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The Tribune was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, and ran from November 1892 to November 1905. The Tribune was published and edited by John Houston, an outspoken journalist who would later embark on a successful political career, which included four terms as the mayor of Nelson and two terms in the provincial legislature. Houston had established the Miner in Nelson in 1890, and, after leaving the Miner in the summer of 1892, he established the Tribune to compete with his former paper. In August 1901, the title of the paper was changed to the Nelson Tribune.
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East anft West Kootenay Have Better Showings for Mines than any other Sections on the Continent of America. (Capital an5 Brains Can' Both be Employed to Advantage in the Mining Camps of East and West Kootenay. FIRST YEAR.-NO. 9. NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBrA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1!), 18!);J. PRICE TEN CENTS. PROSPECTING FOR VALUABLE METAL NO SATISFACTORY DISCOVERIES YET MADE ON KOOTENAY LAKE. Nickel-Bearing Ore Found in Three Different Localities; But, According to the Tests Made, of Two Low a Grade to Allow of its Being Worked Proiltably. Iyaki.o, January 12th. I8.M. ' To tiik Non-oil ok Tiik Timiutxk: Aly attention has been called to an editorial iu the Victoria Weekly Colonist of December :30th, whereby I am credited with having discovered nickel-bearing ore in til i.s district. Although thearticle. in the main, is not correct, yet 1 ha e boon for nearly three years interested in prospecting lor and seeking knowledge regarding nickel ores on Kootenay lake. As my efforts to prove that nickel in paying quantities exists around Kootenay lake have cost me considerable in hard work and in money, and I have pursued Lhe subject diligently, yet the result of my investigations are unsatisfactory. By stating what I have learned may encourage some other person, and in time this valuable metal may be one of the products of this wonderful mineral section. ^ Nearly three years ago my attention ���was called Lo the large veins on the east side of the peninsula on (J raw fords bay. J secured a few locations there. The fall of'00 having been appointed mineralogist for the Northwestern Exposition in Spokane prevented me from doing any work on the claims individually, hence it was the spring of '01 before I again visited the ground. During the summer a number of Spokane parties were interested, several additional claims located, and in the fa I. quite an amount of development work done. In the meantime, J had communicated vdth parlies at Sudbury, Ontario, ��� and received a history and report of the nickel proportys in that section, also a small sack of ore. A sample of our product was sent to Sudbury, butonly yielded four-tenths of 1 per cent in that metal. The Crawford's bay ore being identical in character with tiie Sudbury, that is, pyrrhotite of iron, encouraged us, and considerable work was done the past year, Last fall L. D. Sivyer of Spokane, who acted as manager of our concern, started east with about 100 pounds of the ore to have a practical test made at one of the three nickel-reducing works in th; States. Unfortunately the train on which tliis ore was carried was wrecked east ol Chicago, tind tlie ore witii the entire train was burned. Mr. Sivyer happened to have a i'ew.specimens in his. grip, which wore analyzed in -New York, and yielded S per cent nickel. J presume, however, that these were choice pieces. I have learned one important fact by experience, and that is that very few as- sayors know how to test for nickel, and tlie determination of the quantity.in ore often baffles our expert chemists. We have had possibly twenty tests made, the results ranging from nil to 3 per cent, and by correspondence with other parties ���have learned that the. owner., of..paying nickel mines have "had the same experience, including those of Sudbury. To thoroughly satisfy myself, 1 took a reliable chemist to Crawford's bay last 'August, and thoroughly sampled several of our claims. The.result of his analysis was received last mouth, aiid was very Unsatisfactory. .Recently I received a communication from him stating lie had come to the conclusion tliat the metal existed in the ore in the form of a silicate, thereby being insoluble in acid, the same as manganese silicate. He will make additional tests on this basis soon and notify me of the result. Should it be determined that the ores of Crawford's bay carry an average of 1 per ceut nickel (Sudbury ores average 2), there is sufficient thereto supply the world for ages. Nickel is getting to be a very valuable metal. Many mines in different parts of the States have been worked out; the supply is diminishing while the demand is increasing. The amalgamation of nickel with steel for armor plates on war A*essels has sent the price up, I am informed, from 00 cents to $1.20 per pound. Outside of Crawford's bay, my attention has been called to similar-appearing ore iu other sections. One is a large vein on the east side of the lake about two miles north of Ivaslo; another is near Woodbury creek, about three miles north of Ainsworth; and another is the Queen Victoria claim, some twelve miles west of Nelson. Returns from a . ample of Queen Victoria, ore last summer xvere between 7 and (S per cent. Tlie owners of this claim state their vein is 100 feet in width. The Crawford's liny ores carry a small quantity of silver, gold, and copper. From tests made, al.out two and a half tons can be concentrated into one. These concentrates would be matted in furnaces on the, ground, aud probably for each fifty tons mined, one ton of metal would be shipped to a refinery, and at least four metals in the ore would have a commercial value. The Crawford's bay veins range from ten to forty feet in width, the (illing being quart/, and pyrrhotite of iron, the iron and copper pyrites increasing in quantity as depth is attained. Should it be demonstrated that we have nickel in paying quantities, I shall have no hesitancy in making the fact known. However, the final result will doubtless be on hand before spring. Ii. JI. Ki_mi>. then had to be shipped around by way of the c ast, which caused a delay. It was promptly forwarded from Northport by the steamboat company, but on arrival at Ivaslo. it was found (hat the insulators had either not been shipped or had got lost in transit. A tracer xvas sent to Spokane, but (hey were not feu-id. A message was then sent to the depot at Nelson, asking the Spokane <fc Northern Hailway Company to send (.50 insula, ors around by Bonner's Ferry; but before the message could be transmitted, the wire went down sc nfowhere near Northport, and it is still down. These delays are not only annoying, but very expensive to the telephone company, as it is los'ng fully $150 a month in lovenue by not having the line in operation to Kaslo. NEW DENVER NOTES, A FINE POINT RAISED. The latest news from the Freddy Lee is that work is progressing satisfactorily, and a return of hard weather gives confidence to the men working at (he mines. There are now twenty-five men working on the Washington and five working on the Slocan Boy. If the drift now being driven on the latter claim leads to satisfactory results, the former claim (the Washington) will be nioi e strictly in it than ever. The reports in circulation at Kaslo and Nelson, to the effect that the trail between here and Three Forks is completely blocked, are exaggerations. There have been two or three suowslides', which, to a. certain extent, interfered with the trail. A letter has been written to the government agent asking that the mining leeorder here be empowered to keep the trail open during the winter and spring. Iu the meantime, New IJonveriles will do all that is necessary in the matter. Mike Landrigan. Hans Madseu, Frank O'Brien, .J. Tdoley. and IS. JI. Hughes have been in town the last few days. All of them came over the trail from Thr Forks. Fortunately for all living here this winter, fish are plentiful in Slocan lake. Good catches are being made at the mouth of Carpenter creek. The following new locations have been made: Jhiukcr Hill, 7th .lanuarv. by William Griffiths, and 1893. 9th January, by.J. N. AlcPhail. A certilicate of work has been issued for the Bear Lake. The following claims have been posted" as abondoued (luring the past month for want of assessment work. The reason t.ie list is longer than heretofore is thai- many of these claims were staked around the mouthsof Carpenterand Ilunio creeks, presumably for townsite purposes: Silver vVare, Cedar, '.Cedar Bow, Black Pine, -Water Line, No. 3, Lillian, Hidden Treasure, White Birch, Silver Sulphide, Silver Reef, Big Six, None Such. Granite, Fresno, Fiiie. Storm, and Wide West. But One that Should be Settled Out of the Courts. Pilot Bay, January 10, IS93. To thk Horror, of Tiik Tuiuunk: Can you, or any of your readers, answer the following questions and save a:poor prospector the expense of employing an attorney? A, J), and C made a mining location in the year 1891. They placed three stakes on the ground. No. 1 and No. 2 xxeve properly placed, but No. 3 was carelessly set away lo one side of a. line passing from No. I over No. 2. The section was quite brushy and the locators failed to Li laze a line between any of the post.;. I.j 1892 1.) purchased ah interest in the claim and performed his share of the assessment work. C (one of the original locators), however, visited the ground in JS02, to do his assessment work. When A and B go to do theirs they (hid C has not done his work on the location. Asking the reason, C told them he could not find the blazed line nor No. 3 stake, hence he got too far off and the work he did was not Avithin the lines of the claim. A, B, and D perform 15 days work and A goes to the recording office and swears that twenty- five days work has been performed. A then leaves the country and his interest, in the claim is transferred to F. Finally.' after all this is done. G appears upon tlie scene and stakes a claim, under the hnv of 1892, which covers the claim staked by A, B, and C. JJe sets up the theory .that, first, the original claim taken in 1891 was not located according to law and is invalid, and. second, by C not,'doing work- on the ground, tlie claim was not legally represented. Is G's claim-to the ground valid? I appreciate, Mr. Editor, that this is a question for thecourts to decide, but as it involves some every day points will you kindly insert it in your paper and draw forth a few opinions on tlie subject? J AMISS T. Elliott. NELSON-S WANTS PLAINLY STATED. Fine Specimens of Gold Rock. .From time to time reports have been circulated that solid gold was being taken from a claim named the "OK" in Trail Creek district. WJiile the reports were not literally true, some of the specimens from the mine Avere exhibited at Nelson this Aveek, and, while not solid gold, Avere rich enough to make the aA-erage looker- on envious of the lucky owners of the property. The gangue is dolomite, and through' it the gold is thickly interspersed in ieafy layers and colors and particles as large as pin-heads. Some of the specimens carried galena Avith gold shot through it. The O K is on Sheep creek, and lies alongside the I X L, another noted property. A tunnel is now being run on the ledge, and it is in about 00 feet. Tlie ledge is reported the full width of tlie tunnel. The owners are Messrs. Cole, Hughes, and Oudin, the latter being a Spokane man; the other two are at work on the ground. Deep Snow. C. J. Murray, a prospector, has returned to Sand Point, Idaho, from tlie Priest Lake country, which lies along the iiiter- natianol l.oundary line about 50 miles south of Nelson., He says that at Long's camp the snow on the level was sixteen feet deep. Some logs were put over the tent to protect it from the heavy snow and on top of these logs the snow was measured and found to be thirteen feet dee\). the warmth from the tent causing the difference in depth between the snow on the logs and that on the ground. Around little Priest lake the snow was about six feet deep and at the lower end of big Priest lake about three feet. Annoying Delays. An explanation of the delays in giving Kaslo telephonic connection with Nelson i.s dne tlie,people of that town. The route from Revelstoke south closed before the material ordered for the extension of the Jine reached that place. The material J on his contract for running thei'tiiuiiel. In the Trade to Stay. The Ainsworth. under its new management, ran up to the government wharf at Nelson ou Tuesday afternoon, leaving for Kaslo Wednesday'morning. The boat will make regular trips between Nelson and Kaslo. probably leaving the latter place at 8 a.m. on Mondays. Wednesdays, and F.idays. and the former at S a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. As the'days lengthen out she will make round trips daily. The three owners (John Patterson. August Menanteau, and John Campbell) are ail old and experienced steamboat men, as well as men of means, tind are in the trade to stay. One of the Finest in the District. By all accounts, Bob Jackson lost a fortune when he bonded the Northern Belle to Dv. Kilbourno of Seattle for $1(.,000. James Clark, a miner lately at work on the Dardanelles, was in Nelson this week, and reports the Northern 'Belle oneof the best I .nking showings for a mine in Slocan district. He says there is two feet of solid ore in the tunnel, which is njwin 125 feet. Mr. Jackson is making.$15 a day [The hnv of IS91 required three stakes to be placed on a location, the center stake to be marked "No 2." In determin1 ing the center line and length of the claim, a line was run from No. L through No. 2. and continued in tlie same straight line the required distance. Avith out reference as to direction of No. 3, Imt in no case to exceed the distance between No. 1 and No. 3, even if the distance between these stakes was less than 1500 feet. When a' claim was located, in a- timbered country., so ' that one stake could not be seen from another, the locator was required to blaze a line connecting all the stakes. The law required that work to the value of $100 be done on the claim itself, .the owner to satisfy the gold commissioner or mining recorder that the Avork had been done by an ��� affidavit giving a detailed statement of the work done, and receiving from either of these officials a certificate to that effect. If "A"'obtained such certilicate from the mining recorder, "G" would have a pretty hard time convincing a jury- that he was anything but a claim jumper, even if he could prove'that a line Avas not bla/.ed between the slakes and that the original owners were short a day or tAvo on the assessment work. Editor Ti.ii_unk.] ... ' .: . . . .:...--��� Appropriations. In stating that $50,000 should be appropriated for public Avorks in South Kootenay, Thk Tr inline is not' extravaga-nt".: The Avagon road from' Ivaslo should be completed through to New Denver and a: branch built up the south fork of Carpenter creek to" the mouth of Codv creek. This will take $25,000. Betterments to wagon roads, trails, and wharves in Nelson, Ainsworth, Trail Creek, and Goat River divisions require $10,000; and needed public buildings in the same divisions will cost $15,000 more. Cold Colorado. Richard Irwin, manager of the Tain O' Sha nter mine on the east side of Kootenay lake, who is wintering in Colorado, writes to a f ieud at Kaslo from Denver, on the 23rd ultimo, that he was in that city purchasing supplies and ore sacks and was extracting 90 and 100-ounce ore from his Sunnyside mioe, near Creede. He states that the week before the snow was only six inches deep at Creodo, but the mercury was IS"-below zero. A much colder climate than around lv_ otena-y lake. Tenders Called For. As will lie seen by reading an advertisement printed in this issue, tenders are called for constructing the Nelson Ac Fort Sheppard railway. Tlie tenders are to be opened at Victoria on February Kith, where maps, profiles, aud specifications enn be seen. Work has already been practically commenced on the road at Rend d'Orielle river, where material for the bridge across that stream is now lying and surveys are being made. Railway Surveyors in the Field. A party of surveyors, in chargeof Johannes Graff, are reported in the field iiiakhig surveys for colonel Baker's proposed British Columbia Southern railway. The party are endeavoring to find a feasible route across the Purcell range to the north of the Moyie-Goat River pass. Fn- giueers like the Stewarts say that no such feasible route can be found. Incorporation, Appropriations, Appointments, Railroads, and Trails Mu3t Result. The public meeting at the Hotel I'hair on Saturday night was a representative one: merchants, professional men, mechanics, laborers, and editors attending, and aH'conteuding to advance the interests of the town and district. There were no factions,-anrl .but slight.difference of views in the discussions that took place. (J. F. Perry presided and li. Applowhaite |" led as secretary. To enable (he moot- liiflr to get down to business and lose no time in considering irrelevant questions, a committee of five (Messrs. Mi.-i._eod. Lemon, Bigelow. Marks, and Houston) was appointed to draft resolutions to be considered. The committee icliied and in half an hour reported resolutions favoring the incorporation of the town, the erection of a general hospital at Nelson, the building of a. trail to the placer mines on Hall creek, the erection of a brick court-house at Nelson, the enlargement of the government- wharf, the clearing out of Ward creek, the grading of the streets of Nelson, the erection of a custom-house and bonded warehouse at Nelson, the building of a railway up Slocan river into Slocan district, the' creation of a land registry office for Kootenay district, and the appointment of a resident registrar of the supremo court at Nelson. A committee of three (Messrs. Perry, BoAves, and Houston) was appointed to take steps to incorporate! the town; a committee ' of seven (Messrs. Huiiie. Lemon, LaBau, Arthur, Hamilton, Vuill. and Bigelow) was designated to look- after the hospital without delay; and a committee of five (Messrs. Bigelow. Hume. Mark:-, McLeod, and Fletcher) xveve appointed, to draft petitions, and obtain signatures thereto, to the provincial and dominion governments, to the end that adequate appropriations be made to carry out the local improvements suggested. After thanking the chairman and secretary for their good behavior, the hat was passed round by deacons Bigelow and Lemon, aud amount collected handed over to hotel keeper J-'hair for the use of his hotel and for sundry wet refreshments. had nothing to do with either ordering the goods or transporting them, but the owners thought he should have gone down to the Columbia river and superintended their transportation. Tom was a litfle independent in the matter, and (he owners complained (hat lie was not making (he progress he should in driving the tunnel. Tom explained .that the nick was voiy hard anrl that a large number of rlrills weie re- quiied to drive a hole. He was asked how many, and answeted that it look fi-om twenty lo forty to drivean 18-inch hole. This was considered an outrageous statement by the owners, and they told Tom that a man from Spokane would take his place, a man.,loo. that could, sliari en tools. Tom was willing. The man from Spokane arrived in duo lime, anrl proved to be a tool sharpener from away back. It took just 220 of his drills to drive an IN-iiieh hole, anrl some of the boys concluded to look for a job under another boss.^_ Would Return to the Law of 'SO. Kaslo, January io. 1893. Tr> tiik FniToi! ok Tiik T'i.ii.l'Nk: J have read with interest, the opinions in in yourlast issue regarding the methods of slaking mineral claims, and I may arid I have kept pretty close track of ali published ideas on the subject since the present ridiculous .law was promulgated. The subject is one of Lho deepest interest lo Americans, and as it is ically thr. American people heie who are opening up the country in a mining way. I fairly ex pi ess (heir views .when I state my own. Aly experience as a prospcclor and niii.o_- in West Kootenay dales back vcrv nearlv STILL BOOMING TRAIL CREEK. MINES WITH ORE BODIES SO WIDE THAT THEY CANNOT BE CROSSCUT. lour voars: hence, if not an olrl tinier. 1 i A Pleasant Social Event. Tho second annual ball of the Deluge Hook Ac Ladder Company was a success,��� as great a success as was the first annual ball. Lemon's hall was not large enough to comfortably hold those present. Dancing was kept up until -L o'clock Wednesday morning, and some of the boys would be dancing yet had they-music to dance to. Over $120 were realized from the sale of tickets. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney,: Mr. and Mrs; Archie Fletcher, Alessrs. S. 11. Green. Earnest' Harrop, Bart Smith, Alex AlcDonald, James Clark and .11. M. Bucke, of Kaslo; Messrs. II. Giegerich and R. McLeod, of AinsAVorth; Messrs. H. Byers anrl Duncan McDonald, of Pi'ot Bay; the Misses Gallop, of Balfour; Airs. Phillips, Mrs. Stewart. Airs. McDonald. Airs. Smith. Mrs. ��� Hodson, Airs, liovt. Airs. Stocky. Mrs. Taylor, Airs. Traves. .Airs. Hunt, Mis.s Walker, Aliss Jvellett, Miss Kelly, Miss Duhamel. Miss.Johnson, anrl Miss Muir,- of Nelson. . Slocan Claims Bonded and Sold. A tAvo-ninths interest in the Climax, J. R. Cook- to F. D. Ainsworth, $1500; two- thirds of the Ajax, Treasure Vault, and Crown Point, S. S. 13ailey to li C. Kel- 'bourne, $3333, and a one-third" in same claims, E. E. Fletcher to li. C.'.Kilbourne. $1(500; all of Jim Shields's interest in the. Lucky Jim, Road ley. and St. George to li. C. Kilbourno for $750: the Machinest anrl Surveyor, to G. W. Shaw, $050 each. A bill of sale for the Freddy Lee has been recorded in favor of A. Filers of New York; a one-fourth interestin thcSui prise, by Thomas McGuigan to W. P. Russell, for $1000: a one-half interest in the Washington and T. C. by T. li Jefferson to Ralph L. Clark. for$l; a one-eighth interest iu the Blue Bird anrl Rawdon. by O. D. Garrison to D. C. Corbin, for. $0250: the Aspen, by Gus Jackson to Railton cV Ponrlin. for $1500: the Archie, bv-���- Hats- field to A. L. AlcDonald. for $2(XN>. Provincial Municipal Elections. Tne election contests in Victoria, Vancouver, and Nanaimo resulted in llie return of Robert Beaven over William Dalbv for mayor, in Victoria, bv a vole of 022 to 028;* Fred Cope over 'William Brown, in Vancouver, by ...'32 to 700; anrl Mr. Haslam over Air. Hilbort, in Nanaimo, l)y 318 to 217. The Placers on the Pend d'Orielle. Northport News, 12th: "R. B. Thomas, county surveyor of Stevens county. Washington, and A. W. Holly, secretary of the Kootenay Hydraulic Alining Company, of Waneta Landing. B.C.. Wi-vi- in town Thursday night and passed on to Colville anrl fteltle Falls I'or a few-days' sojiirn. They reported work would ho continued by thi: hydraulic compaiiv. to a more or less extent, until .March, when 151) to 200 men would be put at. work and milling operations commenced in earnesf. Mr. Thonias is of the opinion that the company's lirst clean-up in .May will amount to $L0,000, which would ('end to create another boom in placer mining on Rend d'Orielle and Salmon rivers." Pretty Hard Rock. The following is told as gospel truth by a man from Trail Creek district, a ma i. too, that worked'iu* the mine in question. Sairl the man from Trail Crook: "Vou know Tom Feohan?" On being answered in the affirmative, the Trail Crock man continued: "Well. Tom is reckoned one of the best, miners in Kootenay and for several mouths past has had charge of. the work on a mine in Trail ('reek district that is owned by Spokane parties. The owners shipped in the winter's supplies by way of thr: road up Sheep crook, anrl when delivered at. the mine had cost some twenty orld cents a pound for transportation alone. Of course;, Tom am by no means a ienderfoot. in this section. In my experience among llie mineral fields of the far west for upwards of il quarter of a century, wi'h a lew minor changes, 1 have never yet seen heller mineral laws than you had in British Columbia up mili 1 the spring of 1S0I. Without going into details, anrl pointing out the defects of the present law. butchered anrl patched up trout the olrl ones by a party who. probably, never struck a pick in the ground, i Aviil point rait what I consider the proper anrl just cour.-e in makinga mineral location. All claims should be 000x1500 feet, with three stakes along the course of the vein, one at each curl and one al I he poi.nl of discovery. The discovery stakeshould bo set at the point whole a vein of quart/, or ore. with at least ono well defined wall. had been foimd in place. On the-ifiseov- evy stake all data relating to the claim should bo posted or written. If in a timbered or bru.-liy sec-lion, a line should be blazed .or cut out from one end of the location to lhe other find the name of anrl date of location' written ou each, end stake. The location notice filed with the recoirlei- should, be sworn to, and the original .filing lielrl'by the locator as an evidence of such i ecord. A full $100 worth- .of-'labor.'or improvements should be done the first six months and after the (lute of record. This would- prevent ground being, tied up 'unnecessarily, by parties-who had no'idea of developing the Sciine. In ease a prospector was unfortunate, or his claim was so' isolated, or the weather so sex-eve he could not possibly by using rlue diligence perform his assessment work the lirst six months, the gold commissioner or mining recorder should have the 'power, after he has been made satisfied, to lay'the'claim "over for a certain time. After assessment work is performed.a record of the fact, under oath, should be made anrl the original retained bv the claim-owner. He-recording, as under-the law of 1880 and IS'iO. would be left out; but thr-claim-owner would have until say-30 days after his six months from date of location to file affidavit oi assessment. Blanket locations, that is, 1500 feet square ones, are good enough I'or people wishing to get, a quick t tie lor .*> townsite. but as a mineral location they area delusion anrl a fraud, and where the miner cannot follow his'vein with all its dips, spurs, angles, sinuosities, and variations, it will naturally lead to complicated and useless lit iga tion. .A better la w can never bo devised than I he one wherein the end lines of a claim extend vertically to thei coiiter of Lhe earth and the minor can j follow his vein out of tin- side line.-. j Another important fact necessary to j avoid litigation, all part ies to mining eon- ] tests should be compelled to furnish bonds I for costs before entering into any legal j proceedings. This would shut out partie- ; who professionally follow t he business of i placing clouds on titles to mining prop- j ei-ty. ' R. II. Ki:..ii\ \ A B1k Ledtce With Good Ore. j Alike Koeley. an old-timer of Toad I mountain division but who has put in hi- \ time lately in Slucan district, arrived at ; Nelson on Tuesday from lho Young 1 'urn- ; iniop. Ho reports work progressing on ���' t wo tunnels on t hat .roporty. bolh being ; vun on tlie ledge, which is a big. strong ' one and about ten foot wide, i-'our nion I (Ike l.oughocd. James Alack. Pete Angrig- ��� noli, and Al Irwin) are employed besides ', Jack liohinson. who is foreman. Above j Ihe Vouug Dominion and on llie same; ledge is the Oiieon Pes-, on which Air. Aloran has six men running a tunnel. \ The tunnel is in good ore. Air. Keeley j eaine down to consult hi- partner, and j intends goingoui to Spokane for a month. ; ��� ��� } Will Enl.u-ge the Spokane. ] Bonner's Ferry Herald. I It li: "(.'aplain ; r.ray returned .Monday In start improve- i ments on I he steamer Spokane. Theboal I is to be drawn upon I he -and-bur below | the Galena landing for thai purpose. Il j is proposed fn add thirty feel lo lhe- lengl 11 of t lie boat. This will increase her j tonnage considerable, and she will be iu j I Lip-lop shape for next year's business." I I Ore of Fabulous Richness and' Carrying Only the One Metal That 15oe3 Not Fluctuate in Price ������ - No Shortage of Provisions and Everybody as Happy as a Clam at High Tide. The above head lines but faintly convey the utterances made in a jocular way to a Tuii*i*n*k reporter ,by. K. S. Topping, the one man who has stood by Trail Creek district through goorl and evil report, and who is entitled to ever dollar Ihat he will ever make theie as mine owner, merchant, holelkoepcr. townsite owner, anrl boomer. A'r. Topping came up on the Lytton on her last t,rip. on Sunday, and says the line had only to be used once between Trail Creek anrl the mouth of tho Kootenay. He was of the opinion that the boat could have been run all winter without any great risk, as (lie water is about as low now as it-will be. He says that (here is no merchandise left at Northport, the rally freight there being hay anrl grain. Const i notion work on the Spokane Ac Northern extension is being vigorously pushed, tlie contractors having ample supplies on the ground. Speaking of the mines in Trail Creek ��� district. Air. Topping sairl there were seventeen men Avorking for wage's. At ' the Le Roi.the shaft was doAvn 170 feet, with ( woshifls and a horse whim at work. About forty buckets of water had to bo hoisted evei-y twenty-four hours. The extent of the ore body was not known, as it had not been crosscut from the shaft. The grade of the oie was improving, and recent assays gave returns of $100 to $500 iu gold and an average of 10 per cent copper per ton. The O K, a gold claim on the Sheep creek slope anrl about 2A miles from the Le Hoi, was looking fine, the ledge being the width of the tunnel. On the Blossom, a galena claim about five miles from Trail Creek, work was progressing on a 50-foot contract shaft. "You cm slate with authority," said Air. Topping, "that (here will be no scarcity of provisions iu our camp, for 'we have a stock large enough to last until : June 1st." '_ The Mails. The people of Kaslo are endeavoring lo have all mail matter for that place sent in by way of Bonner's l-Vrry, claiming a saving of from three lofi\e days in time over the route-'by Avay of Nelson. As navigation Av.il I bo-resumed on the Columbia within six weeks, it is extremely doubtful, if postoflice inspector Fletcher will l.ia ve sufficient time to make up his mind lo grant the change-petitioned for. Forthe present mails will he received at and -dispatched from Nelson every five 'days, and as there is likely -to be a*daily boat service between Nelson anrl Kaslo from this time'on, the Kaslo mail will not be delayed at Nelson either inward-or outward bound. The New Denver mail hereafter will leave Nelson.once.'a week by way of Slocan river. A Long-Needed Want. C. li. .Perry & Co. of Nelson are getting ���up a map that will not-only-be-accurate, but'be a work of art. It will show West Kootenay from the international'boundary line north to Revelstoke. with key maps showing Toad Mountain, Ainsworth, Slocan. and Lardo mining''.districts"' In the key maps Ike. location-of the principal mines will bo shown anrl the niineral- bearing belts defined. The position of lhe-lakes anrl course of the rivers and creeks are not simply-copied from other maps, but determined l.y actual surveys. The map will be lithographed anrl ready for distribution by the middle' of Alarc-h. Air. O'Fariell. one of the most expert draughtsn.cn in Canada, is now at .work on it. An Eighty-Tound Specimen, es Briggs. one of the owners of t he a Four .Mile bonanza, arrived in today, lie brought an NO-pound -lo. which is pronounced C'luirl Alamo. Nelson specimen to Ka> a daisy.- It will be placed on exhibition at Spokane, whither Air. Briggs anrl his partner Air, (I'rndy are bound. Tlie Alamo tunnel is iu eighty feet, and a winze sunk leu feet, from the floor of the tunnel. laud in up by il do to of 1801. About two carloads of lirsl -e'ass ore are ready for shipment., and will be taken out lo Naku.-p by Hugh Ahum, whoso out lit is now on Slocan la ki'. The rate lo Nakusp is $25 a ton. Return to tho Old Law. Now that the scare that all the I in- province was being taken "speculators" is over, how would change the land law back lolhat which permitted direct purchases. The provincial treasury is losing thousands of dollars annually by the abolishment of land purchases, and no one is directly beiieliled. There are hundreds of sniail tract-, in West Koolenay that would be purchased out right, but which no one will i-Xi'v preempt: and w hat is t rue of West Kootenay is true of other inland inouii- tainou.- district.-. Preparing to Go Into the Lardo Country. Owing to the reported sale, at good figures, of the llaskins group of claims in number of prospeo- tho Lardo conn I vy. a tors are already making preparations to leave the camps ou Kootenay lake for the farther-north eldorado. The Lardo will catch many a bronzed searcher after hidden wealth next season, as well as many a Ienderfoot that does rum countrv rock. not know galoi.a ft tsaut milMiffl^MnM THE TRIBUNE: KELSON, B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1893. ^"-js** 34 MILES NORTH OF KASLO. The Only Point on the Upper . Kootenay Lake. The Gateway for the Buneaii and Lardo Gold and Silver Ledges and Placer Fields 12 MILES FROM THE CENTER Of tlie Great Lardo District. LEVEL LAND, .. MAGNIFICENT PROPERTY. Secure Lots on tfoe Ground Floor. There will be a Boom in the Spring For further Information as to prices for Lots, Terms, Etc., Apply to Ask your miner Friends about it. Situated at the North End of Kootenay Lake and Head of Navigation. Early in the Spring a Connection from this town will be made with the UPPER KOOTENAY LAKE and DUNCAN CITY Shortening the Present Route by River of ��� 4 A certain number of Lots are now placed on the market at bottom prices. Special terms for those wishing to build. For full particulars as to prices, terms, etc., apply to NELSON. C. E. PERRY & CO. KASLO. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. TIIK TI.II.t'NK is published dm Thursdays, by .John Hoi'stox >k Co., unci will bo mailed to subscribers on payment of 0.\'i-_ Doi.i.Alt ii year. Xo subscription taken' I'or le... tlnin a year. H KCUI.Ai: AJlVKUTIrilOiJ'-XTS printed Jit Llie tol- lnw.ntf rates: One inch. i'lll ;i year; two inches, ��iif) ;l year: three inches iSl a year; four inelies, .Villi u vear; live inches, $10.0 u year: six inches and over, at. t.lni rate of SI.SU an inch per inonth. THANsSIUNT Al. VKl.TISIOJMI'.NT.S i(J cents a lino for lirst. iiiscriion and IU cunts a line for each additional insertion. l.irtli, marriage, and death notices free. LOCAL UK i.KAj.lXli ZVIAT'I'KII NO'I'ICKS ;')() cents a line each insertion. JOB I'klXTINC- at, fair rates. All accounts for job printing and advertising payable on the lirst of everv imoiiiIi: subscription, in advance. A I.KAM.'ll OK t'I CI'.', with Mr. K. II. Kemp in charge, is eskibl.Micd at Kaslo. J\ir. Kemp i.s authorized lo receipt for subscriptions and contract for advertisements. ALU-..I'-Jiti all eommuuicnUoiis to Tlll-J TltlHUXK, Xelson, R C. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. '-. .. .'I.AU. M.I).-��� Physician and Surgeon. Kooms .3 "'��� and l Houston block, -Nelson. Telephone V2. .._������. J.> A. I.I; II. KKM.P, M.K.���Examines and reports ' -jn mines and prospects, Twenty years'continuous , .iiunce. independent of any mine or works. Not in- _i.d iu the bin ing or sidling- of mines or prospects. ..!���>. B.C. . '���'���������������'..'.��� C^ruuute TKUI.Sl'AV MOI.XIXG. .._...JANUARY 1<), 1393 LIBERAL APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED. .It i.s now conceded* that tlie mineral ck-posits in West Kootenay will soon make tho clibtrict one of the; most '���pqiJul-. uiis ill the rroviiK-e, aud be the means of greatly increasing- the pt'osjiei-iOy- of other uistiicts. lhe district, 'even when inhabited by but few others than sanguine prospectors,' paid its AV'ty, and it has never been ji bill of expense to the Liovince. l-or tLe last two years the receipts froni taxes and licenses have; been laryely in excess of the amounts ajipro- priateil Lor the district. While this is line, all fair-minded people will admit tluit the district has been fairly dealt ���with by the provincial government; that the appiopriations have been fully as large as could have been judiciously expended. This year the appropriations should be ou a scale to meet tiie growing needs of the district, -which is no longer a section embracing a. few isolated and almost inaccessible non-productive..mining camps, but one of several mining divisions, in all of whicli are either mines producing ore or prospects in a fair way to become productive mines. The growth of the towns is keeping p.ice -with, the development oi: the mines, mid today the province does not contain centres of population more enterprising than those in West Kootenay. The requirements of the district should Le carefully considered by the government before the estimates are made up. and if it is seen that trails must be made into wagon roads, then let the appropriations be large enough to build good wagon roads; if it is seen that the business of* the district is of sufficient importance to warrant the erection of public buildings, then let the appropiations be large enough to complete substantial bui.dings: if additional officials are deemed a necessity to properly and expeditiously transact the public business, then let the amounts set apart for salaries In; so liberal that first-class men will not hesitaic to accept the oflices. West Kootenay should be apportioned not less than ij.."0.(,'(>() I'or public works alone. THE TRADE DOES NOT GO TO SPOKANE. Last week Tiiio Tuincxio published local evidence to disprove the statements made by the press of Vancouver and other towns that the trade of the mining camps in South Kootenay went to wholesale houses in the United States ��� largely to those in Spokane. This week it-gives the evidence of a Spokane wholesale dealer' in hardware, which corroborates that of our local merchants. Says the wholesale dealer, in an interview with a leporter: *��� We are soiling a great many goods, es- "- penally in the Cu.ur d'Alenes and other "��� mining regions of the northwest with ���* the exception of liritish Columbia, ������ which ought Lo be also iu Spokane's ���' wholesaling territory, but- is not to a "* very great extent owing to the exces- " sivo duties. It would surely be a good '* thing if we could get reciprocity with ** Canada. The average duty throughout " is about .'.('per cent; on hardware it is " in the neighborhood of 'io per cent. ���' Under the present conditions, the niin- *'* ing camps in Ivootunay are forced to ob- " tain 'supplies I'roin Montreal. Victoria, "and other points in Canada." It will now be in order for the Vancouver World. Kamloops Sentinel. Kevelstoke Star, and other Canadian l.'aeifie organs to reiterate their false statements, that the bulk of the trade of our mining camps goes to Spokane. Moke than one-half of the transfers of mineral claims in South Kootenay have been made to man who either live in or make their headquarters at Spokane. Were it not for these men Kootenay, as a. quartz mining country, would today be as backward as Cariboo, a condition that would suit the element in .this.' province that dislikes to see others get -what they have not the energy or enterprise to get for themselves. THE SINGLE TAX IDEA Lucidly Explained by a Representative , Montreal Club. We assert as our i'micUn. ental principle that all men are born with an equal right to life and an equal and inalienable 'right to the earth, by the products of which all life is sustained. \Ve hold also that all men are equally .entitled- to the use and eujoymeut of what is gained by the general growth a-i'id improvement of the community of ..which tliey are a part. Therefore, Ho one should be permitted to Ik.Id natural opportunities without a fair return to all for any special privilege' thus accorded to him, and that value which tlie growth and improvement of the community attach to land should be taken for the use of the community. We hold that each man is entitled t all that his labor produces, therefore no tax should be levied on the produce of labor. To carry out these'principles'we are.in favor of raising all public revinues for federal, provincial and municipal purposes by a single tax upon land values .(irrespective of improvements), and the abolition of all other forms of taxation. Since in all our provinces we how levy- some tax on the value of land, the single tax can be instituted by the simple and easy way of abolishing one after another all other taxes now levied, and by coin- men.s urate ly increasing the tax on the land values until we draw upon that one source for all expenses of the government, the revenue being divided between the federal, provincial and municipal governments according to-their respective actual necessities. The single tax we propose is not a tax on laud, and therefore would not fall on the use of lane! and become a tax on labor. It is a tax, not on land, but on the value of land, Thus it would not fall on all land, but only on valuable land and on that not iu proportion to the use made of it, but in proportion to its value, the premium which the user of land must pay to the owner, either in purchase money or rent, for permission to use valuable land. It would thus be a tax, not on the use or improvement of land, but on the ownership of hind, taking what would otherwise go to the owner as owner, and not as user. In assessments under the single tax all values created by individual use or improvement would be excluded, and the only value taken into consideration would be the value attaching to the bare land by reason of neighborhood, etc., to be de- tirinined by impartial periodical assessments. Thus the farmer would have no more, taxes to pay than the speculator who held a similar piece of land idle, and the man who on a city lot erected a valuable building would be taxed no more than the man who held a similar lot vacant. The single tax. in short, would call upon men to contribute, to the public revenues, not in proportion to what they produce or accumulate but iu proportion to the value of the natural 'opportunities they hold. It would compel them to pay just as much I'or holding laud idle as for putting it to its fillle..t use. The single tax, therefore, would: 1. Take the wti^htof taxation from (he agricultural districts, where land has little or no value, irrespective of improvements, and put it on towns and cities where bare land rises to a value of thousands of dollars per acre. 2. Dispense with a multiplicity of taxes, and a horde of tax gatherers, simplify government and greatly reduce its cost. '���'. Do a.way with fraud, corruption and gross inequality inseparable from our present methods of taxation which allow flit! rich to escape while they oppi ess the poor. Land cannot be hid or carried oil", and its true value can be arrived at with gteatei- ease than any other. 1. (Jive us with all the world as perfect freedom of trade as now exists between the provinces, thus enabling our people to share, through free exchanges, iu all the advantages which nature litis given to other countries, or which the peculiar skill of other peoples has enabled them io attain. It would destroy ' the trusts, monopolies, and corruptions whicli are the outgiowths of the existing systems of taxation. It would do away with the lines and penalties now levied on anyone who improves a farm, erects a comfortable house in place of a hovel, builds a machine, or in any way adds to the general stock of wealth. It would leave everyone free to apply labor or expend capita! in production or exchange without line or restriction, and would leave to each the full product of his exertion. ;5. It would, on the other hand, be taking for public use that value which attaches to land by reason of the growth and hnrrovemonC of the community, make the holding of hind unprofitable t^o the mere owner and profitable only to the user. It would thus make it'impossible for speculators and 'monopolists to hold natural oppor .unities unused or only half used and would throw open to labor the illimitable field of employment -which the earth offers to man. It is thus the first and most necessary reform Avhereby to solve the labor'.-problem, do-away with involuntary poverty, raise wages in occupations to the full earnings of labor, make overproduction impossible until all human wants are satisfied, render labor-saving inventions a blessing to ail, and cause so enormous a production and so equitable a distribution of wealth as would give to all comfort, leisure and participation in the advantages of an advancing civilization. '���.'���:������ ; : :''-. With'.'respect to "monopoliesother than the monopoly''of land, Ave hold that where free competition becomes impossible, as in the postal service, telegraphs, railways, water, and gas supplies, etc., such business becomes a proper social function, which ."should be controlled and managed by and for the whole people concerned, through their proper' government,"municipal, provincial or federal, as may be. 0 i In what is locally known as "Four Mile," on Slocan lake, are some of the prospective great mines of Slocan district. The Alpha group, the Reid & Robinson group, the Mahan claims, the Anderson group, the G-rover & Stevenson group, and more than fifty siDgle locations are in the camp, all carrying ore that assays up in the hundreds of ounces per ton. At" the mouth of Four Mile creek is a splendid site for reduction works, where, if erected, a smelter would be within easy distance of all the mines in Slocan district. The owners of the land at the mouth of the creek have had a part of it surveyed for a townsite, and as an inducement for the erection of reduction works will place in trust, as a bonus, one-half of all sums received from the sale of lots up to $50,000. Smelting men, looking for eligible sites for reduction works, should investigate this proposition. For further particulars address JOHN HOUSTON & CO. agents for the townsite owners, Nelson, B.C. is within a few (2 to 13) miles of every mine and prospect in the great Slocan district, a district in which are located such producing mines as the Freddy Lee, Idaho, Washington, Blue Bird, and Mountain Wonder, and such prospective bonanzas as the Slocan Star, Dardanelles, Lucky Jim, Bonanza King, Payne, and half a hundred others. It is a splendid site, at the mouth of Carpenter creek, on the shore of Slocan lake, where the depth of snow is not more than itis at Nelson, seldom exceeding 18 inches. Practically New Denver is as close to the mines in Slocan district as Nelson is to the mines in Toad Mountain district, and it is bound to be the supply point for the district. - Adjoining New Denver on the north is the Bigelow addition, the lots of which are less than 500 yards, from the post office. The only harbor at New Denver is in front of this addition, at the foot of Wardner; street, where a wharf will be built early in the: spring. The lots are 25x115, fronting on 70-foot streets. All the odd-numbered lots In blocks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are now offered for sale without reserve at $50 for Insides and $75 for corners, and those in blocks 9, 10/11, 12/13, 14, 15, and 16 at $25 for insides and $35 for corners. Terms: half cash; balance in nine months. Apply to or address JOHN HOUSTON & CO., Nelson, B. C. TV J. ROADLKV. (Notary Public) AND AIATHKW' GUTJIUIK. ssion REAL ESTATE AND MINES. Merchants and Insurance ? Agents. Desirable Kaslo Property on Easy Terms. A Long List of Kaslo-Slocan Mining Properties for Sale. Assessment Work Done and Abstracts Furnished Outside Parties. Conveyancing. OFFICE IN" T_HZ_E STONE BUILDING-, EZROiE-TT STIRIEIET, KASLO. THIE AUCTIONEER and COMMISSION ASMT ������ UE-'i.-.Sl-NT-NC; r Tlie Confodcnition Life ArisouiiiLjoi., Tlicl'liitsiiix I-'ii-o Insiii'iiiiuu Company, Tliu Provident" l-'iimrAc-uulei-t Company: 'also, Tlio Sandy Croft Koitndry Company, near Clie.stor. Kn��- lmid. makers of all kinds of milling machinery, air compressors, ruck breakers, stumps, elc. No. 1 JOSEPHINE STREET, LOTS FOR SALE IN "A" Adjoining tin: government, ton-unite of N'elson. AT $125 and UPWARDS, with ii rebate I'or buildings creeled. Tho bust residential properly in Xelson. Value sure lo increase. Apply to -:- W. A. JOWETT, -:- Mining and Real Estate Broker, Auctioneer and Commission Agent, Agent for Nelson unci West Kootenay District, or to INXKri & KICIfAI.I'.S. Vancouver. H.C. TO TERMINUS OF KASLO WAGON ROAD, RETURNING SAME DAY. Freight forwarded with care and despatch to any point in the Kaslo- Slocan District, First-Class Saddje Horses for Hire. STAGE LEAVES KASLO at 7 a.m. sharp every mornipg, Sunday included. RETURNING LEAVES Tgrminus of Road at 3 p.fn. /T\erel?aQt Sailor G. XV. HH'ii.\m)*o.v, N'elson. H. I. Hl-.AI.I.V, Kaslo. . BAKER, STREET, NELSON, HAS (IN DISl'I.AV A I--1.-I.I, KANdl- Ol-' Plain and Fancy Worsted Suitings, Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges. KALI. ...\'l> WINTI.I- (IO()l)H SOW OX HAND. PBICES TO SUIT THE TIIM-EIS ICHARBSON & HEALEY REAL ESTATE FINANCIAL"-:- AGENTS $10,000 TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY. ,I(iiiN M. K.-i-.i-i.i-. .Ja.mi:n XX'. .Si: ...... KEEFER & SEALE TEAMSTERS. Job loamiiiK'done. Have several hundred cords of ��"od wood, which will be sold al, reasonable prices. M-IAVI. OICIIKItH AT J. P, Hume & Co.'s, Vernon Street, "N'elson. Lo t S sirable feet Te rms, can now port ion for sale. One-Thi rd be secured of the city in this mo s t Lots 50 by de- 125 Corners $75; inside $50. down, One-Third 6 months. One-Third 9 months Families wishing to build residences ean obtain Ini'Kor lots if desired. A line available for household purposes. Kor further particular:. stream of water on the apply to land, JAS...Mcdonald & co. JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON, - - - (,'arrv full lines of all kinds of .���'urnituro for residences, hotels, and ollleos. Mattresses made to order, and at prices lower than eastern and (���oust iiianufaeliirers. TIIKV AUK ALSO AflHNTH l-'OH Evans Pianos and Doherty Organs Nelson Livery Stable I'asscntfc.'s and Iiiikkhkc transferred lo and from the railwav deool and steamboat landing. l''reitfh|, hauled and job teaming done. .Stove wood for sale. WI1..SON & WII.I.lAMSON PIIOI'IUIOTOHS Stone's Building-, KASLO CITY General Agent. OFFICE, Victoria, B.C. e WORKS, Nanaimo, B.C. MANUFACTURERS OF Dynamite f SAFETY FUSE DETONATORS. Branch Office and Magazine at NELSON. WIIOI.IOSAI.K I.KAI.KUS IN* ELECTBIC BLASTING APPAEATUS. G. C. TUNSTALL, Jr., Nelson Agent. V. _5'l<(Lu__*i!___><jJ__>iXAii*J_Uar4J^��,��i-.>-*'. THE TRIBUTE: NELSON R C, THURSDAY, 'jAtfU_ARY if), 1893. GENERAL AGENT FOR Capital, Rest,. all imld up, - $12,000,000 6,000,000 Sir DONALD Hon. (iKO. A A. .SMITH DHUM MONK, K. S. t'l.OU.STON. President Vice-I'rosidonl . .(lonoral Manager OLUffiBIA (Incorporated by Royal Charter. ISlK.I IANK OF IPJTISH Capital (paid up) ��600,000 . (Willi power to ineroa-aj.l Reserve Fund - ��220,000 . $3,000,000 $1,100,000 ___NT_EX_,so_isr B-R-^isro-Ea: N.W. Cop. Baker and Stanley Streets. UltANCIII.rt IN LONDON (England), NEW YORK CHICAGO, and iu the principal cities in Canada. liny and soil Sterling Kxchango and Cable Transfers. OltANT COM .Ml-1-0 Ml, AXIl TI��A VKI.I.KltS' CKKIHTS, available in any part, of the world. DIIAI-'TS I.S.Sl.l_l>: UOI.MICTIONS.MAIIK: ..'IV. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. KATK OI-MNTKIIKST I at. present) KOUlt I'erCont. MARRIAGE OP FRENCH GIRLS. sin Tin al ano side! Their Life from the Time of Leaving School to Their Wedding Day. The average _Amerk"in rop-iii-rls the French idea of marriage with JLloitoi -without exactly knowing why. A yoiiny girl is educated under tliu careful eye oi her-mother or governess, who accompanies her to all her classes, tind consider; it us only a matter of course to sit patiently with needlework or book during the 'music? or singing lesson. The girl h taught from her earliest childhood that it I'.is' the des. iny of woman to become a wifi and mother. When she is about IS years old make* her appearance in society, -walls of a French ball room tire ways lined with chairs. The mother daughter take their places side b_y and' the two chairs are theirs for the evening. When "a. man requests a girl ti. dance he writes his name on her card.and does not appear again until tlie dance be gins. Then he puts his "claque" (opera hat) on the girl's chair, -with her fan, and with a'bow "to the mother leads her off. Sometimes during the whole dance not a word is exchanged between the two. Such a thing as "dividing" a wait/, or sitting it'"through" while the music plays i.s tin heard, of. though promenading i.s permissible. When the dance is finished the girl is led back to her place.-and with '"Thank you, mademoiselle," and "Thank you monsieur," the couple part. To the American girl the idea of thanking a man for dancing with her is preposterous, but lier French sister is more philosophical. "Why shouldn't 1 thank him?" She asks. "Has not the dance given me as much plea-sure as it has given him, and is it not a compliment to be chosen from so many girls?' Then why not be polite.' 'After a season or two in sot.ic.ty madame d.CiuTdps that'it is time'her .jaughttn-'sh'ouid Lie inarried. At present it is; the. fashion for wealthy people to spend' thi; summer in their own 'cottages by the seaside, and there young people "meet and are allowed a cprtjtin degree pf freedom, though always under the eye of a chaperon, 'Aftyi' tjie KYt-nch girl is fairly well acquainted \vjth |ier fiiture fiance (though this is not always tlie case), some relative of tiie young man is charged with the delicate commission of presenting his case to tho mother of the young lady. The education, social position, disposition, health, wealth, and prospects of each are discussed with the greatest frankness. Then, if the two are not already acquainted, the girl i.s taken to the theater and the men call on her in the box, or the two are invited to dine at the house of a common friend. If either does not like the other the matter is ended, for it is a vevy unusual thing for a parent to force a child into marriage, if, however, the liking i.s reciprocal, other meetings take f hice, the two are til lowed a few moments of privacy, *i walk iu the garden, or a conversation at one end of the room, if the result is satisfactory the marriage is decided on and takes place three months afterward. Thequestion of "dot" (money) is a serious one. it is absurd to say that French women tire married only for their money, it is almost an impossibility for a man iu ordinary circumstances to marry a. poor girl. The education of the average? man is far more complete iu France than in tlie United States. Fvery family tries to send the boys to school until they tire at least 18 years old. Then comes the military service, and a man begins business Avhen he is about 21. It his family are in moderate circumstances it is probable that the sou accepts a. government position, with a salary of $30 a month. At .'JO years of age, if lit? is steady aud industrious, he may make $10 a month. How is it jjossible to support a family on so j ir-Eoi-Soisr *B_RJ^_i_vrcx3:;, (.or. Milker and Stanley Sts. /'N'elson, H.C, Victoria, 11.C, r\ i Vancouver. H.C, N'anaiiuo. il.C. rtranClieS u *ow NYw-Liiiliwlor. H.C.. Kamloops,Il.C San iM-anciseo, Cala... I ortland. Ore., ( Seal lie. Wash.. Tacoina, Wash. IIK'AI) OKKK.K: HO Lombard street, LONDON. Kng. Agents and Correspondents CANADA���Hani: of Alontreal and branches: Canadian Hank of Commerce aud branches; Imperial Hank of Canada and branches. Commercial Hank of .Manitoba; and Hank of Nova Scot ia. ['NITK.I' KTATKS���Agents Hank Montreal. Now York: Hank of Montreal, Chicago. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. On and after .lanuary 1st, IS!).''.'the rate of interest, on deposits will bo ,"ij per cent, until further notice. small--a- sum? The only solution is to in-trry a- girl with about the same income. It is not necessary for her to have a large capital if she has tiny means of supporting herself. This also applies to cultivated people. A. niarriagj in France is not the easy thing it s in America. The consent of the parents of both parties must be.fur- .lished, or if that is not possible find they ire of age. then the refusal must be obtained, together with their birth ertili- ���ates and the marriage certificates of the >arents. ' If the latter are dead theii leath certilicatesmust be procured befoie . -he ban.--are published. A regligious marriage is not recognized bylaw, and it is tsual for the civil marriage lo take place it the mayor's office in the earlv morning ind the religious marriage in the church tt noon, though often the civil ceremony _s read the day before the religious core- iiony takes place. As France is a Catholic country the double marriage.is customary. The groom wears a dress suit, the '.ride a high-neck white gown. The bride- u.-tids and bridal party tire all in high- lec.keddresses, .as it is considered the height of impropriety to enter the church decollete. After the service���during part of whicli the bridal couple sits on chairs with their backs to the congregation��� the bridemaids ttike up a collection, passing .purses- made of the same material as their dresses. The proceeds are given to the poor. The question is often asked,, "are .French marriages usually happy?" As a rule they are more s'o than American marriages. The man is carefully selected by the bride's parents, who are better able to judge what will-prove a suitable match than a girl of 20, avIio knows so little of the world and has seen s few men that she is commonly ready to love the chosen one. It is the fashion for French writers to deal with immorality of all sorts, and this gives foreigners a false idea of things. As a matter of fact, the standard of morality of the middle classes is quite as high in France as in America, while the so- called upper circles are about the same in all'countries. " THE UPS AND DOWNS OP FORTUNE. end of six yetirs the woman had borne her .husband .three children. Then came the war. The ^Montgomery family suffered like all the rest of the South. They lost all their property, they xveve compelled to give up their home, aud iinally all the slaves wore gone. Miss Montgomery's maid and her three children went to St. .loe and the woman went out to work by the day. She did not know Avhere her husband was. Early in the beginning of the great struggle he had been sold to a colonel Wilson, who went, away with him she knew riot where. So she struggled along tis best she could, trying to gain a living for lier children. Finally she drifted westward. She lived for several years in Salt Lake City. All the time she wtis trying to find, out what had become of her husband. She knew that he called himself Wilson���Bristol Wilson���after his new master, and she 'knew that colonel Wilson: came to the coast. One day she lieaI'd that he was in San Francisco. She wrote to him. iTu was delighted to get a trace of his wife and .family, and at once sent for her. When she arrived she found that her husband had.' '.'prospered in California.. At the close of the war his master set him free, and he managed to accumulate quite a little sum of money. This was only a- few years ago���some time in 18S2���that tlie iittle slave girl and her husband met and found themselves free and prosperous. They bought a pretty little home out '�� CJuerrero street, and there they live day. They often wondered what hat come of the Montgomery's, and Mrs. son never forgot her young mistress. About two years ago Mrs. Wi?ial wanted ..some sewing done. She adfit. ti teniptin' to kill when it was a clean case of self defence." "I'm innocent, too, governor," said another. "I never stole a thing in my life." Governor 'Stewart asked hundreds of questions, but evevy convict .declared his innocence and begged for p.irdon. At length, .just before leaving the prison, the executive met a young fellow carrying a load of some sort of prison product. rl he convict saluted respectfully and was passing on, when the governor stopped him. "What are you here for?" he asked. "For stealing horses, your excellency," was the ready reply. "But of course you are innocent?" the governor went on. winking at general Knott. "Of course I'm notion' of the sort." said the prisoner. "I stole 'em tind I've got three yetirs to do yet." "Well." said governor Stewart. "yon'" will be pardoned tomorrow. I am sorry that it will lie necessary for you a guilty, bad man, to remain her even another night with till of these innocent gentleman. You will contaminate them." The truthful young horse-thief was fvee thtsnext clay, tind, oddly enough, he became an honest, valuableciti/.en. , Slocan Trading & Navigation Company, Ltd. (e5Caora9C Next Boor to the Madden Hotel, NELSON, B. C: MRS. W. C. PHILLIPS, Proprietress. JOHN JOHNSON, Prop. Extensive Improvements Now Completed. The only rcslniiriint in Nelson tluil. keep-, open AND smm- PRIVATE BOXES FOR LADIES. Tlio company's Al passenger and freight, steamer W. HUNTER A. KSTAI3I.O0IC ai.i_.tcr ALL ROOMS REFITTED and Refurnished^ -Finest Wines. Liquors mid C'igur. at Tin: iiak. in the .Market ��� Special Attention to Miners. Rooms First-Class. Rates Moderate. will make regular trips during the-winter season from Now Denver to theheart and the lower end of .Sloean lake. At. the head of tho lake passengers <-nn take the trail for Nakusp, on the Columbia river, _!(! miles distant: and at the lower end paok and saddle animals eau always be obtained to convey freight and passengers to .Sloean Crossing, on the Columbia & Ivootenay railway,.-.'_. miles distant. Kor rates apply on board. November loth, IS!):.. XV. 0. MoKINNON, Soe'y. j.&l TAYLOB^ "TORONTO SAFE WOEKS," : Toronto, Ontario, Front St.,' Near Steamboat Landing, KASLO, B.C. DIOVLIX iv. JlcKAV. - TIIK l_|._S'l GUI SI.VIC THK MKST I.BI.S TIIK HKST Proprietors OF KVKI.VTIII.Vfi MAY :.. Vernon Street, Near ��� Josephine. OPPOSITE CITY WHARF. B. C. AXEL JOHNSON, Proprietor. The Hotel Overlooks The Kootenay .MAKt-PACTl. ltKKS Ol.' >nt, . all ���1S- A Slaveholder's Daughter Be.omes Seamstress fqr Her Former Servant. There are two wompii in San Francisco who.can tell a story of tips and. downs that wouhl astonish a novelist. One of tlieni lives out on i\oe stre.pt. She's a re-* fined, well-educated woman, with a pretty way of ltmrdorintf her t-'s that betrays her Southern origin. She is a widow, tind she lives with her mother in a house that shows unmistakable signs of penury and want. She goes out to sexv by tho day, and she manages to make enough to keep the breath of life in her old mother and to purchase a few poor coin forts to warm the chill of age. Vet that woman was once the mistress of a splendid home. She dispensed the open-handed hospitality of the Old South, and she never knew what care or anxiety meant. AVtiy back in the days before the Avar there wtis a rich Kentucky family named Montgomery. They lived on a. beautiful plantation, near St. Joe, Missouri. Mrs. Montgomery had about fifty slaves. One of those was a mite of a roly-poly black baby, whose parents were (lead. Mrs. Montgomery had a. little daughter just the age of a-roly-poly mite, and, as soon as the children grew old enough, the little black girl became the maid of the little white girl. Life wtis very gay in those old da.ys; there were lots of visitors to the old' i.iantatioii, and little Miss Montgomery liad nothing to do but grow and be happy. When she was \:i years old her maid inarried a likely young fellow who belonged to a family in the neighborhood. Me had only one name then. He wtis called Bristol. lie used to come over to the Montgomery plantation once ti week to see his wife. Things went on snioothlv for the young negroes for a while, 'rheir owners were friends, and so they saw each other quite often. At the tised for a woman to come and sew by, day. Her old owner answered tlie a-dvei ment. -?u. She -was no longer the pretty lijid- hearted Miss Montgomery. She was i ried. Her name was Mrs. S\veenc\ was wan and pale from overwork ait anxiety, tind tlie two women did not recognize each other. Mrs. Sweeney was surprised to learn that the advertiser was a colored woman, but she worked steadily" a-way' and stiid nothing. One day Mrs.'Wilson was in a chatty mood, and the two women talked over the days before the Avar. Then the truth came out. The Montgomery* had been ruined by the Avar, and they had come west to try and recruit their shattered fortunes. ...'They tailed miserably. Mother and daughter clung together, and fought fate Avith failing courage. . Now the daughter is sewing by the day for the woman she once oAvned, and she is paid for the work by the.man who Avas once the bond slave of her friends. BUT ONE GUILTY MAN, All the Others Were Suffering Unjust Punishment. Proctor Knott, famous as an eloquent governor of Kentucky, was a Missourian in the fifties. He'was governor Stewart's attorney-general. Knott tells a story of Stewart Avhich, although very old, is declared byjiim to have its origin just as he states it". One day, so Knott relates, the pair were walking through the penitentiary on a sort of inspection tour. Prisoners were then pprmittpri to approach the governor in pprson and plead with him for executive clemency. As the officials passed through thp corridors Stewart asked onp tifter anothpr of the convicts about his case. '* I tun here," stiid onp, "f(>r a murder that I never committed," "And I'm in," said another, '\for (NOT..HV I'I'III.IC.) Stone Block, KA'SLO. MINES REAL ESTATE and now -monuments of time, shoAving vast periods of erosion tind sub-aei' Avaste. It matters but little to L ordinary reader Avhat the particular fr mation this mineral ' wealth lies whether it be black phyilite of the iNj conlith series, or hornb'lendic, quartit micaceous schist, nor does the "opinion I one man as to whether the mineral /. I is regular or otherwise count for nuiciie to these tilings give a large field and wi1.^"J,* range for men who wear expert boots aipin^, "T'l.ofu__ii;$, uifiriiiiiimii-iiiiiK ii triiimvny line itiu'l street railway trom Homo point, in or near to tlio town of Kuslo or sonio otlior point, on or near Kooteiniy lake up the valley of Kaslo ereek to a point at or, near Hear lake, with power to extencl said line or construct and maintain branoh line.; to Carpenter ereek, and to or in the vioinity of any mines adjacent, to said lino nnd throughout, the streets of Kaslo aforesaid, or any additions thereto, and with power lo make any one 'or more of sueh extensions or brunch lines, usine; as a motive power for such tramway and street railway and Its brunches electricity, ste.iin or any other motive power; also, power to construct, operate, and maintain a system of electric. liKhtiiiK in and about any towns or villages in tho vicinity of said line or the said brunches thereof and for that purpose to take so much of the waters of any river or stream in'the vicinity of the said lines or their branches as may be necessary for generating electricity for the supply of the. said system: also, with power to construct, operate, and maintain telegraph and telephone linos in connection with and along such tramway linos and branches to connect such telegraph or telephone linos with any mines or towns in what is commonly known as the Kaslo-Slocan country, and to connect said telegraph or telephone lines with t.l'ie town of Ainsworth or any intermediate point. AVil.h all the usual powers for acquiring lands for terminal inn-puses and all other usual and neees.-arv powers, rights, and privileges. 0. DUBOIS Al A HON'.' Solicitor for applicants. Dated this lilitli day of .November, LSili.. APPLICATION FOR CROWN GRANT. Notice is hereby givon that Henry Anderson, as agent for George O. Howe, has tiled the necessary papers anil made application for a crown grant in favor of the mineral claim known as the Storm (.loud, situate in the Hot. .Springs camp, West Kootenay District. Adverse claimants will forward their object ions within IK) days of pub-, lication. X. FI'rZ.STLJHH.S. Xelson, H.C!.. Dec. 27th. ISlljl. (lold Commissioner. DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. The copartnership hot ween the undersigned, under the llrm name of Collins & Holdeu. doing business as liotel- keepers at Xelson, js dissolved from the date of this notice. Mr. Holdeu \vjll Contiimt; the business, pay all linn debts, and collect all accounts duo the llrm, THOMAS 0. OOU.l.VK. ISAAC HOI-DKN. Dated at Xelson. H.C., thfs HHU \\(iv of Jumnirv. 1SI:.. fiOJEC Front Street, KASLO, B. O. JOHN F. WARD, Manager. The Very Best of Everything-. =H-'+*f: eptra fl��TEl Its guests thus obtaining splendid Views of both mountain and river. The Booms AUK CO.M_--OHTAIII.l-. I.V The Table IS TIIK ItlCST IX TIIK .MOl.NT.UX!.. Special Attention to Miners. A Corner Front and Fourth Streets, KASLO . Ac.}. FlAiTOllliR, - Proprietors ACCOMMODATIONS ..MUST-CLASS. ritiii ;e leaves Grand Central for Watson. Hear l.ako City. Three .Forks. Xew Denver and all points in the Kaslo-Slocan district. Until Cut of Palace Hotel Arrives, this Space is Reserved for MAH0NEY& iUNDBURG Kaslo. THE BAR IS : FIRST-CLASS. Corner Baker and Ward Streets, NELSON, B. C. THOMAS MADDEN, Prop. The Madden is Centrally Located, With a frontage towards Kootenay river, and is newly furnished throughout. ���JOB ZP^-RIKIIlSr NELSON, B.C. Plasterer, Bricklayer and Stone-Mason. Contracts taken for work at all points in West Koolenay T _E3_ _E TAELE Is supplied with 'everything in lhe market, the kitchen being under the intim-diale supervision of a caterer of large experience. The Bar is Stocked "With the Best Brands ok m_i.it, ai.i:,wixi-:. winsicv and ckiai: VV ^5#C z^^' SOI.I', AOHXT I'-OH TIIK Town of Watson The business centre I'or the Kuslo-.Slociui mines MAXAOIXd AdKXT I'Olt - L-A-IRIDO, The key to the great. I.ardo and Duncan River Camps. <-;-,���_��" , ... - ��� __&>:<o*^ a.* Cor. West Vernon and Stanley Streets, NELSON, B.C.- First-Class in Everything*. Tin International has a comfortably furnished parlor fo ladie-, and lhe room.--are large and fiu-ni-lied newly throughout. &��� ,N�� #v SB" ��? _.<* **" J\> ���. ���& < & s^._rsrTJ^. claus xs And intends sending bis supplies C03VEI_[Sr<3- in iidviinee In TURNER BROS. No. 2, Houston Block, Baker Street, NELSON. Music, Stationery, Toys, Books. # o Y r, v/ Y/ THE TABLE IS NOT SURPASSED IIV A XV IIUTKI. IX Tilt: KIlliTKXAV l'(l|-.\rtCV. a siiaki: oi-- TKAXsniXT TitAin-: soi.irrri.ii. The Sample Room is Stocked with Choice Liquors and Cigars. Jas. Dawson & B. Craddock, Proprietors. tki.ki'iioxi-: l.'f. & <c <^ 4?/ *4 O'* p- THE TRIBUNE: ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. ���SGRAND HOTEL NELSON, B.C. Hansen & B_.ombepg\ Proprietors. Closest Hotel to Steamboat Landing. THE BAR CARRIES CHOICE BRANDS IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS. the" EAST BAKER ST.. NELSON. I> one of Ihi'bi'sl lioti-N in Toad Mountain di.-li ic|. and Is the lienilipiarli'l.. for pro.;p{.c|iii'- ami working minor.-, MALONE & TREGILLLTS, Props.. ��L m ��t.-."!_?Sl-rt ���:ffev THE TRIBUNE: NELSON", B.C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 189:3. ���SH-SB1*- SP" -sy I .1- The Gateway for the Duncan and Lardo Gold and Silver Ledges and Placer Fields, 34 MILES NORTH OF KASLO. The Only Point on the Upper Kootenay Lake. Secure Lots on ttie Ground Floor. There will be a Boom in the Spring. For further Information as to prices for Lots, Terms, Etc., Apply to _^ _ NELSON and KASLO." C. J 12 MILES FROM THE CENTER Of the Great Lardo District. LEVEL LAND, . MAGNIFICENT PROPERTY. r Situated at the North End of Kootenay Lake and Head of Navigation, Early in the Spring a Connection from this town will be made with the UPPER KOOTENAY LAKE and DUNCAN CITY Shortening the Present Route by River of Ask your miner Friends about it. A certain number of Lots are now placed on the market at bottom prices. Special terms for those wishing to build. For full particulars as to prices, terms, etc., apply to C. E. PERRY & CO. KASLO. PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. Till1. TIJIHl'Xrc is published on Thursdays, by John Mots-ion _c Co.. and "ill lie mailed I" siibseriljers on paymenl of Oxk IIOI.I...I- ii your. No subseripl ion taken" Ior les.-. limn n year. KKCl. i.AK AliVKIt'l'l.Sl'.MI'.XTS jji-iiitccl at tliu Col- lt.u-.iitf rate.,. One inch, i/AO a year: I wo inelies. 4(10 a vear: three inches sSl a year: four inches, i'llli a vear: live inches, ��105 a year; six inches and over, iit the rate of yl.'jl) an inch per month. Ti.AXs>II<_.\T Al.VKi.TI.SKilKNTS _!0 cents a lino for lirst inserlion and IU cents ii line for each additional ��� insertion. Hirtli, lnan-iafje. and death notices free. LOCAL UI. UKAJ.IXti lU.ATTKIC NOTICKS ;-,(] cents a line each insertion. JOH I'ltlXTI-NC' at fair rates. All accounts for job prinliiiK and advcrlisintf iiayable on the lirst of evcrv month: subseription, in advance. A l.i(.\_Nl'll OKI-'IOK, wnli Mr. It. II. Kemp in charge m e.-talili.-hcd at Ivaslo. Air. Kemp is authorized lo receipt for siit.seript.ions and contract I'or advertisement':. Ai>w,.r>S all communications to TIIK TI.II.L'XK. N'elson, 11. C. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. T.'HAU. _\r.n.--l'hy.iician and Surgeon. Rooms .'1 and t Ifuuston block, Xelson. Telephone 12. AX|iAI_l_ II. K15111', M.I'-.���Kxamincs und reports on nunc-, and prospects. Twenty years' continuous -riencc. Independent of any mine or works. Xot in- _���_<.! in l lie buying ��r celling of uiines or prospects. ���li, li.C. m\xt (���uruutite TML'liSI'AV MOMNIXli. JANUARY lil. IS!),'. Lucidly LIDERAL APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED. It is mow i_onc.-i.t-i.il that tlio niiiioral cic-LJ'Jsiiw in \\ est iiooiotiay will soon iiialve tlio cliytrict one ol* the most pui-Hil- ous in tliu Province, and bo the means oi greatly iiii_ri.ii.s_ny the pi-osjioricy of other tusxi-ifis. 'lho district:, oven when itt- luibiiucl by Imb lew others than san- yiiine pru.s];ectors. paid its way, and it ban ne\-et- oeon a bill ol expense, to tho l.'iovii.ce. L-or ti,e last two years tlie receipts i rum taxes and licenses have been largely in excess of tlio amounts appropriated i'or the district. WJiilo this is u-uo. all fair-minded people will admit that tho district has been J'airly dealt -with by the provincial government; that the ;t|.|.t opt-ia Lions have been fully as large as could have been judiciously expended. This year the appropriations should be on a scale to meet the growing needs of tlie district, ���which is mo longer a section ein- brttcing a few isolated and almost inaccessible non-productive mining camps, but ono oi'several mining divisions, in all of which are either mines producing ore or prospects in u iaii- way to become pro- | ductive mines. The growth of the towns is keeping pace with tlie development of the mines, and today the province does not contain centres of population more enterprising than those iu \\ est Kootenay. The iet|uiiotnents of the district should Le carefully considered by the government before the estimates tire made up, tind if it is seen that trails muse lie nisi de into wagon roads, then let the tip- pi oprialions be large enough to build good wagon roads; if it is seen that the business of the district is of sufficient importance to wtirrant the erection of public buildings, then lot the appropiations be huge enough to complete substantial bui,dings; if -additional officials tire deemed a necessity to properly and expeditiously transact the public business, ^tlit-ii let the amounts set apart for salaries bo so liberal tluit first-class men will not hesitate to accept the offices. West Koolenay should be apportioned not less ihitn $.���....(.()(' for public works alone. IKE TRADE DOES NOT GO TO SPOKANE. Last week Tiik Tl*iisi*xi-. published local evidence io disprove the statements made by the press of Vancouver and other towns that the trade of the mining camps in South Kootenay went to wholesale houses in the United States ��� largely' to those iu Spokane. This week it-gives the evidence of a Spokane wholesale dealer iu hardware, whicli corroborates that of our local merchants. Says the wholesale dealer, iu an interview with a leportcr: " We are selling it great many goods, es- '" peciiilly in the Co_.nr d'AIenes and other " mining, regions of the northwest with ** the exception of British Columbia, ���* whicli ought to be also in Spokane's " wholesaling territory, but is not to a *��� vevy great extent owing' to the exces- " si ve duties. It would surely be a good *' tiling if we could get reciprocity with ** in the neighborhood of "J") per cent. *'* Under the present conditions, the niin- '* ing camps in Kootenay are forced to ob- ** tain supplies from Montreal. Victoria, "and other points in Canada." It will now be in order for the Vancouver World. Kamloops Sentinel. Hevelstoke'Star, and other Canadian Pacific organs to reiterate their false statements, that the bulk of the trade of our mining camps goes to Spokane. Mo mi. than one-half of the transfers of mineral claims in South Kootenay have been made to man who either live in or make their headquarters at Spokane. Were it nob for these men Kootenay, as it quartz mining country, would today be its backward as Cariboo, a, condition that would suit the element in this province that dislikes to see others got what they have not the energy or enterprise to get for themselves. THE SINGLE TAX IDEA Explained by a Representative Montreal Club. Wc assert as our fundai ontal principle that all men arc born with an equal right to life and an equal and inalienable right to the earth, by the products of which all life is sustained. xVe hold also that all men are equally entitled to the use and enjoyment of what is gained by the general growth and improvement of the community of which they are a part. Therefore, no one should Le jiei mitted to kohl natural opportunities without a fair return to till for any special privilege thus accorded to him. and tluit value which the growth iintl improvement of the community attach to land should be taken for the use of the commiuiit.v the ad vantages whicli nature has given to other countries, or which the peculiar skill of other peoples has enabled them lo attain. It would destroy the trusts, monopolies, and corruptions which tire the otitgiowths of the existing systems of taxation. It would do away with the fines and penalties now levied on anyone who improves a farm, erects a comfortable house in place of a hovel, builds a machine, or in any way adds to the general stock of wealth. It,.would leave everyone free to apply labor or expend capital in production or exchange without fine or restriction, and would leave to each the full product of his exertion. 5. It would, on the other hiind. be taking for public use that value which attaches to laud by reason of the growth and imrrovement of the community, make (.he holding of hind unprofitable (,o the mere owner and profitable only to the user. .It would thus make it impossible for speculators and monopolists to hold natural oppor ".unities unused or only hail' used and would throw open to labor the illimitable Meld of employment which the earth offers to man. It is thus the first and most necessary reform whereby to solve the labor problem, do away with involuntary poverty, raise wages in occupations to the full earnings oi labor, make overproduction impossible until all human wants are satisfied, render labor-saving inventions a blessing to ail, and cause so enormous a production and so equitable ii distribution of wealth as would give to all comfort, leisure and participation in the ad vim tages of sin advancing civilization. With respect to monopolies other than the monopoly of land, we hold that where free competition becomes impossible, its in the postal service, telegraphs, railway's, water, and gas supplies, etc., such business becomes a proper social function, which should be controlled aud managed by and I'or the whole people concerned, We hold that each niau is entitled t ail j through their proper government, muni Canada. The a -vertigo duty throughout ' is about '.Oj.i-r cent; on hardware it i.s to diare, through free exchanges, iu sill Unit his labor produces, therefore no tax should be levied on the produce ol' labor. To carry out these principles we are iu favor of l'-iiising all public revinues i'or federal, provincial and municipal purposes by ii single tax upon land values (irrespective of improvements), anrl the abolition of all other forms of taxation. Since in till our provinces we now levy some tax on the value of land, the single tax can be instituted by the simple iintl easy way of abolishing one after another till other taxes now levied, and bycoin- mensitrately increasing the tax on the laiidvidiiesuntil we draw upon that one source for all expenses of the government, the revenue being divided between the federal, provincial and municipal governments according to-their respective actual necessities. Tiie single tax we propose is not a tax on hind, and therefore would not fall on the use of land and become ji tax on labor. Tt is a tax, not on hind, but on the value of land. Thus it would not fall on all land, but only on valuable hind and on tluit not in proportion to the use made of it. but in proportion to its value, the premium which the user of land must pay to the owner, either in purchase money or rent, for permission to use valuable land. It would thus be a tax. not on the use or improvement of hind, but on the ownership of laud, taking what would otherwise go to the owner its owner, and not as user. In assessments under the single tiix till vidues created by individual use or improvement would be excluded, und the only value taken into consideration would be the value attaching to the bare hind by reason of neighborhood, etc.. to be de- tirinined by impartial periodical assessments. Thus the tanner would have no more taxes to pay than the speculator who held a similar piece of laud idle, a-ud the man who on a city lot erected a valuable building- would be taxed no more than the man who held a similar lot vacant. The single tax. in short, would cail upon men to contribute fo the public revenues, not in proportion to what they produce or accumulate but in proportion to the value of the natural opportunities they hold. It would compel them to pay just as much I'or holding land idle as I'or putting it to its fulle.it use. The single tax, therefore, would: 1. Take lhe wt i._jht of taxation from (he agricultural districts, where hind has little or no value, irrespective of improvements, Jind put it on towns and cities where bare kind rises to a value of thousands of dollars per acre. 2. Dispense with a multiplicity of taxes, and a horde of tax gatherers, simplify government and great:y. reduce its cost. ,'i Do a-way with fraud, corruption tind gross inequality inseparable from our present methods of taxation which allow the rich to escape while they oppress the poor. Land cannot be hid or carried off. and its true value can be arrived at with gteater east; than any other. I. (Jive us with all'the world as perfect freedom of trade as now exists between the provinces, thus enabling our people eipal. provincial or federal, as may be. In what is locally known as "Four Mile," on Slocan lake, are some of the prospective great mines of Slocan district. The Alpha group, the Reid & Robinson group, the Mahan claims, the Anderson group;-the G-rover & Stevenson group, and more than fifty single locations are in the camp, all carrying ore that assays up in the hundreds of ounces per ton. At the mouth of Four Mile creek is a splendid site for reduction works, where, if erected, a smelter would be within easy distance of all the mines in Slocan district. The owners of the land at the mouth of the creek have had a part of it surveyed for a townsite, and as an inducement for the erection of reduction works will place in trust, as a bonus, one-half of all sums received from the sale of lots up to $50,000. Smelting men, looking for eligible sites for reduction works, should investigate this proposition. For further particulars address JOHN" HOUSTON & CO. agents for the townsite owners, Nelson, B. C. is within a few (2 to 13) miles of every mine and prospect in the great Slocan district, a district in which are located such producing mines as the Freddy Lee, Idaho, Washington, Blue Bird, and Mountain Wonder, and such prospective bonanzas as the Slocan Star, Dardanelles, Lucky Jim, Bonanza King, Payne, and half a hundred others. It is a splendid site, at the mouth of Carpenter creek, on the shore of Slocan lake, where the depth of snow is not more than it is at Nelson, seldom exceeding 18 inches. Practically New Denver is as close to the mines in Slocan district as Nelson is to the mines in Toad Mountain district, and it is bound to be the supply point for the district. Adjoining New Denver on the north is the Bigelow addition,- the lots of which are less than 500 yards from the postoffice. The only harbor at New Denver is in front of this addition, at the foot of Wardner street, where a wharf will be built early in the spring. The lots are 25x115, fronting on 70-foot streets. All the odd-numbered lots in blocks 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are now offered for sale without reserve at $50 for insides and $75 for corners, and those in blocks 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 at $25 for insides and $35 for corners. Terms: half cash; balance in nine months. Apply to or address JOHN HOUSTON & CO., Nelson, B. C. (Notary Public) AND II T. .1. RO.WIUOV. Al ATI IICW Ul'THI.IK. jsion REAL ESTATE AND MINES. Merchants and Insurance -Agents. 11 i! AUCTIONEER and COMMISSION AGENT K.-irit-.tiicx-riNc Tho Confederation Life AsMK.i-U.ioii, Tliul'liu'i-ix I-'iro Insiii'iitiuc ('u.ii|>.i.iy. Tliu I'l-iividunl Fund AuuuluilL (.'oinpany: "a [._<o, Tlio Sandy (.'run. Koiimlry Company, nciir Clicstor. Kutf- liind. liial-ors of all kinds of miniiis; inaoliiiu-i-y. air (.'iiiiiiiruMSors. rook lu-uakurs, stamps, olo. No. 1 JOSEPHINE STREET, _rST"ELSO_ISr:, _B. c. LOTS FOR SALE IN ADDITION "A" Adjoining tlio government townsite of Nelson, AT $125 and UPWARDS, with a rebate for buildings erected. Tlie best residential property in Xelson. Value sure to increase. Apply to -:- W. A. JOWETT, -:- Mining and Real instate Broker. Auctioned' and Commission Agent, Air<'nl for Nelson and West KuoU-iiay District, or |o INNKS & I.K.IIAKI'.S. Vancouver. H.C. Desirable Kaslo Property on Easy Terms. A Long List of Kaslo-Slocan Mining Properties for Sale. Assessment Work Done and Abstracts Furnished Outside Parties. Conveyancing. OFFICE I3ST THE STOICTE! BUH_.DI__STG-3' FBOHSTT :STBEBTa KASLO. TZHZZEJ TO TERMINUS OF KASLO WAGON ROAD, . RETURNING SAME DAY. Freight forwarded with care and despatch to any point in the Kaslo- Slocan District. First-Class Saddle Horses for Hire. STAGE LEAVES KASLO at 7 a.m. sharp every mornipg, Sunday iriclqded. RETURNING LEAVES Tgrminus of Road at 3 p.rn. XV. ItlCIIAItHSO.V, Nelson. Ii. ,1. I.I.AI.KV. Kaslo. jICHABDSON & JJEALEY REAL ESTATE FINANCIAL'"-:- AGENTS $10,000 TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY. .John M. IChi.ki.i.. .I_..mks W. ,Si-:m.k. KEEFER & SEALE TEAMSTERS. Jul) |.(!iiiiiii-K(l"ii(!. I In vi! several hundred em-tin of ffiiuil ivood. whieli will he sold at reasonable prices. M-AVK niciiiciet. AT J. P, Hume & Co.'s, Vernon Street, Nelson. FRED. Jo SQUIRE, 03 I 1 0 r '. BAKER STREET, NELSON, MAS ON DISI'I.AV A _.'l.l,l. HANOI. OK Plain and Fancy Worsted Suitings, Scotch and Irish Tweeds and Serges. KAIJ, AN1> WtNTI.If (iftOPN NOW O.N HANI). nFJER-IOIES TO SXTIO? THE TIMES Lots can now sirable portion feet for sale. Terms, One-Third be secured of t he city in this mo s t Lots 50 by de - 125 Corners $75; inside $50. down, One-Third 6 months. One-Third 9 months. jas, Mcdonald & co. JOSEPHINE STREET, NELSON, - - - Carry full lines of all kinds of !���nriiitiiro for residenees, hotels, and ollieoM. Mattresses made to order, and at priees lower than easlern and coast maniifaefnrers. TIIKV AUK ALSO AOI.NTH l.'OIC Evans Pianos and Doherty Organs Nelson Livery Stable I'uMrieiiffdi-H nnd ImKpiK'-' transferred to and from the railway depot and sleanilioat landing. KreiKhf Iniuled and job I.eaniiiiK done. Stove wood for Hale. WII.SON & WII.I.I/MVISON IMIOI'UIKTOUS Kainilies wishing to build residenees eun obtain larger lots if desired. A line stream of wafer on (lie land available for household purposes. Km- further partieulars apply to i__r_ _A_nsriDEK,sojLsr3 Stone's Building-, KASLO CITY. General Agent. OFFICE, Victoria, B.C o WORKS, Nanaimo, B.C. MANUFACTURERS OP . Dynamite, SAFETY FUSE DETOBATOBS. Branch Office and Magazine at NELSON. sting anil Sporting Powder. ���.VIIOI.KK.AI_K DKAI.KI.S IN" ELECTRIC BLASTING APPARATUS. G. C. TUNSTALL, Jr., Nelson Ag-ent. riSSSS* ��. fa; ';�������� '���. ��� ' THE TRIBUNE:' NELSON B.C., THURSDAY. JANUARY I!), 1803. AGENT FOR 1 9 $12,000,000 6,000,000 iANK IRITISH her OLUffiBIA (Incorporated by Royal Charier. IH02.) Kir DONA I.I) A. SMITH President lion. (iKO. A. IHU'.MMON'I) Vice-Fresidenl K. S. CI.OIISTON (ieneral Manager ���__sr_i___i__,so3sr *B*R,_A.3src"E3: N. W. Cop. Baker and Stanley Streets. lil.ANL'III.S I.N LONDON (England), NEW "STORK CHICAGO, and in the principal cities in Canada. ' Capital (paid up) ��600,000 . (Willi power to inerea-ie.) Reserve Fund - ��220,000 . $3,000,000 $1,100,000 ___sr_B31-SOT_sr ZB-R-A-I-TaEr;, Cor. Maker and Stanley Sts. randies liny and sell .Sterling I<_>_ohange and Cable Transfers. CHANT CO.M.MI-KCIAI, AND TI...V_._.t,__l_S* (JICIIIMTM. available in any part of the world. DHAi-'Th is.-u.i_i>: (.:oi.i,ixitions .mam:: ktc. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. HATK OKINTKItKST (atpresent.) I-'OUM I'erCent. MARRIAGE OP FRENCH GIRLS. ('Nelson. M.C., Victoria, H.C, Vancouver. li.C, Nanaimo. li.C. New Westminster. I5.C. Kamloops.IS.O. Han Francisco, Cala., Mori land, Ure., I Seattle, Wash., Tacoma, Wash. III'.AI) OI''l''l('K: 00 bombard slreel, MONDON. I'.ng. Agents and Correspondents CANADA���Hani-: of Montreal and branches; Canadian Mank of Commerce and branches: Imperial Hank of Canada and branches." Commercial Bank of Manitoba; and Mank of Nova Scotia. UN IT K] > STATES���Agents Mank Montreal. New York: Mank of Montreal, Chicago. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. On and after .lanuary 1st. IS!).'., the rale of interest on deposits will be Ml per cent, until furl her notice. sin The Their Life frora the Time of Leaving School to Their Wedding Day. The average American regards the French idea of inarritige with lioi-roi without exactly knowing- why. A young girl is educated under the careful eye oi her mother or governess, who accompanies her to till her classes, and consider.1 it as only a matter of course to sit pa- tiently with needlework or book during.' the music or singing lesson. The girl h taught from her earliest childhood that it ".is the des iny ol" woman to become a. wil'i and mother. When she is about IS yetirs old liuikes lier appearance in society. Avails of a French ball room tire al ways lined with chairs. The mother and daughter take their places'side by side, and the two chairs are theirs for the evening. When a man rec|iu.sts a girl ti. dance he writes his name on lier card "anil does nob appear again until the dance be gins. Then he puts his ������claijiie" (opera hat) on the girl's chair, "with her fan, and with a bow to the mother leads her off. Sometimes during the whole dance not a ���word is exchanged between the two. Such a thing as ���'dividing" a wait/ or sitting it ���"through" while the music plays is unheard,of,'though promenading i.s permissible. When the dance is finished the girl is led back to her place, and with "Thank you, mademoiselle," tind '���Thank you monsieur," the couple part. To the American girl the idea of thanking a ina.li for dancing with her i.s preposterous, but Iter French sister is more philosophical. "Why shouldn't I thank him?"' She asks. '"Has not the dance given me as much pleasure as'ib has given him. anrl is ���it nob a-compliment to be. chosen from so many girls? ��� Then why not be polite? 'After a season or two in society madame dlicTdes that it i.s time her daughter should ije inarried. At present it is; the) fashion for wetilthy people to spend the."summer ... 'their own cqt'ttige.s by the seaside, and there young pe'opfb "meet and lire allowed a' certain" degree pf freedom', though a 1- Vvays under Che eye of a chaperon, A fter t}ie French gir| is fairly well" acquainted wjth jier future fiance (though this is not silways the case), some relative of the young man is charged with the delicate 'commission of presenting his ease to tho mother of the young lady. The education, social position, disposition, health, wealth, and prospects of each tire discussed with the greatest; frankness. Then, if the two are not already acquainted, the girl i.s taken to the theater and the men call on her in the box, or the two tire invited to dine ab the house of a common friend. If either does not like bhe other the matter is ended, for it i.s a very unusual thing for a parent to force a child _yS into marriage. If, however, the liking i.s reciprocal, other meetings take f lace, the two are allowed a few moments of privacy, a walk in the garden, or a conversation at one end of the room, if the result is satisfactory the marriage i.s decided ou aud takes place three months afterward. The question of "dot" (money) is a serious one. ��� it i.s absurd to say that French women are married only for their money, it i.s almost an impossibility for a man in ordinary circumstances to marry ti poor girl.'"The education of the average man i.s far more complete in Franco than iu the United States. I-Overy family tries to send the boys to school until they tire tit least 18 yetirs old. Then comes the military service, tind a man begins business when he is about 21. Ic his family are in moderate circumstances it i.s probable that the son accepts a government position, with tt salary of $30 a month. At .'50 years of age, if he is steady and industrious, he may make $10 a month. Mow is it jjossiblo to support a family on so small a sum? The only solution is to m-wry a girl with about the same income. It is not necessary i'or her to have a large capital if she has any means of supporting herself. This also applies to cultivated people. A marriags in France is not the easy thing it 's in America. The consent of the parents of both parties must be.fur- .lished. or if that i.s not possible and they ire of age. then the refusal must be obtained, together with their birth ertifi- .ates and tiie marriage certificates of the ..aronts. ' If the hitter are dead theii loath certificates must be procured befoie he bansare published. Aregligious nitir- ���itige is not recognized bylaw, and it is tsual for the civil marriage to take place it the mayor's oflicc in the earlv morning md the religious marriage in the church it noon, though often the civil ceremony ,s rend the day before the religious cere- nony fakes place. As France is a Catholic country the double marriage is customary. The groom wears a. dress suit, the n-icle a high-neck white gown. The bride- uaids and bridal party tire all iu high- lecked dresses,.tis it is considered the height of impropriety to enter the church decollete. After bhe service���during part of which the bridal couple sits on chairs with their backs to the congregation��� the bi-idemtiids take up a collection, passing 'purses made of the same material as their dresses. The proceeds are given to the poor. The question i.s often asked, "tire French ���marriages usually -happy?" As" a mle they tire more so than American marriages. The man is carefully selected by the bride's parents, who are better able to judge "what will prove a suitable match than a girl "of-20,' who knows so little of the world tind has seen s few men thtit she is commonly ready to love the chosen one. It is the fashion for French writers to deal with immorality of all sorts, and this gives foreigners a false idea of things. As a matter of fact, the standard of morality of the middle classes is quite as high in France as iu America, while the so- called upper circles are about the same in all countries. " THE UPS AND DOWNS OF FORTUNE. A Slaveholder's Daughter Becomes Seamstress for Her Fqrmer Servant. There tire two women in San Francisco who can tell a story pf in is and downs that Ayouhl astonish a novelist. One of them lives out on i\oe street. She's a refined, well-educated woman, with a pretty way of murdering her r's that betrays her Southern origin. She is.a- widow, and she lives with her mother, in a house that shows unmistakable signs of penury and want. She goes out to sew by tho clay, and she manages to make enough to keep the breath of life in her old mother and to purchase a few poor comforts to warm the chill of age. Vet that woman wtis once the mistress of a- splendid home. She dispensed the open-handed hospitality of the Old South, tind she never knew what care or anxiety meant. Way back in the clays before the war there'was a- rich .Kentucky family named .Montgomery. They lived on a beautiful plantation, near St. Joe, .Missouri. Mrs. Montgomery had about lifty slaves. Oncol'those was ti mite of a- roly-poly black baby, whose parents were (load. .Mrs. Montgomery had a. little daughter just the age of a-roly-poly mite, aud, as soon tis the children grew old enough, the little black girl became the maid of the little white girl. Life was very gay in those old days: there were lots of visitors to the old' plantation, and little Miss Montgomery had nothing to do but grow and be happy. When she was l.'i yetirs old her maid inarried a likely young fellow who belonged to a family in the neighborhood. He had only one name then. lie was called Bristol. He; used to come over to the Montgomery plantation once ti week to see his wife. Things went on smoothlv for the young negroes for a while. Their owners were friends, and so they saw each other quite often. At the BUT ONE GUILTY MAN, All the Others Were Suffering Unjust Punishment. Proctor Knott, famous as tin eloquent governor of Kentucky, was a Missourian in the fifties. He was governor Stewart's attorney-general. Knott tells a story of Stewart' which, although very old, is declared by iiim to have its origin just as he states if. One day, so Knott relates, the pair were Aval king- through the penitentiary on a sort of inspection tour. Prisoners were then pprmitted to approach the governor in person and plead with him fpr executive clemency. As the officials passed through the c-prridors Stewart asked one after tinpfcli^r of the convictsabouthiscase. "I am here," said one, ''"fpr.a murder that I never committed," "And I'm in." said another, ''for (NOTAUV I'fnl.lC) Stone Block, KASLO. MINES REAL ESTATE HOI.I. AHI.XT KOI* TIIK Town of Watson Tin; business centre for tin: Kaslo-Slocan mini's MANAIIIN'tl ACI..NT KOIt L^IRIDO The key to the great l.ardo mid Duncan 3 Ifiver ('limps s-A-dstt-A. d-._A.xrs is convrinsro- And intends sending his supplies in ndviuice to TURNER BROS. No. 2, Houston Block, Baker Street, NELSON. Music, Stationery, Toys, Books. end of six yetirs the woman had borne husband three children. Then came the war. The JMontgomery fiimily suffered like all the rest of the South. They lost till their property, they were compelled to give up their' home, and iinally till the slaves were gone. JMiss .Montgomery's maid and her three children went to St. Joe and the woman went out to work by the day. She did nob know-where her husband was. Early iu the beginning of the great struggle he had been sold to a colonel Wilson, who ���went away with him she knew not where. So she struggled along tis best she could, trying to gain a living for her children. Finally she drifted westward. She lived for several years in Salt Lake City. All the time she wtis trying to find out whtit had become of her husband. She knew that he called himself Wilson���Bristol Wilson���after liis new master, and she knew that colonel Wilson came to the coast. One day she heard that he wtis in San hVancisco. She wrote to him. J-Je wtis delighted to get a trace of his wife and family, and tit once sent for her. When she arrived she found that her husband had prospered in California. At the' close of the Avar his master set him free. and he managed to accumulate quite a little sum of money. This was only a. few- years ago���some time in 1882���tliat the little slave girl and her husband met and found themselves free and prosperous. They bought a. pretty little home oiiti_uu_ Guerrero street, and there they 'livcM... day. They often wondered what hacftf..', come of tho Montgomery's, and Mrs. J|.,-..Y, son never forgot her young mistress. |jj '���', About two yetirs ago Mrs. Wii$ '������:': -.vantod .some sewing done. She tid^-; Used for ti woman to come and sew b\|H day. , 'I Her old owner answered theadver^ ment. She was no longer the pretty lij hearted Miss Montgomery. She was i'%' vied, lier name was Mrs. Sweeney. "4^ wtis Avail and pale from overwork aiS anxiety, tind the two women did not1 recognize each other. Mrs. Sweeney was surprised to learn that the advertiser, was a colored Avoman. but she worked steadily away and stiid nothing. One day'Mrs.' Wilson was in a chatty mood, and' the tA\*o women talked over the days before the Avar. Then the truth came out. The Montgomery*.; had been ruined by the Avar, and they had come west to try and recruit their shattered fortunes. They tailed miserably. Mother and daughter clung together, and fought fate Avith failing courage. ...'.' Now the daughter i.s sewing by the day for the Avoman she once owned, and she is paid for the work by the man "who Avas once the bond slave of her friends. a'teniptiu' to kill when it was a clean case of self defence." '"I'm innocent, too. governor," stiid another. '���]' never stole a riling in my life." ('overnor Stewart asked hundreds of questions, but every convict .declared his innocence tind begged for p.irdon. At length, just before leaving the prison, the executive met a young fellow carrying a load of some sort of prison product. '1 lie convict saluted respectfully tind was passing on. when the governor stopped him. "What are you here for?" he asked. "For stealing horses, your excellency," wtis the ready reply. '"But of course you are innocent?" the governor went on. winking at general Knott. "Of course I'm nothin' of the sort." said the prisoner. "I stole 'em and I've got three yetirs to do yet." "Well," said governor Stewart, "you" will be pardoned tomorrow. I am sorry that it will be necessary for you a guilty. bad man, to remain her even another night with till of these innocent gentleman. Vou will contaminate them." The truthful young horse-thief wtis free the*.next day, and, oddly enough, he became an honest, valuable citizen. ->-������ l^e5taura_7 .- Next Boor to the Madden Hotel, NELSON, B. C: MRS. W. C. PHILLIPS, Proprietress. JOHN JOHNSON, Prop. Extensive Improvements Now Completed. The only re.sliuiraiil in Xelson Mint keep-, open AND Slocan Trading & Navigation Company, Ltd. PRIVATE BOXES FOR LADIES. ALL ROOMS REFITTED and Refurnished. ���-���'hu-.l Win..-., Liquors mid Cigars in I In: Market at tiik n.\K. Special Attention to Miners. ssw^ 3��=*a_"S��B__��< Tho company'* Al pa-ii.cn.m_r and freight steamer W. HUNTER .r. A. I'.STABI.OOK blaster will make regular trips during; Lho winter season from Now Denver to tho head and lho lower end of Slocan lake. At this head of the lake passengers .-an take Ihe (rail for Nakusp, on the Columbia river, 2(1 miles distant : and at the lower end pack and saddle animals can al way-, be obtained to convey freight and passengers to Sloeai, Crossing, on the Columbia & Ivootenay railway, :._! miles distant. Vox rates apply on board. November 15th, IS):.. XV. C. MolvINNON, See'v. .&J.TAY10B, "TORONTO SAFE WORKS," Ontario, Front St., Near. Steamboat Landing, KASLO, B.C. Booms First-Class. Rates Moderate. DtiVLIN c-c UclvAY Till-: IIKST CUISINI'. TIIK HKST IJKDS TIIK IIKST Proprietors. OF KV'KI.YTIIINTi TENAY :. Vernon Street, Near Josephine. OPPOSITE CITY WHARF. -NELSON, B." C. AXEL JOHNSON, Proprietor. The Hotel Overlooks The Kootenay do to i Collie a . _ ping. tramway line and street near to the town of Kn.-lo Kootenay lake up the it or near Hear lake. triict aud inniii- to or in the mid throngli- iv additions 'or more of < a -motive and 11 TJpCraiin^. aim in:_iiii:UlUll^ railway from some point in or or some other point on or near valley of Kaslo creek to a point with power to extend Miid line or cot lain branch lines to Carpenter ereek, and vieinily of any inines adjacent to stiid line out the streets of Kaslo aforesaid, or ai thereto, and with power to make any one such extensions or branch lines, nsin^c ns : power for such tramway and street railway branches electricity, steam or any other motive power: also, power to construct, operate, and maintain a system of electric lighting in and about any towns or villages in tho vicinity of said line or iho said branches thereof and for that purpose to take so much of the waters of any river or stream in the vicinity of the said lines or their branches as may be necessary for generating electricity for the. supply of the said system: also, with power to construct, operate, and maintain telegraph aud telephone lines in connection with and along such tramway lines and branches lo connect such telegraph or telephone lines with any mines or towns in what is commonly known as the Kaslo-Slocan country, and to connect said telegraph or telephone lines with tlio town of Ainsworth or any intermediate point. With till the usual powers for acquiring lands for terminal purposes and all other usual and necessarv powers,' rights, and privileges. C. DUBOIS AIASO.V. Solicitor for applicants. Dated this 2tith day, of Xovember. LSI):.. APPLICATION FOR CROWN GRANT. Notice is hereby given that Henry Anderson, as agent for George C. Howe, has tiled the necessary papers and made application for a crown grant in favor of the mineral claim known as the Storm Cloud, situate in the Hot Springs camp. West Ivootenay District. Adverse claimants-will forward their objections within (!<) davs of pub-. Mention. X. FITZSTCHMS. Nelson, B.C.. Dec. 27th. IS!fc_. Child Commissioner, DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. The copartnership between the undersigned, under the linn name of Collins & Hidden, doing business its hotel- keepers at Nelson, is dissolved from the dale of this notice. .Mr. Ilolden \vjll continue the business, pay all tirm debts, and collect- till accounts (Hie the llrm, TIT0MAS 0. COI.I-INS. ISAAC HOU-'KN. Dated at Nelson, B.C., thjs 2tlth d(iv of Junutiry, lS'il Its guests thus obtaining splendid Views of both mountain anil river. Front Street, KASLO, B. C. JOHN F. WARD, Manager. The Very Best of Everything*. +++-" drai?d - Septra jiOJEl Corner Front and Fourth Streets, _KL^SILO A. &��� J. 'FLETCITNMV - Proprietor. .WX'O.MllnllATIONS l-'lUST-Ul-ASS. The Rooms .\I_K CO.MI-OI_T.MII.l-: IN The Table IS TIIK IIKST IN TIIK .MlJL'NTAINrf. ���Special Attention to Miners. THE BAR IS FIRST-CLASS. Corner Baker and Ward Streets, NELSON, B. C. Stage leaves Grand Central for Watson. Bear Lake City. Three Forks, New Denver and all points in the Kaslo-Slocan district. Until Cut of Palace Hotel Arrives, tills Space is Reserved for MAHONE Y & LUNDBURG Kaslo. JOE JP^JR^Ilsr NELSON, B.C. Plasterer, Bricklayer and Stone-Mason. Contracts taken for work at all points in West Kootenay THOMAS MADDEN, Prop. The Madden is Centrally Located, Willi a frontage towards Kootenay river, and is newly furnished lliroiighoul. supplied being the t.a._e jl, :e with everything in the market, the kitchen under the immediate Miporvi-iun of a caterer of large experience. The Bar is Stocked With the Best Brands in-- i!i:i:i:. .M.t:. wink, wiiisicv and ck.-..i:s. ��>��� 4&STO - INTERNATIONAL HOT! Cor. West Vernon and Stanley Streets, NELSON, B.C. * First-Class in Everything1. Th. # ^i-* International has a comfortably furnished parlor for ladies, and the rooms arc large and fiiriii.-hcd newly throughout. THE TABLE IS NOT SURPASSED I. V ANV IIOTKl. IN llii: KoiitCXAV COl'NTI. V. A SUA UK I If TltA.N.SU;NTTIlAll|: SOLICIT.: I >. The Sample Room is Stocked with Choice Liquors and Cigars. Jas. Dawson & B. Proprietors. Craddock, I'Ki.i.i'iioNi: v.i. ^9 ���\<#* ^ *�� / 0' 0 y O' 4?,< THE TRIBUNE: ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. THE NELSON, B.C. Hansen & Blomberg1, Proprietors. Closest Hotel to Steamboat Landing. THE BAR CARRIES CHOICE BRANDS IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC LIQUORS. THE BAST BAKER ST��� NELSON. Is one of the lies! hotels iu Toad .Mountain district, and is the hciiilqimrlt'i-.H for prospectors and working miui.-i-s. MALONE & TREGILLUS, Props.. V x _ '._ i! ne Iii 11 I!' M W&s ..Vuii ��� , ,_. .....i Mijiirini i| I_.IIIL.I_ TITBIT-L. I ' I ��" 'i - f'lTTT ��� _ 1 .'"_"'"*""'" .1 J L.I- ��� -���., II I I JI HI I .ti L '"'11" "T"1'*_!"V"- "V.T- T " ' TTTff^ "1* HI I IL II L I II I _ II I "l* T"' 1 _. __. I _ l [I i hi ihjiimii���* E^T^SSSTsKS -, a_S@&'33fc�� -_ViW______BM__!"* E_3 bsvhh 'sa . THE TRIBUNE: NELSON, B.C., THURSBAY, JANUARY 10, 1893. y ��� ��� K '* "T"- ' ���*caia,,-ar P3 LU -J < CO LU _J O < li! -JDIE.^ZIL.EIR.S lUST- 16 BAST BA.KIEB STEEET, DMELSOINT. CO Tl m O > H -< THIS WEEK'S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. It. JI. Kemp. Kaslo���Xot ice ('liry-ler iv Lc��N, Cttav.-i1.-- I '. S'uill. 'AA -on���Xoti.-c. Nolice. ;��� ������ t '! ..': ..'u .:; Inl.-. I ro>. ii-K li-f- ���.|i-i.l|IV-. ,in-:.i.i:i i r. ��� .��� .' i,.-.. .'.i !.-l l.- _._!:. ,( ill ii . Iruiiu Ills. I.. . .i.-IiiIiuiK., Ka.-lo ��� AdMUicc in-price of town incia! Secretary, Victoria���Proclamation conven- ir-iative as-.-eiul.i.v. LOCAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. TJlC first Jim being llie best. Iengt.li of in iintl J ball ol' the firemen ol' Xelson wti.s closed by George Bigelow i-en- clering'���(.���'(.(I .Save 1 J.e (yiiucjh" in liisown ])ccn]itir]y lui].|.y nianner; the second tin until one wtis closed by presenting Dawson wilh a chronio t'oi sciitttre dancer in atteittlance. There is n.t a break in the road from Kaslo to Three Forks and stages tire running through. Snow-slides are not allowed to obstr et travel tiny til II:!. A telegram to postal inspector Fletcher wtis sent from Ivaslo last Saturday urging him to iinmediarely establish a. temporary nmil route via. Bonner's Ferry. On Suu- daya petition signed by upwardsof'300persons was forwarded praying lor ihe s;i me object. - The Kaslo office of Tiik Tp.ii.uni_. is now connected with the world and part of the city by telephone. TjiC instrument is so perfect you can not only hear a Ivaslo man ten blocks away, but you can also smell his breath. A well-advertised fireman's meeting in .ivaslo. on last Friday night, was attended by but four individuals. Those who take an interest in such mattersare very indignant, tind prophesy that nothing but ti disastrous conflagration will -wake the average Kasloian up to the point wheieby pioteciion against thai element will be properly consider.-d. A Ktislo newspaper man mourns because he dees not know the difference between a o-t'in C|iuic! and a deck of cards. Had this been the case last Saturc' he would have more ducats tit. present and be a happier man. Knowing his weakness for (lie noble game ol soio, a number of local sports rung in a "���cold deck" on him. When the newspaper mail consulted his hand he dumped Jus whol: stick on the tttble and bet his pile, which, of course, he lost. After allowing ruin, desolation, and grim poverty to stare him in the face for about ihii-Lv minutes, the boys returned him thi! bood.e and gave him good advice, liaise who witnessed the performance say the game Avas a nervy one while it, litsled. ���* Have you a furniture cut?" asked Jim _M (.-Donald, as he entered this office'yesterday with a bundle of bill heads in one IiiiiitI. "��� i just received a two-nionth-on- i he-way carload of ���furniture from .Berlin, Ontario, tind would like to let the Kootenay people know that the shipment litis aii-ived." Well,���Jim, we'll get the cut if you promise to make a siight'eufc in your prices. order. The company should hire a manager with sufficient energy to let the people know that he, and not outsiders, wtis the proper person fo apply to in case of breakages. "W. F. Teetzel left for Victoria on Monday on hind business. If he is successful he intends presenting his partner. John Ayton. with enough hair invigorator to make hint, in time, look ten years younger. Fred Iliime, George Keefer, .Johnny JBlomberg. and Dick Slucky have returned from their hunting trip down around tlie ���great undeveloped Queen Victoria copper- nickel mine. They tire afraid to tell what game they killed for fear of being snatched bald-headed for violating the game law. Although not definitely decided on, the steamer Nelson will hereafter make two round trips ti week to the head of the lake in connection with the Bonner's Ferry sleigh road. CONCENTRATES FROM THE MINES. A. L. Davenport, who is local manager of the Foornian mine and mill below Nelson, is now assisting his father in the management of the Uardnelles, a -Slocan property. All the cabins on the Alamo mine, Slocan district, are finished, and the winters' supply of provisions, tools, powder, etc:., have arrived tit the property and tire now properly housed. G. B. Nagle is making a strong effort to secure ten 500-pouud pieces of ore from .en different mines in the Sloean to add co the World's Fair exhibit, lie has most jf them secured and the transportation arranged i'or over the snow road. Work is going on with renewed vigor at oho Freddy J-ee mine. A quantity of .umber has been taken up from Ktislo. ind ti big gang of workmen went up on /ridti.y last to put up new snowsiide- proof buildings. Charley Kent has his buildings collided at the tunnel site on the Chambers, <OT- ��� f L.S.J ���**i._iH��-*<_|-_S&dJ��s; ������:. i>_'.wi��;i'.v. CANADA. PIIOVINCK 01;" HlilTI_-.il COLL'M I.IA. VICTOItlA. by lhe grace of (iod. of the United Kingdom of Ureal Hriiain ami Ireland, Queen, Defender of Ihe Faith. Lie. Klc. Ktc. . , .. To Our faithful Ihe Memliers i-lecled Io servo in the Legislative Assembly of Our Province of liritish Columbia al. Our Cily of Victoria���(.-|.i.._ti.\(.. -A. PEOCLAMATIOIT. Thi-.oi.oi:]-: IJavik, L-VTTII.'.lil'.Ati We are desirous and At loriicy-t.'encral. J "* resolved, as soon as maybe, to meet our people of our Province of Hritish Columbia, ��� and to ha.e their advice in our Legislature. NOW KNOW yiO, I lint, I'or divers causes and considerations, and taking into consideration the ease tind convenience of our loving subjects, we have thought lil, ���by and with tlie advice of Our lCxccutivc Council of the Province of Hritish Columbia, to hereby convoke, and by these presents enjoin you, and each of you. thai on Thursday, the Twenl.v-sixth day of the month of .lanuary, one thousand eight, hundred and nincty-tiiree, you nieci us iu our said Legislature of Parliament of our said Province, at our City of Victoria, I'or the dispatch ol business, to treat, do, act, and conclude upon those things which iu our Legislature of the Province of Hritish l oluniliia, by the Common Council of our said Province, may. by the favor of Coil, be ordained. I.v Ti.sti.monv Wiikukoi', We have caused these oui letters to be made pufonl and the great seal of the said Province to be hereunto alllxed: Witness, tin llonoi'iible Kdgar Dcwdncy. Lieutenant.-Itovennu of our said Province of Hritish Columoia, in oui City of Victoria, in our said Province, this .Nineteenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two. aud iu the lifly-sixl.il year of our reign. Hv Command. .lA-UKS I.AIvKR. Provincial Secretary. NOTICE. All parties having accounts against the Kemp Mineral Water Company. Limned, of ivaslo, are requested ti hand them in lo the Kaslo ollice the lirst, of tlie month Our pav day will be the h.th instant. It. II. KL'.MP, Manager. Kaslo, .lanuary loth, IS'YA. MEECHANTS. poeBFies, rpovisions, and Tinware. Plumbing and Tin-Roofing^ a Specialty. Stocks full and complete in every Department, and the Public will find il to their advantage to inspect Goods and compare Prices. ger. ��� East Vernon Street, Nelson. PILOT _B^_."3T. _B_ O. 0 JL lav evening"*^!, ,. . , , ,. , in his purse siccan district. Ground lor the *:.00-toot Last Saturday night was the coldest of lhe season at Kaslo. Sunday morning one fa voriLe brand of whiskey was found to be frozen, and several'habitual drinkers took their morning cocktail solid, as they could not wait 'till it thawed out. A concert will be given at Kaslo on Holiday evening next, the proceeds to go to aid the reacling-room. Those attending from Nelson will be carried on the steamer Nelson on payment of full'fare going, but be returned free on presenting ti certificate that they purchased a concert ticket. The Northport News is authority for the following statement regarding the opertit ion of trains to Northport: "Trains now arrive Monday and Thursday afternoons about 1 o'clock and depart at tt or !) o'clock on Tuesday and Friday mornings. This is a great improvement over the old schedule, and it is hoped that it will not be changed until the daily train service is in operation iu March." While not boasting of tion. Tin-: Ti_n.i*xi'_ can if has I Mi subscribers tit Nelson, the two chief Kootenay. The pupils of (he Nelson public school have organized a temperance society tind me_.l every Friday afternoon, at 'i o'clock, in the school-house. Some of the adults who are taking lessons iu the school of experience should go tind do likewise. Cupta in Short of the Nelson and captain (.ore of the Columbia, two of the most skillful pilots on the Pacific coast, left on Monday for Portland, Oregon, to spend a month or six weeks with their families. Hoys, when you come back in the spring bring your families with you and then run your boats the year round. This week John Houston sold a half interest in four .minora.! claims south of Ainsworth fo 0. B. Wright for $100 dirt cheap. .Although in no way connected with the Consumers 'Water Works Company, Limited. George A. Bigelow and the writer of tin's paragraph are bothered continually by people whoso watyr taps get out of crosscut tunnel was broken Sunday hist. .John F. Walgtunot, manager of the Pacific 'Bullion Mining Company, who own the Spokane and Trinket mines, Ainsworth ilistri_.t,'was tit Ainsworth last week making arrangements to begin operations cm that property. Jic purchased the Tenderfoot hoisting tind pumping machinery for-ipWOO, and will place it over the main shaft of tlie Spokane. Notwithstanding the depth, of snow, changeable weather,, and danger from snow-slides tli_j indefatigable prospector keeps up his lick i'n the Kaslo-i-jlocan region, and many claims tire being staked and recorded. The diamond "drill machinery for the Wellington mine, on Whitewater creek. Kaslo district, has been "rawiiided" to the claim over the snow trail. J. F. Piggott and Lime C. Gilliam wear broad smiles on their 7-benign countenances on account of a late strike of three feet of solid ga ena ore in the Solo claim, on Liddle creek, Kaslo district, bonded ti couple of months since from Messrs. pound and Winchester for Jp]:".,()00. The original owners were unable to find more than stringers, but systematic development work has brought more pay ore to light. Work on the .Dardanelles claim. Slocan district, has-been stopped until an understanding is arrived at between the holders of the bond &nd Mr. Coy, in the meantime the force employed on the Dardanelles i.s at work on tin acljoing claim, in which-Mr. Coy has no interest. The big-tunel being run by the Shafei Company below Ainsworth is reported in thirty-five feet. Work will be resumed next week ou the Highlander claim, in Ainsworth district. Albert Stolberg, the well-known assayer. will be in charge tis superintendent. "WHOLESALE _A_ITsnD .RZETAXJL.. Thul. I, the undersigned, have received fron?'" .Stewart Iho sum of :s_.;j.!M, being one-half of the pld price of a oue-<|iiiirler ( ! ) interest iu tiie miner.-.',.. Daisv. ,1. C. YU'ILL. Xelson. .lanuary 13th. IS'Xi. TURNER BROS. MITSIO _A.:i_Sr_D STATIONERY Till. LATEST..Mt'SIC. ��� OOOD'A_.SOtn-.MI-.NT Of HOOKS, TOYS, KT0..' ETC. Ul-'l.l, PIANOS AND OI��.-.\Nei.;SINl;l-:n SKWIXli .MACIllN'KH. Tuning and repairing a specialty. No. 2, Houston Block, Baker Street, NELSON. AND ��3 large, and complete stock ofthe leading lines of . ; .FIROZSTT STEEBT, _K_LA_iSO r_vij...uuuuk>f MINING COMPANIES, MINERS, AND PROSPECTORS FURNISHED WITH SUPPLIES. hoes, &poeeries, .-Hardware, Iran and Steel. ���jewelry ry NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS its large cireula- truthl'iilly state Ivaslo ami I2.". tit towns in South Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Perfumes, Soaps, Brushes, And Toilet Articles of Every Description. Cor. Baker and Josephine Streets, Nelson, B. C. si*���J Central Office of the Kootenay Lake Telephone. <fc ouston Block, Baker Street, Nelson. hOLD. SILVEE. LEAD. TIME CARD, Commencing Dec. 13th. COLUMBIA & KOOTENAY S. N. Co. Ltd. N'olice is hereby given thai sealed lenders vvill he received ut lhe ollice of the N'elson & l-'orl Sheppard Railway Company, of Victoi-in. H. ('., up to Krohrunry Kith, IS!)."', for the construct ion of lhe said railway from Nelson, H.C".. to n point nl or near l-'orl Shep- pui-fl, H.l'. Hids vvill be entertained for lhe work us a whole or a pari, hut the company reserves the right to reject any and all hids. .Maps, prolllcs, and .spocillcations for said work will be on Ille al, the ollice of lhe company. ('-. T. IM-W.VT, President Xelson & l-'orl Sheppard Pail way. Victoria. IU'., .lanuary llth, ISJK*. wTpHrobinson (Deputy Slicrill'l LICENSED AUCTIONEER XKI-SDN, li.C. Auction sales made at. any point in Wcsl, Ivoolcuay diHti-iel. Town lots and mining claims bought, ami sold on c )niinisKion, A general rail estate business Iranacl.cd. Ollh.c for the present at residence, corner ('iirbonale nnd Kootenay strcctH, KOOTENAY LAKE ROUTE STB. 3STEX_.-SO_N" MONDAYS _ -T , /MONDAYS Leaves. Nelson j ^,\^^{\���^/t Leaves Kaslo -1' ..ni ii S.al (I at li SUNDAYS al 2 rUKSDAYtf at 10 WKDNIvSDAVW.af 2 A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. A.M. P. 31. Subjecl lo change without further notice. J". *W- T_RO"CT*E:>:, Nelson, December Hlth. IMI:.. .Manager. W. .1. WM.SO\. \v. I'I.KIm:.-;. Wilson & Perdue. . (The Nagle-Davie's Crown Grant.) The Gateway of the Lardo-Duncan Mining Camps. The Head of Navigation at the North End of Koootenay Lake. The Terminus of the Government Trail. The Only Flat Land Not Subject to Overflow and the Only Harbor at the North End of Kootenay Lake. As previonsly announced by notices already published, the first 200 lots having been sold, prices are Now advanced to $100 for Insides, and $160 for Corners. Terms, one-third cash, balance in 3 and 6 months. Managing* Agent, STONE BLOCK, KASLO. B. C. THE KASLO-KOOTENAY LAND CO LI-M-ITIEZD LIABILITY. AT Nelson and Kaslo. Will conl rncl in supply bonis wilh frcsli meals, or landing iu the mining companies und sleuin- niid deliver snine at any mine Koolenay Lake countrv. NELSON Ofllce and Market, 11 East Baker St. KASLO MARKET, Front Street. "I -_i.f ** Choice - Business - and - Residence - Property |||f Blocks A and B (water frontage) Now on he Market. Call before the SPRING RUSH, as prices must go up. Correspondence Solicited. O. T. STONE, Townsite Agent, Front St., Kaslo, B.C. 1 *.J*j9*^Sb1%_i" ItlH-BnTSSSJ ���_? ���#���*����� ��*-1 ��� I I v_d
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