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BC Historical Newspapers
The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919.
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Volume VI. No. 19. NEW DENVER, B.C, FEBRUARY 9, 1899. Price, $2 00 Year &L0GAN GAMP NEWS 1 LOCAL CHIT-CHAT. The real Spanish-American war has just begun in the Phillipine Islands. W..R. Will returned Saturdav from a visit of several weeks iu Winnipeg-. Ice on Slocan lake is unusual; but there is tons of it floating- about this winter. The All Star English Specialty Com- Eany gave two excellent performances ere last week. It is reported that the Bank of Montreal will open a branch at Cranbrook at nJ early date. Rev. Cleland, of Sandon, will hold services in the Presbyterian church Sunday morning- at 11 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Taylor will spend the remainder of the winter in N w Denver, they having closed their hotel at Ten Mile. , The past cold snap is said to be the severest ever experienced in the Slocan. The thermometer registered all the way from 23 at Sandon to 10 below at New Denver. Engineers are laying out a 2,500-foot sidetrack in the C. P. R. yard at Nelson to accommodate the increasing through business and facilitate the handling "of local freight. Word has been received from J. 0. Harris, that he anticipates returning to New Denver early in April He "will be accompanied by Mrs. Harris and they will take up their residence here. LEDGK CKOPPlNCiS. The force on the Reco has been increased. Fifteen tons were shipped from the Wild Goose last week. The Idaho shipped 250 tons in the last week of January. The Whitewater mine has been provided throughout with electric lights. Twenty tons of ore were shipped last week from the Sovereign to the Aurora smelter. ' Work on the Anglo-Saxon has been stopped temporarily, owing to the ex cessive cold weather. THK KOUNIJRY COUNTRY In Receiving Much Attention From Eastern Canadian Capital. According to an interview with J,B. MeArthur, who has just returned to Services will be held in the Methodist ���church next Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:15 &m. Everybody welcome. R.N.Powell, orning subject, "The Present Need of Prophets; evening, "Lessons of Creation Frank LoCasto has made another more. This time its to the Boundary country. John Williams has purchased his stock and fixtures, and will carry on business at the old stand, minus' the barber's chair. There is due the Provincial Government from the incorporated cities of West Kootenay Personal Property and Income Tax for 1899 to the amount of $11,676, divide^ as follows: Nelson, $&,822; Rossland, ��2,681; Kaslo, 1,283; Sandon, $817. J. E. Boyden,,master mechanic at the Trail smelter, "was instantly killed-last -week by a shock, received while making some repairs to the switch-board in connection with the electrical plant. The unfortunate man was on his knees under the switch-board and struck his head against it. R. T Lowery, formerly of Petrolea, arrived in town on Monday morning from New Denver, B.C. Mr. Lowery is the prosperous proprietor of two newspapers in British Columbia. He is an old-time Topic man, it being 20 years since he introduced the Topic in this place. He seems to enjoy good health living in the mountains of British Columbia.���Petrolea Topic Owing to the great danger from slides, work on the Treasure Vault has been suspended for the present. Smelter returns from the first five car loads of ore shipped from the Vancouver mine aggregate something over $14,000. Eight or ten men are working on the Enterprise under contract, and good progress is being made, especially on the No. I tunnel. For the week ending Jan. 31 the Idaho shipped 249 tons, Wild Goose 15, and Queen Bess 41, These mines ship from Three Forks. All the workings on the Ivan hoe show high grade ore. Two car loads of ore were shipped from the mine last week, the first in two years. The ore shipments from the Whitewater for the week ending Februarv 3, reached 116 tons. The Whitewater sent down 96, and the Jackson 20. The new owners of the Antoine contemplate running along tunnel to tap the ledge at a greater depth than heretofore explored, and will start work early in the spring-. One car load of ore was shipped this week from the Marion, Silver mountain. This property is not far enough advanced to be a regular shipper, and shipments will only be made as the ore is taken out in the course of development. Sandon's ore shipments for the week ending Feh. 3rd amounted to 310 tons. Of this the Payne shipped 150 tons, Last Chance 120 tons. Reco 20, and Sovereign 20, In addition to this the Pavne shipped by C. P. R. from' the Concentrator 180 tons, making a total for that great dividend producer for the week of 330 tons. Ore shipments from Silverton last week amounted to ten carloads; of which the Wakefield shipped eight and Vancouver two. The Noondav and Emily Edith will soon be added "to the shipping list from this point. The Emily Edith has 80 tons readv to be hauled to the landing, and the Noondav is preparing a small shipment. Making It Clear. INTEREST REVIVED AT THE FARM. Since work on the Noonday by Messrs. Benedum and Stewart Bros., has developed that property so favorably, interest in the Galena Farm properties has considerably revived, and it is quite likely that this sadly over-capitalized mining concern will be worked anew when it has passed through liquidation and it can be reincorporated under more favorable auspices. At the present time three men Are employed at the mine. The strike on the Nooday is not far distant from the Currie property, and the trend of the ore body is through that claim Owners of other properties adjoining the Noonday are greatly encouraged by the great strike.there, and are preparing to commence work with renewed vigor as soon as the snow is gone. There is no doubt that other discoveries quite as rich as that of the Noonday, will be made in that vicinity. Specimens of the Noonday ore are being shown that is held together with wire silver, which it is said will assay 10,000 ounces to the ton. Somebody has discovered that a Bermuda union eaten raw will clear the head A Bermuda onion eaten raw will do more than that, It wi.ll clear an entire room. An active Bermuda onion is a complete clearing house all by itself. Take one Bermuda onion���only one��� and let the lips of beauty close upon it, ann love will turn to hatred and honey to gall and bitterness.' Clear the head? Why, a Bermuda onion in faily good health will clear the head of navigation ! .... 8U,VKIt-t,KAl> OBK, K. OF P. MASQUERADE BALL. Extensive preparations are being made by local dancers to make the mask ball to be given by the K of P. lodge, in the Bosun Hall, on the 14th, a grand success. Costumes are being secured from the coast. Masks will be raised at 11 o'clock, and until that hour only maskers will occupy the floor. The dress circle is reserved for spectators at 50 cents. Tickets $2 per couple, supper included, at the Newmarket; extra supper tickets, 50 cents. Mr. H. E. Beasley, superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Nelson, has returned to that city from a trip through the Slocan. Mr. Beasley reports that although business is quiet, people are confident that the coming summer will lie the. best in the history of the country. The Canadian Pacific Railway is handling eight car loads of ore a day from the mines of the Slocan, the bulk of which is being shipped to the Trail smelter. The. Idaho is shipping .three car loads a day, the Last Chance one car, the Queen Bess four cars a week and about two cars a day aie being shipped from the lake mines Two concentrators will be built at Sandon in the spring, one for the Ruth and one for the Ivonhoe. THK P.VYNK SUNE. It is reported that a Montreal Syndicate has just completed the purchase of 100,000 shares of the stock ot th" Payne Mining Company, which owns the famous Payne mine in the Slocan. The par value of the shares is $8.50. A portion of this stock was tak��n up in London, but most of it was purchased in Montreal. The Payne is one of the greatest mines of British Columbia, and its record has been a remarkable one. Rossland from a trip through Ontaiio, Montreal and Toronto people have unbounded faith in the future of the ���Boundary Creek district, and such men as Senator George A. Cox, Robert Jaffray, Byron E. Walker, general manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and other wealthy and influential men of Toronto have joined hands with Messrs. Mann and Mackenzie in securing-and developing promising properties in Greenwood and Summit camps. A development company has recently been formed in Montreal by prominent Canadian Pacific Railwav officials with a capital of ��250,000, fully paid up. This syndicate will bond and develop properties in that district. It is also said that the Gooderham-Blackstock people and their friends are going into the same district. All these men, and they are only a few well-known people, have strong financial following, and you can perfectly understand that when'they take hold of anything good they will have ample capital to see the undertaking through to success. The people of eastern Canada have learned that one can be quite as.success- ful in mining operations, if conducted on a business basis, as they can be in industrial and manufacturing, pursuits. And eastern merchants and manufacturers have learned the value of a mining country as a consumer of their products and they are doing all they can to push trade'and form public opinion favorable to the construction of railways, and are now heavy subscribers to shares for the purpose of building, smelters, as also in dividend paying mining operations. Speaking-.of railways, Mr. MeArthur continued': "I was given to understand while cast that'a subsidy will be asked from the Dominion Parliament this coming session for the immediate construction of a railway from Midway to Penticton, being the extension to the latter named place of the Columbia '&. Western Railway now being built. "If lead should be put upon the free list as the'result of the work of the international commission at Washington, there is no doubt a railway will also he built into the Lardeau-Duncan country to connect with the railway system oil Kootenay lake, this coining summer." ^ Asked as to smelter locations in the T.oundarv Creek district, he informed the correspondent that, while he knew something about the locations, he was, for personal reasons, unable to give the news to the public. He spoke of the success J. P. Graves, of'Spokane, had in floating a smelter company, and he also believed the Canadian Pacific Railway would erect a 1,00.0-ton smelter, but where either of these smelters would be located he would not say. He thought, however" that Mann and Mackenzie and associates would erect a smelter for the Brooklyn andStemwind- er mines in Greenwood, camp -Mr. Mann had told him personally that if the future development of these properties proved as favorable as it had in the past, they would certainly build a smelter to treat their own product. "This year," he said, "should determine that question. .They claim to have the longest and richest ore chute, in width I believe .40 feet, running high in both copper and gold, on the Brooklyn claim, and the Stem winder development has proved that to be a splendid claim also." TWO PROMISING PROPERTIES. Ten Mile Claims That "Will Develope Into Minef*. The Enterprise is not the only mine on Ten Mile, and the developments Mabou and Ohio be two other big now going on at the prove that there will .,.. *���., ^.��~. ^.6 producers in time on the creek. These claims are located above the Enterprise and on the same lead. Each of them has besides the small and big veins of the Enterprise, the well-known Agrenta ledge. This vein is 15 feet in width and ore from it has given returns of over 600 ounces in silver. On the Mabou. quarters were put up in the fall, and lately A. Tunks has been working upon the small lead from the Enterprise. He has driven 18 feet in two weeks, and the results are magnificent. There is three feet of quartz in the breast, heavily charged with mineral. On Wednesday the paystreak commenced to come in, being then two inches in width of high grade zinc ore. It is expected that another 25 feet of drifting will show a foot of clean ore. On the big vein, nothing has been done, though it shows ore in places. This is 20 feet in width. Work will be pushed on the Arg-enta lead in the spring, and the owners confidently hope to be shipping ore by next fall." The Ohio, which extends to the summit, has had considerable work done, and holds its own well. On the big lead a tunnel has been driven close to 120 feet, with one crosscut to the foot wall of 75 feet. In the breast is six inches of good healthy quartz. The drift is now being swung to the left to catch the small Enterprise vein, which has been cut on the surface. Extensive ground sluicing was done on this property last summer and the indications warrant the belief that the Ohio will' turn out a big-proposition. A crosscut to tap the Argenta lead is also being run, and by the end of the month shipping ore is expected in both workings. The owners', F. C. Wells and R. I Kirkwood, are developing the Ohio. The Mabou is owned by D Grant, R. L Kirkwood, A. Tunks and G. Williamson. NEAR=BYGA/HPMEWS DEALS AT ROSSLAND. Within the year that has just passed, outside capitalists have invested $7,000,- 000 in Rossland mining properties. The two biggest buyers were the British America Corporation and Messrs. Good- erham and Blackstook. The total investments of the B. A. C. up to the present time amount to $5,000,000. Of this, of course, the biggest item was the purchase of the Le Roi. That deal represents an outlay of $3,500,000. The 204,- 000 shares which were bought from the Turner faction in the Le Roi Company cost outright $7.25 per share. In addition the former owners of the stock wil receive a further sum of about $1 pe.- share on account of the ore and the matte outstanding when the sale was made. The total receipts, therefore, by Senator Turner and his colleagues are. $1,683,000. The remaining 260,CCD shares in the old Le Roi company were bought by the British America Corporation at the rate of $6 per share, or $1,776,000. The amount that has beer spent on the property since it has bed in the control of the B. A. C. is about $100,000. The next largest deal was the purchase by the Gooderham-Blackstock syndicate of the Centre Star for $2,000,000. Already since then the owners have spent about S 10,000 in opening the mine, and they will spend perhaps $L75,O00 more on it during the coming year before placing the stock in it upon the market. The purchase of the Colum- bia-Kootenay by the B. A. C. was the next largest deal put through during the year. For that big property the corporation paid $295,000, and has spent upon it $60,000 since that time. In return for that outlay bigger ore bodies than were ever before known, as well as new chutes of good grade ore, whose existence had been unsuspected, have been opened. ore is-being shipped to the Nortliport smelter at the rate of 20 tons per diem. James Robinson, Jack Falls and Wm. Bonner commenced work on the Rising Star, adjoining' the Porto Rico, last IVIonday week. Already the shaft is down 22 feet, with three feet of solid ore encountered, assays ��30 to the ton in gold. .'.',' OCR L.EAD PRODUCTION. MOYIE MINERAL FLOAT. HOSPITAL PATIENTS. The Dardanelles. Sir Charles Hibbert Tripper, Hon. P. W. Peters and Col. Rae have returned east after a trip through the Slocan district. They visited the Dardanelles, which is situated in the Dardanelles basin, about six miles', from McGuigan, an 1 express themselves as greatly pleased with the work being done at the time, and the encouraging prospects for the future. Five car loads of high grade ore have been shipped, and another cur loud was to be ready for shipment last Saturday. The force of men will be increased in the syring and development work more vigorously prosecuted. The past two weeks have been busy ones in the Slocan Hospital. Most of the patients admitted were suffering- from la grippe, or ailments attributable to this dreaded epidemic. On Jan 23rd Dan McDonald was admitted from the Wakefield, and was discharged Feb. 3rd. La grippe. Jan. 28th, Frank Norwood came in from the Star and remained until Feb. 3rd. Sciatica. ��� . . W. P. Conroy came in from the Emily Edith on Jan 31st, and remained until Feb. 5. Tonsillitis. ��� W. Gallup was sent down from the Ivanhoe on the 1st and is still under the doctor's care. Rheumatism. Martin Knight, the most serious case in the hospital, was brought up from Silverton Monday, the 6th, and is still confined Inflamatory rheumatism. Walter Smith was entered from the Emily Edith on the 2nd and was dis charged on the 7th. Tonsillitis Harry Thorburn spent three days in the hospital from the Bosun. Discharged Feb. 5 La grippe. Russell Donald is laid up with a a bi oken toe, the result of a timber falling upon it at the Last Chance. Dan McDonald came in from the Corn- stock on Feb. 7. The recent soft spell of weather has had a damaging effect on the mine- owners of Moyie in getting started shipping ore. Five cars for the St. Eugene" have been on the siding for more then a week, but only two have beenloaded, it being impossible to get the ore down from the mine owing to the bad condition of the road. When the roads are in condition for hauling, three teams will be put on and the ore will be brought down at the rate of about 30 tons a day. The three remaining cars at the siding will be loaded with Lake shore ore without delay and shipped to Trail. R.J. McPhee, representing the Trail smelter, was at Moyie last week and made arrangements with the owners of the Lake Shore mine for their ore. They will make regular shipments from this time on. The absolute knowledge of the immediate commencement of ore shipments has had the effect of stimulating a general business revival in Moyie, and real estate transfers are becoming of eyery day occurrence, says the. Leader. YMIR MINES. Speaking of the lead production in Kootenay, the London Financial Times1 says: "A question of some importance is raised by the British Columbia Board of Trade, who, in its annual report, referring to the development of the Province, points out that at present Kootenay is producing enough lead to supply tlie whole of Canada ; yet all the lead ores are being treated in the United States, the mine-owners paying United States duty, $30 per ton, for lead contents on ore mined. Canada imports all its lead and manufacturers of lead, paying duty therefor 40 cents . per 100 rbs" The fact that two smelters in Kootenay, which have heretofore handled only copper ores, are now- preparing to' treat the lead ores also encourages the hope that ere long British Columbia lead ores will be smelted in the Province, and thus create the attendant manufacturing of lead. In this connection, the report points out, that a refinery must be built in Canada. The Board has asked the Dominion Government to increase the duty on lead and manufactures of lead to correspond with the United States tariff on these articles, in order to protect the new industries mentioned. "We are also informed, on the same authority that the capacity of the smelter at Trail is being increased to 500 tons per day, and two lead stacks are being added." Although the plant is hoc operating ai present, the company owning it is purchasing all the ore "offering, and contracts for treatment are being entered into at a considerable reduction on last year's rates. At the Nelson smelter improvements and enlargements of the plant have been effected. A new copper stack has been built, which will treat 300 tons per day. The old one, with a capacity of 100 tons per day, has been converted for lead smelting. The Pilot Bay smelter has not run during the vear." New Anglican Church. The Anglican body in this town are about to erect a new church, work'on which will commence in about a month. Rev. C. F. Yates has been raising funds in England for the purpose and now has $800 in the bank here, witn the promise of several more donations Plans have been obtained in Nelson for a building costing ��1,000, exclusive of the lots. It will be a most attractive, structure and will have a natural wood finish on the inside Negotiations arc now being carried on for a suitable site, which will probably be on the northeast corner of Union and Seventh streets. The new church will be a credit to the town and will make the third edifice in New Denver. "With Masonic Honors." The Vancouver World repeatedly gets things mixed, especially when it chronicles an item relating to Slocan lake.. It says: "The death, by drowning, is announc- ad of Jack Evans, a deck-hand on the steamer Slocan, at Rosebery, early last Friday morning. Deceased was a native of Nova Scotia, where his family now reside. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, and his remains were interred with Masonic honors." This is as bad as the statement made by that paper last winter that the icepack on Slocan lake was. going to be poor because,of the air holes in the ice. 'The Athabasca. Nelson papers say that another strike, which may prove of importance, has been made on the Athabasca. In driving in on the old tunnel on the original vein, a contact vein, lying between the granite and slate, was encountered. The new vein is running at right angles with the main vein, and the ledge matter is very similar. Sufficient work has not yet been done to determine the extent of the contact vein, nor have any assays of ore been made. It begins'to look as if the late sampler project at Roseberv were another fizzle. It is reported the C. P. R. is at the bottom of the failure. On the Union Jack group steady development work is being carried ori, and shipping will be commenced as soon as the snow melts. At the Dundee mine the main shat is now down to the 263-foot level. The drifting on ore is being carried on at the 300-foot level, where it is 18 feet thick. The Monarch shaft is down 65 feet and a splendid body of solid ore the full width of the shaft lias been struck The shaft on the Evening Star is now down about 75 feet. Assays from the recent strike were eminently satisfactory. The Gladstone mineral claim, situated on Porcupine creek, four miles east of the Nelson &, Fort Slieppard Railway, has been sold by N. A. Rivers to Gideon Mahar. The Simcoe Gold Mining" Company -will resume operations on the Big Horn group in the spring. About 30 feet of an incline has been sunk on the ledge, which has a width of three feet, on the Great Northern mine, situated on Tamarac mountain. A nice pile of ore is on the dump. On the Tamarac development work is progressing most favorably. The result of the ore test at the Hall Mines' smelter at Nelson proved very lucrative, and the company can now be ranked among the list of Ymir shippers The Porto Rico mill is steadily run- nin��-. and there was another clean-up last week, making three in all. The Blackcock mine lies on the west side of Wild Horse creek, about six miles from the town of Ymir. It is under lease to Frank Davey, M. E There are about 20 men employed and CUSTOM HOUSE RETURNS. The returns from the port of Nelson for the month of January as given by the Tribune show that the Hall Mines exported during that time $287,741 worth of bullion, and that the output of the Hall Mines smelter was virtually the whole export business of the port for the month! So far the exports of coalfrom the Crow's Nest do not cut much figure, there being but 20 tons exported during January, the value of which was return-' ed at $60. v The collections for January were about $4,000 below the aveiage of monthly collections. The following are the figures: EXPORTS. TheMine���Coal, 20 tons valuo.... ? 00 00 Ores. 178 tons - 6.094 00 Copper bullion.. " .... 277,74100 Animals and their produce.. " 1ft.'no Manufactures " .... G!��i 00 To'.al $294,743 00 IMPORTS. Dutiable,"roods, value.. Kree floods, value S25,4ft8 00 1,!148 00 Total... Duty collected. ��27,406 00 rt8,05O 00 FOK. A MINERAL SHOW AT PARIS. The Provincial Government iu response to the demands of the Nelson, Rossland and Vancouver Boards of Trade has finally decided to make an appropriation for an exhibit of minerals from British Columbia at (he Paris Exposition in 1900. When the Government was first approached in regard to an appropriation for this purpose the answer came in the form of a denial, with regrets. This aroused the ire of those interested in mining throughout the Province and boards of trade and other bodies immediately took it upon themselves to adopt resolutions demanding the Government that something be. done In addition, communications from influential persons poured into Victoria and so loud was the cry raised that the ministers felt that something must be done In accordance with this decision letters were sent to the various boards of trade and other bodies to die effect that the Province would do its share toward the exhibit and it will not be necessary, therefore, for the men of West Kootenay or other mining districts to go down into their pockets .or the full sum necessary to provide a proper display of the mineral resources of British Columbia. THE LEDGE, NEW DJiJS'VER, B.C., FEBRUARY 9, 1899. Sixth Year, The Ledge. Published every Thursday. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months $ .75 Six " 1.25 Twelve " ..2.00 Three years 5.00 Transient Advertising, ��5 cents per line fir.it in sertion, 10 cents i>er line subsequent insertions nonpareil measurement. TO CONTRIBUTORS. Correspondence from every partof the Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on both sides of the paper if you wish. Alwa3's send something good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it s hot. and we will do the rest A pencil cross in this square indicates that your subscription is due, and that the editor wishes once again to look at your collateral. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1899. SCRAf* FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK. Canada is the only country on earth that can afford to give an oil painting for two cents, The Nelson Miner assures its read- era that "Mr. Hame is not a blackleg:, Mr. Far well is not a horse thief." That's nice. Victoria has another daily paper ���the Globe. It says it "has but one mission���the Advancement of Victoria and British Columbia; but one master���public opinion;" but its lead-' ing editorial is a tirade of abuse ot "Fighting Joe" Martin and his tactics as a politician. Joe Martin is the great ' 'I am" in Provincial politics. What he wants he usually gets : Oh, I will be supreme, you bet. I'll rule with or without a Cabinet; A referential, Conferential, Departmental Cabinet. In the Legislature last week Mr. Kellie introduced a bill to amend his Truck Act of last session, so as to terminate an abuse said to have appeared at Kuskonook and Brooklyn, in the Kootenays, in the shape of "scalping" workmen's time-checks This bill would make, such discounting punishable by a heavy fine. The Vienna correspondent of a Loudon paper accuses the physicians of Vienna of experimenting with poisons and contagious disease germs on newly born babies and women who are encionte. In one case he refers to subjects who were injected from a decomposed corpse. In all there were 25 women. Many patients were tortured by experiments, although they were dying. One doctor, on being questioned, said that women and children subjects were cheaper than animals. This is only another damnable practice "for the benefit of science." The result of the bye-election at Victoria does not change the aspect of things in the Provincial Parliament. Messrs. Turner, McPhillips and Hall, the old government members' were re-elected, and the game 'ot law making and breaking goes merrily on, with Joe Martin the star performer. Sectional issues were ingendered into the contest at Vic toria, all other issues becoming of secondary importance. It was a hot fight from start to.finish, the Turner forces using every argument to revive that old feeling of Island against the Mainland. Last BViday morning when the Legislature convened and the certificate of election of Messrs. Turner Hall and McPhillips was read, and the members were formally introduced, Attorney-General Martin took occasion to make the customary exhibition of his pugnacious spirit. Colonel Baker rose to briefly address the House upon relinquishing to Mr. Turner the leadership of the Opposition, but the Speaker called him to order, and upon Colonel Baker asking if anyone in the House objected to hearing him, Attorney-General Martin remarked : "Certainly, I object to any such nonsense ; we are met here for the transaction ot public business and not to listen to the stump speaking of the member for Southeast Kootenay." And Colonel Baker took his seat, a. veritable clam. TO BK OR NOT TO BK. A bill was introduced in the Pro- rincial House some days ago by Mr. Cotton which is causing no end of adverse criticism from the Turner organs. It is claimed that it is a bill that paves the way for a.wholesale chopping off of political heads. The bill provides that "Wherever, by any statute, the Lieut.-Governor has power to appoint a member ot any board of directors or ot any other board or public body, and any such appointment has been made, the term of office of such person appointed shall terminate on the thirtieth day of June next, and the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor-in-Council may appoint a successor for a term of one year from said thirtieth day of June, anything in any such statute to the contrary notwithstanding. This section shall apply to any appointment which the statute authorizing the same provides shall be made for a term of one year only." Members of the Opposition declare it to be a bill that strikes at the heart of the civil service principle, but its friends on the Government side deny this, and assert that it has no bearing whatsoever on the question of civil service. While there is no doubt that it the bill is intended to make way for the appointment of Government sup porters to the many fat jobs, it is hard to see wherein it affects the civil service principle. The positions that the bill affects are not those of civil service employees. They are positions that can be filled by anyone, and have been filled, some of them for years, by warm supporters of the Turner party. It is not surprising that the new Government is desirous of making room for new men. And the appointment of Government supporters to positions of this kind is quite right and proper. They are not positions that' require all of the appointees time. The salary is the main thing that calls for the appointment. Members of hospital boards, boards of police commissioners, licensing boards and other bodies of that nature, cannot be classed under the head of civil service employees. These are the plums of victory not the spoils. There is a distinction it not a difference. MINT QUESTION PARAMOUNT. It is cause for regret that a man of Hon. Hewett Bostock's stamp should represent the mining section of British Columbia in the Dominion house. Whatever ability he. might possess as a legislator, or whatever influence he might be capable of wielding in the Dominion Parliament, he certainly makes a poor showing .when he comes before his constituents to give an account of his stewardship. On the question of a Canadian mint Mr. Bostock, in his remarks here, spoke as if he were in a trance. He gave abundant proof that be knows nothing about that all important question, and that he is not particular to learn anything of importance about it. A3 Mr. Bostock evidently looks at it, the mint question is good enough to catch votes on, but is not of sufficient importance to require any of his valuable time in studying its varied demands so he can speak intelligently upon it. This is unfortunate. With Mr. Bostock representing the mineral resources of the Province before the Dominion, in his striking ignorance of the mint question, there is little hope that he can secure anything like just recognition for the demands of this section. If Mr. Bostock knew enough about the question, and had the ability to impress the leaders of the Dominion Government with its importance, it is not probable that much time would be lost in seeking the establishment of a Canadian mint. Canada to-day holds a very important position before the world. It is in a position to, and if given half a chance will, rise in the next 10 years to a pre-eminent place among the nations of the world. It is a nation of itself in resources ; a nation vaster than all of England; but for decades it has been held back in that class of colonial dependencies that the Mother Country looks upon with somewhat of disdain. This is because Canada has had too many men like Mr. Bostock at the head of affairs. England is beginning to realize the importance of this Dominion. Let not our public men hold it in check by supinely sitting by and answering to the beck and call of the money lords of this and the old land. The first step necessary is the establishment of a Canadian mint for the coinage of Canadian gold and silver coin. Let our public men realize the importance of this question. It is not a sectional one, but one of vital importance to the whole Dominion. CAPITAL 1XVE8TKI) IN B. C. In the statistics of 1891 it was shown that approximately $7,246,000 had been invested in the industries of the Province. The wages paid then amounted to, roughly, $5,120,000, and the number of people employed 11,500. According to the exhaustive report of the Board of Trade (which Amount. s lii.200,000 2.000,000 200.000 2,100,000 47,500 000 3.000.000 10,500,000 3,000,001) 3,250,0! >0 2,850,0110 . i-,.500,000 ���! 5,000.000 <l25,0lfl 5.500,000 51,500.1X10 2..100,01 K) 5 ,:>;>< I,I ion 100,000,00.1 document, by the way, ought, to be in the hands of everyone having any interest in the country), the money now invested is forty times larger, while in the preceding ten years the amount of capital had only doubled itself. Thus the last few years have witnessed a complete metamorphosis. Energy and interest have taken the place of supineness and timidity, capital is moving in directions where barter was probably the only means of exchange, and the future is one of illimitable possibilities. We need not analyse the figures, which speaks for themselves; 'Description. '''... Miscellaneous industrial estab'hm ts Electric light and railways ::, Telephone Waterworks -,'... Railways and telegraphs ... ������������������ Steamships and navigation ........ Mining plants andjsmelters. Coal mining Sealing, salmon canning, lish curing.. Churches and schools Bank deposits Municipal assessment* Municipal public works and buildings. Provincial public works and buildings Provincial assessments.. . Dominion public works and building., All commercial establishments Timber, leases and privately owned (value estimated) 8807.385,0:10 Private wealth, less public assets and values, assessed in above .>2S0,000,000 The Board states that their estimates are based on most comprehensive and, generally speaking, very complete data contained in the numerous returns from all over the Province, and from information obtained from a variety of sources of how capital is invested in the country. These have been carefully compiled, and the results arrived at, after taking into account every business interest in the Province���involving labor of, much magnitude���will be surprising to even those familiar with the affairs of the Province. It is not claimed that the figures are absolutely correct, as in some instances, where actual returns were not available, they are based on estimates, which, however, are approximate, and a complete return would probably increase the total to some extent. Nor do they include by any means all that has been invested in the Province in various ways, but only what may be regard ed as in the main live and productive capital. LACKING KNTBRPRISK. \y ootreal It would seem reasonable to sup-r pose that when an opportunity i��- offered to exhibit to the London mining world the comparative merit of the ore from British Columbia mines along with ores from all the great mining centres of the world, that the Provincial Government would make an effort to provide the necessary means to make such an exhibition possible. But this the British Columbia Government has refused to do. Some months ago Mr. W. H. Sandiford shipped from the Mollie Hughes mine samples of the ore being taken out weighing 500 pounds. This was sent to the head office in London of the Northwest Mining Syndicate, and later a like shipment was made of the Bosun ore, one piece alone weighing 385 pounds. The directors were greatly pleased with the excellent samples, and in order to show to the London market the character of SIo can ore as compared with that from other mining centres, an effort was made to secure space in the Earl's Court Exhibition of London. This exhibition is held annually, and is attended by mining men from all over the world. The relative values of the various ores is investigated, and an effort i3 made to have everv mining district of any prominence in the, known world represented there. In order to secure space in the exhibition it is necessary for the government to intercede, and a letter was sent to the proper Provincial department asking for such' intercession to secure space. In reply the British Columbia official indifferently stated that so far as he knew the British Columbia Government was not interested in such an exhibition and could not provide the means for securing space in the Earl's Court Exhibition. Is this a sample of British Columbia enterprise ? Will the Provincial Government never learn to properly present to the mining world the great mineral resources of British Columbia ? Some months ago the B. C. Review of London asked for copies of the Minister of Mines' annual report so they could be properly distributed in the metropolis of the world These were not provided, though it would not cost the Province. $10 to comply with the request. And here we had another sample of our Provincial Government's progressiveness. It will not provide the means to secure space for a British Columbia mineral exhibit in the Earl's Court Exhibition of London. If the Opposition would spend less time in their efforts to damn Joe Established 1817. Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : ��� 981,328.04 HKAl) OFFICE, MONTKEAL. Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona a.id Mount Rostal, G.C.M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E. S. Clodston, General Manager, Branches ia all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and the United States. New Denver branch E. PITT, Manager tg iyjijfw��j�� u'mui mwra^'TCBrWBBrxaeg vmmjyjr<a!iTWttvvyw-w*aMi-<a^,v&v-uiiXJ^ymrc?x-i*tq -iimw^jnrir��E^tr^r>i��i^iy.��narGPr'��w���~:^^ Martin and if Joe Martin would spend less time damning the Opposition, sufficient means might be saved by shortening the sitting of the Legislative Assembly to provide money for such necessary advertising of the resources ot the Province as is referred to above. ' SLOCAN OKI! SH1PMBNTS. Total shipped July 1 to Dec. HI, 1898, 17,994. January 1st, 1899, to date: From Sandon. Payne Ruth Slocan Star.. Last Chance Sapphire ... Coin Sovereign ... Reco Ivanhoe From Three Forks Idaho, Mine3 Queen Bess Wild Goose From Whitewater. Whitewater Jackson From McGulgan. , Rambler ������������ Dardanelles From New Denver. Bosun Marion From Silverton. Fidelity.- Vancouver ��� Wakefield... Total. Tons. 1,090 ti.TO 18 12 20 80 40 34'J 246 15 258 81 <!0 120 140 20 1 200 420 3,707 . We do what we advertise to do. Time was when we 'had ample time to tell you what we had in our ]ine to interest you and help to make your home ; ,: happy. We haven't now. Are pushed for time, but you will always find us ready to show you what [ you want, and we can make prices to suit your ,purse. What are you v' going to add to your home comfort this spring? WALKER & BAKER, New Furniture Dealers and Repairer* Denver's Undertaker* biwI ��mbuliner��. , N. B.���We have the only practical Undertaker and Erahalmcr doing business in the Slocan. F. E. MORRISON, dds. DENTIST Crown. Plate and Bridge work. Office. Broken Hill Blk. Nelson. I have been appointed agent for the Leth- bridge Coal Co., and will sell their products at reasonable prices. E. A. Cameron SANDON. Pal ma Angrignon NEW DENVER Dealer in HAY, GRAIN, ICE, WOOD, Etc Livery and Feed Stables, General Draying-. Teams meet all boats and Trains. men <>f d VA/ A M"T"CTr^ Industrious men < W r\\v I ELU character to traval an appoint agents. Salary arid expenses paid. BKAnr.KV-ftAKKKrso'n Co., Liifrricn. Toronto C. S. RASHDALL. Notary Public. A. E. FAUQUIER. RASHDALL & FAUQUIER MINES & REAL ESTATE. NEW DENVER, B.C. MIKING INTERESTS BOUGHT, SOLD and BONDED. CORRESPONDENCE ���-INVITED Abstracts of Title to mineral claims. OTEU SANDON, ^ ^\ ^f\ ^v\ ^r\ ^ Sandon, B.C. HpHIS NEW HOUSE, with the old name, is well equipped to accommodate a large number of Guests. The building is plastered and the rooms are unsurpassed for comfort in the Slocan, while in the Dining Room can be found the best food in the market. Robert Cunning, Proprietor. The Clifton House, Sandon. Has ample, accommodations for a,large number of people. The rooms are large and airy, and the Dining Room is provided with everything in the market Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers. John Buckley, Prop. Travelers Will iind the Arlington Hotel a pleasant, place to stop at when in Sl:e��n City. GETHIN& k HENDERSON. Proprietors. W.S. Drkwrt Kaslo, B.C. H. T. Twiaa New Den ver, B.C. DREWRY & TWIGG Dominion and Provincial Land Surveyors. Civil and Mining Engineers. Bedford, McNeil Code. jaTRashdall k Fauquier, Agents. T) R. AS. MARS''..^.L. Dentist. Kaslo, B C Graduate of American Colleerenf Dental Surgery Chicapo G WILLIM k JOHNSON. (McGill) Mining Engineers & Analy-Chemists. Slocan City, B C WASTED. Industrious man of character to travel and appoint agents. Salary and expenses paid. BRADLK.y-G\RRETSON COMPANY.Limitcd Toronto. J. M. M. BENEDUM, Silverton. JJOWARD WEST, Assoc. R S M. London, Kng MINING ENGINEER, ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, & ASSAYER. Properties nxamined and reported on f��r in tending purchasers. Assay offlc* and Chemical Laboratory. Bellc- vue ave. Nevr Denver, B C. j���� L. GRIMMETT, L.L.B. ��� BARRISTER, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Sandon, B. C. If you are- RSTY, EAR., HUNGRY, Hotel Ivanhoe. Call at the SANDON. Fifty'two Weeks with ^-7 -g A fascinating study of the ff W/f\a*lf International Sunday School L. H^fl O'&Jf Lessons for 1899, now ready No Christian, especially a Clergyman or Teacher .should be without it. Beautifully bound in cloth of two colora, with stiff boards. Price,onh/- 35 cents. Strongly recommended by leading Clergymen, an sale by all book- sellers,or sent postpaid on the price by, BRADLEY-GARUETSON CO., Limited, Publishers, Toronto Canada. If G. FAUQUIER.. NOTARY PUBLIC. Nakusp, B.C. THE MINERS EXCHANGE. Three Forks, E. C. Weaver Insurance *nd General Commissson Agents. WBW ��BKVBR. ��. f i.nnini J. H. MILLWARD, w ainter and Writer NEW DENVER. J. C. HARRI NEW DENVER General Prayman, Ice, Hay and Grain for Sale. Ice Houses Filled. Livery and Bait Stables. Ik oasT&lSDiSg >} Sixth Year. THE LEDUJE, NEW DENVER, B.G., FEBRUARY 9 18&9. AS UNCLE JABBZ SEES IT. This world ain't what it used ter be,��� No, nowhere nigh; The good old times we used ter see Have all gone by; Fer all these modern fellers spout -'Progreasiveness,"and tell about How airth has just begun ter sprout; ���'Tweon you and I, The old dirt ball is all played out And bound ter die. Now. see tha gals���they That I declare! 're all so plain Yer can't find one like Betsy Jane,��� N ot any where; She's older now, but take her when She nicked me out from all the mtn,��� By jinks! if yer'd a-seen her then She'd made yer stare. They'll never make"that kind'again ; Sicli eyes and hair ! There's cookin', now���jest take mince pie ; ���An eighth-inch slice Of mother's style wa'n't more 'n a try Tor taste the spice! But nowadajs if I jest take A bito of the new kind they make I'm doubled up, in ha'f a shake, Jest like a vice, And have a kind of stomick ache That Isn't nice. Take weather, too���now there's the snow; Ma used ter let Me wade in drifts waist-deep and, sho ! 'Twan't cold er wet; But now the stuff that falls,���gee whiz 1 Don't make no odds how light it is, It soaks me and I'm almost friz; And don't I get The chilblains ;md the rheumatic ? Well, you jest bet! That's why I sav, 'a I Siiid afore, Thi* old dirt ball Ain't what it. used ter be no more ; It's on tliu fall. All ibis ������ progression" 's in a horn ; 1 see myself airtli's Old and worn And gctlin'wiisscr every inorn Fer large and small. 1 pity them that's jtst been born, By gum ! that's all. ���Joe Lincoln, in L. A. W. Bulletn J5SSENTIAI.S OF CHRISTIANITY. !JV KKV. K. K. HISBISB. Christianity is not an invention; but a discovery. The gospel ia an announcement, not of something which has been made, but of something which has always been. Christianity is, like gravitation, a law infinite, universal, eternal. It did not begin with Jesus He simply- revealed and exemplified it. Its essentials have been much misunderstood. It ia the purpose of this paper to set them forth as clearly and concisely as possible. The essentials of Christianity are the epirit of Love and the spirit of Truth. On these the entire Christian system rests. They are essential as hydrogen and oxygen are essential to the formation of water, and they are the only essentials. Much that is usually connected with Christianity is no more essential to it than is salt eesential to water, because found in all the great oceans. That only is essential without which a thing cannot be, from which it follows that Christianity might exist without a church, creed, or form of worship. These are generally helpful, but should never be mistaken for essential. In fact, it is sometimes necessary to break from them in order to follow Jesus more perfectly. Whether Jesus would belong to any church of to-day is an unanswerable question. Granted hia omniscience, it is still doubtful if he could pass on our theology. The essentials of Christianity are something which can be practiced everywhere, at all times, by everybody; otherwise the demand to be Christian would not be universally possible. True Christianity aud true manhood are one. He who has the spirit of love and the spirit of truth is a Christian, whether he knows it or not. The spirit of love leads us to obey all discerned moral law. It restrains ua from doing harm, and impels us to do good. He who loves will not steal, murder, seduce, deceive, nor set an evil example. Love modifies, governs all moral law. It alone is supreme. It is the highest expression of life. The spirit of truth is th>> lamp which guides the feet of love. Love seeks, the welfare of mankind. Truth shows where to find it. Love demands justice; truth points to where justice lies hidden. Love demands obedience to God's law; truth unfolds that law; reveals it. Truth gives us our faith, belief, and love acts upon it., Christianity without the spirit of both love and truth becomes unbalanced. Where truth is sought without love, obedience fails, and life becomes a fruitless abortion. The soul that simply desires to know and is not willing to obey, even unto death, never reaches the goal it seeks. Truth will not go far without love. On the other hand, love without truth is equally futile and more dangerous. We go out with full hearts and hands to help humanity,but, without the spirit of truth, we are not- willing to inquire the way. As a result we follow tradition, and fall into the hands of the enemy. Intending-to'help, we injure; purposing.,to make free, we rivet the chains more closely. Failing, we become discouraged and blamn humanity instead of ourselves. The end is pessimism. To the lack of one or the other essential may be traced all the failures of Christianity. When perfectly understood Christianity will rapibly embrace the world, and no one will think of denying it as the law of life, any more than we deny the law of gravitation. When truth and love go hand in hand all other graces follow. Both love and truth are eternally progressive. They endure neither limit nor restraint. They constantly reach out for a larger life and must have it. Love cannot be confined to rules, nor truth fo a creed. It would be easier to confine the winds oi cork up the sunlight. Love never faileth, and the truth makes free. The eternal grov.th of the heart and mind constitutes heaven. The foregoing statement of essentials leaves little room for dogma, and yet dogma has its use. It may help us in our thinking, in our individual and solitary search after the truth which is to be the guide of love. A guideboard is a good thing to point out the way, but it does not help the traveler to chain him to it, or to make him carry it with him. But is there not danger of drifting? Must we not agree to hold forever certain formal statements of belief in order to keep within the Christian realm ? My reply is, it is better to drift than to remain always at anchor; it is better still to sail. Christianity contemplates not slavery but freedom. Freedom develops responsibility, and responsibility caution. Inherited riches are more likely to be squandered than those gained by long continued toil. The soul which peeks out its own truth acquires a conservative force which holds to the good until it finds some thing bettor. An in herited belief, in the nature of the case, can be of but little value. The greatest, wisest, best thing the church of to-day can do is to set the world intellectually free. Freedom, like the emancipation of the slaves, may to some extent generate license, but on the whole it is the best condition of the race. Freedom has its fatalities, but slavery is always and everywhere fatal. The persistant holding of unchanged dogma, far from being essential to Christianity, is fatally antagonistic. The church, which binds itself to a perpetual creed, signs its own death warrant. Infidelity does not consist in refusing to believe, but in refusing to change belief in accordance with the eternal laws of progress. The man who will not let go of the past and trust the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth, for the future, is the man of unfaith���the infidel. This denial of the eternal progressiveness of truth is the curse of humanity, the sin unpardonable, the sin which in its very nature cannot be pardoned. It is self-destruction. It is blasphemous, cruel. It forbids man both an earthly and a heavenly paradise. Instead of insisting on the spirit of truth we think we are to make the world believe'some particular thing. "Here it is," we say, "an infallible book, a creed, a catechism, a mass of historic statements; believe, hold fast and be saved ; otherwise there is no hope." High church authorities re-echo the sentiment. Evangelists insist that we accept and forever hold some particular tenet. They do not know and do not wish to know anything different from what they have been taught. The svstem in which they have been nurtured is the "truth ;" there is no need for farther thought. This is the spirit of anti-Christ. To be possessed by it is to crucify afresh the Son of God, and to put him" to an open shame. It is to block the wheels of progress and to turn the world over to the father of lies. In any case what avails it that I make men say they agree with me. They do not and cannot, because their lives cannot perfectly coincide with mine. I believe in the Deity of Jesus, that he was and is very God. So does my friend, but we df* not believe alike, becauso we have different ideas of Deity. Dogma cannot then be an essential because it means differently to different minds. It is not so much what we believe as how. It is the spirit of truth, the willingness to believe, to change, to enlarge our beliefs, that is essential, just as it is the love that grows which is the Christ-like love. The spirit of truth, prompted by love, would soon solve humanity's problems, but because the spirit of truth is so little abroad in the land, humanity ia compelled to learn through want and suffering. There is no reason for another pang of hunger, another heart-break, another outcast, if only humanity would let go of the evil past, and go forward with God. Even if the leaders would do it, if the church would do it, Eden could be re-entered to-morrow. But the politician, following- the example of the ecclesiastic, shuts his eyes to truth and labors for party as hia exemplar labors for church, while humanity is crushed between the upper and nether mill- atones. "The poor always ye have with you," I have heard quoted as expressing- an essentially Christian condition and given as a reason why we should not attempt to annihilate poverty. My notions of an eternal hell of torture had been gradually slipping away, but this revived them. No place can be too hot for the man who holds and promulgates sentiments like that. May the day hasten when Christianity shall no longer be considered a jumble of creeds, a belief in historical statements, a mixture of law, miracle, and myth, but as the simple spirit of lore, guided by the spirit of truth. Then shall arise hope of a new and better social order, hope of intellectual and spiritual freedom; in short, hope of The New Time. A thousand shingles laid 4 the weather are required to superficial feet of roof. Tacks are from a quarter to a half inch, though, when accidentally stepped on, this length seems to be multiplied by 100. A pound of the smallest sized contains 16,000 tacks. Fourpenny nails are 1)4 inches long and 300 to the pound. Sixpeuny fence nails are 2 inches and 80 to the pound. Fine threepenny naila are 1% inches and 760 to the pound. Twentypenny naila are 4 inches and 24 to the pound. Fiftypennies are 5# inches, and 12 weigh a pound. A size in hats is one-eighth of an inch. According to the English method, the smaller diameter of the head is taken as the starting point. One-eighth, of an inch increased in the short diameter makes a little more than three-eights in tha circumference. The French and German hatmakera have a rule ulightly different from this. MABRIAGK MAXIMS. OCR POOR FJ5KT. If the feet are neglected, the nails get out of shape and order and the skin is not as smooth and white as nature intended it should be. Then again feet are tortured into footgear that ia a size too small, that fits in no particular, that presses on the flesh and, causes corns, and, above all, that makes us limp and waddle like so many ducks. To put the foot in a well fitting shoe of the size that properly belongs to it and to wear low heels is the best way to preserve the foot in perfect health, and let me gently whisper that nothing so soon brings redness to the tip of the nose as tight shoes. If you have a long-, narrow foot or a fat one, you must have your Bhoes and boots made expressly for you, as ready made boots never take into consideration anything out of the common as regards the formation of the foot. If you have a flat foot, do not wear a too arched instep: if your foot is very arched, see that your shoe is made to fit it. If you wish the foot to appear small by perfectly natural means, always wear black kid or satin: A white shoe makes a foot look large and very wide and should never be worn except where the foot ia faultless in shape and very small to look at. If the' shoes, are darker in color than the dress, the feet will appear to much more advantage. You should always have your shoes eased for you before wearing them, and be careful never to take long walksiwhen wearing a new pair. Very grave trouble is often the result of walking in shoes that are stiff to the feet. I have known j severe lameness to ensue, and very great! pain is the inevitable result. j It seems superfluous to say that the j feet should be well washed twice a day. j Tipid water should be used, and the j heels, toes and soles should be daily I rubbed with pumice stone and pumice; powder. i HK WAS STRONG IN THK FAITH, i Never marry except for love. Never forget these rules when the knot is tied: Never taunt with a past mistake. Never allow a request to be repeated. Never meet without a loving welcome. Never both be angry at the same time. Never forget to let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance. Never neglect one another; rather neglect the whole world besides. Never make a remark at the expense of the other���it is meanness. Never be "stubborn," but let each' one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during absence. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly. Never let any, fault you have committed go by until you have frankly confessed itand asked forgiveness. Never forget that the very nearest approach to perfect domestic happiness on earth is the cultivation, on both aides, of absolute unselfishness.���Philadelphia Record. A Salve for Chilblains. Procure a beef bone that contains a good deal of marrow, remove this, and melt in a jar set in boiling water. When' melted, strain and allow to cool. Then mix in the following proportions. Two ounces of white wax, four ounces of beef morrow, and four ounces of Venice turpentine. Cut up the 'fats,"set them with the turpentine in a jar in boiling water, and melt over the fire. When liquid stir in four ounces of sweet oil, and pour into small jars or moulds in which the salve can be stored for future use. TO AVOID THE GRIP. A well 'dressed woman entered an Oak Park grocery store and asked to see the proprietor, who seeing that she was a stranger, at once prepared to welcome her as a new suburbanite and prospective customer, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. He took off his apron, smoothed his tumbled hair, and seizing a pencil and order pad, approached her with a grand business flourish. "Anything we can do for you to-day, madam? We have a fine supply of fresh fruit, vegetables. Anything in canned goods ?" "Oo-o," said the woman, whose eyes were taking in every detail of the Btore Don't ride in cabs', or train*, or cam ! Don't walk upon the street! Don't stay out gazing at the stars! (Although the girl ia sweet). Don't kiss! Don't smack! Don't osculate ! With every chaste embrace You plant a deadly germ of fate. Upon your lovt:d one's face! Don't swallow stuff of certain brands ! Don't taken -nil)" or "smile !" Don't go in bathing on the sands��� Don't go to Coney Isle ! Don't pile the blankets high in bed ! But thou don't take them off! Don't say, "A code is in by head !'" Don't cough, dear boy, don't cough ! 1). hi 't go to bed ! Don't go ti) work ! Don't go to playhouse show ! Don't go to shop ! Don't go to kirk ! In fact, just Don't Yim Go! ���New York Press. Foa Sale���The following goods : 600 feet 14 and 16 inch riveted pipe, new; 2 elbows, J. tan, 7 short pieces; will stand a pressure of :-'��20-foot head. One 6-foot Pel ton wheel as good as new with some extra buckets, new journals, etc. All in complete order. ,Outfit can lie seen at. my mil! across the lake from New Denver. Cost me, freight, duty and goods, $1,350. ' Wheel cost new $1,20U, f.o.b. factory. I will sell outfit for $1,200 cash. " S. M. Wharton, Kast Spokane, Wash., or care The Ledge. and its contents. "I only wanted to know if you sold sweet cider." "I am very sorry," said the grocer, "we always have it in its season, but just at present it is out of the season. It might be possible to find some. I will take your oider and try." j "Young man," said the woman in (sepulchral tones, "you will never takean order for sweet cider from me, nor anything else. I am a strangerhere and am looking for a place to buy my groceries where they don't sell sweet cider. If I wanted to point out a path to destruction I would put up a sign, 'Sweet cider spld here.' " Then she walked out, while the grocer gnawed his mustache and looked at the blank pad with savage intensity, when a happy thought occurred to him. He ran after the woman. "I. merely wished to say, madam, that you are right. I gave up selling corn and rye for similar reasons���but perhaps you can guess?" "Because youdon'tkeep a feed store?" suggested the woman, a note of suspicion in her voice." ! "No, madam, from higher motives. Whiskey is made from corn and rye." "Hump! I don't mind if you take my order for a barrel of flour and two bushels of potatoes. You seem open to conviction and, I guess I've struck the right place.'' As she sailed away the grocer winked his left eye and said to his clerk: . "It's a poor rule that won't work both ways, Jimmy." SIZES. The nail is 2% inches long. A nautical knot ia 6,100 feet. A size in cuffs is half an inch. A quarter of cloth is 9 inches. A square 16mo. page is 4% by '6)4. The royal 24mo. page is b% by 3K- A box 5 by 5 feet holds 5.92 barrels, a 6 foot box 8-53 barrels. A box 22 inches by 12)�� and 8 inches deep will hold a bushel. A 1 cent bronze piece is three-quarters of an inch in diameter. A box 22 inches by 13 and 24 inches deep will contain a barrel of 2J heaped bushels. inches to cover 100 a /��/��/��/��/&/&'#/fe/Q/��/�� /�� /@^%<%w��/��/��/��/��m allies For those who want the New Denver, Has been re-ouened under new management. Thf* Dining- Room will always be up to'the'-market, while the bar will contain liquors and cigars that cannot be surpassed for quality and flavor in the Slocan. Old and new patrons will And this hotel just like home. JACOBS0N&C0. EAST best WEST going To any point iu L'nited States or Canada First-Class and Tourist-Sleepers- operated from Ocean.to Ocean. Tickets issued and Baggage checked to destin a tion. No Customs Difficulties. CONNECTIONS Revelstoke and main line points. 8:45kDaily: lv���DftnverC. Siding���sir: Daily 15 50k 8:35k ex.Sumllv N. Denver Ldg: ar ex. Sun.l6:00k NBLSOK , TRAIL, ROSSLAND, ETC. 9:50k fx. Sun: lv N. Denver Ldg: arex.Sun 14.00k wwwwwwwwww w wwwwww ww ww TO LETTER-WRITERS HE Postal Authority's advice to all who write letters is to have the name and address of the writer printed upon the envelope. This saves time and prevents letters going to the Dead Letter Office. In order ' to help out the public in this impartaiit matter we will print your name and address upon 100 No.. 7 white euve- '. lopes and maU them to any part of Canada upon receipt of 75 CENTS. THE LEDGE, New Denver. Ascertain rates and full information hy addressing nearest local agent or��� G. B. GARRETT, Agent New Denver. W.-'F. Anderson, Trav. Pass. Agt., Nelson.1 E. .1. Coylc, Dist. Pass. Agt., Vancouver. How to get there is via C. P. Rv & Soo Line. R IJ SYSTEM. ew ever By using- the New Denver envelope in your correspondence. Printed with* your name in the return corner, and sold by The Ledge at FIRST HUNDBED, FIFTY CENTS each subsequent hundred. Call and see sample and leave your orders. We are printing now. NELSON & FORT SHEPFA RD CO. RED MOUNTAIN RY CO. The all rail and direct route between the Kootenay ..District and.. All British Columbia Fonts Pacific Coast Points Puget Sound Points Eastern Canada and the United States. $i. Csl & WHOLESALE GROCERS Agents for B. C. Sugar Refinery and Royal City Planing Mills Connects at Spokane with GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY O. R.R. & NAVIGATION CO. Leaves Nelson 9:40 a.m. Maps furnished, Tickets sold and information given by local and connecting line Ticket agent6 C. G. DIXON, G. P.&T. A. Spokane, Wash INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION &TRADINGCO., LTD. Summer Time Card effective .Tune 20,1898. Subject to change without notice. SS. South Bound Read down. The f ��� INTERNATIONAL. North Bound Read up. SANDON Train lvs Dally, 1.00 pm Train ar daily 10.60 am KASLO '- ar ���' .S.45 pm Train lv OBoat lv 3.30 am ���Kaslo��� Boat i ��. " 4.30 am Ainsworth CT " 5.00 am Pilot Buy tt, " 5.30 am Balfour *Boatar(>.40 am, Five Mile Pt ��� " 7.15 am Nelson 'J.'n 1120 am Rossland 8 10 pm Spokane 8.00 am nr S.R0 pm " 7.30 pm �� f!.45 pm = 11.10 pm7- 5.23 pm fe' lv 4.4.1 pmu aiti lvl.55 pm>' " 12.05 pm~ s.30 amp v Is the finest west of the Red River ��� The Ledge carries the largest stock of Printing Stationery in Kootenay, and can do finer work than any print shop west of Lake Superior '.. There are offices that quote seemingly lower prices, but quality considered, The Ledge is lower than any. No Chinese or blacksmiths employed. Send orders by mail, express, freight or pack train. If you are in the Slocan metropolis call in and see our plant, but do not touch our bull pup's pup, or allow the cyclone caused by our fast cylinder press to blow your plug; hat out of the rear tunnel. Come in folks when you have any job printing to do, or cash thai i6 too heavy to carry, and we will give you a profitable solution of your trouble. Come, gentle pilgrims, eome. SS. ALBERTA. Read down. Sandon Daily train lv 1.00 pm Daily train ar 10.50 am Kaslo " ar 3.45 pm . . ." lv 8.00am .8 Boat lv 5.00 pm Mo&T Boat ar 1.00 pm ��,-�� " 6.20 pm Ainsworth Boat ar 11.40 pm_- go? ���' 7.00pm Pilot Bay -' " " --~ fn " 10.00 pm Kuskonook " 12.00 pm Goat River ���*> '��� 1.00 am Boundarv "gS " ar 8.00 am Bonner's F'ry - lv >��Train lv 11.40 am " Train ar "*��� " ar 2.45 pm Spokane " lv Head up. 11 00 pm �� 8.00 pm? fi.00 pm,g 5.00 pm ^ 2.00 pm-o 1.15 pm 5 7.50 amtn SPECIAL KOOTENAY LAKE SERVICE, Commencing June 20,1808. On Monday, Thursday and Friday ss Alberta will leave Kaslo 5 p. m. for Ainsworth, Pilot Bay, and Nelson. Leaving Nelson at 8 a. m., Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, calling at Pilot Bay,. Ainsworth and Kaslo, and all way points. GEORGE ALEXANDER, Gen'lMg- P. O. Box 122, Kaslo, B.C. KASLO&SLOCAN fft TIME CARD Taking effect 1.00 o'clock a. m. Sept. 1, 1898, Pacific or 120th Meridian time. Subject to change without notice aHMttMlrffg 325EBB2 BBTOsmm w��.��w.MnwmB�� 3 MMBWMUBMWaHHa JiaaMmaCTJCTCTTO^WIMUMll^^ Leave 8 SO A.M. " 8 55 - " 9 45 " " 10 00 " '��� 10 08 ���' " 10 20 " " 10 34 10 45 ��� Kaslo South Fork Sproule's Whitewater Arrive, 3 30 P.M " 3 05 - Arr. 10 CO Hi 3k 2S 15 11.5S a.m Leave, 11.50 a.m " 11.35 a.m Bear Lake McG uigan Cody Junction Sandon Leave CODY LINE. Leave, 11.00 a.m ��� Sandon ��� Arrive 11.10 " C��dy Junction Arrive, 11.25 " ��� Codv ��� ROBT. IRVING, Traffic Mncr. GPX). F. CCPELAND, Superintendent For cneaii railroad and steamship-tickets tc and from all points, apply to S. CAMPBELL,, Agent, Sandon. Brandon, B. C, Assay Price List Gold, Silver, or Lead.each Gold, Silver and Lead, combined Gold and Silver Silver and Lead Copper (by Electrolysis) Gold, Silver. Copper and Lead Gold and Copper Silver and Copper Gold. Silver and Copper Platinum j Mercury 1 Iron or Manpanew j Lime. Mapicsiiun. Barium. Silk-a, I phur, each | Bismuth, Tin, Cobalt. Nickel. Antimony, ��� Zinc, and Arsenic, each Coal (Fixed Carbon. Volatile Matter, Ash. and percentage of Coke, if Coking Coal) .". Terum: June 20th. 1��96. Sul- SCaBh -With .-innipie. *1.50 s;oo 2 00 2 00 2 00 4 00 2.,50 2 50 3t00 5 00 2 t 00 2 00 4 00 FRANK DICK. A����ay*r ami Anal i at ^fl9UnflH9w THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., FEBRUARY 9, 1899. Sixth Year CinillESDABLE LEGISLATION. Three Important Bill* Passed to A mem' Kxisti��K Laws. moment in Great Britain toward America would vanish like the leaves in ���, j autumn. According to my observations j the world of cynics is always wrong-. I ' believe the cvnics wrong in this case. "If onr<roovd relations are really de- Three bills hav�� passed the local pendent upon these fortuitous circum- Leg-islature that will do away with a j stances, while the latter might be the ^ a,.,���������t ���r r,lIuSio��� h, co������c,,i������ KMS��� K.��l SSSSg with the recording of various papers j niore important���that species of friendship .vhich, in season and out of season, through good report or ill, is not to be shaken by mere circumstances. with the county court registrars. The object of the bills of sale act is to try and straighten out the position which the [registration of bills of sale have been allowed to get into. At present in order to find out where a bill of sale should be registered, it is necessary to look back to the old laws prior to Confederation. When the Bill of Sale Act was passed, the intention was apparently that the whole Province should be divided up into district registries, with district registrars appointed for the purpose of registration. This however, had been done in very few places. Under the old law thsy had to register a bill of sale with a stipendiary magistrate. Since that law was passed additional stipendiary magistrates have been appoinecl for the different districts, so that it is very difficult to tell where a bill of sale should be registered, in the Kootenay district for instance, which is a very unfortunate state of affairs. Bills 'of sale are often for a large amount, and it is absolutely necessary to know at once where a bill of sale should be filed. This bill provides for the recording of such bill of sale with the registrar nearest to the place of the transaction. The partnership bill has a similar object to that of the Bills of Sale Act, and is intended to remedy the confusion as to where declarations of partnership should be filed. In the Kootenays it is impossible to tell where the proper registrar of the county court was, so a system was adopted of having different registrars, one at Nelson, one at Eevelstoke, Donald, Fort Steele and New Denver. The new bill provides that such declaration of. partnership shall be filed with the nearest registrar. Another important measure is that known as the power of attorney bill. The Attorney General in presenting this bill said that he . would like to call the attention. of the honorable gentlemen to this law. They had heard in that House a great deal about bad legislation. He had not looked to see who was responsible for it, bur, of all the outrageous legislation he had ever heard of this act, which had been on the Statute books for some time past,eclipsed everything that could be imagined. When the act was originally passed, it. provided that a power of attorney theretofore or thereafter made, was retroactive; evidently to meet some special^ case, and the effect was that if something were done, without any authority whatever and measures were taken to upset that proceeding, the party on whose behalf this action was taken, might at any time���not perhaps until-thousands of dollars indebtedness had been incurred���come in and rectify what was done originally without authority in his name and put the party out of court. He had been told that several very heavy actions had been brought to an end iri this way. Something was done without proper authority ; suit was instituted to set asi'le the transaction and then, possibly, the party on whose behalf it was purported to be done, and who probably had no interest whatever in the matter, or who had lost all interest in the property, came in and by a deed of confirmation, affected the "rights of those parties which had subsequently accrued. This bill takes away all such" power. Tt was in this hall, in 1896, that I first spoke of the international reUtions between the United States and England. In those dark davs of the Venezuelan controversy public feeling in America had been aroused by the wholly unfounded suspicion that we had some designs on the empire in South America. By natural reaction we felt our brethren on the other side of the water had neither judged nor treated us with knowledge and fairness. I then expressed my firm faith that the time would come when all speaking the English language and sharing the Anglo- Saxon civilization would be united with a sympathy which no mere political divergence could permanently disturb. "I felt then that although 1 spoke my convictions, yet I must have impressed mv hearers as something of a dreamer and an idealist, or as a prophet, only hoping for what he himself can hardly expect to see realized. But the three years that have elapsed since have changed the relations between the two countries���a change which I believe is not destined to be reversed ; a change which has brought back these two great communities to their normal relations, disturbed as those normal relations were bv more than a century of unhappy discord ; a change which, once made, is a change that ought to be permanent, for it is founded, as I hope, upon mutual sympathy, mutual comprehension and the natural belief that each great and free community desires to see the privileges it enjovs extended far and wide to all continents and among all nations. "And if I am right, and that common sympathv be implanted deep in the breasts of these two great nations, there cannot be a greater guarantee for future peace, freedom,progress and civilization not only of this or that country or com- muitv alone, but of the whole human statue, says Tit-Bits. If she says aword, or even makes a sign, she becomes an object of ridicule; and her silence must remain unbroken, even in her own room, though her husband should attempt to break it by taunts, jeers and coaxing, for the female servants ^re all on the watch for such a breach of etiquette as speech, hanging about the doors and chinks to catch up and repeat even a single utterance, which would cause her to lose caste forever in her circle. This custom of silence is observed with the greatest rigidity among the higher classes. It may be a week or several months before "the husband knows the sound of his wife's voice, and even after that fer a length of time she only opens her mouth for necessary speech. With the father-in-law the custom of silence is still more rigid, and the daughter-in-law often passes years without raising her eyes to his or addressing a word to him. In Bulgaria a month's silence is imposed on brides, unless specially addressed by the husband. Four dollars a day is paid to timber men by the Last Chance mine, F. Pyman has again commenced to do business in New Denver. Bring your watches to him when they are out of order. ' ', a s*\ r��� i^ I -p O ! am lU9t starting the M sat IN I O best thing for money making you have seen for many a day. Your name and address will hrinK the polden information. T. H. LINSCOTT, Toronto. race. OTHER MEASURES INTRODUCED. No less than 10 new bills were introduced on the let of February. One of these was a Government measure to amend the medical act so as to allow the Government to appoint others than registered medical men to certain positions. A companion bill does away with the Provincial board of health and makes the cabinet itself the board of health for the Province, the municipal councils being the local boards of health. The idea is for the Government to appoint inspectors who are not necessarily medical men. A somewhat important amendment was put in the master and servant hill to the effect that wherever employers make their workmen pay a proportion of their wages to sustain a company doctor, the medical man chosen must be acceptable to a majority of the workmen and moreover the accounts in this connection must be open to the inspection of the "workmen: ' "���" In another bill, Pacific standard time is made the "legal" time The fire escapes law is to be amended sn that the doors of all public buildings must open outwards and a month after the passage of law is given to so alter existing buildings. Clifford, of Cassiar, has introduced a bill to amend the placer act, the effect being that the size of the placer claims in the Province being increased to 200 feet instead of being 100 feet as at present, and that the upper 50 feet of this be reserved for the Government to sell at auction,the oriidnal locator to receive 10 per cent, of the price obtained. THK FAVORITE TOPIC. Right Hon. Jus. Balfour Talks of the Anplo-Saxon Alliance. Rijlht Hon James Balfour, first lord of the treasury and leade.r of the min- isterialsts in the Ivmse, of co'iviiiih, delivered his annual address last week to his constituents at Manchester. After speaking of "the intrinsic dilriculry which continental nations find in understanding great Britain's aim��," he continued as follow* : "Nevertheless there is surely one great country which \>y cuomnmity of lan- puatj-e. religion. Hood, nr'gin and even institutions, it i- well to understand. Need 1 say that the ni'-i t iv t" which ' refer is the United State-- Some ore.i.rn critics, cvuiea' '.v j-rof.- -; >u .-md training, hold 'he v:o\v tlia' ' ie friendship now happily f- Mine; h��������� ween the Eng lish -speaking peoples on !> th sides (if rhe Atlantic is but 'he grow'h of a moment. and depends ���- m ;i trans-'f u-v commnn ity of interests They arr ���<���!, to believe that when. \'r< disapp'-'t's friendship also wil' disa ������ ������ar 'Hiey hold that if the P.ritUh f.r ��� ' ��� should ' ��� ���! injured bv some incotiv. ; -tit tariff, immediately the. sentiment -.-" gt:ner;i!ly felt at This ROGER'S PASS SWEPT AWAY. The following particulars of the horn ble snow slide at Roger's Pass are given in a despatch from Revelstoke: The worst accident, of a like nature, on the Canadian iPacific Railway, since 1889, occurred on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, when Roger's Pass, near the summit of the Selkirks, was swept away by a snowslide, causing the loss of seven lives. Throughout the day slides of a more or less serious nature occurred. A number of snowsheds near by suffered, and both the Pacific and Atlantic express trains were held. Late in the afternoon the devasting mass of enow and rock rolled down the mountain side, in a moment covering the main buildings at Roger's Pass under a ghastly pall. The agent, Mr. Cator, who was at his post of dutv, was suddenly buried in a living tomb, while Mr. Carson, .the night operator, who was asleep, never awoke to the realization of his fate. Cator's wife and two children met death with him. An engine wiper, named Ridley, was also a victim. A man, about whom no particulars could be ascertained, was another. Two other persons were seriously injured, one of them a woman, but neither names nor other particulars can be learned. , ' THE FOOLISHNESS OF WORRY, The oft-quoted text concerning the un wisdom of troubling about the things of to-morrow is thought by many to be un- suited to these days of keen competition and business activity; but that is because like many other texts of Scripture, it is grossly misunderstood. There are many books in this world, and in many of them there is a good deal of wisdom, out if you want, concentrated wisdom, the place to look for it is in the Bible. What is meant is not inspired wisdom on .theological topics, but just plain ordinary every day wisdom, the kind that a man wants in his business and hit family. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Every one will admit that is sound philosophy, but the majority of people intensify the evil of to-day by adding to it the evils of yesterday and anticipating a lot of evils for to-morrow. A yery sensible and successful business man once said that he learned early in life that, if he kept thinking about what heidid yesterday and wondering how he was going to get through to-morrow, he was in bad shape to transact business to-day. From this he deduced this conclusion, that in business matters the wise man was he who did what lies next him as seemed best at the time,who accupied himself with what he had to do, and kept no place in histnind for regrets or misgivings as to what he had done or doleful anticipations about what might,happen in the future. "You have nothing to do with, consequences" was one of his favorite sayings. "Whatever. your hand finds to do, do with all your might," and leave the consequences to take care of themselves was the sum total of his business philosophy. An Irish Story From Cornhill. REVELSTOKE, Headquarters for mining men. Everything first- class. Rates, $2 a day. J. V. PERKS, Proprietor. very- First=class When I buy from the manufacturers Staple and Fancy Groceries I make it a point to get the very best in all lines, My stock of Cured Meats is the best in the market; Bams, sweetund iuky as can bo Lour.;!- ��� Bacon t'u.t i3 evei'> stripped ivith. '-.i'j i lean and i net In j the finest latfc Jas. M. Patterson & Co. Dealers in CERTIFICATE-OF IMPROVEMENTS Daisy, Kastern, Hampton, Victory and Clarence Mineral Claims. Situate in the Sloean Mining Division of West. Kootenay District. Where located: West of Howson Creak, near the Alamo. TAKE NOTICE that I, W. S. Drewry, asagent 1 for The Scottish Colonial Gold Fields. Ltd., F. M. Cert. No. S33l\5a., and George W. Hughes, F. M. Cert. No. 64975, intend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificates of improvements for the purpose of obtaining Crown grants of each of the above claims. And further take notice that action under sec: tion 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificates of improvements. ��� Dated this aoth day of January, 1899. j26 " W. S.DREWRV. jjot 8386���Gladstone Mineral Claim; Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of "West Kootenay District. Where located: About '., five miles east of McGuigan Station of the Kaslo and Sloean Railway, adjoining the Caribdc Mineral claim of the Rambler and Cariboo Con.. Gold and Silver Mining Company! AKE NOTICE that I, Robert E. Palmer,'as agent for Edward Mahon, F. M. C. No 91537, and A. W. Siegle.F. M.C. No.4052a,intend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improve-1 ments for (he purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above ciaim. And further take notice that action under Section 37 must he commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 26th day of January, 1899. T The Cornhill Magazine tells this little Irish story : Chief Baron O'Grady was once trying a case in an .assize town where the court house abutted on the green. A fair was in progress, and just outside, the court a number of asses wyre tethered. As counsel was addressing the court one of these, began to bray. Instantly the chief baron stopped the, speaker. '"'Wait a moment, Mr. Busha," he said, ''I can't hear two at once.'' The court roared and the advocate grew red But presently, when it came to summing up, the judge was in full swing when another ass struck in, whether by the counsel's contrivance or not who shall say ? Anyhow, up jumped Mr Busha, with his hand to his ear. and said : "Would your lordship speak a little louder? There is such an echo in the. court:-"' Training Wives' Tongues. Cornier, Sultana, Iron Mask, Iron Mask Fraction nnd Baltimore Fraction Mineral Claims. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On Four Mile Creek. 'PAKE NOTICE that I, Herbert T .Twigs .agent- L for the North-West Mining Syndicate.: Limited, i<. M. Cert. No. 32676 A, Charles A.- Rashdii'll, F. M. Cert. No. 10922 A, Arnold-E.. Fauquier. F. M. Cert. No. 5737 A, and Edward- Stewart F. M. Cert. No. 33364 A intend, sixty days from the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for certificates of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown grant of each of the above claims. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements.- Dated this 22nd day of Dccori.her. 1898. . HERBERT T. TWIGG. Slocan Sovereign Mineral Ciaim. Situated in the Slocan Mining Division of; West Kootenay District. Where located:- .One-half mile north of Cody. HPAKE NOTICE that I;" Herbert T. Twigg;- I agent Tor the Slocan Mines Exploration and Development Company, Limited, F. M. Cert, No. l.'toofl A. intend, slxtv days from the date hereof, to imply to the Mining Recorder for a'- certificate of improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the above claim. ��� And further take notice that action under Sec.: 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. ��� i Dated this 22nd dav of December. 1898. : ' HERBERT T. TWIGG. ; Continental Mineral Claim. ; Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: at the head of Twin Lakes Basin, adjoining the Idaho, Morning, Ivy Leaf and Mazeppa min: eral claims. , TVAKE NOTICE that I, William S. Drewry, act- 1 iug as agent for the Scottish Colonial Gold Fields, limited, free, miner's certificate No. 33325A, and George W. Hughes, free miner's certificate No. (14975, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim.. And further take notice that notion, under section 37. must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of Improvements% Dated this 17th day of November, 1898. W. S. DREWRY. ':��� Shunia, Kushford, General Sheridan, and Snowstorm Fraction Mineral Claims. Situate in the Slocan Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Part of the R. E. Lee group, near Sandon. T^AKE NOTICE that f. George Alexander, free L miners' certificate No. 71,(.in, intend, sixty davs fi-i.��m the date hereof to apply to the Mining Recorder for a certificate of improvements for the pui'iiose of obtaining a Crown grant of the above claims. And further take notice that, action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of such certificate of improvements. Dated this 30th flay of September, i��m nvlj G. ALEXANDER. Xaiicy Hanks No. 2 Mineral Claim. v In Korea during the whole of the. mar. riatie day the bride must be as mute as a Situate in the Sloean City Mining Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: On north slope, of Springer Creek, about 2i miles from Slncnu Lake. AKE NOTICE that I, Alfred Driseoll. acting saireiit for If. E. Gr.iv s. F. M. C. No. o-KMA, Kate Scott F.M.C. No. -:i3(i7, W. B. Deiinison, F. M. C. No. filOA.and Frederick Rowbnttom. F. M. ('.No. ii2!lA, intend, sixty days fiom the date hereof, to upplv to the Mining Re- i-order for a certificate of improvements for the purpose of obtaining a crown gran-- of the above claim. And further take notice that action under section 37 must be commenced before the issuance of ��ueh certificate of improvements. Dated this 21st dflry of October, 1898. oc27 Stationery and a complete line of Goods Eyes tested and glasses fitted for any vision Whitewater, B.C, Nelson, B. C, January, 1899 Copper Ore Dry Ore Lead Ore Purchased and payment made as soon after the receipt of ore as samples can be assayed. Quotations given upon the receipt of samples. The Hall Mines, Limited SO ^������ _.NBLSON. SJU H Bros. Are selling the choicest Staple & Fancy Groceries that can be obtained anywhere. Mail your orders if you can't visit our store. SANDON^ ROSSLAND Dealers in DR. MILLOY, DENTIST Rooms in Reco Hotel, Sandon. FRED J. SQUIRE Nelson, B. C. Merchant Tailor. Full Line of Suitings and Trouserings aWays on hand. Hardware, Tin and Graniteware, Miners' Supplies, Paints, Oils, Glass and Putty, Doors & Windows. SLOCAN CITY, B.C. H, H. Knox, Has removed to the Newmarket ASLO HOTEL Family & Commercial. NOTICE. WE THE UNDERSIGNED hereby give ,notice that the partnership heretofore existiiif? between us, under the style or firm of Stege & Avi- son. as hotei keepers at the Newmarket hotel, at New Denver, B C, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts due to the late firm of Stege & Avison must be paid forthwith to Henry Stege. and all accounts due by the said late firm will be paid by Henry Stege. y HENRY STEGE, THOMAS AVISON. ���. Witness; Charles S. Rash hall, Notary Public. Dated, January 24,1899. Block and is prepared;.to repair every description of Disabled Watches. ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TICKETS. To and from European points via Canadian and American lines. Apply for sailing dates, rates, tickets and full information to any C. P. Ry agent or��� G. B. GARRETT, C. P. R. Agent, New Denver. WM. STITT, Gen. S. S. Agt., Winnipeg. L arge And Comfortable Rooms Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against fire. Rates $2.50 and $3 per day. COCKLE & PAPWORTH, Proprietors. The NEW DENVER, Provides ample and pleasant accommodation for the traveling public. Telegrams for rooms promptly attended to. HENRY STEGE, - - - -'-��������� Proprietor. Nakusp, Is a comfortable hotel for travellers to stop at. Mrs. McDougald/ BRICK FOR SALE; JOHN GOETTSCHE, '-" NEW DENVER. O You Can "Rll\qs ave By selecting your r^/7 BROOCHES PENDANTS NECKLACES From the immense stock of Watches in Solid Gold, G-old Filled, or Si1 ver Oases, in all sizes from the smallest in Lady's to those suitable for the most severe work. RINOi Set with Diamond- Emeralds, Opals, Pearls, Rubies and Olivines i^T'Everything in clocks for either Office, Hall, Mantle or Bedroom. There is nothing in British Columbia as good in Jewelery and Silverware. The Well-Known and Reliable Sleriden Britannia Hollow-ware and 1847 Rogers Bros. Knives, Forks and Spoons. Goods bought in his store will be ENUEAVKD FRKK. Orders by mail promptly ttendedto. J^Qg J^VER, NdSOIl, B. C.
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