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Nimber and ‘Lumber Co. as

SAWMILL LOST BY FIRE
DOMINION DAY
VANARSDOL ;

- Another northern industiy

went up in smoke on’.
Dominion Day while all:

were .away celebrating
except John Hagan and his

’ wife who had: remained at

home to. watch things.

‘About ‘a quarter to three in

the afternoon the Vanarsdol

lumber. mill and stock of

lumber ‘and nearly all the

.  biildings connec with the
Plant were destr

gan was in Sh Reuse ant and.

heard a noise which he
thought ‘was, :the. train
. He went out to see

_ but Found a fire: ‘had got well

: . gtarted ‘at’ the

‘. ‘was only a short isapee
from.the mill’ burner. Ina -

‘barn which

remarkably short-time the

‘stiff wind

ghtera soon arrived
“se: plant “was . beyond: pater
>. and. the Joss w

umber
deatr horses
“to - the” ‘Hanson

” were burned in.the-barn. A

Joga of around $40,000 is the

result ahd the insurance was
only a itde o over a thousand

ae ad converted the
+ blaze into a roaring fire
‘" glarm-was sent to: Peace ‘
and: pen the sive where. culan

le were picnic ire part
Ve ad but the * “which:

tevermere who had one in

he soil expert. ‘followed

northern.

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dollars. After the fire had
completed its job the wind
continued and blew away
even the ashes so that

hardly ‘a log or a. stump is
left t to mark the place.

A LAND EXPERT SAYS
GROWING. ; _ PEAS
BETTER -

Qn Wednesday night the
hall was: well filled ‘wi

_farmers. and. two’ eagle.

The . occasion was’ a
gathering. of farmers and.

Mr. politicians and those who.

are engaged in solving the .

oblems of the farmers of -
he. ‘province and:
horticulturist. It was 'an-
aftermath of the..Farmers —
Institute convention. of the .
afternoon. —-

The first speaker ws was Dr. .
H.C... Wrinch, .-M.L.A.,-
member’ for 'S eena. | ; He «
went’ into: the ‘legislation :

gsed ‘at the last seasion : ‘of ©

he. legislature. and “
into those’ acts
had. a8 ‘their objects
the . _Soslgtance -of-. the

made :!
for seiryine wheal “and

felt: one. fhe new: ri lation ©

was As going to'be ¢ further
ince.. «.
a Mr. Munro, of Victoria, a

with-a
soils of the
interior,

Eek

talk on

Is ,

erred to the |
locally © by’ :

THURSDAY, JULY iu 1977.

- Skeena i is well known as big bear country as s shown

; on the left by three hunters in 1920. The bear was shot .

at Lakelse River with a 3090, Thornhill’s growth is .

shown at the right with the Skeena Bridge in the ”

foreground and Highway 16 to the east. The picture

was. taken on May 31, 1936. (Lloyd Johnstone
collection) . ;

a ‘Rupert was a visitor here

Terrace }2"

$8.0. Frederick of Kallum:
Fifty years ago t this week

Lake is in town for a few.

| Bob Thewles of the’
hatchery staff at ese: |
H Lake was here the first ‘of: |:

MORE RICH ORE FOUND — :
Simpson an

authentic reports u hter 0! n a
caniuthe effect that tharich’ 5a g in town, ANyox wr
ruby silver on the © ut
Henderson vein, Duthie —
mine, Hudson Bay
mountain, ~ has been
encountered in the 500 foot
level. If this shoot of ore. is.
an extensive as the one on
the surface was it will mean —

Bulkley

alley. He advised th
farmers to go. easy on
timothy for‘seed. ‘It took too
much out of the soil. The

quality seed could
roduced | for only a’ limited
e, . He very. strongly
advocated . thatthe ‘local .
farmers go more.in for peas
for seed. He said the soil
“was more: suited". for:

particularly of ‘th

Fairl

"Albert Arnold and Jim:
Jones of New Hazelton were ; .
here for the ing a te ‘:
went pros in the:
Kallum ake det

Rrvany ober PS sized than “much to the ‘ows of the At ‘Terrace Messrs. MP
~ mine, o mean °;

crop, Most tpeortant of al of all ruck to the diatrigt. McCaffery. and _ Cit
Mnever was “the: Droper nets Jones of Exings
‘otation " of ‘ crops -and. a... t spen eho .
csystem of general mixed . ila me a 8 Part rt of. e time t wen
‘farming. _ The: Bulkley .; a. holiday ‘with “trying out the fishing 4
“Valley was first and always” Casall ~ Lakelse Lake.and in some 0

a mixed. farming country. ; . thenearb creeks, Baer
: some- fish ~ on:

anson,.": |

+

‘atlornsy. general“: who. is. ‘Mine’ ‘nada Fultod who is
spending-some weels-in his’ -summering at. ‘Lakelse .B “Fulton: took pe
‘constituency of. -Omineca, :. Lake, was a holiday guest of thet. ‘and wert out in’ his
‘was ‘the next ‘speaker: and. Misses - ‘Mona - and Helen boat and showed them wer
with the aid of lantern slides “Greig. -. to rom eonly mora
told! the history" ‘of. the. a "
Botta British.

jolumbia. capectally Mrs.’ Novthover and ‘Mies en

§ that Bun left for their home in

had: been tressing (de dur uring ths
last: ten years under the
administration - of .
Liberal government.

‘Prince | Rupert on Monday ;
after visiti ng: at Henry |
the’ Smiths

Billy Dahil of Prince

was also in town, bu
he wasnt Bebing: