High Values and

@ tufiaceous rocks.

‘six feet wide and composed of
msome quartz and the residual
@ rocks of the fractured zone. The

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Low Costs Mark -
Vanarsdol Find

The discovery by W. E. Van

= Meter and Arthur Clore of com-
‘mercial shipping grade gold-sil-

ver-lead ore on Kleanza moun-

m tain, five miles‘ below Usk and

opposite Vanarsdol, holds much

® interest.

The first vein is on Silver Cliff,

me 1500 feet above the Skeena Val-
‘ley on a steep slope of the south-
® west spur of Kleanza, outerops a
m contact(")-fissure, having more
Me evidence of a fissure, although

close to the contact of pranite and
The vein is

replacement has been mineralized

Oe with galena, pyrite and zine. The
wa fissure vlane is on the hanging
‘wall,

where three inches of the
ore, assaying $44 in gold and $29

gin silver, is consolidated,

About 700 feet horizontally

m further east and 400 feet verti-
me cally is the Silver Bow fissure,
t wholly in rock of tuffaceous com-

position, where, in a cut of fifteen

m feet on the vein, the face shows
me up eight inches of solid ore with
am four inches more of disseminated

material, carrying .46 oz. gold,

mm 163 oz. silver, 48.50 per cent lead,
mgand 2 per cent zinc, or a total
mevalue of $207.32 per ton.
maore has increased 30 per cent in
aa this surface cut in quantity and
mavalue of the gold and silver, and
me per cent in lead.

The

A Grassroots Proposition
The find is of immense import-

fance, inasmuch as it is a grass-

roots proposition in which the

Fowners become their own pro-

oters. This fact can be better

realized if demonstrated by the

Sapinking. of 60 feet and drifting
might feet on the bottom of the
ashaft.

Twenty-five tons of ore

mre on the dump ready for ship-

Mament, and 75 tons are blocked
Meut and valued at $20,000.
mawvork can be accomplished by the
> wnhers themselves in twomonths.
meChey are putting up a cabin and
@eentend making a horse trail be-

more the heavy snowfall comes,

This

Bihey will take out enough ore to
fay expenses and will sink and
Bhen drift a cross-cut tunnel to
zap the vein at a lower level.

: f More than twenty-five claims
are known to be located in the

Sea icinity.

mm Little Bros. have a group on a
Be@aralle! vein below the Silver
Slift and have a camp in course

=f construction for working dur-

ng the winter.
Persistent Vein Structure

ma The undoubted persistency of

- ein structure on _Kleanza Moun-

ain ig well established . by the

athaila groups of clatma on: thé

Bee orth-west spur bv the. work of

mine owners on the system: of

‘Usk joined..with .

parallel veins. These are nine in
number, and are from 150 to 200

feet apart, rising from the Golden|

Crown, 400 feet above sea level,
to an elevation of 5000 feet on
Valhalla No. 6, oceupied by 28
claims, carrying an average value
of 2 oz. of gold to the ton and
reaching a maximum of 5.9 oz.
gold and 81 oz. silver, and tra-
versing a distance of three miles.
The Silyer Bow veins are parallel
to these on the south-west. The
whole shows a potentia! gold re-
source which should underlie im-
mense future operations.

Children Have
Merry Time at
Costume Ball

The children’s masquerade ball
in the G.W.V.A. Hall, Terrace,
on Monday evening, was decided-
ly a popular and successful affair.
Over fifty children of all ages up
to fourteen years, and dressed to
represent everything f rom a
flower to a Terrace potato grow-
er, danced ali evening in and out
of step to the music from a four-
piece orchestra. At 10.80 the
judges, Mrs. James Richmond,
Mrs. J. [. Jones, C. R. Gilbert,
J. B. Agar, and J. K. Frost, took
in hand the extremely difficult
task of choosing the winning cos-
tumes..
awards the children descended to
to the ground floor uf the hall,
where the G.W.V,A. Auxiliary
had long tables arranged to ac
commodate all present with deli-
cious and abundant refreshments,
The youngsters resumed dancing
after supper and kept it up until
anearly bou. Following were

the prizewinners:

Beat-dressed Child—Sylvia Monckton
(Pairy).

Best Armistice Day Dress— Marjorie
Cook (Flanders Fields), Norman Chap-
man (Wounded Soldier).

Best Comic—Bruce Smith ‘(Police-
man).

Best Original Girl—Fanny McLaren
(Grandmother); Best Original '‘Boy’’—
Helen Smith (Terrace Farmer)

Best Pair—Gladya Kenney and Mona
Greig (Glowna).

Best Flower Dreas-Orpha Lazelle
(Aster).

Next Best Dresses—Helen -Lazelle
(Butterfly), Betty Dover (Cupid), Kath-
leen Burnett (Pierette), Carmen Smith
(Poppy Girl}, Marjorie Kenney (Lily),
Donald Burnett (Cowpunchei), Jessie
Nash (Carnival), Edith Little (Daffy-
Down-Dilly), Borbara Hatt (Rose),

‘|Gordon Little (Jack-be-Nimble), Tom

Olson (Simple Simon), Lorraine Ken-
ney (Jackie Coogan).

The prizés were donated by
Mesdames Lindsay, Keith, Gil-
bert and Frost, and Messrs. Agar,
Atwood, Bishop, Carr, Eggle-
shaw, Frost, Hatt, Kirkaldy, and

A. Y. Wilson,

| Last Saturday evening ‘the
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Allen
at Hanali-was the scene of a very
jolly party.’ Young people from
the Hanall

people.. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Allen are
ideal hosts.

Following the making of

‘ant evenings.

Teachers Met
In Convention
at Burns Lake

Twenty-six were present at the
school teachers’ convention held
in Burns Lake on Friday last.
School Inspector H. ©. Fraser
was in attendance, and he reports
that it was the best convention
he has yet seen in the north,
The delegates worked for seven
hours and everyone of them was
on the job during the whole time.

Papers were read by F. Rendle,
of Smithers, on ‘“Teaching Chil-
dren How to Studv’’; Robert
Bruce Wallace, of Topley, and
formerly of Kispiox, on ‘'School
Sports’’; Miss Dean, of South
Bank, on “High School Work in
Country Schools’’, and Miss Ward
of Tehesinkut, on ‘‘Project Me-
thods’”’. D. Cochrane, of Burns
Lake, gave an address on “How
to be Happy in a Country Dis-
trict’’, Inspector Fraser follow-
ed with an address, dealing with|
such subjects at entrance exami-
nations, nature study,and silent
reading,

It it intended to hold another
meeting during the Easter holi-
days, The place of meeting has
not yet been decided upon.

B.C. Apples Best

British Columbia apples have
captured practically ali the hon-
ors at the Imperial fruit show in
London. The exhibit of the As-
sociated. Growers of B.C. has
been awarded first, second and
third places for dessert apples,
second and third piaces for cook-
ing apples, first prize for Snow,
Meclatosh Red, Jonathan, Cox
Orange, Spitzenberg, Northern
Spy. Yetlow Newton, Northwest
Greening and Winesap, and see-
ond prize for Wealthy, King and
Grimes Golden.

The Armistice Dance

The Armistice dance in Assem-
bly hall Wednesday evening was
a big success. It was under the
auspices of the returned soldiers
and the boys did themselves cred-
it. It was one of the most pleas-
The attendance
was good, the floor was fair and
the refreshments were excellent.
Three musicians from Rupert and
Mrs. Chappell urnished excel-
lent musie, The proceeds were
for the benefit of the nurses resi-
dence and a nice little sum is to

be turned over to the treasurer

of that fund.

A. S&.-Gray, of Cedarvale, was
was in town the end of lagt week.
He had been on a collecting trip
through the district and judging
from the size of the bills he car-
ried around loose his apple and
small-fruit crop was fairly re-
munerative this year and collec-
tions not'too bad, |

Send in’ your subscription now,

Home Was Burned

The hame of W. R. Charter at
Terrace was burned to the ground
on Monday night, and its con-
tents are a complete loss.. Re-
turning home after attending the
masquerade ball, the owner start-
ed a fire in the stove, and over-
heating of the pipes is given as
the cause of the blaze. Centering
his efforts on saving the building,
Mr. Charter received bad burns,
and he Jost everything, including
$200 in cash, as well as several
musical instruments and other
valuables. He had but recently
arriyed back in town after spend-
ing a year in Prince Rupert.

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tea A re tet ea ed ae rnd Pane we

Miss M. Dobb, of the loca
school staff, spent the holiday
on a visit to her parents in Prince
Rupert.

C. W. Parker, of Lakelse, has
been spending a few days in
town.

Mr, and Mrs. T. E. Brooks left
on Saturday evening to spend a

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No. 20

No Ministerial
Changes Made
In Presbytery

Six hundred delegates to the
first Conference of the United
Church in this province met from
October 3 to November 5in Wes-
ley Church, Vancouver, The old
Genominationa! barriers between
the Methodist, Presbyterian, and
Congregational churches had
disappeared, and any suggestion
of reviving them met with uni-
versal disapproval. The sessions
were conducted conjointly by a
former member of each of the
old churches until the election of
Rev. Principal Sanford, D.D., as
president. Delegations appear-

*led before Conference from the
f Canadian Bible Society, the Wo-

men’s Missionary Societies of the
former churches, and the Baptist
and Anglican Churches, bringing
fraternal greetings.

The following officers were
elected for Prince Rupert Pres-
bytery:

Chairman—Rev, G. G. Hacker,
Prince Rupert.

Secretary—Rev, J. H. Young,

holiday in Vaneouver and other
points, taking the triangle route,

A large congregation attended
the Thanksgiving service in the
Anglican Church on Sunday.
The interior of the church was
tastefully decorated with foliage,
fruit and flowers. The sermen
of Rev. T. J. Marsh was very
appropriate and the special music
was heartily rendered.

. Mrs. John Grant, who, with
her children, left Terrace last
week to seek tidings of her hus-
band in Stewart, where he was
last seen on October 12, returned

H, L. Frank is in Victoria
attending the Farmers’ Institutes
Advisory Board meeting as the
member for District B.

A. H. Edwards, of Usk, was a
week-end visitor in town.

Veterans Held Service

The Armistice anniversary was
fittingly observed in Terrace on
Monday last. The ceremonies
opened with a service in the
G.W.V.A, Hall at1l a.m., when
Rev. T. J. Marsh spoke feelingly

of the sacrifices that had been

made by our soldiers and the
honor due their memory. After
the service automobiles were pro-
vided to convey the members of
the G.W.V.A. and their friends
to the cemeterv, where wreaths
were placed on the graves of
deceased veterans, following a
service by Rev. J. H. Young.
J. K: Frost recited ‘In Flanders
Fields,” and a touching address
was given by Mr. Barnes, who
was present at the burial of, the
first Canadian officer killed in
France. The “Last Post’’ was
then sounded by 'S. Kirkaldy, a

‘former member of the 1st Cana-

dian Pioneer Battalion.’

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Terrace.

Secretaries— Education, Dr, H,
C. Wrineh, Hazelton Hospital;
Maintenance andExtension Fund,
Rev. V. H. Sansum, Kispiox;
Home Missions, Rev. W. Deans,
Ocean Falls; Foreign Missions,
Rev. M. Shimidzu, Ocean Falla;
Evangelism and Social Service,
Rev. E. Baker, Prince Rupert:
Religious Education, Rev. A. C,
Pound. Hazelton-New Hazelton.

Rev. George G. Hacker and
Dr. Kergin, of Prince Rupert,
will represent the presbytery at
the General Council, Montreal.

No changes were made by
Conference in the Presbytery.

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Woodcock

A number of Woodcock people
attended the dance at Kitwanga
last Saturday and report having
had a good time.

T. W. Baker left last week for
his home in Vancouver,

Miss Alberta Dentinger return-
ed on Monday, after having
spent a few days visiting friends
in Prince Rupert.

S. Kinley, of Kitwanga, held
church service here last Sunday,

H. W. Edwardson, of the New
Hazelton school, attended the
district convention of teachers at
Burns Lake last Friday,

C. W. Harrison, chief inspector
of fisheries, accompanied by C.,

Hearn, superintendent at Lakelse
Hatchery, arrived from the south
on Saturday evening last witha
shipment of ten million sockeye
eggs from ,the Fraser River
4) hatchery . at. Pemberton. These.
éggs were taken next aay to: the

] Lakelse Hatehery,