The Prospector
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-06-27
issued: 1914-05-02
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note: WATCH REPAIRING is a live-issue here No slip-shod jobs, Wilson - Jeweler \yt Ifea ■y^s&fciw \uQu ' The Leading Newspaper in the Kootenays The "Prospector" $2.00 Per Year VOLUMNE CRANBROOK, B. SATURDAY MORNING MAY 2nd, 1914. No 18 Enthusiastic Pre-emptors File Their Claims 67 New Settlers for the Cranbrook District. The Forward Movement has begun About 10,(100 acres uf IokrmI-oJ lands, expired timber licences In thc Oranbrook district, surveyed and subdivided Into blocks ol from 40 to 160 acres wns thrown open for preemption on Friday, May 1st. Tho land is agricultural, nml is situated nortli ot Cranbrook, and on the tain ous St. Mary's Prairie, while otber lands are located along the Kootenay river. The group nearest Cranbrook arc subdivisions of former timber licences on the south of 8t. Mary's river the nearest lots belns within three miles of ('ranbrook, the greater portion lying between St. Joseph creek and Perry creek. The soil throughout this group is generally sandy loam, with gravelly soil ln places. Land in the vicinity produces excellent crops without irrigation. Another block some five miles north, on the cast of the Kimberley railway, and still another block south of Fort Steele was thrown open. None but British subjects will be allowed to file applications, and all applicants must be on their land within sixty days after receiving notice that their applications have been granted. It was on Wednesday morning when George Parnaby, the. first applicant' came armed with an armchair and madi* himself comfortable at the'front door of the Government offices; others followed at intervals until when thc roll was taken at night it was seen that ten applicants were either rolled in blankets and sleeping, or amusing themselves the best tbey knew how to pass the time of the long vigil in front of them. The purpose of these were to be ths flrst apnlicants for various sections of logged-ofl lands, embracing 152 lotB -nneing'from 40 to 660 acres in extent. Among the app…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cranbrook (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0200776
language: English
lat: 49.5080556
long: -115.746944
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cranbrook, B.C. : A.B. Grace
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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