@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "17f50108-90cf-42fa-8386-a05c4f037eec"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2011-09-29"@en, "1900-09-20"@en ; dcterms:description "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."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xnakledge/items/1.0182306/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ y .**:���*- W&SW?-'i- ^m^m&SS^^ ^ Volume VII. No 51. NEW DENVER, B. C, SEPTEMBER 20, 1000. Prtce, $2.00 Year a IN" DVANCE m^m&SZfif&S m^%2^?^^&5^r^M��tf^3^ | Tin; sioi\\<; station. UV cv^ 1 things ciiiie to���New Peiiveriles ^w! ii.i only a question of waiting. an< ��>5 j.that's easy. . Earlv in the last year of j say .NOMK IS AI HIOHT. C. Koaine.y Hammond, writing to the Sandon Paystreak from Nome, Alaska, B Camp Gossip Concentrated for the Benefit of the Paicl-Up Subscriber ���sasss LOGAL G0NGENTRATES ' O r licked tip the, C. P. 1!. ticket, office,��� misnamed a station���ar the. siding. iyi | "Wit-11i 11 the wails of that station stood a g?^3K^3l?����9SSSjS��/35^a��SBSS.?^99| -f��� �����, too badly dilapidated to I stand fixing;, and minus two legs. rhe io Standard Oil Company showoil j station was a complete loss, am' in court at a. trial in one of the, western j states that coal ( J. K. Clark made a visit to Rossland last week. Byron N. White, and J. L. Rctallack were in the Slocan this week. Tlie old time-table will he resinned on the, N. 6k S. after October 1.5. .1. W. Balniain will superintend the building of the school at Sandon James McPheo, a popular electrician of Nelson, was in town last week. ��� ' Bokx.-���In New Denver, on Sept. 17, the wife of W. C. E. Koch, of a daughter. .James Cameron came down from tlie Idaho on Monday for. a short vacation. The Arlington mining company will erect an ollice building at Slocan City. 'Apples are selling at 50 cents a barrel in Ontario. Here they bring' $2.50 a box. The. new cottage of Chas. Strickland, Seventh street, is receiving' a coat of paint. .Michael Grady was in town on Saturday. He has closed liis Springs for the present. Service will lie held in the Presbyterian church on Sunday at 11 a. m. Ail cordially invited. A large, shipment of brick from the New Denver brick yard was made, to Slocan City this week. Mrs. N. C. Dinginau ami children will leave today for Spokane, where they will spend three weeks. The Methodist parsonage has been j plastered throughout, and otherwise > ma.de more, comfortable, j Gilbert Stanley, the old-time news-j dealer of Nelson, is thinking of taking ' a trip south for the winter. The boys and girls of the Band of Hope will give a social to the public, on "Thursday evening, Sept- 27th. Services will be held in the Methodist church next Sunday, both morning'and evening. A. E. Huberts,"pastor. Mrs. Geo. Garrett, left, on Friday to attend 'the. funeral of a younger sister recently deceased at Maple Creek, N. W T. ' Howard West has about finished thej We,ek. work of clearing his I'nion bay-prop-j erty, and will have; it ready for tree) planting this fall. | The Lnion street residence of B Bvrncs has been greatly improved in appearance by lhe application of a handsome, coat of paint. New Denver can turn out more ''dead marines" than both lhe South African and Chinese, wars combined. Another carload was sent away Friday. I'ercy Alfal'fer. who lias been in Hie Slocan hospital since ,.J tine '2nd, suffering from a broken leg. has nearlv recovered and expects lo be mil in a week or two. Belter care is taken of the roads and trails this season, under the careful supervision of Load inspector Moore, than has been sliown in previous years. The past month has been perfect road building weather, hut tiie government evidently prefers'to wail till winter begins before, starting the Silver Mountain road. The New Denver aggregation of base ball players went to Silverton Sunday and allowed the Four Mile team to beat them by a score of 25 to 1U. A return ."-"ue will be played at New Denver. Palma Angrignon has repainted his home, on Josephine ave., inside, and out, and will soon occupy it. It has been made replete with all modern conveniences and is one of the most comfortable homes in New Denver. The, citizens in Nakusp talk of organizing a company to pipe tlie water from the Hot Springs, seven miles back of that town. The water carries 127 degrees of heat, and bringing it to Nakusp would make, that town a great health resort. .-o.sts jusl -20 cents a At. oiu.-e rhe hall the loth century, one calm winter's eve- I have spent one of the pleasantest ning���Sunday���the lire, fiend came and j summers of my life right here in Nome. The weather has been beautiful, with the exception of an occasional rain storm. As to the, hardships, 1 don't see as there are more to endure than in any other new mining camp, and as for travelling', yon can take, a horse any place within 500 miles of here and find feed for him, and team and wagon can g-o ! stove went with it. the That washing ago. red tape was un wound and measurements were'taken i any place near by within a radius of lOu md con, or words ro that effect, to miles. As to the mineral wealth, wil barrel to produce. tins doesn't--explain why it costs 15 and do eents a gal- 1)r0 . Ion in the Slocan. ''But then, there's j S(,L ;lpal.t. a (vrl;iju percentage of the j say tliat from what I liave personally the, freight, you know." ��� | net earnings of the company for the - observed I believe this will lie one ol 2* I'he Slocan mining division is not one j erection of a iie.v station and the pur- chase of a stove with leg's. Gradually tlie. money was hoarded, until the handsome, sum of .-fi.joO was raised, when con ed' "one-mine camps." but on tlie contrary each -camp is headquarters for several distinct milling companies whose operations extend farther .than one particular spot. Thus it is a good district for laboring men and investors A second copper furnace, starts up this week at. the Trail smelter to ti eat Centre Star ore. That 'mine is to fur-! 1'"1' ' h(' st"ve i" ��l����ut two weeks tlie greatest mining camps, if not the greatest, yet discovered in point of gold production. 1 will give you an instance of a strike made on Nichola g'ulch last tracts were lot and orders given to tlie j ���July. Party had bench claim of twenty mill men for the timbers for the build-J acres He sunk 12 feet and uncovered ing. Tuesday a force, of laborers came j a 5-foot paystreak of gravel from which down from Sandon and the. great work I he extracted 2 IS ounces of gold with a was started. The station will be ready ! hand rocker in 10 hours, and which. | since that time, has averaged 134 ounces j of gold per day of 1.0 hours per rocker. Kt.MCTiur uoirr oohpavy. If five acres of this 20-acre claim holds ���-��� up this record until mined out it will A meeting was held m Bosun Hall j produce something like twenty-live Saturday niglic for tlie purpose of in-J million dollars. Every claim'on 'Anvil aunurating a movement looking to the j and Dexter is a paying proposition, formation of a locaLcompaiiy to take ! although several, are idle on account of over and operate the N'ew Denver e)e,c- j litigation. To the north, Oregon creek trie lig-ht works. The attendance was j and Point Clarence district are showing large, but owing to the unpreparodness j up big To the south, Council City of those, having tlie meeting in charge, j and Golden Gate districts are panning little business was transacted. Figures j out-well. Drv creek, Snow gulch and allorded by such a magnilicent body -of j ���.,.,.��� p,,.)(,m.(Jf| showin��� r|1(.;u,proxin,ate j others are nmking good showings, not- water as Slocan lake, the town should j (.i)s|. of insl,, ,,;���,, a |)lant t��� ,K, m,(,r;,r(.(, j withstanding the dry season. Most of ���H'ovide a rmk at any enst ^ j ])V ���...,,,,. ]inv,(.,. ;imi t!u. pim.|iase of j the people have been here only about The sidewalk from the Record oflice j dynamos, etc . with a capacity of 750 j three months and consequently have lights. If was generally conceded that | not had much time' to prospect. Too tlie present dynamos would be of little j many.broke people came here with the use and therefore the meeting favored ; rush and as development was not suf'fi- Perhaps if someone wouid fall through j the purchase of a new plant throughout, j ciently advanced there was no emplov- sonie of the, numerous holes and break The cost of this would be in the neigh- | meat for t-hein. But those who came nish the smelter 800 tons of ore per day. It is the intention to add two lead furnaces and another large copper furnace., thus doubling the present capacity of the smelter. Sandon people want a sharing rink this season. Ln another month or so the season begins there, and good skating can generally be counted on for a j period of four or live months. As Sau-i donites have none of the pleasures ifforded bv such a magnilicent along the. government reserve to Sixth sti eel and from Sixth street to tin wharf is in a. most disgraceful condition >v~ The Slocan. to be Well Represented at the Spokane $s> . ' Industrial Exposition. MSSSSSSSS aS SB SSSS!��S23?SSg3SSS new Denver ores. Tishmeut of a mint, so that the specie in circulation shall be that of our own instead of that of a foreign' country. "We. advocate the restriction of the immigration of Chinese and .Japanese and all classes of people who cannot become good citizens of the Dominion of Canada, and sug'gest the adoption of the principles of the Natal Act. "British Columbia has not now the. representation in the federal parliament that she is entitled to: therefore, wre advocate that when the redistribution of seats is made that this constituency shall be given representation according to its population." norhood ot 000. a leg or neck lhe government would put the walk in repair. Here's a chance for the martyr who was not permitted to throw his life away in South Africa. A movement is on foot to have New | Denver. Denver incorporated. The feeling of j tiu': tamauaok (he citizens is that, they would rather j pay heavier taxes and have the money ��� a Seattle company represented hy .1. .Hold.cn has taken over the Tamarac spent at home, than to go on in the, present way, paying heavily into the Provincial treasury and receiving little A company will, in] prepared to hustle anil with sufficient all likelihood, be, ��� organized with a j to establish themselves are doing well, capital stock of ?-lo,ooo The. (intention ! As to sickness here. 1 am reliably in- is to light Silverton as well as New; formed that there have been only some j 2h cases of smallpox here, all of which j were contracted on the, steamer coming' up. Then; is not now a case in the country. There has been some typhoid and pneumonia, but not more than in other new places which have not proper !��NI).!<:i). The New Denver exhibit to the Spokane industrial Exposition was shipped to-day. the commit tee-men Messrs. Avison and Vallance having devoted several days to collecting the ore samples. The display is the best that has ever been sent from New Denver, and if the other towns in the Slocan do as well, this district will have good reason to feel proud of its ore exhibit. To the untiring' efforts of Messrs. Avison and Vallance is due the, success of the, undertaking. The properties sending samples are nearly all located within a mile or two of New Denver. A few are located elsewhere, but the owners reside here, and as the ore has never been exhibited they take this opportunity of showing what they've got. ''"lie Goat mountain properties sending samples, are the Mollie Hughes and Turns. From Silver mountain (he California, Marion, Hart- ney. Merriinac. Sinfi. Home Run, Ruby, Convention, Eclipse, and Mountain Chief, furnished good samples, and the lake shore properties, Bosun and Neglected are represented. The samples from the Marion, Bosun, Home.Run and Mollie. Hughes are of extra size, and beauty and will set off the exhibit nicely. Wilson creek is represented by onlv one sample, that from the Windsor group,but this will be sufficient to show the character of the ore discovered there. Samples are a'so sent from the Voimg Bear group, Springer creek, owned by Messrs. Mcf'herson, McCuaig. etal. of New Denver, and from rro.Mio FUOM STDMJV. the Hone N< Lemon creek, owned g'i'oup, situated on Springer cro'.k, on a. bond running one vear of S25,0nij. The sanitation and established health laws, u'nothing'in return. If the. town was (jest pavment will bo made in f'lft days. I ' ^'^11, I guess I have told you as much . incoporated it might have better school | The Tamarac is a ve.rv promisiii"' prop-' ils .vou c'al'e t0 fc"��w of this country, i Expos.tion facilities, as well as many other things | (,rrv ;m(| j:.,s been under bond before, i '^"l) ana ^ an' notn woH and have no in the way of public improvements. j ]uu ,iVas thrown up before it was prop! n,"in to complain of our change.although ei'ly exploited. by Messrs. Sheron and Crofford. Li all 20 properties are numbered in the exhibit, which will make a very creditable showing indeed, and will, in a measure, at least, do honor to the energetic efforts of Commissioner Copeland,'who is sparing no pains to .make the exhibit the leading' feature of the Wilsnii Oreoli l'r<>]i<"i'*.\\ SI.OOAX MIXKIIAX, ir.OAT The, Arlington flume was laid this' ������ i Herbert Thomiinson is showing some Operations are to be commenced on j Vttl'.v (i"e samples of ore from the Stan- io Ruth No. 2. . - j '''>'��� l>i�� property located on Wilson j (.oim. off ���',lV time now. Re-ards to S.T. Walker was called to Vancouver! avi'k' ;,hm!l "n" "!il(';11111 :1 Ilfllf ''''"'| every one. ' C. Kkauxkv HaMMono we often think of and long' for our Sandon friends and relatives. Ed. Matthews is well. Dave King' has whiskers Tom Gibson is up Yukon way. Jimmy .Latham is not married, but Bob says the big' thing is apt to I.! !! K U A T.-OONS KR VA IIV K TIOX. COXVMV- Angus Mel nnes returned Monday from his visit to Sydney, N. B., and is enthusiastic about the wonderful possibilities of the coining Pittsburg of Canada. Since the American Steel Com pany began operations there, Sydnes has grown from a town of 1,500 inhabitants to a city of 2u,(.m0. and the prediction is made that in less than 10 years its population will have grown to 100,000. One cannot realize the immense amount of building that is going on there without seeing it. The Steel Company is erecting building's of stone covering acres of ground. The foundations for the walls are wide enough to drive a team of horses over. The company is building 1.000 coke ovens foi" its own use. and will soon enter into competition, with the world in building steel vessels and great steel bridges, guns, etc. Sydney has advantages that are ahead of any other steel works in the world, and the American company is taking' advantage of its great natural resources. At present��� :LooC men are employed by the company, but this force will be doubled in a short time. Mr. Mc I lines counted 240 steam and sailing vessels in the harbor/loading and unloading and lying at anchor, as he passed out of the harbor. This wil! give some idea of the immense shipping business ihat is carried on there. pi.'iid the lake, upon which he lias done up- j this week in connection with the inn' deal on the Frisco ',,,,. ! exposed two parralle 'lhe Payne shipped I.so tons ol ore! _.tl ...,., last week. Last Chance 110, Ruth 71, j Noble Five a2, American Boy 21, Two! Friends, 20. ' The third payment- on lhe Bl OiiKATEST STK1KH IX UISTOKV. called tlie convention to order. The convention nominated i wards of !?;"ioo worth of work He has I exposed two parrallel ledges running] oiith-east and north-west, and in width j A tlef?i��itcli from Indianapolis, dated from three to live fee; Both have we'll | s,'l'l- ] '��� s'l.vs: A> :'-^ o'clock Tuesday , iiefiuc.il wails, ami lie. about 75 feel of ��"riu.<>ii President Mitchell andSecre- i each oilier The ore is i il('i'' signatures to I he document j ests of the party Hawk and Daisy bond was made last week lo 1). Graham and -J. Rao, of Slo- The convention of the Liberal-Conservative party of Yale-Cariboo constituency called to nominate a candidate to contest the coming Dominion election convened at Pevelstoke, on Friday, wirh tifty-odd delegates present, in person. R. F. Green, of Kaslo. by virtue of his being* the vice-president of the party organization for the constituency, n. c. looking n*. Clarence McCuaig, in concluding a lengthy interview in the Montreal Gazette is quoted as saying: "There can be no doubt''but that Province will soon attract the attention of capitalists in all parts of the world. No doubt many Canadian investors have hail their col ili det ice shaken in mining'in vestments during- the past year, and tbev have ; had sufficient reason undoubtedly, ow ,. ., ' ' , i in::' to the temporarv stoppage, of divi McNeill, oi Rossland. to contest the , ' , , ,, , ' . . ,,,.. . . ... .,. ,,.,i,, ., . . , . i deuds ot I he la rive lniniiur companies is runiiiii"' with i t:"'v I|SI111 >'lihe I num Mine \\\\ orkers i i ale-( ariboo consul uencv in the inter ' ' can City, by Friiesi Manslield. Assessment work on the Black Dia uioiid. on Four Mile creek, about four miles from the lake, lias shown up a si rung quartz lead showing galena and zinc. Eastern capitalists have bonded the. \\. will start, a force of men lo work thi week. The terms of the. bund have, no' j been made public. j The, approximate value of tiie ore] shipped from Slocan lake properties! since January 1st, is a qua; ter of a mil lion dollars The Bosun heads the list. The. value of all the, ore shipped from the Slocan will reach, approximately, 81,500,000. Ernest Mansfield'has received an ex- wirh a small ocreeni,'i:.'v oi lead. Tii.' I.i- Ki>i'< (ii'cnl (>iv iJnilv. Mr. McNeill i ] which will call 112.(ion miners of the ] native of Prince Edward Island, lb ,' Pennsylvania anlhractie region from : ha.- lived in ihi.- provin.ee since Isdo ! their work Mundav inonihi"." and pre- j and has resided at Hossland since IS!>;. and the great shrinkage in the value of rhoir shares caused bv tlie. loss of confidence, aggravated by financial condition.- which have prevalod. 1 looki A private letter from Rossland says ���:hat Pr. "���.'- l��-y.ng nguar dm- ' a hh'her "Tade than that liuw heiii" "of ,, ' , ,- ��� , , . ,- , . . . ,, , I dends, and earning-a tat surtdiis. aim a nii,,H ,i .. uiui i u.i ii.ii oi iii^ _oi || p(nv(;i. ���..ls p.|t ,,, ,|!(. |,.ni,,s ,,| the coustituencv in convention assembled. ,, v v . ,. n.it ieis le'en loilnd i ��� , . -,., .. . . ,.. ,' . , Hie New 1WII' should sl'e a o o.il lus o..( n lotimi. I president and secrctarv. Ihe olhcial ! re-affirm the princip es of the old part v, ' - ��� I1 , ., ' ; ' , , ' I cnnipan.es in g-real tavor again Calluu'lic mils. oi'derlo strike was sent to Hie three | and more particularly that cardinal: --- -... ! Pennsylvania districts. The order is a | principal, protection to home industries, j T,|t' H'><"I s,,i,i. il tllese ' There is a fraternal (juotation that! sini]>le recital of the proceeding's of the j and that that principle be carried out i runs something like this: 'Ml' fraternal j three bodies in applying for authority ! so that all sections of the country shall I love held ail men bound, what a g-rand! to the national board to strike and a j equally share its benefits. j world this would be." An eastern | druggist, more enterprising" than polite, j perhaps, has adapted the quotation to ' his business, making il read, "What a tension from Mrs. J. E. Harris on the! nui W(1-(1 ,,.���.,.������ (-atliartic- pills." property he bonded in the WhiteGrousej country last year. It is the intention to j The wagon v<>-a<{ is a little slow in organize a strong company and corn-1 coming to town from Silver mountain, inence extensive operations next year.: but Williams is always in the old stand The properties run high in copper with I waiting upon the many customers that "���ood values in gold and silver. i are ever in evidence at his establish- I inent. The probabilities arc that New Den-: A cash sale was put through on Friday by J. M. M. Benedum for the Hoodoo claim, situated near the Howard I' formal announcement that the applica- ; -The one industry on which the |iros-1 tion is indorsed and the strike ordered, j p(M-j(v 0f ihjs coustituencv i< almost '''1";1("I'��11 group, on Gold Hill. Lemon Eso-r is ii,...,i i whollv dependent is mining: and we m,t'k- There was a number of small _ '" ' Ibolieve that our mining' industries arei inr,,|'('^s '" Ul('' property held in Slocan A. M.Esler died suddenlv in Montana! as fairly entitled to protection as tl.ei (.:ity.' U,v "^ rh(' mvill;,'s '-eceived Iasl week, aged 05 vears.' Esler built manufacturing interests of K.ist(.rn ^0��''�� cash hvn veins are exposed on tlie hirst smelter in Montana, and was j Canada: therefore, we advocate t|lilt| tlie ground trom which good values in prominent in mining for many years, j the duties on lead ami lead products )l(. j gold have been obtained. At one time he was interested with A. increased, so that they shall be as high 11. Kelly in the Dandy, near Nelson, j as those now imposed by the Inked and with Col. Topping in thcOllie. Me j States on the same articles. All things come to him who waits, may be an ancient fact, but. it applies ver will get a small grant, for the im- Last week 2" tons of ore wa- prowment uf lhe Government property. ; from the Two Friends. to the wagon road fioin Silver mountain was very prominent in developing the! ''That the -output of the. precious I with equal force that il does to the hipjied I resources of the C-ieur d" Aleiie district j metal mines of Canada is largely in-j millions that Wil ianis will eventually in Idaho. creasing, therefore, we. favor the estab j make from using printers ink regularly. THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 20, 1900. Seventh Year TllK Lkiiok k 1 uii dollars a yen r in ailvitniri-. When not so puid ir is --'.:i'' to pin-ties u-in-rhy fit 'crcilit. To Im rliariiuis east, 01 l.nki; Superior it is sj h ycur. I.c^iil ;nlvnrtisiii�� lo runts :i jiunpurn-l liiir iirst insert ion. a ml :"��� i-i.-nls :< line en eh snli sequel it insert ion. Reu'lhi!.' notices ^'.r, rents a line, a in I ermine re in I inlver sin�� i_'raile'l in pi-ires aci-onliiiK to e ire urn:-tin ires.- FKLLOW P1LGK1MS: TllK I.KlxiK is local e>l at Xi-w Denver. B. ('.. ami ran lie-traceil to mic ny parts of the e.-irtli. It conies to tlie front every Timrmlay ami lias never ln-en niiy the iei; r of man. It works for the trail blazer us well as tlie liiiy-wiiniowe.il and i-ii;iriipMirne-rla voreii eupitnlist. It aims to be on the riffht si'le of everytliiriK ami believes tluil hell shouhl be aiiiniiiistereil'io ll-.r wickeil in larf:e i!os(:s. If lias stonn the test of rime, ami .an eyer-iiirn-asiim' naystrea I; is proof that if is i letter to tell t lie truth, even if the heavens do oerasiomt I !y hit our sinokestacU. A rhute of job work is wurkeil occasionally for the bene lit of huinunit y ami t he liiianrirr. ('nine in ami see us. biitiloimt put the bull ilot! t i the ri-nniiirn. or chase the black cow troni our water barrel: ��� is savage iiml file other a victiui of thirst. One of llie noblest works .if creation is the man who always pays the printer: In- is sure of a bunk in panoiise. with r hornless roses for h pillow by uiirht. n ml not hint.' but ^ohl to look at byilay. R. T. L0WERY, Editor and Financier. an attractive presence \\vi]] cover ] ^^f^^^^^^f^^^ much mental vacuity, except to i *0***-~-^^^ those who know. It is a fact, which may be easily demonstrated, that the bulk of failures hi mining are due to the inertia of the investor, who is too lazy or too busy to think for himself." MINK SALTING. np-j^ | Cr^i^C * TVhnilt This world is full of tlie region to secure a. perfect title I II fcr JL*fcrL)(jfc. j _ pilots. In fact, it is to their ground. If you observe in --=^=.-^=z ������ ,.-_- i PllOtS made up of pilots���; it the card of two or more deputy ! everybody is a pilot of some kind. ! United States mineral surveyors. A pencil cross m this squnro indicates thut your snbserij)- tion is due. mid that the editor wishes once iifrnin to look at four collateral. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER m 1900. FliOM THli KIHTOlt'S ri'I'Kl! S'lliPK. The Government have issued regulations concerning the bubonic plague. It is a, good thing and should lie widely advertised. ! Pontius Pilots. Pilots because The outlook for white metal continues bright, and in ceinseeptence tlie stock of several Slocan mines has-advanced in price recently. . 'Without; printer's ink the world would not know much. It is also a- great cure forfinancial depression when taken regularly in large doses. Nelson is one of the most progressive towns in the west. Its citizens are. up-to-date' in everything, even to reading this paper -regularly. The C.P.R, has reduced the passenger fa>re in Manitoba to three cents a mile. If the Government owned the road the fare would be less than a cent a mile. There- are sea- pilots,, land pilots. sky pilots, journalistic pilots and Pontius Pilots. Most people are They are, Pontius they haven't the mora! courage to be anything else. All Pontius Pilots arc? moral cowards. To be a successful Pontius Pilot you must be. a coward. If you are not a coward you can't be a Pontius- Pilot. Pontius Pilots think for themselves and act as other people think. 'Whatever the ragtai 1 -1 lobtaii-rabble de-man d. I 'on - tins Pilots do. Any fool can be a- Pontius Pilot. Sky pilots are sometimes Pontius Pilots at heart, so and ol several assay ors. you may safely conclude that the district is an active one. that the prospectors are interested, and that the professional men are making a fair Every one who has read history knows that Rome was not built in a day. Ages from now the new people of the world will be reading the same about New Denver. The (.'row's Nest Coal Co. made .847.000 during rhe past year. The money went1-'into the pockets of eastern capitalists instead of to the people of B. C.. where legislators are so adept at giving a.way the country's assets. From tlie delay evinced in the building of the wagon road up Silver mountain the Government probably prefer doing that kind of work when it is raining or snowing -so that there will be no danger of any of the men being sunstruck. The sanitary law enforced in the Slocan towns since 1807 does' not seem to be entirely satisfaotorv. although it is a. source of constant expense to the people. The Government might take a- look into this unseen ted but important subject. are all other kinds of pilots. But sea pilots are never land pilots, and land pilots'are never journalistic pilots. To be a sea pilot you must have some nautical sense; a- land pilot needs nerve, a sky pilot faith and a journalistic pilot money. Without the almighty dollar the journalistic pilot will die; without faith the sky pilot will go hungry; without nerve tlie land pilot will- become a wreck, and. without nautical sense tlie sea pilot will find a. watery grave. Journalistic pilots are born, not made, Other pilots are made, not born, and some make themselves. Pontius; Pilots grow. You can shake them ' is at some little distance from the bushes of pride, conceit, avarice, greed, faint heartedness. Then' are baked in shallow pans, seasoned with cowardice to suit the taste, and served with ignominy on the side. All pilots sometimes lose their bearings. Sky pilots get shunted oil' by bigotry, or fall into the sump of sin; sea pilots are drawn away from their course by false signals; land pilots go down men and in the fogs of despair, and journalistic pilots get lost when the flow of milk and honey, cocktails and lucre, washes out the trail. Pontius Pilots never have any bearings to lose. Sky.pilots blaze the trail for the souls of men. land pilots foi the feet, journalistic pilots for the head. Pontius Pilots- blaze the trail to hell. The working of claims on tin royalty or leasing system has proved very successful in Colorado, and there is no reason why the same results could not lie obtained in the Slocan and other parts of Kootenay. Tin's paper would like to hear tlie opinions of practical men upon the subject.. Politic Practica Advice living. If you Iind the .advertisement of a sampling works, or of parties who buy ore. it is a sure proof.that a number of the mines are producing with considerable regularity, and thai some of them are making money sence of this testimony, if a- railroad has been built to the town the same conclusion may safely h< drawn. If the paper contains the advertisement of one or more banks, the 'prosperity of the place may be. considered certain. It is then only necessary to ascertain whether it is what the miner calls a "One Mine Camp' or otherwise. One 'mine camps are settlements around a mine which has proved to be pre-eminently profitable. in such places the mine generally owns the principal stores and the bank. is interested in all the public utilities such as water, light and telephone plants, and does not encourage the coming of outsiders: and outsiders will often do well to stay away from such districts, for the proper place to search for a- bonanza from one already discovered. ���-Usually the local weekly publication will, to the careful observer, tell a plain story. Tf the signs mentioned are found, open correspondence with an assayer and surveyor, enclosing a cash fee of say 810 in your letter, and ask their professional view on the locality. These people are generally gentlemen of honor. Often they are college graduates. Their Opinions are worth having. A.ftei obtaining them, if the outlook is favorable, subscribe1 for the local paper and also the weekly mining journal of the, nearest large commercial centre. Study both carefully as they come along, and explore the advertising columns of the latter for the names and addresses of mining engineers who make it a. business to report, and examine mines. Address two or as men of j more of them, and enclose a 82o Thev have I fee. asking frankly their opinion of Finallv. if the general Charles M. Dobson, in rhe Cosmopolitan Magazine, tells of the various tricks employed in '���'salting" a-mine. "I was examining- a 'proposition' in Shasta County, California," he says,"on the boundary line of Trinity County The vein was of great size and was manifestly of low grade. I carried a man of tlie mine, and every ten feet I had the, miners take, out about .150 pounds of ore, which was thrown on an iron plate, 4x5 feet, previously swept and carefully cleaned The ore was piled Tip into a cone and quartered The diagonal quarters were, taken, and these in turn coned and diagonal quarters taken, until 1 had about a pound of ere thoroughly representative of eaeh ten feet of the, mine. Kaeh sample was pni into a .$50 silver sack of stout canvas and >ealed with my private seal The , w , sack was numbered and a rorrespoiidiiii.'! V J mark made, on the. map so ihat I should | v^^g know just how the vein ran. As I tuck t r\\��M .some 200 samples, it soon became impossible to 'puek' these along the levels, down the shafts and up the upraisi To watch them would have require:! a detective to each suck. UI went on to calculate rhe .amount in cubic, feet of ore exposed in the A shafts, upraises and ievels of the mine. To determine the tonnage of ore. it is necessary to remember that about 15 cubic feet of quartz make ;i ton. I had the. samples' brought our- by the miners, boxed, nji and sent for .assay to an j (")'��� in the ah-' emn>ent h'nn in Chicago 1 went to Chicago to learn what the assay showed as to the amount of gold and silver in the samples; the chemist said that.the ore was of extreme, richness. < iuM had j fe^jj^ ^kcT been recovered indicating between sflOO'i -_ and $101) to the short ton of ore '��� 'That can't be,' I declared " 'It looks suspicious," he admitted. 'It certainlv is not in the. ore if appearances go for anything.' They do go for a great deal, for a competent man can often guess within *5 or $0 of \\lie value of ore. by merely pan test If yon think there isn't any difference in the flavor and keeping quality of Hams and Bacon just try our Cudahy cured meats. We want to invite your attention this, week to our Grocery Department. We have .just opened out a large shipment of Cudahy's Hams and Bacon, and we assure you we'never handled a-nythiiio--better. Tliese .Lioods are known as Al the world over, and the simple mention of"the fact that we carry them'is sufficient to draw custom from anyone who appreciates a good thing. In Eggs and Butter we can give you something absolutely fresh. Dominion of Canada Dairy Butter-: -Eggs fresh fl'ulll lie ranch. every- lew days. fyBOURNE BROS., New Denver, B. Cv* ^��53 j A certificate of improvement showing | that the claim has been improved to I tiie extent of $2.n0 per acre is necessary before a Crown eleetl can be. issued. Timber and hay lands may ton j be leased froin the Government, making a rough | rl imber lands pay a yearly rental of i 1T> cents per acre, and a royalty of ' 'Were the seals intact?' I asked. | 50 cents per 1,000 feet of all iogs'cut. ' -Oh, yes, he replied: 'the. sacks led | L(jases uf ,and fo]. ()ther pa,posesmay also be granted by the Lieutenant- uot been tampered, with.' " 'You've been, handling some rich j Mining men of ore,' I told him, 'and probably have yourself 'salted' accidentally with some of the rich particles ' "No, he replied: he had been most I careful. So samples of the pnlp he hud j made were sent to Xew York for check j assays. In this pulp tlu; ore is reduced j to such fineness that ir will all pass! through a mesh with .(!.-ion perforations) to rhe. square inch, a little coarser than I ordinarv Hour. The reports from New I ' i York verified the Chicago assays to thej third figure in decimals. Crushing the j ore in an iron mortar and panning the! result showed that the assays conl 1 not ! be right. Vet how had the. samples i i been 'salted ?' \\ ���'At last an idea occurred to me. Mad ��� the sacks been preserved? Yes. We washed them in a solution of cyanide of potassium We drew off the liquid a few days after that, and our rests for the. determination of gold showed thai those sacks were worth $7-2.00<) per ton of sacks. Afterward it was confessed that- while 1 was figuring on the ore. in sight, a man with a hypodermic syringe full of a solution of chloride of gold had thrust the. needle through the canvas and injected the tluid on the samples of ore. It had dried on the cloth, and thus gave proof of the fraud." Governor in Council. Williams lias a line, of green peppers that are the hottest things in the camp. Warm yourselves with them when the weather gets cold. 99999&9&999��99999999999999 Home Grown Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Roses. Shrubs, Vines, Bulbs, Hedge Plants For Fail Planting 80,000 to choose from Xd AC! K.Vt'S 'inn- t'oimiiNsimi tu liny. OriU'i's nize< hard practical sense adopted the business of mining not j the e-ainp. as a game of chance but as one of j repent-on tho whole is favorable. : tlie surest money making businesses! take the train and go right- to the ! . *, ' j in the world. They do not trust j district and exa-niine the proposi- j to chance, but by thorough investi- j tion yourself. There is no mystery igation and careful investment- they I about, the business of metal mining. ! enter upon any new proposition ! Any man of average common sense | sure winners. They have made'j can. if lie will take the time, satisfy j mining pay, not because- they have j hi in soil' whether the property before I had vast ore; bodies of great rich- \\ him contains the elements of success I ness. but because they have put j or failure. There comes a time, it | their practical business training in- j is true.when it is proper and neces- to use. The Mining Reporter, of I sarv to purchase trainee! practical Denver. Col., gives an idea-of how j assistance and professional advice: they proceeded about it in the foi-j but if a proposing investor will lowing: I first personally look into the pro- ���\\If you are contemplating an position offered in about the way Semie newspaper editors arc very; invest mont in mining in any part i suggested, he will be entirely cap- kindly warning stamp collectors; of the West, investigate along some able of deciding whether the ex- '���to be very i-a-reful about purchas-; of the following lines: ; pert to whom he finally applies for ing the Mafeking siege issue, foi' --Send for a copy of the local j information is worthy of the trust the market is flooded with counter- paper and give it careful study. If: reposed in him. There are rascals i'eifs." The advice is unnecessary. ��� you observe that if contains a-mini- in all professions. There are many "What's t In- odds if they are eminter- '. her of patent application advertise-; shysters'and (pui-cks among mining foils, so long as they satisfy the ! menfs. you may be assured that the | engineers as among lawyers aix cravings of the slamp maniac y j mine owners think well enough of 'medical men. A glib tongue and H. GIEGERICH Staple and Fancy Any person being the head of a family,a widow or a single man over) eighteen years of age, and a British j subject, or an alien proposing to be-j come a Brstish subject, can pre-empt' IttO acres of land belonging to British i Columbia, west of Cascade Mountains, j or 320 acres cast of these mountains, j at Si per acre. Two months' leave; of absence under the Land Act, and i nfinn\\fl/l hi HAMH8 TO an additional four months for sufficient! uUUUWm uANULlU cause, when applied for to the Chief j PIAIVT POWftPfr Commissioner, can be had in each j vil/lli 1 IUttUEIV year till the Crown deed is obtained, kaslo ainsworth saxdox Agent for J3*rf fca^L^Jfc^ fc^L J3��^ kw��L_J^^ Canada, and many a spoken, many a head broken, before the final day is reached and the counting of the ballots proves which brand of party ism is the most popular in the most governed country of its populative size in the world. i Braces and all kinds ofGents' Furnishinii's at D ZVicLachlan's Saw Denver. JOHN WILLIAMS Dealer in IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS ANDTOBACCOES, PIPES, &C. Van Cam]) Lunch Goods, Confection- cry and Fruit. BATHS IN CONNFCTION. Newmarket Block. New Denver Montr .KstnblislKMl 1S17. Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000X0 Reserved fund : : 7,000,000.00 Undivided profits : : 1,102,7:��2.72 hkai) orrrcK, montrkal. Hox. Lord Strathcoxa a ad Mouxt Koval, G.C.M.G. President,. Box. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E. S, Cloustox, General Manager. Branches in all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and he United States. New Denver branch r^ foeC >^)wc >s;bs<��� Seventh Year. THE LEDUE, NEW DENVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 20 1900. THE SCARLET LETTER. They lend a woman in the market place, Graceful of form and beautiful of face. And all around the riissintr people mock and jeer Around the sinful woman standing here. A crin ion robe lier beauty must adorn, Never for pride, but hnd^re of the world'? scorn, Kor in her arms���dear God that this sluuld he- Lie? the white soul of nameless infancy. Slow