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Boe ' NEW HAZELTON, B, C. “APRIL, 24, 1914

G: - HAMMOND Is

tr.

_ BIG PRICE PAID
_ FOR GOLD MINE

Predicts Great Future for New Hlarel- Philadetshia Firm ‘Takes Over the Surf |

ton and Hubert—Starts De-
velopment at Hubert

G. J. Hammond, president. and
general manager of the Natural
Resources Security Co., Vancou-
ver, was in towna few hours
last Saturday night. His itiniary
provided a several days stay at
this point, out he was delayed so
long in Prince Rupert on account
of the land slides that he found
it necessary to go right on to his
new town of .Hubert. He was
on Saturday’s train which was
stalled the other side of Sealey
for several hours. Mr. Ham-
mond, with several others walk-
ed to New Hazelton and waited
here until the train pulled in at.
midnight. ,

At Hubert Mr. Hammond will
arrange for and start the work
for sidewalks, roads and other
local improvements. Hubert is

only three miles east of Telkwa,.

it is surrounded for many miles
by the best agricultural land and
it has recently been connected by
bridge over the Bulkley river with
the many farms and the thous
ands of acres on the opposite
side of the river. It is the nat-
ural supply point for the majori-
ty and the best mining properties
on the Hudson Bay mountain and
the Telkwa and Copper river coal!
deposits.

Hubert is anatural and an ideal
location for a town. It is level
and perfeetly dry—not a foot of
swamp or muskeg on the whole
property— and it 1s furnished
with excellent natural. drainage

- through” ‘p¥avel’ to” the Bulkley

river. A first class water supply
is algo available.

Hubert will be one of the eas-
iest towns in the north to devel-
op and it will be a place where
the tax rate will always be low,
even after all modern improve-
ments -and conveniences have
been installed. One of the best
evidences of the superiority of
Hubert over all other Bulkley val-
ley towns is that so many of the
ranchers and settlers of: the val-
ley were the first to purchase lots
in the town.

Hammond’s success with
Fort George is known the world
over. He accomplished this in
the face of strong and bitter op-
position, because, first he selects
the ideal location. does perlimin-
ary development and then uses
printer’sink. Asa publicity man

he has few equals on the. eontin-

ent and he also carries out all he
promises without a quibble.

-For a couple of years Mr. Ham-
mond has taken a keen interest
in New Hazelton. He has great
interest in the mineral deposits
of the district and in the future
prosperity of this town. To the
Herald he said that there was no
doubt in the world but that there
would be a good deal of activity.
in mining circles this year and he
advised: the people here to be
prepared for it.

The first of June Mr. Ham-
mond will return to the north and
spend a month or two, including
about a week in New Hazelton.

Furniture for Sale |

: The following household’ furni-
ture is offered for ‘immediate sale

as we are- giving up ‘housekeep-

g:—1 round mission oak dining

: table, 1 mission buffet, 1 bed and
matress, couch bed and matress,
“eupboard with glass doors, chif-
. fonier, droasing table,
“graniteware, singer sewing ma-~
chine, good new steel range and| .
Goods may be seen’ at! .
‘Fesidence, Twelfth Ave.

, Mrs. Jas. Kerr a Péitiea | R

chairs, |

‘to the old town.:

Inlet Property ~Have Started
Development ‘Work

A big deal was put th sough, re-
cently whereby::a Philadelphia
company takes over. the big gold
quartz property at Surf Inlet,
Vancouver Island. The price is
said to be $800,000, and the pur-
chasers are the Tonopah- Belmont

70.

The property is located about
25 miles inland’ and one of the
first works undertaken will be the
construction of a narrow gauge
railway into it from the coast.
They have already taken in eighty
tons of supplies and put forty or
more men to work. There is an
immense tonnage in sight which
has been opened up by a fourteen
hundred foot tunnel with cross-
cuts every forty or: fifty feet,

Jt is a free-milling gold and the
most modern equipment for the
extraction of the gold will be in-
stalled. A big revival of mining

and general business is looked for :

on the island.

AT THE HOSPITAL

Two Russians With Crutches Wanted
Admission, but Nothing Doing

On Tuesday morning two Rus-
sians arrived fram Duncanon on
the train and took the stage to
the hospital. They used home
made crutches to walk with. At
the hospital the ductor examined
them but found nothing wrong
and they were sent away, going
Later’ théy-re-
turned here and made very good

-headway without the ‘use of ‘the

crutches. | Their aclion is looked
upon with suspicion by the people

generally as many expected that

an effort would be made to take
the wounded from the hospital

and the prisoners from the jail.

The two wounded at the hospital
are doing very well. They can
talk and understand everything
but ‘“‘bank robbery’? and on that
subject they can understand no-
thing whatever. The police can
get nothing from them.

USE SILVER FROM
THE LOCAL MINES

For a Plate to Present to E, J. Cham-
berfain When he Visits Prince .
 Rapert This Summer’

A proposal has come fram the

Prince Rupert Board of Trade for

sufficient silver from the mines!

in this vicinity to make a plate to
present to E.
president of the G. T. P. when
he arrives in Prince Rupert after
the official linking-up of the line.
It is proposed to have the plate
suitably engraved. with the name

of the mine or mites. furnishing |

the silver. and also:the occasion.
The idea is an excellent. one, and
arrangements are already being
made to secure the silver, as both
the Silver Standard and the Am-
erican Boy have ore there and
‘they are. also getting ‘ready to

-|ship more as soon as the roads

are built. -

J. Chamberlain,.

Ww. Ty J EPHSON

| Barrister and Solicitor

of British Columbia, Alberta
’ and Saskatchewan

=» NOTARY: PUBLIC.

Room, i, Post Office Building ot,

Jack Williams was a business
visitor in Pririce Rupert over the
week end. '.He expects to opena
restaurant there soon.

Just opened. Best—that’s ail. |
’, Hot and Cold Running Water.

-C. E. MITCHELL -

| Rear of Galena Club, 9th Ave.

=ret your clothes
cleaned, pressed
and repaired. :-
First-class work
---moderate rate
of charge. Our

rateof
$3.00.
will: keep your
wardrobe in per-
fect condition.

Work called for
and delivered.

C. H. KEDDIE

Md en

Jith Ave. and “Fielding . Bt.
NEW —— _ B.C.

Auction Sale

PRINCE
({EORGE
LOTS

The goyernment of the pro-
vinee of British Columbia
will sell their holdings in
the G. T. P. townsite of
Prince. George by public
auction at ;

VANCOUVER

MAY 19th, 20th, 21st

At the Grand Trunk Paci-
fic Development Company's
auction sale of PRINCE
GEORGE, held in Vancou-
ver last September, I was a
heavy purchaser. for local
investors, and am pleased:
to state that many of them
have resold their. holdings
at a good advance—in sev-
eral cases --profits, of from
one hundred to five hundred
per cent have been realized.
‘If you wish to invest at the
forthcomiug sale,- and are
unable to.be present, I am
prepared to buy for you. .
Write to-day for informa-,
tion, maps. ete. ;

Edward F. ae

Smite BLOCK. THIRD AVENUE .

. Prince. Rupert _

special monthly

WANT SAMPLES
_ FOR THE PANAMA]
Grand Trunk Pacific Want Rew Haz.

elton Ores for Their Display
at the Big Exhibition ,

The secretary of the Mine Ow-
ner’s Association has received a
request from the G. T. P. Com-
missioner of Industries ‘for ore
samples from this district to send
to the Panama ‘exhibition. The
railway company are erecting a
special building for the display of
the natural resources in this new
country which their main line is
opening up. The display will be
one of the finest atthe exhibition
and it is up to the miners:of this
district to help with ‘this great
+[advertising scheme by bringing.
in the very finest samples. of ore
they can secure from. their own

property.

All samples left with the gsec-
retary at: the Herald. office will
be looked. after, ‘properly labelled
and forwarded! to the railway:
company.

Engineer Didn't Come
Chief Engineer Griffith, of the

| Public Works Department at Vic-

toria, who. was expected here the
middle of the week to examine
the high level bridge and to see
about the roads to and from it,
did not arrive'and will not be in
these parts until after the first of
the month.

In the meantime the road sup-
erintendent has had a gang of
men wasting. more. money and
labor on the hills to the old bridge
where so- many thousands of dol-
lars ‘have: been, wasted i in years
gone. bys. oe

ITS: ALL MINING |
ON THE COAST

W, S. Harris Returned. From a Very
Successful Business Trip—
Big Things This Year

‘It’s all. mining down on the
coast this year,’’ said W. §.
Harris upon his return from the
south Saturday night. “‘All the
loose money now will go into the
development of the hills. Every
little bunch of men you see on the
streets are talking mining, and
we are going te get our share up
here too.’”

Mr. Harris spent three weeks
in Vancouver and Victoria on
mining business ‘and he reports
very favorably on the results.

‘‘We have arranged fora hoist
to bé shipped from Montreal im-
mediately and this will enable us
to continue sinking on the Na, 3
vein to at least the 300 hundred
foot level at the smallest possible
cost. All this year there will be
an immense amount of develop-
ment work done at the Harris
Mines. ’”

Mr. Harris was accompanied by
his mother from. Vancouver after

ishe had visited with here daugh-

ter for acouple of months. Mrs.
Harris: expressed great pleasure

jin returning ‘to New Hazelton.

She knows of -no better: place to
live and of no finer climate for a
strong healthy. people.

dn

“Celebration Meeting

or's for $4.50,

Tonight the general committee!
on the Victoria Day ‘eelebration'}
| will: meet in the Northern ‘Hotel |‘
(dining room at 8.30-0'clock sharp.
for the purpose 6f° receiving: ‘the!
reports from the various sub-com:+
mittees: which have been. drawing:
‘up sections of the’, :big' ‘program. :

ROYAL BANK ANK HAS. :
OPENED ‘A BRANCH

wage tot

Took Over, Bank of Vancouver at old. .
Town— Will Build Permanent
Premises Here

The Royal: Bank of Canada has.
entered the New : Hazelton ‘dis- we
trict for business.. A. D. McLecd ~
arrived Saturday night from’ the.
coast to take over the premises. :
and business of the Bank of Van-
couver at the old town. The -
Royal Bank has taken over both
the Hazelton and the Fort Fraser’
branches. While in New Hazel-
ton Tuesday he stated that the’ -
Royal Bank would remain where
it was for a little while, but the
intention ig to erect permanent
premises in New Hazelton. The
Royal .is one of the strongest
financial institutions in Canada,
and its reputation throughout the
world is excellent, . There. is no
doubt but that Mr. MeLeod will
not only hold the present, busi-
ness, but will secure more. :

TRAIL TO MANSON CREEK

Omineca District Mining Men Want a
Little Work Done Their Way

Wm. Steele, mining recorder at
Manson Creek, has been in the
town and the district the past
week on his. annual trip. He is
just as enthusiastic this time as
éver, Hes says they are taking |
out: real gold in that district and
that this year will see thelargest:
clean-up since the early days. _

Trails are very badly needed to
and. through. the Omineea:' The
people have been: promised: that
proper trails would..be:-built;.but.....--.
like the roads and ‘trails around.
here, they require a long: time in
the building. . This is one of. the
matters Mr, Steele will take: ‘ap
while in the district.

Stetson hats at. Anger t the Tail-

Neil Metver spent the forepart
of the week at Prince Rupert. —

To clear out the stock of ladies
goods and. fancy goods great re-
ductions will be given at The
Log Cabin Stores. ©

We carry a full line of Chippe-
wa boots, the best ‘boot on ‘the’
market: for the: prospectors and
miners, $9.50— — Anger the Tailor.

Chief of Police Minty, former- :
ly of Fernie, arrived Wednesday --
night and he has assumed charge.
of the provincial police i in 1 this.

district.

ee,

Rapid. progress is being’ maiie
on the shaft work on the No. 3
vein: at the Silver Standard. Iti:
is the intention of Supt. Haskins. * ~
to make a record on this work
and every day he is getting out
more material. 7

a ee

Although: the. Twenty-fourth of
May celebration’in New Hazelton :
has just. been’ announced (in Ru-"
pert the'people are already pre-;°~
paring to spend the first holiday i
of the s season in this town, TNE

ducting. the ‘Central, Hot
the ‘past few . months , :has’ také
over the New. Hazelton -hote) ar
is having itt ln
ed and and remodeled. He