The Miner
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-07-29
issued: 1894-09-01
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.
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note: The 3I1im:s in Kootenay are Anions llie Kii'lu'st in America. <&J C*'?"V,*jSr'-,''fti I Tlie Ores are ' Siigli-l'r.Klc in Oolil, Silver, Clipper, iiml Letiil. Whole Number 211, Nelson, British Columbia, . Saturday, September 1, 1894. Price Five Cents. THE WEEK'S MINING NEWS PRICES OF METALS. SITjVER. Silver 66%. Lead 3.25. LEAD. Washington, Aug.-25.���������A very important preliminary report on the subject of lead has just been made by special agent C. Kirchhoff to the Geological Survey of -llie Interior Department. The most striking feature of the statistics presented, savs the report, is the heavy falling off in the quantity ol lead drawn from domestic Bources. It proves a heavy decline in the .of,- price of lead, and the prostration of the silver mining industry in the Rocky Mountain states and territories. The stocks of lead in refiners' hands have' only been partially reported. Those received show a total of 2,655 tons on July 1st, 1894, as compared -with 2,46S tons on Jan. 1st. The stock of soft lead was 2,060 tons in the beginning of the year as compared with 1,880 tons on July 1st, 1894. Ill SIS IN SILVER. 9.1���������The ���������Neav York, Aug. 24-The drift of opinion on Wall street is that,up to the present time the demand for silver has. come from speculators. They profess to know that there has been no direct buying for China, and say that in making prices they entirely follow the London market. One prominent bullion -broker said that the rise was probably assisted by the introduction in the house by Johnson, of North Dakota, of, a bill for the unlimited coinage of silver. The demand has not been very heavy during the past few days, and there was a disposition on the part of London to deal in futures on silver, from which it was concluded that the purchasing was not for immediate shipments on buying orders from China, but rather in expectation of an advance. At the New York agency of the Hongkong and Shanghai banking corporation it was said that after …
note: Print Run: 1891-1898 ; Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.5000000
long: -117.2832999
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : Miner Printing and Publishing Company
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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