"20f50b6b-c8d8-4e7d-8598-b09d33ac9a5e"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-11-25"@en . "1904-03-11"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/thenugget/items/1.0082669/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE NUGGET.\nVOL. I. NO. 15.\nPoplar, B. C, March 11,1904.\n$2.00 A Year.\nA SUCCESSFUL MEETING.\nPresident John Keen of the P.\nM. A. Interviewed.\nOn Monday last President John Keen\nof the Provincial Mining Association\nreturned from the coast, where he had\nbeen attending the annual meeting.\nInterviewed by The Nugget, he said:\nYes, sir; I am back from the second\nannual convention of the Provincial\nMining Association of B.C., and am\nglad to be back in Poplar.\nThe convention was a great success\nfrom a business point of view, as our\nbalance sheet showed, and the elected\nexecutive is as good as could be got together in any man's country for business acumen, tact, diplomacy and\nenergy.\nThe new secretary, Mr. E. Jacobs,\nis well and favorably known to all\nmining men, and I am sure he has\ntheir confidence.\nThe committee which was sent to\ninterview the government of the day,\ncame back satisfied that the ministers\nwere now willing to receive our assistance, and had signified their desire to\naid us in the betterment of the conditions under which the mining industry\nwas laboring at the present moment\nadversely.\nBut they intimated that we must sug4J\ngest good alternatives for what we\nclaimed were bad features in tin\npresent laws, .and to this, of course, we\nhad no demur to make, and shall at\nonce proceed to do it.\nThe whole of the work of the executive was most carefully reviewed by\nthe convention, as is most proper, and\nwith one or two exceptions they were\nadopted by the delegates, as pa.-sed by\nus during the year, or as amended by\nthe convention, as you may have seen\nby the very interesting and full reports\npublished by our official organs, the\npress ot* British Columbia, for as such\nwe claim the entire press. We have\nno other official organ, and need no\nbetter.\nWe have noticed that wild-, at* are\nabroad again, and it will be the duly of\nthe convention next year to take this\nmatter up, and try to get the government of the day to undertake it feu\nsuggestions which w ill be laid before\nthe convention for debate and adoption.\nThese suggestions will deal with\npaper companies, whose whole stock\nin trade consists of stock books and receipt forms, but whose assets are nil.\nWe fully recognize that this will not\ntend to popularize us with certain\nclasses, but inasmuch as we are not\nseeking the support of this class of persons, their withheld support, will not\nvery material!) injure us.\nTo permanently improve the mining\nindustry and protect the honest promoter, the honest shareholder, and the\nhonest prospector, will be the next\ntask to which we shall address ourselves, so soon as we have accomplished the work already commenced,\nand 1 feel that no honest person could\nor would object to this course of action. I\nOn the contrary, I feel that we will\nhave the great majority of persons with\nus, so as to give a guarantee for the\nhonest treatment of shareholders in this\nprovince.\nSome people lave thought that when\nihe two per cent, tax is replaced by a\nmore equitable and more palatable one,\nthe question of the crown-granting of\nplacer claims effected, or dealt with,\nthen our woik has been accomplished;\nbut they are wrong, for we are here to\nstay, and do a great deal of work yet\nunmentioned in the interest of the\ngreatest industry of the province.\nAll the officers, except the secretary,\nact in an honorary capacity, and they\nall pay their own expenses, and when\nyou remember that the journeys are\ncostly, and the time involved is great,\nand the men all busy men, it is no sinecure to be a member of the executive\nof this association.\nThe people of Victoria were at their\nbest as entertainers, when we had time\nto accept, but the best of all was a trip\nto the Tyee, the Richard the Third, and\nthe Leonora copper mines at Mount\nSicker, to which mines we were taken\nin special cars by the courtesy of Mr.\nJames Dunsmuir of Victoria, for which\nhe was the recipient of a very hearty\nvote of thanks on the evening of the\niou ney.\nAll our members were unstinted in\ntheir praises of the mines, the ore they\nsaw, and the way the mines were\nworked and managed. The visitors\nalso went to the Crofton smelter, owned\nby Messrs. Breen & Bellinger, which\nwas a great treat to those who went to\nsee it. Copper, with gold and silver\nvalues, was seen to flow from the converter into moulds ready for the refineries, and all came to the conclusion\nthat these events on quartz mining\nwere an education to the placer miner,\nsuch as we hope in Hie near future to\ngive the quartz miners in regard to the\ngreat hydraulic placer mines of this\nmineral piovince.\nThe convention closed, as it began,\nwith perfect harmony, and while fads\nhave no lavor with the delegates, they\nare always ready and willing to listen\nto wrongs and aid to right them in the\ncommon interest.\nEach and every convention is better\nthan the last, and 1 venture to predict\nthat the next will eclipse them all\u00E2\u0080\u0094to\nrecieve a report on all the work we have\non hand. Good night.\nLOCAL AND MINING.\nO. Strathearn, Kaslo, sells stationery, wall paper, magazines, phonograph supplies, etc.\nRussians are the most hospitable of\npeople.\nIn Japan there are over 30,000 miles\nof railways.\nRussia is traversed by the largest\nrivers in Europe.\nA chauffeur is a man who runs down\npedestrians and runs up repair bills.\nIt is an awful handicap for a girl to\nhave a younger sister who is a real\nbeauty.\nWatch repairing, O. Strathern, Kaslo\nThe Hotel Inn for a first-class meal.\nW. R. MacLean of Nelson is a visitor in the city.\nE. Baillie is building an addition to\nhis residence.\nJ. W. Pool, brother of W. B Pool,\nvisited the camp this week.\nOn the Lucky Jack a crosscut is\nbeing run from the tunnel to the main\nlead\nE. M. Morgan and D. E. WTilson\nwent up to Ferguson Monday, returning Wednesday.\nE. B. Allen of Eholt came in Wednesday and wishes to invest in the\nhotel business here.\nMrs. Simpson of Howser lake, was\nvisiting her son, the Poplar mining recorder, the past week.\nThe tunnel on the Swede group has\nbeen run 100 feet, and will tap the main\nlead in another 150 feet.\nC. W. Harlman and Turk D. Brown\nleft yesterday for a week's hunting and\ntrapping up Meadow creek.\nW. B. Pool passed through town\nMonday on his way to Ferguson and\nreturned to Nelson Wednesday.\nJ. Wv Cockle, one of the proprietors\nof the Kaslo hotel, Kaslo, came in\nMonday on a business trip, and left\nWednesday,\nYesterday Jack Chapman started\nwork on the store building at Bosworth\n(Second Crossing), for Hawthorn Bros,\nlate of Ymir.\nThe plastering of the Dominion\nhotel was commenced this week by\nGeorge Drennan, and will be finished\nin a couple of weeks.\nJohn Hendrix and C. Buxton came\ndown from Ferguson the past week\nand have commenced work on the Gold\nLeaf and Gold Hill claims on Rapid\ncreek.\nA morning bracer is a good thing\nfor those who require bracing. When\nyou want bracing, brace up to the bar\nat the Hotel Inn and get a bracer that\nwill biace.\nThe tunnel on the Home Run is in\n60 feet, and Hearing the ledge for which\nthe tunnel is being run. A number of\nstringers have been cut through in the\nlast 20 feet.\nA meeting was held in the mining\nrecorder's office on Tuesday morning\nat which Thos. Armstrong, E. L.\nMasterson and A. McQueen were\nelected fire wardens.\nSpring commenced her annual call\non Saturday last and the snow has been\ngoing very fast since then. Another\nweek of the weather we are having and\nthe ground will be bare.\nJ. J. Cameron returned Wednesday\nfrom a business trip to Nelson. While\nthere he met Post office Inspector D*-\"*-\nman, and next month a money order\noffice will be established here.\nA transfer was made this week of all\ninterest in the Florence mineral claim\nby John Duhamel to Arthur Powys of\nSlinfold Horsham, Sussex, England,\nthe purchase price being $359. The\nFlorence is on Cascade creek.\nThere is an egg famine in Poplar at\nthe present time. The local hens are\nworking over time but are unable to\nspuply the demand.\nThe time table of the Kaslo and Slocan railway has been changed. Trains\nleave Sandon at 8:30 a. m., arriving at\nKaslo 10:45 a. m.; Leave Kaslo 2:00\np. m., arriving at Sandon 4:25 p. m.\nThe steamer Kaslo leaves Kaslo at 1 -.30\np. m., arriving at Nelson 4:30 p. m.;\nleaves Nelson at 8:00 a m., arriving at\nKaslo 11:00 a. m.\nThere should be a good practice for\na resident provincial land surveyor in\nthe Poplar district. A large number\nof mineral and timber claims will, in\nall probability, be surveyed this year.\nThen there is the Trout Lake, Ferguson and the Duncan river country,\nwhich will require the services of a surveyor occasionally.\nIf you know of any news that would\nbe of interest to the public, tell the\nreporter of it. It is of interest to know\nwhat claims are being worked, what\nhusband is in the habit of \"licking\" his\nwife, and whether his wife deserves\nit, what attraction there is at the Two\nCrossing for young men and old\nbachelors, whose dog got killed, who\nis building and who is going to build,\nwho purchased lots and what for, why\n\"Bill Bailey Don't Come Home,\" and\nother equally important news items\ndo not appear in the paper. Tell us\nwhat you know and what you' don't\nknow and we'll let the others know it.\nW. Hall of Brandon and W. Hollo-\nway of Australia have signed articles\nto rnn a 50-yard race on the 12th\ninsl. for $25 a side. Both are old\nsprinters. Hall defeated a brindle\nbull in a closely contested race from\nthe red pump to the second concession,\nand cleared a seven-rail stake-and-rider\nfence at the finish. Holloway paced a\nshe bear from Circle City to Five-Mile,\nand was on the roof of a cabin before\nthe bear reached the wire. He also\nran a 40-foot tunnel and struck the\nlead on the Nettie L, which saved the\nUpper Lardeau from the waste dump,\nand started Billy Pool on the road to\nfortune. Joe Bush will act as stacter\nand Chaf. Hanson referee.\nMaking More Laws.\nThe Hon. Clifford Sifton is drafting\nregulations for the disposition of coal\non the Indian reserves in the Northwest territories. The regulations provide that persons acquiring mining\nrights on Dominion lands or Indian reserves shall be required to sell coal direct to the customers at not more\nthan $1.75 a ton.\nChronic complaining makes tough\nluck all the tougher.\nJapanese spies have been working\namong the Chinese laborers in the\ngreat fortress at Port Arthur. Poplar, B. C, March ii, 1904-\nTHE NUGGET.\nTHE NUGGET\nIs published every Friday at Poplar. B. C.\nand is sent to any address for $2.00 a year.\nCommercial adve;tishiR &M*;5i an inohfor\nfour insertions. Reading notices 15 cents a\nline each insertion. Legal advertising 10\ncents a line first insertion, and 5 cents a line\neach subsequent insertion. Certificate of\nImprovement notices, $7; Delinquent co-\nowner notices, $10. Address all letters to Thk\nNfookt. Poplar, B. C.\nR. T. LOWERY, ProihiktoR.\nFRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1904.\nEDITORIAL NUGGETS.\nThe papers everywhere are mak\ning jokes on the war. Many ot the\njokes are japanned\nEmma Bolton, an actress in Pennsylvania had her nose bitten off by\na dog. This as an ad. beats losing\nher diamonds.\t\nIt will be hard to cjoI Poplar next\nsummer, owing to the thin cro\u00C2\u00A3ot\nice in the Lardeau. Better import\nseme Toronto charily. That will\ncool almost anything.\nThe press is mighty and does prevail. A newspaper pu&hed by the\nright kind ot upper-stope matter can\nmake or mar the fortunes of a town,\nan individual or even a nation.\nIn Russia the iron hand of the czar\nis being weakened by revolutionists\nwho have long waited an opportunity\ntor revenge. It would not surprise\nus to see civil war in the bear country\nAmid the glorious mountains ol\nKootenay no great poet has yet been\nfound. There must be one somewhere in these hills. Bring him\nforth. We need a poem on the de\ncline of vim in the cent belt.\nEminent authorities think that the\ntime is not far distant when British\nColumbia will take its place as one\nof the most important mining regions\nin the world. It caunot come too\nquick for the majority of the people\nin Kootenay. Hope is a heavenly\nessence but materialistic bankers\nwill not take it at par.\nBooze fiends will soon be scarce in\nQuebec. In that city wh\u00C2\u00ABn a drunk\nard appears a tew times in the police\ncourt he is introduced to a cure tor\nthe drunk mania at the expense of\nthe government. This is cheaper\nthan the former system of keeping\nthe drunks in jail. We do not know\nwhat kind of medicine the Quebeckers\nuse, probably pea 8;.up and stramonium leaves. Many in the west have\naccumulated sobriety by abstaining\nfrom any fluid coi taining alcohol.\nThe attention of the world is divided now between the Jap war and\nthe rush to Poplar. Poplar will\nprobably win out as it is much easier\nto get into than Port Arthur. Just\nnow you cannot get into Port Arthur\nwithout tying yourself to a sh> 11. To\nreach Poplar all you need is a ticket,\nand somebody to put you on the cars\nat Lardo. At Port Arthur they are\nnhooting mineral into the formation,\nwhile in Poplar we are shooting it\nout. Hurrah for Poplar! It will be\na hot camp when Port Arthur and\nthe Russians are cold in death.\nA Parallel to Whitaker Wright\nThe nearest historical parallel to\nthe tragic termination of the Whita\nker Wright case is to be found in the\npages of The Annual Register for\n1795. The Rev. William Jackson,\nwho was tried before the court ot\nking's bench in Dublin on April 23 of\nthat year for the crime of high treason, died in the dock from the effects\nof poison before sentence was pronounced upon him. Though the\ncoroner's jury found that there was\nno evidence as to how or by whom\nthe poison was administered, there is\nlittle doubt that the prisoner's life\nwas ended by his own act. He had\nbeen remanded for a week after the\njury had found him guilty, in order\nthat Curran, his counsel, might move\nin arrest ot judgment, and he had\nbreakfasted with his wife on the\nmorning of his death. His suicide\nwas perhaps prompted by considera\ntion for his family, for, had the se \u00C2\u00BB-\ntence ot the law been carried out, his\nproperty, which was considerable,\nwould have been forfeited to the\ncrown.\naccommodate alike the very wealthy\nand those with a modest purse. The\npartitions are removable and the car\ncan be used as a scries of small compartments or a couple ot roomy salons.\nThose foreign cigarette holders\ncome high, but we've got to have\n'em, remarked the josher. Not\nlong ago an American girl paid a\nmillion for one.\nSav, what kind uf a pipe story is\nthat? asked the easy mark.\nFact, rejoined tha other. But I\nbelieve it has a title of some kind.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nChicago Rv cord Herald.\nThis Is Old but-\nProjessor G. 0. Pearce, C. M.\nWeber and Dave Hutch were guests\not the Brooklyn hotel, San Francisco,\na short time ago. Together they\nstarted on a prospecting trip in the\nhigh Sierras. Uncle Dave was delegated to make a circuitous trip and\ncome up from the eastern slope meet\ning Peatce and Weber at the summit, but Uncle Dave got side tracked\nand supposedly lost, and searching\nparties fa ilea to find him, and hone\nof ever finding more than his bones\nwas given up. but fate was kind to\nhim and when he walked intj the\nhotel, unannounced, Professor Pearce\nwas certain it was a dream, and it\ntook a strong jolt to realize thr.t he\nwas really awake, then joy was tin-\nconfined, and the miners* cainpfire\nstories that followed would fill a\nlarge volume. One toll in Uncle\nDave's own language is: Its about\nforty years ago when I wa3 mining\nin Montana that W. A. Clark, who is\nnow the millionaire senator, came\nalong with his peddler's wagon scll-\ntobacco and such stuff.\nHow much tor your chewing tobacco? says I.\nFive dollars a pound, s:\u00C2\u00BBys he.\nGive me a pound, says I.\nClark put out a plug. Dave said\nhe wanted a pound and Clark said\nthat was a pound. Dave said I'll bet\nyou $25 it ain't, and Clark put up\nthe money. The scales showed 14\nounces and Dave won.\nClark has been looking for Dave\never since to get his $25 back.\nThe Kursh Zarkeff railroad of Russia advertises a special car for honey-\nmooners, designed and furnished\nwith the very latest luxuries. A\nfamous engineer and architect were\ncalled in to plan it. The decorations\nare in the best Parisian style, and\npolite female attendants look after\nthe .comforts of the happy couple.\nNone but the newly wed are allowed\nto use this magnificent car, which,\nby a stroke of ingenuity, is built to\nIThe Place to Buy\nFURNITURE\nOne of the most durable of woods\nis sycamore. A statue made from it\nnow in the museum of Gizeh at Cairo,\nis known to be nearly 0,000 >ears\nold. Notwithstanding this great age\nit is asserted that the wood itself is\nentirelv sound and natural in appearance.\nD. J. Robertson & Co.\nFurniture Dealers\nand\nFuneral Directors.\nNELSON, B. C.\nHOTEL\nNN\nHanson & asuw Proprietor*.\nFirst-class in every department. Wines, Liquors and\nCigars the best procurable. The Menu has no\nequal in the Lardeau. Rooms the best.\nCALL AND BE CONVINCED THAT THE INN IS THE BEST\nPOPLAR MEAT MARKET\nA. 0, OSTBY, PROPRIETOR.\nFresh and Salt Meats,\nOYSTERS IN SEASON\nand Fowl\nTHE KAISER HOUSE\nIN POPLAR\nIs convenient to the depot and has accommodation for 50 quiet quests. The nerve-\nbracers in the bar are free-milling, and an\norchestra provides music while the guests\nare at dinner. The landlord has studied\nhuman nature from Brazil to Alaska and\nknows the way to make a stranger feel at\nhome. FRED KAISER, Proprietor.\nKEEP YOUR OPTICS ON\nGOLD HILL THE NUGGET.\nPoplar, B. C, March ii, 1904.\nThe\nPOPLAR\nHOTEL\nIs the oldest hotel in Poplar,\nand adjoins the C. P. R. depot.\nThe wet grocery department\ncontains pure goods, any brand\n\u00C2\u00BB\nof which will produce optimist jc\nresults.\nARMSTRONG & ALHSTROH\nODDS AND ENDS.\nThe Mt. Hlshoff tin mine at Wara-\ntah in Tasmania, declared a dividend\nof 7\u00C2\u00A3s. in Dece nber' 'ast, the total up\nto date being about $9,562,000. This\nis the must profitable tin mine in the\nworld.\nTha Keep It-Dark Gold Mining\ncompany ii New Zealand i< a prosperous cunpHiy, having just de-\nclared dividend No. 144. The name\nmight fit several companies in this\ncountry, some of which do, while\nmore do not, pay dividends.\nRussia carries the banner as the\nlargest producer in i\\q work) of\nmanganese ore and petroleum. The\noutput of manganese ore Inst year\nwas 802,2*4 tons. The largest out\npat of jKJtroleum hi any one year\nwas in IIU1, when hv amounted, to\n80/>:>3,152 barrels\nNew Zealand last year stirtoi V\nopen a state x>al mine, the objee\nbeing to regulate coal prices an I prevent exorbitant charges The mint\nis now open and has begun to pro\nduce, the output being 60 bus a day.\nThe government will, therefore,\n^tt'ii I)- competitor in ihe coal market\nJ;iI ;ui's mineral wealth is chit fly\nin silt, co I, copper and precious\nmeijils The official returns for the\npa.-t \ onr show the following totals\nof i roduction by .iaj anesc mines:\nCoal, 8,i\u00C2\u00BB4r>,*.*i>'J metric tons; copper,\n27,43.) t< ns; sulphur. Hi 577 tons;\ngold. 2 48U kilograu s; s Ivcr, 54,889\nkilograms m . w /%..,,\nTie Wigan Coal and Iron company .in England is successfully\noperating a plant tor making paving\nblocks and street Hogging from slag.\nThe slag passes through a crusher,\nthe coarse being separated and used\nlor railroad ballast!; the fine is\nfurther crushed \fy rolls, mixed dry\nwith cement, then mixed a^ain wit 1\nwater and inssed into a hydraulic\npress, which produces a hard, dense\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lock of uniform c'ameer. he\nMucks are then bt\u00C2\u00ABck\u00C2\u00BBd, lelt 10 dry\nand harden.\nOial is known to exist in the United\nKingdom to a depth of 4OX) feet,\nsufficient at about the present rate of\noutput to suffice for 371 \cara, but\nthat this period will be considerably\nextended, seeing that there is every\nprobability that mining can be carried on to a depth of 7,000 feet,\nthough at this depth there will not be\nanything like the are 1 of coal that\nthere is at the former limit. And it\nfurther seems probable to expect\nthat this period of supply will be further extended by the more economical use of fuel, due to the establishment ot central electrical supply stations, and the utilization of Mond and\nother gas-producing processes, and of\ngas-driven engines, as well as other\nmeans of obtaining a higher percent\nage of the best value of the fuel.\nOne of the most marvellous pieces\nof engineering in this country, if not'\nin the world, says E. and.M. Review,\nIs the great tunnel by which the\nPennsylvania \" railroad secures a\nterminal station in the city of New\nYork. This tunnel is nearly six\nmiles long. The outside diameter of\nsingle sections is 23 feet. It Rtarts in\na hill in North Bergen, N. J., runs\nunder Hoboken and Wehawken, then\ntinder the North river and under the\nintervening ground until it reaches\nthe termmal station extending from\nNinth to Seventh avenues, thenje it\npasses under the city frOm Seventh\nto First avenues, under East river\nand under Long Island City. The\ntunnel is not single throughout its\nentire length, but in some places is\ntriple. The size may be imagined\nwhen it is known that each of these\ntriple tunnels will contain two tracks.\nThe new terminal station on Manhattan Island will be the largest in\nthe world, being 1.800 feet from east\nto west and 4(50 feet from north to\nsouth.\nA good many things have-4)-en\nsaid about the effct which the war in\nthe e.\u00C2\u00ABst is likely to luve upon the\nprice of metals. M >st of them deserve very little consideration. S \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ntar there lias been no result from tin-\noutbreak ot hostilities, except in the\ncomparatively unimportant metal,\nantimony, the price of wl ich is\ntip in anticipation ot the stoppage of\nsupplies from Japan. It is quite\nprobable, ot course, that the exports\nof copper from Japan may cease; but\ntheir quantity Is not large enough to\nhave any material effect upon the\nmarket It is probable, also, it the\nwar continues lor any length of time,\nthere ill I e an increase in the de\nmand for copper for the manufacture\nol cartridges and other war materi 1K1\nS:ich a result is not yet apparent,\nhowever. Tin is not likely to be\naffected, unless the trouble extends\nto China generally, in which case\nthere may be a scarcity of Chinese\nlabor, as there was at the time of the\nBi.xcr troubles.\nA movement to enlist government\naid for the zinc industry ot British\nColumbia is being rather vigorously\ndiscussed pro and con, in that country. What the supporters ot the\nmovement especially desire is that\nsome expert on zinc be engaged to\nexamine thoroughly the zinc de\nposits and leommend methods of\nconcentration and treatment, Others\nfavor a bonus per ton of ore shipped,\nalthough it must be said that a majority of the mine operators did not\naid in farthering this latter scheme\nor in supporting it, once it was\nment especially designed to aid any\nnew industry. But then Canadian\nore hauling roads never were noted\nfor any public-spiritedness. The tonnage from Bri ish Columbia in 1893\nwill be more than tripled in 1894,\ndespite unsatisfactory conditions.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nLead and Zinc News.\nAlways Headstrong.\nPrivate John Allen tells of an\namusing conversation between two\nold colored women that he overheard\non a Washington street car.\nSaid the first old woman: \"Has yo'\nheard 'bout de death of dat young\nAlistah Jenkins?\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*Noo,'' responded the other old\ncolored woman. \"Yo'doan' mean to\ntell raodat young man's dead I How'd\nhe die, honey?\"\n4,He died suddenly-dey say it\nwas heart failure; anyhow, he died\nsudden.\"\n'Sho', yo' doan tell me!\" continued\nthe other old colored woman. Then,\nafter a pause, she added:\n'Well, dat's jes' like him; he was\nde mos' impulsive young nigger I\neber seen! '\u00E2\u0080\u0094New York Times.\nJOHN KEEN\"\nNotary and Commissioner\n1\nPOPLAR AND KASLO.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*'\n0\n0\n#\nStarkey & Co., Hfirft S\nFruit. Eggs, Bacon and other Provisions.\n. N*i.8on,B.C.\nj-. h. love:\nNELSON EMPLOYMENT AGENCY\nHelp\nSTRATHCONA\nHotel in Nelson has\n. no. superior in West *\nKootenay. Always\n*\nplenty of room for\nPoplar millionaires.\n>\u00C2\u00BB, ^m'^ Jist\nB. TOMKINS, flANAGER.\n^\n^&aa^&ss^>a^^\nThe\n3M\nof All Kinds Furnished\n<)N SHORT NOTICE\nPoplar Transfer Co.\nFreight moved to any part of the\ncity or the hills. A heavy team of\nhorses and a string of husky mules\nalways at the service ol the public.\nLots cleared in any part of the town.\nI\n&\nI\n\u00C2\u00A3\nGeorge Chataway.\nHOTEL BOSWORTH\nGOLD HILL, B. C. i\nThe hotel is furnished and fitted up in the\nmost modern style. Best of accoinmoda ion\nfor mining men and tourists. Only A 1 brands\nol liquors and cigars kept n stock.\nCasey & Murphy, Props.\nThe Poplar\nBarber Shop\nPioneer Shop of the City\n{IN POPLAR HOTEL.\nTURK \"D. BROWN, PROP.\nt*\nJUULftJUiUliLJULOJliLaiUULOJl^\nThe Poplar Laundry\nAnd Bath House.\nJACKSON RADCLIFFE, Prop.\nhun.ched. Meanwhile the railroads\nbase made n $13 rate per ton from I _\t\nthe Slocan to Antwerp, agaicst $111 A# R# Heyland, fiHftK\nfrom the Slocan to Kansas, a move- ve.vor,Kusio.\nKaslo Hotel\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Kaslo, B. C.\nIs a pleasant halting place\nfor pilgrims on their way to\nPoplar.\nCockle & Papworth. 1\nTHE NEWMARKET\nIn New Denver\nIs one of the cosiest hotels in\nthe Slocan for a man in\nsearch of food, drink or a\ndowny couch. Ask for\nHENRY STEGE\nwhen you get inside the door.\nFLOAT\nIs a literary hlend, written, compiled, published and shipped by R. T.\nLowery. It tells about booze in Nelson, poker in the Silvery Slocan, gospel at Bear lake, rain in New Denver.\nIt is free-milling in poetry, and has a\nlarge chute of stories cut from the cent\nbelt, when the writer was doing penance among the tenderfeet in the East.\nThe miserable effect of reading this\npublication is relieved by looking at the\npictures in it on the hanging wall. You\ncan tell \"Float\" anywhere by the bulldog on the front page. It is not selling very well, perhaps owing to the\nfact thai Mulock has not yet shut it out\nof the mails. The public are warned\nnot to buy it, although it is sent to any\naddress on earth for 50 cenls. R, T.\nLowery, Poplar, Nelson or New\nDenver, B. C. Poplar, B. C, March ii, 1904\nTHE NUGGET.\n%000000000000************\\nThe\nGrand\nHotel\nPOPLAR\nBest Menu in the City\nBed Rooms Large and\nComfortable\nWe Sell Liquors\nJust as They\nCome from the\nWholesalers.\nJacobson & Anderson.\n00000000000000000*********\nMINING FLOAT.\nIn the Iron King mine, Arizona, the\ndiamond drills have penetrated 150 feet\nbelow the 300-foot shafts, finding the\nrich copper ore continuous there.\nThe North American G>pper company of Grand Encampment, will build\nto its power plant an 800-horsepower\nsteam plant, which will be used auxiliary to the water power now in use.\nA mining exchange lias been opened\non Wall street, New York, and many\nWestern stocks have been listed. The\ndeparture is of interest, owing to the\ntendency in New York to shun all mining business.\nThe Greene Consolidated Gold Mining company, managed by W. C.\nGreene, of La Cananea, is reported to\nhave ordered placer machinery and\nequipment to the value of $225,000 for\nplacer work in the province of Sonora,\nMexico.\nManufacturers cf the Deisel gas engine, which is being given thorough\ntest at Tonopah, make great claims\nfor the machine, stating that the efficiency approaches the actual fuel consumption more nearly than any other\nengine made.\nWilliam Scallon, president of the\nAnaconda Copper company and one of\nthe prominent Amalgamated men, has\nresigned his position. It is probable\nthat John M. Neill of Helena, a\nprominent lieutenant of W. A. Clark,\nwill succeed him in that office.\nThe case of the Venture-Stratton\ncompanies against the estate of the\nlate W. S. Stratton has been appealed\nfrom the district court, where the\nplaintiff was beaten, to the United\nStates circuit court of appeals. The\nEnglish companies are suing for six\nmillions.\nConstruction work is now in progress at Lead, S. D., for the addition\nof 100 stamps to the Amicus mill of the\nHomestake company. The building is\nbeing enlarged and the foundations\nhave been placed for the mortar blocks.\nWhen this work is finished, which will\nbe some time early in the summer, the\nHomestake will have 1,000 stamps in\nits six mills. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nJ. A. Sternberger of the Juneau Dispatch slates that it is the purpose of\nthe Alaska-Tread well company to drive\na tunnel under that city. To do this\nthe company would haw to drive a\nlong tunnel from the lower workings of\nthe Treadwell, under the channel\nseparating Douglas island from the\nmainland, or open a new adit on the\nmainland side,\nJudge Gildersleeve of New York has\ngranted John McGinnis, Heinze's\nlieutenant, an injunction against the\nBoston and Montana company of Mon-\n(tana, forbidding the company to dispose of any of its property. In effect,\nthe work now being done in New York\nis what was defeated in Montana,\nJudge Clancey first holding with Heinze\nand the state supreme court later overruling him. How McGinnis is able to\nget the case into the courts of New\nYork is not explained in the press reports. Counsel for McGinnis explained\nthat the points involved in the last case\nwere quite different to those litigated\nin Montana.\n\ _^____\u00E2\u0080\u0094_____\nActivity at Bodie.\nGaptain Warren Loose has gone to\nBodie, Cal., where he is again prosecuting active development on the New\nBodie Mining company's properties,\nthe milling of whose ores will begin the\npresent year, says the Salt Lake Tribune. The ores of the new Bodie are\nmaintaining an average of $12 gold\nper ton, these to be first put over the\nplates and then into the cyanide tanks,\nand with this average no difficulty\nshould be experienced in making them\nthe source of regular dividends. For\nmore than a quarter of a century the\nStandard Mining company, to which\nthe Messrs. Loose sold the original\nBodie group, has been distributing\ndividends, the record disclosing a total\nof $4,178,000, and it is alongside this\nthat the vendors of the old are now developing the New Bodie with every assurance of profitable results.\nA Mining County.\nSan Jaun county, Colorado, is unique\nin having no other industry whatever\nthan mining and treatment of its ores.\nIt is a county of mountains, with only\none park opening of importance, thai\nwhere Silverton is situated. But it\npromises before many years to be the\nbanner county of the state in the production of gold, silver, lead and copper. In gold it already stands third,\nin silver fourth, in lead third, and in\ncopper it is the first.\nporated to work 8,000 acres of mineral\nbearing lands, reaching from Bingham,\nUtah, to Pioche, Nevada. The Pioche\nConsolidated and Manhattan company's\nmines at Pioche are included in the\ndeal, and $6,000,000 is already available to begin operations. The corporation will be known as the Monarch\nMines and Smelter company, and was\norganized under the laws of Maine.\nAunt Mehalia-iVell, who'd *er\nthought Pierpont Morgan would have\nhad to go to work at the stock yards!\nUncle Ezra\u00E2\u0080\u0094Is he broke and er'\nworkin'? Aunt Mehalia\u00E2\u0080\u0094Yes; I soe\nby ther paper thet he has been ltadin\nthe hulls, waterin' stock an' skinnin'\nIambs.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Butte Inter Mountain.\nJane. Wouldn't you like to give\nthem something ?\nArchie, with great enthusiasm-\nOh, yes, mama. Let us give them\nAunt Jane.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The King.\nUsh are sold alive in Japan, the\npeddlers carrying them through the\nstreets in tanks.\nFond Mama\u00E2\u0080\u0094Yes, my darling,\nthose little boys next door have no\nfather or mother, and no kind Aunt\nMillions for Mining.\nA gigantic mining company, capitalized at $30,000,000, has been incor-\nMcKinnon &\nSutherland\nIn their store at Ferguson\nhave the goods. Drop them\na line when you want anything\nfor your house.\nMcKINNON _\nSUTHERLAND\nFERGUSON. B. C.\nJ. J. CAMERON\nPOPLAR\nSells many kinds of goods\nincluding groceries, provisions, hardware, tinware, etc. Canned goods\nof rare quality always in\nstock. Postoffice in the\nbuilding and mail sent to\nany part of the universe.\nGROCERIES\nKilning Supplies\nHARDWARE\nBoots and Shoos\nA fine line in\nMen's Suits\nShirts and\nGents' Furnishings\nAlso Blankets, Ladies and\nChildren's Hose just arrived.\nCome and inspect stock before buying. 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