iN Thursday, July 23, 1958.

THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Page 11

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Gov't Employees
To Get 5-Day Week

Premier W. A. C. Bennett,
nounced last week that commencing
August Ist, the five-day week for civil
servants would be progressively in-
troduced. “The Government favours
in principle the introduction of the

an-

five-day week,’ he said. He pointed
out that the subject had been under
study for some time by a Cabinet
sub-committee consisting of the Hon.
W. D. Black, provincial secret:
the Hon. Einar M. Gunderson, min-
of finance and the Hon. Lyle Wicks,
minister of labour.

The Premier said that these stu-
dies revealed that the five-day week
must be progressively introduced in-
asmuch as many government func-
tions cannot be immediately admin-
istered on a five-day week basis; and
certain offices must by Statutes, re-
main open on Saturday mornings,
making necessary the retention of
a skeleton staff in some departments.

Mr. Bennett said that the change
would be made without the reduc-
tion of total hours of work, or in-
crease in costs, as the employees
would report to work at $:30 a.m.
instead of 9:00 a.m. as at present.
Each minister will be responsible
for the changeover in his own de-
partment.

Opening of the Cariboo

(This is the third installment of a recent address given to
the Williams Lake Historical Society by Gordon Elliott. Last

week’s installment dealt with
church in the Cariboo.)

The discovery of gold in New Cale-
donia is surrounded by uncertainty.
It is impossible to say by whom or
where it was first found, but in July
1857 Governor Douglas wrote offi-
cially that gold had been located.
Williams “Billy” Ballou saw the
possibilities and rushed southward
to prepare for an express company.

The news spread. It was too late
that year for anything of import-
ance, but the great Fraser River gold
rush began the following spring.
Many came, twenty to thirty thou-
sand of them. Those who found no
fortune’ on the river, but“who had
money to pay their way south, left,
dubbing the rush, ‘the Fraser River
humbug.” But not all left. With the
idea that the source of fine gold
would be found higher up the river
in coarse deposits, a thin line of men
began working north, over the diffi-
culties encountered by Fraser half
a century earlier. In 1858 Aaron
Post, an American was already at
the mouth of the Chilcotin, but re-
turned. In the spring of 1859 Peter
Curran Dunlevy and a party arrived
there.

ATTENTION,

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Packer buyers will be at our Williams Lake
Stockyards every Saturday during the shipping
season, starting July 25.

For special date requirements at Williams
Lake, or for sale arrangements through the

Producers Co-op (Sales every Tuesday), con-
tact Slim Dorin, Fieldman.

Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association

RANCHERS!

of the B.C. Livestock

Phone 74-R3 or

the establishment of the first

THE HORSEFLY RUSH

Dunlevy was more fortunate. Here
on a bar he met a Hudson’s Bay
Company runner, Tomaah, an Indian,
on his way to Fort Alexandria, who

told him of gold on a little river
north-east of Lac La Hache. When
Dunlevy and his friends scanned the
map the Indian sketched on the
sands, they arranged to meet him 16
days later on the brigade trail at
the east and south end of the lake.
The party, consisting of Dunlevy,
Tom Moffit, Jim Sellers, Ira Crow
and Tom Menefee, all American,
went back down the Fraser and
across to Kamloops for supplies.

The men were at the rendezvous
at the alloted time and were met by
Tomaah, and another Indian, Long
Baptist, who eventually led the
Argonauts to the first of the great
Cariboo prospects. This group panned
the first gold on the Horsefly River
in the middle of June, 1859. Twelve
hours later another group arrived:
Hans Helgesen, George Black, Joe
Devlin, Duncan MeMartin and Neil
Campbell.

The Lac La Hache trail was not
taken by many and the trek up river
continued. In May of 1859 John
Twan, a small boy of six years, stood
on the jetty of Fort Alexandria
watching the Prince Edward Island-
er, Benjamin MacDonald, shove off
into the river and head north to the
first great, clear stream coming into
the/Fraser on his right. He had been
told by the daughter of a local factor
that there he would find yellow sand.
On June 3, 1859, MacDonald turned
the first shovel of sand on the Ques-
nel River.

THE MAIN STRIKE!

On July 15 the Colonist of Victoria
said that gold had been discovered
‘.. . on a small creek, called the

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We will budget for Government’s legitimate needs...
we will stop budgeting for bloated surpluses which—
in three years—took from the people’s pockets the
staggering sum of $1,618,000,000 more than the

Government needed.

We will end the shocking conditions in our Defence
2? Department which the Government’s own investigator,
oe (Col. G.S. Currie) described as: ‘'A general breakdown
in the system of administration, supervision and
g records in a chaotic con-
dition and of little use in determining the nature and
extent of irregularities... Waste and inefficiency far
more costly in loss than that covered by actual

accounting ... Accoun'

dishonesty”.

We _ will reduce or eliminate countless hidden,
grossly inflate the cost of consumer goods, add to the grievous cost of

the taxpayer—

We_ will, without impairing the effi
Armed Forces, correct the appalling inefficiencies in
the administration of the Department of National
Defence.

buy it”.

indirect taxes which

living, increase the price of homes beyond the capacity of most of our

$500,000,000

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people to pay, discourage saving and initiative.

We will reduce federal taxes by at least
$500,000,000 a year... without reducing any
pensions, family allowances, or other social
security payments.

TAX CUT
NOW!

Insorted by the Progresslve Conservative Party of Cenado.

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jency of our

We will provide the nation with an administration
whose attitude towards the spending of public monies
will be one of prudence and common sense. A new
Government in itself will mean substantial savings to
will replace a Government whose
arrogant indifference:'to economy was best expressed
by Mr. Howe’s scornful remark, ‘What's a Million?’’. Or,
“If they need a gold-plated piano it is our duty to

Canal (Quesnel) River.” The story
was not believed. Two weeks later a
letter in the same paper appeared
for all to read. ‘We are located on
the Canal River ... tell the rest to
come up here.” The following
spring the hordes went up the Ques-
nel to see for themselves, up to the
forks, spilled over the mountains,
found gold and,shipped it out to Vie-
toria. The rush lasted five years.
With the advance of the miners
it was necessary to have an official
in the new region and on July 17,
1860, Philip Hendy Nind took an
oath swearing to “. . . honestly and
truly perform: the duties of Justice
of the Peace for the district of Alex-
andria in the Colony of British
Columbia.” He was the first govern-
ment official posted to the area and
with him went William Pinchbeck
as Chief Constable.
CHOOSES HEADQUARTERS
Nind chose Williams Lake as his
headquaiters because of its location
at the junction of the river and the
old Brigade Trails and from there
he could travel in all directions. Es-
tablishing himself at Williams Lake
he went to Alexandria and then to
Ferguson’s Bar, about six miles
from the mouth of the Quesnel,
There he was welcomed by the peace
loving element of the community
and appointed Isaac Holden a special
constable to arrest Moses Anderson,
a miner who had shot an Indian boy
Thus it is that William Pinchbeck
was the first constable at Williams
Lake and Isaac Holden the first con-
stable at Quesnel.
‘The Forks of the Quesnel River
had been reached. From the forks,
60 miles from the mouth, a short cut
was found to Fort Alexandria and
the old fort thrived as the supply
base for the new fields of the Cariboo,
as the new region was called. By
1860 at Alexandria, across from the
fort, there were stores, storage build-
ings, saloons and a post office. Its
heydey was short lived as a distribu-
ting centre and even the following
year people questioned the wisdom
of Gold Commissioner Nind when he
staked out the town and prepared to
sell lots. There were only half a
dozen men and the post office had
been withdrawn earlier as the mails
Were being sent to Williams Lake.
phe. spoatal centre pemeined at Wil-

moved tb Barkerville. There was no
gold at Fort Alexandria and a new
and better route had been found to
the new and thriving town at the
Forks of the Quesnel.

(Next week: The story of Quesnel
Forks and early history of Williams
Lake.)

DOG CREER j

Newlyweds Feted
At Airport

The airport recreation hall was
the setting for a very jolly party
Saturday evening at which the air-
port personnel acted as joint hosts
in honour of newly-weds Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Place.

For the honored guests it was an
evening of endless suprises, as rela-
tives from almost every section of
B.C. poured out of their cars to
swell the crowd. From Vancouver
came two nieces Miss Evelyn Place
and Mrs. P. Kornaga, the latter ac-
companied by her husband who, in-
cidentally, initiated the RCAF radio
service at Dog Creek. Also from the
coast came Mr. and Mrs. Ron Chap-
pell, son and daughter-in-law of the
bride, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Paten-
aude arrived from Allenby. Mrs.
Patenaude is the eldest daughter of
the bridegroom. Guests from town
included Mr. and Mrs. L. Hellyer,
Mrs. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Sid
Pigeon, Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Place,
Miss Bonnie Herbert and Miss Di-
onne Eagle.

During the evening Mr. Eve pre-
sented the happy couple with a gift
from the airport staff and in delight-
ful style proposed the toast to the
bride and groom. Ed Wilson acted
as M.C. during the evening. The
program was replete with dancing,
singing and a mock shot-gun wed-
ding realistically depicted by the
more exhuberant young folks. The
hour of dispersal was well toward
morning with everyone leaving tired
but happy.

MISS ANN WIENS paid another
visit to Gang Ranch in her official
capacity. She paused briefly at Dog
Creek enrotue.

GUESTS at Dog Creek House dur-
ing the week included Mrs. Varley
and daughter Vanetta of Vernon;
F. T. Byrom, R, B. Wilks and Harold
Lanning, all of Vancouver,