The Cumberland Islander
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2017-02-07
issued: 1923-02-03
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note: y- ■"5^ CUMBERLAND ISLANDER W8I fl , - .- With which it consolidated the Cnmberland News. 2* FORTY-SECOND VEAR—No. 5. CUMBERLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NEW SEAM BEING DEVELOPED AT No. How Coal Seam to be Developed Shows Oood Quality Conl—Tenders Being Celled immediately. A new seam of coal has been developed below the upper seam which has Just been abu.u'.oned In No. 5 mine. The coal also extends throughout the area known as tho Farm. It ls the Intention ot the Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited to proceed with thc development of this seam at once. Boreholes already down show this seam In workable thickness over an area of more than Iwo square miles. Tenders Now Being Called Tenders are now Icing called for thc driving of two rock slopes to tap the seam. The haulage slope will be about 535 feet tn length aud will be 12 feet wide and 7 feet high In the clear. It will be driven on a pitch of about 17 per cent. The air slope will be about 200 feet In length and will pitch 50 per cent. This slope will be 10 feet wide and 6 feet high. The analysis of tho coal core taken trom the various boreholes show that the quality of this coal ls fully equal to No. 4, the ash percentage in most cases being slightly lower. Tenders will cloBe on February 10, and lt Is the Intention of the Company to immediately proceed with this work. JOSEPH ZANINI OF THIS CITY MARRIED Wedded .Miss Marian Bllton, Nanaimo, There Saturday. BROTHERS MEET ON STREET BUT DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER Robert Vans, Old Timer Here Passes His Brother on Street After Absence ol Forty Years. A remarkable coincidence occurred at Courtenay last Saturday when two brothers who had not seen each other for forty years passed on the street, each looking for the other and neither one being able to recognize the other. The two brothers were James Vass. of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Robert Vans of Sandwick, li. C, the latter an old time farmer of tha district and th…
note: Title Note: "With which is consolidated the Cumberland News
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cumberland (B.C.)
spatial: Cumberland
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0342543
language: English
lat: 49.6186111
long: -125.0325
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Cumberland, B.C. : Islander Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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