The Cumberland Islander
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2017-02-07
issued: 1929-06-07
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note: ^ See "The Wreck Of The Hesperus" Cuiliberland Islander Witli whirh Is consolidated ihe Cumberland Hews. At the Ilo-Ilo This Week End FORTY-BIGTH YEAR—No. 23 CUMBERLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM Denial of Water Rights Would Badly Handicap Paper Co. Mining Corporations Int rested in Hydro Electric Power; Lois liiver in Powell River Section Comes Into the Limelight VICTORIA. B.C., June C—The interest of British Columbia mining and power circles Just at present is largely concentrated on an application to the Provincial Water Board filed by the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada. Ltd.. through Lome A. Campbell as vice-president and manager of its subsidiary West Kootenay Power & Light Co., for the riglit to utilize for power purposes Lois River, an hitherto little heard about stream flowing into Mnlaspina Strait about seventy miles north of Vancouver, in the Powell River area. This application is associated in the public mind with development proposals of Consolidated for establishment of a large modern smelter and refinery plant at some point on the Canadian Pacific seaboard .the common belief being that this would obtain necessary power through development of the resources of Campbell River, and be located somewhere in tlie Comox District, presumably at Union or Hardy Bay. both in convenient proximity to the Consolidated^ Coast Copper and Caledonia holdings, and with requisite central- ity for serving the entire north coastal mining territory. Consolidated has, indeed, been very generally believed to be associated with the Power Corporation of Canada fand its provincial subsidiaries, tlie Vancouver Island Power Co. Ltd and B. C. Electric Railway Co. Ltd.) in its pending application for the Campbell River power, established ns capable of development to produce from 110.00U to 120,000 h.p. Alarm is now taken by some disturbance of the supposed understanding between these two large electrical and mining c…
note: Title Note: "With which is consolidated the Cumberland News
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Cumberland (B.C.)
spatial: Cumberland
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0342619
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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