@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "c849c240-633f-4acf-b6be-eacb66462f7a"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-07-29"@en, "1892-03-05"@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/1.0182620/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ # b "���������Vafph1 ^r i- r \\ ��������� ^ # Tlie Mines in Kootenay are Among tlie Kiehest in America. The. Ores arc High-Grade in Gold, Silver, Copper, an TO RAILWAYS. It is generally admitted that the mineral resources of British Columbia, if developed, would not only place mining in the front rank of provincial industries, but greatly benefit the grazing and farming interests by creating a home market for products of the farm and range. But the in en engaged in developing our mineral resources aie greatly handicapped, as compared with men engaged in like enterprises in of her portions of of Canada. The transportation faeilities are in- 'adequate; in fact, for four or five months in the year they have no means of communication with the Outside other 1 han pack animals. When communications are open, all freight is handled so often that the cost of transportation is out of all proportion to t he m ileage, and the result is that ore that could be shipped at aprofit to reduction works in the-United States re in a ins in the mine or on the dump. ������ The people of the lake country are naturally Miixious for a change, believing that' once "the mines in this section were proved to he paying ventures, the effect would be beneficial to other mining sections of the province. Capital is timid, especially so in mining ventures, and the oft-repeated saying, "O, there are no mines north of the international boundary line!" must first be pr*()ved merely the vaporing c>f pessimists, andthehest section in which to make the experiment is in the camps on- Kootenay lake. In making th^experiinent, railways are needed, and how to get%hem: is a question that concerns tJhe legislative assembly as longas it retains the pOw^er to grant or deny charter's to such enterprises. In the past, charters have been freely granted to applicants, but always to applicants more likely to hawk their charters around for sale than to engage in actual railway construction. The following are a few of the charters obtained for railways in this province, namely, the Kodtenay & Athabaska, the Crow's Nest & Kootenay Lake, the Canadian Western, the Ashcroft"(fe Cariboo, the- Okanaga ri & Kootenay, and the Farwell & Nelson. Although these - charters carried with them grants of 20,000 acres of land to, the mile, not a mile of railway has been built by either of the companies, and several of the -charters have lapsed. The experiment, therefore, of granting charters and lairge laud bonuses "to speculators has resulted in no good to the province, and the experiment of granting charters and small land bonuses to men of known-ability to carry out their undertakings might have a. different result. With that end in view the people of the lake camps have held public meetings and adopted resolutions addressed to the assembly, praying that certain railways be granted land bonuses, provided guarantees were given by the companies that the proposed roads would be built without de-lay^: The meeting at Nelson was held on Monday night, and although the attendance was. not large the majority of those present favored asking the legislative assembly to grant the Nelson & Fort Sheppard railway 10,000 acres of land to the mile, and a committee was appointed to carry out the wishes of the meeting. The committee thought it unwise to ask the assembly for a larger grant than is. desired by the men who propose to build the road, and on consultation drew up the following resolutions, which they will present to another public meeting called for tonight. As these resolutions are in accord with public sentiment, they will no doubt be adopted and forwarded, together with a petition signed by residents of the camps in thevdivision, to the assembly. It is generally believed that if the legislative assembly grants the Nelson & Fort Sheppard railway a bonus of 5000 acres of land to the mile, the road will be built and trains running through to Nelson early in the summer of 1893: Whereas, the section of the province known as the Kootenay Lake country, a section whose one industry���������mining ���������if'developed would add largely to the material wealth of the whole province; and Whereas, the development of that industry is not only greatly retarded, bat made oppressively expensive by the closing of all transportation routes for from four to five months in the year: and Whereas, relief can only be brought about by the building of railways that will connect the mining camps in the lake country with the railway systems already in operation to tlie north and to the south ; and Whereas, the immediate construction of such connections depend to a great extent on provincial and Dominion legislation; : ; Theref ore be it resolved, that it is the sense of the people of Nelson mining division of West Kootenay district that the legislative assembly of British Columbia will be acting in the best interests of the people of the province if reasonable aid is extended railway companies who will guarantee the building of these connections at an early date; provided, however, that the aid extended is not grants of land other than alternate sections of not to exceed 5000 acres to the mile, such sections in all cases to be taken from lands lying along the lines of railway so built; and that the right to the minerals (other than coal) in the land so granted, as well as the surface rights allowed under the provisions-of the Mineral and Placer Acts, shall: remain vested in the crown; and be it further , Resolved, that any and every such railway so aided and making Nelson a terminal point be granted right-of-way and terminal grounds through and in the government townsite of Nelson, so that such railway or rail wa.ys will be on an equal footing with railways previously built with the aid of grants of land from the province; and be it further . . Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be' forwarded to mr. Kellie, the member in the'legislative assembly for West Kootenay district, with 'the: request that he present them to the assembly, and take such individual action as will most speedily bring about the desired for result. Liberal Appropriations -Well B3xpeit. .$ 658 50 Repairing trail to East Kootenay 273 00 10,213 03 931 50 ��������� ������������������������������������ '! ' ������������������������������������ ��������� : -NELSON SECTION. Toad Mountain wagon road.....;. V.... ...'$��������� SOOO 00 Repairing trail at Sproat ................. 50 00 Rover Creek trail. ...,:....:.....,;..���������������������������.... ��������� 600 00 Grading, streets in Nelson (one-half of . which is to be paid by the Canadian Pacific railway) . 4595 14 TRAIL CREEK SECTION. Repairing trail between Trail Creek and Sproat:..:..:..... .. .. ........$ Repairing trail between -Sproat and the boundary line. ....:,........ Trail from Columbia river to boundary of' Vale district.:. 13,245 14 100 00 203 00 784 36 Total. 1,147 36 $32,193 47 May not I>e as large as HixpecU'iI. M. D. Mahoney returned to Nelson this week from Spokane, where he had been on important business for a month. Mr. Mahoney believes that the rush to this section will not b^ as large as indications promised in the early part of the winter. The causes that have brought, about the change are the discoveries made in Colorado and the boom in Spokane over the advent of the Great Northern railway. Hundreds who intended taking in the Kootenay Lake country are either on the way to Crede or Cripple Creek, Colorado, or will go as soon as practicable in the spring. Hundreds of others who intended to make investments in the towns in the lake country will now stop in Spokane and make investments there. While this may be disappointing, those who come here will, no doubt, do well. NEWS 15 Y TELE-ttKAPII. The Fitzsimmons-Maher fight at New Orleans on Wednesday night was won by Fitzsimmons in the thirteenth round. Eight thousand sporting men witnessed the contest and betting ran high. Honors were about even np to the seventh round, when Maher began to get groggy and at the call of time for the thirteenth round lie failed to come to time. Fitzsimmons was but little injured. . . . On Tuesday mrs. MarieNevens Blaine gave to the public her answer to secretary Blaine's letter. It is well written and interesting. She 0denies the charges flatly and requests that the full text of her* letters quoted by Blaine be published, if not she will give their contents and prove to the world the justice of her case. Quite a controversy seems: probable. . v ��������� In the senate on Thursday the Idaho con tested election case was closed in favor of Dubois, the vote standing 55 for Dubois to 5 for* Claggett. . . . Congressman Springer of Illinois is dangerously-/ill at Washington,-���������������������������'and-, his family and friends are prepared for the worst. The crisis is his condition was expected yesterday by the attending physicians. -.- . . Joe and -Frankie Moran, a couple with an unenviable reputation, were arrested on Wednesday at K>>otenay station, Idaho, for counterfeiting. The tools and molds used were found in their possession; also the metal out of which the coins were made. . . . Quite a sensation was caused in Spokane Falls on Thursday night by an article that appeared in. the. Evening Chronicle which stated that mayor Frotheringham, who left for Chicago 10 days before with $1,200,000 city bonds to place with a Chicago banking firm, had not been officially heard from, and no information from the city officials can be had of his whereabouts. . . . 'Bar silver was quoted at 90f cents an ounce in New York on the 3rd. Ainsworth People ask for Specific Appropriations. On Friday night, the people of Ainsworth held a public meeting and passed resolutions condemning The Miner for advocating lump appropriations for. roads, trails, and bridges for West Kootenay, and placed themselves on record as favoring specific appropriations for such works..' They asked that a pnropriations be .made for completing the trail fro in Kaslo City to the Slocan mines; for. ane from Ainsworth, via Fletcher's ranch, to Kaslo City; one for improving the wagon roads at Ainsworth; and one for a trail from Crawford's -bay to the headwaters of the St. Mary's river*. The. Miner is sorely grieved that its advocacy of lump appropriations does not suit the people of Ainsworth or the people Of Revelstoke; but the best evidence that can be brought forward to, prove that lump '.appropriations are in no wise sectional and do much more good than specific ones is the report, of the chief commissioner of lands and works printed oh this page. By that report, the $32,000 appropriated for the district was expended on no less than 21 different roads and trails, of these 11 are situated in Ainsworth and Revelstoke sections. But, then, these two sections are the most important in West Kootenay district, and the wishes of their* people will have to be complied with. Little of Eifiiportanee to l.-hroiiicle. There is little of importance to chronicle from the mines on Toad mountain. The face of the Silver King tunnel is in ore its full width, although the ore is-not solid. The Dandy drift continues in about the same character of ore as previously reported, and no change is reported in the Grizzly. The gold claims over on Eagle and 49 creeks look promising, and by the time capitalists looking for gilt-edge properties begin to arrive, the gilt-edge properties in that section will be in good shape. The gold claims on the north side of Toad mountain are being developed, and one named the Sunrise is pronounced the best gold prospect in Kootenay district. >.%f Si* f^5 ii Sf \\M 'r:**2*tt? BiigM^^ THE MBTEE: KELSON, B. 0., SATUEBAT, MAEOH 5, 1892. Cor. Baker and Ward Sts. NELSON, B. C. H. & T. MADDEN Proprietors. The Madden is 0 entraUy Located, with a frontage cowards Kootenay river, and is newly furnished throughout. THE T .A. IB I_, E is supplied with everything in the market, the kitchen being under the immediate supervision of Hugh Madden, a caterer of large experience. THE BAR IS STOCKED WITH THE BEST brands of beer, ale, wine, whisky, and cigars. KOOTENAY HOTEL Vernon Street, near Josephine, NELSON, B.-C. AXEL JOHNSON, PROPRIETOR. THE HOTEL OVERLOOKS THE KOOTENAY its guests thus obtaining splendid viewrs of both mountain and river. THE ROOMS THE TABLE are comfortable in size and is acknowledged the best newly furnished. in the mountains. TIEHIIE IB^-IR, is stocked with the best liquors and cigars procurable. No whiskies sold except Hiram Walker & Sons' celebrated brands. East Baker Street, Nelson, Is one of the best hotels in Toad Mountain district, and is the headquarters for prospectors and working miners. The Table is not Surpassed by that of any Hotel in the Kootenay Lake country. At the Bar is Dispensed Fine Liquors and Cigars, and the bed-rooms are newly furnished. MALONE & TREGILLUS PROPRIETORS TRAIL, B. ���������. TOPPING & H ANN A Proprietors Good Table ; ���������ioo������l Berts ; Myas-Close Liquors. FALSE PRETENCE COMMISSIONERS. The New York Sun's Washington correspondent, referring to the withdrawal of the Canadian reciprocity commissioners, says: If the Canadian commissioners shall return to Canada and make misleading statements as to the commission here, as did sir Charles Tupper on a former occasion, the probability is that the administration will not ^ the statements to go uncontradicted, but will publish what did actually occar, in order to protect it from the imposition to which it was subjected last spring. It is understood that the secretary of state took pains to have the statements of the Dominion commissioners reduced tc> writing. * It is announced in Ottawa that the Dominion ministers are expected to���������soon return from Washington. It can be stated authoritatively that secretary Blaine will piece nothing in the way of their immediate return. It is known that the president and secretary \\Blaihe are indignant that diplomatic courtesy has again been so audaciously abused, as it has been by the Dominion commissioners in coming to Washington to desire to negotiate a treaty, when they had no authority whatever to even enter upon the preliminary consideration of that question. When they arrived here it was supposed that they had full authority to conclude a convention, which, if approved by the president and submitted to the senate, would be binding upon the United States, and upon the British government. It now appears that they came for the purpose of endeavoring "to look into the hand of the United States," and to ascertain, if they could, whether there would be any prospect to reciprocity, even if they could obtain from Great Britain any authority to negotiate a treaty. The president and secretary Blaine now find that they have twice been used to effect a Torv and anti-Ameri- can purpose in Canada. There are intimations that, if the Dominion commissioners: do not omit the ordinary courtesy of calling on the president to take leave, the latter may avail himself of the occasion of announcing in a speech to them how much this government feels that it has been trifled with. It is said that sir Julian Pauncefote, the British minister, is not altogether pleased that he has been made a cats- paw for the second time by the Dominion government for purposes of its own, and that he feels very much embarrassed that he should have introduced the Dominion cabinet officers to the secretary of state and the president, knowing that the United States officials presumed, at least, that the Canadian commissioners had some authority in the premises. There will be no treaty made by the present administration with the Tory government at Ottawa. This is one of the results which is made clear by the masquerade hereof the past week, and the cause of reciprocity, which the Tory cabinet pretends to have so much at heart, has been apparently injured by the campaign of false pretense here. One of the best points for investment in the Kootenay Lake country. n order to obtain the full benefit of the coming season's rise in values. LOTS AT REASONABLE PRICES and on the best terms can be had of C. HAMBER, West Baker street, Nelson, duly authorized Nelson agent for the Kaslo-Kootenay Land Company, Limited. " ���������'��������� ' Plasterers and Bricklayers "Will Contract for all Kinds of Work., Materials furnished and estimates given on application Agents for the sale of LIME. Address all communications to Nelson, B. C. Comer West Vernon and Stanley Streets, NELSON, B. C. Telephone 43. FIEST-OLASS IN EVEEY EESPEOT. The International has a comfortably furnished parlor for ladies, and the rooms are large and furnished newly throughout. THE TABLE IS NOT SURPASSED by any hotel in the Kootenay Lake country. A share of transient trade solicited. THE SAMPLE-KOOM IS STOCKED WITH CHOICE CIGAKS AND THE FINEST BEARDS OF LIQUORS/ \\ JAS. DAWSON B. PROPRIETORS (i The; Pinest Hotel in Toad Mountain District." THE SILVER KIN Corner West Baker and Ward Streets, i\\EfcS������iY, B. C.' JOHNSON & MAHONEY, PROPRIETORS. The Silver King is a new building and furnished with new furniture from kitchen to attic. The table will not be equalled by any hotel in Nelson. Telephone 21. Furniture and Pianos! Jas. McDonald & Co. Nelson and Rcvelstolte, carry full lines of all kinds of furniture for residences, hotels, and offices. Mattresses made to order, and at prices lower than eastern and coast. They are also agents for Evans Pianos and Doherty Organs. NELSON STORE : No. 4 Houston ������& Ink Building;, Josephine Street. LANDSCAPE PHOTOGBAPHEKS. Views of all the best scenery in British Columbia, including towns in the Kootenay district. Also, always on hand a stock of MIEEOES, PIOTUEE MOLDINGS, STEEL EN- GEAVLNGS, ETCHINGS, AID PH0T0- GEAVUEES, WEST BAKER STREET, NE1LSOM, B. v a Chief of Folice Feathered His Nest, Testimony has been taken for several weeks at Tacoma in settlement of the estate of Harry Morgan, a notorious gambler and owner of a gaming house, the Theater Comique, and an estate valued at over $100,000. His widow alleges fraud on the part of administrator C. P. Chamberlain. Frank Cantwell, formerly connected with the gaming department, in testimony said that Mark Dillon, chief of police at the time of Morgan's death, two years ago, had given the Comique and other gambling houses immunity from the police and had gotten one- fourth of the proceeds of all the houses. Cant- well said this was common talk among the gamblers, and said that it paid $30,000 a month. Crosses tine Atlantic -in Less than Six Ways. The passage of the steamer Majestic, which arrived at New York on February 24th, is, relative to distance, the fastest ever recorded. She came 2865 miles in 5 days, 20 hours, and 22 minutes. This would make her time on the short route 5 days, 15 hours, and 54 minutes, the fastest ever made. Her average speed this trip was 20.41 knots per hour. t ����; r ������ ��cwfrtTaB��i..aM,-��j.ffac - :. If If THE MINER: KELSON, B. 0., SATUEDAY, MAEOH 5, 1892. L \\ 1*' ** , AMENDMENTS TO' THE LAN1������ ACT. w \\s ��������� From the reports of the proceedings of the legislative assembly printed in the coast papers it is impossible to state with any degree of accuracy what the Land Act will be on the adjournment of the assembly. In debate the commissioner of lands and works admitted that the notice cancelling the reserve on lands 2 miles on each side of Kootenay river and outlet had not been given according to law, and that therefore section 11 of the new Land Act would have to be passed to remedy the defect. According to 1 hat -admission, the land that was supposed to be open to sale and preemption on February 20th is still under reserve, and when open to sale and preempt ion ca n only be aequired' uncler the pro- visions of the new act, which does not permit the purchase of unsurveyed.land. The government has certainly made a bad mess of this particular reserve business, and while many individual applicants have suffered loss in time and monev. no good has been done an vone. Another point that cannot be understood by the newspaper reports, is the passage of the. following- resolution : "The provisions of the act shall not apply to '*. thecases of any bona fide location of land, followed by compliance with the provisions of the Land Act, and due notice of intentions to apply for leave to puichase, which may have been advertised as required by law, previous to the 22nd of February, 1892, and notwithstanding anything in this act contained, any person having given such notice and having fully complied with tlie provisions of the Land Act, may be permitted to purchase the land, applied for, if the purchase he '-'carried to com- " pletion on or before the 30th of September, " 1892, but not later, and if the chief commis- " sioner of lauds and works shall he satisfied, "that but for the passage of this act the pur- "* chase would have been allowed to proceed." Does the resolution mean that the government will allow all persons who applied for land prior to February 22nd to complete their purchases? If so, are those who made applications to purchase land on Slocan on the same footing as applicants for land in other sections? There is no good reason why they should not be, and if they are the government merely allows them their rights. i������ a Woi*lvnig;inei& l������o!>1������ed Right and heft. A number of the boys who worked on the Columbia & Kootenay railway last spring, and who afterwards went over to work on the Great Northern, have returned to Nelson. They all bring back the same reports as to the bad treatment accorded workingmen by the contractors who built the Great Northern. What the contractors did not withhold in the way of road taxes, and poll taxes, and discounts on time- checks, and discounts on their own bank checks, the saloon-keepers and rounders got from the men by practices disgraceful alike to the ruffians who perpetrated them and to the officials who allowed them to be perpetrated. From reports brought to Nelson, the local officials in Idaho are little better than the official robbers hung by the vigilantes in Montana in the early sixties. The men who worked on the Columbia & Kootenay did not receive large wages, but what they earned they got; and after they got it, the officials at Nelson did not allow rounders to perpetrate barefaced robberies. TIae Matchless Stroke of a Waster Hand. John S. Wise of Virginia, speaking at a dinner given on February 12th by the Union League Club of Brooklyn, New York, said: "I speak as one who, while yet a boy, embarked enthusiastically in the Confederate cause. The nomination of Lincoln I pictured in boyish fancy as the elevation of a bad man by an insane faction with cruel, quixotic purpose. I laughed in my heart in the spring of 1860 at the thought, that anything could uproot and destroy the social and political fabric by which I was surrounded. Within 5 years from that time I stood upon that same spot, a paroled prisoner of the army of the dead Confederacy. Mr. Lincoln had an unquestioned right to proclaim the freedom of the THE JOHN DOTY ENGINE COMPANY, LTD. OIF TOROITTO, OIISTT^DRIO. MANUFAOTUEEES OF ALLDESCEIPTIONS OF MAEINE AND STATIONARY ESritisIi Coliiiiiltaa ISrancIt: 520 Cordova Street, Vancouver. 0. P. ST. JOHN, Manager. Keep in stock a full supply of engineer and mill supplies, such as pipe and fittings, brass goods, sheet and other v packing, rubber valves, rubber and leather belting, Dodge wood split-pulleys, oils and lubricants, etc. *, "Estimates for boilers and engines made on application. Mail orders receive prompt attention. HOISTING ENGINES AND SINKING PUMPS FOR MINES. slaves as a war measure. None but a bold, strong, independent nature would have assumed all the responsibilities for the danger which the step involved to himself, his friends, and his cause. Looking at its consequences, friend and foe now concur that it was a matchless stroke of a master hand. Lincoln 'will be remembered for all time to come, by friend and foe alike, as the great, sad, almost lonelv helmsman of the union in the hour of its peril, who steered by the unfailing light of a single constellation, who, never veering a point, was always guided by his self-made chart, 'with malice to ward none and charity for all. 5 35 Tlie Cripple Creek Forwiatioii Is B'orphyry. The mineral of the Cripple Creek district in Colorado is found in a porphyry belt 5 miles wide bv 10 miles in length, and is almost invar- iably gold quartz. The blowouts discovered on every hill and the lava and burnt quartz would seem to indicate that the mineral found is the result of volcanic action, and the similarity of all the ore in the district is evidence that it all came from a common source. It has been forced up through a soft porphyry, leaving the adjoining granite undisturbed. (A. M. Can. Soc. C. E.) 0IVIL ENGINEEE AND AECHITEOT, TOLSON B:UIOM$������..... NELSON, IS. IV Barrister at Law, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Office, "Victoria street, Katnloops, B. C. Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur, Telephone 45. Office: Stanley and Victoria Streets. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London ; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Corner Silica and Ward Streets, Nelson. Telephone 40. C. E. C. BROWN, L.D.S. Special attention given to care and treatment of diseased teeth. Crown and bridge work of the most approved modes. Gold plates, as well as vulcanite, inserted. Teeth regulated. All work warranted. Will visit West Kootenay at the opening of navigation and spend the greater part of the summer. Due notice of Aasit will be given in The Miner. January 19th, 1892. ~R. J. MOWAT & CO. ~ Contractors and Builders, SEASONED LUMBER always on hand for store fittings, desks, tables, etc. Will contract to erect all kinds of buildings and guarantee satisfaction. Shop: corner Josephine and Bluff sts. w. J. WILSON. VV. PERDUE. WILSON & PROPRIETORS OF ..AT. NELSON AND AINSWOETH. Will contract to supply mining companies and steamboats with fresh meats, and deliver same at any mine or landing in the Kootenay Lake country. CORRAL AND STABLING ��������� AT NELSON, where saddle and pack animals can always be hired, and teams obtained for job teaming. During the winter EXPEESS PAE0ELS AND LIGHT FEEIGHT will be promptly forwarded to and from Colville, Trail, Nelson, Balfour, Pilot Bay, and Ainsworth. NELSON OEFICE AND MARKET, NO. II EAST BAKER STREET Telephone 32. ANGUS McINTYRE, PROPRIETOR OF THE PIOITEER 9 KAL and STABLE Corner ISliifT and Ward Streets, NELSON, B. C. Will undertake any work or. contract in which pack animals or teams can bo used. Will furnish SADDLE AND PACK ANIMALS to parties who wish to examine mines and claims in Toad Mountain district. WILL 00NTEA0T TO 0AEEY PASSENGEES and baggage to and from hotels ; also, freight to and from steamboat wharves and railway depots. CONTRACT TO GRADE LOTS IN NELSON, s Stove and Cordwood lor Sale. mnmim ii ������M������ji������ja.uju'iia'Majia������armjujj/3-.iiuiauuigijmjaiiTiBi^B������������,iiiir.i^ni IMim������UM������llWMll������U������JUftMmi>MiUMm^ Bi������������mimiiMiMiil������ii|iJ!LIJJ.I,Jl.������mil������iii������1������^^ 4. t r is- I, THE MINEE: NELSON, B. 0., SATUEDAY, MAEOH 5, 1892. Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Canned Goods, Hardware, Etc. Miners' Supplies a Specialty* The stock is full and complete in every, Department, and the public will find It to their advantage to call and inspect G-oods and compare Prices. ili ! ' Telephone 27. 7, 9, and 11 East Ve^ t P it I ���������a* til! SMALL NBJfiCiETS OF NEWS. What a rustling there will be among ambitious politicians in the lake country should the Robson government see fit to pass a redistribution bill by which an additional member would be allotted to .West Kootenay. And it can be truthfully stated that the more ambitious the politician the less fitted for the office. The postoffice* like the hotels at Nelson, now has all the modern conveniences. It is fitted up with lock-boxes and drawers and pigeon-holes and wickets and obliging clerks and a genial postmaster. The boxes number 96 and the drawers 13. The annual rental will be $6 for the boxes and $7 for the drawers. Jim McCartney, well-known at Nelson and Ainsworth as a short-card sport, was seriously wounded in a fracas at Moscow, Idaho, recently. The fight was made with guns, and Jim got plugged twice, he being unarmed. Among those who came in on the Idaho from the head of the lake was A. Carney, who had been out as far as Bonner's Ferry. He reports the ice in Kootenay river solid for miles, and that there is no likelihood of its going out until the -water begins to rise. The owners of the Spokane expect to make the.first run.to Kootenay lake points about the 20th. There are quite a number* of people at the Ferry waiting to come in. Dan Dunn, who has the contract for building the wharf at Nelson, says the piles are all out and that he will begin driving them on Tuesday. Horse-power will be used for driving the bents near shore and an engine for those at the outer- end. The piles are cedar, tamarack, fir, and hemlock. The Nelson Sawmill Company will put in a dry kiln at the yard with a capacity of 5000 feet daily. This company is now prepared to promptly fill orders for all kinds of lumber and all sizes of dimension stuff". Report of the Nelson public school for February: Fourth class���������Willie McMorris, Robbie McLeod, and Jasper Phair. Third class���������Etta Muir, Leonard Gould, Nelson Buchanan, Fisher Williams, Minnie Gould, and Stella Breeden. Primer II.���������Leo Buchauan, Ray May, John Du- hamel, and Samuel Stuckey. Primer I. (senior) ���������Dora Taylor. Primer I. (junior)���������Bella McDonald, Sadie Stewart, Flora McDonald, Harry Farley, Hugh McDonald, May Perry, Alex McDonald. :, ��������� ������������������:.;. There is considerable unfavorable comment on the captain Troup interview's published in the Spokane papers. The people at Bonner's Ferry are particularlywrathy. They say it is absurd to talk of people going into the Slocan country by way of Nakusp creek. The more routes opened into a new country the better, and the opening of one up Nakusp creek will not hurt the Slocan country, however much it may injure the trade of Bonner's Ferry. Such statements are hurtful: ..only, when they, are misleading. At present there is no trail from the Upper Arrow lake to Slocan lake, much less a stage road ; and it is doubtful if even a trail will be built on that r on te th i is. yea r.;: : Are not the people" of Ainsworth excessively forward in kindness "in asking; the .governnieht. to complete the trail from Kaslo City to the mines on Slocan lake? According to the statements made by the agents of the Kaslo City townsite, a wagon road, and not a trail, will be rushed through to the Slocan country in the spring, the townsite owners standing all the expense. Among the arri vals -at Nelson this week was John McMillan, at one time a ranch owner near Calgary in Alberta, but now looking around for prospects, he having followed the business of mining for years in Montana before settling in Alberta. Mr. McMillan cannot have better luck than he deserves, for he is a good man in any country. - It has got to be generally understood in this section that unless the aid of a certain clique is obtained, no favors, to say nothing of blind jus- - tice, can be obtained at the land office in Victoria. Somehow7, applicants who are Englishmen born hold the age over applicants who are British subjects but happen to be Canadian born. Within a week 2"of the large panes of glass in the front windows of the Nelson house were broke by someone leaning against them. The proprietors of that hotel think it passing strange that as long as the glass in the windows re- .mained'vplain no one should think of leaning against them, but once the glass is artistically lettered that they should be so desirable leaning .. places.: The owners of several mineral claims southeast of Nelson would like to know7 why parties at Nelson were allowed to purchase land covering these mineral claim's; all the more so after vigorous protests had been sent in against allowing the purchases. Perhaps surveyor-general Gore will rise and explain. Allan Lean reports that the lime burned by his firm near Crawford's bay will be ready for delivery next week. He already has contracts to plaster a dozen buildings at Pilot. Bay and Nelson. .. A party made up of Hugh McRae, Pat Noo- nan, Jim Gray, Arthur Dick, and Bill Houston left Nelson for Slocan lake on Tuesday, intending to go up Slocan river in boats. They go into that country to find out for themselves what there's in it. '".' ' "..'/'!'"' .,."������������������'������������������'.'".'.!." ."' "?\\. The only sale of Nelson dirt reported during the week was lots 13 and 14, block 16, by Ho us- to11 & Ink t(ir Angus McIn tyre; considerat ion $425. ���������"''���������.-���������: Someone must have a grudge against the fire company, for no other, reagon can be assigned for the willful cutting of. hose that happened to be left outside the hose-house the other night. A little British justice sternly administered should be ineted out to the party who did the cutting. M. J. Brown and R. E. Lemon left for th out- si de o n T h u rsd ay* Th e f o r in er goes to br i n g i n furniture for the Tecumseh house and the latter to bring in the Nelson & Fort Sheppard railway. VEGETABLES! Cabbage, potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips. Prices, delivered at wharf, furnished on application. ?4 February 20th, 1892. AMBROSE MORGAN, Nelson. Groceries, Hardware, Boots, Shoes, Clothing, and Gents' Furnishings. Miners' Supplies a Specialty. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT.���������Wines, Liquors, and Cigars. AGENTS: Val Blatz Brewing Co., Milwaukee; Northwest iErated Water Co.; G-ooderham & Worts' Whisky. TErLErPIEIOISI-IE] s."""@en, "Print Run: 1890-1898 ; Frequency: Weekly"@en ; edm:hasType "Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:spatial "Nelson (B.C.)"@en ; dcterms:identifier "Nelson_Miner_1892_03_05"@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0182620"@en ; dcterms:language "English"@en ; geo:lat "49.5000000"@en ; geo:long "-117.2832999"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:publisher "Nelson, B.C. : John Houston"@en ; dcterms:rights "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en ; dcterms:source "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en ; dcterms:title "The Miner"@en ; dcterms:type "Text"@en .