Omineca Herald
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-12-01
issued: 1912-08-16
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note: THE OMINE Vol. 5. No. /. V / HAZELTON, B. C. AUGUST 16. 1912 TEN PAGES RAILS AT NEW HAZELTON BY MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER Steel Gang Now Busy Rushing Work on Sealey Gulch Bridge==Will be Completed in Ten Days == Connect With the Rails in Less Than a Week Wall & Swan's steel workers arrived I there. This will make a big difference at Sealey Gulch bridge on Monday last to the new town and will make it the and have started work on the erection centre of trade. It will also be quite of the steel on that big bridge. Every-' different for the old town, and the bus- thing was ready for them and all the ! iness people there will the sooner start material was on the ground. The work moving to their new home on the Rocher means but the throwing of steel out i de Boule side of the Bulkley river. and bolting it together.. It has been ��� said that this would take a month or six weeks, but such statements were made by people who know other things than bridge building. The contractors who are doing the work state that it will take ten days to cross the gulch. Allowing them fifteen days, the bridge will be completed before the first of September. After the bridge is done there are only three or four miles of track to lay to New Hazelton, and at the rate of a mile and a half a day the rails should be there and the ballasting completed and the road accepted by the railway commissioners before the middle of next month. Then the passengers and freight, mail, baggage and express for all the interior points will be delivered at New Hazelton and distributed from DESTRUCTIVE FIRES Some of Them Deliberate and Loss Will Be Great This year has witnessed more serious bush fires than for a great many years. From all parts of the district reports of damage to good timber is reported and the owners of timber licenses who are paying the government a good tax for fire protection will be heavy loosers. Most of the fires have been deliberately started, and it is understood that one or two of these are bei…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Hazelton (B.C.)
spatial: Hazelton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0211697
language: English
lat: 55.2558330
long: -127.6755560
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Hazelton, B.C. : C. H. Sawle
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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