@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "fe4f448e-47e2-408c-a201-3e4a0615ed94"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-07-29"@en, "1893-03-25"@en ; dcterms:description "The Miner was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The Miner was established by John Houston, an outspoken journalist who would later embark on a successful political career, which included four terms as the mayor of Nelson and two terms in the provincial legislature. After leaving the Miner in the summer of 1892, Houston established the Tribune to compete with his former paper. The Miner was published by The Miner Printing and Publishing Company, and the paper's longest-serving editor was D. J. Beaton. The Miner was published under two variant titles, the Nelson Weekly Miner and the Weekly Miner. In 1902, the paper was sold to F. J. Deane, who changed the title to the Weekly News."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xminer/items/1.0182615/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " The Ores are EIigh-(������rade in Cold, Silver, Copper, and ILead. NUMBEE 142. NELSON, BEITISH COLUMBIA, SATUEDAY, MAECH 25, 1893. $4. A YEAB WHAT THE ESTIMATES SHOW CONOEENITO THE PEOPLE OP THE DISTEICT OP WEST KOOTENAY. The Miner's Statement of a Week Ago Verified���������The Kaslo Wagon Itoad Will Get a $10,000 Lift���������No Owe Knows Just How tills Appropriation is to be Provided for, but no One Cares. The estimates for the fiscal year 1893-4 form attractive reading for anyone interested in West . Kootenay. The total sum voted West Kootenay this year is 62,980. Out of this a lump sum of $30,000 goes for roads, streets, bridges and wharves for the district; this compares with $19,000 voted last year for the same purpose in addition to which $5000 was spent which is provided for in the supplementary estimates for this year. The remainder of the $32,980 is apportioned as follows : Assessor and Collector at Nelson. .$1200 Gold Commissioner \" .. 1920 Mining Recorder \" .. 1200 Clerk \" .. 840 Two Constables '��������� .. 1800 An additional sum of $7,740 provides for Revelstoke, Slocan, Ainsworth, a recorder as yet not located, and three provisional constables. An appropriation of $2000 is made toward the Nelson hospital, provided the citizens raise $1500 themselves. An appropriation of $3280 provides for schools at Nelson, Kaslo, and Waneta. The following special appropriations are made toward public works in this district : Repairs $ 500 Court House at Nelson 8000 Recorder's office, not located 1500 Jail at Kaslo 1000 Public school at Kaslo 2000 Of the ; special appropriations aggregating $32,980, the salaries of officials resident in Nelson, and necessary public works to be erected here take $17,840. To Kaslo $3880 goes, but it is probable that the recorder and office provided for under the general head will be located there, giving to Kaslo.an additional $2820. The Government has. promised $10,000 for the Kaslo wagon road. As no mention is made of the road it is uncertain whether the whole, or part of it is made, a first charge upon the general appropriation of $30,000. The only items in the estimated income which are especially interesting to residents'of West Kootenay are those under the head of \"Free Miners' Certificates\" and\" Mining Receipts General.\" These are estimated as: Free Miners' Certificates ..$25,000 Mining Receipts, General 17,000 If these figures are compared with the public accounts of the year 1891-2, lately published, the following rather startling results are apparent : For the year ending June, 1892, the total of the receipts of the Government from those two sources was $32,647, of which $14,292.70 were contributed by West Kootenay, $8,266 from the sale of certificates. According to this statement there were on June 30, 1892, 1,655 free miners'in West Kootenay, and 1,927 in the rest of the province. Now granted that mining ,in the rest of the rest of the province remains stationary, which by no means the case, but if it is assumed that it is so. the Government estimates that on June 30, 1894, there will be 3,073 free miners in West Kootenay, or 1,418 more than there were on June 30, 1892. ' ' Those who know anything about the prospects of Kootenay will consider this estimate rather ridiculous. HIDDEN TREASUBE SHOWING CAUSES ITS 0WNEES TO TICKLE THEMSELVES P0E VEEY JOY. Where Cross-Cnt Shows Six-Foot Vein of Nice Concentrating Ore���������Then Came an Inch or Two of Shale After Which Vein Matter Was Again ISncoentered Carrying Ore of a Better Grade. Most encouraging reports continue to be brought from the Hidden Treasure. On Sunday when the owners visited it the vein had been cross-cut for six feet showing nice concentrating ore all the way. An inch or two of shale was then encountered, and after this was cross-cut veinr matter was again met carrying ore of a better grade. It appears to be getting richer as the hanging wall is approached. Some very nice specimens were brought down rich in peacock and gray copper. By the-time the hanging wall is reached the Hidden Treasure will have one of the biggest showings on Toad Mountain. From the calculations made before starting the tunnel, the vein should be sixteen feet wide. If this is so, it is only half cross-cut, and the indications are that a very rich streak will be found in the hanging wall. About a month ago the Hidden Treasure was sold for $1500, now $30,000 could not buy it. The owners immediately after purchasing set to work, and they fully deserve their iuck. They have added another to the unusually rich claims on Toad Mountain, and uncovered a body of ore unparalled except in the Silver King, and the whole camp will reap the benefit. The Hidden Treasure lies about 2000 feet clue west of the Silver King, which it parallels, and is the western extension of the Democrat, and is the second extension of the Goldendale. It is possible that it is the same lode which was shown up an the Goldendale last summer. A Scheme to ISoom Balfornr Property. Information received on the inside track leaves very little doubt that the N. & F. S railway will be used to work real estate speculation' in Balfour. Nelson is two or three years at least ahead of Balfour. on the N. & F. S. programme so investors will do well to stay with Nelson for some time to come. F. M. Ratenbtjry, of Vancouver, has won the competition in drawing plans for the new Government buildings, against many competitors. J. R. Arnoldi, of bronze dog renown, will be required to pay a fine of $1000, and spend six months in jail. He is another of the gang of political boodlers whose misdeeds were unearthed two sessions ago by the Federal government. INTERESTING TO SURVEYORS IS THE EEP0ET OP SUEVEYOE-GENEEAL KABTS FOE SEVEEAL EEAS0NS, It Outlines the Proper System of Surveying, Which hy the Way I>ocs Very \"Well for Great ISritain, l>wt Cannot he Applied Here���������lie Keccoinmends the Planting of Mineral Monuments. The Crown Land Survey report of 1892 is interesting reading. It outlines the proper system of survey as it has existed in older countries. The ordnance survey of Great Britain and Ireland affords possibly the very best example of careful, accurate work, conducted with a high order of ability, the picked men of the Royal Engineers, assisted by well-known civil engineers established these wonderful series cf stations and network of triangles that will stand forever as intricacies of arduous labor and scientific skill. To attempt to carry out such an elaborate system of work, following its extreme accuracy and minuteness of detail, would be practically impossible inmost parts of the province of British Columbia, nor indeed is it required as the work carried on for the Dominion Govern- .it ment is accurate without a mimrene^s nearly, if not quite impossible. Surveyor-General Kains is to be congratulated on the broad view betakes, and undoubtedly,he is happy in comparisons when he chooses New Zealand, a country whose topographical features conform very nearly with those of British Columbia. The idea, though not a new one, of using the photograph as an aid to a triangulation system is excellent and must commend itself to (he Government. In this connection it is to be hoped that next year's report will be embellished with numerous photographs of important distinguished and striking objects. Nothing appeals to the mind as well as a picture. While this report is admirable there are one or two points open to criticism and gross objection. The planting of the proposed mineral monuments under the direction of the Gold Commissioner's, would place an onerous and difficult task on the shoulders of these officials, and would not result in public utility. The surveyors working in the district, acquainted ?is they are with the configuration of the ground and the relative position of the various mines, are the properly qualified persons to indicate the position of these land marks. By the way it seems strange that this method of referencing mineral claims although the custom in the United States for many years should have been neglected here until now. The report also suggests for the convenience of miners, the sub-division of the mineral lands into square blocks, but this i������ dealt with elsewhere. ESetnnied With Has Titles. G. O. Buchanan has returned having interviewed, and been interviewed, and having had \"The Honorable,\" \"Judge,\" \"Justice,\" and other honey-sweet titles lavished upon him on the outside, He saw D. C. Corbin in Spokane. Corbin has only one answer to those who say his road will not be built this summer. He points to the work already done and asks : \" To what end?\" im������H!Wiinnmiwiijim imMMmiMmwmMiiMtiOTflg THE MISER : NELSOS, B. 0., SATURDAY, MAEOH 25, 1893. IL^.j^rI3 IDIEZE^^IEfcTIMIZE This Company now Offers is on Easv T oi ulioioe mis i FOR PARTICULARS APPLY r. Uli LAND COMMISSI s or Besidential ings on a .''������������������' ,, NELSON, B. 0. Oxford' Wins theUSoat Kace. ..' ���������..'���������.'.'���������' ,c The 'Varsity', boat race was won again by the Oxford crew in eighteen minutes and forty-seven seconds. <= This is the best time ever made over the course, and has set the Yale and Harvard peo- < pie guessing, whohaveyei to equal the performance of Oxford lasS year, which v\\as of a ninteen minutes and twenty-one seconds order. ILord.iK'gEiaravcii' Accepts, . ,.;������������������'. It is generally understood in sporting circles in London, that Lord Dunraven has accepted the conditions of the race for America's cup but will suggest, that the first race take place at an earlier date1 t ban t hat submit ted by the New York Yacht club,-which was October, 5. The KoojSIcrs fiteceive Sentence. Charles de Lesseps, Baihut. and Blondin, the trio of convicted Panama Canal boodiers received0! heir sen I ences on Tuesdav. Baihut was sentenced to imprisonment for five years, and ordered to pay a fine of 750,000 francs, and the loss of his civil right. Blondin was sentenced to imprisonment for two years, and Charles de Lesseps to imprisonment for one year, the one to run concurrently with the fixe year's sentence already imposed upon him. The Time delayed hy the Compts'oilcr. Nelson is not to be made a port of entry just at present. The Comptroller of Customs has remitted the matter to the inspector who is to report to him on our necessities. In his letter to Mara the Controller of Customs makes no reference to Kaslo, but in his letter to the citizens of Nelson Mara does. If he had left Kaslo alone until Kaslo wanted to become a port there would have been more chance of securing the needed boon to West Kootenay. No place is better situated for a port of entry than Nelson. THE ������ ���������YIEW HQT,EL> MULVEY & CLEMENT, PROPRIETORS. WINES, LIQU0ES and OIGARS. Best Accommodation for Travellers. P. 0. box 69. EdwardAp Telephone 24. U S. E. corner Baker and Josephine streets, \"NELSON\", B. 0. , ������������������.'.'..\"'''��������� I FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE AGENTS, Loans negotiated on Nelson property. Collections made. Conveyancing documents drawn up. Town Lots Lands and Mining Claims Handled on Commission. ������R?V 3k I NELSON, B.C. Plasterer, Bricklayer and Stone-Mason Contracts taken for work at all points in West Kootenay. mTni m 771 \"ft\" Vernon Street, near Josephine, opposite wharf, NfiSES^N, IB. ���������. PROPRIETOR. THE HOTEL OVERLOOKS THE KOOTENAY its guests thus obtaining splendid views of both mountain and river. THE ROOMS are comfortable in size and newly furnished. THE TABLE is acknowledged the bes in the mountains. Regular Connection by Boat with New Denver. NEW BED-ROOMS. BAR JUST ADDED. TV ,-i--^ i1 or ������!AS*STA& (Jill paid'up), $12,000,000 :J������EST, ���������. -v/;:. .'\" \"'.'_, '���������;.���������-.... . 0,000,000 Sir DONALD A. 'SMITH,-/-..: - ...........;..:.. .President Hon. GEO. A. DRUMMOND,.. ���������;........... Vice-President E. S. CLOUSTON,...................... .General Manager kelson Branch: N. W. Oor. Baker and Stanley Sts. Branches in London (England), New York and Chicago and in the principal cities in Canada; Buy and sell sterling exchange and cable tranfers; Grant commercial and travelers' credits, available in any part of the world; Drafts issued; Collections made; Etc. Rate of interest at present four per cent. Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, Telephone 45. Office: Stanley and Victoria Streets \"171 y \"f\"Tl* (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1862.) CAPITAL (paid tip), ������600,000 . $3,930,000 (With power to increase.) KESEKVS5 FSTWD, ������200,000 . . 1,285,333 nsrzEiTLSOiisr bhaim'ch:. :i, BRAnsrcsss: Victoria, B. C, San Francisco, California, Vancouver, B. C, Portland, Oregon, NewWestminster,B.C., Seattle, Washington, Nanaimo, B. C, Tacoma, Washington. Kamloops, B. C. HEAD OFFICE: 60 Lombard street, LONDON, England. AGENTS AND C0B.RESPONDENTS: CANADA���������Bank of Montreal and branches; Canadian Bank of Commerce and branches Imperial Bank of Canada and branches; Commercial Bank of Manitoba ; and Bank of Nova Scotia. UNITED STATES���������Agents Bank of Montreal, New YorK; Bank of Montreal, Chicago. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. On tmd after 1st January next the rate of interest on deposits will be 3������ per cent, until further notice. BALED HAY FOR SALE. < 2 c: A TONS Baled Hay for Sale on Road or River Bank D\\J Address M. H. BACON, Bonner's Ferry. 133-tf twbv'JH.'if ���������\"*������������������������ ���������s-TKPKBiy*!������������������ ���������������������������!������������������������ ������^-jTi;y^i y^ **\"&.$* THE MINEE: NELSON. B. 0>, SATUEDAY, MAEOH 25, 1893, i~. ������ TOWN OF -<������_ ~G������- 1. 2. 4. 5. The Gateway of the Lardo-Duncan Mining Gamps. The Only Flat Land, not Subject to Overflow, and the Only Harbor at the North End of Kootenay Lake. A Eailway Point; vide 0. F R. Reports The Head of Navigation at the North End of Kootenay Lake The Terminus of the Government Trail to the Mines :������ Examine the Map of West Kootenay! Examine the Head of Kootenay Lake! Examine the Townsite of Lardo! and ������: As previously announced by notices already published, the first 200 lots having been sold, prices are now advanced to tr- TERMS; One-third cash, one-third in Smonths, and one-third in 6 months. Stone Block. Kaslo City, B. C. MANAGING AGENT. ml fc'^r- THE MINEE: NELSON, B. 0., SATURDAY, MAEOH 25, 1893. INER IS PRINTED ON SATURDAYS, AND WILL BE mailed to subscribers at the following cash-in-advance, rates: Three months ������1.50, six months ������2.50, one year ������4. Contract Advertisements will be inserted at the . Tate of ������3 an inch (down the column) per month. A: special rate for advertisements of over 2 inches. Transient Advertisements will be inserted for 15 cents a line for the first insertion and 7 cents a line for each additional insertion. Twelve lines of 9 words' each make an inch. All advertisements, printed' for a less period than 3 months considered transient and must be paid for in advance. Advertisements of less than 12 lines will'be counted as 12 lines. Letters to the Editor will only appear over the writer's name. Communications with such signatures as -'Old Subscriber,\" \"Veritas,\" \"Citizen,\" etc., etc., will not be printed,on any consideration. Job Printing in good style at fair rates. Cards, envelopes, and letter, note, and account papers kept in stock. ���������\"'\" ���������������������������������.' * NEW OEICIAIS. A reorganization of the Government office at Nelson, is about to rake place: W.J. Groepei ���������nay succeed T. H. Gififin, as recorder, while MK Girrin has the refusal of f he position of \"Supreme Court. Registrar. Mr. Goepel is a man of undoubted business capacity, and is vveJl iitted for the pos^. It has been hinted that it is Mr. Gi/xin's intention to retire from \\h.<> service of the Government altogether. He is one of,the most painstaking, conscientious, and popular officials in the Province, and has been closelv associated with West Kootenay since its infancy. His retirement would be deeply regretted by everyone who knows him, and a Joss to the district he has served so well. THE ESTIMATES. In another column we give an abstract of the appropriations voted for West Kootenay. Fair if not very liberal treatment has been meeted out. In the matter of street grading Nelson will probably be left in the lurch.1 The appropriation for public works must necessarily be very largely expended on trails into new sections. The Governinent sells real estate in Nelson, and applies the proceeds to building trails in other portions of the country. This is a little one-sided, but as every section that is opened up directly benefits the metropolis, the injustice is not so great as it seems at. first. REDISTRIBUTION. The Vancouver World in its zealjjfor the coveted redistribution bill keeps pegging away with facts and figures to show that under the present system of representation \" the tail waggles the dog,\" instead of the dog doing it himself. The total population of the province is placed at 97,549, of which the island furnishes36,767. That a redistribution bill is necessary no one can doubt but the question is whether it would not be better to equalize the representation by paring off exceseive representation on the Island than by increasing the representation on the Mainland. Surely thirty-three members .are sufficient to attend to the wants of a people numbering 97,949. The rooting out of the pocket-buroughs on the Island adjacent to Victoria would be a move in the right direction. This representation might then be given to the Mainland. The end could thus he gained and the Province not put to unnecessary expensive. 'TIS WONDROUS PITIFUL. There is a section in the Surveyor-General's report lately published which justly entitles its author to the most severe criticism. It begins \"If the land in a mineral country were sub-divided into sections as provided by the Land Act, and each section partitioned into Sixteen sub-divisions,\" and goes on to suggest how convenient it would be that the miner should take up his claim by staking one, or if necessary two of these sub-divisions. For hide-bound red-tapeism, and inspired diiocy, we never met anything to equal this. Nature has unfortunately neglected to, lay off mineral land, or any other laud into square blocks. Her natural boundaries are watercourses and mountains, and in a mineral country formations and mineral lodes. When dealing with a pastoral country or \"a townsite, this block system is sometimes convenient, but applied to a mineral country the idea becomes grotesque in the extreme. Imagine measuring strata of rock .extending over miles and broken by large belts of What Mr. Chandler calls \"intrusive masses of porphyritic granite,\" and mineral lodes reaching down into the earth, by making a chess-board of the surface. . - .It is the expedient of an intelligence, lacking the wisdom of silence on subjects of which it is profoundly ignorant. The beauty of it is that we are liable to an inrush, of intelligences similar to this, duly and legally qualified to estimate the amount of work done in developing a mineral claim, and to survey mines, and belonging to men who can put the magic P. L. S. after their names, and who know no more about mining engineering or mine surveying than our editorial selves. How many Provincial Land Surveyors today could plot a mine, with its tunnels, stopes, raises, and cross-cuts, and make a map of it ? A 'man who can lay out a chess-board is not a mining surveyor. In the amendments proposed to the Mineral Act the definition and proof of \" mineral in place\" is going to be a matter of some difficulty. We hope and trust it will not be left to the discretion of a Provincial Land Surveyor, CURRENT COMMENTS. Lady Mowat, wife of Ontario's Premier died last week in Toronto. G-rgves Cleveland has rebuked the indecent haste of the Hawaian annexationists. The sugar combine has a different man to deal with now. The election in Nanaimo District to fill the vacancy in the Commons will be contested by Joseph Hunter, M. P. P., and ex-Mayor Haslam of Nanaimo. When the Government gets its sheet anchor cast in Victoria it will approach the redistribution question With more confidence. To move the capital from Victoria with its $500,000 pile of buildings is more even than Kamloops would undertake. Our own Kellie is not a full-fledged Government bird yet. He has not yet promised to support the Davie party through thick and thin and in consequence does not sing with the government songsters in caucus. Premier Davie's eulogy of the late Hon. Hugh Nelson, late Lieut.-Governor of this province, furnishes the closing chapter to a life inseparably woven into the history of the province. The death occured in England. Dalton M'Carthy, one of the brightest men in the Dominion Commons, has come out squarely against the government on the National Policy. When M'Carthy voted against the famous Jesuits' Es< ates Act, he and his twelve associates we e dubbed the \"devil's dozen.\" The Conservatives will now proceed to christen Dal ton a; ew. NELSON th WILSON & WILLIAMS PROPRIETORS. HAY AND GEAIN FOR SALE. Omnibus and carriages to and from all trains and steam-/ boat wharves. Saddle and pack animals for hire. Freight hauled and all kinds of job teaming- attended to. Stable on Baker Street. Office with Wilson & Perdue. J. Hoover, President. E. J. Dyer, Cashier. THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK OF SPOKANE, STATE OF WASHINGTON. Capital : $250,000 $ 30,000 Surpjus FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXCHA GES BOUGHT AND SOLD. ACCOUNTS OF MINERS AND MERCHANTS SOLICITED. Cable Transfers Made. W. M. MACKINNON, 0. E. (Ass. Mem. Inst. C. E.) Water Supply, Irrigation, Y/ater Power, Bridges Structural \"Work, Etc. Office over Bank of British Columbia. 133-tf VANCOUVER, B. C. J, TAYLOR TORONTO SAFE WORKS EELIABLE, PEEFE0T, THOKOUGHLY TESTED Every business man in a mining camp, where banks are scarce and money and valuable papers are plenty, should have one of J. & J. Taylor's safes. 43T\"Dan,t wait till after a fire to purchase one. J. A. KIRK J. F. RITCHIE KIRK & RITCHIE, Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyors. Office over Bank of British Columbia, Nelson, B.C E PROVINCIAL LAND SURVEYORS, NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEYANCING. J4 H A H H THE MDTEE: NELSON. B. 0,, SATUEDAY, MAEOH 25, i893. ^ m ������: LES F :������ The Distributing Point for the Duncan G-old Fields and Great Silver Ledges of Lardo District. A Wagon-Road to Argenta at Head of Kootenay Lake is under Construction. A Trail will shortly be Constructed from Duncan to the centre of the Lardo Mines. Beautifully Situated. Level Land. The Only Point on Upper -Kootenay Lake. tn on lL n er in 10 a ys. 3 S- 1 E������WI XXX X XX XX X X XX X X XX XX X X I a ft- c r- e only agon-i c* ent for D.i der Cons j- G-old Fields. of the s avoioin 'angerous istance to traction from this Poi onnecting Duncan wi avagation of the er Kootenay Lake lie s Duncan seven Miles. 3 \\ Z. j- & s For farther Information, as to Prices for Lots, Terms, etc, Apply to AT* X) nnMammnnniRH IMt������Mll������WIMUII������U^IIMIIMUJHlMMU������Vm������������llll������IIM ^MMM������Wi������^M,Mffl������^^ t. r S ! r p I I 6 THE MDTEE : NELSON, B. 0., SATUEDAY, MAEOH 25, 1893.. i 1 r 'S 1 & -������ I i ���������#��������������������������������� ���������������-������������������''- ill m W I I ituated at the Head of Navigation on the Northeast Arm of the Upper Arrow Lake, West Kootenay, B. C is snmuara the Eichest Mines in West Kootenay District, situated on Fish Creek, North of Lardeau City, and in the Lardeau Pass, Southeast of Lardeau. The Mines are reached by Trail from Lardeau, which is naturally the distributing point for supplies, and the shipping point for ore from these Eich Mining Fields. m %Bi*K?������e*na i������������5i|a.g.awi Hfl \"TT1 Now on sale at the office of the undersigned. The terms are reasonable, and there is every reason for stating that a handsome profit will be realized on all lots purchased at present prices. Arrangements have been made for the clearing of a portion of the Townsite, for the erection of hotel and stores, and for various other improvements, so that Lardeau City will build up rapidly in the early spring. Lardeau City is the entrance point for the Lardeau Pass, which reaches through to the head of Kootenay lake, and application has already been made for a charter to build a railway from Lardeau City to lake Kootenay and Nelson. LardeaulCity is not a town competing with several other points in the same district. It is natural y the best point for supplying the surrounding mining country, and there is a brighter prospect for it to-day than there was for Kaslo a year ago.: Lots purchased in the latter, last year, have been sold this summer at an advance of from two hundred to a thousand per cent. For further particulars apply to 3 &03&3i a %i *& X J ASLO. MTTIiE PERSONAIiS. Concerning Mic .-Movements of People who Visit, us and others wlaoiBi we Know. Capt. Fitzstubbs is back in Nelson. :. Press- Woodruff,, of the Spokane 'Chronicle is in town. .\" ;_ :'��������� Frank Hughes, of Kaslo, came in on yesterday's train. a Sixty passengers came in on yesterday's train on their way to Kaslo. G. W. Hughes and T. Roadley were among the last batch of visitors from Kaslo. J. F. Ritchie>of the firm of Kirk & Ritchie, has returned from the Kettle River country, where he has been surveying mineral claims. Nelson's witty man has been getting his work in again by pasting placards on the Mara and Barnard blocks. This gentleman may. die a painless and easy death, but he is taking great chances, A large party organized by Gr. A. Bigelow, left Nelson thi^s morning to cut the ice in the outlet. The manner in which a few men moved all the ice from in front of the citizens' wharf suggested the idea. The company is armed with wedges, hammers, cross-cut saws and axes. The Railway Will Get Its Bonus. The people of Vancouver are not to be balked in their desire to give a bonus to the Northern Pacific to secure the entry of that road into the city of Vancouver as the Government will make good the city's defective charter. The city has also granted the railway the use of such streets as are necessary for entrance for a nominal rental of one dollar a year. Work. Commenced on the Tiger Claim. Work has been commenced on the Tiger claim on Coffee creek, half a mile from the lake at Ainsworth. N\"OTICE. To the business men of Nelson and others whom it may concern. If^no steps are taken within a few days by the Waterworks company to repair the mains on Vernon, West Baker and Victoria streets, so as to make the hydrants serviceable in compliance with section 47, of the Consumers' Waterworks Company's act. of incorporation, I shall be obliged in justice to my companies, to cancel all risks outside the 'range of those hydrants now in workingorder. C. HAMBER, Local agent for the United,-Atlas, Guardian, and Quebec Fire Insurance Companies. Nelson, March!22,:1893. Hunt & Dover, TEWELERS AJND WATCHMAKERS. *^9 rfc������t Baker street, Nelson, B. C THE ������-s HAS ON DISPLAY A FULL RANGE OF Plain and Fancy Worsted Suitings and Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges. PBICES TO SUIT THE TIMES E. 0. Campbell- Johnston (of Swansea, India, and the United States.) 3GIST, AS3AYER, KASLO, B. G. LUMBER, ROUGH AND DRESSED, SHINGLES, LATHS,MOULDINGS, SASH, DOORS, GIG-SAW WORK, - TURNING-LATHE WORK-. - ON HAND OR MADE TO ORDER - AND JVilNSNG ENGINEER. Properties reported on. All assays undertaken. Furnaces and concentrating plants planned and erected. Treatment for ores given. Ores bought and sold. Box 731, Vancouver, B. C. Terms cash. ��������� BLUE EIDGE HOUSE Ten miles from Kaslo on the trail to Slocan mines. First Glass Accommodations for Travelers. Best Brands of Liquors and Cigars. PRICES MODERATE. McDonald Bros. Proprietors. The Best of Shipping Facilities. 300,00 feet of Lumber in the Nelson Lumber Yard. ������. ������. BUCHAHAN. P.O. addrese. Nelson or Kaslo. Plasterer and Bricklayer. Will contract for all kinds of work. Materials furnished and estimates given for work in any town in Kootenay Lake Country. &BME FOK SA'IiK At Nelson and Pilot Bay or delivered at any point on the lake in any quantity. Address P.O. box 47, Nelson. ifcgg&i^ THE, MUSTEK: HELSON, B. 0., SATUEDAY, MABOH 25,1893. TIBUS TOWN'SITB OIF T\". -.j...,. ... -,-- .....������������������ ���������Bnr..r*.-g.,,t[m.wTfiff^amT\" .^..iii������ T|������j ^.yjifmfB nf e lermmus e Kaslo-Slocan Wagon Road. Post Office Centre THE BEST YEAR ON RECORD THAT IS WHAT THE BASE OP BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BALANCE-SHEET SHOWS. f>esnilc the &en.es'al Uteprcssion the Profits Continue to Thrive as ESeiore au������i in S>ue Time SSeget Fatter l>iviclen������ls Thau. Ever���������The Bank's Prosperity May E5e TaKcn as Evidence of Columbia's Stability. The hank of British Columbia has just issued its balance sheet for 1891-2. The gross profit of the bank during this year has been the largest in its history, and the dividends have been correspondingly increased causing much unctuous complacency among the directors and shareholders. The showing of the bank for the year, which has been one of general depression, is an evidence of how sound the Province is as a whole ; and that an institution so closely bound up with it as the bank of B. C. is, should be on so satisfactory a basis, is bound to have a favorable influence on investors. The balance sheet for the year is appended : Liabilities. ������ s. d. Capital paid up....:..... 600.000 0 0 Reserve Fund...... 235,000 0 0 Notes in Circulation.. ������195,412 11 6 Current Accounts-and Deposits ...1,771,459 4 3 Bills Payable 690,697 4 3 Other Cnrrent Liabilities 26,763 17 7 ��������������������������� 2,684,332 17 7 Balance of Profit and Loss Account on 30th June, 1892 49,194 10 7 ������3,563,527 8 .2 Assets. ������ s. d. Specie at Branches..������ 473,600 8 9 Cash at Bankers.... 52,933 14 4 Gold Bars and Gold Dust 1,600 7 2 528,134 10 3 2������ per cent Consols. 76,400 10 4 per cent Dominion of Can. Reg. Stocks 41,500 0 0 117,900 1 0 Bills Receivable .. 542,062 0 4 Bills Discounted and Loans 2,317,138 15 1 Other Securities 18,564 7 0 Bank Premises and Furniture... 44,727 14 6 ������3,568,527 8 CI (Deputy Sheriff.) LICENSED AUCTIONEER ' NELSON, B. C. Auction sales made at any point in West Kootenay District. Town lots and mining claims bought and sold on commission. A general real estate business transacted. Office for the present at residence, corner of Carbonate and Kootenay s treets. /134. (Notary Public.) and Real Estate BSOKEBj, . Auctioneer and Commission Agent, REPRESENTING The Confederation Life Association, the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, and the Provident Fund Accident Society ; also the Sandy Crofb Foundry Company, near Chester, England, makers of all kinds of mining machinery, air compressors, rock breakers, stamps, etc. No. 1, JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON, B. 0. Lots for Sale in 551 Adjoining the government townsite of Nelson AT ���������$125.'AND UPWARDS With a rebate for buildings erected. The best residential property in Nelson, values sure to increase. Apply W. A. Jowett, agent for Nelson and district, or Innes & Richards, Vancouver, B.C. W. A. JOWETT, Mining & Real Estate Brokers, Auctioneers & Com mission A JOSEPHINE STREETS, NELSON, B.C. C. ~W\" Assoc. M. Inst. C. E., M. Can. Soc. C. E. PROVINCIAL ~!~ LAND ~!~ SURVEYOR, BA.LFOUE, IB. O- Telephone Connection. ~ ������?JK������fl Haass (BARREL OR CASE.) Por any good Liquors, Cigars, Tobaccos, Hour. Groceries, Etc., Co to the Hudson's Bay Company BAKER STREET, NELSON, B. C. fi. W. RICIIABftS'ON Nelson, B. ���������. IK. J. BEALEY Kaslo, IS. C. RICHARDSON & BEALEY Real Estate and Financial Agents. ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY. COR. BAKER AND WARD STREETS. KHWTMlI���������^l.tH'TJIIIITiy'IHllBWIU'lMWHwiain AT ALL HOURS, DAY OR MIGHT MES. W. C. PHILLIPS, Proprietress. East leaker Street, Nelson, Is one of the best hotels in Toad Mountain district, and is the headquarters for prospectors and working miners. The Tahle is not Surpassed by that of any Hotel in the Kootenay Lake country. At the Bar is Dispensed Fine Liquors and OigarB, and the bed-rooms are newly furnished. Jg| AfctfNE A TKEG������L13 THEMLWEE: ffELSOH, B.C., SATUEDAY, MAEOH. 25, 1893. I H 1 P i .it 8 I 1 Is ;i it ii HAED ON THE SMELTEE MEN SILYEE EEMAINS LOW AND FEEIGHT KATES ON COAL ADVANCE. The Morning- 35ine AS Mullen, Irialio SJay Now he Aihieil to the hang list of Suspended Mines���������iist of WorksneiA ftmjployccl on the Anaconda���������Stems of interest to Sliming Men. On Wendnesday the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railway companies, ii' they keep their word will advance the freight rates on coke, from West Superior-to .Butte, $2 on the present rate. The Morning mine, thf* second mine in point of size in lhe Gceur d'Alenes closed down on Tuesday. At lhe Lake, of the Woods reduction works a new process of treating gold quartz is being experimented with. It is claimed that the- process vvill not only save the silver in the quartz but the chemical properties as well. The T-ia.st Chance mine at Wardnor, Idaho, has shut down. The St em winder will do likewise. This will throw hundreds of miners out .employment. A. D. Westcy, of Minneapolis, has been singing the praises of West Kooienay through the press, since his visit to his Ainsworth properties. With W. H.Fife as president, a company of Tacoina capitalists has been organized to extract gold from the sands of the Pacific Ocean. The Pay Rock and O K claims have been sold to A. Aelimers, E. S. Graham, and J. Z.Moore, of Spokane. The claims are situate on Carpenter Creek and are rated by the purchasers as high grade properties. The Anaconda and St. Lawrence mines 700 men aie now employed, at the High Ore 370, at the Green Mountain and Wake-up-Jim 210? and at the Mountain Consolidated mine 4-20. The silver statute \" Justice,\" was successfully cast at Chicago on Saturday. It will be placed on exhibition in the park. Sixteen hundred pounds of sterling silver was used in the casting. E. H. Hendsch, of Kaslo, is credited with having made arrangements to prospect the entire belt in the Lardeau and Duncan River countries. Good financial men are said to be behind the scheme. Walton Davidson, of London, sailed for Chinia on the last Empress. He will investigate the practicability of British Columbia's supplying China lead for the manufacture of tea chests. If the Chinese Government were to put Walter B. M. Davidson's head in a tea chest and solder it up, it would be no great, loss to British Columbia. NOTICE. Mail to New Denver will leave Nelson weekly on Mondays. W. S. MURRAY, Contractor. FOR SALE. A good mule pack train with rigging complete. Can be seen at Savona's Ferry. For further particulars apply to J. GLASSY, Ashcroft Hotel, Ashcroft Station, B. C. . Notice is hereby given that one month from date we, the undersigned, intend to apply to the Lieutenant-Governor in council for the incorporation into a city municipality, under the name of the City of Nelson, of that certain locality in the Province of British Columbia described as follows: Being a subdivision of lot 95, group 1, West Kootenay District, as shown on the official plan of the Town of Nelson, comprising three hundred and seventy- two acres, more or less. Dated at Nelson the 7th day of February, 1893. F. M. McLEOD. JK. APPLE WHAITE. 136-4 A. J. MARKS. ^S^2 3I_^JMJ^^i; 10 f ������ f -' i 5 [I ; ������ n i, i * *i it AS H f $' ������'r H ICS i IIV\" |M te ������-? te- p s, fix & 8 IP 14 i- ���������i: ll THE JHHEE : ������������������ KgLBOT, B. 0., SATUEDAY, MABOH 25, 1893. Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Canned Goods, Hfl^eTitoTlSera' Supplies a Snpri���������itv T,e Stock * M ana complete f \"T.^j^j ^ it to ^^^ , ^ ^^ ^^ 7 Telephone 27. Vernon Street, NELS DAY IE DAY OFT, IN NELSON THE ..TOWN HIST0EIAK DISCLOSES HT8 EEO- OED OP THE WEEK'S HAPPEHHSTOa. Tliose Wlio Kcndci-eel Themselves Famous toy Travel Have Their Movements Recorded so TJiat the Curious May Get an Insight Into What is ������;<>������>���������>��������� on Around Them Every Bay. \" Neis���������t^ ;trd to bis stamping *ro������nd in of^e p^lc ^terd^!\"ed f������r thP ���������^a- .Afcf contingent of way-farers came down to Nelson from Kaslo on Monday. Two men came in over the route of the N. & beinshoWly! 7* ^ *** * lai*������ P^ty will R. Yuill came down again from the Silver King on Tuesday. The temperature on Toad Mountain tell on Monday night to three degrees\" above zero. k ? w-? Wa? ������ut ?f beet:for a while this week but Wilson & Perdue's cache on Toad Mountain relieved the destitution. The load they, brought down was all sold within an hour or two of its arrival in town. ������������������-;������������������ o-P^,e^ay^ t!?in bri������l^ht -in seventeen passengers, ten of whom wen t onto Kaslo next morn- ing, including one lady. Among the returning &9ZJ(^n^ld7 MiIIs' of the ViGto^ notei, ana br. (J. Buchanan. . Nelson is being fitted up, painted, and gener- wfnrSUt m 5>^er.; Why isTt that the citizen^ down^ Who tore them down, and who is to put them up? Its position at present is a source of danger to travellers. ������ e A. D. Coplen is back in West Kootenay again after spending an agreeable winter on the out- fn%1 17e lseuo,,?.h ground still unprospected Ihm w ������?CaT1 for nim, and he t binks there are stiil Freddie Lees to be found there. George W.Taylor, an architect lately from lairhaven, and formerly of Vancouver, has come to locate at Nelson. He expects a demand f hL o erectlon ������f/X 8'<>od class of buildings here this summer, and he will not be dissapoiuted. To David Bremner and T. G. Proctor belongs f^���������^1^ ?ri\"ginK the first boat of the seascfn from Kaslo to Nelson. They rowed -in open Et^i? ^S* J^V\" craft/ver the ice. Th^y FARWELL LOSES REVELSTOKE THE SXOEEQUEK 00UET OF CANADA HAS HAS JDEOIEED AGABIST HIM. Thw Places tUc Provincial Government in nn 4wJt- warrt B'ositaon-Sf, May N,>w he Asked !>y Harwell to Make Oood tlie Worthie.ss ������rant-lf this is ������one m the House Interesting- Timcs May he Expected. 4wn ^ W?} P������UndS ������f Whlsky Wht to tht town oi Watson Tvi^01^1158' U,\" S- Customs collector, took in- Nelson this week. He says there is a tremendous quantity of freight at Northport await hag shipment into the District, When the N.&!������ ^h,-fSJ,??DVl? ifc-������ the bound^y his office, will be snirtect to the line. n Nelson may expect a visit shortly from the roilowing celebrities : W. .F. ; Salsbui^y. h������ai treasurer, of the G. P. R., Pacific d vision ������^74 Hendry,., of the Kaslo Land Gornpany, Mr. Wulffson, private banker, Mr. rf h'^ la5e C1