The Princeton Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Brown, J.A.
issued: 2022-08-08
issued: 1925-08-27
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note: THE PRINCETON STAR Published in the Interests of Mining anlf Agriculture in the Similkameen Twenty-Sixth Year—No. 41 PRINCETON. B.C., THURSD&Y, AUGUST.27, 1925 PER YEAR: $2.00 Cash Sin trie Copy 56. Freshet Interrupts Placer Operations r*-."•■«* >s" MINERS DECIDE TO PLAY SAFE WHEN SUDDEN RISE OF TULAMEEN THREATENS TO FLOOD WORKS SHOULD BECOME RAILROADER Last Friday night's rainfall, which, * in Princeton was steady but not heavy, caused a rise of about eight inches in the Tulameen river, and indicated that the precipitation must have been considerably heavier fin the higher hills, many of whose summits received a light mantle of snow. At Schubert's pool, about -6 miles above Tulameen City, where the Tulameen Plat'num Company-- are engaged in placer operations on the river bed, the increased flow of water, amounting to fully five times as much as had been coming down, filled the flume almost to capacity. ^Early in the morning with the river still continuing to rise slightly, and threatening to overflow the works, Mr. Warren, the director' in charge, decided to play safe and had the pumps and other equipment in- the bed of the pool removed to a point) cf safety. This was accomplished, by the aid of the hoisting derrick,"in the short space of an hour and a half. The precaution proved to have been unnecessary as the river commenced to abate and the capacity of the flume proved • fully equal to the emergency. As Mr. Warren put it, the experience had all the benefit of a "fire drill" for them, and the delay was inconsequential as the pumps were soon replaced and it required but a few hours to pump from the pool the water that had accumulated from leaks in the upper and previously unused, portion of the flume. Present operations at the pool are directed to removing the surface gravel—a deposit cl loose silt, which is annually carried down such moun tain streams as the Tulameen during high water, and deposited' in the pools as the flood recedes. Whi^e this surface gravel, w…
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 1918-10-25), and The Princeton Star from 1918-11-01.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton, B.C.
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0416711
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