The Princeton Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Smyth, F.J., 1872-
issued: 2022-06-28
issued: 1919-03-07
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note: THE PRINCETON 20th Year No. 10 ,S'g.l PRINCETON, B. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919. RECORD LOAD TAKEN Hon SLpfls Taji Canada Copper Corporation Is .Having Heavy Hauling Done This Winter. SB IU W » Mfl 11 t, rr: .'■< i » ■ vtf ^ 'f^Some tremendously heavy Mads have been hauled up to Copper Mountain on sleighs this winter. Advantage was taken of the good sleighing to get the compressors and other machinery of the Canada Copper Corporation up at the mines so that it can' be installed and be ready for operation by the time the high power line is built and the ''juice" is 'ready to be turned on. ;.j.J|The load which broke all records Was hauled lastAVeek by one of W. 8. Garrison s outfits. Jt was a piece of electrical machinery and weighed nine tons. It was hauled by 10 horses most Of the way, but 12\were on a part of the time. Gus Clerf was the "skinner," and the big lood was taken through without a mishap. The start was made from Princeton at 7 in the morning and Voigt's Camp TVas reached at 3 in the afternoon, the distance being about nine milesliSp^Bpl;- most of the next day;was consumed in getting the load over the renaming three miles between V3lg%% and Copper Mountain. A 12 ton commpressor wheel, in two section^made two other comfortably loads of six tons each. Eachof these;|^ads Was hauled by^six horsed or an average weight of a ton to the horseii^^^^^?^ -.,... BBS p : HOSPITAL ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Princeton I General Hospital will be held on Wednesday, toe l^T^Sfim^B^jQlQ. at the Board of Trade room:«£3&»v in.., and a new Board of DiredtbjpFwill be ap- pjoin tedjfor^fctejgsffii^gpfl iTvhe-present Dii'ectors would wel- "^BwSTe a graetcr interest being taken bf the general public, so as to insure a fullv representative Board for the year." V. WILLABSON, Secr.eta.i y. Great War Veterans Organize Branch Dere A branch of the Great War Veterans' Association was organized at Princeton last Saturday. A. D. Ramsay is president, "Sailor" Wood is vice- presid…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1929-12-26).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton, B.C.
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0415814
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Princeton : The Princeton Publishing Company
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
type: Text