; Thursday, July 23, 1953. THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Page 3 HAYING TIME MOWERS RAKES TRACTORS BINDER TWINE | Parts for All Machines = R. M. BLAIR MASSEY-HARRIS SALES AND SERVICE IMPERIAL OIL PRODUCTS TO: HORSEFLY COLLECTOR MAMMOTH TUSK FOUND AT QUESNEL A small priyate museum at Horse- fly will benefit from an unusual find last week near Prince George when a construction shovel cut through ten thousand years of history to un- earth the tusk of a prehistoric mammoth. The Prince George Citizen re- ports that the big tusk, weighing about 25 pounds, is in the possession of truck driver Phil Bourelle, who plans to send it to his father, who has a private museum at Horsefly. The huge piece of ancient ivory belonged to a strange hairy mam- moth that roamed these regions thousands of years before civiliza- tion began. In perfect condition, the heavy pointed curved tusk measures four feet in length, and is five inches in Don’t Miss , The NECCHI Sewing Machine Demonstration AT OUR STORE Friday and Saturday July 31 August 1 Conducted by a Necchi Specialist and Qualified Sewing Consultant ... - Free Gifts Choose The World’s Finest! See the NECCHI BU, the famous machine that does all your stitching and finishing without a single attachment. Sews plain and zig-zag ... makes buttonholes, sews on buttons... darns, embroiders, monograms, appliques and blind-hems. LIFETIME GUARANTEE LAKE HARDWARE LTD. Special Prizes Building and Plumbing Supplies at its widest point, with a socket at the end. It was discover- ed at a point about 100 feet below the surface of the surrounding land. In answer to a telegram from The Citizen, scientists at the University of British Columbia wired: “From your description this is evidently the tusk of a mammoth, one of the prehistoric elephants, and its age would not be less than several thousands of years.” Amateur archaeologists at Prince believe the tusk may be the first ever found in B.C. Apparently the entire mammoth was present at the gravel pit where the find was made, as workers re- port. that recently other huge bones, some as wide as two feet, were seen on the rock crusher conveyor belt. The mammoth lived in Pleistocene times, from about 15,000 to 5,000 B.C., during the Ice Age. Owing to their great weight, many of the animals became bogged down in marshy plains, sinking own into! ice cold mud, where they died and became frozen. THE TRIBUNE RUBBER STAMPS from THE TRIBUNE “parely wide enough Thi: related. Quésnel Forks, Quesnel City, the Forks, or just Quesnelle, as it was variously called, was the earliest locality to develop into a permanent . The city was built on a flat ing the two branches of the Quesnel River and the houses faced the wa- ters of the fork. A narrow levee for. the un- loading of pack trains ran along the tront of the town. By 1860 there’ were 20 or more houses, 10 or 12 stores, boarding houses, whiskey shops and tents on ten acre clearing. The next year Dennis Lynch built the government house, a single-room house with two cells. This jail must have been in- tended for purely masculine com+ pany, for it was not until a month after it was built that the first of, four white women arrived in the ‘town, The same year lots were to be surveyed and a townsite laid out properly, but Colonel R. C. Moody, chief commissioner of lands and works for the colony, opposed the ‘work and had it deferred. He saw ‘that parties in mining districts group themselves hurriedly together in ‘what may be called towns, but that they were not permanerit. W. P. Barry and Sam Adler built a 200 foot bridge across the Quesnel at Forks City and charged a toll as people crossed it coming from Wil- liams Lake through Beaver Lake on their way to the gold fields. BEAVER LAKE By 1861 Beaver Lake was an es- tablished stopping place. As early as April two stores had been erected, one by Deshields and another by Dun- levy and Sellars, those two intrepid men who had decided that with a istopping place, a gambling” house and a supply station they could make more out of mining than with a shovel. The great, laden pack trains passed through and Beaver Lake be- came well known as an animal mar- ket. On September 1, 1861, a train of 58 mules and four horses, equip- sold for $58,000. Single ani- a for as much as =e Floor Plan of and Williams Lake Pharmacy Blackwell’s Studio Williams Lake Stock Room S & Office DISPENSARY Fee Baby ' Toiletries Bar ce) 2. ‘Tobaccos oO 5 & & A Williams Lake Pharmacy a und i=} 2 99-R-3 5 =— ia os Day or Night