The New Westminster News
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alternative: [New Westminster Daily News]
issued: 2016-06-14
issued: 1914-06-03
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nwdn/items/1.0316018/source.json
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note: ���*-��� �� m%tMfik\Wi��t. ��� r Volume 9, Ni 76 ,\ NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1914 Price Five Gents, PROSPEP j fOR OIL IN THIS VICINITY Decided Rush for Petroleum Leases in Local Government Office. Seven Applications Made Monday��� Pitt Meadows and Pitt Lake Give Strong Oil Indications. ALL MONEY ORDERS 10 BE PAID IN LULL As Fai* as Possible Government Will Pay Remittances Lest on the Empress. .*-'<*".T)i' effect of the oil frenzy in Calgary Ik being experienced in the local Dominion land office which Is dally besieged by Inquiries from oil prospectors. While there have been boring operations going on for IS months at Pitt .Meadows, ll'tt lake and other .sections of the Dominion lands within the jurisdiction of Mr. Magee ther"e has never been anything like the rush that has taken place during the lust lew days, Seven applications for pe- troleum leases were made on Monday mi" the preliminary tee of $fi paid down. These were principally in the Pltl Meadows district which oil experts declare exhibits all the Indications of oil bearing ground. Fifty-five applications for leases were, made during the past month, the majority being made since the great oil stilk" at Calgary and $917.70 col- letted in fees. The permits Issued on Monday represented annual rentals of $41 200, Land can be taken up for petroleum boring to the maximum extent of 1920 acres and the leases 1b- aued subsist for :>1 years. In addition to the <*:, there is 1!5 cents an acre exigible fur the first year and 60 * cents tor the second and succeeding years. The Dominion lands which may be leased in the New Westminster office for petroleum purpoess lie in the rail- waj belt, eastward toward North Bend, 20 miles north of the C.I'.It. tracks and south to the border. (API. CLARK'S DEATH SOURCE OE REGRET Montreal. ,lune 2. -Those who have sent money orders to (ireat Britain or Russia, etc., from Montreal and which were on board the Ill-fated Kmpress of Ireland, will not lose their mone…
note: Titled The Daily News from 1906-03-06 to 1912-04-24; Westminster Daily News from 1912-04-25 to 1912-12-04; and The New Westminster News from 1912-12-05 to 1914-09-04. Published by The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited from 1903-03-06 to 1912-04-24; and The National Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. from 1912-04-25 to 1914-09-04.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Westminster (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0316018
language: English
lat: 49.206667
long: -122.910556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Westminster, B.C. : The Daily News Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text