The Hedley Gazette
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alternative: The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-15
issued: 1905-03-23
description: The Hedley Gazette and Similkameen Advertiser was published in Hedley, in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, and ran from January 1905 to August 1917. The Gazette was published by the Hedley Gazette Printing and Publishing Company, and its longest-serving editor was Ainsley Megraw (1905-1914). The Gazette served the communities of Keremos, Olalla, and Hedley. In 1916, the paper was purchased by James W. Grier, who shortened the title to the Hedley Gazette.
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note: Ghe Medley Gazette AND SIMILKAMEEN ADVERTISER. Vol. I. No." 10. HEDLEY, B.C., THURSDAY, MAKCH-23, 1.905. $2.00, in Advanuk. N CAMP McKINKEY he Ups and Downs' of a liemarkable Camp. FREE MILLIKG PROPERTIES British Columbia, First Compelled Public Attention by the Wonderful Record of the Old Cariboo-Outlook on the Sailor Consolidated, Waterloo and Others. The honor of being the first regular iviclend payer in lode mining in thin rpvirice belongs to Camp McKinney, rheve the Cariboo mine, eleven years go, began its monthly product of. iillioh. The caiup was discovered in 1887 by J. McKinney, Rice, Burnham and ,efevre. The discovery claim was the !ariboo; and the Amelia .was''" the only ther location which they took up. 'he camp was named. McKinney and he small creek which van within atew eet of the spot where the fhst lich peeiinens yvere uncovered, was named lice creek. This streamlet, nevei too urge at any time to step acioss,, hut lerennial, has the honor ot supplying he batteries and concentiaten's with he Water which washed out a little >ver .'$1,270,000 in bullion, outol which i, little oyer 5^559,(300 yy.is paid m liyidends. Curious to relate the eail> distov-1 ;rers failed entirely to si/.c up the situation geologically, and although J tuning claims yvere. then only (5(10 feet j vide they staked their claims across i ���������he-vein. j Others followed, making the same, i nistake, and the Okanagan, Alice; and j Emma are also 000 feet claims staked I icross the vein: but a little; later the \ r'act was recognized that the. vein ran ���������ast and west and that a vein which tva-s presumably a-western extension ran through the; Alice, Eimna, Maple. Leaf and Eureka claims. The holders ������f the. original rich discoveries yvere [ioor nu;n, and it yvas not until John Douglas and some wealthy associates in the east obtained possession of the Eureka that any considerable expenditure of money in development was svitnessed; but in 188S some $27,000 ���������.vas spent…
note: Print Run: 1905-1917 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Hedley (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0180117
language: English
lat: 49.35
long: -120.06667
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Hedley, B.C. : Hedley Gazette Printing and Publishing Company
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text