"17f50108-90cf-42fa-8386-a05c4f037eec"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2011-09-29"@en . "1899-05-04"@en . "The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xnakledge/items/1.0182245/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " fw\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 9 ^V^c/\ sU Volume VI. No. 31. NEW DENVER, B. C, FAY 4, 1899. Price, S2 00 Year B^sm^Bm^s K^sasirassggfiaa^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD?^ eg SLOGAN GAMP NEWS 1 LOCAL CHIT-CHAT. Tlio Slocan will continue runnim. after the 21th. till in town hy Potatoes are conspicuous their absence. Jen Long is doing* tonsorial work for Hall Bros., in Kaslo. Tom Lanigan has returned from a I seven mouths' visit to Ontario There was a magnificent display of the aurora boreali.s on Monday night. pneumonia. He went off shift at the Payne mine on Friday and was admitted to the hospital that evening. The Miners' Union took charge of the remains and gave them burial in tlie New Denver cemetery, the Union attending the obsequies'to tiie number of 150. The funeral took place Tuesday morning. Callaghan was 42 years of age and came to this country irom New Brunswick. He was interested in several very valuable mining properties situated around Sandon. O Kino IA fJ,Y ANNO ITNCK D. Sale of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe Enterprise in no Long*-!- a (jiicstion of Don hi. repair tho road tlie snow melts The government will to the Forks so soon as off. The Harry Lindley troupe has written asking for dates at the Bosun opera- hall. The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist church will run an ice-cream booth on May 24. May was ushered in by a heavy snow storm. Everything is favorable for a big flood. R. C. Campbell-Johnston was in New Denver '*n Friday, en route to the Queen Bess mine. Dr. Thompson, cousin of Eri Thompson, was in town last week, on his way to Atlin lake. A son and heir came Tuesday morning to gladden the home of Rev. and Mrs. R. N. Powell. Necessary repairs to the engine at the electric light station left the town in darkness Friday night. Two more saloons have opened lip in Kaslo. That town will,-hover, have a. chance to make a dry test. The locomotive nf the west bound freight on the N. & S. jumped the rails in the canyon, on Friday. Rev. Cleland, of Sandon, will hold services in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning at ll o'clock. Services will be held in the Methodist church next Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7 :15 p.m. Everybody welcome. \"R.N.Powell. Nothing has been seen or heard of the proposed scheme for waterworks It is believed to have been lost in the in'*ils somewhere. C. F. Nelson leaves for Victoria on Sunday, as a delegate from New Denver lodge to the Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias. Messrs. Aylard, Mclnnes,Sutherland, Williams, Moran and Wereley have erected tasteful fences round their respective premises, effecting' a great improvement. New Denver is becoming noted for its gardens,the additions to which have been numerous this season. Each recurring season marks the town's onward strides. SLOGAN- MIXKB.U FLOAT The Turns- people continue to sack ore. The force at the Payne has been increased to 1.35'men. Work on the Neglected ledge is proving tbe property satisfactory to the owners. John Wereley and Bill Valentine are- working on a property owned by them near Bear lake. AY. B. Young and Martin Murchison are doing assessment on a claim across the lake', near Mill creek. Silver has reached the highest price in two years, and prosperity continues its march towards the Slocan. Ore in the Bosun is showing in larger bodies than ever this week. The regular shipments are being maintained. The shipment of ore from the Slocan was the smallest last week since tlie The long-delayed official announcement of the sale of the Enterprise mine, on Ten Mile creek, was made on Saturday, when Mr. George Aylard received word from Nelson stating that the whole matter had been settled and the money paid over. The.purchase price has not been officially announced. The property will be placed in tlie new company's hands this week, and it is doubtless the intention of the buyers to put a large force of men to work at once with a view to making the Enterprise an immediate and lasting dividend payer. It Avas stated by Mr! Kendall, the engineer who reported on the property for the purchasers, that tlie mine ought to work 150 men. W C. E. Koch has taken his spare teams to his Ten Mile stables and will WHAT WIXI. IT IJK Silverfoii Contributor' Would lAktt Know What in Unliable. to me through the to ask the Cele- this town a ques- me not a little. Biggest event in the history of the Slocan will be the celebration at New Denver on May 24th. Come and see us prepare for immediate action. While nothing can be definitely stated in regard to the transfer of other properties \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDaround the Enterprise, yet indications point to several probable transfers that will mean extensive working of those properties. The following circular, dated April 14th, 189(1, has been sent to the share- Sail don's Baseball Team will positively meet the Nelson Baseball Team at New Denver celebration, Queen's Day Nelson's Football positively meet Denver Football Team will the New Team at R. F. Green, M.P.P., was in town on Thursday, en route to Victoria on business in' connection with the South Kaslo wagon road. He stated the eight hour law still looked troublesome. The furniture and fixtures have been -removed from the Anglican mission rotim, on Sixth street, to the handsome new structure on Union street, the dedication of which takes place on the 14th instant. The oid club building, on Slocan ave., has been secured, by the ladies of the Anglican church, who purpose serving .a cold lunch for two bits, the proceeds to go towards the painting of the new .building. The band boys have added a fine new baritone to their equipment of instruments. They have also purchased considerable music, inclusive of the latest marches, waltzes,negro airs, and sacred selections. John Aylwin has been confined to his bed the. past week, suffering from injuries received in falling from a horse on Friday night. He was removed to the hospital Tuesday,where better treatment can he given him. A. E. Fauquier spent the past week in Rossland. He wired from that city last Thursday, stating that the hose reel team and fast runners will meet all comers in New Denver ou the 24th of May. A later letter received from the Rossland sports confirms the word sent by Mr. Fauquier. What is Kossland to do in the way of a celebration this year? Kaslo and New Denver are to celebrate the Queen's birthday and Nelson proposes to celebrate Dominion day. To avoid a clash and to emphasize the good feeling that is growing up between the Anglo-American people, we would suggest a Fourth of July celebration in Rossland, or an Anglo American celebration on the Fourth of July.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDRossland Record. Wm. Callaghan, an old-time prospector and miner, known throughout the Kootenay, died at the Sandon hospital Sunday, after an illness of a few days of commencement of the year. Soon, however, the roads will be in condition and the shipments will again run up to the old mark, It is reported that arrangements have been entered into by the Last Chance and. Noble Five companies whereby they have agreed to allow each other the use of their tunnels as soon as they reach the boundary lines of tiie adjoining property. The Noble Five will accordingly carry on tunnels No. 2, 3 and 1, of the Last Chance from the points-where they reach the end line of the Last Chance, where the claim aluits the World's Fair. The Last Chance will have the use of the long crosscut in No. -1 tunnel of the Noble Five, where it cuts the vein at a vertical depth of 900 feet. The Last Chance will also have the use of the crosscut in A tunnel where it strikes the Little Widow ground at a depth of 600 feet and will have the use of all intermediate drifts. Tho company which has secured the bond on the Mountain Chief group is Ihe Manchester Smelting Company, whose representative in this country is A. R. Brown, of Kaslo. This concern makes a specialty of reducing zinc ores, hence its purchase of the Lucky Jim mine, near Bear lake, some time since, and now more lately the Mountain Chief. Both properties carry a high percentage of zinc in their ore, which has acted more or less as a deterrent to shipments in the past. Inthe treatment of the ore, the company have faith in a profitable business being worked up with the Slocan camps, many mines and prospects in which carry a certain amount of zinc. The success of the English concern's venture will place the Slocan on a more profitable basis for- the investment of capital, as in the past American smelters have held the ores of this camp liable for penalty because of the zinc. To seem e returns from reduction works for r.his mineral will add to the net profits of the exports from the mines, and less waste will be incurred on the sorting dumps. The Chief will commence operations shortly. Canadian I'acUit- Making Money. A .special to tlie Nelson Tribune from Montreal states that the traffic receipts of the Canadian Pacific for the month of March show gross earnings of 82,100,''88 and working expenses of $1,280.772- net profits 8828,S0!' In March of last year the net prolits were 8753,234. For the. first three mouths of the year ending March 31st the figures are: Gross earnings 85,727,0*1, 'working expenses 83,- New Denver, Queen's Day .o- holders of the London and British C lumbia Goldfields, Ltd: \"i have much pleasure in informing you that this company has, in conjunction with the New Zealand Minerals Company, Litd.. entered into an arrangement'for the purchase of the Enterprise mine, one of the most important silver mines in British Columbia, upon terms which should result in'very large, prolits to both companies. This mine in situated on Ten Mile creek, in the Slocan district, and possesses the important feature of having already an extremely large amount of ore blocked out. and consequently available for immediate extraction and treatment. Mr. J. D. Kendall lias furnished an independent report upon the mine, and it will gratify you to learn that he places its value at 81,000,- 000, or approximately, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD200,000. The directors extremely regret that weather of the most exceptional sever it v has prevented large and constant crusTiings at the Whitewater and Ymir mines. As you are aware, plants capable of treating 100 tons of ore daily arealready erected on both properties, and immediately the weather is sufficiently mild for the necessary water-power to be furnished, it is expected that both mills will be working to their full capacity. Meanwhile, it is gratifying to know that the development work on both properties continues to he of a favorable character, and that the Whitewater mine resumed crushing on Maich 28th last. Reduction and Refining Works. Editor of Tin-: L.kdg-k. Dear Sir,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPermit columns of The Ledge bration Committee of tion that has puzzled We have heard a. great deal of talk about what will be tlie principal events of May 24th, and in the columns of The Ledge I noticed the following advertised : \"Queen's Birthday. Those who are patriotic will celebrate in Siverton. The following prizes will be competed for: Baseball\" Match\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD(Championship of the Kootenays) $100; Reel Race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHub and Hub, $100; Horse Race\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOpen to all comers, $125; Drilling Contest\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDouble- band, open to the. world, $150; Caledonian Sports\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe usual events\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDaggregating, $150; Lacrosse Match, $100. Single All the events advertised to come off at New Denver at the approaching celebration will positively take place Fare on Railroads and Steamship lines. Silverton invites you all.\" Is this to be taken as authentic? Was it put in The Ledge by order of the Silverton Celebration Committee, and if so then who is responsible for the following advertisement which I see in the Nelson Tribune of the 27th : \"Annual Celebration will be held at Nelson's crack Hose-reel team will positively race the crack team of Rossland at New Denver, May Twenty-fourth BLEW V? THEM Silverton, B.C., May 24th, 1899. $1750 in Prizes $1750. Abridged Program. \" \" $200, Horse Races: Free-for-all, 1st 2nd $100; Slocan race, 875. $25; Pony race, $50. $25. Caledonian Sports, Purses amount to $500. Gold Medal for best all-round athelete. Drilling Contest for $300. Hose Reel race. Grand Ball. For further particulars applv to Secretarv, Silverton, B.C.\" I would like to ask our Committee, who have undoubtedly done what they believe to be right, which, if either, of these advertisements is to be taken as reliable. If neither of them is trustworthy then what is the use of throwing good money away in a mad effort to keep Silverton before \"the Kootenay public in the light of a narrow-minded community, when the reverse is true. A Slocan Pioneer. Silverton, B.C., April 29, 1899. [While we do not object to giving space to this correspondence, yet we think it would have shown better spirit had our correspondent submitted the questions to the committee at home. The advertisement in Tub Ledge was furnished by the Silverton committee. We io not know and have no means of finding out how much or how little of it is reliable. \"A Slocan Pioneer\" will probably have an opportunity of judging* for' himself if he lives until May 24th.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Ed. Ledge. I g9S3SS3S3.8--SSKaa8(3&S83S!388SSg men smployed by that company enrolled among its membership, and now it says that it is receiving heavy aditions at every meeting. Tuesday morning notices were posted inviting all men working for the companies here, who were not members of the Union to join it immediately. This has stai ted talk again to such an extent that notice of it has been taken by the local press, which has generally done everything possible to restrain an approach of feeling calculated to produce trouble. Among union men no secret is made of. the intention of the union to demand higher wages and a recognition of the union by the management. The public has been given no intimation directly by the management as to the probable course of the company, although in an indirect way it has been stated that there would be no serious objection to giving the union wage scale, and that it would be granted if the request was made in a propar spirit. It is doubted, however, if under any conditions an agreement to recognize the union could be secured. There is an old fight between the union and the Bunker Hill and Sullivan, with considerable bitterness on both sides, so that it would be hard for thenr to come to an understanding unless the negotiations were conducted by parties entirely disinterested in the matter. After the strike of 1S92 the Bunker Hill and Sullivan was closed down for along \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD time, and when it finally re-opened it was after the circulation ot* a petition numerously signed that the company would resume work at the wage rate they have since been paying, with an agreement to do better when conditions would admit of it. The agreement was made between the company and the men ihat the wages would be\" $2.50 and $3 until prices advanced to where 100 pounds of lead and. two ounces of silver would be worth $(5. So far there has been no violation of this agreement by the men, and the company has had no opportunity to do so, as the price has not risen to that point. Friends of the management, however, admit that should this condition arise the company would decline to fulfill its promises on tha ground that the men then in its employ were not the men with whom the agreement was made, and that they were not entitled to the benefits of it. At the. time that agreement was made the public, even in the Coeur d'Alenes, believed that the wages offered and accepted were as good as could be paid, but they now think differently, for since that time, it is argued, lead has been as low as $2.50, and was only $2.60 for a long time, and yet all the leading mines in the camp paid dividends regularly. Since that time the value of the daily output of this company has increased $1,650 while the increase of wages desii ed would not amount to more than $250 or $300. Ten days ago trouble began in the Cieur d'Alenes between the miner's union and the mine owners. The union asked for 83.50 per day for all underground workers, and that the union be recognized. To these demands all the mines agreed except the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine. The union made little trouble such as they had in 1891, but deliberately blew up the Bunker Hill buildings with dynamite. Speaking of the destruction of the buildings a despatch from Wardner says: \"Armed, masked and desperate, 1,000\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDminers from Canyon creek poured into the town at noon last Saturday on a stolon Northern Pacific train. Three hours later they had left with their mission accomplished. The great Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill, costing $200M0, had been blown into half a million pieces with the aid of a ton and a half of dynamite, which tlie rioters brought with them. Although the mob from Canyon creek met with not the slightest resistance, yet they left here with two of the Bunker Hill\" men shot from behind, while with them they took the dead body of a fellow rioter whom they themselves had accidentally sho|v ', The capture of the concentrator was complete. Not a soul was on the ground to molest the strikers. f All that remained was to complete the riotous mission bv blowing the mill into atoms. That done and the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Co. would have sustained a loss of Nelson's Lacrosse team will positively play a match game with New Denver during\" the big celebration of May 24th Signed, Sealed and Delivered. 681,492, net profits 82,046,121. three months ending March For the Bist last- year there was a net\"pro(it of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDl,i'92,52S. The increase in net profit over the same period of last year is therefore: For March \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD75,66*2, and from Januarv 1st to March 31st 8353,602. The finest assortment of ladies' and misses' shoes ever seen in New Denver is beino: unpacked at T. H. Hoben's general merchandise store. The latest fads and the neatest and best makes; all sizes, shapes and prices. A Montreal despatch says that a syndicate of Canadian and American capitalists is prepared ,r> erect extensive refining and reduction works in Canada provided that the government, will make concessions so that they may be able to obtain the necessary fuel at a figure which will correspond somewhat to the prices paid for coal in the United States. Among those interested in the project are .lames II. Wilson, of Montreal, prominent-lv known in the metal trade; K. Goff Penny, M P.;C. C. Colby! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDd of Stanstead. Quebec; IL G. Leckie, of Sudbury, Ontario: J. J. Thompson, of New York, and Robert M. Thompson, who is managing director of the Orford Copper Company of New Jersey. The \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD plan is to form a company with a capital of 82,000,0o0. with power to increase j to 85,000.000. The company will put up | the biggest refinery in the world, and ; will also be prepared to treat the raw j copper ores nf. British Columbia The] gentlemen above, mentioned are named \ as provisional directors. i A meeting of the members of the Nelson fire brigade was held last week for the purpose of considering the conditions which shall govern the hub and hub race at New Denver on the Queen's birthday. The conditions as submitted to the Nelson boys were that the prizes should be 8300: Ihe distance 200 yards; that 12 men and a captain should constitute a team: that either ropes or harness might be used; and that the starter and judges of the race should be select- a committee composed of one from each competing team. The conditions were, acceptable to the Nelson briga.de. and the signature of George W.Steele was affixed thereto in approval. Nelsons most formidable competitor in the race will be the Rossland team.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTribune. 3200,000. Then, too. of necessity the mine would be closed down, while the non-union men there would be thrown out of work. At the same time, since the Bunker Hill supplied the Last Chance with air, the union men at work in the latter mine would be similarly deprived of employment: but they were willing to suffer that loss rather than to permit the Bunker Hill to remain in operation. \"Powder !\" shouted somebody inthe crowd at the concentrator. The cry was taken up by a hundred throats and was heard by the striker* guarding the dynamite near the station. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWith a rush the watchers picked up the'50-pound boxes of the stuff and .started for the mill. There miners trained all their lives in handling* the explosive, attended to the distributing of the 3,000 pounds of giant powder which was to wreck the mill. The concentrator building*, or rather the mill, was a huge red structure of sheet iron, in which was housed all the mechanical equipment of the company. The reduction works, the compressor and the electric light plant were altogether in the end of it. When the last charge had been placed the fuses were lighted and the boarding house next to the' mill was afire. Then picking* up the body of Smith, the strikers started back at a swinging trot to the station. \"Fire,\" they shouted, and the remaining crowd, knowing what was to come, sought cover in the neighboring hills. There was another wait and tlie red boarding\" house was a roaring cauldron of flames. Then in a j second up from the concentrator shot a vast gray pyre of smoke and debris that rose 'majestically to the height of perhaps one thousand feet. Borne upward with it could be seen great sections of the building and glistening pieces of what had once been the machinery of the plant. Then came a roar that shook tlie very earth and a crash that almost split one\"* ears. It was at 2:20.o'clock. A moment more and another mass of debris shot up and the same roar was heard again, A third, a fourth and a fifth explosion followed Then, after a pause, came- the last one. When the smoke cleared away, where the mammoth reduction works had been, there, was only a chaos of warped and broken wood and steel ''T-c destruction had been complete. Silvc-r Advam-inc; i\" Price Not I)es\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDd but SU-upiug. The Toronto Globe says: \"We are assured the Kettle River railway bill will not be abandoned, but it seemed better to leave it over for another session, when Mr. Corbin will have time- to attend to the matter, than go ahead with it in his absence. It is expected the bill will come up next session, and it is the confident belief of its promoters The advances which' have been made in the price of stiver since, the first of April will give the Hall Mines,Limited, an appreciable gain on the galena ores which ir. has purchased during the month. Assuming that the ore averaged 60 ounces to the ton, which will probably be below the mark, the advance in the market quotations for silver will give the. Hail Minos a profit of something over 81 SO to the ton. When a furnace is treating 50 tons of such ore per day the seemingly small advance soon runs into money. The. present outlook is for an advancing market, that the feeling in favor of the measure j due it is said to the action of the smelter will then be present.' stronger even than it is at trust in keeping the supply of silver level with the demand \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Tribune. t'(>iiini<'iif<.j>it!iit of fin.- Trou l>I<\", A despatch from Wardner, Idaho, under date of April' 21. gave the following account of the trouble, leading up to the destruction of the Bunker Hill property by the desperate union men : \"For some time there have been rumors of probable trouble between the management and miners of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan. The reports have gone so far as to state that a walkout was imminent, and only a week ago a rumor that 200 men had walked out was generally credited in all the other towns in the country for a few hours, until telephone inquiries had resulted in assuring them that the story was not true. The Miners' Union here has always claimed to have a large percentage of the Ten Mile in the Swim. C. B. Taylor was in New Denver on Saturday and Sunday buying supplies and making other preparations for reopening the Ten Mile House at once, to accommodate the great crowd that is anticipated will visit that centre with the change made in the Enterprise mine. Mr. Taylor is looking for a great revival on Ten Mile. He reports that extensive preparations are being made for the celebration of the 24th of May. Not to be outdone by'our sister camp Silverton, the citizens of Ten Mile have subscribed most liberally, and are offering prizes aggregating exactly \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1.750.25 for horse races, drilling contests, baseball matches, lacrosse games, fishing and yachting tournament;; and, to close the day in a manner worthy our Noble Queen's natal day. a c;;ke walk will be given in the evening. The horse races will be held at any point between the landing and the summit, and the bail and lacrosse games will take place in the Bondholder basin The snow is about U feet deep there, but the crust will hold up ahorse. Forty-one men. four teams and a jackass, with a rotary plow, are daily employed leveling\" the. grounds and gathering* a stock of icebergs to ease off the strain of rhe, excited spectators. As all the horses that will be allowed to enter these contests are- owned by the citizens subscribing the money for the prizes, the- winners will \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDof paid in tin- same kind of ozone that they subscribed, and no on\" will be the loser. Mr. Taylor is enthusiastic over the possibilities of Ten Mile and the unlimited resources back of it. But above all, he would have us. impress upon the patriotic sons of Briton, the bubbling over of patriotism that will take place along the' trail from Ten Mile landing- to tlie summit And, too. that if any loyal son of the hammer and steel desires to partake of any of the bubbles they are orivileged to do so,.as it will be dished up in ozone represented as dollars to the tune of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents. He would have us place particular emphasis on the twenty-five cents. MlMUMJ*JMMMB\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDilHl,j aWMWM'ttlBM'M^'m^ BBuawiam-jMiit'uiMwatriMiijii*^ THE LEDGE, NEW DKJNVER, B.C., MAY 4, 1899. Sixth Year The Ledge. Published every Thursday. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCRIPTION\" RATES: ~ Three months \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD? .lh Six \" 1.25 Twelve \" . 2.00 Thkee years 5.00 Transient Advertising, 25 cents per line first in sertion, 10 cents per line subsequent insertions nonpareil measurement. TO CONTRIBUTORS. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Correspondence from every part of the Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on both sides of the paper if you wish. Always send something good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it s hot, and we will do the rest. A pencil cross in this square indicates that your subscription is due, and,that the editor wishes once again to look at your collateral. fBUKSDAY, n\IAY 4. 1899. AMO\G THE TENIJKKFEKT. Some years ago I wrote a few lines about visiting my old home and mother, so I will not repeat the description. It does not matter how many times a man visits his home and the scenes oi his youth, the greeting* is joyful, while the parting* has the same kind of sadness it had upon the first day that you plunged into the cold world and cut yourself loose from ties that are tender, yet the strongest in the world. No matter where we roam, how we live, or what, we do, nothing can shut out while the mind remains intact, the remembrance of home and a man's best friend\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhis mother. In the silvery west are many boys who. through' careless- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ness, neglect to write home. They should break this habit. If they only knew how a mother appreciates a letter from a son, they might write oftener. Just a little time, some paper, and two cents for postage will make many a glad heart. It is just a trifle, boys; bat how many will .take my advice ? Thirty years ago Petrolea was a hot town, much like western mining camps, but it has changed. It is no longer considered good form to get drunk and to paint the town a deep crimson. Poker is still played in secluded places, but the limit has fallen to fifty cents, and tbe game is but a shadow of its former self. The town is full of fine churches, and I attended several of them. The ante, I noticed as the plate went round, was from five to ten cents. There is no excuse for any one going to hell in the east. Every possible trail to heaven is re presented by earthly agents, and chnrches are to be found every few miles, it seems to be impossible for the wicked to keep on shift, although I was told that the footprints of Old Nick's hoofs were occasionally seen in some parts of the province. Petrolea is a great town for society. Balls and parties are prevalent, and in their own way the people are as important as New York's 400. Petrolea has its representatives in all parts of tlie world. In Borneo. Capt. Woodward lias a crew of men drilling for oil. His old partner, Bill McGarvey, has made millions in Austria. In Java, Sumatra, Africa, Australia, and many other countries. are men from Petrolea pounding the rock in search of petroleum. The tools they use are nearly all manufactured by McKenzie & Joyce. In British Columbia there are many former Petroleans, most of whom are making their mark in some of the many camps of this mountainous province. sideration. But in answer to it, we produce below an article on the earn ings A the United States mints, showing conclusively that, aside from the inestimable ad-vantage a Canadian mint would be in placing this country in its proper light before the nations of the world, it would, in a double sense, be a money making institution. The article reads: It is supposed generally that the United States Mint and the government assay offices and refineries are maintained for the public convenience and that the mint, like other branches or departments of the extensive Treasury service, is run pro bono publico, the government making up by appropriations the shortage ot each year. The recent public report of the director of the mint shows that Uncle Sam has a thrifty interest in the operations of the mint and its branches and makes a tidy profit from their operation eacn year. Last year the gross earnings of the mints and assay offices of the country \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthere are mints in-. Philadelphia, San Francisco, Carson City and New Orleans, assay offices at Denver, Boise, Helena, Charlotte, St. Louis, Deadwood and New York\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhere $1,495,000, of, which $173,614- was for parting and refining bullion, $10,040 for copper alloy, and $15,311 for meltieg, assaying and stamping charges. The seigniorage on the coinage of silver was $3,073,958, on F.ubsidiarv silver coinage $286,311, on ferable for the purpose of international exchange and settlement. 4. Because experience has demonstrated that paper is preferred to gold coin as a circulating medium, and bullion minted in Canada will not be retained in the country. 5. Because the coinage of gold would introduce an element of uncertainty and disturbance in the system prejudicial to the commercial and industrial interests of the country.\" K'fe-fcEiK&ta'^taJfaJ 4 Dam oetreal KIGHT-HOtJK, WORKING I>A*t. The black sheep among the black men in the Southern States are causing trouble that m ly end in a racial war and again deluge the South with bloo . The horrible scenes recently enacted in Georgia have startled the world, and proves that nineteen centuries of civilization and religion have not yet blotted the savage nature out of some people. The white \"women of the South must be protected, but would it not be better to ship all the negroes back to Africa rather than to burn one of them at the stake? Such a thing is a relic of barbarism and out of place amongst a nation of free people. minor coinage $1,031,000 and on the recoinage of minor coins $18,383. The value of the deposit in melting room grains and \"sweeps\" removed was $8726; the value of the surplus bullion returned was $53,024, and the gain on bullion shipped by the minor assay offices to the mint for coinage there was $6,665. The expenditure of the mint service, including wastage, loss on sale of sweeps, and expense of distributing minor coins, was $1,203,133. The net earnings for the year were $3,- 432,664. Some of the items of expense (the chief of which is. of c urse salaries and \"wages) illustrate the curiously complicated work of minting, which requires not only knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy, but considerable exactness in the use of materials and in the adaptation of dies and designs. For acids used in the mints and assay offices \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD27,400 i was spent by the government last year; for chemicals. $4,700; for wood, $6,075; for copper, $9,600; for firebrick, $1,300; and for zinc, $2,766. For gloves and gauntlets required by the mint workers, $8,100 was required; for gas, an aid to metallurgy, $14,7C0; for charcoal, $3,700; for oil, $1,100; for hardware, $1,400, and for crucibles and mechanical appliances, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD5,400. Varied as these items are, they do not exhaust the number of things required in the mint, for $200 was expended in lumber, $1,400 on ice, $500 for salt used in the refineries, and a small charge for flags needed for designs. Apart from gas, the fuel needed for mint and assay offices was of three kindsr-charcoal at an ex pens'e of $3,700, coke at an expense of $7,500, and coal at an expense of $17,000. One item, which to the un initiated seems large, is the item of sewing, $3,425. This sewing is required for the bags containing the metal or coins, in addition to $563 for barrels and $350 for bullion boxes \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Uncle Sam in his liberality made no appropriation for soap, it would appear, but the expense of laundering the towels (presumably \"it was giyen out\") was \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD3,000, and $2,200 additional for water. The item of wastage, so called, arising from work at the mint, and which is not a large one compared with the enormous operations of the mint, was $16,000, and some other minor items brought up the government's whole expense in the year to $1,250,000, or about 25 per cent, of the total receipts, the profit being represented by the other 75 per cent. ' Major Beattie has given notice that he will introduce a bill in the Dominion House to establish eight hours as a working day throughout Canada. The bill is entitled, \"An Act to determine the length of a working day tor workmen and laborers.\" and provides:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"1. That eight '--ours shall be the length of the working day for all workmen and laborers employed either permanently or temporarily, by any person or by awy contractor or sub-contractor under him. \"2. That every such person, contractor, or sub-contractor who has under him or who employs workmen or laborers, and who wilfully violates the provisions of this Act, is guilty of an indictable offence, and liable to a penalty not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment tor a term not exceeding six months, or to both penalty and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.\" The passage of such a measure would be the greatest stride forward that Canada has ever made, and would be of immeasurable good to the working masses. With such a law in force, the laboring men of Canada would have an opportunity of proving to the world that with less hours of labor and more of study and thought and home influence, a better and happier class of manhood and womanhood would come forth from the confines of Canada than the world has ever known. If this is a result of the recent eight- hour legislation of the Semlin Government, then it will have been of some service to mankind. Established 1817. Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : : 981,328.04 HEAD OFFICE, MONTEEAt. Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona a.id Mount Royal, G.C. M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E. S. Clouston, General Manager, ^ tt .Br,an,cnes ia a11 parts of Canada, Newfoundland,. Great Britain, and the United States. New Denver branch E. PI7T, Manager -\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\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"VS'TZ3--33Z-*Wairers Denver's Undertakers and Kmbuliner-i. N. B.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWe have the only practical Undertaker and Embalm or doing business in the Slocan. A &. Co., Juicy Tinware, Stoves, Miner's Supplies, Paints, Oils, Glass, &c. CANTON and JESSOPS' STEEL. CALIFORNIA GIANT Sloean City, B. C. POWDER. The Clifton House, Sandon. Has ample accommodations for a law. number of people. The rooms are large and airy, and the Dining- Room i.s provided with evoryOiing in the market \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSample Rooms for Commercial Traveler.*!. ' John Buckle}', Prop will make a new person of you. Buy your FLAGS for decorating on MAY 24th at 9 B.C. s Drug & tsook Store New Denver, Sunday hours: 2 to '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD p. m. Tender Mutton, and. Delicious Pork, always at your command at the New Denver Meat Market. Fresh Fish From the Briney Deep, Eggs & Butter from the plains of Western Canada, and SAUSAGES from New Denver. Shipments are made to any part of the country. If vou are in need of substantial nourishment no not overlook this ad. New Denver Meat Market New books are often valuable because they drive us to rend the old ones. Men consider men excusable for being men; but they want women to be angels. Dealers in Hardware, Tin and Granite ware, Miners'Supplies, Paints, Oils, Glass and Putty, Doors & Windows. XV S. Dkkwky Kaslo, B.C H. T.Twiors New Denver, B.C. DREWRY & TWIGG Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyors. Civil and Mining Engineers. Bedford, McNeil Code. iSTRashdall & Fauquier, Agents. in G-. FAUQUIER. NOTARY PUBLIC. Nakusp. B.C. |jOWARD WEST, Assoc. R\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD S M, London, Eng MINING ENGINEER, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, & ASSAYER. Properties' examined and reported on ;',,.- in tending purchasers. Assay office and Chemical Laboratory. I-ieMc- vne ave, New Denver. B C. H. MILLWARD, >ainter and/-* +r*.m Writer huh j\Ji L. GRIMMETT, L.L.B. BARRISTER, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc Sandon, B. C. Sixth Year. THE LEDOE, NEW DENVER, B.C., MAY 4 18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD9. WHEN THJE COOK WAS GONE. Oh, jolly were the days When the cook was gone ! To the pantry mother trotted And on tasty treats we lotted When she tied her apron, spotted, Neatly'round her ample waist. At her heels we children followed. Hardly our impatience swallowed. For the feast that never failed us When onr mother made the paste ! Oh, merry was Ihe house When the cook was gone! Mother's blue eyes gaily danced, In great glee w\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD children pranced, Snatohiur, scraps of sweet that chanced To esca pe her fingers fair. How she mixed and rolled and patted, Pricked and punched and deftly spatted, While we youngsters hovered 'round her Waiting each for generous share. What a jolly crowd we were When the cook was gone ! In the oven dainties baking, Lady-cook her leisure taking, Telling stories, laughter shakiug, To her hungry little flock. Then what peepings in the oven ; (Interludes of \"mother lovin \"') For no grim, gaunt cook was present Such performances to shock. Kitchen was a happy spot When the cook was gone ! When the pie was duly \"done,\" Then began the feast and fun ; Mother's laurels easy-won From the laughing critic-! there ! How the morsels nV\y apace! Dimples danced in mother's face. For the pantry mouse at last, Xot. a toothsome crumb to spare. But sorry was the day When th'ii cook .came back ! Mother in the parlor sat, Kilclieii ruled by cook and cal, Pantry mouse a growing fat, Children banished from the place. Baking days all davs of sorrow. \"('oodles\"set by till to-morrow, Dished out |ii\"./|!erly by mother With a very proper face. Would you have the best of times V Send the cook away .' Queen of Kitchen is the mother, She can cook as can no other, Without frowns and peevish bother, Cooketh she for love's dear sake. ! Peace will reign from floor to ceiling, All dyspepsia's ills a-healing. For there's not a thing goes criss-cross \" When the mother makes the cake ! \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD What'to Eat. j \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut welcome as the first May flowers | will be in the Yukon. j How quickly the news spread, and how ! the men gathered ! To sort it all in a ! day or two waa impossible; to keep the I letter-hungry men waiting equally diffi- 'cult; so our efficient Postmaster Hart- | niann, who is deservedly popular, com- I promised by taking alternate days for I sorting and delivering. Every other day I is post day at present, and every other j day the long lines wait in the sunshine j until their turn comes, and they are admitted, to leave by the rear door, grasping the long-looked-for missive. The later incoming mails are making excellent time. Your correspondent received one by last mail bearing the Ottawa stamp ot February 7, and the Dawson stamp of March 9. Thirty days means quick passage in view of the transcontinental passage, the water trip and 600 miles by dog sled. Those unfortunate criminals are re- | prieved again until Agust next, since the j second warrant of execution, sent on by , special messenger from Ottawa, and for- | warded as speedily as possible, arrived j just four days after March 2, the date | limit of the first reprieve. The mis- I chance in this instance is due to the lost j mail of No vein cer 10 last, which carried I to Ottawa official report of the first re- '-, prieve and its cause. The affair throughout reads like a ; chapter in a dime novel. But the Yukon | records are full of incident for the writer Ii of startling yellow backs.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFaith Fenton j in Toronto Globe. i , i Accommodations \"for every - i body at New Denver, May 24 ! FJ-'DEISAL Jj-STIMATES. Ripon, on October 28, 1893, signed an agreement, granting- a monopoly to the Eastern Extension Cable Company, and binding Great Britain neither to lay, or to assist anyone to lay and not to permit anyone else to lay a cable to Hong Kong or Singapore.\" A clause of the agreement also specifies that, if a cable was not laid between Canada and Australia in five years from the date of tlie agreement, then it would be deprived of any connections with Hong* Kong or Singapore. The five years have of course expired, and the \"monopoly has become permanent,unless Great Britain buys it out. There is a provision in the private agreement that permits England to, buy it out for \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD300,000, after a year's notice has been given. In the senate, Friday night, Sir Mackenzie Bowed, on behalf of the opposition, and Hon. Mr. Scott, for the government, talked strongly against this agreement, which has' just been unearthed, and of its whereabouts all this time nobody seems to have been in the least aware. Rossland's fast runners will meet all comers at New Denver on May twenty-four any such outpouring of unlimited capital into Canada as occurred in the case of South Africa and Australia. There will rather, be a steady development, which will be better. This would indicate that Mr. Bl&ckstock and Mr. Good- erham did not find in England anyone too anxious to buy War Eagle and Centre Star shares at their present prices. A Peculiar Town. California Wine Co., NELSON, B.C. Canadian ANDSOO LINE. New Denver i.s a peculiar town. It holds to high prices, which have obtained from its birth. Especially is this so in breadstuffs, resulting in living being much more expensive there than in the neighboring towns. The departmental stores in the east get a large percentage of the ready cash of the place, while the local business houses secure the credit list.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTribune. Wholesale Dealers in For those who want, the EAST best WEST To any point in United States or Canada and Get. Tour Photos Taken. ce Wines Fragrant Cigars. R. H Trueman will tent in Xe.vi Denver on May 9, 10, and 11. This will I be his only visit this season with the i tent,and everyone wishing photographs ; should not allow this opportumtv to ^ <-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.,. . T - \-r fade awav without taking advantage of, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDur Stock 1S the Largest in Kootenay it. ' I ~--\" Tourist Curs pass Kevelstoke daily for St. Pa ul Thursdays for Montreal and Boston; Tuesdays and Saturdays for Toronto. First-class Sleeper on all Main Line Trains. Tickets issued \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ation. and Baggage checked to destin Xo Customs Difficulties. CONNECTIONS Revelstoke and inaiii line points. 8:4.1k Daily: lv\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDeliverC. Siding\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDan Dailv Write for Prices. Itostoclc's Latest i-Vouk. I The Federal estimates for the next 1 fiscal year wuvu presented in Parlia- ! inent last week. Tlie total appropriations on consolidated revenue account j hear out Mr. Tarte's promise of increas- j ed expenditure, the increase shown in ; the main estimates being \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD555,000. i There is a prospective increase of $421,- 000 charges on public debt, $100,000 increase in the'interior Department, r Immigration Branch, and \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD270,000 in- how, by'a tone in . the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD cloud-hints, a | crease in Yukon government. softness in the air,'a promise in tlie i Themilitiaestiiiiatessliowan increase SBWS KKOiVI DAWSON. Dawson-City, March 15.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTo-day has brought us the first hint of spring. Only a hint, conveyed to us, we-hardly know sun-warmth, but it has touched each and all, so that we have said over one to another the magic word, \"Spring.\" The weather since mid-February has been variable and unusually windy for the windless Yukon Valley. The thermometer has ranged daily from zero ot midday to 30 below at night\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa considerable drop. But the past few days have been as delightful as any eastern March could be, bright and warm, the thermometer hovering about 10 and 14 degrees above zero, and a shy little mid- j .$'25,000; day \"drip, drip,\" sounding from sunny nooks. it will not last, of course. It would be mild March weather even for Ontario. We shall drop down into a brief frost world again. But we have had one hint, and spring is coming. There are advantages in a residence in the Yukon. We have known nothing of grippe, with its concomitant pneumonia. That is a growth of raw winds and damp, variable temperature. The late** winter months' are too still, too dry and clear and exhilarating, apparently to suit Monsieur La Grippe. It might as well be stated also that we have neither smallpox nor typhoid fever in Dawson, both of which diseases have been attributed to us by tiie eastern press. There lias never been a case of the former in the Yukon, in as far as can be discovered. The fever we have had, and probably shall have again when summer comes. But since November it. ! has been entirely in abeyance. The exact truth is that at the present j moment Dawson is remarkably healthy, j The disease of the winter has been j scurvy. The hospitals have been full of j patients thus afflicted; anil scurvy is a ' disease not of climate but of diet, dark-1 ness and dirt, three \"d's\" that form an j ugly triune in many a miner's cabin on I the creeks. The, miners are already beginning to i talk about the wash-up and to estimate I in advance the value of their dumps. I From best authority\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat of various j mining inspectors who spend their time | up aiul down the creeks\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1 understand that the promise is exceedingly good, and that twelve millions is computed as the lowest total estimate of the June output. The chief interest still centres around Dominion creek. It is especially good between the Discovery claims and as far as 20 miles below Lower Discovery. Only two blank claims have been found in this wide range. Hunker is more \"spotty,\" as the term is. The gold vein is freakish, and skips about a good deal. But the benches on the right hand side, which have been only recently staked, are excellent, and promise to rival Gold Hill. The owners of a claim near Upper Discovery on Dominion had a surprise last week, when they went through what they liad supposed to be bed-rock and struck a second gravel paystreak richer than the one they had been working above. Commissioner Ogilvie thinks that, this is once instance of many where miners are working above a false bedrock, beneath which is a deposit of another age. Quartz mining is likely to develop if a certain specimen which we saw assayed last week be any indication of the general value of quartz in the Yukon. This bit of rock was found within 40 miles of Dawson, and assayed $1,500 to the ton\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa fortune to the men who own the claim. It is yet to be proved, however, whether this .richness is general to any extent or a matter of a few rare spots. The Mining Recorder's office is as busy these days as in the big stampede of July and August last. The I of $100,000 in drill appropriations, it j being the intent-ion to give 12 days' drill j for the entire force j Tlie defence of Esquimalt under the ; new arrangement with the Dominion [Government is to cost Canada over | $30,000 per annum, and Canada will I pay SOI.OOO for further works at this fortress The Columbia. River improvements above Golden are down for 81,000; Columbia river improvements in narrows between Upper and Lower Arrow lake. Columbia River, removal of rocks above Revelstoke, 83,000; Duncan river improvement; $3,000; Fraser river, improvement of ship channel,etc., 825,000; general repairs and improvements to harbor, river and bridge work, 83,000 ; Kootenav river improvement below Fort Steele, $5,000. Nanaimo Harbor, improvement of south channel, etc . 810,000: Skeena river, 85,000; William Head Quarantine Station, additional wharf accommodations and improvement of water service, $4,000. Kamioops, Post Office. 83,000; Vancouver Drill Hall, site given free of cost, 822,000. Victoria new post office, etc., including furniture, 810,775; William Head Quarantine Station, quarters for crew, alterations, improvements, furniture, instruments, etc , 83,000. Theship channel between Quebec and Montreal is to cost 8100,000 more than last vear lu the house of .commons last Aveek Hewitt Rostock's bill to compel railways to issue passes to members of the senate and commons came up for its second \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"ending, but was killed. Mr. Bostock spoke briefly in justification of the bill, lie said his purpose was to dispel the idea that is so prevalent that railway coinpanics issue passes to legislators in order to get something in return. Kail- way men had told him that passes were issued merely as continuing ' an old practice and not for the purpose of influencing anyone. As railway companies issued passes anyhow, the bill would inflict no hardship upon them, and in order that members of parliament might legislate intelligently, it was desirable that they should travel extensively. Sir Charles Tupper warmly attacked the bill, and asked whether Mr. Bostock 's purpose was to make Canada an The Queen Bess Proprietary Company Ims announced an interim dividend of j Op. per share. i J. E Angrignon The Leading HOTEL HEATED HY and Electric Bells iiinl Light HOT AIR ii every room.... Bosun Block. New Denver, B.J 50k S:3;.l- ex.Sun-llv X. Denver Ldg-'ar ex. Sun. 10:00k NKl.SOX, THAU., HOSSLANII, ETC. -v. Sun: Iv X. Denver Ldg: arex.Sun U.OOk \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/\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDOk i Ascertain rates and full information bv addressing nearest local agent or-- G. B. GARRETT, AgonlXeiv Denver. W. F. Anderson, Tray. I'ass. Agt.. Nelson. h. J. Coyle, Dist. Pass. Apt., Vancouver. How to yet there is via C. 1\ Ry & Soo Dine. ie m SYSTEM. object of contempt aud a laughing stock of the whole world. If there was any excuse for the bill it would be different, but the railways of Canada were in the habit of extending the courtesy of passes to all legislators, without regard to party, and no one considered the acceptance of passes in any way influenced the recipients The railways in issuing passes were consulting-their own interests in giving members of parliament an opportunity of seeing the country and its progress\" and the good works the railways themselves \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwere carrying on Proceeding, Sir Charles said the bill was an infringement on private rights, and the farce might as well be continued by providing free tickets for dining cars. He said the house had the power but not the right, to use the property of any corporation, or convert it to their own use. Drilling Contest for the boys of the hammer and steel at New Denver, Mav 24th Tli\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD- Cliiu-tei- Not Abandoned. Large and well lighted Sample Rooms Hourly Street, Car bel ween hotel and Station. Free bus meets all trains Reasonable Rates. ^^-.^REVELSTOKE PIONEER. HOUSE OF THAT CITY. DO NOT FORGET IT WHEN IX SANDON R. CUNNING, Proprietor. Jo . C J. K.CLARK, MINING ENGINEER Reports made on Mining- Properties in any section of Kootenay. NEW DENVER General Drayman, Ice, Wood XELSOX & FORT SHEP'l>A KD CO. RED MOUNTAIN RY CO. The all rail and direct route between the Kootenay ..District and.. All British Columbia Fonts Pacific Coast Points Puget .Sound Points Eastern Canada and the United States. I-Iav and Grain for Sale. Filled. 9 Ice Houses Livery amid Bait Stables. SANDON B. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDC. Field and Aquatic Sports for one and all at New Denver celebration, on May 24th Outre Slur T>ravrs First Blood. The great lawsuit of tlie Iron Mask and Centre Star developed rather sensational features last Friday, when expert Clarence King* finished his testimony. ! Mr. E. P. Davis made a formal application to do certain experimental work in that part of the disputed ground known as the Centre Star winze This is the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhirdtiine tiie defendants have made this motion to examine the plaintiff's workings, in order to demonstrate the truth of the facts alleged by them. Twice they have failed, but Friday they \"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDained the wished-for order. Mr. E V*. Bodwell, for the plaintiffs, most vigorously opposed the order, and tlie whole of tlie court's time was taken up with the consideration of the application. At the conclusion of the argument, Mr. Justice Walkem delivered judgment, allowing defendants access to the plaintiff's working's and'granting them leave to do the further work asked. Mr. Bodwell at once asked for a stay ol proceedings until an appeal could be heard, but it was final ly. arranged that all details, including the exact form of tlie order, should be settled when the court met the next morning It was, however, only tiie details that would come up, as the court had already granted tlie order asked. Mr. Bodweil stated that, without question, he would insist on an adjournment of the whole case until an appeal from the order could he disposed of, and, if the order was finally allowed on appeal, a further adjournment would be necessary. There is no doubt the plaintiffs will 'resort: to any and every possible means to prevent the carrying out of the order. It i.s beyond doubt a great victory for the Centre Star people. The granting of the motion will be a substantial advantage, in anv event of the case. Winnipeg, April 24.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Free Press publishes the following Ottawa despatch, dated April 23: There is some misapprehension in connectian with the Kettle River valley railway bill. The report that tlie bill has been withdrawn is incorrect. The bill was not introduced this session, so that it could not be withdrawn. Mr. Bostock is also made to appear in a report in a Toronto newspaper as if he was acting as the sponsor of a bill, which some railway companies have been able to induce hi in to abandon. The truth of the whole matter is that Mr. Coi'bin,who was promoting the bill last year, could not come to Ottawa in time this session to look after it, as he is engaged in a lawsuit at Rossland, and therefore has decided to leave the matter alone until next year. As for Mr. Bostock, he has not abandoned or withdrawn anything. IJivirieml Payers Wanted. Travelers Will Iind tho Arlington Hotel it jjleasant place to stop al when in SI can City. GET MING & HENDERSON. Proprietors. CERTIFICATE OF 1 PA PROVED E NTS \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.Majestic and Uiu-xiH-eted Mineral Claims Situate in tlii.- Sloe.-ui Citv Mining Division 0f Wesr, Kootenay District. Where located: On Payne Mountain, near Sandon. 'PAKE NOTICE, that I. Francis J. O'Reillv. 1 agent J or Frank H. Bourne, free miner.-' certificate No. los-'f) A. and Charles French, free miner's certificate- No. 12018. intend, sixty days; from the date hereof to apply to the .Mining Recorder for certilicates of improvements for the purpose of outlining Crown grants of the above claims. And further take notice that action under section Ti must he commenced before the issuance of such certilicates of improvements. Dated this 1st dav of Mav. lSfiji, my-i \" FRANCIS J. O'REILLV. Connects at Spokane with GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY O. R. R. & NA VIG ATION CO. Leaves Nelson 9:40 a. nu Maps furnished/rickets sold and information given hy local and connecting- line Ticket agents C. G. DIXON, G. P. & T. A. Spokane, Wash NAVIGATION &TRADINCCO, LTD. Hummer Time Card effective June -iO, 18!'S. Subject to e. linn go without, notice. SS. South Bound Read down. D R. A.S. MARSHALL. Dentist. Kaslo, 13 C Graduate of American College of Denial Surgery Chicago Monday, Monday Fractional, .Sunshine, Kusa Fractional, Yakima, Or\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD?gon and Mini.\" Mineral Claims. T; UIEE Nelson, B. C. Merchant Tailor. Brass Band will ; supply the music and give season many men who staked claims at this : >^\"(-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\y Deliver timelast year are in from the creeks to 1 renew them, and long lines of waiting figures form outside the office at an earlv hour in the morning to remain : \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD . . ,. without apparent diminisfiment until j Olie OI tlieil\" tavOl'lte COllCertS closing time. The same may be said of the post- ; and balls 111 BoSUll hall, 24th office. The North-West, Mounted Police, who accomplish anything they undertake, and they are not afraid of undertaking big things, have gathered up the delayed and halting incoming mail of all the past months, and swept it with a swift run of dogs and men clean down to Dawson The splendid dog teams, with their laden sleds, came in day by day, bringing in mail of September, October, Januarv and February\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa fumbled heap A Monopoly Granted. A bombshell was hurled at the promoters of the Pacific c-ible scheme, in the Ottawa senate on Friday nig-ht. A private agreement, made ciway back in lS9:->, between Great Britain and tlie Eastern Extension Cable Company.was brought down. It showed that'Lord J. Roderick Robertson, manager of the London & British Columbia Gold Fields, returned on Saturday night from a two months' visit to the old country. Ha states that business in Engla nd is good in every iine, the shipbuilding and iron industries being especially active and operated to their fullest capacity. Interest in Kootenay mining development is increasing in London and so soon as some of the mines of the Nelson and Trail Creek districts become dividend payers there will be no dearth of British capital for investment in Kootenay mining propositions.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTribune. POINTED I'AJIAGKAPHS. Youth is :i theory, but old aye is a fact. A budding* g'onius doesn't always turn out to be the flower of the family\" Some men want tlie earth, but the down-town merchant is usually satisfied if allowed to appropriate the sidewalk. A Kentucky man made counterfeit money with which to pay his board and the judg*e decided tbat he was entitled to board and lodging* for seven years. Don't Expect too .Much. T. G. Blackstock and Georg-e Good- erham of Toronto have just returned from a trip to England. Discussing' the question of British capital coining' for investment in Canadian mining' enterprises, Mr. Blackstock says there will be plenty of it. The feelHg' is good towards Canada and the improvement in Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific stocky has strengthened it. But one point which should lie impressed is,that Canadians are holding their properties at much too high a figure to enable, old country investors to take hold of them. This refers particularly to parti v developed nuning properties. Mr. Blackstock bids Canadians, however, not; to expect Full Line of fc'uitimys and Trouserings a-lways on hand. J. M. M. BENEDUM, Silverton. Situate in the Slocan Mininsr Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: At the head of Howson Creek. AKE XOTTCE Ihat I. William S. Drewry, act- inf*- as iifri'iir lor the .Sunshine Minimi Company. Limited. Free Miner's certificate No. 12071 A. intend, sixty davs .from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining- Recorder for certificate-; of improvements, for'the purpose of obtaining a crown srr-mt of each nf the above claims. And further take, notice that action under See. 37 inu.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDl lie commenced before the issuance of such certilicati-s of iiiiprnvemciiis. Dated this''hi (lay of October. 18!'X. W. S. DREWRY- Havana iMiiu-i-nl -t'laim. IXTERNATIOXAL. Xorth Hound Read up. SANIlOX Train lvs Dally. 1.0(1 pm Train ar dailv lC-.-iO am kaslo '\" ar \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' H.-ifl pm Train lv '' SBoat lv .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*.Sii,im \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKaslo\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Boat i -. \" t.3ti am Ainsworth \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD< \" .1.00 am Pilot Bay it \" .1.30 am Balfour XBoiitar'i.40 am. Five Mile Pf \" \" 7.15 am Xelson \" 1 ='Trainar 10.0.1 am Northport. Train lvi.,1.1 -pm>> = \" 1120 am Rossland \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD- lt.nft \n\rc \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD< \" 3lopm Spokane \" s.Siiami S.00 am rS.H0pmy 7.30 pm 5 li.-lfi pm = '1.10 pm'' :~>.2S pm x \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDl.l.i pm - SS. ALBERT A. Read down. Rend u--. Sandon Daily train Iv l.On pin Daily train ar m.so am Kaslo \" ar 3.-1.1 pm \" lv s.no am H Boat Iv .1.00 pm M.o&T Boat ar 1.00 pin oj-g \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.20pm Ainsworth Boat\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ,-ir 11.40 pm_ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD- \" oo pin Pilot-Bay \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 11 no pm t FOR CROI IERS. BEADS. St Anthony's Medals*. Little Chaplet of St. Anthony and Cancelled Postage Stamps, write to Agency Bethlehem Apostolic School, 3.13 Shaw St., Montreal, Que. Situate in the Siocan Mininir Division of West Kootenay District. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Where located: On North Kork of Canienlcr Creek, about one and one-half miles from Three Forks, B. C. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpAKE XnTICKlhat I. E. M. Sandilands. V. M. 1 (*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. Xo. 1U32A. .-iK-ent for Henrietta Gintzlmr- M-pr. F.M.O.No. 3:!nf> intend.kTrain Iv 11.40 am \" Train ar \" \" ar 2.4.1 pm Spokane \" lv \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.oo pm--*-\" (i.OO pill^y .1.00 pm C -'.oo pm-r l.l.i pm p 7..10 aitrE SPECIAL-.KOOTENAY LAKE SERVICE, Commencing -lime 20,18\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDs. On Monday, Thursday and Friday s.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Alburn* will leave Kaslo .1 p. m. for Ainsworth, Pilot Bav. and Xelson. Lecvinv Nelson at s a. m., Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, callin-,-at Pilot Bay Ainsworth and Kaslo, and all way points. GEORGE ALEXANDER, Gen'l Me-*- P. O. Box Vlt. Kaslo. B.C. TIME CARD There are many way Of lifting- the load of trouble from the shoulders of the weary, wayworn traveller as he passes on his way. To know just what to do and when to do it lias puzzled the minds of some of the greatest hotel men of the age. We do not claim any great superiority over others, but we have learned by close attention to the requirements of our patrons what best pleases them and adds to the comforts and popularity ot onr house. Pioneers of the Slocan were our patrons when the clouds of adversity darkened the trails of every camp in Kootenay. and they are with us still now when the suns of prosperity shine forth in splendor making mellow the heart of mam J^CW DCMCY ^ifcBBB-^^JACOBSON & OO. Taking- effect 1.00 o'clock a. m Jan. 3, 1899, Pacific or 120th Meridian time. Subject to change -without notice Leave s oo \" s :\2 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD fi 8(1 \" !l -I.i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD !l .1.1 ** 111 12 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD in :a \" io \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*.*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD An*. Id to A.M. Kaslo South Fork Spronle's Whitewater Bear Lake McGuifran Hailey's Cody Junction Arrive, ;i .1.1 .S L'O 2 L'.l 2 10 \" 2 lill 1 -1.1 1 .-5I 1 :.'S Leave 1 1.1 P.M Arrive, ii./vji .-t.iii Leave. 11..I.i a.m '* 11.3.1 ll.HI Sandon CODY LINE Leave, ll.ona.m \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Sandon \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 11.1\" \" Codv Junction Arrive, ll.-.'.l \" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ' Cody - ROBT. IRVING, Traffic Mnpr. GEO. F. COPELAND, Suiieruitendci..' For clieun railroad and steamship tickets ti, and from all points, apply to S. CAMPBELL, Agent, Sandon. Tlie Prospectors' Assay Office Brandon, B. C, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDJ \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\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD0 Mercury >> Iron or Manganese t 2 u(t Lime, Magnesium, Barium. Sili&.-i,' S11Y- phnr, eaeli !!.... 2 00 Bismuth,Tin, Cobalt. Xickel. Antimony,' Zinc, and Arsenic, each -...\".. .| no Coal (Fixed Carbon, Volatile Mutter. Ash, and percentage of Coke, if Cokrop Coal) v Terms: Cash WUIi .Sample. Junel'Dtll. 189.1. FRANK DICK, Assayer ;ui.-l Anal est THE LEDQE, NEW DENVER, B.C., MAY.4/1899. Sixth Year TO THE PIED PIPER. Years ago, in Hamelip's city, Hamelin, doomed, for brokeu vow, To tbe silence and the sorrow- That my soul is dreading- now. In your wrath you lured the children By your music weird and sweet. Till they left their toys and mothers, Followed you with eager feet. All but one of all their number. All that laughing, dancing tide, Reached at last the wonderous portal Opened in the mountain side. Vet you charm all crippled children, Since that poor, lame boy stood still, Listening for your mystic music. Left alone against his will. So you come, my child alluring. Till he longs to join your train : All in vain my tender pleading, Tears and moaning all in vain 1 He has heard your sweet, low music, And the hectic glow burns bright, For he longs to join the dancers, Step, like them, so gay and light. He believes thai in that country. Are no tired nor crippled feet\"; So he longs to heai yoii call him With your music soft and sweet. But I cannot hear the music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD I can only hear the wind, And the ceaseless sobbing, sobning, Of tlie sad hearts left behind. All life's music., all ils brightness. All the joy that earth can know. All life's sweetness\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDdie forever, I f you bid roy darling go. Oh ! forgive those broken pledges ! Let me share ray loved one's joy ! Let, me hear your'ui.igic music, Let me follow with my boy. LEAD S.MK I/\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>'<' INDUSTRY. Iii a recent issue oi the Toronto Globe the following' interesting- letter relating* to the lead industry in Canada appeared. '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Trail-.smelter under the Canadian Pacific\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD management has invested close on $-200,00 in improvements iu its copper plant and in building* modern lead smelting works. The product of this smelter will be lead bullion, consisting of about 05 per cent. lead, about 2 per cent, silver and gold and the balance copper and impurities. This product will be refined in Canada, but it would be at a considerably greater expense than the rates charged by the U. S. refineries. As soon as it is possible to successfully smelt, in competition with American smelters, enough lead ore to produce 50 or more tons per day of bullion, a refinery will be built, but to attempt to operate one on the present low tonnage would only actasa burden on the lead smelting\" industry. Consequently for the present, bullion produced in Canada can be far more cheaply refined m the United States in bond, and the resulting lead sold in the English market. \"There is at present a duty of 15 per cent, on pig lead from the United States, and 15 per cent., less a differential of 25 per cent., on pig iron lead from England. Most of the pig lead consumed in Canada, therefore, comes from England, and a Canadian smelter is forced to sell its lead in England, and probably exactly the same lead is shipped back into Canada. This makes lea-'-smelting in Canada very difficult, and no amount of encouragement by the Government in the form of bounties can remedy this difficulty. \"It is evident that a Canadian smelter or producer should receive the Government's support in the matter of giving him the benefit of the Canadian market, which is higher than the English market, but not quite so high as the United States market. This\" can easily be done by simply allowing the pig lead resulting from the refiniiig in bond in the United States of Canadian bullion, back into Canada, free of the Canadian duty of 15 per cent, it is true, the Canadian market is small, there being but 3,000 tons of pig lead consumed annually, but the Slocan miner of lead ores, and the Canadian smelter, should have the benefit of their own small Canadian market rather than be forced to ship the pig lead to England, back to Canada, and then pav 15 per cent, duty, less 25 per cent, perfer- j ential, upon his own lead, which actual- j ly originated in Canada . \"The largest use for lead is iu connection with the manufacture of dry white lead, red and orange, and litharge. The duties upon the above range from nothing to live per cent , and they are consequently al' imported and amount to 6,500 tons per year. All the above would and could be manufactured in Eastern Canada were duties made about as follows\" Dry white lead, raised from 5 per cent, to 20 per cent.; white lead, ground in oil, raised from 25 per cent, to 80 per cent.; red lead raised from 5 per cent, to 20 per cent.; lith arge, raised from free to 20 per cent. objection to overhand work is \"the great danger from falling rock and the liability to guard against it. These upraises or winzes serve several purposes of ventilation, sub-division of the vein, and, when mining* operations are begun, the upraise is timbered and becomes a chute for the delivery of the ore. In the overhand method of working out a vein, after the levels have keen driven and the vein blocked out by the upraises into blocks of 150 feet iii length and the width of the vein, then tne workable blocks of vein matter are stoped from the upraise both ways for r distance of 75 feet. The miners begin at the upraise and break away a slice as wide, as the vein and fi or 7. feet high. The ore is then picked over and j delivered at the level below. After a slice has been removed, the mill hole is timbered the height of the slice remov- , .,->\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD, with close laid round logs of about G ! APnl 29th : inches in diameter. One slice after an- | Prom sandon other is removed until the upper level is reached and the block is exhausted. It is not uncommon in the working of veins -whvfch are entirely pay dirt to allow the broken ore to \"gather inthe waste space to such convenient height as will give the miners a footii. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD* The excess is removed, and the accumulation is removed as soon as the stope is exhausted. The ore which accumulates in the chute is drawn off as rapidly as circumstances will permit. The chute is never emptied, but is relieved only of excess. This plan prevents the rolling of the ore down the chute, and so prevents an excessive pulverization of the ore. As rich ore is usually brittle, the loss induced by such pulverization would be great. the Slocan alone could, I believe, more than supply the Canadian demand for lead, and attention would have to be turned to the export market. The case of silver is more simple owing to its small bulk, and market could easily be found abroad. If the agitation in favor of a Canadian mint were to be successful, and were to be followed by the prohibition of American money as\" legal tender, a limited home market would also be created. At the present time nearly half the silver (and all the gold) in circulation in this Province is United States currency.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYours faithfully. G. Noel Brown;, A.R,S.M. SLOCAN ORE SHIPMENTS. Total shipped July 1 to Dec. 31, 1898, 17,994 tons. January 1st, 1899, to Cash prizes and no wind given to contestants in New Denver sports, Queen's Daj WlI^L WIPE DON.VLJ) OFF THK MAP. Payne Last Chance Slocan Star...:.. Sapphire Coin Ajax Sovereign Reco.. Ivanhoe Treasure Vault.. Trade Dollar.... Liberty Hill From Three Forks Idaho Mines , Queen Bess Wild Goose .Monitor. From While water. Whitewater Jackson Hell Wei ling-ton From McGnhAin. Antoine Kanibler Dardanelles Great Western .. From New Denver. IJiiSUll Marion From Silverton. Fidelity.-. ...... Vancouver Wakefield Emily Edith OoiHStoek -. Week. . 250 . 80 17 1S Total. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD1,101 l.tlGO 123 IS 12 \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD10 20 ' 180 lli> 112 18 lifiO 1.1 Ml Iii -.'lio si I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHil) .'Id 11 lo 1 !'f> 80 ! J8| 120 20 3 320 580 iill 120 Carloads of Flour and Feed Notfor May 24th only, but for all time and for all people. You will find the largest stock of Best Flour and Breakfast Cereals AT HOBEN'S Specials in these lines offered to patrons. Prices made a matter of inducement to big buyers in these lines\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDto the mines and hotels anj'- where in the Slocan. Do not let this slip your mind when you want a supply of Fresh, Sweet and Juicv Ham and Bacon, or Canned Goods of any kind, that the best place to get it is AT HOBEN'S Mail orders. New Denver, B. C. FLOOR OIL CLOTH and LINOLEUM. LACE CURTAINS and WINDOW SHADES. SANDON These are all New Stock, New Patterns and New Prices. unter Bros. =^ROSSLAND am tsros, Wholesale Wines, Liquors and Cigars. All orders by mail promptly attended to. Total tons... 382 12,2112 Ca.n-uliaii P:ici(ii- Remove* Its Term m-.uk From Tit eve Division Word from Grand Forks states that the Canadian Pacific road has been giving the \"throw-down\" to Donald, the eastern terminus of tlie Pacific division. By a recent edict of Sir William Van Home, the railway mon learned that within-a few weeks the work shops and the. divisional point will be transferred to Kevelstoke, a station 79 miles-further west. As a result the town has already become neaily depopulated. Donald until a few weeks ago was a prosperous and charmiiijcly situated village in the shadow of the, Selkirks. For many years it lias been an important supply point for the mining country about it and at the great bend of the Columbia below. There are two townsitesat, Revelstoke. The old town is located on the banks of the Columbia river, but the Canadian Pacific laid out a new town at tlie railway station a mile away. Tlie Golden Era in its last issue says on the occasion of the recent visit of jMi*. D'Arcy, claims agent of the Canadian Pacific, to Donald, that everybody was on tiptoe to learn the decision of the company in regard to compensation to be paid the residents of the town who suffered damage by the action of the company in removing the divisional and work shop point from Donald. Mr. D'Arcy met the leading residents of the town and told them that the only thing the Canadian Pacific could do for them was to allow them transportation in seeking new business sites and in transferring *dieir effects to new locations. No cash compensation would be allowed. The citizens expressed dissatisfaction at the proposition, and said it was no settlement at all. They contended that the effect of Mr. D'Arcy's proposal was tantamount to saying that the Canadian Pacific accepted no responsibility for their townsites, but might destroy a townsite when they chose to remoye the means of supporting it. The public thus have no pledge of good faith from the company in purchasing lots in their townsites. Mr. D'Arcy replied that the company gave and would give no g-uaranty of support to any of their | townsites or of the continuation of their operations there, if it should at any time better meet the economic working of the road to remove to some other point. Syo Is now prepared to buy all JOHN WILLIAMS Dealer in IMPORTED AD DOMESTIC CIGARS ^TOBACOOES, PIPES, &Q. Van Camp Lunch Goods, Confectionery and Fruit. BATHS IN CONNECTION. Newmarket Block. New Denver HOLESALE SILVER-GOLD Also all classes ot metallurgical products. Prompt settlement made on day ot arrival at the sampler. Lowest rates regarding- treatment. The careful attention given to the largest consignments will be extended to the smallest shipper. Communications will receive prompt attention. Established l\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD!).r). E. M. SANDILANDS, g. m. Mcdowell, Manager. Address\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDP. O. Drawer D. O. M. Rosenclale, Purchasing Agt. WE ARE GIVING SPECIAL A ENTION TO SANOOX, n. c. Mining; Stocks bought, and Sold. General A.w.nt, for Slocnii Properties. - - Promising -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDProspects ForS-ilc-.. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The Agents for B. C Sugar Refinery and Roval City Planing Mills.\" Nakusp, Provides ample nnd pleasant accommodation lor the travel Telegrams for rooms promptly attended to. HENRY STEGE,' - - - - \"' - ing public. Proprietor. Jas. AL Patterson Dealer in ti i-oml'ort.-ible hotel for travellers to stop at. Mrs. McDougaM. Angrignon Sent by mail for OUR LEAD PRODUCT. .sistent assuming*, the 15 per cent, duty to remain on pig lead, as it should, excepting* that it should not be charged on pig- lead coming- from Canadian bullion. But with the above, charge there \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwould be a demand for 10,000 tons of Canadian pig lead per year the miner of the Slocan would, receive more for mining* their ore, and ore would be mined\" and smelted in Canada, which can not profitably be handled to-day: a refinery would soon follow; white lead works,\" red lead and litharge works would and could be profitably established in eastern Canada, and also the lead smelting problem, so called, would be solved without bounty, export duty, or any of the foolish laws which have been suggested Practically all the British Columbia lead ores would be smelted and refined in British Columbia, and the resulting piv: lead would be sold in eastern Canada, to be manufactured into lead pipe, white lead, litharge, etc.. while the surplus would find a good market in China and Japan. '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThere might be such strong nbjec- letter appears in a the B. C. Review, of is of considerable in- The followin1 recent issue of London, which terest: Three Forks, B.C., March 27th, 1899. I Sat,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDYour correspondents, Messrs. Heatley and Company, in a recent issue of your paper, convey a somewhat false impression aw to the bad smelting industry in British Columbia. The two smelters now in the market for lead ores in this Province have no refinery, nor is there an institution of the kind in Canada. Thus.they are compelled to dispose of their unrefined pig lead either in the. United States or in' Europe. While the tariff of the former country imposes a duty of U cents per lb. on lead iii ore, the duty is no less than 2i cents per lb. on lead in to the States, they are fined jj cents per Hi. on tlie lead they have smelted. This is enough to counteract the difference in freight rates As a matter of fact, one at least of the two ioral smelters, is, I believe, dispos- Upon receipt of your watch we examine it, then drop vou a post card, stating what repairs are required and the cost. By the time we have received your remittance, your watch has been repaired and regulated and is ready to return. NEW DENVER Dealer in HAY, GRAIN, ICE, WOOD, Etc Livery and Feed Stables, General Dray ing. Teams meet all boats and Trains. Stationery ASLO hotel Family & Commercial. arge And and a complete line, of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' DR. MILLOY, DENTIST Rooms in Virginia Blk, Sandon. Eyes tested and glasses fitted for any vision Whitewater, B.C. Comfortable Rooms Fitted with every modern **.* convenience. Special protection against fire. Rates $2.50 and $3 per day. COCKLE & PAPWORTH, Proprietors. rcii ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TICKETS. To and from European points via Canadian and American lilies. Apply for sailing dates, rates, tickets and full information to any C. P. Ry agent or\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD G. U. GARRETT. C. P. R. Agent, New Denver. WM..STITT, Sen. S. S. Ag-t., Winnipeg*. BRICK FOR SALE. J\"OHX .GOETTSCHE, NEW DENVER. F.E. MORRISON, dds. DENTIST Crown, Plate and Bridge work. Office. Broken Hill Blk. Nelson. All work Guaranteed. Agent for the famous Hamilton Hampden Watches. G, W. GRIMMETT, Jeweller .aed Optic!aw, Sancta, WILSON HOTEL Notice to th tion tn raising* duties mi white lead, red j 'lu'A' lead, litharge, etc.. that it would he useless tn attempt, tu have any change: Inn. in* any event, the Government should place ns in a position :-:o that we could furnish the rt.'MO tens of pin* lead ictual demand. England then Joe which there is an without shipping* it to paving duty.\" I'PIIAISK OI! WINZE. upraising* and whizing s in metal mines, the ieape.1* method, says the Scientific Press. Gravity removal and blasting- of men will upraise, from I feet in hard rock in a single shift hole. I.\-! feet. The. work is much As between between levc former is the c 3\IiiiiMii* and assists in tin the ore to i; in a '.VII The. easier on on the men. as they have no ore to shove,!, while in the winze two men with tiie aid of the two men at the windlass, will only sink from 2 to 2h feet in a shift in fair rock The serious of its unreliiied bullion in the world's market, where the. price of lead i> considerably lower than the g'ross price in the States The price, of lead in London on I'cbruary 24*di was \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'1-1 per long' ton. while that paid by the American Mitelters on the, same date ; was $1 '2 the American duty. While reciprocity in this matter would \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD be of g-reat assistance to the mines in I this district, a total removal of the duty ! on lead in ore and bullion would be of , j comparatively little use to us, as the. | j artificially high price of the metal would i soon fall, and correspond more or less . ' closely with that of the London market, j If reciprocity is found to be impossible of attainment, an effort will doubt-I less be made sooner or later to establish | a Canadian refinery, and to develop a ! market in the Dominion. The mines of i Headquarters tor Mininy Commercial Men. TEETER BROS, Slocan City Proprietors Call Has removed from his old stand in The Slocan News Co. building*. to next door to / Donaldson's Drug Store, SANDON. BRACELETS, SKIRT PINS, AND ONE HUNDRED DIFFERENT VARIETIES JUST RECEIVED FROM THE MANUFACTURERS. Flee Watch Repairing Oiaaramiteed Send by Mail or Expresi OOV1 Nelson, >=>C,"@en . 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