apples were absolutely uninjured. If the true facts of the case\nwere not thoroughly understood it Is\nin the last degree Improbable that people would be willing to pay present\nprices of fruit land In the immediate\nvicinity of Cranbrook, prlceB that fairly\nrival those prevailing in Creston and\ntbe most favored districts in East\nKootenay.\nThis dealing In a general manner\nwith general conditions is of small use\nto those who know not our land in\ngiving them an Idea of its possibilities\nand resources. As things exist around\nus Just now there are probably ten men\nInterested In the future of agriculture\nIn East Kootenay for one who is Interested In minerals outside of coal.\nIn connection with agriculture in East\nKootenay. the certainty of the construction of the Kootenay Central railway in the very near future should\nnever be lost sight of.\nThis road will run from Golden on\nthe main line of the Canadian Pacific\ndown tbe valley of the Upper Columbia\nriver, along by the upper and lower Columbia lakes, Canal Flat, Findley creek,\nSkookumchuck. Waaa, Fort Steele and\nconnect with the Crow'B Nest branch\nof the C. P. R. at some point near Jaf-\nfray or between that point and Elko\nand will open up a country that has\ncompelled the admiration of the governor general of Canada and the chief\nofficials of the Canadian Pacific organization In whose hands will He the construction of the railway. Aa a matter\nof fact the road is even now under construction at its northern end and it is\nexpected that work will start within a\nfew months on the southern extremity.\nThe distance from Elko to Golden is\nrather more than one hundred and\neighty miles and throughout that stretch\nthe floor of the valley may he said to\nbe all adapted for agriculture, fruit\nraising and cattle raising. Speaking in\ngeneral terms, the floor of the valley\nis free from timber, that Is, there Is\nmuch more open ground than there is\nwood land. The forest does not close\ndown close on the flats, and Is confined\nto the foot hills on either side. For the\nentire distance the west side of the\nvalley is sheltered by the Selkirk range\njust as the main range of the Rockies\n, shelter it on the east In short, it is\ntbe trough between the two ranges\nand 1b watered as to Its northern moiety\nby the slow moving Columbia even as\nthe Kootenay lends its influences to the\nsouthern parts. Both of those great\nrivers receive a large number of creeks\nfrom the Rockies and the Selklrks and\nthese can be controlled to yield the very\nnecessary irrigation. That at once\nraises the question of water supply so\nneeded for general agriculture. It may\nbe said at once that there are very\nfew spots In East Kootenay so situated\nnaturally that the idea of irrigation can\nbe wholly dispensed with. Provision\nof Irrigation 1b a thing that can never\nbe lost sight of. It is essential, and\ncreek. Again, the lands formerly held\nby the Kootenay Valleys company have\nall been acquired by lord Vivian, of\nSwansea, England, and he, so it Is said,\nIntends to go in for Irrigation works of\nan extensive character. Lord Vivian is\ncredited with the intention of erecting\na splendid permanent residence at some\npoint near Canal Flats, at which place\nthere will be a station and round house\nof the new line. Earl Grey, the governor general of Canada, has purchased\nthe Santo ranch above Thunder hill and\nwill, no doubt, have a residence there\na wonderfully fertile tract which is entirely free from summer frosts.\nThe market for fruit, etc., Is practically unlimited and the prices highly\nremunerative. These facts have induced\nparties In the immediate vicinity of\nCranbrook to lay out considerable tracts\nof land in convenient lots of about ten\nacres each, all Irrigated and In these\nare springing up a number of very\npretty homes. Some of these tracts\nhave been sold at prices averaging over\neight times the original cost, but there\nare still some' large holdings that can\ntherefore, that if water is given by the\nnatural method, overhead, as fast as\nfoliage and roots can absorb it the\ngrowth must be rapid, and during the\nhottest sunshine there Is no danger of\nscalding the foliage by this method of\nspraying, and Insect pests are checked\nin their growth, and most of them cannot attain maturity.\nThe question will arise, can this system of Irrigation be made a commercial\nsuccess? At Wattsburg it certainly is\na decided success.\nTwo inch wood pipes cost about ten\nthan cast Iron pipes, will last longer\nand are not affected by electrolosls,\nwhich plays such havoc with the water\nmains In many places. In addition it\nhas been found In many cases tbe soil\nIs such that It eats holes into the iron\npipes, even where there Is no electrolosls. Wooden pipes are never affected\nIn this way. Discussing this product of\nhis plant Mr. Watts told a representative of The Daily News that wooden\npipes laid during the Roman occupation\nof England, about the dawn of the\nChristian era, when dug up in London\nFRUIT EXHIBIT, NELSON FAIR, 1908\nonce provided it makes the great difference between the certainty of good\nand unfailing crops and the possibility\nof failure In achieving profitable results, As an illustration of this It may\nbe said that the Canadian Pacific railway 1b now putting in the necessary\nditches and so on for irrigating over\n50,000 acres directly opposite the little\ntown of Windermere, just as C. Hunger,\nford Pollen Is making like preparations\nto Irrigate some 10,000 acres between\nWasa and the mouth of Skookumchuck\nTKe\nRiverside\nNurseries\n10. ACRBS-E8TABLISHED 1000\nLargest grower* of Fruit and Or\nnamental Trees* and Small\nFruits In B. C.\nGRAND FORKS, B, C.\n' \\\na, *\nalso. It Is also the Intention of the\ngovernor general to acquire some fifty\nacres on or near the summit of Toby\ncreek for the purposes of a hunting\ncamp, where he and his friends may\nenjoy the magnificent scenery of that\nlocality concerning which earl Grey\nspoke In the highest terms In a recent\nopen letter to the hon. Richard Mc-\nBrlde, the premier of the province.\nThese references will show at a glance\nthe tendency of large English capital\nto come Into this part of East Kootenay,\nand It Is only reasonable to think that\nits effect will be widened on the general public. It should be, If men take\nheed of the signs of the times. Tbe\nland Is worthy of all that can be said\nabout It, and the climate is beyond\ncompare.\nThe level of the valley of the Kootenay and Columbia may be placed at\n2600 feet above the sea, while the level\nef the surrounding country available\nfor fruit growing and general agriculture can be placed at 3000 or a shade\nover it The best fruit around.Cranbrook Is grown at the Sunnyslde ranch\nwhich Is fully 3200 above sea level. In\nthis connection it may be said that th*\nliability to summer frost Is greater on\nthe lower grounds than on the higher.\nsince the cold air has a natural tendency to sink to the less exposed situations. Exposure in this sense means\nthat the lower the ground the less\nchance the light airs that prevail In\nthe district have of dispersing the chilled atmosphere that result In the frosts.\nWhere the brush has been cut away\nand the ground broken up frosts never\noccur, since the broken ground absorbi\nthe moisture of the' day and radiate\nthem during the night.\nDealing with what can be produced\nIn the land around the city of Cranbrook and the valley of the Kootenay,\nIt can be said with entire confidence\nthat everything In the way of fruit*\ngrain and vegetables can be raised with\nthe exception of peaches, grapes and\ncanteloupes. These latter have, however, been this year successfully grown\n'by George Tlsdale, on St. Mary's pralrte\nbr acquired at only a shade beyond\nwhat they would sell for a year or two\nago.\nWATTSBURG--ITS FOUNDER\nAND HIS WORK\n(Continued from Page Ten.)\nditches, especially on a porous soil with\ncourse subsoil, can readily be under\nstood, A two inch pipe is of sufficient\ncapacity to irrigate\"*20 acres of land,\nwhile a ditch with that amount of\nwater would bo practically useless in\nporous soil.\nThe economy of labor In the application of the water by this system is a\nconsiderable item. There is no opening and closing of ditches nor fear of\ndrowning the crops in spots. All that\nhas to be done is to open the main\ntaps and there is an imitation rain,\nwhich cleam.es the foliage and feeds\nthe plants through their pores and what\nthey fall to absorb passes to the roots.\nIn the dry belts where continual sunshine prevails during the dry season,\nthe growth of plants and trees is almost\nequal to the rapid growth of vegetation\nin the tropics, provided the foliage Is\nnot allowed to wilt, but If this does occur growth is retarded. Many plants\nwhen subjected to dry winds and hot\nsun wilt even If veil supplied with\nwater at the roots, but the growth is\ncontlnuouB if the foliage Is also supplied, and fruits or vegetables consequently are much' more succulent.\nCoarse sandy soils lack humus or decayed vegetable matter, considered one\nof the most essential of plant foods,\nbut great success can be obtained with\nthis method of Irrigation where the\nsoil Is almost absolutely tree of humus,\nwhich shows that tbe latter serves\nrather as a medium to retain and convey water to tile root fibres than as a\nfood actually assimilated by the plant.\nRoot crops and' vegetables can be\ngrown to an enormous stse, on almost\npure sand, the principal constituent of\nvegetation being water. It follows,\ncents per foot, and it takes 1,500 feet\nper acre while the other pipes and attachments bring the cost up to about\n|250 per acre. The initial cost may\nappear rather high, and the next question, Is, will the earning capacity of the\nland warrant the outlay?\nOn dry sandy soils it Insures a certain crop and will grow from 50 to 100\nper cent, more produce. Unlike other\nmethods of Irrigation the first cost is\nthe whole cost, and one item of importance Is that there is no necessity\nto level the most uneven ground. A\nrolling country that could not be Irrigated by ditches can be effectively and\neconomically watered in this way. An\nacre of fruit and vegetables In the west\nis worth from $500 to $1,000, and a\nslight frost Is liable to ruin the whole\ncrop. This method of irrigation, however, Is a certain Insurance against\ndrought and frost.\nThe success of this system of irrigation is shown by the fact that last season Mr. Watts raised over $3,000 worth\nof produce from four acres of land.\nThis Included half a ton of raspberries,\nsecured from 15 rows of bushes, and a\nlarge quantity of strawberries. One-\nfifth of an acre oi ground produced five\ntons of carrots and another plot of the\nsame size four tons of onions, while\nfrom a quuarter acre were taken 2,000\ncabbages, many of them over 25 pounds\nIn size. The carrots and potatoes were\nalso ot large size, many of the former\nrunning over two pounds In weight,\nWhen Mr. Watts puts in his gravity\nsystem of Irrigation next year the water\nwill be distributed In the same way as\non the four acres under cultivation and\nultimately he will have the whole 3,000\nacres of land which he controls at\nWattsburg supplied ln'thls way;\nAt the present time the principal\nmanufacturing work In progress at\nWattsburg is the making of wire wound\nwooden pipe, Mr. Watts having the only\nfactory engaged in this business between 'the Atlantic and the Pacific\noceans. This class of pipe Is daily\ngrowing in favor. It is urged In their\nfavor that these pipes cost much less\nrecently were found to be In a good\nstate of preservation. Provided wooden\npipes are kept full of water and free\nfrom atmospheric influence their life\nis indefinite and might safely, Mr.\nWatts says, be guaranteed for 2,000\nyears. Another advantage of wooden\npipes, which Mr. Watts points out, Is\nthat tiiey do not contract when subjected to a low temperature, and conse\nquently do not burst as do metal pipes\nif the water is frozen solid in them.\nAs might be expected from a man\nwho has taken such interest and has\nshown such enterprise In regard to his\nbusiness, Mr. Watts has fitted up his\nhouse with every convenience and\nthere, with the proverbial hospitality of\nthe Englishman, he is always ready to\nentertain his friends when they drop\noff the train at WattBburg. His house\nis fitted with all modern accessories\nand comforts. It Is heated by steam,\nbrought 2,000 feet from the boilers at\nthe mill, and Is lighted with electricity.\nIt has several kinds of baths, including\nTurkish and electric, the latter being a\ndevice resembling the ordinary vapor\nbath but Instead of vapor the rays from\nscores of electric lamps are used to\nproduce the effect desired. Even In the\nwash house Mr. Watts' has considered\nthe comfort of those engaged about the\nhouse, clothes being cleaned by means\nof steam admitted Into the bottom of a\nlarge tub In which the clothes have\npreviously been placed. The action of\nthe steam as it is admitted washes the\nclothes. Mr. Watts has also fitted up\na brew room where.he can make his\nown beer, while his dairy is equipped\nwith all the lateBt labor saving devices\nknown. :i\nAltogether Mr. Watts has a remarkable establishment and one that will repay a visit from' any one.\nARROW PARK\nBy Kootenay Orchard Association, 1M.\nThe work of subdividing Arrow Park\nsub-division was undertaken by the owners early In the spring of 1908. Arrow\nPark Is located at the entrance to Mosquito valley, 16 miles south of Nakusp\nand six miles north of Burton City. It\nis beautifully situated on both sides of\nthe Columbia river (Arrow lakes.)\nThe area of 2,951) acres was surveyed\ninto orchard tracts,\" and townsites established on opposite: sides of the stream\nat a point where it.ts less than half a\nmile wide. Good wagon roads were cut\nout, graded and improved with bridges\nand culverts, all leading to the town-\nsites. Roads were also cut to the water\nfront at various other points.\nThe place was thrown open to settlement late in June, 190S; number of\nacreB sold to date, 1010; selling value\nof same, 1103,350;'number of settlerBon\nthe ground, 41; number of dwellings\nerected, 16. . ' ,\nArrow Park has one general store and\nmeat market, a post office, and is a\nregular port of call for C. P. R. freight\nand passengers steamers. Various enterprises are contemplated. Land is being cleared rapidly, but the acreage actually in fruit at present Is small. Ten\nacres or more will be ready for spring\nplanting.\nThere has been formed a local association to Insure the planting of proper varieties of trees and the best cultivation thereof.\nTHE MYSTIC MISTLETOE.\nMuch legendary lore and many a\nquaint story has been woven around\ntho mystic mistletoe. \"Kissing Is free\nwhere the mistletoe hangs,\" Bays an\nold song; and wherever the succulent\nyellow-hued leaves and white waxen\nberries are suspended there a man may\nkiss a maid\u2014or a maid may even kiss\na man If her fancy so dictates!\nIn different countries it draws its life\nfrom several trees, and in England It\nflourishes at its best perhaps on the\napple tree. Huge clusters of this Christmas shrub are often seen springing\nfrom a cleft in the branches of many a\nfine old apple tree in English orchards.\nIt also thrives on the poplar and hawthorn, but very rarely on the oak,\nRENATA AND DEER PARK\nLower Anow Lakes, B. C.\nAbout 4000 acres subdivided into orchard tracts\nin different sizes.\nPrices from $25 an acre and up\nTerms one-quarter down, balance in four years\nat seven per cent per annum.\nImproved orchards for $150 an acre and up\nSeveral good mineral claims on\nreasonable terms\nA big timber limit close to transportation\nFor full particulars and free booklets address\nF.F.SIEMENS\nRcnata, B. C.\n PAGE TWELVE\nthe \u00a9mug $Uwfe,\nSUNDAY* JANUARY 3\nNELSON-CENTRE FRUIT GROWING INDUSTRY\nIt is only a few abort years since the\nman who spoke of fruit growing as an\nindustry In the Nelson district was\nlooked upon with, to say tbe least,\ngood natured toleration, nothing but\nmining being thought of in those days.\nSince then the possibilities of this section ot the Kootenay have been demonstrated beyond question and it Is\nonly a question of a very short time\nuntil the revenue from fruit growing\nwill go tar toward increasing the prosperity of Nelson. For miles in either\ndirection along tbe Kootenay river and\nalong the West arm of Kootenay lake\non which Nelson 1b situated fruit\nranches fronting on the water have\nbeen taken up. Thousands of acres\nhave been brought under cultivation\nIn the past few years and this amount\nis being Increased annually.\nAt present, ot course, fruit growing Is\nonly In Its infancy In the district tributary to Nelson, but even at that a\nlarge amount ot fruit was produced last\nyear, Including 12,000 crates of strawberries, 1000 orates of raspberries, 1500\nof cherries, 500 oj) other small fruit and\n1500 of apples. With such a return\nfrom the comparatively small section of\ntbe country now producing, it Is easy\nto see that the Industry has a great\nfuture and that Nelson will shortly be\nas well known as a fruit growing district as it Is now Is as a mining centre.\nIn connection with apple growing it\nmay be pointed out that practically all\nthe trees have been planted within the\npast couple of years, so that it will he\ntwo or three years more before they\nare hearing. \u25a0 When, they are tbe people\nof Nelson wlli begin to realize what\nthe development of fruit growing means\nto tbe district.\nIt was perhaps unfortunate that better success did not last year attend the\nmarketing of the fruit from NelBon district, but better things may be looked\nfor in future for it Is safe to say that\nevery one connected with the Industry\nlearned some lessons during the past\nyear. That the returns were not more\nfavorable last year was not due to the\nfertility of the soil or the adaptability\nof the district to fruit growing but was\nthe resnlt ot mistakes, which perhaps\nmight have been avoided and which undoubtedly will be avoided in future\nsc-asonB, for experience has taught Its\nlesson. Because ot the trouble last\nyear, there have been statements made\nthat were detrimental to the district.\nAll that is necessary to refute these Is\nto talk for a few minutes to any ot\nthose engaged in fruit growing around\nNelson and tbe figures and facts they\ncan produce aa to the frultfulness of\nthe soil and the conditions generally\nwill disprove, even In the mind of the\nmost prejudiced, disparglng remarks\nthat may have been heard.\nThe fruit district tributary to Nelson\ncomprises the valley of the Kootenay\nriver up to West Robaon on Arrow\nlakes as well as both sides ot Koot-\nejuty lake as far east as Proctor and\nalong the west shore up as far as Kaslo.\nalong the west shore up as far as Kaslo\nalso Including Slocan River valley and\nthe territory lying between Nelson and\nWaneta on the N. & F. S. railway.\nThis Ib the district in which fruit growing was started in the Kootenay, but so\nrecently did this occur that the possibilities of the country in this direction\nare not yet realized.\nThe lake shore and river banks afford exceptionally favorable locations\nfor fruit growing. Here not only can land\nof the most productive kind be secured\nbut at the same time ideal sites for\nhomes are afforded. Especially is this\nso of the West Arm, where, the ranches\nbeing within a comparatively short distance of Nelson, the ranchers own their\nown launches, in which they visit the\ncity at will, aa business or pleasure\ndemands. The water also provides easy\nmeans for transporting the product of\nthe ranches on the first stage ot its\njourney to the market In which it is\nto be disposed. The district west to\nWest Robson 1b supplied with excellent\ntransportation facilities in tbe shape of\na line of the Canadian Pacific railway\nover which two trains pass each way\ndaily.\nA new departure in this district is\nthe embarking in the grape growing Industry ot a number of Russians, who,\nacreage being in strawberries, AH\ntheee fruits are In demand on the prairies, where the market is growing year )\nby year, bo rapidly, In fact, that it is at\npresent absolutely Impossible to supply the demand. As the prairies become better settled and the farmers\nthere get In better shape financially the\nteed, there is always bound to he considerable fruit that cannot be .disposed\nof in this way, small fruits that have\nripened too much to stand the transportation, and apples, pears, plums, j\netc., that are a little off In color or |\nsize. The problem that arises Is how\nto dispose of this class of fruit, but tbe\nthe canning and preserving of fruit it\nIs only another step to the canning of\nvegetables of all kinds and there is no\nreason why the two should not be combined. In this way a greater season of\noperation Is guaranteed the plant and\nits profits thereby increased, while the\nsame men who are growing the fruit\nNAKUSP-A THRIVING FRUIT RAISING CENTRE, ARROW LAKES\nHart of Kelowna. Even with this record, Mr. Bealby's exhibit was not by\nany means as fully representative of\nthe product of his orchard at it might\nhave been for be had disposed of all\nhis sampIeB of some of the varieties of\napples which he grows. Had tbe exhibit been complete It would have com*\nprised over thirty varieties.\nThe showing is particularly gratifying\nIn view of the fact that the other growers of the district made no effort to\ncompete at the show. Mr. Bealby's exhibit practically represented the district\nand that It was so successful snows\n(\"what Nelson can do In the line of tbe\ngrowing of apples..\nBesides second prize for the bost collection by any individual, Mr. Bealby\ntook eleven other prizes as follows:\nFirst prize, Alexander and Baxter;\nsecond prize, Blenheim Orange, Ontario,\nRhode Island Greening and Westfleld-\nseek-no-further; third prize, Golden\nRusset; fourth prize, Mann and for\nWallbrldge; fifth prize, Grimes' Golden\nand Wolf river.\nprevious to coming to Canada, followed\nthis branch of horticulture all their\nlives In their home land. These men\nhare taken up land in different parts\nof this district and hope to make a\nsuccess of grape culture. They know\nthe conditions under which grapes grow\nbest and they have chosen their lands\ndemand will be still furlher increased\nso that a permanent fruit market Is\nguaranteed this country for all time to\ncome. But the fruit growers of Kootenay, including those arohnd Nelson,\nAre not depending entirely upon the\nprairie market. They aim to compete\nin the London market with their tip-\nanswer Is at hand. It lies in the establishment of janning and preserving\nfatcories. In t^se, fruit that It would\nnot be advisable to ship, aan be treated\nand good'financial returns obtained.\nNelson is the natural centre for the\nestablishment of works of this kind and\none company has already realized this\nwill also be in a position to supply the\nvegetables necessary. Tbe canning and\npreserving business therefore, bids fair\nto become an important factor in Nelson's industrial development as a direct\nresult of the Introduction of fruit growing in the surrounding district tributary\nto Nelson.\n7 KOOTENAY STRAWBERRIES TO 17 INCHES\naccordingly so that there should not be\nany question of their success.\nPractically every other kind of fruit\nthat thrives in a moderate climate is\nalso being grown In the district around\nNelson, Including apples, plums, cherries, pears, peaches, grapes and all\nkinds of small fruits, an especially large\npies, at least, and this they have already shown that they can do successfully. As the years go on and the superiority of Kootenay apples becomes\nmore generally known in the Old Country the market for them there will be\nstill further Increased.\nBut even with these markets guaran-\nand is now engaged In the erection of\na large canning factory and preserving\nfactory here and others can be confidently looked forward to to follow this\nexample. Nelson will thus benefit Industrially as well as commercially\nthrough the development of the fruit\ngrowing industry in this district. From\nWhat the Nelson district can do in\nthe way of raising prize winning fruit\nis shown by the record made at the\nSppkane apple show by J, T. Bealby,\nwhose ranch Is at Two-mile point Mr.\nBealby exhibited 21 plates of fruit and\nsecured 12 prizes, a record surpassed\nby only one man at the show, Mr. De\nQUEEN'S BAY.\nBrydges, Blakemore A Cameron state\nthat they have actually settled thirty-\nfive families on land this season. Most\not these settlers have ample means to\ncarry them safely through the first few\nyears apart from all considerations of\nrevenue from their holdings. They are\nwell pleased with the country and conditions here and are without doubt made\nof the right stuff, as a visit to one of\nthe settlements containing at least one-\nhalf of the settlers will show. They\nhave each erected modern dwellings\nwith every convenience, and have each\ncleared from one to five acres of each\nten-acre farm. The Queen's Bay settlement particularly 1b a community of\nIntelligent, hard working pioneers\u2014a\nsettlement of people that any country\nmight be proud of\u2014they are doing\nthings.\n-On this property there is a splendid\nwaterpower which the settlers propose\nto utilize for tbe generating of power\nfor electric lighting, the running of light\nmachinery, etc.\nWith the right kind of people settled\nhere, those combining intelligence with\na willingness to work and a determination to succeed, this country will in a\nfew years not only present a totally different aspect but convince the outside\nworld, still more vividly than It has\ndone already, that as a fruit growing\ncountry it cannot be beat.\nLord Aylmer, who was one of the purchasers of land In the Queen's Bay settlement, has written to say that he and\nhis family are coming out next spring\nto permanently make a home there.\nTbe past year has been a notable one\n'fof this country if the bringing, in of\nactual bona fide settlers means much,\nand it undoubtedly does.\nThis firms deals during the past year\nhave been negotiated on a safer basis\nthan heretofore. They have dealt with\na safer class ot people, that is to say\nthose afiie to complete their purchases\nwithout having to depend on tbe purchases from \"retail sales\" of small parcels of the large areas speculated in.\nThe \"wild-cat boom stage\" of the exploiting of fruit lands Is passed, and\nin the future all that Is necessary for\nthose Interested to first of all seek the\nright kind of people, those who will\nmake the best and most desirable class\nof settlers, and to avoid the plan of\n\"making a deal, anyway\"\u2014perhaps to\npeople, who are to say the least, unfitted for the life of a Kootenay fruit\ngrower. Messrs, Brydges, Blakemore &\nCameron believe that the holders of land\nhere should not be too anxious to sell,\nbut should carefully select their customers beforehand. The fruit lands of\nthe Kootenays, as the Scotchman says\nregarding Scotch whiskey, improve with\nage. The future is a bright one; in a\nfew years time the whole countryside\nwill be. a veritable Garden of Eden,\nHARR0P-A THRIVING\nCOMMUNITY\nAt a point thirteen miles east of Nelson on the north shore of Kootenay\nriver at the entrance to Trafalgar Bay\nwhere some six years ago the first subdivision was taken up with a view to\nstarting fruit growing on a commercial\nbasis is now located among productive\norchards a thriving settlement with a\npost office, public school, general store,\nrailway station and steamboat landing.\nStill known to old timers in the district as \"Sawmill Point,\" having been\nthe site of G. O. Buchanan's sawmill in\nthe earlier days, Its residents now look\nupon It as \"Harrop, the coming orchard'\ntown of Kootenay.\"\nIn the person of Rev. Charles H.\nReynolds, a retired Church of England\nclergyman, it has a resident minister\nand church and Sunday school services\nare held regularly.\nThe land In the vicinity Is now practically all taken up and the large proportion ot it is planted out In fruit\ntrees and small fruits while, thanks\nchiefly to the provincial government,\nthe ranchers in the district are favored\nwith good wagon roads, the chief of\nwhich is that between the settlement\nand Proctor, at the outlet of Kootenay\nlake, a distance of five miles.\nThe first settlers, all of whom took\nup large holdings of land, have now\ndisposed of the greater part of their\ntracts, feeling that a five, ten or twenty\nacre block, well cultivated, would serve\nto produce for them an independent\nincome on its reaching* the producing\nstage while the recent settlers who\ncame chiefly from the prairie provinces\nand the old country are now busily engaged In getting their newly acquired\nproperties Into a higher state of cultivation.\nAmong the earlier settlers who are\nnow the proud owners of highly cultivated fruit farms In the vicinity can be\nmentioned Thomas Greenwood, Clarence\nD. Ogilvle, J. Qulnn, A. T. DavlB; Fox\nBrothers, J. Jerram, L. McClure John,\nFrancis Brothers, J. Allen, W. Hill, W.\nB. Hill, Gordon Hallett, Rev. C. H. Reynolds, F. Rlsden, and others, while its\nfounder Ernest Harrop is now well established in a general store.\nFred A. Starkey, George Motion, W.\nRutherford and other Nelson merchants\nhave well cultivated fruit tracts In the\nsettlement and Charles O. Rodgers, lumberman of Creston, has just purchased\na well developed orchard In the South-\nworth ranch and Ib making extensive\nimprovements to the property.\n, About one mile east of the settlement\nIs located the famous Coldsprln'g ranch\nupon which large hothouses have been\nerected at enormous cost.\nDlreatly opposite the settlement on\nthe south bank of the river Is located\nthe jam works of the Kootenay Jam\ncompany.\nPassenger communication Is made by\nthe steamers of the C. P. R. and G. N.\nrailway which call at the settlement\nsix times daily.\nA\nDISCOURAGED.\n(From tlie Washington, Star)\n\"No,\" said Mr. Sirlus Barker, \"I shall\nnot play Santa Claus. You Bee, my\nchildren are precocious and I may say\na trifle critical.\"\n\"But you came in last Christmas with\nfurtrlmmed clothes and white whiskers\nand all the rest of the disguise.\"\nV'Yes. I'll go as far as anybody to\nmake home happy. That experience Is\nwhat decided me. I pictured smiling\nfaces and expected to hear shouts of\nchildish glee. But the only comment\nwas from my youngest daughter.\"\n\"What was It?\"\n\"She said, 'My! Isn't father a bad\nactor!\"'\nThe Original\u2014Diogenes was the original secret-service man; only he was\nafter the other kind.\nWIRE WOUND WOOD PIPE\nCosts Much Less Than Metal Pipes and More Durable\nMuch Easier to Lay or Repair\nCannot be Injured by Frost \/\nAre not Affected by Electrolysis I\nCarrying Capacity not Diminished by Age\nManufactured at Wattsburg, tht only\nfactory between the Atlantic and\nPacific Coasts.\nI\nWhen writing for prices state\nhead or fall of water as prices\ndepend largely on the pressure\nthe pipes have to withstand. We\nm&kc irrigation pipes a specialty\nWATTSBURG LUMBER ,\u25a0\u2022\/\nHume Hotel, NELSON\nJ. William Cockle\nW, Vldler Papworth\nHie Kaslo Hotel\nCockle &. Papworth, Proprietor*\nHeadquarters of the Kaalo Beard of Trade, Kaslo Fruit Growere' Association, Kaele Rod and Real Club, Kaslo\nEntomological Society, Kootenay Lake I\/..1. He!\"*\nFirmer,' Institute. . IMMIWa. Do V*\n \u25a0\u2022 SUNDAY JANUARY 3\nfsm\n\/a.\n\u00a9he if nttjj \"$teim\nPAGE FIFTEEN\nCRESTON-WHERE RESULTS ARE OBTAINED\nThere is probably no section ot British Columbia with brighter prospects in\nthe fruit growing line than the Creston\ndistrict. The capabilities or the district\nhave already been demonstrated beyond\nquestion and it is now only a matter\nof time until' the land not now under\ncultivation will be producing and.Creston will not only be growing as fine\nfruit as can be raised anywhere but\nwill be shipping it In immense quantities. Its facilities for the latter are\nespecially good, for, being on the Crow's\nNest line with a first-class train service to the prairies, the growers are in\na position to ship their produce direct\nand lay it down in the cities and towns\neast of the Rockies with a minimum\nloss of time. This guarantees the arrival of the fruit at its destination In\nthe best possible condition for the roar-\n, ket, for the art of loading the cars has\nalready practically been reduced to perfection by the growers of the district.\nThe area of fruit land In the district\nis estimated at upwards of 50,000 acres,\nprobably about one-fifth of which is\nnow under cultivation. Practically all\nthis land is owned by., men who are developing it as fast as their means will\npermit, so that It is only a question of\na few years until all the land is under\ncultivation.\nAs to the quality of the fruit, the\nprices obtained for the strawberries and\nother small fruit and tbe prizes taken\nby the apples not only at the British\nColumbia fairs but also at the recent\napple show at Spokane speak for themselves. At the latter, the greatest apple show ever held, CreBton took no\nless than nine prizes out of fifteen en\ntries. Comment on such a showing is\nunnecessary, and doubly so when It is\nstated that the fruit shown on that occasion was the seventh picking of the\nseason. The-apples of the district had\nbeen gone over six times for other displays, before there was any thought of\nsending an exhibit to Spokane. The\nfruit that did so well there was, therefore, not by any means the best produced in the Creston district last season.\nThe centre of this great fruit district\nis the town of Creston, to which the\nwhole surrounding area of fruit lands\nmust for all time remain tributary. The\ntown is therefore assured of a permanency. Each additional acre brought under cultivation means so much\nmore fruit to be shipped and bo much\nmore money to be spent In Creston.\nWhen the entire area suitable for fruit\ngrowing has been brought under cultivation It will mean that millions of dollars will be coming Into Creston each\nyear. What this will mean to the\ntown's development Is not hard to foretell. The town already has several fine\nbusiness - establishments, two good\nhotels, and a rapidly Increasing population. A water works system has been\nInstalled and water rights have been\nsecured for an electric plant. A good\nsystem of telephones serves the district\nas well as the town.\nIn addition to the land now It for\ncultivation there is in the neighborhood\nof 25,000 acres of good bottom land\nalong the river bank, which, It Is hoped,\nwill some day, probably In the very\nnear future, be reclaimed and also\nbrought under cultivation. This land is\not tbe very best quality, but is flooded\nevery spring. Several schemes are now\non foot to prevent this and a satisfactory solution of the difficulty may be\nlooked for.\nDuring the past year the provincial\ngovernment introduced a novelty in tbe\nmatter of disposing of its lands in the\nCreston district. It put over 1,600 acres\nup for sale by auction, realizing in the\nneighborhood of $60,000 as a result.\nHundreds of buyers' were present from\npractically all over the continent and it\nIs a tribute to the faith of the local\npeople In this district that most of tbe\nland was bought in by men who already\nbad holdings In the valley.\nThe town of Creston, which Is 68\nmiles east of Nelson, or 16 miles east\nof Kootenay Landing, was first located\nabout twelve years ago, when the railways were being built through.A large\nnumber of people settled there at that\ntime and are still residents of the district Fruit growing, however, commenced only five years ago. At that\ntime there were only 150 fruit trees\nin the district, while last spring no less\nthan 48,000 were received for planting\nand it Ib expected that double that\nnumber will be brought in during the\ncoming season. Last spring there were\nalso several hundred thousands or\nBtrawberry plants and berry bushes\nbrought In and the number of these to\nbe set out during the coming year will,\nit Ib expected, be very much larger.\nTbe climate of the Creston district\nis especially adapted to fruit growing.\nIt Ib mild in winter, the thermometer\nseldom or never touching zero, while\nin the Bummer there Is the warmth so\n\" I Hear the tread of nations yet to be\nThe first low wash of waves whtre\nsoon shall roll a hultaan sea;;\nThe ashes of an empire hers are plastic\nyet and warm,x\nThe chaos of a mighty world Is rolling\ninto form.\"\nKRUIT GROWING and general farming Is as yet In its infancy in the famed KoQtenay-CoIumbla Valley, but\n* no section of the Dominion of Canada surpasses it in posssibllltles. The fame of Kootenay apples,\npears, peaches, plums; cherries and small fruits grown in this Garden Spot of B. C, Is fast becoming world\nwide.\n.First place has been awarded her proudcts in competition with the British Empire and shipments of\napples made to England have Invariably*commanded the highest price, and have resulted in repeat orders far\nbeyond the present supply.\nApart from the fame of Kootenay fruit in foreign climes, there Is her unassailable geographical shipping\nadvantage. Fruit can be gathered and shipped to the non-fruit producing provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, arriving at its farthest eastern destination within 48 hours. \u2022\nTaken in conjunction with the admitted fancy quality of the fruit produced, there Is a combination which\nplaces Kootenay in a position to control the vast Northwest fruit market when her productiveness has reached\nthe point where the demand can be supplied, sb that added to\nGood Soil Perfect Climate Certain Oops\nKOOTENAY HAS AT HER DOORS THE\n\\\nBEST MARKET IN THE WORLD\nLand that originally sold for $10 an acre is now paying 10 per cent on a valuation of $5000 an acre, and\nas the fruit trees come to maturity the percentage of profit will be greatly Increased. That Is the estimate of O. J. Wigen, Creston, B. C, tbe celebrated strawberry culturlst.\nI have studied land, talked land and sold land in this district for a' good many years now, and I have\nlearned a great deal that may I* of benefit to you.\nWouldn't It give you a great deal of satisfaction to know that you could get land that you could absolutely bank on?\nWouldn't you like to buy land from some one who has enough faith In It to guarantee It absolutely?\u2014a\ncase of your money's worth, or your money back.\nI have placed a large number or bona fide settlers on land during the past year; settlers who have In\nthe majority of cases been so well pleased that they have paid spot cash for their land and the kind that\nhave money to go ahead and develop their tracts, and each and every one has been a walking, talking advertisement for me, and are influencing friends and relations to come and make their homes here In this Ideal\nclimate. What I have done for others I can do for you.\nNow is the time to procure a tract that will make you Independent. During this year there will be a\nlarge Influx pi settlers and prices will surely advance sharply on good land, and that Is the only kind we\ndeal In. , \u00ab.\nWrite, or call and let me tell you more about the wonderful possibilities' ot the fruit growing Industry In\nthe famous Kootenay-Columbla valley, that country of\nYour Opportunity Ideal Climate finest Temperate Zone fruits\nBest fruit Market in the World No Small Monthly PaymenfSchemes\nS. M. BRYDGES\nBrydges, Blakemore & Cameron, Ltd. NELSON, B. C.\nnecessary for bringing the fruit to the\nproper state of perfection and giving It\nthe coloring so essential to securing the\n-best prices. Cool evenings, however,\nmake life enjoyable. The early springs\nare especially suited to gardening and\nthe, fruftincatlon of the orchards. The\nautumns are delightful, the weather be-\nmay be cleared for agriculture; There\nare mills at Creston and at Erlckson to\ntransform the timber so secured into\nmarketable lumber.\n\u25a0 One particularly favorable feature of\nthe valley is the amount of moisture\nwhich it receives. (It>ains practically\nevery month, the fall being sufficient\ngrowers received the higheBt price going. Altogether over 6,000 crates ot\nthis fruit were shipped and the price\nreceived averaged well onto $3 per\ncrate. Among the products now being\ngrown in marketable quantities, in addition to strawberries and apples, are\npeaches, plums, pears, cherries, nectar-\nIng largely of the character of a prolonged Indian summer.\nSoil to suit almost every kind of\nvegetation may be found in the district.\nfor crops of all kinds.\nAlthough its apples are prize winners\nwherever shown, it is for its strawberries that the Creston district Is at\nInes and grapes, as well as every variety\nof small bush fruit. Vegetables also\ndo remarkably well and there Is abundance of wild hay for stock and mulch-\nMost of It Is\nclay subsoil.\never, are of\nwhile in the\nof an alluvial clay on a\nThe lower benches, how-\na black vegetable mould,\nErlckson section, a few\npresent more particularly known. Apple growing Is, however, rapidly developing and Creston apples will soon\nbe as well known on the markets as\nIng purposes.\nThe principal markets for Creston's\nfruit and vegetables are the big centres\nfurther east along the Crow's Nest PasB\nX \u2022:*? z>%$,\u00bb s \\>j\u00a3\nhW \u25a0 '!\u00ab,\nA KOOTENAY ORCHARD HOME\nmiles east of the town of Creston, It Is\nof a Bandy character. One advantage of\nthe valley Is that It Is free from stones\nand gravel, while the land is practically\nlevel. Originally the valley was covered with fine timber, which, however, Is\nfast disappearing in order that the land\nCreston strawberries now are. In this\nconnection it may be said that last year\nCreston strawberries enjoyed tbe reputation ot arriving at their destination\non the prairies in better shape than\nthose from any other part of British\nColumbia and the result was that the\nline and all the cities of Western Canada as far east as Fort William and,as\nfar north as Athabasca Landing.\nIn the matter ot transportation Creston enjoys a distinct advantage over\nmost other fruit growing, centres. It\nhas direct connection with both the\nCanadian Pacific and - Great Northern\nsystems. The train schedule on the\nformer Is so arranged that fruit picked\nin the morning can be loaded direct\nInto the cars and.goes.east at noon the\nsame day, no further handling being required until It arrives at Its destination. The advantage of this Is apparent.\nNeedless to say the announcement of\nthe success of the district at the Spokane apple show In the early part of\nDecember was hailed with satisfaction\nby every resident but general regret\nwas heard that more care was not taken\nin getting an exhibit together that\nwould be. thoroughly representative of\nof the valley. It was felt that tbe number of prizes secured would have been\nvery much increased If this hod been\ndone. Those whose apples secured\nprizes at Spokane were as follows. Alex.\nDuperry, 1st prize, Bisinark; 2nd prize,\nWallbrtdge; 2nd prize, Wealthy.\nJ. Compton, 1st prize, Blenheim; 2nd\nprize, Stark; 3rd prize, Ontario.\nJ. Cook, 1st prize, Golden Pippin of\nWestchester county.\nW. S. Watson, 4th prize, Gano.\nR. Hood, 4th prize, King of Tompkins\ncounty.\nThe sale by the government of its\nlands by auction In October last was\nan experiment that was unique In this\ncountry but Its success mors than Justified the course taken. In all 127 parcels\nwere offered for Bale, and all but one, a .\nrocky piece wi(h little or no timber on\nit, which was bid in, was disposed of.\nThe sales amounted to 1,640 acres, for\nwhich a total of 158,796 90 was realized.\nThe prices obtained varied, the highest\nbeing $300 per acre, while on an average tlie land brougbt 300 per cent, more\nthan the government's upset price.\nThe most of the land disposed of was\nbought by men already engaged In fruit\ngrowing In the district who knew its\ncapabilities, and the price obtained by\nthe government can be Bald to have established, for the time being at least,\nthe price for wild fruit lands In Southern British Columbia.\nSLOCAN JUNCTION\nBy Prank Tarry\nIn the lower end of the Kootenay valley from Slocan Junction to tbe Columbia river considerable progress Is being\nmade. When one considers that thirteen years ago the first settler came In,\nand that this part of the valley, fourteen miles long, was unbroken bush\nwith the exception of the railway right-\nof-way, that the idea of growing fruit\nwas scoffed at, that tbe new settler was\ntold by the miners and prospectors (the\nonly population at that time) that mining was all the country was good for,\none can realize, even by riding through\non the train and seeing a small portion\nof what has been done, that this district\ncan now boast of upwards of five hundred acres, cleared and under cultivation, a large proportion of which is\nplanted with fruit trees which are making a fine growth and give great promise of future profit. The soil is in the\nmain the best possible from a fruit\ngrowing standpoint, varying from a\nfriable clay to a fine sandy loam. As\nan Instance of the way In which fruit\ntrees grow here, It might be remembered that a tree planted eight years ago\nproduced thirteen boxes of apples this\nseason.\nMany who come to the Kootenay to\nbuy land think tbe prices asked are too\nhigh.\nFrom $100 to $400 pre arce may\nseem large figures to those coming\nfrom the prairie, but when, even at the\nhighest figure the land Is shown to be\ncapable In many instances of paying\nfor itself out of the first crop, the\nprice asked cannot be regarded as excessive.\nAmong the many advantages of this\npart can be counted the splendid shipping facilities furnished by two passenger trains and a freight each way dally,\ngiving a closeness to market so needed\nby tbe fruit grower. The lack of this\none feature of good transportation\nshould be enough to bar any location\nto the prospective settler.\nSeveral miles of a government road\nhave been made through the district\nand the completion of this road from\nCastlegar to Nelson, expected the coming year, is eagerly looked forward to.\nThe fruit grower If he is to be successful must be progressive and anything\nwhich Is an aid to the free exchange\nnf Ideas between members of the district must help the progress of the\nIndividual.\nIf the ratio of progress that has prevailed for the last few years is maintained, of which there is good evidence,\nI.II the land suitable for the purpose\nwill be producing fruit lu the near\nfuture.\nWALDO AND BAYNES' LAKE.\nThe Waldo and Baynes' lake dlBtrlct\non the line of the Great Northern, south\nof Elko, Is one of the new fruit growing\nsections that is just opening up. At\npresent the district Is the centre of\nlarge lumbering operations, but a company has successfully placed, a large\namount of fruit land on the market and\nsetitlers are beginning to go In. The\nC. P. It. is also putting 3000 acres of\nits lands on the market so that a big\nsettlement may be looked for within\nthe next few years. This district Is\nimmediately north of the fine fruit\nfarming districts of northwestern Montana and it is expected that as good\nresults will be secured there as in the\nterritory to the south, .\n PAGE SIXTEEN\n\u00a9he fPaily tptew>#\nSUNDAY .; JANUARY 3\nMANY NEW DISTRICTS ARE BBNG OPENED UP\nPEND D'ORHUE VALLEY\nBr A. O. Lang \t\nWANETA, B. C, Dec. 31\u2014In the obituary notice of Nels Demars, who died\nthe other day no mention wa9 made of\nthe fact that In tbe early days he carried the mall from Colvllle, Wash., up\nthis valley and on Into East Kootenay.\nProbably, too, the old French Canadian\nwas amongst the gold seekers who already before the Cariboo excitement ot\n1860 made big money on the Pend\nd'Orellle trenches. Now, however, there\nis little placering along tbe river, nor\ndo pack trains travel the Dewdney\ntrail to and from the one time busy\nmining campB of Wild Horee creek,\nEast Kootenay. The old trail Is now\na good wagon road; timbered flats have\ngiven place to meadows and young\norchards. The Indians hnve forsaken\ntheir once fashionable hunting grounds,\nwhere cattle now roam Instead of deer;\nneat bouses and barns stand where\nformerly was tha miner's cabin, and\nIn Bhort this valley Is In the same state\not transition as other parts of the\nKootenays.\nThe past year has witnessed a decided advance in the direction of more\nsettlers, more clearings, mora fruit\ntrees planted, more mixed farming and\nbetter roads. Until recently the farm-\nL\ners confined themselves entirely to the\nraising of beef cattle and their herds\nwere free to roam over a wide tract.\nLabor wsb scarce, the cattle brought in\ngood money with little attention, nor\nwas it necessary, owing to the mild\nwinters and good range, to break up\nmuch land for hay. But as farm produce was In Increasing demand and\nprices kept high, gradually butter making has been taken up, pigs and poultry kept, potatoes, etc., grown. During\nthe mat two years also the valley has\ndone a remunerative business In the\nsupplying of milk cows to new settlers\nalong the line of the N. F. & S. railway.\nAs regards fruit growing there are\nseveral small orchards about 15 years\nold. Those however, planted on a commercial Bcale, date back only a few\nyears. But as a fair start has already\nbeen made, as labor is now easily obtained, as results from the older orchards are most encouraging and as a\ngood class of settlers is coming in it is\ncertain that this valley before long will\nbecome a great fruit producer. Unfortunately this locality does not yet enjoy\nthe advantage of being advertised by\na resident expert in the raising of fruits\nfor choice shipments and exhibition.\nHowever, the samples, for instance, of\nGravenstein apples grown here without\nany particular care would, as regards\nClavor and appearance, amply satisfy\nthe practical orchardist.\nWhere climate and soil are such that\nall kinds of vegetables, small fruits and\nperfect apples and pears can be grown;\nfurther, tobacco, tomatoes and melons\nregularly ripened In the open air, the\nconditions seem Ideal for the small\nlaud holder. But It Ib to be noted that\nthere are no owners of 10-acre blocks\nhere and for the simple reason that\nprices being still so moderate new settlers do not feel called upon to tie\nthemselves down to a few acres. The\nsystem of small holdings has Its advantages and its drawbacks. Those\nwho prefer It have plenty of choice\nelsewhere in the Kootenays but those\nwho wish to retain for thtmselveB room\nto expand and who desire to engage in\ndairying as well as fruit growing can.\nfind what they want here. With regard\nto irrigation, although there are a number of creeks available, It has not been\nfound necessary to put them to use.\nAs In most valleys of the Kootenays\nthe rainfall is quite sufficient for fruit\ntrees, but in some seasons and on some\nsoils crops, such as bay, would probably be benefitted by irrigation.\nThere has been little land speculation\nhere and most Is still held by tbe early\nsettlers who pre-empted here and who\nshowed their confidence In the future\nof the valley by making additional\npurchases direct from the government.\nUntil land rises considerably In price it\nis probable. that new comers will continue to-buy tracts of from 20 to 100\nacres. While those situated near the\nrailroad are likely to go In for various\nside lines the main output of farm\nproduce in the near future will be apples, beef, pork and butter. Early potatoes might also be a feature, as good\ncrops of such varieties as Early Rose\nand Eureka have repeatedly been dug\nhere already the first weeks In July.\nIn some lines co-operation will be\nnecessary and it is a healthy sign that\nthose planting apple trees are endeavoring to agree on three or four varieties which shall be planted by all and\nso later facilitate the shipment of one\nvariety in carload lota. It is probable\nthat Gravenstein, Wealthy and Wagner\nor Jonathan will be chosen.\nDEER PARK\nBy F. F. Rameni\nDeer Park, situate on the lower Arrow Lake, about sixteen miles north\nfrom West Robson, Is famous as a summer residential district ,and is claimed\nto have the finest climate in tbe Kootenays. Some years ago considerable\nmining operations were conducted at\nDeer Park, but these were discontinued\nwhen the depression in the mining industry occurred, and since then the\nland fronting on the lake has been\ntaken up for agricultural purposes.\nAbout 2000 acres have been sub-divided\ninto orchard tracts by the Provident\nInvestment Co. These tracts range in\nsize from ten acres up, and are being\noffered at a very moderate price and\non liberal terms. The soil Ib a red\nloam, with a good subsoil, and is particularly well suited for fruit growing\nand market gardening. It Is especially\nadapted for the growing of small fruits,\nstrawberries doing exceptionally well.\nOne fruit grower Mr. F. Hamblln, claims\nthat his strawberries were ready for\nmarketing In May of last year. About\nseven families located at Deer Park\nduring 1908, all with the intention of\ngrowing fruit, and a considerable planting of fruit trees has resulted. The\nsettlement Is now one of good proportions, and many more settlers will\narrive In the spring. A number of old\ntimers have their homes here, who\nspend their time principally in prospecting and hunting. Mr. Hamblln, a\nRossland solicitor, who owns an orchard\ntract here, has embarked In tbe growing of peaches, and In 19C8 has planted\nout about ten acres of trees, all of\nwhich are bo far promising well.\nDeer Park has a post office, a boat\nindustry and a general store Ib to be\n\"U7E ARE the largest individual owners of\nfirst-class Fruit Lands on direct existing lines of transportation in British Columbia,\nWholesale blocks of 200 to 6000 acres\neach on the Arrow Lakes,\nRetail Orchard Tracts in the model subdivisions of Fruitvaie and Arrow Park,\nCorrespondence Solicited.\nKootenay Orchard Association\nLimited\nNelson, B. C.\nBankers: Bank of Montreal\ny\nJ\nopened during this winter. Dally transportation north and south is maintained\nall the year round. In the townslte\nmany lots have been sold during the\npast year, chiefly for private residences, and it is expected that several\nbusiness enterprises will be opened up\nduring the summer of 1909. All the\nland adjoining the townsite was disposed of during 1908.\nIn regard to timber, Deer Park can\nsafely be considered as having the very\nbest that can be found on the Arrow\nlakes, there being millions of feet of\nyellow and white pine, fir and some\ncedar, all located within easy distance\nof the settlement. Logging operations\nare carried on all winter, enabling the\nsettler to work practically at home, and\nat the same time earn sufficient to keep\ntha wolf from tbe door, and also to\nprovide a fund for the further improvement of their orchard tracts.\nThe mining industry in tho vicinity\nof Deer Park has again been resumed,\nchiefly by syndicates and considerable\ndevelopment work has already been\ndone, with the result that arrangements\nare now under way for the erection of\na modern plant next spring to treat\nthe ores of the district.\nAs previously stated the climate at\nDeer Park cannot be beaten, and with\na valley of about 16,000 acres, containing good fruit land, timber and mines,\nIt Is one of the best districts for investment, and it Is quite certain hundreds\nof settlers will locate there In the very\nnear future.\nBURTON CITY AND FIRE\nVALLEY\nBy J. B. Annit'l,\nProbably no part of the Kootenay\nhas made such'rapid strides in. fruit\ngrowing during the year as the Arrow\nLake country. The Arrow Lakes are\nabout 20 miles In length, and It Is estimated that there Is at least 100,000\nacres along these lakes which are suitable for fruit culture.\nThe principal valleys that have attracted so much attention are Nakusp,\nArrow Park, Orchard Beach, Burton\nCity, Needles, Fire Valley, Renata,\nDeer Park and Robson.\nNakusp is situated at the mouth of\nKuskunex creek, and the valley extends\nin an easterly direction to Slocan lake.\nA large number of settlers have purchased land there during 1908 and are\nImproving it. Seven miles below Nakusp the lake narrows and fine stretches\nof land are found on both sides for 40\nmiles, and small towns are springing\nup every few miles. The first place Is\nArrow Park, a prosperous young town\nwith hotel, store and post office.\nThen comes Orchard Beach, where\nnew houses are going up in all directions, Pour miles further down the\nlake Is Burton City, and It Is estimated\nthat 400 people have purchased fruit\nlands during 1908 within a radius of 10\nmiles of Burton City.\nThis Ib probably greater progress\nthan any other part of the Kootenay\ncountry has had. The real eBtate men\nwho are operating in that vicinity claim\nthat 10 years from now Burton City\ncountry will produce more apples than\nany other valley in the Kootenay. \u2022\nLeaving Burton City, the next place\nof Importance is Needles. Here there\nare well developed orchards on both\neides of the lake. This Is the upper\nor north entrance to Fire {Valley, which\nIs probably the oldest settled valley on\nthe Arrow Lakps. This valley Is from\ntwo to three miles wide, and Is suitable\nfor fruit culture for about 15 miles\nback. The government has made a\ngood wagon road up through the valley\nwith branches running out on each\nside,\nThis valley Is dotted v'.h farm\nhouses tor a distance ot at' c 10 miles,\nmost of the farmers having large holdings which they secured from the government aa pre-emptions and some are\nnow sub-dividing them Into 10 and 20\nacre fruit farms. The rush of new settlers has not started In Fire Valley yet,\nbut It Ib expected that during 1909,\nhundreds of fruit growers will find their\nway to Fire Valley, and I do not hesitate to say, that some day Fire Valley\nwill eclipse the famous Hood River\nValley of apples, both In quantity and\nquality.\nRenata, Deer Park and Brooklyn are\nonly three miles apart and It Is estimated that Deer Park is the earliest part\nIn this section of the country. This Is\naccounted for by the extra amount of\nsunshine of the southern exposure. The\nwhole country Is park like, wild gross,\nwhich reaches a height of two feet,\ngrowing between the trees, and it Ib a\nmost favored spot for wintering live\nstock, as they require very little attention during the winter season.\nStandard fruits, such as apples, pears\nand plums are also successfully cultivated, the climate and soil making this\nvalley an Ideal place for orchardlsts.\nThe land Is quite level and easy to\nclear. No irrigation has yet been\nfound necessary, but a very fine creek\nruns through the valley, with an abundance of water the year round, so that In\ncase of an exceptionally dry season,\nIrrigation can be easily secured.\nRenata commands one of the best\nsituations of any spot on the Arrow\nlakes, the sun shining on it from morning till evening all the year round.\nThere Is a nice sandy beach on the\nlake front, affording good boating and\nbathing facilities, and It is within the\nrange of possibilities that In a very\nshort time there will here be established\none of the most popular summer resorts\nIn the interior.\nThere was but one fruit grower in\nthe valley In the year 1907, while today\nthere are fourteen settlers located there\nand eighteen more have made final arrangements to locate In the spring of\n1909. There Is a public school, general\nstore, poBt office, with a dally mall\nservice throughout the year. The government has provided fairly good roods\nthroughout the valley, and bridges are\nplaced where necessary to allow uninterrupted traffic. The most distant\nblock in the settlement Is only about\none and one-half miles from the steamer\nlanding. Twenty acres have been reserved on the water front ,and subdivided into residence lotB for the convenience of summer residents In connection with the summer resort above\nreferred to.\nWithin the last few months a promising mineral claim has been located\nwithin two miles of Renata, on which\nconsiderable development work has already been done. Good results are anticipated from this claim In the near\nfuture, as Renata lies within the gold\nbelt, and traces of gold are found' In\nthe bed of Dog creek, which rune\nthrough the valley. About six miles\nfrom the lake shore a promising mineral spring has been located quite recently. An analysis of the water shows\nsodium, calcium and Ilthlo, It te'ei-J\npected that a bottling plant will !>,\u25a0\nerected In connection with this spring,\nwhen the winter monthB are over, and\nthis will provide an additional revenue\nproducer for Renata.\nArrangements are now being made\nfor the erection of a Bawmill at Renata,\nnnd It is expected work on same will\ncommence this winter. A 3000-acre\ntimber limit, located back of and closa\nto the valley, will provide the Umber\nnecessary to make this enterprise \u25a0\nsuccess. This Industry will result In\ngreat benefit to the settlement in general as manufactured building material\nwill be available right on the spot.\nRenata, viewed from any point, can\nbe classed only as sn ideal spot, and\ntaking into consideration Its fruit grow.\nIng possibilities, and the numerous\nother industries in contemplation, th*\nlittle settlement of today will. In all\nprobability, within a very few years,\nbe the most progressive and flourishing\nburg on the Arrow Lakes. \u2022\nRENATA\n1 P. F. Slemus\nFRUITVALE\nBy Kootenay Orchard Association, LUt\nRenata Is a sub-division, situated\nabout 20 miles north of West Robson,\non the lower Arrow lake, Kootenay\ndistrict, and Is owned by the Manitoba\n& Western Land Co., Limited. This\nsection of the country Is well, known\nfor Its mild climate, the seasons opening about three Weeks earlier than In\nother parts of the Kootenays, and remaining open to a longer period In the\nfall months. The soil Is \u2022 red sandy\nloam, and cherries, peaches and watermelons, In addition to all kinds of vegetables do exceptionally well there.\nIf the history ot Fruitvaie were written It would read like a fairy tele.\nThe object of this article, however.\nIs to give a plain statement of foots,\nshowing by cold BtatlBtics what is being\ndone In the fertile valley ot the Beaver.\nFruitvaie is located 50 miles south ot\nNeUon, on the Spokane branch of tho\nGreat Northern railway. Beaver creek\nruns through Fruitvaie and empties Into\nthe Columbia river three mileB away.\nIn the spring of 1906, six thouBan'd\nfour hundred acres, comprising \u00abthe\nheart of this beautiful valley, were ac:\nquired by purchase from the Great\nNorthern railway and others. A whole\nyear and large sums of money were\nspent on preliminary surveys and cru'lB-\ning to demonstrate the most practical\nplan of laying out an up-to-date orchard\nsub-division In accordance with the\ntopography of the'country, also to ascertain what land was first class and\nwhat rough and waste.\nEarly In 1907 surveyors were put In ,\nthe field, over 3,000 acres of land surveyed out as waste, and the b'alance, lying\non both sides of the railway, carved\nInto 322 orchard tracts of practically\nten acreB each. A townslte wbb survey,\ned, as nearly as possible In the centre\nof the sub-dlvtslon, 25 miles of wagon\nroods leading to the townslte and rail- '\nroad station were cut out, graded, and\nImproved with bridges and culverts,\nand the place thrown open to settlement.\nThe first settler arrived on the ground\nJuly 4th, 1907.\nPresent population of Fruitvaie 350.\nThe place has four general stores, a\nmeat market, post office, broom factory,\nhotel, school with 38 children. Number\nof dwellings erected, 105; number of\nacres cleared and cultivated, 360; number of acreB set-out to trees, 240; number of acres sold to date, 2,130; price\nof land Bold, 1208,160; number of\ntown lots sold, 30; price ot town lots\nsold, $3,082; actual selling value of all\nland sold, *211,240.\nWe might add that It has been the\ndim of the settlerB at Fruitvaie to plant\nonly those varieties of trees which have\nproved to be the best for. commercial\npurposes, with the ultimate end In view\not having the Fruitvaie brand of apple\nworld famed tor quality,,., :- ;>J\n Industrial Section\n(3\nTHE DAILY NEWS\nPages 17 to 24\nVOL.7\nNELSON, B. C\u201e SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1009\nNO. 216\nNELSON, THE CAPITAL OF THE KOOTENAYS\u2014THE ELECTRICAL CITY\nOf all the public utilities owned and\ncontrolled by the corporation none have\nbeen the cause of as much contention,\ndifferences of opinion and fair and unfair criticism as the hydro-electric plant\nat Bonnington Falls. At the same time\nit may he fairly and truly said that no\nother public utility in the municipality\nwill be the source of bo much revenue\nas the same plant once the city is In a\nposition to reasonably guarantee a continuous supply of power to consumers.\nThe Installation of the second unit now\nIn progress, will place the city In such\na position. As any description of Nelson would be Incomplete without an extended reference to this municipal enterprise, The Dally News takes the liberty of extracting from the report of the\nlate city engineer, Mr. A. L. McCulloch,\nthe following information respecting the\ninitial steps taken, to secure a site and\nthe subsequent operations up till the\ntime the first unit was installed. Following that will be a resume of tho further work performed and contemplated\nIn connection with the plant. Mr. McCulloch reports:\n\"Instructions were given by the munl-\npal council in November1, 1900, for me\nto examine the available sites for the\nconstruction of a proposed hydro-electric power plant. In pursuance of these\ninstructions I immediately made examinations of the available sites on the\nKootenay river, and selected the Bite on\nthe south Bide ot the upper Bonnington\nFalls as the one best lending itself to\neconomical construction for the site of\nthe plant proposed. Accordingly, in Pe-\ncember, 1900,1 staked, on behalf of the\ncity, a water record and also 40 acres\nof land on the south side of the Kootenay river at the upper Bonnington\nFalls, including the site required for\nthe power plant,\n\"Both these applications were oppos-\nW byi the West Kootenay Power &\nLight company, but the city eventually\nsecured both. The water record was\ngranted on January 15, 1901, but it was\nnot until January 22,1903 that the city\nsecured title to the site for the proposed plant.\n'Trior to this, however, I was instructed by the municipal council to\ncomplete surveys, prepare plans and estimates and report to the council on the\nconstruction of a power plant capable\nof being utilized up to 3000 horse power\ncapacity. This report, with estimates,\nwas made on December 5, 1901, and\ncovered the construction of a plant providing for three units of 1000 horse\npower each, the estimate cost of\nwhich, with one unit of 1000 horse power in machinery installed in the initial\nconstruction, was $135,000, the plan\nadopted being that of the horizontal\ntype of wheel setting, necessitating the\nwheels being set above extreme high\nwater below the falls.\n\"A bylaw to raise $150,000 for power\nplant purposes received the assent of\nthe electors on December 17, 1902, the\nvote polled being 271 for the bylaw and\n89 against. Immediately after tbe passage of the bylaw, speclflcationns and\nInstructions to bidders were prepared,\nbut on account of the delay in selling\nthe debentures, tenders were not called\nfor the construction ot the works until\nMarch, 1905.\n\"Tbe municipal council in January,\n1905, engaged Mr. Clemens Herschel to\nreport on the best plan for developing\nthe power at the proposed site for a\nplant ot an ultimate capacity ot 5000\nhorse power. Mr. HerBCbel's report fa-,\nvored the vertical type of wheel setting,\nwith umbrella type generators, this setting having the advantage of utilizing\nfull head at the falls at all stages of\nwater, with the wheels ''submerged in\nhigh water\u2014'the head at high water being estimated at 40 feet and at low water *0 feet. His plan provided for a\nplant of four units of 1250 horse power\neach under the minimum head of 40\nfeet, the same four units being capable\not developing under the 60 feet head\n6700 horse power. Mr. HerscheTs plans,\nwith some modifications, suggested by\nmyself, were* the lines upon which the<\npower plant-has been built, that is a\nfour unit plant, with the umbrella type\nsetting of generators.\n\"On March 29, 1905, the tender of D.\nMcBeath for excavation and masonry\nfoundations was accepted, the price being $10 per cubic yard ot masonry, and\n$1.50 to $2 per cubic yard of excavation,\naccording to location. Work was commenced by the contractor on April 3,\n1905, on the canal excavation, and very\nshortly afterwards on the power house\nexcavation, the amount of work called\nfor under their contract being 17,000\ncubic yards of rock excavation and 4100\ncubic yards of masonry.\n\"On May 23, 1905 a temporary injunction was granted the West Kootenay Power ft Light company agalnBt\nthe city, restraining them from disposing of any rock below high water in the\nriver, on the ground that It was detrimental to their 'existing power plant\nat the middle Bonnington Falls. The effect of this Injunction was to .stop all\nexcavation for the power house site and\n' greatly curtailed operations.. The temporary injunction wsb made permanent\nby the courts on August 8, 1906. ..\n\"On August 18, the city agreed to W\nD. McBeath ft Co. 40 cents per cubic\nyard for 8500 yards of rock' excavation*\nas compenst^onTfoT-tto-Bxtre-t\u00bbtt\"ot\ndisposing of the excavated rock on account of the Injunction and an agree*\nment was nude with the West Koote\nnay Power & Light company by which\nwe were enabled to recommence work\non tbe power house excavation. On account of the difficulties of disposing of\nthis rock the work progressed in a desultory manner until proceedings were\ninstituted against tbe city and the contractors for contempt of court, when\nthe work ot rock excavation at the power house ceased. On November 29,\n1905 the contractors and the city were\nfound guilty of contempt of court, but\nthe application for sequestration of city\nproperty was ordered to stand over to\nbe heard at a time fixed on 24 hours'\nnotice. This order, of the court also\nstipulated that , the defendants will\ncease to carry on their work until they\nshall have constructed a substantial\ncrib work of timber or walUof masonry\nalong the outer bank of tbe dump oi\nrock or debris between high and low\nwater of tbe Kootenay river. The construction of this wall, however, provided a manner in which the work could\nbe carried on with the permission of\nthe court. The contractors, however,\non account of the difficulties and expense of carrying on the work, asked to\nbe relieved of their contract. By this\ntime the season had so far advanced\nthat unless the work was carried on in\nan energetic manner, it would be impossible to complete the power house\nfoundations before the water commenced rising in the spring, and thus causing\nan indefinite delay in completing the\nwork. After considering all the circumstances the municipal council decided to\nrelieve the contractors and complete\nthe work by day labor. Accordingly, on\nDecember 12, 1905 an agreement was\nmade with D. McBeath & Co., paying\nthem for work done at contract prices\nand taking over supplies and plant at\nan agreed valuation. Under this agreement the contractors received $23,401\nfor total value of work done on contract and $11,820 for plant and material.\n\"On Dec. 12, 1905, the city assumed\nthe management of the works, assuming the payroll, however, from Dec. 1.\nThe work was at once pushed as energetically as possible, as soon as some\nnecessary rearrangement of machinery\nand plant was completed. During the\nconstruction of the works contracts\nwere let for the steel supply pipes, steel\nbeams and Iron gratings, etc., required.\n\"Tenders were received on July 17,\n1905, for furnishing one 750 k.w. umbrella type generator and all the necessary power houses and substation accessories, as also for one turbine water\nwheel and governor for operating the\ngenerator. Only one tender was received for the hydraulic installation. In\nJuly the municipal council awarded the\ncontract to the Allls-Chalmers-Bullock\nCo. for both the electrical and hydraulic\nInstallation for the sum of $43,485, but\nit was not until Sept. 11, 1905, that the\ncontract was signed by this company.\nThe contract called for the shipment\nof the machinery from the works In\nfive months from the date of signing the\ncontract, viz., Feb. 1, 190G. There was\nan unfortunate delay. In the shipment\nof the machinery, and it was not until\nthe beginning of September that the\nlast of the electrical machinery arrived.\nThe installation of the machinery was\ncompleted and water turned on the\nturbine on Dec. 28, 1906. The terms\nof the contract call for tbe contractors\nto furnish, instal, and successfully operate the plant for a period of 30 days.\n\"Following are some of the particu-\nFall and Complete History of the Hydro-Electric Power Plant\nF*om Its Inception-Detail of Work and Cost of Same\nlars of the power house construction:\nHeight from wheel pit floor to turbine\ntion walls, 68 feet; height from generator floor to ridge of roof, 38.6 feet;\nsulator pins, the wires of the circuit\nbeing spaced thirty Inches center to\nfloor level, 28.6 feet; from turbine floor\nto thrust deck floor, 33.6 feet; from\ntotal height of building, 106.6 feet. The i\nfoundation walls are built of solid con- |\ncenter In the form of an equilateral\ntriangle. The pole line Is built on a\nthrust deck floor to generator floor |\nlevel, 8.6 feet; total height of founds-\ncrete masonry, the vertical walls being\nsix feet thick, there being also a six\nfoot wall between each unit. Width of\neach unit, center to center of crosswall,\n25 feet; the turbine floor is a masonry\narch with a depth of crown of arch of\n4 feet; the thrust deck floor is a masonry arch with a depth of crown of arch\nof 2 feet; the generator floor Is a j\nmasonry arch, with a depth of crown of\narch of 2.6 feet. Between tbe turbine\nfloor and the thrust deck floor there are\ntwo other floor levels of steel beams,\nwhich also act as steady bearing stiff-\noners for the vertical shaft. The foundations are completed to the elevation\nof the turbine floor level for tour units,\nbut above this level for'two units only;\neverything being in readiness for the\naddition of a second machine.\nThe power house superstructure Is\nbuilt of brick laid In cement mortar.\nThe walls are thirty-two inches thick\nfor a height of twenty feet to the ledge\nfor the travelling crane, then for a\nheight of ten feet to tho wall plate, It\nIs eighteen inches thick. The roof is\nsupported by heavy roof trusses, the\nroof covering being three-ply malthold\nroofing. The Interior half of the generator room now completed Is 29 by 53\nfeet. '\n\"A frame dwelling house 22 1-2 by\n\"4 1-2 feet, one and one half storyB high\nhas been built for tbe accommodation\nof the employees. Tbe bouse has four\nbedrooms, sitting room, dining room,\nkitchen and cellar; has a bath room,\nwith closet, bath and wash bowl, and\nfitted with hot and cold water, and has\nbeen built to provide for an addition\nwhen necessary.\n\"A water supply system, consisting\nof 480 lineal feet of two inch Iron pipe\nand a small storage tank, has been installed to furnish water to the house\nfor domestic purposes and to provide\nfire protection for tho power house and\nresidence. ....,- ,, \u25a0\/.' \u25a0 v .\n\"The transmission line Is nine and a\nhalf miles in length and consists of a\nseven strand aluminum cable,, equal to\nNo. 2 aluminum wire, carried on No, 16\nLocke glass insulators and locust In-\nright of way purchased by the city excepting for a distance of 1 1-2 miles\nfrom the power house to 49-creek, where\nIt is on the public road allowance. This\nright of way, for a width of 60 feet,\nwas cleared of all treos and brush, and\nall standing trees along the right of\nrealize! on,the sale of plant and sup-\nrealized on the sale of plant to date is\napproximately $185,600.\n\"On account of the Injunction of the\ncourt, and of the court having found the\ncontractors guilty of contempt of court,\non the city assuming charge of the\nwork, great care had to be exercised in\ndisposing of the waste rock. The excavation for the wheel pit was placed\nalong a narrow strip above high water,\nat the foot of a perpendicular cliff. To\nfind a place to dispose of the rock from\nthe fntake it was necessary to change\npart of the canal training wall from\nmasonry construction to a timber crib\nconstruction, and disposing of the rock\nwithin this, making It wide for the\npurpose. The balance of the intake excavation was disposed of by building\na dry stone retaining wall at the foot\nof a rocky cliff.\n\"With the vertical type of Installation used at the plant, the total bead\nat all stages of water can be utilized,\nso that the capacity of the turbine\nvaries from time to time according to\nthe high and low stages of the river. As\ndesigned, the present turbine Installed\nis Intended to have a capacity of 1250\nhorse power, with a head of 40 feet.\nThis minimum head occurs only with\nhigh water conditions such as happened\nin 1894. An average high water condition would give a head of about 52 feet\nwith a wheel capacity of 1600 h. p.\nwhile the maximum low water head is\n65 feet, with a wheel capacity of over\n2200 h. p.\n\"Our present plant was designed before the West Kootenay Power and\nLight Co. commenced the construction\nof their new plant. The improvements\nthey intend to make in widening the\nriver channel below the falls will have\nthe effect of materially lowering high\nwater conditions at our power house\ntall race, when the maximum high\nwater will give a head of not less than\n53 feet, and at low water a head of 65\nfeet. This will give a range of power\nwith the present turbine of from 1650\nto 2200 h. p. The plant, as at present\nconstructed for four units, has an ultimate capacity ranging from 6500 to\n8800 horse power, between minimum\nand maximum beads. As the city has\na water record of 51,000 miners' inches,\nequal to a capacity of 8000 h. p. under\n65 feet head, there will be ample water to meet the requirements. The generator at present Installed has a nominal rating of 750 kilowatts. To be able\nto utilize the hydraulic capacity of the\nplant, It will be advisable In future extension to instal generators of 1000\nkilowatt capacity.\n(signed) a. l. Mcculloch, c. e.\"\nDuring 1907 tbe municipal council,\nafter a lengthy test of tho machinery\nby the contractors, under the supervision of the city electrical engineer,\nagreed to take over the plant with Ibe\nexception of the governor, which did\nnot satisfactorily perforin the work required of It. Repeated efforts were\nmade to have contractors replace the\ngovernor with one better suited for tbe\nrequirements, but these were met with\nthe statement that the governor Installed was adequate. Matters continued In this condition unltl 1908.\nWhen the council of 1908 assumed\noffice an Inspection of the plant was\nImmediately made, and many improvements were suggested and carried out.\nPrincipal among these was the building\nof a concrete draught tube to replace\nthe metal one washed out by the surge\nof the waters in the pit. The forebay\nwall was also raised seven and one-half\nfeet, a necessary precaution as was subsequently proved, when the water raisr\nWork Is now: progressing pn these lines'\nand contracts are being let for the supply and installation of the machinery.\n\u2022The installation of the second unit\nnecessitates the enlargement of the\nsub-station in the city to accommodate\nthe transformers, switch board and\nother apparatus required. The fact of\nthe provincial government having\ngranted the old court house to the city,\nenables the council to avoid the expense of a new building for a sub-station, by utilizing tbe present city hall\non Victoria street Already considerable\nwork has been done there in the necessary transformation of tbe interior, and\na part of the apparatus has been installed. When completed and In operation this will bo one of the best equipped buildings of its kind for the purpose required. A second transmission\nline will also be erected, the wire For\nsame being now on hand.\nWhen the full Installation at present\nproposed Is completed. Nelson will be\nin a position to supply a continuous\ncurrent every day In the year, and\nevery hour of each day ,and will also\nbe In a position to enter into contract\nfor the supply of power and light to\nany and all who may deslre,lt.\nNELSON, THE BEAUTIFUL.\nBy J. C. Dufrcsne.\nIn my capacity as late City Engineer,\nI have been asked to contribute a Bhort\narticle on tbe year of progress end\nprosperity through which Nelson has\njust passed, I may say the greatest era\nof progress and prosperity that Nelson\nhas yet known, and this in spite of the\nwave of financial panic, depression and\ncalamity, that has struck this whole\ncontinent, and the world In general, for\nthe past eighteen months.\nTwelve years ago Nelson was but a\nlittle smelter camp, her streets ungraded, her buildings unpalnted, her popular\ntlon of about a thousand, depending\nalmost entirely on the ore production\nof the Silver King Mine. When good\nfortune smiled on the Hal] Mines Co.,\nNelson smiled with it, when the smelter had to shut down awaiting the development of further ore bodies, Nelson mourned, and her business men\ntrembled for her future.\nToday she stands preeminently the\nQueen City of the Kootenays, the greatest wholesale, commercial and manufacturing centre between Winnipeg and\nVancouver, with a population fast approaching ten thousand; beautiful marble government buildings, schools,\nchurches, banks, business blocks, municipal water works, sewerage system,\nelectric light and power plant second to\nnone for any city of her size between'\nthe Atlantic and the Pacific.\nThe Nelson of today is not a city of\nmushroom growth. Year by year from\nthe time some eighteen w twenty years\nago when a few ot her oldest inhabitants walked over tbe mountains In\nsearch of precious metals, railroad right\nof ways, hunting and fishing, etc., and .\nsettled in this beautiful garden spot on\nthe shores of the mighty Kootenay,\ngiving it. the name of Nelson, down to\nthe culminating era of her prosperity\nrtw evidenced by her progress during\nthe current year, Nelson has known no\nyear of retrogression. True, her growth\nhas been marked by periods of greater\nor less acceleration, and would In all\nprobability have continued so, bad she\nnot awakened to find herself the centef\nof what is destined tg become one of\nthe most important fruit growing dis*\ntrfcts on this great continent.\nOf the Nelson of the ftiture who can\nsay? Will the Nelson of 1918 have a\nssB MMsflLJKp^\u00a3J^__ \"* 'IsWFm^*\n\u2022 \"%4^iSBiW^ii | *?\n^M ''\/^^8M\n\u00a7 !{:|i^\u00a7; --wm\n\u2022 \u25a0 \u25a0 V i \u25a0 '!\nTRANSFORMERS NELSON HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT.\nway that were a menace to the power\ncircuit were cut down.\n\"The total payment on power plant\nto December 1906, Is $167,055, and there\nremains yet to be paid on account of\nmachinery contract $28,090. This, together with $300 due on payroll, etc.,\nwill bring the expenditure up to $196,-\n750. Deducting legal expenses amounting to $8810, and allowing $2600 as a\nsafe estimate ot tbe amount to be\ned to a height of eighteen inches\nover tho old wall. Concrete weirs wore\nbuilt In the tall race to overcome tbe\nsurge and wash of tho falls. Later In\nthe year a cottage was erected for the\nuse of the superintendent and his family, and preliminary steps taken for the\ninstallation of a second unit. This necessitates the enlargement of. the power\nhouse, besides many alterations In the\nInterior arrangement of the appliances.\npopulation of 20,000? It should, aye\nand more, Who shall stty that the Nelson of five years henco will not have\nthat population? With her fruit lands\nmore fertile and widely known year by\nyear, her mines opening up all around\nand her manufactories and Industries\nincreasing and becoming more productive day by day, Nelson should make\nrapid strides within the next few years.\n(Continued on Page Twenty-two.)\n \u2014\u2014\nPAGE EIGHTEEN\nKrw \u00a7ottg Slews,\nSUNDAY JANUARY!\nIDEAL COUNTRY FOR HUNTING AND FISHING\n; By M. R. McQuarrle.\n. Very few people In Canada or the\nUnited States hare the advantage of\nliving in an up-to-date town like Nelson\nand at the same time have such splendid opportunities of big game hunting\naa are to be had in the Kooteay district.\nThe whole surrounding country abounds\nin different varieties of big game.\nAlong the shores of the Arrow lakes,\nfar instance, and In the vicinity are to\nbe found gristly bear, black and brown\nbear, cougars, lynx, timber wolves and\ncoyotes and possibly on no place In the\ncontinent are mountain goats to be met\nback to tbe camp where be expected\nto find some men who were working\non'a mining'claim In the vicinity and\nhoped to get their, assistance .to bring\nIn his kill. He discovered, however,\nthat the men had left for Nelson on a\npassing barge and that they would not\nreturn for some days. The only person\nleft In camp was Mrs. Rose the wife of\none of the miners. Next morning he\ntold her that he woudl go out and bring\nIn what he could of the deer, hanging\nthe rest up out of reach of marauding\nanimals. He promised to be back by\nIt appears that soon after the hunter.\nleft in the morning the grizzly had invaded the meat house at the camp and\ncarried off what food it could obtain.\nMrs. Rose noticed that the bear, had\ngone oft directly in the tracks ot Mr.\nBurden and fearing that the hunter\nmight come to some harm, the plucky\nwoman started to follow In order to\nrender what assistance aha could. Fortunately her help was only needed to\ncarry In the skin o! the enemy.\nPaul Andrews also had an exciting\nexperience, In this esse near the Arrow\nMl\n' 4\nih ^&m*M\n'\u25a0\u2022>J\nwPr \u2022ZBf ***Tfm^L\\ ^\nItiflKH H |SL\\T 1\n\" 1BC Y^Lw^M\nA 1 \\ ^ I\n\u25a0\u2022:,.?-WMWK.-'-fll':t:+Wm^mt\u00a7WEaM\n\",-i k > & ll. , 9\nw \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0''-\u25a0%:<*sa~**P.jf,pr at bow\nthe influx of many visiting fishermen\nfrom the south, who had magnificent\nsport, one of the' largest fish taken by\nthem scaling twenty-two pounds.\n'' A fine cast of a splendid specimen\nof this trout, caught some two years\nago by Mr. Whellams of Kaslo can be\nseen In the Nelson board of trade\nrooms.\nThe time Is fast coming when the preservation of our game fishes must be\na matter of moment, if we ere to encourage visitors to come here for the\nsport.. The Dominion government last\nJune enacted regulations under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, providing\namongst other matters that no trout\nshall be taken in B. C. waters under 8\ninches In length, and that no trout under\nthree pounds in weight shall be sold\nor exposed for sale In thlB province.\nThis will prevent tbe slaughter that to\nmy mind has been going on for years\npast, especially in the Kootenay river\nwest of the city. Many professional\nfishermen have made a living from the\ncatching and sale of trout, which are\nreadily disposed of in the home cities\nat from' 25 to 30 cents per pound.\nThe rivers have not been stocked and\nthe time will come and that not far distant when It will take an expert .\"to\nmake sure of a catch. The provincial\ngovernment have promised to take the\nmatter Into consideration next year, and \u2022\nit regulations similar to those already\npassed by the Dominion government\nare enacted, It will do away with the\nconflict that at present exlste as to\nwhich government has the right to pass\nlaws governing tbe taking and sale of\ntrout. Qnce the sale of trout Is absolutely prohibited by both governments.\nIt will mean that the vocation of the\nprofessional fisherman la gone, and the\namateur will stand some chance of making a catch and the fish will have t fair\nchance of multiplying.\nThis is a matter that vitally concerns\nthe people of Kootenay and the City of\nNelson In particular, for we naturally\nwish to advertise the fact that we have\nsome of the finest fishing in the world\nat pur doors, to be had for the cost of\na visit here .and It would be a thousand\npities to have our visitors come and\nleave disappointed, oMng to the fact\nthat our streams are being exploited\nfor the benefit of the market.\nFor all information relating\nto Nelson and district, their\nresources and all attractions,\nwrite to Secretary Peblicity\nBureau, Board of Trade,\nNation, B. C\n HHPI-\n\u2022UNDAY ........... JANUARY I\n? \/\n(Hite \u00a9ally llerw.\nit\nPAGE NINETEEN\nTHE CITY OF NELSON\nELSON, the capital of the Kootenays,\n\u2022 has a population of over 7000 persons.\n. Situated in the midst of the most charming\nand picturesque mountain scenery on the Continent.\nA mild and equable climate, unbroken by\nsevere storms, throughout the year.\nV A lake frontage affording facilities for shipping and railroad purposes and unsurpassed\nopportunities for boating and the use of motor\nlaunches, '^.y.y.--\u25a0,::.: .-.-'\u25a0.\u25a0';\u2022: .r...,'yy:y\";:!\u25a0::\nHealth records of the very highest standard\nGood gravelly soil and perfect drainage.\nPublic and high schools of the very highesf\nefficiency, with modern and well equipped\nbuildings.\nChurches and public buildings of the best\niii the province. L\nThe railway and banking centre of the\nmining, lumbering, fruit growing and commercial interests of southern British Columbia.\nExcellent hotel accommodation.\nPossesses its own waterworks, sewers, and\nhydro-electric power plant.\nValue of exports through Nelson port of\nentry to U.S. for 1908 $2,600,000\nThe City\nof Nelson\nWith the cheap power it affords, its\ncentral position, and the local and\ndistrict demand for manufactured\narticles now imported from distant\npoints of production\nAffords Great\nOpportunities\nto those seeking new fields for manufactories. The policy of the Mayor\nand Council is to afford assistance to\nnew industries.\nBtefctrjc Light and\nPower Department\nDOMESTIC UTENSILS\nA large stock of electrical appliances for the use of\nhouseholders is carried in the Electrical Department of\nthe City. - Amongst these the following may be mentioned :\u2014\nHeating Stoves Water Heaters\nCoffee Percolators Toasters\nChafing Dishes\nSrnoothlnjg irons \"y^arming Pads\nTea Kettles Disc Stoves\nCurling Iron Heaters\nIndustrial\nEnterprises\nThere are a number of manufacturing and industrial enterprises which\nmight profitably be established in\nNelson, an assured market for the\nproducts of the same being ready to\nhand. Amongst these may be mentioned a canning factory, a flour mill,\na pulp mill, as well as works for the\nextraction of turpentine and other\nby-products from sawdust.\nThese, articles are all sold at the lowest possible price, and terms of payment, spread over a period of months, can be arranged for. A very\nlow rate per month is charged for the current for each article.\nPor all Information relating to electric lighting and heating enquiry should be made of the City Electric Light Department\n\u25a0\u00bb\n PAOE TWENTY\n\u00a9he {potty Heme.\nSUNDAY JANUARY I\nNELSON'S SCHOOL SYSTEM-A SHORT HISTORY\nThe public schools of the city of Nelson, which have now for many years\nbeen a source of advantage to the city\nand district and of pride to all citizens,\nhad a very modest beginning.\nThe first class was assembled on\nMay 25th, 1691, in an unfinished room\nla the residence of Dr. Arthur, corner\nof Victoria and Stanley streets, Rev.\nThomas H. Rogers, B. A., Presbyterian\nmissionary, taking charge. About a\n\"dozen pupils took their Beats on a pile\n,of rough boards, the teacher had no\nchair and only an empty packing case\nit'or a desk; his black-board was a piece\nof window blind tacked upon a rough\nwall.\nDuring the summer of 1891 a petition,\nadopted at a citizens' meeting, was\naddressed to the provincial government\npraying for tbe establishment of a\nschool. The government promised to\npay the salary of a teacher If the citizens would furnish the building. Rev.\nMr. Rogers offered the use of the room\nthen used as a church. Miss Jennie\nRath (Mrs. John Hamilton) was then\nappointed teacher and the first regular\nschool was opened on Oct. 1, 1891.\nDuring the same year the govern\nment Instructed its agent, T. H. Griffin,\nto select a site for a school. He chose\nthe present site, block 32, the best\navailable.\nEarly in 1892 the government, which\nhad already provided for the clearing\nof the site, let a contract to McDonald\nand Duhamel to erect a two-roomed\nbuilding. It was then discovered that\nthe half of the block fronting on Stanley street had been laid out in lots for\nthe C. P. R. company, A struggle then\nbegan. Two of the provisional trustees, Dr. Arthur and G. O. Buchanan,\nappealed ^ by telegraph to the government. The result was a decision in\ntheir favor communicated by Col. Baker,\nthen minister of education.\nOne room of the new building was\nopened at the beginning of tbe autumn\nterm of 1892, Miss Rath having been\nsucceeded by Mies Stella Kane (now\nMrs. Klernan of Kaslo) who taught\nuntil midsummer, 1894, when she was\nsucceeded by Miss Nellie Delmage\n(Mrs. Isaac Day, Orillla, Ont.)\nIn August, 1896, a second division was\nrequired and J. R. Green was appointed\nprincipal, Miss Delmage remaining\n| as assistant. A year later Miss Annie\nIhe\nNelson Brewing\nCo., Ltd.\nNelson. B. C. Princeton, B. C.\nW. GOSNELL,\nBrewers of\nKootenay's Finest\nLager Beer\nBottlers of\nRed Ribbon Beer\nManokctaretB of Soft DfiflkS\nTo Our Patrons Throughout\nEast and West Kootenay\nIn wishing you all a\nHappy and Prosperous New Year\nwe beg to intimate\nyou will find complete stocks of\nfood products\nAT ALL OUR DEPOTS\nPoultry, Fish, Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal\nand Cured Meats\nP. BURNS & CO.\nNelson, Kaslo, Rossland, Trail, Greenwood, Eholt, Phoenix and\nGrind Forks\nRath became second assistant, a third\nroom having been added to the building.\nSix months later Miss Nora O'Reilly\n(Mrs. John Fox) was appointed third\nassistant, temporary quarters being\nfound for Miss Bath's division in the\nbuilding then used as Salvation Army\nbarracks, afterwards the Waverley\nhotel.\nEarly in 1898 the Increasing school\npopulation made imperative the provision of new quarters, and the four-\nroomed building now in the rear ot the\nnew school was erected.\nThe staff of the school was reorganized. Mrs. W. S. Pearcy, B. A., held\nthe position of principal in August and\nSeptember. Then J. H. Soady, B. A.,\nwas appointed, Mrs. Pearcy remaining\nas first assistant aud the other members of the staff being Miss Dellnage,\nMibb O'Reilly and Miss E. VV. Wick-\nham, B. A., (Mrs. Jas. Castleman, Chilli wack.)\nIn 1899 two additional teachers were\nrequired and the retirement of Miss\nDelmage made a third vacancy. The\nnew appointees were G. W. Clark, M.\nA., Miss K. Scanlan and Miss Annie\nMacleod. In the same school year\nMiss O'Reilly retired and Miss A. Rath\nwas reappointed.\nTbe next changes in the staff occurred in the summer of 1901 when Miss\nWlckham retired and Miss E. Thorn\nwas appointed and J. H. Spady was succeeded as principal by A. Sullivan.\nAt the beginning of 1902 the schools\npassed under the control of the city.\nIn the seven years that have intervened\nsince then the growth of school population has caused an increase in the\npublic school staff from 7to 12 teachers.\nThe staff In January, 1909, will include\nA. Sullivan, principal; Miss K. R. Scanlan, Miss E. S. DeBou, Miss L. Thomas,\nB.A., Miss L. Wade, Miss M. Taylor,\nMiss M. McVlcavMIss C. Milllgan, Miss\nM. Grant, Miss A. H. Ross, B. A.,' MIsb'\nL. Smith and Miss E. Thorn.\nBut in the Interval many others have\nserved on the staff who are no longer\nthere. These, In order of appointment,\nare: Miss G. L. Brethour, Miss E. S.\nShrapnel (Mrs. Kenneth Mackenzie),\nW. J. Balrd, M. A.. J. L. Watson, B. A.,\nMIsb 0. A. Barber, Miss Blakemore,\nMIbs M. h. Moffatt (Mrs. Ronald\nBrown) Miss M. H. Moody, B. A., and\nMiss L, Ahercromble.\nThe growth of tbe school has driven\nthe board of trustees to desperate\nmeasures for accommodations for new\nclass rooms. In January, 1903, Miss\nScanlan's claBs was transferred to the\nHigh School building where It has remained until tho present. Since then\nanother class has found quarters In the\nbasement of? the Baptist church, and\ntwo others In Fraternity hall of the\nOddfellows' building, temporarily partitioned for the purpose. TheBe troubles,\nhowever, will be at an end when the\nnew building Is complete.\nThe history of Nelson High School\nbegins with January, 1901. A succession of entrance examinations had resulted in the required number of pupils\n(20) being available at that time. In\nresponse to urgent representations from\nthe school trustees the government\nauthorized the opening of the school ;\nand, at the request of the board, nominated Its first master.\nThe High School was opend by R.\nJ. Clark, M. A., the morning of Jan. 25,\n1901, in a small room In the old school\nwhich Is now the public school\nteachers' room. The building of a new\nhigh school on Latimer street was begun the following term and the new\nschool was opened In January, 1902.\nFor the second half of 1901 classes were\nheld in the small building facing Kootenay street at the rear of the Oddwfel-\nIow'b block.\nThe changes in the staff have been\nfew. At the beginning of 1903 Mrs. W.\nS. Pearcy, B. A., became assistant\nteacher, being succeeded at Easter by\nC. McLean Fraser, M. A. In July, 1904,\nMr. Clark retired and was succeeded as\nprincipal by Mr. Fraser, W. J. Balrd,\nM. A., becoming assistant. In July,\n1907, Mr. Balrd retired and Mrs. Pearcy\nwas reappointed. The staff In January,\n1909, consists of Mr. Fraser, principal,\nMrs. Pearcy, first assistant and R. 3.\nClegg, B. A., second assistant.\nApart from the history of the public\nand high schools and their teachers,\nthe record of the board of trustees is\nnot without Interest. The first trustees, elected provisionally in 1891,\nwere Dr. Arthur, G. O. Buchanan and\nEdward Corning. They conducted all\ntbe preliminary negotiations with the\nprovincial government, generally at\ntheir own expense, sometimes aided by\npopular subscription.\nAfter the creation of Nelson Into a\nschool district the first regular election\nwaa held on June 25, 1892, and resulted\nIn the choice, by acclamation, of Dr.\nArthur, G. O. Buchanan and G. Col well,\neach to serve for one year, as the\nschool law then required.\nIn June, 1893, Dr. Arthur was elected\nfor three years, W. P. Robinson for two,\nand G. Robson for one, The next year\nMr. Robson was re-elected for three\nyears, and a year later George Johnstone succeeded W. P. Robinson.\nThe first and moat notable contested\nelection occurred In 1896. Dr. Arthur's\nterm had expired and his re-election\nwas opposed by John Houston and\nFrank Fletcher. After a very spirited\ncontest, In which the ladles took a\nprominent part, the poll stood: Arthur,\n44; Fletcher, 10.\nIn 1897 Dr. Hall was elected to succeed G. Robson. In 1898 Mr. Johnstone\nsjsssssssj By E. C. Arthur, M. D. eH\u2014\nwas re-elected and In the following year\nDr. Arthur succeeded himself for the\nfourth time. In 1900 Dr. Hall declined\nre-election and his place was taken by\nF. W. Swannell, but tn the summer of\n1901, on the retirement of Mr. Johnstone, Dr. Hall returned to the board.\nTo the end of 1901 the record of the\nboard's activity was one of ceaseless\nBtruggle with ihe education department\nfor higher salaries for their teachers,\nfor better buildings, for additional\nequipment of every kind, and always\nfor more money. The regular allowance In those days was $40 a year for\neach room, which was to cover the cost\nof fuel, Janitor service and repairs.\nThat was the only fund handled by the\nboard. Teachers salaries were fixed\nby the department and paid to them\ndirectly by government cheque.\nAt the beginning of 1902 a new era\nbegan. The complete control of the\nschools passed to the board of trustees elected by tbe city, subject only\nto government inspection, and aided by\na government grant amounting to about\none-third of the coat of maintenance.\nSince that time the only extra aid Nelson has received has been a free site\nand $10,000 for the high school. Now\nthe city, through the board of trustees,\nfinds all the money required and has\nfull control of expenditure. To avoid\nextra cost and Inconvenience a special\ncollection of taxes is dispensed with,\nand the city council Ib charged with the\nfinding of the money, subject to appeal\nto the ratepayers In the case of extra?\nordinary expenditure.\nIn January, 1902, a new board of five\nmembers wag required and the election\nresulted in the return of Dr. Hall, F. W.\nSwannell, Dr. Arthur, A. L. McKIllop\nand J. E, Annable, the first two for two\nyears, tbe others for one, Dr. Hall having 'retired. However, there were four\nvacancies next year, and the result\nwas: A. L. McKIllop, W. H; Smith, J.\nE. Annable and Dr. Arthur, with F. W.\nSwannell still In office. The only\nchange at the next election was the replacing of W. H. Smith by G. Ritchie.\nThe board or 1906 included: Dr.\nArthur, Dr. Hall, F. W. Swannell, R.\nJ. Steel and G. Ritchie. The board of\n1906 was the same except that A. D.\nEmory replaced G. Ritchie. In 1907\nW. Irvine took the place of Dr. Hall,\nand In 1908 R, G. Joy succeeded F. W.\nSwannell.\nDr. Arthur has been a member of tbe\nboard, provisional and regular, for 18\nyears. Among his colleagues he has\nhad F. W. Swannell for 8 years, Dr.\nHall for 7 yearB, George Johnstone for\n6 years, G. Robson and R. J. Steel each\nfor 4 years, and A. L. McKIllop and A.\nD. Emory each for 3 years.\nOf the general record of the schoolB\nIt Is : unnecessay to say much. The\nannual roports of the departmental examinations for many years have shown\nNelson public school decisively In the\nlead and the high school always there,\ntoo, or very near It.\nWmmmmmmmmmmmimm\nwire glass, which Is more translucent\nthan transparent, and will withstand\nmore stone throwing than ordinary\nglass.\nThe superstructure of the building Is\nbrick, with selected brick facings,\ntrimmed with cement\nThe ground floor is divided into six\nclans rooms, each 27x36 feet, with 14-\nfoot ceilings. Each room is provided\nwith two exits, opening into corridors,\nthe main corridor being 20 feet wide\nand the branch corridors 7 feet wide.\nTwo cloak rooms are provided for each\nclass room. In addition to the class\nrooms on this floor there are also two\nsmaller rooms, each 8x30 feet, oner for\nthe use of the principal, the other for\nteachers use. The main stairway lead*\nIng to the second floor is 10 feet vide\nwith a landing about midway between\nthe floor and celling, where two stairways each 6 feet In width, branch oft\n(Continued on Ftege Twenty-*\u00a9**\n(\nTHE NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL.\nOne of the most imposing and massive structures in the city Is the new\npublic school building nearlng completion, and which Is expected to be ready\nfor occupancy when the schools re-open\nafter the present holidays. The archi-\ntectjiral design Ib what Is classed\n'\u2022composite,\" embracing many features\nwhich at once attract the eye and command attention. The building fronts on\nStanley street and the main entrance\nIs approached by a flight of cut stone\nwteps leading into a vestibule through\na large semi-circular arch. The pediment over this arch Is finished with\nmoulded coping and ornaments. From\ntbe second floor, over the main entrance, the gable is carrle.. up with\nbrick, with round turreted columns,\nsurounded by cement copings and ornaments, the name and date panels being\nIn the lower portion of the gable. The\nupper portion of the gable Is filled In\nwith a circular top triple window, the\nwhole effect being pleasing and attractive.\nThe new building Is 150 x 90 feet,\nwhich with the part ot the old building\nretained, gives a total ground area of\n150 x 135 feet The basement Is of\nstone, the full size of the new building\nwith a ten-foot celling, and is sub-divided Into playrooms, having a superficial\narea of 4,000 feet, furnace room, coal\nroom, lavatories and the necessary corridors. The boiler room is located at\nthe southeast corner, and Is 16x26 feet\nin area with a 10-foot celling. Here\nare installed twin boilers to heat the\nwater necessary for the heating of the\nwhole building. The connections are\nso arranged that any one floor can be\ncut off when necessary. Wall radiators\nare used throughout the building. Adjoining tbe furnace are the. eoal room\n16x18 feet, and a repair room 7x18 feet.\nAll of these rooms have been made as\nfireproof as possible, metal lath covered with plaster, and concrete floors\nbelLg laid. At each end of the basement are located the lavatories for the\nuse of the pupils. In the corridor running through the center of the basement are located the fan rooms intended to provide ventilation for the whole\nbuilding, with fresh air chambers, etc.\nThe janitor's quarters are fitted up in\nthe south end of the basement under\nthe old part ot the building, and consist\nof sitting room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and closets. The remaining portion of the basement under this part\nof the building will be utilized for play\nroom, storage, etc. All windows in the\nbasement are glazed with Merraneae\nINSURANCE\nftlJWMWIMWWa'llMllli\nWHEN BUYING Insurance buy the best; it pays. Investigate the\nstanding of the Company offered you. Don't buy a policy in a\nCompany not able to meet its losses in case of a fire. These Companies may try to tempt you by \"cutting the rate a little\" (and as a\nrule the cut is mighty little\u2014not\\ worth the lyhile of a Westerner to\nconsider), and you get very little. We represent the very best Fire,\nLife, Accident. Employers' Liability, and other Insurance Companies\n\u2014the kind that meet their obligations under all conditions, the financial statements of which we are proud of and will be pleased to furnish\nyou with on request.\nRead the following about \"third-rate\" Companies (the kind we\nDO NOT represent), and size the situation up for yourselves:\u2014\nPLACING RISKS IN WEAK COMPANIES\nAn Organization That Assumed Liability and Could Not Meet It, Fernie\nLosers Defrauded.\n(From the Reglna Leader). .\nThe collapse of the Globe Fire Assurance company with liabilities of over\n$59,787.50, and assets less than $10,000, would seem to show the urgent neces-\nBiUy for the passing of some stringent Insurance legislation in Saskatchewan.\nThe insolvent company, for the winding up of which an application Ib now\nbefore the Supreme Court was incorporated under a provincial charter some\ntwo years ago. On the $49,950 of stock said to have been subscribed, some\n$3,000 has been paid up. To meet the losses Incurred by the company In the\nFernie fire, $69,787.50, there Is no cash whatever the total assets of the company apparently consisting of $7,500 re-Insurance and the -amount due from out\nstanding premiums and office furniture, probably between $300 and $500.\nIt should not be possible for such companies as the Globe to exist and tout\nfor business, and the fact that it is possible for such a company as the Globe\nto go after business with the sanction of a charter granted by tbe provincial\nlegislature shows very forcibly the need for radical legislation,\nA business such as was carried on by the Insolvent company Is nothing\nmore than a gamble, pure and simple. Provided that no tires occur, everything\ngoes swimmingly; the directors draw their fees; the shareholders draw their\ndividends; the agents draw their commission, and the people who are paying In\nthe premiums, out of which dividends, tees and commissions are paid, live\nunder the fond delusion that their homes and businesses are protected against\nloss by tire. One big fire, and the bubble bursts.\nWithout charging those connected with the Globe with absolute dishonesty, we do not hesitate to say that the methods, sanctioned though they presumably were by the legislature, were essentially not honest; with no assets\nworthy of the name, the company was piling up heavy liabilities which those\nresponsible for the company's management knew perefctly well they could\nnever meet should they ever be called upon to do so. It was just a huge\ngamble on the part of Messrs. Dean and their associates\u2014and the principal\nlosers are the unfortunate people who were so Ill-advised as to place confidence In them.\nWhen a man pays money to Insure against fire, he should have a very\ngood guarantee that in the event of fire he will receive the compensation he\nhad been paying for. With such a company as the Globe he has no guarantee\nof the sort\u2014rather, Indeed, a guarantee that he will not get back a penny of\nthe good money he has paid away in premiums.\nFor the protection of that large section of the public which Is preyed upon\nby such jerry-built concerns as the Globe, It Is necessary that legislation be\nintroduced providing a reasonable amount of guarantee that the policies issued\nand upon which premiums are paid are worth something more i than waste\npaper. When a man sees all his worldly possessions go up In smoke, It Is\npoor consolation to he left with an Imposing document, signed by directors\nand sealed with the company's big seal, but which cannot be turned Into cash\nrepresenting its' face value.\nThe lesson of the Globe Fire Assurance company Is unmistakable.\nBrydges, Blakemore & Cameron, Ltd\nIMPERIAL BANK, JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON, B. C.\n SUNDAY JANUARY I\n\u00a9he $jUtUg lUnnt.\ni5\nPAQE TWINTV-ONt\nFERNIE HAS ALREADY RISEN FROM ITS ASHES\nBy E. P. Ambery\nla Tlew ot tbe great catastrophe\nwhich overtook Fernie on the first day\not August obliterating tbe town entirely\nfrom tbe map, it is difficult to give a\nresume Of the year's progress Industrially and commercially. A careful review\nof. tbe situation, however, cannot but\ninterior of British Columbia. Vast improvements have been made at the collieries at Michel, where a great steel\ntipple Is In course of construction which\nwhen completed will be one ot the\nmost modern and up-to-date in Canada.\nImprovements have also been made to\n-*' . ..' \"v'' \u2022(.'\"\u2022- \u2022,,'>4\nw\u00bbMSra\nView OF FERNIE ONE MONTH AFTER FIRE.\nreveal the fact that it has been a year\nof steady advancement and prosperity,\nnotwithstanding the staggering blow\nwhich for a time rendered (he great\nmass ot the population homelesa and\nleft the city a heap of ruins' and a desolate waste. While other portions ot\nthe country were suffering from flnan-\nthe compressor and haulage plants at\nboth Michel and Coal Creek, while at\nFernie thirty new coke ovens have been\nbuilt. The mines at Carbonado have\nbeen working steadily for some time\nand though only about 100 or 125 men\nare employed, the development and reopening of these mines after a long\nVICTORIA AVENUE, FERNIE, FOUR MONTHS AFTER FIRE.\ncial depression In the earlier part of\nthe year, conditions here and throughout the Immediate district were exceedingly bright and most encouraging. The\ntown Is mainly dependent upon two\ngreat industries, but it has also the advantage from Its central position in the\nPass of being the distributing point of\nclose down has been a distinct advantage to the district and especially to\nFernie from where most of the necessary supplies are secured. The C. P.\nR .mines at Hosmer though only having\ncommenced shipping in December have\nbeen the means of building up a thriving town at that point and the popula-\nmm\nVICTORIA AVENUE, FOUR MONTHS AFTER FIRE.\nan extensive and rapidly developing\ncountry. The coal output of the mines\nat Coal Creek has not during the twelve\nmonths been as great as In previous\nyears owing to the fact that a considerable amount of very important and\nnecessary Improvement and development work has been carried on for the\ntlon has Increased In a phenomenal\nmanner during the year. Coke ovens\nhave also been constructed and are\nnow In operation and will do much to\nrelieve the coke situation In the Boundary country. The Corbln mines In the\nFlathead country have also entered the\nmarket as shippers during the year, and\nVICTORIA AVENUE, FERNIE, ONE MONTH AFTER BIO FIRE.\n- purpose of substantially increasing the\ntennage at an early date, but the monthly payrolls have put into circulation a\ntarge amount of money which combined\nwith other sources ot revenue has enabled the town to maintain Its enviable\nreputation as one of the best In the\nat the present time are producing about\none hundred and twenty tons a day, a\nrailway having been built into that district during the last few months. Prior\nto the great lire In the Pass the lumber'\nmills gave employment to a large number of men and the payrolls from this\nsource had reached a very substantial\nfigure, and when the present mills that\nare under construction are completed,\nthe payrolls will be larger than ever.\nProspecting and development wbrk\nhave also been carried on up the Elk\nValley, railway surveys have been made\nand government roads extended, all\ncombining to make conditions prosper*\nous.\nThe completion of the Fernle-Mlchel\nextension of the Great Northern railway has also added largely to the business coming to Fernie, besides giving\nIncreased facilities for passenger and\nfreight traffic between the towns scattered through the Pass. During its\nbrief existence Fernie has passed\nthrough more trying ordeals than usually fall to the lot of a Canadian city;\nIt has twice been partially destroyed\nby fire; a terrible explosion in the\nmines at Coal Creek In the early days\nof the town swept Into eternity without\nwarning over one hundred and thirty of\nits citizens; there have been long and\ndisastrous strikes with the usual accompanying hardships, but it remained for\nthe year 1908 to witness the most\nfrightful and calamitous visitation that\nhas ever been inflicted upon ft Canadian\ntown. The great fire that swept through\nthe Crow's Nest Pass on August 1st\ncompletely wiped it off the map, only\ntwenty-six buildings escaping from the\nawful fiery blast. Over nine hundred\nbuildings went up In smoke In the space\nof a few hours, and the whole populace\nwere left homeless and destitute, and\nfor some weeks depended upon the generosity and hospitality of the citizens\nof neighboring towns who came to their\nassistance with a spontanlety and whole\nmonths after the terrible calamnity,\nthere have been erected over seven hundred and sixty new residences, public\nbuildings and stores, and many of them\non a better, grander and more perman-\nA CRE8T0N CITIZEN\nheartedness that has seldom or ever\nbeen equaled. Incredible as It may\nseem to those who have not visited the\ntown the fact remains that now, five\nent Bcale than ever before. Handsome\nbrick, Btone and concrete buildings line\nthe business streets, while in the residential districts the private dwellings\nare such as would do credit to any\ntown. The debris has been removed,\nsidewalks relald, telephones installed,\nand tho usual business of the city resumed, and but for the charred timbers\nand blackened walls that are here and\nthere to be seen, it is difficult to realize\nthat the town has so recently passed\nthrough such an appalling catastrophe.\nTo a people who have had the energy\nand enterprise to rise superior to such\nan overwhelming blow, prosperity is\nbound to come, and it Ib doubtful If in\nthe whole Dominion there Is a community who has a greater confidence In the\nfuture of their city than the people of\nFernie. None of the merchants who\nwere doing business here prior to the\nfire have deserted the town but rather\nhas their number been added to, and\nthe class of shop that has been rebuilt\nIs a decided Improvement on the old\nones. During the year a very important industry has been established and\nis in full operation, namely, a modern\nup-to-date brick manufacturing plant\nof large dimension, which has been\nfor some months working overtime to\nmeet the unusual demand for this class\nof building material and tbe output of\nwhich has been a factor in the rapid\nrebuilding of the city. As an illustration of the money Invested in new\nbuildings during the year It may be\nmentioned that a new brewery baa been\nerected at a cost of over one hundred\nand twenty-five thousand dollars and\nwill be In operation In a few weeks.\nNo account of the year's happenings,\nwould be complete without an acknowledgment of what the people of the city\nand district owe to the citizens of other\ntowns in Canada and the United States,\nfor the generous aid and sympathy extended to them In the hour of need, and\nthe ready response given to the appeal\nfor assistance when the town was destroyed, acted like a ray of sunshine to\ndispel the gloom of those dismal days,\ngiving hope and courage to the afflicted\nand filling their \"hearts with gratitude\nto those who relieved their distress and\ngave them a refuge.\nA LLOYD-GEORGE YARN.\n\u2014 (Exchange)\nIt seemB that lately, Mr. Lloyd-George\nfound himself on board one of our latest\nbattleships, and a lieutenant was detailed off to show around tbe apostle of\nreduction of naval armaments. They\nInspected this, that, and the other thing\nuntil at length Lloyd-George paused in\nfront of the putent lifebuoy.\n\"At last,\" said he in his best platform\nmanner, \"I see something on hoard\nyour Rhip worth seeing. Everything\nup to now has been for destroying life;\nthis is the first thing I have seen for\nsaving it This is a greater thing than\nyouri 12-inch guns!\"\n\"It's certainly likely to be more useful\nto us if we go to war and this bally\ngovernment stays in office much longer, agreed the lieutenant, ingenuously.\nThe Crow's Nest\nPass Coal Company\nLimited\nProducers of the Best Coal and Coke in the\nNorthwest\nMines and Coke Ovens at Fernie, Coal\nCreek, Michel and Carbonado\nOn the Great Northern Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway\nand the Morrissey. Fernie and Michel Railway\nOffice, Fetnie\n% t\nBritish Columbia\n '\u2022 MM TWENTY-TWO\n\u00a9he \u00a7a\\tQ $Iot\u00bb.\nSUNDAY\nJANUARY *.\nOUTLOOK FOR 1909 LUMBERING OPERATIONS\nIn considering the development of\nthe resources of the Interior of British\nColumbia, It Is only fair to say that the\nlumbering Industry is one of the most\nImportant. The beginning of the lumbering industry was coincident with the\ncommencement of railway construction\nand mining in' B. C. some 25 years ago\nwhen saw mills sprang up at various\npoints for the manufacture q|of bridge\ntimbers, mine timbers and other material necessary for the successful carrying out of these undertakings.\nFrom the small start made in the\npioneer days there are now plantB\noperating in the interior that compare\nfavorably with the best mills in America.\nAt the beginning of 1908 the mills\nassociated with the Mountain Lumbermen's Association, with headquarters at\nNelson, had on band 190,000,000 feet of\nsawn lumber and 120,000,000 feet of logs\ncut in the woods. It was estimated in\nJanuary, 1908, that the manufactured\nproduct for the past year would be\nabout 410,000.0110 feet, that Is an additional 100,000,000 feet ot logs would be\ngot out and added to the stock in hand.\nThe year 1909 opens with bright prospects tor the lumbering industry of the\nKootenay. Last year, it is true, was\nanything but a good one for this Industry but during it lessons were learned which will, it is hoped, put lumbering on a better footing for all time to\ncome. A better demand is expected\nduring the coming year than in 1908\nand higher prices are looked for.\n. The cause that led primarily to the\ndepression in the lumbering industry\nwas the financial stringency which\nswept over the United States and to a\nless extent over Canada tn the latter\npart of 1907. In such depressions the\nlumber trade is always first to feel the\neffect and this was no exception to the\nrule. When money becomes tight building operations practically cease, thus\n. cutting off the market. In the beginning of 190S the harvesting of the prairie crop was looked forward to by lumber men, but the returns did not come\nup to the early expectations and this\nmeant another Betback to the manufacturer's hopes, especially as the country\nwas still only recovering from the\neffects of the depression of the previous year. The result was that there\nwas little or no demand from the prairies for lumber, as compared with the\nfew years preceding. On the strength\not their advices from the east the lumber men, however, are looking for a revival beginning within a few weeks\ntime. One thing that Is tn favor of\nthese hopes Is the fact that tn many\nparts of the prairies tire farmers have\nnot yet realized on last year's crop.\n\"When they do, it Is hoped, money will\nbe freer.\n, One result of the small demand for\nlumber last year has been that the\n\u25a0trade has been placed on a better footing in many respects. Many of tho 1907\nAccounts were not paid that year but\n^tnost of these were collected last year\nfcnd, as very little lumber was marketed\nwhile this collection was going on. the\n\"Various lumber companies will start the\n\u25a0business of 1909 with a clearer sheet\nthan at the beginning of any previous\n$ear. The failure to collect accounts\nin 1907 was taken to heart by many of\nitlhe lumber manufacturers who, rather\nthan sell on account, kept their lumber\nIh their yards and will In future transact business on more of a cash basis.\niffhls in Itself will prove of benefit to\n!le trade and in future years will more\nlan recompense the manufacturers for\nle dullness in trade during the past\near.\nIf, however, the business done by the\nlumbering manufacturers during the\npast year was not as great aa It should\nttave been, It must also be remembered\nthat the cost of operations was also\n\"jgVeatly reduced. When the year 1908\nopened it found the lumber men not\nto be felt acutely, but many Canadian\ntlmbermen have been attracted by the\nphenomenal yields and high products\nof the British Columbia forests, and\nhave Invested largely In standing timber. The yield of from 20,000 to 100,\n000 feet per acre is not at all uncommon, nor is it uncommon to get single\nthe combined capacity being 160,000\nfeet per day. The company is capitalized at |1,000,000, and has Invested In\nmills $175,000, and in timber limits\n$500,000. There is also a considerable\nsum invested in tugs and railways\noperated In the delivery of logs to\nmills. The estimated acreage of Emits\n80ME EAST KOOTENAY TIMBER\n'o'nly with large stocks of lumber on\nband but also with large supplies of\nlogs ready for tbe milts. Owing to\nlack of a market there was not tbe\nsame necessity to cut large quantities\nof lumber during last season, with the\nresult that many ot tbe mills have large\nquantities ot logs on hand and bo have\nbeen able to make a large saving this\nWinter in the getting out of logs.\nJ It will thus be seen that the lumber\ncamp as a whole has come through a\ntrying time with benefit rather than\npermanent injury to the trade, but what\nhas been said of the state of the trade\nlast year did not apply to all manufacturers owing to special conditions. For\nexample, a large amount of lumber was\nrequired for the building operations\nthat have gone on in the Kootenay during the past year and the mills tn the\nneighborhood profited thereby to an\nextent which largely made up for'the\nlack of orders from the prairies. During the latter part of the year the rebuilding ot Fernie also provided a market for a large amount of lumber, which\notherwise would have been carried over\n. until this year.\n. Notwithstanding the fact that the\noperations ot the interior lumber men\nhave not been as successful during 1908\nas could have been desired, Kootenay in\nconjunction with the other districts ot\nthe province of British Columbia, occupies an unique position in the timber\nwprld.\n. That the last great stand of conl-\ntenuis Umber in the world Is to be\nfound In British Columbia Is beginning\nto be realized by lumbermen throughout this continent at last, and during\nIhe last two years more particularly\nthere has been a great rush to secure\ncontrol of the forests ot the province.\nThe timber seekers have come mainly\nfrom the United States, where the\n\u25a0owelty of virgin forests is beginning\ntrees yielding 5,000 to 10,000 feet. Any\none possessing the Idea that British\nColumbia Is covered with such forests,\nhowever, will be greatly disappointed.\nThe Bupply is far from inexhaustible,\nand Is situated chiefly in rather narrow\nvalleys between ranges of rugged\nmountains. It would be a safe estimate\nthat not more than ten per cent, of the\ntotal area of British Columbia Is covered with forests yielding over 20,000\nfeet per acre.\nAs a world's supply, the forests of\nBritish Columbia are particularly well\nsituated, so much being either right at\nsalt water or tributary to it, and when\nthe Panama canal is completed the\nmarkets or Europe and Eastern America will be made still more accessible to\nBritish Columbia lumber.\nAs a reveue producer the1 forests far\nsurpass all other assets in the province.\nThe output of the mines during the last\nyear was valued at $25,000,000 and\nyielded a revenue of $200,000. The cut\nof timber Is estimated at 900,000,000\nfeet, valued at about $20,000,000, but It\nyielded to the government a revenue\nof nearly $2,000,000. It must be borne\nIn mind, however, that this revenue\ndoes not all come from the timber cut,\nbut that about $15,000,000 comes as an\nannual ground rent from timber lands,\nand Is an assured revenue whether tbe\nforests are exploited or not. The remainder was collected In the form of\nroyalties, hand loggers' licenses, etc.\nThe government at first disposed of\nIts timber In the form of crown grantB\nor leases^ which are practically Interminable,' and to which there Is attached\na very small ground rent. During the\nlast four years the timber has been\ntaken up under special licenses, which\nare annually renewable for 16, at first,\nbut since 1905, for 21 years, for which\nan annual ground rent of $115 per\nsquare mile for lands east, and $140 for\nlands west of tbe Cascades Is charged.\nUnder this system about 11,000 square\nmiles of timber land has been taken\nup, with the result that the beBt accessible timber of the province has been\nalienated.\nOne man who roamed the foreBts of\nBritish Columbia for 20 years In search\nof timber and who is now In close touch\nwith the industry as a government official was asked to give an approximate\nof our standing timber. TTo said that\nno man could do that with any idea of\ncoming near the truth. He has, however, thought a great deal on the subject and then he began figuring on a\nslip of paper, and pointed to the sum\nhe had figured out. It was 72,000,000,000\nfeet. He was asked to explain his\nfigures. He said that he had been in\nbusinesB for a generation and had\nwatched the depletion of the forests\nfrom year to year, and after much\nthought had decided that in 80 years\nthe timber. of this province would be\nexhausted!\nThe cut last year was a very heavy\none, and would be much larger than this\nyear, was 900,000,000 feet and this multiplied by 80 would make the total cut\nin 80 years, taking last year as an average, 72,000,000,000 feet; or, if the forests lasted a hundred years, 90,000,000,-\n000 feet. _____\nheld by this company Is 200,000, and\nthe varieties of timber cut in the nulls\ncomprise fir, tamarac hemlock, cedar\nand pine. About 400 men are on the\npay rolls of the company, and of this\nstate their-opinion on the outlook for\n1909, they report as follows: \"The\noutlook for 1909 1b better, since, instead\nof having a poor crop preceding it, as\nwas the case In the prairie provinces in\n1908, the crop there has been a good\none, and times in the northwest, where\nour market Is, will be better as a reault,\nalthough we do not look for more than\naa average year, owing to the fact that\nIt will take considerable time tor the\nfarmers to overcome the hard times\nconsequent upon the poor crop of 1907.\nThe fall of. 1909 wilt probably see a\nmarked Improvement In the lumber\ntrade.\"\nPATRICK LUMBER CO.\nThis company began operations in\nthe district some two years ago. The\nmills are located on the Slocan river\nsome 25 miles west of Nelson, and the\nheadquarters are at Nelson. Tbe officers of the company are: H. Markland\nMolson, president; Wm. C. Mclntyre,\nvice-president; J, W. McConnell, sec-\ntreasurer, all of Montreal; Jos. Patrick,\nmanaging director, Nelson. The mill\nis of the most modern type in equipment, and has a capacity of 125,000\nfeet-per day of ten hours. The estimated acreage of timber limits held by\nthe company Is about 10,000, the timber consisting of cedar, white pine,\nhemlock, tamarac and spruce. The approximate cut, for 1908 was twelve million feet, and the estimated cut tor 1909\nis placed at fifteen millions. Between\n76 end 100 men are employed In and\nabout the mill, and 150 are employed In\nlogging operations. The amount invested in the enterprise is about $250,-\nthousand feet per day. The approximate cut during 1908 was seven million\nfeet, and It Is estimated the cut during\n1909 will total not more than four millions. The Umber consists of cedar, fir,\npine and larch. Forty men are employed In the mill, and fifty are employed in logging operations. Mr.\nployed In logging operations. Replying\nto the question as to the outlook for\n1909, the manager states: \"Contracts\nhave been entered into for' practically\nthe whole of the cut.\"\nEAST KOOTENAY \" U&BER CO,\nThe business of this tympany Is lo-\nporated and no information Ib given\nas to the amount of capital invested,\nnor 1b the acreage of timber limits,\ngiven, the officers of the company\nare: W.H. Griffith, manager, and F. W;\nAdolph, secretary. Regarding the outlook for 1909 the manager Is silent.\nPORTO RICO LUMBER CO., LTD. .\nThis company, organized with a capital of $250,000, Is carrying on lumbering\" .operations at Moyie, on the line of\nthe (Jtow'b Nest railway,- about 100\nmiles east of Nelson. The officers are:\nR..W, Gibson, president, and J. A. Johnston, manager. The amount Invested In\nmills totals $30,000. The capacity of the\nmill is forty-five thousand feet per day\nof ten hours. The cut for 1908 totalled\n(Continued on Paige Twenty-nlns.)\nWinlaw says of the outlook for 1909:.\n\"Prospect of a fair market\" '\nTRAIL LUMBER CO., LTD.\nThis is practically a new company,\norganised during 1908, and beginning\nTHE ELK LUMBER COMPANY\nThe Elk Lumber company, whose\nmills and offices are at Fernie, was one\not the big losers in the fire which\nswept over that city on August 1. Not\nonly did the company lose its mills and\nlumber yards In which there was heavy\nstock but much ot Its limits were also\ndamaged or destroyed In the same conflagration. Already a new mill Is well\nunder way to completion and will be\nready for operation, It is expected, by\nJune 1 next. The capacity of the new\nmill will be about 125,000 fet per day\nand 110 men will be employed In connection with it. The company now have\n300 men in the logging camps endeavoring to save as much as possible ot\nthe timber touched by fire.\nW. U Boynton, the manager, looks for\na good year's trade In the lumber business and expects to see a revival aa\nsoon as the farmers of the prairies realize on last year's crops.\nTHE YAt-E^OUJMBIA LUMBER CO.\nwith headquarters at Nelson, is a 11m*\nited corporation, operating three mills,\nnumber 200 are employed in and about\nthe mills, the remainder being employed in logging operations. The approximate cut during 1908 and eighteen million feet of lumber, and it Is estimated\nthis will be increased to twenty-five\nmillions in 1909. Two tugs are operated\non the Arrow lakes and one on Root-\n000, of this amount $150,000 being for\nmills, and $100,000 for timber limits.\nThe manager reports: \"The outlook\nfor 1909 seems to be good. The demand\nIs much better now than some two\nmonths ago. We look for a good demand during the coming year, with\nhigher prices.\"\nmill operations in December of that\nyear. The mills are located at Paul-\nson, on the line of the Nelson-Rossi and\nbranch of the C. P. R. about 35 miles\nwest of Nelson. Tbe headquarters of\nthe company are at Trail, and the officers are: A. Donaldson, president; J,\nF. Miller, secretary; W, Mark DeCew,\nWW c\nwife,\nAN EA8T KOOTENAY LOG PILE\ncated at Cranbrook, where the bead\noffice Is established. The officers are:\nA. Leltch, president and B. S. Home,\nsecretary. The authorized capital ot\nthe company\" Is $300,000, of which the\nmajor portion is invested In mills and\ntimber limits, the figures for these\nInvestments not being given. The capacity of the mill is one hundred and fifty\nthousand feet per day. One hundred\nthousand acres of timber limits are\nheld by this company, the timber consisting principally of pine, larch and\nfir. No figures are given as to the approximate cut during 1908, and fwith\nreference to the cut for 1909 the company states: \"Depends on trade; cannot estimate.\" The number employed In and about the mill Is one hundred and seventy-five, and one hundred\nand fifty are employed In logging operations. In reply to the question as to\noutlook for 1909,. the company reports:\n\"Bright; looks like good business and\nbetter financial conditions.\"\nADOLPH LUMBER COMPANY.\nAt Baynes lake, B. C, a few miles\nsouth of Fernie, are located the mill\nand headquarters of the above lumber\ncompany. The mill was burned on the\n24th of June last and one is being rebuilt which will be ready for operation\nwhen the season opens lu 1909. It will\nhave a capacity of forty thousand feet\nper day. The timber sawn consists ot\npine, fir and larch. The 1908 cut of\nthis company was small, owing to. the\nloss of the mill so early in tbe season,\nand no estimate Is furnished of the approximate cut for 1909. When In operation the mill employs twenty-five men,\nand forty-five are employed in logging\noperations. The company Is not lncor-\nNELSON, THE BEAUTIFUL\n(Continued from. Page BeventMi.)\nIt may Interest the reader to know\nthat since the beginning of 1908 up to\nthe .time of writing, there have been\nerected in Nelson some twenty handsome residences at a cost of about\n$50,000, besides these there have .been.\nextensions and improvements to existing dwellings, amounting to over\n$15,000.00.\nAnd not only In her private bot In\nher public buildings also, this year\nheads the list, with the completion of\nher massive and Imposing $100,000.M\nmarble courthouse, her handsome\n$80,000 brick and stone public school,\n$30,000 Methodist church, $30,000 Bagftea\nblock, and her $20,000 skating rink In\ncourse of construction, making la all\na total for the year of over three hundred thousand dollars worth ot buildings and Improvements.\nLook at the business streets of Nelson today, there Is not a vacant store.\nTake a walk through her residential\nsections, you will hardly find a house\nmarked \"to let,\" and this in spite of\nthe buildings that have gone .up In the\npast year. Look at the' trains and\nsteamers arriving daily, bringing men\nand families from all quarters of the\nglobe, in search of fruit lands, mines..\nInvestments or homes; and. all in, or (\nIn the vicinity of Nelson. Never in the\nhistory of the city has the outlook for\nthe future been better; with the abundant cropB in the prairies, the financial\npanic over, and peace reigning practically throughout the world, Nelson\nshould be entering on an era of progress and prosperity such as few cities\neven In this great west land have ever-\nknown.\nNelson is progressive, she has always-\nbeen, her citizens are patriotic- and\nproud of her, and well might they be.\nWith all the advantages of location and\nclimate, with abounding wealth of productive fruit lands and the mineral\ntreasures of her surrounding mines,\nwho could doubt the success of her\nfuture.. The financial panic 1b over, the\ncountry rejoices in peace and plenty,,\nthe eyes ot the Investing world are-\nturned towards British Columbia, the\niron is hot, let Nelson strike.\nenay lake, and a railroad, eight miles\nIn length Is operated near Creston to\ndeliver logs In the Kootenay river for\nthe Nelson mill. The officers of the\ncompany are: B. H. Bowman, president;\nA. F. Dudgeon, vice-president and general manager; W. N. Poole, sec-treasurer. Regarding the business outlook\ntor 1909, the officers of the company\nare satisfied conditions will Improve,\nand that a fairly good demand for lum-\nbeer will prevail. Being .requested to\nTHE WINLAW LUMBER CO.\nWith head office and mills located at\nWinlaw, on the Slocan branch ot the\nC. P.R., about 45 mileB from Nelson, 1b\na close corporation, and In reply to a\nquery as to the names of the officers\nand the amount of capital invested,\nwrites: \"Private.\" The amount invested\nIn mills Is $35,000, and no Information\nis given as to tbe acreage of timber\nlimits, nor the amount Invested In same.\n'The. capacity of the mill Is forty-five\nmanaging director. The company la\ncapitalized at $60,000, and has invested\nIn mills $20,000 and an equal amount In\ntimber limits, the acreage of which la\nestimated at 5,760. The capacity of the,\nmill Is forty thousand feet per day, and\nthe estimated cut for 1909 Is given aa\nfour million feet The manufactured:\nproduct ot the mill is stated to be \"all\nkinds of rough and dressed lumber.\"\nTwenty men are employed in and.about\nthe mill and the same number are em-\nThe\nYale-Columbia\nLumber Go., Ltd.\nMills at Nelson. Westley and\nCascade, B. C.\nHead Office, Nelson, B. C.\nANNUAL CAPACITY\n60,000,000\nFEET\nThe Largest and Oldest Lumber Manufacturing Concern in the Kootenays\nMANUFACTURERS OF\nALL KINDS OF\nRough and Dressed Lumber. Mouldings,\nLath, Shingles, Sash and Doors\n SUNDAY JANUARYS\n\u00a9he \u00a9aU0 Heim\nv,.-i\u00a3t-'':\n. ijl g2*s\nINT. COAL AND COKE WORKS, COLEMAN, ALTA.\nBesides being on the Crow's Neet Pass\nline Hosmer also enjoys the benefit of\nbeing located on the branch of the\nGreat Northern running from the International boundary through Fernie to\nMichel, being eight miles west of the\nformer of these two places.\nMICHEL.\nMichel, located on the Crow's Nest\nPass railway line, about 222 miles east\nof Nelson, is a typical coal mining town.\nHere are located some of the Crow's\nNest PasB Coal company's best coal\nlands, Including five good seams ranging tn width from seven to fourteen\nfeet. Two of these are now being operated an dthe others will be as occasion demands. At present the company is\ninstalling an Immense steel triple running all the way across the valley. This\nwhen completed, It Is said, will be the\nmost modern plant ot the kind In Canada, If not on the continent The dally\noutput from the Michel mines Is about\n1,800 tons of coal and between 700 and\n800 tons of coke.\nThe history of Michel begins with\nthe opening of coal mining operations\nthere on June 10, 1899, the year after\ntowns along the Crow. Its citizens are\nprogressive and altogether the place\ngives the traveller tbe Idea that It Is\nvery much alive. One thing that strikes\na visitor particularly is the optimism\nregarding the town's future that Us\nresidents possess. They are looking\nforward to seeing Coleman a city of no\nmean proportions, and In this they point\nout that they are justified by the progress made since the town was located\nfive years ago, since when the population has steadily grown until it Is now\nplaced at 1,500.\nThe growth of Coleman up to the\npresent time Is coinjldent with that\nof the International Coal and Coke\ncompany. Early In 1903 this company\nsecured possession of the coal lands\nwhich It has since developed with such\nmarked success. On October 22 of the\nsame year the company put the town-\nsite on the market and by Christmas\nthe first permanent building, the Coleman hotel, was ready for occupancy.\nThe company pushed development work\nwith all Bpeed and about January 1,\n1905, B. E. Reynolds arrived from Pennsylvania to \"become mine superintendent. Previous to this a fan and other\nplant bad been Installed In the mine\nand since that time operations Have\nbeen carried on without a break. While\nthe mine was being developed tbe com*\npany also had men at work building\ncoke ovens, and when the former was\nopened, 100 of the latter were ready\nfor operation. Within six months the\noutput of the mine had Increased to\n600 tons per day and by January 1,1906,\n1,000 toe per day on a single shift\nAt the present time the company has\n216 coke ovens in operation, the output\nfrom them being from 12,000 to 15,000\ntons per month, while the amount of\ncoal being produced each day Is about\n2,000 tons. The company has 600 men\nregularly employed In Its mines and\nabout the coke ovens and Its monthly\npay roll approximates $60,000.\nWhile the company was developing\nand extending its property, the town\nwas going ahead even more rapidly\nand is now the recognized business centre for miles In either direction. The\ntown is governed by a progressive Improvement board, the members of which\nlast year were: Alex, Cameron, chairman, F. H. Graham, Ed. Holmes and\nO. W. Benedict, secretary. Under this\nboard, streets have been fixed up, sidewalks built, the latter on the local improvement plan, and much other useful\n\u25a0work accomplished. A live board of\ntrade looks after the advancement of\nColeman's business Interests.\nThe town is supplied with water from\na system installed by the International\nCoal and Coke company, which also\nsupplies light for the streets and also\nfor commercial purposes. Among the\nother modern improvements of which\nthe town boasts is a good telephone\nservice with long distance connection.\nAn up-to-date school was erected a little\nover a year ago and all the leading de-\nuominatlons are represented In the matter of churches.\nIt Is expected that the opening up of\nthe McGUIivary Coal & Coke company's\nmines, which adjoin the townslte, wll.1\ngive further impetus to Coleman's\ngrowth and that the next few months\nwill see even more rapid progress than\nany similar length of time in the past\nBut the people of Coleman see other\ngood things for their town. One of\nthese Is the extension of the Great\nNorthern eastward from Michel, a distance of 22 miles. The Coleman board\nof trade Ib now In communication wtta,\nLouis Hill, president of tfce great Northern, in regard to Ibis toatter ftfid looita\nfor a favorable reply. It Ib pointed\nout that J. J. Hill has already announced that the policy of his road is to\nSsild an east and west line through\nWestern Canada to the Pacific oceftp.\nand it Is pointed out that this piece of\nroad from Michel would be a further\nstep In addition to those already taken,\nwhich conslBt of the running of lines\nInto the prairie country and the construction of lines In this province, Including the one from Fernie to Michel\nwhich has just been opened to passenger traffic. With the Great Northern\nin Coleman the town would have connection with all points reached by that\nrailway as It now has with all C. P. R.\npoints. This, the people of Coleman believe, means further rapid advancement\nfor their town.\nSURE THING.\nA man may think he Is killing time,\nbut sooner nr later time puts him out\nof the running.\nA SUFFRAGETTE \"LADY\"\nOne of the dissentient ladies engaged\nin breaking up a public meeting waa\narmed with, and freely used, a dog-\nwhip.\nOver 56 years on earth, brought\nup on a farm (where they farm)\nLater on railway construction\nin charge of stores and of work.\nFor yearB a cook and hotel and\nrestaurant man.\nOver 30 years in the west\u201416\nyears of this time In West\nKootenay and NelBon prospecting and mining, ranching and\nselling goodB. My general knowledge of work of all kinds and\nmy very extensive acquaintance\nInduced me to take up Employment business. x\nIn this I satisfy employer and\nemployee to the fullest extent\npossible.\nW.PARKER\nThe Worklngman'i Employment and Real Estate Agency,\n312 Baker 8t, P. O. Box 623.\nPhone 283. Nelson, B.C.\n PAGE TWENTY-FOUR\nWat Skrtlg gteim\nSUNDAY JANUARY \u2022\nROSSLAND-THE GOLDEN CITY OFKOOTENAY\nI By J. Q. Egsn. I\nROSSLAND, Dec. t!l\u2014-The Rossland\ncamp had a very prosperous year during 190S. The mines were kept in\nsteady operation and the production of\nore. has been kept up without Interruption throughout the year.' An average\nof about 800 men were kept at work\nIn the larger and the leased mines and\npeace and prosperity reigned from\nJanuary till December. The ore production was approximately the same\nas It was last year and the result of the\nyear's work has been that each of the\nthree larger mining companies have\nmade good profits. Another gratifying\nfeature Is that the leading mines have\nlargely Increased their visible supply\nof ore by judicious advance work, thus\nInsuring large supplies for the coming\nyear and far beyond that . The mines\nhave settled down to enjoy a long period of production. Another matter for\ncongratulation Is tho very satisfactory\nmanner in which the deeper portions\nof the larger mines are developing, as\nextensive and valuable ore shoots have\nbeen uncovered and are adding each\nday their due quota to the production\nof the camp. The leaslns system has\nbeen a feautre of considerable importance in the history of the year, and\nthat It will continue to play an Important part In its future history is certain.\nMost of the leases were in the Boutli\nbelt, where there is a silver-lead pro\nducing section of considerable Importance and in which many of the ledges\ncarry ore of a high grade.\nMerchants and business men report\nthat they have had the most successful\nyear in several past. They say trade\nhas been steady, and that collections\nhave been good, owing to the permanency of employment, and that losses\nthrough bad debts, which is often an\naccompaniment of unsteady employment, were cut down to the minimum.\nEach year the number of families In\nRossland shows a small increase and\nthus is added something additional to\nthe trade of merchants and business\nmen which augments their profits.\nAppended is a resume of the leading\nfeatures of the development and progress of the leading mines of the camp\nduring the past year:\nTbe main shaft of the Centre Star\nand its allied mines has been deepened\nduring the year from the fourteenth\nto the sixteenth level, a distance of 320\nfeet, giving it a total depth from its\ncollar of the shaft of 2300 feet . Without going Into actual details it may be\nsaid that development has been actively\npushed on the Idaho, one of the allied\nproperties of the Centre Star, on the\nfourth, fifth and eleventh levels by extensions of the working of the Centre\nStar, and this development Is still in\nprogress. On the fourth level of the\nInsurance\nReal Estate\nand\nStock Broker\nfire, Life. Accident and Indemnity\nInsurance\nWe Buy, Sell and Exchange Fruit and Timber\nLands in all Parts of the Province\nB. C. MINING STOCKS\nWe are in a Position to Give Special Information. Write or Wire for\nQuotations on any Standard Stock\nA. S. Goodeve\nROSSLAND, B. G.\nO. H. Green A. W. Smith\nBATHS, BOWLING ALLEY\nSTEAM LAUNDRY AND OTHER CONVENIENCES\nHOFFMAN HOUSE\nNewly Renovated\nSMITH & GREEN, Proprietors\nCommercial travellers given the best attention\nNew, well lighted and comfortable sample rooms\nA special dining room, nnd excellent accommodations\nHEADQUARTERS FOR MINING MEN\nWashington Street, R088LAND, B. C. American and European Plan\nIdaho a promising ore shoot has been\nlocated and Is being opened up and will\nbe reached later on the other levels\nwhen they have been further developed.\nThe most satisfactory results of the development of the'year in the Centre\nStar group are: The opening up of\nnew ore bodies on the tenth and elev-\nand Milling Company, under the direction of its manager, S. F. Griswold, has\noperated the Inland Empire In the\nGranville Mountain section of the Trail\nCreek mining division. The shaft has\nbeen extajjded down to the 200-foot\nlevel, crosscut driven to tap the ledge\nand drifting is now making good prog-\nNELSON'S NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL\n(Continued from Page Twenty.)\nto either side. On each side of the\nmain stairway on the ground floor, is a\ncrystal stream drinking fountain. These\nfountains are said to be the latest and\nmost complete hygiene drinking appar-\nThese stairs also provide an exit'from\nthe old building. All tbe fire escape\nstairs throughout the building are five\nfeet wide. In the main corridor of the\nsecond floor are installed two crystal\nstream drinking fountains similar to\nthose on the ground floor.\nThe third floor Is utilized for an as-\ncoast fir, finished In natural wood. All\ndoors and windows in the class rooms\nare finished in plaster, with rounded\ncorners, no wood being used lu these\nplaces, the object being to minimize\ndust catching surfaces. The main stairway on the ground floor is supported\nby four panel columns reaching to the\n\u00abgf^y ;.;\u2022>-- \u25a0\u2022*\u25a0\nCITY OF ROS8LAND, SHOWING HEADWORK8 OF THE MINE8\nenth levels of the War Eagle, the finding and opening of high grade ore bodies on the second and fourth levels of\nthe Iron Mask. During the year the development of the Centre Star has been\nconfined almost exclusively to tbe thirteenth and fourteenth level aud good\nore shoots have been found there and\nthey are extensive, while the ore is of\na good grade. The policy of the management of the Centre Star has been to\nkeep the development as far in advance of production as possible and the\nresult of this wise system Ib that there\nis enough ore In sight to keep up the\nrate of production that prevailed during 1908 for several years. For the\nfiscal year ending June 30, 1908, the\nprofits of the Centre Star group were\nvery good and for the remainder of the\nyear a like satisfactory result has been\nreached.\nThe principal feature of. the development of the Le Rol has been the satisfactory manner in which the ore shoot\non the 1650-foot level has developed and\nfrom which a large tonnage of a more\nthan ordinarily high grade has been\nobtained. This shoot will In the future\nyield a very considerable tonnage as it\nis rich, long and wide. The Intermediate vein has also developed satisfactorily on the eighth and other levels. Development work is being carried on to\nthe southern portion of the company's\nholdings, hut It has not proceeded sufficiently to fully determine the results.\nThe mine for the past several months\nhas been yielding a larger profit tha.n\nII did for a good many months previously and in October the profits reached\nthe very satisfactory total of $50,000,\nwhich was the best month in several\nyears. It Is thought from the good results that are being reached that the\nmine has entered a new era of considerable prosperity. The Le Roi has\nproduced a very large tonnage during\nthe many years that it has been operated and there Is every reason to believe, from tbe way its lower levels are\nnow turning out that Its prestige will\nincrease rather than decrease. The ore\nof the Le Rol was sent during tbe year\nto the Le Roi company's smelter at\nNorthport. This plant besides reducing\nthe ore of the Le Rol also handled a\nconsiderable tonnage of customs ore.\nThe most prominent feature of the\nyear's work on the Josle Mine of the\nLe Rol Two company's group Is the\nvery satisfactory manner In which the\nmain Hamilton vein has opened tip on\nthe 300 and 700-foot levels. It has added a large tonnage of ore of a high\ngrade to the visible supply In the mine\nand tbe result Is pleasing to the management. Another feature Is the development of the Surprise, a member\nof the Le Roi Two group. A tunnel is\nbeing driven and considerable cross-cut*\nting and diamond drilling will be under,\ntaken at a later date. Manager Paul\nS. Couldrey states that the year 1908\nhas been the most successful In the\nhistory of the mine, as the profits were\nlarger than In any previous time. Development Is kept far ahead ot production and the result is that there Is a\ngreat deal of ore in sight and the outlook for the year coming is promising.\nThe Le Rol has a large area of likely\nterritory, the larger portion, of which\nhas never been explored, and hence its\npossibilities are promising. Mining\nmen predict that it has a long and profitable future ahead of it.\nDuring the past year the work of\ndeveloping the Giant California properties has been steadily pushed. The\nshaft haa been deepened to the 300-foot\nlevel and a crosscut has been run to\nreach the ore bodies that are tn California territory, adjacent to the Annie\nclaim. During the latter part of the\nyear diamond drilling has been In progress and still continues! It Is reported\nthat some' ore has been found, but the\nmanagement Ib reticent as to Its extent\nDuring the year 280 tons of ore was\nshipped from the Giant California, but\nthis was from the Giant ledge. '\nDuring the year the Inland Mining\nress along the ledge. The ledge Is from,\nfive to six feet wide and the ore runs\nfrom $20 to $25 per ton, with the principal value In gold. A boiler, hoist, pumps,\nsawmill, bunk houses, blacksmith shop\nand ore bins have been added. A seven-\ndrill compressor plant will shortly be\nInstalled and then the shaft will be\ndeepened to the, 400-foot level. If sufficient ore is found on the 300 and 400-\nlevels a reduction plant, probably a\nstamp mill, will be Installed for the\npurpose of reducing the ore.\nDuring the year the leasing system\natus made. No cups are necessary\u2014all\nthe thirsty one requires to do Is to\npress the button, hold the mouth open,\nand the city water main does the rest.\nFrom the main corridor on the ground,\nfloor of the new building an iron covered door opens Into the corridor of the\nold building. At each end of the new\nbuilding are placed fire escape stairs,\nwhich extend upwards to the assembly\nroom on the third floor, with suitable\nmeans of egress from the rooms adjoining on each floor.\nThe second floor Is laid out practical-\nsembly room and is practically the full\nsize of the building. It is provided with\nthree exits, being the main stair, and\na tire escape at each end. The roof is\nsupported by four steel columns which\nleaves the room clear of all obstructions. The celling in this room is 18\nfeet.\nThe roof of the structure is finished\nwith a deck with an iron railing, access\nbeing had to the deck by an iron ladder\nleading from the rear of the assembly\nroom. A 30-foot flag staff, with gilded\nball on top, surmounts the building.\nhas been in vogue to a considerably\nlarger extent than at any previous time.\nThe Evening Star, Blue Bird, I X L,\nSt. Elmo, Homestake, Curlew, Mayflower and Red Eagle have been under\nlease for varying periods. Each has\nshipped some ore running from a half\ndozqn tons In the case of the I X L to\nnearly 1000 tons for the Evening Star.\nFrom the Blue Bird one carload of 30\ntons netted the lessees, Messrs. Whit-\nford & Jenkins, $2,400 or $80 to the\nton. It was the richest carload ever\nextracted from the south belt. The leasing system has been found satisfactory\nto a considerable extent and promises\nto come more largely In vogue. Its\nextension Is certain to he of much benefit to the camp. There are a large\nnumber of properties in the south belt\nwhich it Is thought can be operated\nprofitably under the leasing system.\nThe lumber industry in the vicinity\nof this city has not been as good as\nIt was previous to the financial panic\nof the latter part of 1897. During the\nyear the Blue & Deschamp'a mill has\nkept In steady operation, sawing lumber and timber principally for local\nconsumption. A few carloads were sent\nto the prairies, but the prices of lumber\nwere not sufficiently high to Justify\ncontinuous shipments to that section.\nAbout 60 hands were employed, The\nChina Creek Lumber mills near this\nCity were.not operated during the.year\nbut as a renewed and increased demand\nIs anticipated from the prairies during\n1909 It la certain that It will resume\noperations early in the spring.\n\" Some schoolboys are pretty Blow but\nmanage to catch the' whooping cough,\nly the Bame as the groud floor, there\nbeing six class rooms, with cloak room,\ncorridors, etc., the same. There are also\ntwo rooms for the private use of the\nteachers, each 13 x 22 1-2 feet, with\nlavatories adjoining. Doors are placed\nconnecting each two rooms In the front\nadjoining \u25a0 the fire escapes, so that if\nnecessary the Inmates can reach the\nfire escapes without having to enter the\ncortrldors. The two rooms at the rear\nof the building on thla floor open on\nthe fire escape stairs on the outside.\nThe whole building will be lighted by\nelectricity, and an up-to-date telephone\nsystem, connecting all the class rooms\nwith the principal, has been Installed.\nAdequate fire protection Ib provided by\naj 3 1-2 Inch stand pipe leading from\nthe basement to the assembly room,\nwith a fifty foot coil of hose on each\nfloor, the couplings on same being uniform with those of the city fire department. . The Interior walls are all finished In plaster, the walnscoatlng and\nother wooden portions being of selected\natteiteteu.\nTORQAL NOREN, CHAMPION SKI JUMPER OF CANADA MAKINO A JUMP\nOF 109 FEET AT ROSSLAND CARNIVAL\ncelling, which gives a fine appearance,\non entering the building. The building\nis floored throughout with hard maple\nflooring. The finish in corridors and\nhalls is plain casings with rounded corners. All the cloak rooms have installed\ntherein a radiator with the object of\nkeeping the clothing warm and dry.\nThe different contractors engaged on\nthe building have all strenuously endeavored to complete their several .\nparts within the time specified, and '\nthey are one and all deserving of credit\nfor the capable manner in which they\nhave carried on and completed the work\nThey are:\nJohn Burns, general contract; Strac-\nhan & Hebden, heating and plumbing;\nPearcy & Herb, painting; Rlngrose &\nCo., electrical work. The architect is\ncitizen Alex Crane, and the completed\ncitiben Alex Crane, and the completed\nhis ability as well as a credit to the city.\nREPORT OF KETTLE RIVER VALLEY\nBy McCallum & McArdle, Grand Fork..\nThe Kettle River valley, in the centre of which is located the city of Grand\nForks, contains over 10,000 acres of agricultural land, of which the greater\npart is excellent fruit land. The vaUey\nIs well supplied with water, as the\nKettle river flows through It, and several smaller streams empty Into the river\nat, or near, this point. This valley Ib\njust coming into prominence as a fruit\ngrowing district and last year It outstripped ail competitors by the superior\nquality ot tho fruit grown here, having\nwon cups, medals and prizes both In\nthis country and at the London fruit\nexhibit.\nGrand Forks has as good schools,\nchurch and railway facilities as any\ncity in the Interior of British Columbia, and has a climate that can compare favorably with any on the continent, and Is admirably adapted for fruit\ngrowing. A 15-acre tract of land near\nthe centre of the city has recently been\npurchased on which It is proposed to\nconstruct a Sister's hospital at a cost\nof $16,000. The city has a payroll of\nfrom 150,000 to 140,000 per month, and\nit is expected this will be greatly increased in the near future by the construction ot railway shops.\nIt Is difficult to estimate the return,\nfrom a matured orchard, aa very few\nof the orchards here have attained full\nproduction. There are Beveral hundred\nacres now In fruit, mostly young trees.\nMr. Hornsberger, orcnardlst, has eight\nacres of prunes, the oldest In.the valley, and they yield Win yearly' $366 per\nacre above all expenses. Mcrtin Burrell,\nM. P., has half an acre of pears from\nwhich he Bold $400 worth of pears'last\nyear, and clear of all expenses. Apples,,\nthe staple fruit for shipping, grow to\nperfection; and, though they do not\nyield such great profits aa pruneB,\npiumB, pears, cherries,\nBtrawberrlea, etc., they are\n' produced with much less\nexpense after the trees come\nto bearing, and pay enormous profits on the Investment All fruit trees bear\nearlier here than In portions of the country less fa*\n. vorable for fruit\nAs there has been no land\nboom here, first class land,\ncleared and cultivated, and\nready to plant, can be purchased In 10 and 20 acre\ntracts at prices ranging\nfrom $100 to $200 an acre\naccording to location, soil,,\netc. In larger tracts the\nprice Is less.\nDuring'the past year this,\nfirm has, disposed of over'\n200 acres of land in the\nvlclnjty of Grand Porks In\n10 to 20 acre blocks, representing a total Investment or\n' the buyers of from $40,000\nto $60,000 and the settler,\nplaced on the land are highly satlBfled with result..\n 17\nMining Section\nTHE DAILY NEWS\nPages 25 to 32\nVOL. 7\nNELSON, B. C, SUNDAY MORNINQ, JANUARY S, 1Nt\nNO. 216\nREVIEW Of YEAR'S MINING OPERATIONS IN B. C\nTABLE SHOWING AMOUNT AND VALUE OF MINERAL PRODUCT8 FOR\nTHE YEARS 1907 AND 1908.\n1907\n1903\nQuantity\nValue\nQuantity 1 Value\n41,460\n196,179\n$ 829,000 |\n4,065,020\n34,100 | $ 682,000\n256,000 6,291,520\n$ 237.629\n2,746,448\n47,738,705\n40,832,720\n2366\n1,800,067\n222,913\n$ 4,883,020\n1,703,826\n2,291,468\n8,166,544\n60,600\n290,100\n3,037,000\n43,775,000\n43,885,000\n10,000\n$ 5,973,520\n1,618,600\n1,654,695\n5,792,820\n280,000\nTotal metalliferous \t\nCoal, tons (2240 lb.) ..\nCoke, tons (2240 lb.) ....\nBuilding materials, etc ...\n$17,095,447\n6,300,235\n1,337,478\n1,149,400\n1\n1,700,000\n248,000\n.\n1\n$15,219,535\n5,960,000\n1,488,000\n1,200,000\nTotal mineral production\n$25,882,660\n$23,857,535\nTABLE SHOWING PRODUCTION OF MINERAL BY DISTRICTS AND\nDIVISIONS FOR TWO YEAR8, 1907-1908.\norganized in London early in 1908,\nStandard, Hewitt and Westtnont mines.\nAlnsworth mining division made an in-\ncreas ot about 10 per cent, largely\nfrom the Whitewater and Whitewater\nDeep mines, In Whitewater camp, and\nIn less degree from the Canadian Metal\ncompany's Bluebell mine on Kootenay\nlake, at which a modern concentrating\nmill waa completed last summer.\nSilver from Rossland and Boundary\ndistrict mines Is chiefly obtained from\nores also having copper as an important\nmarketable metal content. Most of that\nfrom the Lardeau last year was from\nthe Silver Cup mine, with the True\nFissure contributing nearly all the remainder from that district. In Nelson\ndivision the La Plata and Silver King\nmines produced most of the silver from\nthat division.\nLead\u2014The gradual decrease In quantity of lead produced In the province\nduring three immediately preceding\nyears was continued last year. ' The\nproductioi*. for several ye&a, as shown\nIn the anriuaT r^tuft of the Minister\nCariboo District \t\nCariboo Mining Dlv\t\nQuesnel Mining Dlv. ...\nOmlneca Mining Dlv. ..\nCasslar District \t\nBast Kootenay District .\nWeat Kootenay District ..\nAlnsworth Mining Dlv. .\nNelson Mining Dlv\t\nSlocan Mining Dlv\t\nTrail Creek Mtn. Div...\nOther parts \t\nLillooet District \t\nYale District \t\nOsoyoos, Grand Forks\nGreenwood MIn. Dlvs\nSimllkameen Dlv\t\n\u00ab Yale Div. \t\nCoast Districts \t\nDivisions\n1907\n$ 306,500\n44,000\n10,000\n364,868\n614395\n619,842\n3,049,702\n144,169\n8,354,995\n56,564\n32,767\nTotals ,\n110$\nDistricts\n1907\n360,000 |\n60,000 |\n20,000 I\n360,500 | $\nI\nI\n| 572,809\n[ 225,000\n'5,648,880\n4,726,060\n4,792,976\n5,710,690\n624,000\n414,984\n779,740\n3,725,142\n166,824\n16,721\n5,000\n8,444,326\n, 7,160,245\n6,994,925\n135,000\n30,320\n6,147,348\n5,610,540\n$26,882,560\n$23,857,635\nNote\u2014The foregoing are shown In\nthe order followed In the official report, of the Provincial Bureau of\nMine.. Similarly, Rossland is Included\nIn Trail Creek and Greenwood and\nGrand Forks divisions, which constitute\nthe district generally known In the\nprovince as the Boundary, together with\nHediey camp of the Osoyoos division\nare shown as in Yale district, as is\ncustomary In the official publications.\nIt should be mentioned that the decrease shown ,agalnst Casslar is partly\nthe result of the transfer of the coast\nportion of Skeena mining division to\nthe Coast district, while that of Lillooet\nis the result of a temporary stoppage of\ngold dredging on that part of the\nFraser river.\nGold\u2014The production of placer gold\nIn 1908 was still more disappointing\nthan in 1907 which In turn gave the\nsmallest production up to that time of\nany year since 1898. In like manner\nit must now be said of 1908 that its\nmetal was the smallest since the total\nof thi. year 1898. The' greater part\not the decrease was In Casslar district,\nthe estimated shortage from AtUn division of that district having been\n$183,000, and of the Llard and Stlkine\ndivision. $25,000. Individual miners\nproduce comparatively little gold in AtUn camp now, and for one reason or\nanother the hydraullclng companies recovered much less gold than in several\nprevious years. There Is, though, much\ngold-bearing gravel Still available on\nthree or four of the AtUn creeks, so It\nIs to be expected that with a more\nadequate water supply which has been\nprovided for by one or two of the larger\nproducers of the camp, a much better\nresult will be obtained next year. The\nthree divisions of the Cariboo district\nare each credited with an Increase, as\nshown in the latter of the foregoing\n'tables, their mineral production being\nentirely placer gold, 'The Simllkameen-\nV division of Yale district appears to have\nincreased1 Its yield by $9,000, but Lillooet shows $7,000 less than in 1907.\nThe Kootenay districts and the Coast\ndo not exhibit any changes in production ol placer gold.\nIn lode gold the largest proportion\not the Increase Was made in Trail\nCreek division, In which three mines at\nRoBBlaad each produced more gold than\ntn 1907, their total Increase having been\nrather nore than 48,000 os. In Yale\ndistrict the Boundary mines yielded\nsome 11,700 oi. more, this having been\ngold occurring In association with copper. Nelson division contributed 800\nos. to the total Increase and a small\naddition was reported from a mine In\nthe Lardeau section of West Kootenay.\nThe decreases were in the Coast district, chiefly from copper-gold mines\nVying greatly reduced production eon-\nsequent noon a suspension of work during quite half of the year. To the total\nof 256,000 oz. Roasland mines contributed about 142,000 oz., (Boundary mines\nand Hediey camp of Osoyoos division\ntogether about 94,000 oz.) Nelson more\nthan 14,000 oi. (mostly from Sheep\nCftek oattp), the Coast (chiefly the\nMarble Bay mine, Texada Island) some\n4,000 \u00ab., and the remainder from the\nLardeau. Of the two larger gold mines\n\u00abt tfc. proviso., the Ymlr tn Nelson div\nision and the Nickel Plate near Hediey,\nthe latter Is understood to have maintained Its production on a similar scale\nto that of several recent years, but the\nformer was practically a non-producer.\nThe development of several gold mines\nIn Sheep Creek camp was one of the\nfeatures of progress In the year.\n8llver\u2014The .production of silver was\nlarger in 1908 than in either 1906\nor 1907. For the three yearB the several\ntotals were: 1906, 2.990,000 oz.; 1907,\n2,745,000 oz.; 1908, 3,037,000 oz. West\nWest Kootenay continues to hold its\nlead among the districts of the province\nproducing silver, but since it Includes\na much larger extent of mining country\nthan East Kootenay, which comes second, the comparison is hardly a fair\none. Further, by far the greater portion\nol the silver produced In Bast Kootenay\nlast year came from one mine\u2014the St.\nEugene, with two others contributing\n60,000 oz. each, while In West Kootenay\na dozen or more of tho larger mines and\na score of the smaller ones, combined\nto make up the bulk ot the production\nof the district. West Kootenays production was from the following locall-\nties; Slocan 953,000 oz., Alnsworth division (which includes part of the district generally known os the Slocan)\n\u2014W\u2014\u00ab By E. Jacobs. \u25a0saWBWBWI\nIn silver than that In former years; it\nrequired 6.3 tons of ore to make one\nton of concentrate. The aggregate of\nproduction of the St. Eugene mine for\nall years to June 30, 1908, was 084,311\ntons of ore from which 138,878 tons of\nconcentrate were made, which contained\n3,951,141 oz. ot silver and 162,905,421\nlb. of lead. The production for the calendar year 1908 was about 23,000 tons\nof concentrate and 2,600 tons of high\ngrade crude ore. As the St. Eugene Is\nthe largest lead mine In Canada, it is\nprobable the forgoing information will\nbe of general Interest.\nApproximate lead production of West\nKootenay was as follows: From mines\nIn Slocan and Alnsworth districts, 12,-\n000.000 lb.; Nelson, 650,000 lb; Lardeau,\n900,00 lb.; and Boundary,' 25,000 lb.\nThe chief producers In Slocan were In\norder of quantity, the Standard, Rambler-Cariboo Richmond-Eureka, Ruth,\nVancouver, Reco, Slocan Star and Sunset; In Alnsworth division, tbe Bluebell\nand Whitewater and Whitewater Deep\nmines combined; In Nelson division, the\nInvolved any radical departures from\nwell-established lines of ore-dressing,\nalthough there have been Introduced\na number of minor Innovations. As a\ncorollary, the general scheme of development of the mine adopted haa been\nsuch as to make practicable Its exploitation at low cost, thereby ensuring the\nextraction of the ore under conditions\nespecially favorable to profit-earning\nresults.\nCopper\u2014The years, production of\ncopper, estimated at 43,885,000 lb. 18\nthe largest by nearly 1,00,000 lb. .of\nany year since mining was commenced\nIn the province, that of 1906\u201442,990,000\nlb.\u2014having previously been the maximum production for one year. Of the\ntotal for 1908, Boundary district mines\nproduced, about 36,000,000 lb.; those of\nRossland came next with 6,300,000 lb\u201e\nand then Coast mines with about 2,500,-\n000 Ib. The production of other parts\nof the province was insignificant.\nThe progress of copper mining in the\nBoundary wiil be evident from the following figures of annual production,\ny0M' \u25a0:\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0\u2022-'\u2022\"\n- ':,\\. ., .' , T i,,'\"'\u00ab.\u25a0>....'.\u2022\u2022'\u25a0\u2022\n\u25a0 ; \u25a0-;: : \u2022' ' . :\u25a0 ' *\u25a0 \u25a0 \" -< ,..y.\u00bb\nzftS*\n@\u00a3\nIT\"\u2014 . #ssS*P^5 . ^\u00abssssssKS*SSA\u00bbl\nL \u25a0:~~'f*TM$^ ''\"<^\"f '*':'\u2022\"\u25a0'\u25a0''' 1\nGREENWOOD, B.C.\u2014A FLOURISHING BOUNDARY MINING TOWN\nof Mines for British Columbia, was in\nroundn figures as follows: In 1905, 66,-\n581,000 lb.; in 1906, 62,408,000 lb.; In\n1907, 47,739,000 lb. Now comes a further decrease, for the estimated output\nfor 1908 Is but 43,775,000, this being the\nlowest total since 1904 In which year It\nwas about 37,000,000 lb. In the production of this metal East Kootenay leads\nwith an output of 30,200,000 lb. or 69\nper cent, of the whole, and this nearly\nall from the St. Eugene mine of which,\nby the way, It may be mentioned that\nreporting last August, the managing\ndirector of the Consolidated Mining and\nSmelting company ot Canada, Limited,\nwhich owns this mine among others, advised the directors that \"the probable\nore reserves of the St. Eugene group\nare nearly 60 per cent, greater than\na year ago. Ore 50 per cent, better in\ngrade than last year's average has been\nfound between the 600 and 800-foot lev*\nEmerald and La Plata and In the Lardeau, the Sliver Cup (Ferguson Mines,\nLtd.)\nIn connection with the production of\nlead it may be added that while the\nlead smelter of the Hall Mining company at Nelson remained closed all tbe\nyear, and that of the Sullivan Group\ncompany at Marysvllle, East Kootenay,\nwaa closed in February and has not\nsince been operated the Consolidated\nMining and Smelting company has increased both the smelting and the refining capacity of its lead reduction\nworks at Trail, Two more Huntlngton-\nHeberlelh roasting furnaces {making\nsix In all) have been installed and a\nnew anode plant put In, and the refinery enlarged to a capacity of about 75\ntons of refined lead per day. The company haa also made a number of,\nchanges and Improvements at Its concentrating mill at the St. Eugene mine,\nthose tn parentheses being for the\nwhole of British Columbia: In 1904,\n22,066,000 Ib. (35,710,000 lb.); 1905, 27,-\n070,000 lb. (37,692,000 lb.; 1906, 32,227,-\n000 lb. (42,990,000 lb,); 1907, 31,521,000\nlb. (40,833,000 lb.); 1908, 30,000,000 lb.\n(43,855,000 Ib.) Assays of copper ore\nof the district based upon copper recovered In 1907 averaged 1.34\nseveral large mines of the district, an\nIdea of the quantity of copper produced\nby each company is obtainable from the\nfollowing figures showing tonnage of\nore mined and smelted last year: Granby company, 1,023,000 tons; Dominion\nCopper Co., 22,000 tons; Consolidated\nM. and S. Co., 41,000 tons; British Columbia Copper Co., 358,000 tons. Dominion Copper company only operated\nIts smelter for a few weeks, going Into\nliquidation last summer. This gives a\ntotal of 1,444,000 tons of copper ore\nmined and smelted last year.\nstalTatlon of a two-cylinder 40x40x42\ninch ordberg blowing engine of latest\ntype, capacity 10,000 cubic feet per mln.\nat 12-lb. pressure, and driven by electric\npower; and numerous improvements to\nelectric plant, water supply service, etc.\nThe lengthening of the eight\n18 feet by 44 Inch blast furnaces to\n22 feet each, has been commenced, and\nwhen this work shall have been completed\u2014probably by June next\u2014the\ntreatment capacity of the works will be\n4,000 tons of ore per day instead of\n3,000 tons as at present. The total\nquantity of ore treated at these works\nin 1908 waa 1,037,000 tons and the copper produced amounted to 23,535,000 lb.,\nwhich is the largest production yet\nmade here In any one year.\nNo important new construction work\nwas done at the Granby company's\nmines in 1908, they having been previously equipped for a dally production\nup to 5,000 tons of ore. On an adjoining group of claims the Consolidated\ncompany opened up what promises to\nprove to be a large body of ore of workable grade. The B. C. Copper company\ndoubled the air compressor capacity at\nIts Mother Lode mine, Installing a Canadian Rand 35-drill engine, to be electrically driven by a 700 horse power\ninduction motor connected to it by a\nrope drive. At its Oro Denoro mine\nthe same company installed an ore\ncrushing and conveying plant, and plant\nfor similar purposes at its k smelter\nsampling works at Greenwood. Numerous less important improvements and\ninstallations were also made at Its several mines and Its smelting works. Recently the company Issued a circular\nshowing that during six months ended\nNovember 30 last, it bad produced about\n5,548,000 lb. of copper which together\nwith the gold and silver also recovered\nwas of a total value at tbe time of shipment of $1,038,085, and from this there\nwould be a total profit shown as $226,-\n700.\nRossland mines are estimated to have\nproduced a total of 5,300,000 lb. of copper in 1908, iu the following proportions: Centre Star, 2,000,000 lb.; Le\nRoi No. 1, 1,705,000 and Le Roi No. 2,\n928,000 lb. The ores of these mines\ncontain gold nnd silver as well as copper, Le Roi No. 2 being especially favored in recovering an average gold\nvalue fully twice that from the other\nmines. Extensive developments and at\nthe Centre Star substantial Improvements as well were made at mines. The\nLo Rol expended $108,000 In development work consisting of 6,000 feet of\ndrifting, raising, cross-cutting, etc. and\nbetween 4,000 and 5,000 feet of diamond\ndrilling. Tho most important results\nachieved during the year were the finding of ore bodies of ore of good grade\nin the deeper levels of nil three mines\n\u2014In the Le Roi on the 1,650 foot level,\nin the Centre Star down to about 2,000\nfeot on the incline, and In the Le Rof\nNo. 2 on 700-foot level, and deeper in a\ndiamond drill bore.\nIn the Coast district the copper production to be noted Is that of the Britannia Mining and Smelting company,\nwhich last June resumed operations on\na small scale at tho Britannia mine,\nHowe Sound, nnd shipped to the smelter about 10,800 tons of ore and concentrate, containing approximately 646,-\n000 lb. of copper, besido values in gold\nand silver; of several thousand tons of\ngood grade ore the Tyee Copper cora-\nPHOENIX\u2014WHERE THE LARGE3T MINE WORKINGS IN B. C. ARE\n330,000 oz\u201e Lardeau 206,000 oz., Rossland 156,000 oz. and Nelson 72,000 oz.,\ntogether 1,717,000 os, East Kootenay\nproduced 676,000 os, from Bt. Eugene,\nNorth Star and SulUoan group mines.\nThe Boundary district's proportion was\n\u2022'696,000 oz., chiefly from the copper\nmines of the Granby and British Columbia Copper companies. The Coast district yielded 49,000 oz., nearly two-thirds\nof which .was from the Marble Bay\nmine, Texada Island and a little less\nthan one-third from the Ikeda mine on\nMoresby Island of the Queen Charlotte\ngroup.\nThe very satisfactory Increase made\nby the Slocan district, namely of about\n61 per cent\u2014953,000 os. In 1908 as\nagainst 691,000 oz. in 1907\u2014was contributed to a considerable degree by\nthe Rambler-Cariboo, Richmond-Eureka,\nRuth, Reco, Vancouver (now being op*\ncrated by the Van-Rol Mining company,\nels, on the main vein above the 1,600-\nfoot level, and between the 1,900 and\n2,000-foot levels. In the report of last\nyear It was mentioned that the 2,000-\nfoot level did not promise to yield as\nmuch tonnage as the 1,900-foot level,\nbut present Indications are that tho\nformer will produce more than the latter, or any other level In the mine. The\ngrade of the ore Is, however, lower\nthan that produced from the upper\nworkings. Some bodies of low-grade\nmaterial have been found on the 2,100-\nfoot level, and a raise from this level\nshows ore of workable grade. Drifting\nand cross-cutting on the 2,200-foot level\nare progressing, and one or two low-\ngrade ore bodies have been found. It\nwill, however, require work for another\nsix months or a year to determine the\namount of ore on this level\" The ore\nconcentrated last year In the St Eugene mill averaged lower In lead and\nwhereby an increased saving has been\nmade.\nA concentrating mill embodying the\nlatest methods for the separation of\nlead and zinc from the Iron and other\ngangue of the ore has been erected and\nfully equipped At the Bluebell mine,\nKootenay lake, this mill having been\ndesigned by S. S. Fowler, of Nelson,\ngeneral manager for tbe Canadian Metal company, which also owns the Bluebell mine. In this connection It may\nbe stated that there now being In that\nmine a sufficient tonnage available and\nprobable to Justify expenditure which\nwill ensure stability of the plant, this\nhas been provided for by making the\nfoundations of the mill of concrete and\nIts frame of heavy Umbers. The general arrangement ot the plant la such\nas to permit of large Increase of capacity at relatively small expense. In\ndetail the planning of the mill has not\nImprovements made at the Granby\ncompany's smelting works at Grand\nForks are extensive, these Including the\nconstruction of additional ore and coke\nstorage bunkers of a capacity, respectively, of 7,000 and 4,000 tons; a steel\ndust chamber at the back of the blast\nfurnaces to replace the brick chamber\nformerly used; enlargement of brick\ndust settling chamber near smoke stack\nand substitution of a steel and brick\nbuilding of larger size and having cement floors for the old wood structure\nused as a blowing engine room; installation of two Connersvllle rotary blowers, each 30,000 cubic feet per minute;\ncapacity and each having 160 horse\npower induction motors lengthening of the copper converter de-\n7x10x16 inch convenors to have a total\ncapacity of 36,000,000 lb. of copper a\nyear and to be electrically operated, In\nplace of these heretofore In use; In-\npany shipped from the Indian\nChief grbup on the West Coast of Vancouver Island; and of the Awaya, Ike-\nda company, which shipped from its\nmine on one of the Queen Charlotte\nIslands some 5,400 tons of ore containing about 500,000 lb. of copper and fair\nvalues In gold and silver as well. The\nHidden Creek Mining company opened\nup a very large body or ore on Observatory Inlet, Portland Canal, along a distance of about 2,000 feet. This ore\nranges In copper value from two to ten\nper cent, but they did not ship any to\nthe smelter.\nThe Britannia company's smelting\nworks on Vancouver Island were not\noperatedd in 1908. At the Tyee Copper\ncompany's smelter, Lady smith, Vancouver Island, many Improvements were\nmade. A wharf was constructed In\nOyster Harbor and a trestle built to\nconnect with the, smelting works. On\nthe wharf ore bunkers provided with\nmechanical equipment for expeditiously\nunloading ore from vessels, were built\nand machinery, both, steam and electric\nwas installed to facilitate handling the\nore. All plant and machinery requisite\nfor doubling the treatment capacity of\nthe works were purchased and received\nbefore the year closed.\nZinc and Iron\u2014Although the zinc\nsmelter at Frank, Alberta, has not yet\nbeen made suitable for smelting sine\nores, there has been In British Columbia fn 1908 some production of zinc\nconcentrate, to an extent of between\n9,000 and 10,000 tens. About 8,000 tons\nwere shipped from the Whitewater and\nWhitewater Deep mines, of which 3,000\ntons had been held over from 1907 and\nthe remainder made in 1908. This product averaged about 44 or 45 per cent\nz'nc and carried as well silver values.\nTim Ruth mine at Sandon, Slocan, sent\nto Kaslo nearly 1,000 tons of zinc concentrate, the grade of which was raised\nto about 50 per cent, zinc at the Kootenay Ore company's sampling works\nand 250 tons of the product shipped,\nleav some 650 tons on band. The\nVam .er mine shipped 1,053 tons of\nconcentrate averaging 45 per cent, zinc\nand 40 oz. sliver per ton. Remaining\nproduction was In smaller lots.\nThe works built at Neteon for the\ntreatment of lead-zinc ores by tbe Snyder electrical process were in successful\noperation during the closing weeks\nof the year. It is claimed that metallmS\nglcally the process is distinctly succes-\nful, but that mechanical difficulties occasionally occur, the overcoming of\nwhich will be a matter of time and experience In the practical working of tho\nplant. Last summer a laboratory test\nElmore vacuum plant was taken\nto the Hewitt mine, Slocan,\nwhere testa were continued over two\nweeks. Experiments In cleaning iron\nout of the concentrate, Instead of using\na magnetic separation process were successful on a concentrate about 40 oz.\nsilver per ton, 20 per cent, zinc and 18\nper cent Iron in the form of slderlte.\nThe Elmore process made a concentrate\nof 48 to 50 per cent, zinc, and carrying\n80 to 120 oz. of Ellver per ton. The proportion of iron left In the concentrate\nwas only six per cent. The extraction\nwas from 88 up to 100 per cent, of zinc\nfrom the original feed, and the sliver\nextraction was equally good.\nAt the Bluebell concentrating mill\n(.he zinc separation plant is not yet in\nfull operation, The ore here contains\nabout 30 per cent, pyrrhotlte which,\nwith the zinc blonde also in the ore,\nleaves the Wllfley tables and finer Jigs\nand, after de-waterlng, is conveyed to a\ndrying furnace; cooled and elevated to\na magnetic separator. It Is expected tn\nmake a product of 40 to 45 per cent-\nzinc, but while the price of spelter continues low experiments with the plant\nwill be extended over a longer period\nthan might otherwise be deemed profitable.\nIron mining Is practically non-existent in the province at the present time..\nThe product of this mineral In 1908 was*\nof absolutely no importance. The full\nreport of Mr. Efnar Ltndeman. who In\n1907 was sent to the British Columbia\ncoast to examine occurrences of iron ore\nis being awaited. Meanwhile there is\nno production of this metal, even from\nproperties which in past years have\nmade shipments to a small Iron furnace\non Puget Sound.\nCoal and Coke\u2014The year's net production of about 1,700,000 long tons,\nwhich was less by 100,067 tons than\nthat of 1907, was chiefly from Vancouver Island collerles, of which the Wellington Colliery company produced about\n740,000 tons, and the Western Fuel company 303,000 tons. On the mainland\nof the province the Crow's Nest Coal\ncompany produced ,r>21!,000 tons and the\nNicola Valley Coal and Coke company\nWith recently opened mines in the Nicola district, about .10.000 tons. Coko\nproduction was 13,000 tons at the Wellington Colliery company's ovens at\nUnion, V. I., and 235,000 tons at the\nCrow's Nest Pass company's ovens at\nFernie and Michel. Among a number\nof substantial improvements and additions to equipment the latter company\nis making is the installation of the\nGreene Super-poser! track system selT-\ndumplng car haul at its Michel colliery\nlo eventually have a capacity for handling 6,000 tons of coal daily. A Canadian\nRand four-stage, high-pressure air compressor, having a capactly of 3,000 cubic,\nfeet of free air per minute is also being\nput In at this colliery. It is noteworthy\nthat the larger companies mining coal\nin the Crow's Nest Pass region are substituting the most economical type of\nCorliss condensing engines for the simple slide-valve engine with its excessive\nsteam consumption.\nOn December 18 the Hosmer Mines,\nLimited, commenced the shipment of\ncoal from its newly openod colliery at\nHosmer, on the Crow's Nest branch of\nthe C. P. R. This company's property\nconsists of six sections of coal lands\nand two sections of surface, on which\ntoe town of Hosmer, and Improvements\nconnected with the colliery are located.\nThere are 18 coal seams on the property, varying in thickness from 4 to\n30 feet. The mlno buildings, tipple,\ntrackage, machinery and plant for ventilation, haulage, power and all other\nrequisite purposes are extensive, mod-\n(Continued on Page Thirty-one)\n PAGE TWENTY-SIX\ndHie g>nuyj Slew*.\nSUNDAY JANUARY 1\nUPPER BONNINGTON FALLS BEFORE CONSTRUCTION OF POWER\nHOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. A L. CO.\nThe Power Developments\nof the\nWest Kootenay\nPower and Light\nCo., Ltd,\nR08SLAND BRITI8H COLUMBIA\nNo. 1 Power House, Lower Bonnington\nFalls, British Columbia.\nNo. 2 Power House, Upper Bonnington\nFalls, British Columbia.\nNo. 3 Power House, Cascade City British Columbia.\nGENERAL INFORMATION\nTHE DEVELOPMENT Is on the Kootenay river, ten miles west of tbe\nCity of Nelson. The operating head of the wheels Is 70 feet, with\nample provision for fluctuation In both reaches.\nTHE SUBSTRUCTURE Is concrete and concrete-steel throughout. The\n\u25a0 works contain 25,000 cubic yards of concrete.\nTHE WHEELS are Francis inward discharge turbines of the vertical\ntype, having three runners on a shaft. There are four main units\nof 8000 h.p. each, and two exciters of 300 h.p. each. Two main units\nare now operating.\nTHE GENERATORS are of the revolving field type, 4500 k.w. each at\n80 per cent, power factor, 2300 volts.\nTHE TRANSFORMERS are of the oil-Immersed and watercooled type.\nTHE TRANSMISSION LINE8, Electric energy Is transmitted over two\n3-phase, 60-cycle, 60,000-volt lines to the mining districts of Rossland,\nPhoenix and Greenwood, and to the smelters situate at Trail, Grand\nForks, Greenwood and Boundary Falls.\nHEAD WORKS, POWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. A L. CO.\nBelow Will Be Found Capacity of Motors\nOperating at the Different Mines and Smelters\nConsolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Candaa smelter at Trail; 1800 h.p.\nConsolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, refinery at Trail, 1100 h.p.\nWar Eagle and Centre Star mines, Rossland, 1700 h.p.\nRossland and Great Western Mining Co., Rossland, 800 h. p.\nGiant-California Mining Co., Rossland, 160 h. p.\nWhite Bear Mining Co., Rossland, 160 h.p.\nLe Rol Mining Co., Limited, Rossland, 600 h.p.\nLe Rol No. 2 Ltd., Rossland, 250 h. p.\nThe Jumbo Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Rossland; 100 h.p.\nMiscellaneous Rossland load 690 h.p..\nGranby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company's smelter at\nGrand Forks, 1760 h.p.\nMiscellaneous Grand Forks load, 400 h.p.\nGranby Consolidated Mining, Smelting ft Power Company's mines at\nPhoenix, D. C, 2850 h.p.\nDominion Copper Company's mines at Phoenix, 765 h.p.\nConsolidated Mining ft Smelting Co. ot Canada, mines at Phoenix, B. C.\n600 h.p.\nB. C. Copper. Company'. Emma mine B. C. Junction, 300 h.p.\nB. C. Copper Company's smelter, Greenwood; 2375 h. p.\nB. C. Copper Company's Mother Lode mine,. 1340 h.p.\nMiscellaneous small motors In Greenwood, 186 h. p.\nDominion Copper Company's smelter at Boundary Fall., 860 h. p. .\nPOWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. A L. CO. BONNINGTON FALLS\nThe West Kootenay\nPower and light Co.\nLimited\nW.M. DOTJLL, Esq., President, Montreal\nL. A. CAMPBELL, Esq., General Manager, Rossland, B. C.\nJ. D. McDONALD, Esq., General Superintendent Rossland, B. C.\nF. ELWELL, Esq., Superintendent of\nGenerating Station, Bonnington.\nW. ANDERSON, Esq., Chief Hydraulic\nEngineer, Rossland, B. C.\nE. E. GIBSON, Esq., Superintendent\nBoundary Business Grand Forks.\nTurbines built by I. P. Morris Company.\nElectrical Apparatus built by Canadian\nGeneral Electric Company and Canadian Westinghouse Company.\nINTERIOR MAIN FLOOR, POWER HOUSE NO. 2, W. K. P. A L. CO.\n SUNDAY JANUARY*\ntJChe gtatiB *lcroe\nV-o\nPAGE TWENTY-SEVEN\nSHEEP CREEK-WHOSE GOLD MINES ARE BECOMING f AMOUS\nNo other part of Nelson mining division has attracted so much attention during! the year last past as that known\nas Sheep creek camp, described In a report by a resident mining engineer,\nwhich was published a few months ago.\nExcerpts from that report, slightly altered to bring up to date the statements\nas to production, footage of develop\nment work done, mill Installations, etc.,\nare reprinted below, these give an excellent Idea of the camp and promising\nnature of numbers ot tho mineral claims\nIn It\nThere are three creeks and the neighboring mountains on which claims have\nbeen located. These are respectively:\nSheep creek; Wolf creek and Fawn\nW. K. P. AND L CO. ELECTRIC PLANT\nWhere the Waters of the Kootenay Are Harnessed. Thereby\nMaking Possibe the Production and Treatment\nof Low Grade Ores\nOne of the chief factors sustaining\nmining operations in the Kootenay and\nBoundary countries at the present time\nIs undoubtedly the West Kootenay\nPower and tight company. Were it\nnot for the power supplied by this company, but more particularly for the\nprice at which this Is done, many, If\nnot all, the low grade copper properties\nwould have difficulty in operating Just\nnow and also during the past year or\nso when the price of metal was much\nbelow the average.\nThis company, which Is the only one\nIn the country supplying power on. a\nlarge scale, has three plants, one at\nUpper Bonnington Falls, one at Lower\nronningtbn Falls and one at Cascade\n' city. The power from these can he\ntruthfully said to operate the mines and\nsmelters of Kootenay and the Boundary. The present generating capacity\nof the three plants is 23,000 horse power\nand arrangements have been made for\n. Increasing this by an additional 6,000\nhorse power. The company's lines are\nnow connected'with motors using 22,500\nhorse power and by Maroh 1 this will\nhave been Increased to 30,000 horse\npower.\nLike so many other great enterprises\nthe West Kootenay Power and Light\ncompany had a small beginning. The\nfirst plant was installed at Lower Bonnington Falls, about ten miles west of\nNelson on the Kootenay river, work on\nit being started In August, 1897. The\nand other work necessary ready for\ntwo more 8,000 horse power machines\nat Upper Bonnington. . Connected to\nthe company's lines by March 1 next\nwill be motors with a capacity exceeding 30,000 horse power, while the total\ncapacity of the motors now connected Is\n22,500 horse power. ' \u25a0\nThe company's No. 1 plant Is located\nat Lower Bonnington Falls and generates three phase, 66-cycle power at a\npressurue of 1000 volts, which Ib step*\nped lip by the use of transformers to a\nline voltage of 20,000 volts. No. 2 plant\nin located at Upper Bonnington Falls\nand. generates three phase, 66-\ncyclo power at a pressure to 2000 volts\nwhich Is stepped up by the use of trans-\n\u2022formers to a line voltage of 60,-\n000 volts. No. 3 plant, known\nas the Cascade, Is situated\nat Cascade City and generates three\nphase, 66-cycle power at a pressure of\n2,000 volts, which Is stepped up by the\nuse of transformers to a line voltage\nof 20,000 volts. The three plants are bo\narranged that power can be supplied\neither from the 20,000 volt systems or\nthe 60,000 volt system at Rossland,\nGrand Forks, Greenwood, or Trail smelter. The Trail smelter Is operated from\n20,000 volt lines either from the Upper\nor Lower Bonnington plants.\nOwing to the exceedingly low rates\ngiven by the company to large consumers of power the treating of low grade\nore In large quantities has been made\nPUMP CHAMBER, POWER HOUSE NO. 2 W. K. P. & L. CO.,\nBONNINGTON FALLS\nInstallation consisted of two units of\n1,000 horse power each, with transmls-\ni, slon lines to Rossland and Trail.. At\n.that time there was nothing to warrant\nthe putting In of a large plant, for the\ntotal capacity of the steam hollers In\n'use between NelBon and Greenwood\nthen did not reach 1800 horse power.\nThis plant was completed In August,\n1898,. the first customers supplied being\nthe War Eagle mine at Rossland, the\nTrail smelter and the city of Rossland\nfor lighting. By March, 1899, the business had so increased that a further\nunit of 2,000 horse power capacity was\nInstalled. No further construction was\nundertaken until March, 1905, when\nlarge contracts were made for power In\nthe Boundary country. Following this\nwork was'started on the Upper Bonnington Falls plant, located less than\na mile from the plant then existing,\nand a fall developed for 32,000 horse\npower and machinery installed for generating 16,000 horse power. This plant\nwas put into operation in December,\n1906, or a Jlttle over two years ago. The\ntransmission of power was immediately\ncommenced over lines that had been\nput up during the erection of the plant,\nto Rossland, Grand Forks, Phoenix,\nGreenwood, Boundary Falls, the Mother\nLode mine and the Emma and Oro Denoro mines at B. C. Junction.\nIn May, 1907, the West Kootenay\ni Power and Light company took over the\nCascade Power company's plant, giving\nIt i capacity in machinery Installed and\ntn operation of 23,000 horse power,\n'while in addition It haa all the hydraulic\npossible, even with metal prices away\nbelow what Is generally regarded as\nprofitable returns. In fact, during the\npast, year, If It had not been for cheap\npower supplied by the West Kootenay\ncompany, particularly In the Boundary\ncountry, it la questionable whether or\nnot the low grade copper properties of\nthe country would have been able to\noperate at a profit. If at all.\nThe company's prospects for the present year are exceedingly bright and the\nadditional orders which have already\nbeen placed, or are about to be placed,\nwill Increase the motor capacity of the\nplants by at least 5,000 horse power.\nThere Ib also no reason to doubt that\nthe company's power business will Increase at the rate of from 5,000 to 8,000\nhorse power per annum for many years\nto come, This Is based on the mines\nof Rossland camp and the Boundary\ncountry being well managed, as they\nnow are, and the days of \"wlldcatting\"\nnot being revived.\nThe total tonnage of ore now being\ntreated by means of power supplied by\nthe West Kootenay Power and Light\ncompany, month In and month out,\namounts to 6,800 tons per day and by\nApril 1 this amount will be increased\nto 8,500 tons per day, this being based\non the present price of metals being,\nat least, maintained. As a matter of fact, the country as a whole\nas a power user has only commenced its\ndemands and It Is hard to estimate the\npossibilities of electrical development\nIn Kootenay and the Boundary in the\nnext ten years.\ncreek the two last named being tributaries of Sheep creek. The best known\nproperties on the' south side of Sheep\ncreek are the Queen-Yellowstone group\nof 11 claims, the Kootenay Belle with\nfive claims, and the Ore Hill also with\nfive claims. On the north side of the\ncreek, the Mother Lode group of six\nclatlms and the Devlin group of five\nclaims and on Fawn creek the Nugget\nwith three claims, have all come into\nprominence. There were at least a\ndozen other, groups on these creeks located prior to last summer, and since\nthen others have been added to the\nnumber.\nOf all the properties In the camp the\nQueen takes precedence, by reason of\nits harvlng been worked longer and\nmore extensively, and from the more\ngenerally acceptable fact that it has\npitoduced to date gold to the value of\nabout $408,000 which, together with\n1100,000 from the Yellowstone, makes a\ntotal of $608,000 from these associated\nproperties. Going back several years,\nate altitude of the main creek, about\n3000 feet, Ib a distinguishing feature, In\ncontrast to the mountain ridges, which\nrise rapidly to elevations of 6000 feet,\nwhile some peaks attain to 7600 feet\nand even higher. The abundance of\ntimber for mining requirements and\nthe unusual water supply for cheap\npower for mining and milling of ores,\nmakes exceptionally favorable conditions. Simultaneous shipments the past\nwinter, a dozen or more carloads averaging more than $100 per ton, have es-\ntabllshed the general occurrence of\nhigh grade ore In many veins of the\nsection. This production coming from\ndifferent properties and from widely\nseparated veins with such uniformity\nand high grade of ore, Is making its\nown record for the camp which require\nno expert endorsement of its future.\n\"The Yellowstone gold camp, on\nSheep creek, a tributary of the Salmon\nriver, lies southeasterly, 10 mileB by\nwagon road from Salmo, a station on\nthe Spokane Falls & Northern branch\n\"The sulphides In the quartz ore consist of Iron pyrite, with occasionally a\nlittle galena and zinc blende present*,\nand very rarely, copper pyrite. The\nores are crushed in stamp mills and the\nvalues saved on tables as concentrates,\nafter extraction of the free gold on\namalgamation plates In the usual way.\n\"A singular occurrence which has\nmuch to do with the exceptional richness of the ore is the rare element\ntungsten associated with the gold In\nth veins. It occurs In the heavy\nblack mineral wolframite, which has a\nspecific gravity of 7.1, and the yellow\noxide alteration product tungstlte, specific gravity 5.6.\n\"The total value of production to\ndate from ore milled, according to records ot shipments made, Is $508,000.\nThe Queen, Kootenay Belle and Nugget\nare the only mines having equipment\nand there are as yet but three mills in\nthe camp, with a combined capacity ot\nonly about 100 tons a day The Queen\nproduction In 1907 was $104,000 operat-\nby short tunnels Instead of shafts, by\nreason of the steeper mountain slopes\nprevailing throughout tbe Yellowstone\nsection.\"\nKOOTENAY BELLE\nThe Kootenay Belle group, consisting\nof four full sized mineral claims and one\nfractional claim, is situated on the\nsouth side of Sheep creek, adjoining\nthe Yellowstone claim of the Queen*\nYellowstone group. There are four\nknown veins on this property, of which\ntwo are being developed, the workings\nbeing about 100 feet above the creek.\nThe work done Includes cross cutting\nto the vein, about 360 feet; drifting on\nveins, 450 feet; and shaft and winze\nsinking, 200 feet; In all about 1000 feet.\nIn the shaft on the small vein rich\nspecimens of free gold have been met\nwith, and ore from here shipped to the\nsmelter has realized from $150 to $200\nper ton. Tungsten is found In association with the ore, and It is stated to\nbe in the purest form yet found in Can-\n\u00bb \u25a0 \u25a0 : \u25a0 :A\n%\ni-A ;; y- \u25a0'' \u25a0\"'::-y . ',\niS^fM* ^\n\u25a0 i^tMBSIw.\n\u25a0 '^HBiiiilsMBI'ffBS\n\u00bb ' ':'' \u25a0' . .' \u25a0 tafJsB1 aS9V\u00a7\u00a3ifP Kll.fHn'l\n.-\u25a0M.B ' -.^BBBBBBBBBVisl\n\u25a0IP . VSZi.\", '\"-r.-S8\u00bb*7\"\nw**^.*:; A- \"'^w;^;-\n1 WAX.\n;.\",v.-,--.:\" \u25a0'..>\u2022*\u25a0\u25a0-r^V\nyHBH\n\u25a0f.xv\"'--\" -: \" ?,. >i ,\u25a0\u25a0 j\u00ab~. ;:r:x\\\nv-. .- n - .-. ry. \u2022y; iq \u25a0\u00bb\u25a0 ^V-.'W, \u2014: : ^ 1-\u2014Jl\u2014\u2014. : _\n?~f * 'v---^r|P^3Ei..-\nNELSON'S NEW COURT HOUSE\u2014BUILT OF KOOTENAY MARBLE\nIt may be mentioned that that throughout 1904 the Queen was worked under\nlease by William Waldle, of Nelson,\nwho also leased the neighboring Yellowstone 10-stamp mill. He employed 14\nto 20 men in development work and\nsome production, and that year shipped\nto the smelter something like eight cars\nof concentrates and two cars of crude\nore. The following year Mr. Waldle became sole owner of the mine, and he installed a power plant, did a lot of development work, and produced about\n6100 tons of ore. His shipments for\n1905 were about 400 tons of concentrates and 124 tons of crude ore, and\nthe total returns from bullion from the\nmill plates, concentrates and crude ore\nwere about $65,000. Later he acquired\nthe adjoining Yellowstone property\u2014\nboth mine and mill and these he operated with little Interruption until last\nMay,, when* he sold, out to Wisconsin\nmen for $175,000, after having made a\ntotal production to the end'of 1907 of\nabout $308,000. For the year just ended the production Is approximately\n$100,000, making the total of $408,000\nabove mentioned. Although twelve\nyears have elapsed since the Queen was\nlocated, the greater part of Its production has been made during quite recent\nyears-\nA summary of the total production of\nthe camp to date is stated to show an\naggregate of approximately $650,000, as\nfollows: Queen, $408,000; Yellowstone,\n$100,000; Kootenay Belle, $72,000; Mother Lode about $30,000 and Nugget nearly\n$40,000.\nSome particulars relative to the\nQueen-Yellowstone, Kootenay Belle,\nMother Lode and Nugget properties follows, but first the excerpts referred to\nabove wilt be given, so that a good idea\nof the camp and its potentialities may\nbe conveyed. The report runs, In\npart:\n\"Sheep creek Ib attracting much Interest in mining circles by reason of frequent remarkable result from large ship-\ncent remarkable results from large shipments coming from new development\nwork on properties at some distance\nfrom the first established mines. The\nmountain range is easily approached by\nthe narrow valleys of the tributary\nstreams of Salmon river. The moder-\nof the Great Northern railway, situated 25 miles south of Nelson, and 175\nnorth of Spokane, Wash. The vein system is regular, with fissure veins, at\nintervals of 50 to 160 feet, from 3 to\n50 feet in width, These traverse the massive white quartzite formation at an\nangle of 26 degrees. Numerous planes\nof fracture occur in the vicinity of the\nveins, all of which have a direction N.\n41 degrees E. and enclose parallel\nbands of talcose schist. These occur in\nthin layerB up to two feet In thickness,\nand this laminated structure facilitates\nthe breaking of the ores in mining the\nquartz In the veins. All the parallel\nfissures are true In direction and are\nreadily traceable because of the light\ncovering of soli and their exposure by\nIntersection In the numerous gulches on\nthe mountain sides. Alt the flssue veins\nare nearly vertical, dipping into the\nmountain slightly, generally Standing\nat.an angle of about 80 degrees to th*\nhorizon. They are free from the en\nclosing formation, and paystreaks 6 to\n30 Inohes tn width of sulphide or oxidized ore occur on one of the walls or\nboth. The slate-tike cleavage of the\nquartz adjacent to the paystreaks of\nthe veins makes separation of the two\neasy In mining. Where the ore Is oxidized, as Ib sometimes the case to a\ndepth of 135 feet or more, these paystreaks are almost picking .ground and\nare quite easily mined. At times gold\nis plainly visible, appearing mostly in\nsmall particles, distributed through the\ndecomposed ore, but as a rule the richness of the ore Is not evident except\nby panning or by assay. The ore in\nthe paystreaks is readily distinguishable\nconsisting of honeycombed decomposed\nquartz, colored yellow to black by oxidation of the sulphides. This ore Ib\nsacked as broken down In the mine before shipment to the smelter. The remainder of the vein Is milled by stamps\nand the values obtained as bar bullion\nand concentrates, the latter going to\nthe smelter.\n\"Mining on the north side of Sheep\ncreek is producing oxidized ores at a\ndepjth of more than 100 feet, while on\n\u25a0the south side of the creek the unaltered sulphides are hoisted from shafts\n300 feet below the creek bed\u2014a difference In altitude of more than 2600 feet.\nIng only 10 stamps, 8000 tons of ore\nhaving come from the 7 foot vein. Us\ntn the camp are unprovided for, being\nwithout machinery of any kind. They\npresent Inducements to outside capital,\ngood profits being shown to be obtainable by actual returns from ore.\n\"The unexplored section, 12 miles In\nextent, between the.Bayonne mine, purchased for $100,000 cash, and the Queen\nat Yellowstone, which sold recently for\n$175,000, presents an excelent opportunity for the prospector. At Salrao which\nIs the outfitting point and nearest trading place for this mining region, sufficient pack horses are available, as well\naa suitable equipment for freighting ore\nand supplies. Wagon freight on supplies costs $10 per ton into camp, and\non crude ore and concentrates $4 per\nton from the Yellowstone mine to the\nrailway at Salmo.\n\"Owing to the fluxing value In smelting, due to the excess Iron in the Queen\nconcentrates, smelter treatment Is practically free of cost. The prevailing rate\non the oxidized slllclous ores Is $9 per\nton railway freight and treatment.\nThis camp has paid from the grass\nroots; values show In all of the veins.\nIt has had little assistance from outside\ncapital. It Is Interesting to note that\nnearly all the properties are still In the\nhands of the original owners. In consequence the camp presents favorable\nopportunities for teasing arrangements\non proved ground without the tedious\ncomplications common to many of the\nolder camps.\n\"Such facts justify the immediate\nequipment of the established groups of\nclaims which show rich workable veins\nin the vicinity of Yellowstone. With\nthe advent of ore treatment by cyanide\n(the present losses In mill tailings being from $2 to $6 per ton, owjng to the\nrichness of the ore), an even higher extraction will cause the, Yellowstone\ncamp to become noted for its gold production. The quartztte range is destined to add many producing properties which wilt have the distinct advantage of far greater richness of ore per\nton mined than the Rossland and Boundary districts, with easier breaking of\nrock for economy in mining, and with\nthe added conditions, most favorable to\nthe opening of properties to great depth\nada. The occurrence here of tungsten\nso interested professor T. L. Walker, of\nToronto university that he visited tho\nproperty for the special purpose of examining the ore and obtaining particulars relative to this occurrence of\ntungsten.\nThe main ore shoot has shown increasing values with the depth gained,\nwhich, however, is only about 50 feet\nbelow the level of the adit. On the\nsurface the vein outcrops almost continuously for a distance of 1000 feet and\nit has also been found at points along\nq further distance.\nA two bucket aerial tramway has been\nconstructed about 1200 feet to a leased\nfour-stamp mill, having two concentrating tables and driven by a Pelton water\nwheel. The crushing capacity of this\nsmall plant Is something like 13 tons\nper day. The ore now being mined and\nsent to the mill is practically free milling, and it contains more oxides than\nsulphides. The property has been worked intermittently during four years, but.\nsince last June operations have been\ncontinuous. Production up to June 30\nwas of a total .value of $53,000; since\nthat-date, Including value of concentrate\nshipped to Northport, about $10,000 has\nbeen recovered.\nThe Kootenay Belle is under lease and\nbond to J. L. Warner and associates.\nOn It there is bunk and boarding house\naccommodation for 20 men. and at the\nmill Blmilar provision tor tho men working there. The Queen wagon road has\nbeen extended to tho mill, and transportation Is thereby facilitated.\nNUGGET GROUP\nThe Nugget group of three claims is\non Fawn creek, between which and\nSheep creek, to the southward, there Is\na divide, tho Nugget and other claims\nbeing on the north side of the mountain and the Mother Lode and several\nmore groups on the south side. The\nNugget property Is owned by the Nugget Gold Mines, Ltd., organized last\nsummer by Messrs. W. B. Poole and\nA. H. Gracey.\nOperations on the Nuggot were practically commenced on September 15,\n1907, by Mr. Poole and a partner, who\nheld tbe property In equal shares. In\nMarch, 1908, Mr. Gracey purchased the\ninterest of Mr. Poole's former partner.\nWithin four or five months the com*\npany was organized and Mr. Gracey\nmade a trip to Albernl, Vancouver island, to examine a four-stamp mill which\nhad been Installed at the Albernl Con-\nsolidated company's mine there when,\nsome years ago, there was attention\ngiven to quartz mining tn that locality.\nThe mill was purchased and removed\nto Sheep creek. Meanwhile development work had been poshed on the\nNugget, and three miles of wagon road\nhad been made under difficult conditions to connect with the existing wagon road to the Queen property. So energetically, was work prosecuted that\nin the comparatively short period of\nthree months the road had been made,\nthe mill hauled from the railway at Salmo to the mine, and the stamps were\ndropping on Nugget ore, of which there\nhad been a considerable quantity mined\nready for milling. In addition, six or\nseven railway carloads (some 4000\nsacks) of high grade ore taken out In\nthe course of development work had\nbeen sacked for shipment to the smelter when sufficient snow-should fall to\ngive good sleighing, this ore being too\nrich to put through the mill whilst It\nwas not equipped with tables to catch\nthe gold that would pass over the plates\nwith the tailings. As the year closed\nthis ore was being hauled down to the\nrailway for shipment to the smelter.\nThe work done In development- of\nthe Nugget to date was as follows:\nFirst a prospect tunnel was driven on\nthe vein. Then No. 2 tunnel, which Is\na cross cut, was driven 90 feet, at which\ndistance it reached the vein, cutting the\nore shoot 65 feet deeper than where It\nhad been opened In No. 1. In the course\nof drifting 84 feet along the vein from\nNo. 2, ore to the value of $23,000 was\ntaken out and sent to the smelter. Npi\n3 tunnel, also a cross cut, encountered\nthe vein at a distance of 144 feet from\nIts portal. On this level 270 feet of\ndrifting has been done, and the ore for\n150 feet averaged rather more than $80\nper ton for the full width of the drift,\nwhich was a little wider than four feet.\nFrom No. 3 to No. 2 a raise was put up\non the hanging wall, on which side the\nore was high grade, and In this an average assay return from 30 inches of ore\nwas at the rate ot $198 to the ton, some\nassays running up to $225. Reverting\n,(o No. 2 it may be mentioned that In\nDecember oro was being taken out from\nabove that level to a width of 14 feet\nand that with one miner and a half to\nthe shift, that is to say one miner working full shift and another only half\nshift, sufficient ore was being mined to\nkeep the four stamp mill running. Under present conditions there can be\nmined weekly for shipment to the smelter 60 tons of ore that will return net\n$100 per ton, beside about 450 tons per\nmonth of second class ore for the mill\nthe latter yielding $15 to $20 per ton\noff the plates.\nPrior to the erection of the mill on\nthe property there was shipped, as already stated, about $23,000 worth or\nore. Of this about, 200 tons averaged a\nlittle more than $100 per ton, while 111\ntons of milling ore .also shipped to the\nTrail smelter, averaged $23.50 per ton.\nMilling on the property was commenced\nlate in October last. By the end of\nNovember about $8500 had been recovered off the plates, and In December\nsomething like $7500, together $16,000.\nWith the mill when purchased, there\nwere boiler, engine, and 7 by 9 Blake\ncrusher. Since August 1 a two-bucket\naerial tramway, 1500 feet long has been,\nerected from the mouth of No. 3 tunnel to the mill. Lately two 6 feet. Fme\nvanners were purchased and those are\"\nbeing Installed, also 600 feet of 8-incb\nwire wound wood pipe and a Peltott\nwheel. The latter are being put In for\nuse next open season, for it is expected\nthat for five or six months of the year\nit will be practicable to operate the mill\nby water power. The mill plant will be\nenlarged as soon as suitable provision\ncan be made for millng a larger tonnage.\nMOTHER LODE\nThe Mother Lode group, which is also\nunder lease and bond to J. L. Warner\nand associates, is on the north side oj\nSheep creek and opposite the Kootenay\nBelle group. The Nugget group la on\nthe side of the mountain on which the\nMother LMe group is situated. The latter consist? of seven full sized claims\nand two fructions, all on the same system of veins, which strike about due\neast und west. There are known to be\nthree parallel veins and indications of\nthe occurrence of others beside. These\nthree veins have been well prospected\nand two continuous shoots of milling ore\nhave been found, one of which is stated' to be 400 feet in length and the\nother 482 feet. The mine workings are\nat an elevation of about 2800 feet above\nSheep creek.\nIn addition to numerous open cuts\nmade, three cross cut tunnels have\nbeen driven. Two of theBe were driven\nto cut what is known jis the Mother\nLode vein, and one tho Moen vein on\nthe Independence claim. Some 270\nfeet of drifting haB been done on these\nseveral veins. It Is confidently expet-\ned that work now In progress will open\nup on the Mother Lode vein a large\nbody of milling ore, for this vein where\nprospected Is from four to eight feet In\nwidth. In panning the ore which is free\nmilling and in which gold can be plainly seen, there !b always found a heavy\n\"drag\" of,gold, indicative of its good\nvalues.\nThe Moen vein is two to four feet In\nwidth where opened, with a rich pay-\n(Continued on page thirty-one.)\n PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT\nCite IhrUrj $e*u\u00bb.\nSUNDAY JANUARY I.\nConsolidated Mining and Smelting Co., Ltd.\nTRAIL, B. C\nCONSOLIDATED MINING AND SMELTING CO. SMELTER, TRAIL, B. C.\n'' '-',''f \u2022 *: I\n3\nIs\nK * -a\n\u2022 - . .i B -flP^\n1 aissssst '\u25a0\u25a0rfS^'f\n1\n1\n:-\u2022\u25a0\u2022 . - ' ' 1 ' ! '\n. : \u2022 . jar u-\n.\u25a0m\n'~V .\u25a0;'\u25a0\nk\n\\ \\ \\\n\u25a0 \u25a0'>,'\u25a0'' \u25a0 t\n.;\u2022.>>*. 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C\n tt\nSUNDAY JANUARY t\nQQte {potty fumtw\nPAGE TWENTY-NINE\nTHE TRAIL SMELTER-A GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE AND ITS HISTORY\nl the\ne valueless\nbe\nof\ni will\nNext to being possessed of large\n\u2022deposits there Is nothing on which \u201e,\n\u2022development and prosperity of a mining\ncountry depends so much aa on having\nadequate and economical means\ntreating ore. The deposits are\nif means of treating the ore cannot\nfound. Transportation facilities are,\ncourse, necessary but even these v\nnot assist In the development of mining\nunless they connect the mines with a\nsmelter. - The mere fact that smelting\nfacilities are to hand, however, will not\nof Itself, make mining a success. The\n.smelter must be equipped for handling\nthe class of ore produced In the district\nat the lowest possible cost and In a\nmanner which will give the maximum\nrecovery. Only under such conditions\ncan a mining country hope for Us due\nmeasure of prosperity. This Is particularly true of the Kootenay where large\nbodies of comparatively low grade ore\nare encountered. The character of this\nore la such that tt cannot with profit be\ntransported long distances for treatment. It Is necessary to treat It as\nclose as possible to the mines from\n-which It is obtained, and In a way that\nwill give the best possible results. Without a smelter bo situated and specially\nequipped for handling the class of ore\nproduced in the district, little would\nbe heard of mining In the Kootenay,\nThat It today occupies such an advanced position is due to the establishment\nof the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company's smelter at Trail and the\nprogressive policy that Its management\nhas since pursued, but particularly since\nthe present company took over the\nplant In 1906. Since the establishment\nof this smelter in 1894, the cost of\ntreating Rossland ore has been reduced\nfrom $13 per ton to $3 per ton. This\nliaa been accomplished by the introduction of labor saving devices of various\nsorts, the adoption ot new methods and\nthe enlarging of the plant to treat ore\ntn large quantities, the only way in\nwhich low grade ore can he successfully\nhandled. As the smelter at Trail stands\nIt Is one of the largest and must modern\nof Its kind on the continent and produces annually gold, silver, copper,\nlead, antimony and sulphate of copper,\nmore commonly known as Milestone, In\nquantities running into the millions of\ndollar's worth.\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting company Is capitalized at $5,500,000,\npractically all of the stock having been\nissued, and besides the smelter at Trail\nalso owns the War Eagle, Centre Star,\nIron Mask and Idaho mines at Rossland,\nthe St. Eugene mine at Moyle, the\nPhoenix Amalgamated mines at Phoenix\nand the Richmond-Eureka - group at\nSandon and controls for some years the\nlead output of the Bluebell mine at\nAlnsworth and the lead-zinc smelter at\nFrank, Alberta. It also has a lease on\nthe Snowshoe mine at Phoenix. The\nownership or control of these properties\nguarantees the company a sufficient\nquantity of the different classes ot ore\ntreated to keep the smelter in operation but In addition it also does a large\namount of custom smelting for other\nmines. The capacity of the smelter at\npresent is 2100 tons of copper ore and\n600 tons of lead ore per day. The\ntotal value of ore treated since the\nsmelter was established was, on June\n30 last, over $31,000,000 and for the\nyear ending that day the amount was\n$5,428,501, while the figures for the\nyear ending June 30 next will, it is expected, largely exceed this figure. The\nsmelter itself represents a cost of about\n$1,000,000, while the mines, mineral\nclaims, stock in other companies, products and ores on hand, stores, etc.,\nbrought the company's assets on June\n36 last up to $7,204,876.\nThe history of the smelter is closely\nconnected with that of Rossland, from\nwhich It Is distant about six miles. It\nwas erected In 1S94 by F. August Heinze\nand for the next two years the ore from\ntfca Le Rol, War Eagle, Centre Star\nand Idaho mines at Rossland, the first\ncoppsr-gold mines tn the Kootenay to\nattract attention, was conveyed to the\nsmelter by wagon down an exceedingly\nsteep and dangerous road. This was a\ncostly method ot transportation and\nwith the cost ot creating ore ran these\ncharge* up to as high as $27 per ton.\n1m 1898, however, Mr. Heinze completed\na narrow guage railway from the mines\nat Rossland to the smelter and It was\nannounced with a great flourish of\ntrumpets that ore could he sent to the\nsmelter and treated for $13 per ton.\nIn the sarly days the high cost of transportation was met by the fact that the\nsurface workings of the mines were\nvery rich, some pyrrhotlte ore running\nas nigh as $100 per ton, while much of\nIt assayed $40 to the ton. Ore ot this\nkind could be even packed to the smelter and still yield a good profit. Later,\nhowever, the values tell off and the ore\nfrom atones ranging In width from 10\nfeet to 100 feet would not average over\n910 to the ton, the range being from $40\nto $3 or $4 per ton; If the rich ore\nwhich was much less plentiful than the\nlower grades were picked It meant that\na large amount of ore was left which\nwaa practically uselss, so far as smelt-\nting was concerned at the charges for\nthis work, Including transportation,\neven with the railway, then prevailing.\nThe policy of picking this rich ore was\nfolowed by the Rossland mines under\ndifferent management and this fact explains the ups and downs of these\nmines at the time. For a while good\nvalues would' be secured and then a\nsearch would have to be made for more\nrich ore, while the levels already\nopened contained Immense quantities\n1 of ore of too low a grade to smelt at\nat profit tn those days.\nIn the meantime, however, improve*\nmeats were being made In the methods\nof mining through the Introduction of\nmachinery and new systems generally,\nwith the result that the cost of the\nproduction of ore was reduced from $20\nto $5 per ton. Among other things,\nheavy compressor plants were installed,\nImmense shafts were sunk to allow of\ntbe ore being handled In large quantities, powerful winding plants were assembled, electric railways were constructed throughout the mines, and electric lighting, was installed. As a result of these Improvements It became\npossible to load tbe ore onto the cars\nwith a one-man handling. The ore\nafter being broken down from the\nbreast of the vein was shifted down\nthe chutes to little tramcars In the\nlevels, to the pockets In the shafts, into\nthe Bkips, Into an aerial tramway and\ndown to the ore car on the railway\nsiding. By these methods the cost of\nloading ore onto the railway cars was\nreduced from $2 per ton to 60 cents\nper ton, a large saving in itself. Following this the rich ore was no longer\npicked and the lower grades left, but\nthe whole was taken out and shipped\nto the smelter. While this reduction\nIn the cost of mining was going on a\ncorresponding lessening of the smelter\ncharges was also In progress and the\nprice for this work fell by degress from\n$13 per ton to $4.50, where it remained\nstationary for some time but has since\nbeen reduced to $3 per ton.\nMr. Heinze in the meantime had\nfound other fields which, he thought,\noffered better scope for his energies\nand In 1897 sold his smelter and his\nrailway to W. H. Aldrldge backed by\nthe C. P. R\u201e following which the company was re-organized under the name\nof the Canadian Smelting Works. This\ncompany operated the smelter at Trail\nuntil the end of 1905 when the Consolidated Mining and Smelting company\nwas formed and took over the plant\nas well as various mining properties\nacquired from different interests. Then\nfollowed the inauguration of a new and\nmore progressive policy that ever\nbefore.\nOne of the first considerations was\nto make both the smelter and the railway pay and to do this it was necessary\nto arrange matters so that both might\nbe kept In constant operation. In the\nold days it not Infrequently happened\nthat while rich ore was being encountered the railway was kept busy night\nand day hauling it to the smelter, which\nwas then kept continuously in operation treating it. When the rich ore\ngave out and other veins of a similar\ncharacter had to be found, there would\ncome an interval when both railway\nand smelter would be practically idle.\nOne of the first objects of the new\nowners of the railway and the smelter\nwas to give a constant amount of traffic for the railway and thereby at the\nsame time provide the smelter the\namount of ore required for its continuous operation.\nIt had already been shown that the\nonly way in which low grade ore could\nbe successfully handled waa In large\nquantities, but before equipping a plant\nfor operation on a large scale it was\nnecessary to have a guarantee of a permanent supply of ore. This, It was realized, could not be secured If the smelter and the railway had to depend upon\nthe mining companies, who would operate their properties or not as they saw\nfit Accordingly the company decided\nto own its own mines. An attempt\nwas made to secure possession of the\nLe Roi, War Eagle and Centre Star\nproperties at Rossland, but the shareholders of the first named company at\na meeting in London rejected the proposition submitted to them and only\nthe last two were secured. One of the\nreasons that the company was so anxious to secure the Le Rol mine was that\nthe working of the Centre Star at the\ntime were such that only about 2000\ntons per week could be secured from it.\nThis was not sufficient for a single blast\nfurnace of the capacity then in use, let\nalone for a smelter. It was felt at the\ntime that the very least amount of copper ore that the company could hope\nto treat successfully was 1200 tons per\nday, but such has been the company's\nprogress that it Is now handling nearly\ntwice the amount of this class of ore\nper day.\nNot being able to secure possession\not the Le Rol property the company\nsucceeded in Increasing its ore supply\nby Improving the Centre Star, that Is\nby Increasing the size of the shafts,\nopening new levels and by the Installation of additional machinery for getting\nthe ore out. In addition, in 1906, the\ncompany bought out the Iron Mask\ngroup adjoining the War Eagle and\nCentre Star mines. Following this the\nworkings of the three mines'tw^re connected and all ore from them handled\nthrough the Centre Star shaft, the\nshafts of the Iron Mask and War Eagle\nbeing dismantled. This meant the expenditure of a large amount of money\nbut It also meant economy in operation. A Nordberg hoist was Installed\nat the Centre Star with a capacity ot\n1350 tons per ten hours from a depth\nof 3,000 feet. Electrically driven compressors were also Installed at the\nCentre Star shaft and also a complete\nsorting and sampling plant. The same\nyear a lease was obtained on the Snow-\nshoe mine In the Phoenix camp.\nThe following year the company purchased the Idaho group adjoining the\nCentre Star and also the Enterprise\ngroup which adjoined the Idaho. This\ngave the company 4,600 feet of ore on\nthe Centre Star vein. The workings of\nthese new properties were connected\nwith those of the Centre Star, War\nEagle and Iron Mask and all through\nthe one shaft. Several Improvements were Introduced including a new\nore conveyor, electric haulage on several levels under ground, additional\nwater and fire systems and a large\namount of equipment for the shops.\nDuring the same year also the company, on account of the showing of the\nSnowshoe and other mines in the neighborhood, purchased the properties of the\nPhoenix Amalgamated company near\nPhoenix and also the Four Ace and\nKeystone groups adjoining these.\nDuring tbe past year the company has\nspent considerable money on Its different properties, the work done including\nthe equipping of the Richmond Eureka\ngroup at Sandon, part of this being\nthe building of an aerial tramway, and\nthe erection of new buildings and the\ninstallation of equipment at the Phoenix\nAmalgamated mines.\nEarly in the history bf the Trail smelter a lead stack had been installed as\npart of Its equipment, but difficulties\nwere experienced owing to the fluctuations In the ore supply. No mine in\nthe district had been sufficiently developed to guarantee a continuous supply\nof lead ore for more than a few months.\nThere was, however, the St, Eugene\nmine at Moyle which was capable of\nsupplying a large amount ot this class\nof ore. The securing of thla mine\nbecame as necessary to the successful\ntreatment of lead ore as the Rossland\nand Phoenix properties had been In\nregard to copper smelting. A deal for\nthe St. Eugene accordingly was put\nthrough and this property, the Rossland\nmines and the smelter were consolidated Into one company the life of which\ndates from the beginning of 190b.\nSince then great Improvements have\nbeen made In the equipment of the St.\nEugene. In the year ending June 30,\n1907, large additions were made to the\nconcentrating plant, the fire protection\nsystem was improved, the shops were\nadded to and improvements made to\nthe power plant and boiler house and\nto the hoisting plant During the year\nJust closed a most complete ore sorting\nplant was Installed. One specially Important improvement last year was the\nintroduction of a picking belt which\nmakes possible the picking of the best\nore for shipment direct to the smelter\nInstead of putting It through the mill\nat Moyle, as Is still done with the lower\ngrades. An electric haulage system\nwas also installed between the mine\nand mill and also In the mine and the\nboiler house was equipped with superheaters, which means a great economy\nIn fuel In the production of steam. Improvements were also made In the concentrator and recovery machinery. Callow screens and Callow tanks were introduced thus effecting a large saving\nin values. As a result of these improvements the St. Eugene Is now equipped\nfor the handling of ore at a minimum of\ncost and with a maximum of returns.\nDuring the year exceptionally good ore\nhas been encountered on the lower\nlevels and tbe mine instead of decreasing in value by reason of tbe amount\nof ore being taken out is increasing.\nThe company in 1907 also branched\nout In another direction In connection\nwith the lead department of Its business, and, by advancing $125,000 as a\nloan to the Canadian Metal company,\nsecured the lend and zinc outputs from\nthe concentrator at the Blue Bell mine\nat Alnsworth and that company's zinc\nsmelter at Frank, Alberta. The object\nof this move was to ensure a sufficient\nsupply of lead for the smelter furnaces\nandi refinery at Trail to guarantee a\nlarge enough lead tonnage to enable the\nConsolidated company to retain Its\nstrong position in the Canadian, Chinese and Japanese lead markets.\nThe Richmond-Eureka group at Sandon, which was part of the old War\nEagle holdings, Is a silver-lead property\nand the object of the company in developing it is to further Increase the\nsupply of ore for the lead furnaces.\nThis group has developed ore of a considerable value and is now a regular\nshipper thus adding considerably to the\ncompany's profits.\nAltogether in the two years and a\nhalf previous to June last the company\nspent no less than $855,271 In improvements to its various properties including its mines and smelter exclusive of\ndiamond drilling and development work\nin the mines.\nSince Its organization the Consolidated company has also pursued a vigorous\npolicy of development in connection\nwith Its mines and in this way has\nspent close on a million and a half\ndollars, all of which was charged to\noperating expenses. Of this amount\n$802,186 was spent on the Centre Star\nand adjoining groups, now being operated In connection with that mine,\n$503,912 on the St. Eugene property,\n$30,817 on the Snowshoe and $3,802 on\nthe Richmond-Eureka group at Sandon.\nThe company has done 36,165 feet of\ndevelopment work atad about 25,000 feet\nof diamond drilling In tbe Centre Star\nand adjoining groups, 26,491 feet of development and 9,266 of diamond drilling\nat the St Eugene and In addition to\nthis a lot of development work and\ndrilling on the Richmond-Eureka, Snow-\nshoe and Pheenlx Amalgamated pro*\nperties. At the end of June last there j\nwas 19 miles ot tunneling In the mines \\\nat Rossland and 12 1-2 at the St. Eugene, with a 'smaller amount at the\nother properties.\n. The company's smelter at Trail Is a\nmarvel of completeness. Following out\nthe progressive policy that has always\ncharacterized the management of\nthe enterprise, each year has seen a\nmarked advance Jn the methods of,\ntreating the ore In order to obtain the\nvery best results. To acompllsh this\nextensions have been made to tbe plant\nfrom time to time, new systems have\nbeen Introduced and no expense Bpared\nthat would conduce to the .end desired.\nThe result Is that tho Consolidated\nMining and Smelting company now own\nthe largest and most complete plant of\nits kind on the continent. In It two\nclasses of ore are treated, silver-lead\nand gold-copper, and for this there are\nto all intents and purposes two separate\nplants.\nWhen the copper-gold ore is brought\nin it Is delivered on a trestle from\nwhich it is dumped into receiving bins\nfrom which It is fed automatically into\nthe crushers and samplers where a certain amount is reserved for assaying\npurpose. Three packages are made\nof this, one for assaying by the smelter\ncompany, one to be sent to the mine\nowner for the same purpose and the\nthird to be sealed up for submission to\na referee In case the mine and smelter\nassays do not agree. The company's\nlaboratory, in which its assaying is\ndone, Is tie most complete and modern\nIn connection with any smelter In America, Electricity Is used to the fullest\nextent possible in the work of assaying,\nbut the chemical operations carried on\nIn the laboratory are several times\ngreater in extent than are those in any\nother smelter assaying office In the\ncountry.\nThe coke and lime rock required for\nthe furnaces are brought in on tracks\non the same level aa those on which\nthe ore comes In. These pass from the\ncars Into feed bins extending down to\nthe furnace levels. The ore after being\ncrushed and sampled Is discharged into\nbins opening on the same levels as\nthose containing the lime rock and\ncoke. From these bins the ore, lime\nrock and coke Is drawn off as required\ninto the dump cars, which are hauled\nby electric motors in trains of bIx to\nthe furnace Bide, where the side is run\nup, and the contents of the cars dumped\ninto the furnace below by the attendants. Thus from the time the copper ore is hauled up on the trestle to\nbe dumped Into the crusher and Bampler\nbins until it reaches the furnace it Is\nnot touched by hand. The smelter, it\nmay be said, Is equipped with two gold-\ncopper ore samplers, one of a capacity\nof 175 tons per hour and the other of\n75 tons per hour. This latter, however,\nIs only an emergency mill and Is not\nordinarily used.\nThe company has at present four copper furnaces In operation and one in\nprocess of being enlarged. Of these\ntwo are 42x240 inches in size, with a\ncapacity of 350 tons each dally, one is\n42x263, with a capacity of 425 tons\ndally; another is 42x300 with a capacity\nof 450 tons dally, and tbe one rebuilding\nIs of the same size and of a similar\ncapacity. The large one now in operation was also Installed this year. These\nfurnaces are built of steel, with water\njackets 4 1-2 inches thick. The necessary blast Is supplied from an adjoining\nbuilding, the air being conducted\nthrough steel pipes which connect with\nseveral openings on either side of tho\nfurnaces. The capacity of the blower\nroom is being increased by the Installation of a No. 11 Roots' blower to take\nthe place of two small ones which have\nbeen discarded. The capacity of the\nnew blower Is 35,000 cubic feet of air\nper minute at a pressure of 4S ounces.\nOver the furnaces are large flues\nwhich catch the fine ore and coke\nforced .upwards by the furnace blast.\nThese flues lead to receiving bins,\nafter which this dust is made into\nbriquettes and put through the furnaces.\nIn the furnaces the ore is reduced\nto nine per cent, copper matte and Is\nthen put through the Huntlngdon-Heb-\nerlein roasters and the sulphur reduced\nto 9 per cent. The roasted material is\nthen taken to the semi-clrcluar converters where the sulphur is. further reduced and the product clntered and put\nthrough the blast furnace proper again\nwhen It is raised to 42 per cent, copper\nmatte and shipped to the Tacoma smelter for further treatment. This matte\nnt? shipped Is composed of copper, gold,\na little silver and traces of other\nmetals. So far bo attempt has been\nmade at the Trail smelter to complete\nthe treatment of copper matte, but It Is\nonly a question of time until the necessary plant will be Installed. It is necessary) however, before this is done that\nthere be enough copper matte produced\nby the smelter to justify the establish-\nm\u00abnt of the large plant that will be\nnecessary to secure the best results.\nGood progress is being mads In this\ndirection and further additions for the\ntreatment of copper may bs expected\nsoon to be in operation at Trail.\nBut while the Consolidated company\ndoes not complete the treatment of\ncopper ore as yet, the same cannot be\nsaid regarding lead for there Ib at Trail\na large refinery in .addition to tbe\nsmelter and also a plant for making\nlead pipe from the refined material.\nThis branch of the business has an interesting history attached to It. A few\nyears ago the American Smelting trust\ncontrolled the output of lead in the\nUnited States and was able to place the\nprice at a certain figure and there keep\nIt, for the government had obligingly\nplaced a heavy duty on this metal\nwhich made competition In that market\nImpossible. Not only this, but, following\nthe usual trust methodB the surplus\nproduction in the United' States was\n\"dumped\" on the markets of the world\nagainst Canadian lead. Even the Canadian home market was Invaded In this\nway, the slaughter prices of the trust\nbeing much lower than those for which\nlead could be produced In this country\nand also much below the price that was\nbeing charged In the United States by\nthe same people tor the same product.\nIf, therefore, the Canadian lead Industry\nwas to succeed It was necessary that it\nshould have government assistance,\neither In the way of a tariff high enough\nto ensure the home market to Canadian\nproducers, or by means or a. bounty, or\nby both.\nHowever, tt waa easily shown that\neven the Canadian lead market of that\nday was not sufficient field for the development of the Industry, There was\nthen only from 12,000 to 15,000 tons of\nlead being used in Canada annually, of\nwhich more than one-third was in the\nBhape of lead products which came in\nduty free from the United tSates. The\nextent of the Canadian market for lead\nbullion at that time, It Is safe to say,\ntherefore, did not exceed 8,000 tons per\nannum. Any plant large enough to be\noperated economically would produce\nmuch more than this amount and the\nresult was that Canada's surplus lead\nbullion had to be dumper on the London\nmarket at any price that could be obtained for it. The result was a drop in\nprices In the old country market, which\ncontrols the prices ot the world, which\naffected the Canadian market, just as\nIt did all others. The Canadian lead\nproducer thus could not count on a fair\nprice even in his own market. The\nbuilding up of the lead business at this\nstage looked hopeless and the future\nof silver lead-mining In the Kootenay\ndark, indeed.\nWith this situation staring them in\nthe face the smelter and mine people\ncombined and were able to Induce the\ngovernment to grant a bounty on lead.\nTt.j,s bounty Is based on the price of\nlead In the London market, the government paying the producer the difference\nbetween the price obtained and the\nfigure agreed upon. Of course, when\nthe price obtained Is equal or above\nthe figure used as a basis the government pays nothing. This arrangement\nwas made good for a term of years and\nlast year its life was extended another\nfive years. As a result of the evidence\npresented to tbe tariff commission by\nthe smelter and mining people a duty\nwas also placed on lead products coming into the country, thus further assisting in the development of tho industry. Following this the Trail smelter put in a refinery with a capacity of\nnine tons per day, which has since been\nincreased to close to 90 tons per day.\nPig lead from this refinery is now\nbeing sold all over Canada as welt as\nin China and Japan. The quality of\nlead turned out is especially good for\ncorroding purposes and three factories\nare now engaged in the making of\nwhite lead from the product of the\nTrail refinery. Up to the time this pig\nlead from the Trail refinery was available there waa no faotory engaged in\nthis work in Canada, all the white lead\nused in the country being obtained\nfrom England, while now very little Is\nbeing imported.\nThe silver lead ore from the St. Eugene and other mines is brought to the\nsmelter generally In box cars from\nwhich it is dumped direct Into the\ncrusher of the sampling mill and\ncrushed to 3-16 inch mesh and from the\nscreen is sampled by automatic sampler and then taken to the ore beds where\nproducts of the different mines are ;\nmixed In order to obtain the best re- j\nsuits.. In preparing the silver-lead ore\nfor treatment much greater care has to\nbe taken than with the copper. The\nore and lime rock have to be carefully weighed and used in tbe proper\nproportions. These are then put in the\nHuntingdon-Heberlein roasters and converters where the Bulphur.is reduced\nand the material clntered or agglomerated. This clntered mass is conveyed\nto the blast furnace feed bins and\nsmelter for the recovery of the lead,\ngold and silver In the Bhape of lead\nbullion. The blast furnaces now In\noperation are two In number, one 45 x\n140 inches in size, with a dally capacity\nof 140 tons, and the other 45 x 160\ninches tn sfee and with a capacity ot\n160 tons per day.\nThe lead as It eomeB from the blast\nfurnace Is caught and placed In molds\nand Is then conveyed to the refinery\nfor the recovery of the pure lead and\nother metals contained In tbe bullion.\nHere the bullion is re-melted and cast\ninto annodes, weighing about 350 lbs.,\nand measuring 26x86 Inches and being a\nlittle over an inch In thickness. These\nare fitted with lugs on which the\nwhole hangs suspended when placed In\nthe electrolytic refining vats in which\nthe Impurities are removed from the\nlead. Tbe system ased Is known as the\nBette electrolytic. The annodes are\nplaced In tanks at regular intervals and\nbetween each two Is suspended a cathode, or thin sheet of pure lead, one\nend of which haa been wrapped\naround a bar of copper. The edgea ot\nthese tanks are of copper, so that the\nhydro-fluorstllc acid with which the\ntanks arc filled establishes a current.\nThere are in the refinery 240 electrolytic vats each with a capacity of four\ntons of bullion. These are arranged in\nsections so that there Ib circulation of\nthe hydro-fluorslllo acid which dissolves\nthe pure lead from the annodes and\nconveyB it to the cathodes, which gradually Increase In thlcknesB until tbe\nlatter are about the same size as the\noriginal annodes. The annodes, how*\never, do not lose their size. At the\nend ot eight days, when the process\nhas been completed, they are lifted out\nby an electric crane. It is then found\nthat the annodes consist of a sheet of\nhard metal, the remainder being a\nblack slime containing all the gold,\nsilver and antimony. This slime Ib carefully removed for the recovery of Its\ncontents. The cathodes, which are then\npure lead, are also lifted out and are\nthen melted and moulded when the lead\nIs ready tor the market Two sizes of\npigs are made, one for the Canadian\nand Japanese trade and the other for\nthe Chinese trade. The latter are much\nlarger than the other, the Chinese insisting on getting the particular size\nand shape that they have always been\naccustomed to buying. One reason for\nthe shape is that one side of these pigs\nIs rounded and thus do not hurt the\nshoulders of the coolies who carry\nthem as would the other shapes.\nAfter the slime has been thoroughly\nwashed and freed from antimony, when\nnecessaTy, it is roasted and Bmelted in\na reverbatory type of furnace. The Impurities are all slagged off in this furnace operation, leaving Dore metal, consisting of gold and silver. The gold\nan silver are then separated by means\nof sulphuric acid. The gold thus secured\nIs melted and cast into bars weighing\nabout 600 ounces.\nThe silver solution is transferred to\nvats and the silver recovered by means\nof pure copper. The cement or pure\nsilver Is finally gathered and melted In\na reverbatory furnace and molded In\nbars weighing about 1000 ounces. The\ngold and silver produced In this way\nare what Is known as 999 fine and the\nlead 99.98.\nThe gold from the refinery Is at\npresent being shipped to the United\nStates assay office at Seattle, but it is\nprobable that, now that the Canadian\nmint is in operation, the output of this\nmetal from Trail will in future be sent\nto Ottawa there to be made Into Canadian money. The silver is disposed of\nin the usual markets and the lead Is\nsold all over Canada, the surplus being\nsent to the Orient.\nCopper sulphate, commonly known as\nbluestone, Is recovered as a by-product\nin the refining of the lead, gold and\nsilver and Is sold throughout the prairie\ncountry to the farmers, who use it for\nbluestoning their wheat before seeding\nIn order to prevent smut. An especially\nh*gh grade of bluestone Is made at\nTrail and the market for it Is increasing\nevery year.\nThe company, however, does not stop\nwith the supplying of the purest pig\nlead that can be obtained but makes a\nportion of Its output into lead pipe. All\nsizes are manufactured from 1-4-inch to\n4 Inch and any length desired. This\nlead pipe finds a market In all parts of\nCanada, the plant being sufficiently\nlarge to supply all demands upon It.\nAdjoining the lead refinery is a\npower house, equipped with a 600 horse\npower generator for reducing the electric current to the proper voltage and\nampereage for the electrolytic process,\nand which is also used for supplying\nthe heating required In connection\nwith this work. In another building\nthere Ib a plant for the manufacture of\nthe fluorslllc acid which is used in such\nlarge quantities In the refinery. This\nacid Is made from fluor-spar, brought\nfrom Tennessee and Kentucky, silica\nand sulphuric acid. From there It is\nconveyed by gravity to the vats as required. There Is a boiler plant for\nheating the building nnd warming solutions situated close to the refinery.\nThe Consolidated Mining and Smelting company and its predecessor, the\nCanadian Smelting Works, under W. H.\nAldridge, has throughout pursued a\nprogressive and enterprising policy and\nlast year saw no change. During the\nyear many improvements were made at\nthe smelter and others have boen arranged. One of the copper furnaces\nwas replaced by one 25 per cent. larger, i\nwhile the same Is now being done with j\nanother, the capacity of each being increased 100 tons a day as a result.\nThese new furnaces are 42 x 300 inches\nin Blze with a capacity of 450 tons per\nday. The second furnace will he ready\nwithin a short time. A new lead furnace 45 x 216 inches in size nnd with n\ncapacity of 250 tons per day is alao\nbeing installed. In order to supply the\nextra lead furnace capacity two additional Huntingdon-Heberlein roasters\nand several convertors were added during the past year and two more of tho\nformer and five of the latter, with a\ncapacity of 325 tons per day, are to be\nadded in the near future. At present\nthere are in operation six Huntingdon-\nHeberlein lead roasters and fifteen\nconvertors and two O'Hnra copper\nmatte roasters, with a capacity of 75\ntons each, and nine convertors, with a\ncapacity of 12 tons each.\nDue to the enlargement of the furnace\ncapacity additional blower power was\nnecessary and to supply this two small\nblowers, which had a pressure of 32\nounces to the inch, are being replaced\nwith a No. 11 Root blower which will\nhave a capacity of 35,000 cubic feet of\nair per minute with a pressure of 48\nounces. This will give six large blowers.\nAnother of the big Improvements of\nthe year has been the erection of a new\nsteel furnace building 70 feet by 260\nfeet in size. Additional stacks for the\ncatching of ore duBt from the blast furnaces and two new storage bins, one\nfor copper ore and the other for lime\nrock, with a capacity of 2,000 tons, have\nbeen constructed. To attempt to enumerate all la minor Improvements of\nthe year would be almost impossible,\nfor the company has its own carpenter,\nmachine and blacksmith shops in\nwhich it keeps men employed all the\nyear round adding to and Improving the\nplant as necessity arises. In this way\neverything Is kept in the best possible*]\nshape and It Ib safe to Bay that there\nis not in the country an enterprise\nwhere more attention is paid to keeping\nthe plant in first-class condition than\nat the Trail smelter.\nOne of the things upon which the\nsuccess of tbe smelter largely depends\nbut which Is not now controlled by tbe\nConsolidated, is the supply of electric\ncurrent, without which the works could\nnot be operated. The necessary power\nfor the Trail smelter and refinery as\nwell as for the company's mines at\nRossland and In the Boundary Is supplied from the West Kootenay Power\nand Light company's plant at Bonnington Falls, about 10 miles from Nelson.\nThe company delivers the power at\n1Jn.il for the smelter at a voltage of\n20,000, which Is reduced In the Consolidated company's sub-station to 660 volts.\nAt the mines power Is delivered in the\nsame way to substations.\nOUTLOOK LUMBERING OPERATI0N8\n(Continued from rage Twenty-two)\nfive and one-half million feet and it Is\nestimated that this will be Increased In\n1909 to eight millions. The timber consists principally of spruce, larch and\nfir. The number of men employed In\nthe mill is forty, while fifty are employed In logging operations. The manager\nreports the outlook for 1909 as \"Improving.\nROBINSON-McKENZIE LUMBER CO.\nJ. W. Robertson Is presldnet and Win.\nMcKenzie, vice-president. The capital\nin mills Is $20,000, and tbe timber limits\nheld by tbe company represent a capital of $75,000, they having a total of\n3100 acres. The timber Is principally\npine, larch and fir, and all grades of\nlumber are manufactured. The capacity of the mill Is forty thousand feet\nper day of ten hours.\nEighty men are employed and company reports: \"Indications at present\nnot very encouraging, though there Is\na Blight Improvement on 1908.\"\nFERNIE LUMBER CO., LIMITED\nAs the name Implies, this company\nIs located at Fernie, with A. McDougall\nas president and general manager. The\ncapital Invested amounts to $60,000, of\nwhich the mil! is responsible for\n$50,000, the balance covering timber\nlimits of 12,000 acres held by the company. The entire plant of the company\nwas destroyed by the fire of August\n1st, 1908, the cut of timber up to that\ndate approximating two million feet\nWith the new mill built to replace tbe\none burned, it is estimated the cut In\n1909 will reach ten million feet. The\ntimber Is principally fir, larch and cedar.\nThe mill and yards require a staff of\nsixty men to operate, and ninety men\nare employed in logging operations.\nThe capacity of tbe mill is 60,000 feet\nper day of ten hours. The manager\nreports: \"The outlook for 1909 looks\ngood to us.\"\nSPARWOOD LUMBER CO., LTD,\nThis company In the opening of tha\nseason of 1908 met with serious misfortune in the burning of their mill two\ndays after they started sawing. Immediate steps were taken to rebuild, and\nnow a much larger and better mill has\nreplaced the original one, and It Is anticipated a good season's run will result\nin 1909. The mill and headquarters of\nthe company are at Sparwood, on the\nC. N. railway. The authorized capital\nis $35,000, of which $15,000 is fully paid\nup, and there is also a surplus of\n$10,000. E. R. J. Forster is president\nand manager. The amount Invested in\nthe enterprise Is $10,000, the mill representing $7,000, and the timber limits\n$3,000. The acreage of limits owned\nby the company is 1,920 and In addition\nthey also cut timber off other HmltB.\nThe capacity of the mill Ib thirty\nthousand feet in ten hours. Owing to\nthe burning of the mill there was no\ncut dnrinc 1908, but it Is estimated that\nIn 1909 the cut will reach five million\nfeet. The timber manufactured is fir,\nlarch, spruce and jack pine. Twenty-\nrive men are employed In the mill, and\nthirty are employed in logging operations. The manager reports as to the\noutlook for 1909: \"We have sold four\nmillion feet, but prices are low. However, wages are low, too, and we expect to manufacture cheaper lumber\nthan ever before, as added to the reduction in cost of labor, we will have\na much faster and better mill than we\nhad before the fire. We expect the\nlumber trade and prices to pick up next\nfall as crops on tho prairie are good.\nNo marked Improvement Is looked for\nuntil that time, and not even then unless there Is a good crop.\"\nTHE BAKER LUMBER CO., LTD.\nThis company Is composed of Cranbrook capitalists and business men,\nwith mills and head office located at\nWaldo, on the line of the C. N. railway,\na few miles east of Cranbrook. The\ncompany has a capitalization of $300,000\nand has invested in mills $90,000, and\nin timber limits $250,000. Tbe mill has\na capacity of seventy-five thousand feet\nper day of ten hours, nnd employs from\nsixty to sixty-five men. The acreage of\ntimber limits held by the company Is\nabout 30,000, and the number of men\nemployed in logging operations varies\nwith the cut, at the present time only\nabout fifty men being engaged In this\nwork. The approximate cut for 1908\nwas five million feet, and it is estimated this will be doubled In 1909. The\ntimber is pine, larch and fir. The officers of the company are: V. Hyde\nBaker, president; Simon Taylor, vice-\npresident; C. D. McNab, manager, and\nW. Robertson, secretary.\n1 As to the outlook for 1909, the company reports: \"It cannet be considered\nencouraging; the close of the year will\nfind the manufacturers with about as\nmuch stock on hand as was shipped\nduring the entire year ending December\n81, 1907, and, with the demand weaker.\nIf anything, than at that date. Those\nqualified to express an opinion expect\na rally during the spring of 1909, but It\nIs not. anticipated this will be tasting,\nand the general view of tbe manufacturers is that until their interests are\nadequately protected the lumber business will pass from Its present condition of a mere struggle for existence to\na moribund inaction, neither Inviting to-\ncapital nor beneficial to tbe province.\"\n PAGE THIRTY\ntfh* \u00a9HUB ileitnn,\n\u2022UNDAV JANUARY \u00bb\nNELSON'S BANNER PROPERTIES NOW BEING DEVELOPED\nDuring the early part of the year\nmining operations in the neighborhood\nof Nelson were not extensive owing to\nunfavorable conditions, partly the result of low prices of some metals, and\npartly tor other reasons which need\nnot here be gone Into. However, as\nthe year advanced there was a decided\nimprovement, until now, at the close,\nthere is .much to cause satisfaction with\nthe substantially better position generally. It is true there is room for further Improvement but since there are\nIndications that this will In some meas-\nsure, if not to full extent, be made during the ensuing year, there is on the\nwhole good reason to regard the situation as gratifying for the present and\nencouraging for the future.\nSILVH3R KING MINE.\nProminent among the advances made\nis the resumption of work at the Silver\nKing mine on Toad mountain, so long\nworked by the Hall Mining and Smelting company andVits predecessors. During part of the year 1907 this mine was\noperated by the company, following the\nexpiry In 1906 of the lease of the property that had been held by M. S.\nDavys. Prior to the suspension of the\ncompany, late in 1907, the 'production\nduring the year had amounted to nearly 2300 tons of ore containing some\n28,000 oz. of silver and 160,000 pounds\nof copper. In April last Information\nwas cabled from England to the effect\nthat Mr. Davys had completed arrange-\nmeats to lease the mine for a comparatively long period, and that he had organized a development company to\nwork it again, as soon as It should\nhave been placed in a condition that\nwould permit of operations being carried on with a fair prospect of profit\nresulting. I\nThe new company, organized and registered in London, was named the\niKootenay Development Syndicate, Limited. M. S. Davys Is managing director\nand the local directorate consists of\nR. S. Lennie, h. Pratt, and W. J. Wilson, all well known business men residing In Nelson. H. B. Rudd is secretary.\nIn May some ore mined lost fall was\nsent down the aerial tramway from\nthe mine to the company's smelter at\nNelson for shipment thence to Trail. In\nAugust the work of overhauling and\nrepairing tbe tramway was undertaken,\nand extensive repairs were effected.\nThis tramway, it may be mentioned,\nwas the first aerial ropeway erected in\nKootenay. and it has done much, service during the years it bos been in\nuse. Its carrying capacity is about 100\ntons per day.\nOn September 1st mining was resumed, this work being in the upper parts\nof the mine, the lower levels being full\nof water The total quantity of ore\nshipped during this year is between 800\nand 900 tons, of an average value of 22\nozs. silver to the ton and four per cent\ncopper. Many surface improvements\nhave been made at the mine at a total\ncost, together with the repairs of the\ntramway, of about $15,000. These include tbe erection of a bunkhouse to\naccommodate 50 men, to replace that\ndestroyed by fire some time since; tbe\nconstruction of an electric power trans-\nmission line 3-phase for 20.009 volU to\nbe stepped down to 550 volts in the\ntransformer station at the mine; the\ninstallation of several induction rnolors \\\nincluding one of 100 h.p. for driving the\nthe hoist, and one of 50 h.p, for the\nbotst, and one of 50 h.p. for running the\nelectric pump. By tbe time this shall\nappear in print It la likely the unwater-\nlng ot the mine will have commenced,\nwith a 500 gallon bailer, operated by\nthe hoist. After the mine shall have\nbeen unwatered down to the 10th level\nby the bailer, the electric pump wilt be\nused to keep it free from water. It Is\nestimated that it will take five or six\nweeks' balling to get tbe water out, and\nthereafter a system of development will\nbe entered upon simultaneously with\nthe extraction of ore, the plan of work\nincluding both sloping and drifting. It\nIs expected that about 50 men will be\nemployed at the mine during the winter, under the direction of the superintendent. W. J. Turner, who is an old-\ntimer in the Nelson district In which\nhe is well and favorably krown.\nincidentally it may be mentioned that\none of the chief difficulties in the way\nof working the Silver Klug mine at a\nprofit In the past was the very high cost\nof steam power used there. By substituting electric power which will be obtained from the West Kootenay Power\n& Light company, the cost of power\nwill be much reduced and the profit-\nearning capacity of the mine he considerably Increased.\nQUEEN VICTORIA MINE\nThis mine was one of those so affected by the fall in the price ot copper in\n