"1f833a1f-859f-4744-a1cc-95d94e9667f2"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2011-09-15"@en . "1908-05-21"@en . "The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser was published in Hedley, in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, and ran from January 1905 to August 1917. The Gazette was published by the Hedley Gazette Printing and Publishing Company, and its longest-serving editor was Ainsley Megraw (1905-1914). The Gazette served the communities of Keremos, Olalla, and Hedley. In 1916, the paper was purchased by James W. Grier, who shortened the title to the Hedley Gazette."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xhedley/items/1.0180268/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " I . AND SIMILKAMEEN ADVERTISER. Vol. IV. No. 19. HEDLEY, B. O, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908. $2.00, in Advance. Dr. C. A. JACKSON DENTIST [18 years' practice in Vancouver.] S. O. L. Co.'s Block: PENTICTON, - - B. C. W. H. T. GAHAN Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public,,Etc. Murk Block PENTICTON, - . B. C. UNCLE SAM GETS SCARE. Told That His Coal-bin Is Running Out, and He Must Save His Iron Scraps. CHARLES M. SHAW Civil Engineer, Dominion and . Provincial Land Surveyor.' Orders inaij be left at Gazette office. HEDLEY, : : : : -B. G. B. H. ROGERS, M.A., B.C.L. BARRISTER. SOLICITOR. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD~ NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Vernon, B. C. A. MEGRAW NOTARY PUBLIC Conveyancer, Real Estate, Mines, Crown Grants Applied: For Under Land Act and Mineral Act. Agent for:r London & Lancashire Fire Ins. Co, Ocean Accidont and Guarantee Co. Office at HEDLEY, B.C. AVashington, May 13.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe AVhite House Avas the scene . to-day of the assemblage of many of the most distinguished figures in the political and industrial life of the United States. The occasion was the conference by President-Roosevelt with the Governors of nearly all the States and Ter- ritorities, to consider the question of conservation of the country's natural resources. ~ It was the utterances of Mr. Carnegie and those who followed him that the gravity of the problems to be considered were given weight. Two hundred years of coal supply and half that of iron Avas the prediction of the famous ironmaster. There Avere ways by which both the coal and iron supply might be conserved, according to Mr. Carnegie; by economies in mining arid in, use, .and the development \"of water transportation, which, he said, required less of both products. Dr. I. C. White, of West Virginia, added expert knowledge and predictions on the subject of coal n nd iron; in which he predicted the exhaustion of the Pittsburg coal supply in 93 years and the West Virginian fields in practically the same time. Mr. John Mitchell, former head of the United Mine Workers of America, estimated that fully 25 per cent, of the coal _in the mines already developed had been wasted in mining, and a much greater percentage in use: Without such waste,'.which he believed might be overcome, the supply of coal would last 2,000 instead of 200 years, as predicted. A MINING BOOM DUE But Grand Trunk Pacific Has . Call in Old Country as Favorite Section. C. F. LAW Capital. Loosening Up and Seeking An Outlet\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBut Capital Is Disposed To Follow the Fashions, and G. T. P. Is Most Fashionable Cut At Present \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDA Retrospect of L Mining In This Province. INVESTIGATING ROUTES. C. P. R. Engineering Parties Exploring , Country Around Aspen Grove. HOTEL PENTICTON Headquarters for Tourist Travel, s Rates Moderate; A. BAKNES,-.Prop. Penticton, B.C. HOLLAND, FRENCH AND JAPAN bulbs for fall planting. Seeds-Trees-Piants for the farm, garden, lawn' or conservatory. > Reliable approved varieties, at reasonable prices. Please bearin mind in placing your order that our fruit trees arc not grown from cheap imported piece root grafts, bufciirc budded on whole root seedling groAvn on our own grounds and from bearing trees Bee Supplies, Spray Pumps and Spraying Material, Cut Flowers, etc. CATALOGUE FREE. ' -Oldest established nursery on the mainland of B. C. New.'interest has been lent to,the local railway situation by reports of operations by two. parties of G. P. R. surveyors under Engineer Kerry. One party is said to be exploring from Aspen Grove in the direction of Trout Creek on Okanagan Lake, .and the other is working doAvn the Otter. The problem of getting across the ranges and doAvn TroW; Creek, would seem to involve considerable of the toboggan slide style of railroad ehgiri- \"eering which most railroads are trying to cut.out nowadays.. Provincial maps shOAV Trout Creek to bti a short stream about 20 miles in length, with a difference in'altitude of 2800 feet between the headwaters and the mouth. That of course is not insuperable and neither is it convenient. The V. V. & E. overcame as great an altitude between Molson and Oroville, but to do so they had 50 or60 miles of mountain side to SAving back and forth on if they had wanted to use that much, but to go doAvn one narrow creek bottom is an altogether different problem. However, there is nothing like investigating. That is the only way to find out, and with plenty of data to figure on, the problem becomes easier, and the result arrived at surerW being correct. Last Aveek the Gazette had the pleasure of [a chat with Mi*. C. F. Law, avIio had tiiken a run down to Keremeos, and remained here for a day on his way hack. Mr. Law has given a great deal of attention during the past tAvo years to the \"development of a group of claims on Bear creek, Avhieh were located for him by two Swedes. The claims are opening out very Avell and are under bond to the Gran by. Tavo years ago the provincial government began work putting, in a wagon road for them, which has proven of very great service in opening up the properties. The work on Bear creek was shut down temporarily about ten days ago, but operations, will be resumed in the course of about four or five weeks. The road is somewhat out of order and weather conditions up there just at present are not favorable to making the. necessary repairs; besides, supplies at the mine were running Ioav and as it is desirable that the road be in shape before a fresh supply is teamed in, it was thought an opportune time for several reasons to shut down temporarily in order to get ready for resuming later. It is 'now about sixteen years since -the editor last met Mr. Law. He was then employed by the government in obtaining-samples of ore for exhibition at the World's Fair in Chicago, arid obtaining information concerning the various properties through the province. That Avas in the summer of 1892, when the writer met Mr. Law in Vernon, Avhere he had just returned from a long trip up to old -man Mclntyre's Monashee mine on Cherry creek near the headwaters of the Kettle river with a load of samples, which was an and particularly the portion through British Columbia. This he considered due in a great measure to the fact that G. T. P. stock Avhieh is mostly held in England is very widely distributed, and it avus only to be expected that they Avould. prefer settling up and developing the country contiguous to the line of railway-in which their money was invested. The old Grand Trunk, wholly OAvned in England, has an immense clientele, and the G. T. P. is considered the one. thing needed to enhance the value'of Grand Tiunk stock. Mining propei ties along the line of-the hcav raihvay would now find ready buyers in London, Avhile mining propositions elsewhere Avould require exceptional merit to command attention. Speaking of the loosening out of British purse strings following the recent money stringency, Mr. Law said that British money was hoav impatient for investment and signs.of the incipient boom were not lacking. Mr. LaAv has seen the British stock exchange in the throes of some five or six different booms. He was over there when Barney Barnato Avas at.the height of his financial fume, and wild Kaffirs were all the rage Avith the British investor, and he had seen it in various lesser booms since that time, and the JIM CRONIN LIKES NORTH. St. Eugene Man , Talks of Silver-lead Properties on Babine Lake\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Coeur d'Alener's Weakness for Silver-lead. Mr. James Cronin, a Avell knoAvn mining man of Spokane, and his mining superintendent, Mr. Charles Chapman, left last^week* for Hazel ton en route to the Babine silver-lead district to resume' development work on the Dibble group, comprising six claims. Mr. Cronin will also employ a large force of men in building trails into the new- camp, which is situated east of the Bulkley Valley. He feels very confident over the future of this recently discovered silver-lead belt, as the formation is similar to that of the famous Coeur d' Alene district. Idaho. On some of the claims he has under bond the veins can be traced along the surface for a distance of over 2500 feet. Their persistence is -regarded as a favorable indication. Certain draAvbaeks have, however, to be overcome. \"The surface oie. is not clean, but is adapted for concentration,\" said Mr. Cronin to The Province. \"It will likely yield a ton of sixty per cent, lead from every ton of clean ore. It is too earlv A-et to estimate the future similarity of conditions is such that it of the camp, but the outlook, to say WAS THERE ANOTHER VICTIM? V. V. & E. Laborers See Corpse Floating in Similkameen River. M. J. HENRY, 3010 Westminster Road, Vancouver. The \"Old Reliable\" Shoemaker SHOES MADE TO ORDER. SHOE and HARNESS REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Rear of Shier's Clothing Store. 13 Word came up from No 1 Camp at lower end of Brushv Bottom that on Tuesday at 12:30, Italian laborers had seen a corpse floating down the Similkameen river opposite where they Avere Avorking. When the story'was told to Supt. Cunningham he attached very little credence to it and thought the men had been mistaken, as there avus no Avoid of any one having been drowned up the river. On making further inquiries of the men a feAV hours later they Avere very positive that it Avas a corpse they hud seen as they Avere sure they had seen clothing on it Avhieh moved Avith the action of the Avater in the current. He sent a note to constable Sproule advising him (if the 'circumstance, and the latter went doAvn the river to investigate. evidence of the thoroughness with which he discharged the' task allotted him. .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"'..-\" When Mr. Law was gathering that information in 1892 and. collecting those samples, lode mining in British Columbia could scarcely be said to have begun. There Avas no Rossland camp';.then; no producing Boundary district, and Camp McKihiiey, the first real producer of lode gold, was> then only in the prospect stage. The total production of lode mines in British Columbia in 1892 was $99,999, of which not a dollar Avas in gold and not a dollar in copper, the whole-production being made up of $66,935 in silver and $33,064 iu lead.- Noav it has risen to $17,481.12 with copper alone over eight millions and gold alone, over four and a half millions. In the strenuous life Avhieh many have had to live to bring about this increase in mineral production in this province, no one class can claim full credit, and to the prospector, miner, capitalist and promoter must belong the honor of bearing a share. As a promoter Mr. Law has been actively engaged in many enterprises and has done his share to interest capital for the development of the resources of the province, his field of operations extending from the Yukon to East Kootenay. Mr. Luav has just returned from England Avhere he spent several months, and avus much impressed with the favor shoAvn at present by British iinres- tors towards Canadian securities. One thing, iioAvever, Avhieh Avas made very plain to him so far as preference of British investors is concerned, was that while mostly all Canadian securities in the. shape of bond issues were in favor, British money was- partial to certain localities when it came to putting money into mining or real estate schemes, and the section that at present has the call is the country along the line of the Graud Trunk Pacific, would not surprise him to see very shortly another outbreak in which Canada and the more northerly latitudes thereof Avould figure very prominently. A significant feature pointed out by him is the amount of travel from Great Britain at the present time, which is about tAvo months earlier than usual. At present the leading hotels of Vancouver and Victoria are thronged with visitors from England who are men of means and as a rule it is generally in July of other years that this class of travel is in evidence. While in Hediey Mr. Law met Mr. F. M. Wells, 'with'whom, in company \yith Mr. H. C. Pollock, he had been associated several years in the Koot- eriays. He was hurrying back to Bear Creek or he might, have spent a few days in Camp Hediey and taken a look over the Pollock group. the least, is promising.\" Mr. Cronin is one of the best known mining men in the AVest. He has operated in nearly every western state. He was formerly managing director of the Canadian Consolidated Mining