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VOLT NO. 84

MINING ABN

“eae Development Reil

ne SHOWING IMPROVING)

‘Duke \ Vein‘ on Silver Cup’ Carries Two :

of the Harris Mines -group’ has
: “been .sunk-. -110- feet, and. the
, ‘showing of oré. continues to im-
. prove, ‘The: vein is now eighteen
-: inches wide, .with eight -inches
of high grade are on'the footwall.
~ The entire vein carries (Bray cop-

_ tity to. make. the value higher
“ ‘than’ any ‘average. yet obtained.

OS Sinking - proceeds. at the. rate of
‘two feet ¢ a. day.

Ms now 100 feet deep and. making],
a excellent. . progress,
_,, “showitig'is réported. to: be exedl-
"lent. ‘The hoisting and. pumping

7 plant ‘id. working: to- perfection.

~ Tthas sufficient: capacity to serve

= the face ‘of’ the Duke ‘tunnel,

” -.  which'is in-two feet of galena}-
and .pray copper ore ‘similar to

_— that from which such high assays
ae were recently obtained.

“There ‘are: trails. all-¢ over the

; ‘Groundhog country now”? says,
~Robert.MeDonald, - who ‘has just}

: veturned. from: the sixth trip he
i has made to the.coalflelds within
" . ayear. .He left. Hazelton several

. early part of the summer, "These
he cached at & convenient point

_ the river trails good, making’in
- eleven drives the distance which

» trips. On the return he discarded |.

~ -snowshoes* and ‘toboggans at]
Fourth. Cabin, packing his dun-
“nage on the ‘sleigh dogs: °

~. He will return to ‘Groundhog
- about May 1.

° inent western: railway . ‘men pre-

“dent ‘of. the,

Fitzhugh: had long. b
_.. «lieutenant.
= - ‘ate te preident, by. ten yeura..

‘earning the fate of the ateamer

-HAZELTON, B ee SATURDAY, -APRIL 20, 1912

PRICE $200 A ‘YEAR -

OFTHE WEEK)

- ported on Working Proper- |
_ tes i in Vicinity of Hazelton

Feet of Rich Ore— Harrie ‘Mines ‘and

, Silver Standard ‘are Making Good

Progress i in Sinking Operations ,

“The shaft on. the Fagle. ‘aim

per and galena i in aufficient quan-

"The Silver Standard. shat is

The ore

for development toa considerable

Unofficial reports: fiom’ ‘the
iiver Cup are to thie effect: that
the’. finest. showing: of. ore. yet
seen ‘on: the: property-.i is now in:

weeks ago, with ‘Supplies: for. the

for working. _ Bob says he found

required a; month. on previous

He
‘tells of an immense glacier, never
before reported, which he saw
on the north fork of the Skeena;

Hays’ ’ Probable Successor. _
‘. (Bpecial to The Miner}
ancouver,” April. 20: —Prom-

diet’ that’ the. frst ,vice-presi-
“GT, Pi, . Fitz-
‘hugh, “will: be electad . president,
in “succession ‘to!-C,..M. Haya.
een. Hays’
‘He is ‘Older. than the

Btanie’ s Builder il “

~ London, Apri’ 18 Lord Pirrie;
head of the firm of Harland -arid
Wolff, of Belfast, builders of the
Titanic, is dangerously ill.’ News
of the wreck is ‘heing kept : from |
im in the feart‘hat the shock of.

ould cause his death. |“

fhe that they re natnow setually {it

Of a: province, ‘the

SIXTEEN HU INDRED LOST

_IN APPALL

ING DISASTER)

FST STORY OF THE

Doomed ‘Steamer. ‘Sent Out |"

the. Titanic’ 8°318 ‘first-class pas-
sengers were John’ Jacob Astor

and wife; W. T. Stead, the fa-'
mous journalist; Benjamin Gug-
genheim;: Alfred: G. Vanderbilt;
Countess | Rothesay; . “H.. Roths-
‘child and. wife; and 1 many | others
prominent in: the financial and
social world. :

and 890 third-elass passengers,
while the crew numbered 730.
| Prastically every man on board
went down with the. vessel,

message’. was - ‘received by’ ‘the
Allan Liner. Virginian, : which;.
according. to the’ position given
by the Titanic’s operator, was
not more’ ‘than: ‘two hundred mites | .
away. ‘The captain of the. Vir-
ginian at once. started his boat
ae a Atal ‘speed for the. ‘seene of: the
disaster,
in latitinde.41. 46 | north;:

1150 miles. ‘due east of. New-
and 350 miles south of Cape Race,
Newfoundland, wireless station,

wireless operator of the Titanic
told that the vessel was appar-
' ently - doomed—"‘Sinking by ‘the
head’’—and that the women pas-
sengers were being rushed to the
lifeboats,

charge - of Captain Smith, who
was on the bridge of the Olympic
when. that vessel collided. with
the. British cruiser Hawke in
September. last. The Titanic was
the largest and finest steamer in| |.
the: world, _ costing fen tnillion
doliars. .

the first. signal - to lower | the
Titanie’s boats was given, res-
cued passengers say, some of the
crew showed .a disposition to
erowd forward, . Then a rallying
ery came through the megaphone
from the bridge: “Be British..my|
men!!”: _

Every’ man obeyéd the command
and the crew: faced ‘death: calmly.
But for ‘the’ heroisin’ ‘ofthe cap-
tain and his. officerd:’ many. more
would have been lost, ‘according
to some of the passengers, “who
declare that the -hest: traditions
of the sea were upheld, . Others
- {Say that at the close the wildest
. |scenes were ehacted, . ~ ..

saya he left. Mr: Hays standing
*/on the deck, his parting :-words
being, a feel ‘that the vessel will
last ‘about eight hours,’ -I hope to
Join. you’ latar.”” The. major de.

gave up his seat ita lifeboat to women
o male room: for a woman, a

GREAT CATASTROPHE

Wireless Appeal for . As-
_sistance, ‘Telling of Plight.|

oN ew York, ‘April 15: — Among

The vessel. had 262 second-class

The © “Titanie’s © first wireless | -

pathia,
Titanic: ‘disaster, -

The disaster occurred port at hine.o’clock last

longitude... .
t is: abouty
ork

atlantic passage. :

The last words sent by -the tions,

the - steamer

The ill-fated steamer. 1 was in
passengers ° and: crew.

and’ exposure, oe
Attempt to Rush Boats

Contradictory

re -

‘Heroism. ‘Was. , There.
New York: “April: “20

When

“Tt was: Captain Sinith’s voice.

‘truck the iceberg: - .

paratus unavailable,. os
“After the women had

- Major --Peuchen, of Toroiito, owner of the White Star

véssel, as did John Jacob

perate..male passengers
‘from © the ‘lifeboats: until |
were ‘safe, |”
Harrowing Scene

the accident: was inexeus-
ohn Ji agoh ‘Astor, hesays,.

' n Breat aplit.in the starbodrd
ail ter adn ;

tw -anild:

“lout of ‘a total of:

The: “Titanic was. ronnitis
‘terrific: “peed, ‘under’ orders taht
‘smash.ull records’ for. the: ‘trans: |-
The officers,
trying to live up to’ their. instruc-
were driving the vessel
over twenty-one knots an hour
when, : at midnight on’ Simday,.
collided with a].
mountain of ice off the Banks of
Newfoundland | and ‘sank to her
doom ina calm sea, with the loss
of 1,601 out of a@ total of 2,340

TITANIC STRIKING ICEBERG
“SINKS WITH TWO-THIRDS
~ DF PASSENGERS AND CREW

New. York, April 15:1 | 5:---The greatest -disas-
ter in the: marine history’ of the world ‘occurred
at midnight, when the new White Star steamer
Titanic, the world’s largest ship, on her maiden
voyage. from Southampton to New York,
crashed into an ‘iceberg, sinking at 2: 20. this
morning. with 1600 of her passengers and ‘crew
2340.
women and children a on. board were saved, be-
ing picked. up from: the lifeboats. by the Carpa-
thia, which i is now en. route to New. York.

New York, ‘April 19: The ‘Car-| bridge, placed the muzzle of -his
with the survivors of' the
reached -:

Seven |.
hundred and forty - five were
rescued, but six died from terror};

'-/ remained afloat fortwo hours and
accounts are

given of. the conduct of the

’ | officers, créw, and passengers:
 “lafter the impact. Three male:
'|passengers, said to have ‘been
Italians, were shot while forcing
themselves towards the lifeboats
‘before the women and children’
“were: rescued, ‘Practically all the
women were ‘Saved, with the ex;
ception of. a few: who could not
be forced to leave their husbands
and who perished with them.
Two hundred. sailors, sleeping | ({
in the bow, were; drowned like
rate in a trap when ‘the ship
‘AN electric’
lights were out: four ‘minutes
after the impact. The. dynamos.
and atorage batteries . giving out |:
soon rendered the Wireless ap-

been

placed in the lifeboats a few men
«| -were saved, - Bruce Ismay,’ chief

line,

being oneof the number, Charles:
M. Hays went down:.with thé

Astor}:

and Major Butt, military aide'to
President: Taft, who fought des:

away |:
the}

‘iter the Bhip|

“3 sentatives. were allowed aboard

Nearly all the

revolver i in: his, mouth | and blew
his brains ‘out. The chief en-

‘the vessel sank,

ship’s string band. gathered in
the saloon and: played “Nearer,
My God, , foThee”" as the steamer
sank, -
- The number of. 1ifeboats’ was
entirely inadequate for the safety
of the passengers, Given suffi-
cient boats, all could, have been
rescued. :
Survivors Rescued
“The iceberg. was sighted, a
| quarter of a mile away, at the
lastant.of collision. The vessel

a half. The Carpathia, which
had. eatight the first wireless
message, atrived on the scene
two hours ‘after the Titanic had
‘gone down, and picked up the
boats. She steamed to New
York, passing. through a field of:
icebergs in the vicinity of the
disaster, and arrived here in a
theavy rainstorm. .Fifty thousand
peoplehad gathered around the
guarded pier. No press repre-

the boat or on the dock, © Hun-
dreds of flashlights from vessels
in the harbor cast a lutid glare
over the scene, unequalled in the
pathos ‘of the world’s greatest
marine disaster. | cal
‘Bruce Ismay made’ the atate-|
ment that he would welcome..an
investigation by the: British and
American _ .zovernments. . Mrs,
Cardeza, one.of the reseued pas-
Bengers, said: ‘Ismay was not only
safely seated in a lifeboat before
it “wad filled, but ‘selected. the
erew that rowéd'the boat.
King George arid - President

sine sorrow,

Waa Most Liiurlous Steamer

‘She was magnificently
fitted and-had been: widely ad:

ineer “also. Shot himself fis the

- dintendent ‘of British’ Columbia
‘According to ite 2 aédound, “the

Taft exchanged messages expres- can

s ‘OFFICIAL REPORT SAYS te FF art
The steamer Titanic was 882 L2i)
A feet i in beam; and of 45, 000: tons |]
““Tyepiater, '
a bulkhead’ dyatem only de-
layed the: sinking of the ship. A‘
quar’ } ined ! _ Beam a. The
world.. She was built-at Belfast|:
}| by: Harlarid.& Wali; ‘leaving the|:
Irish ort or ‘April Sr. as r South: a

vértised: as the bafest, as, well. a amt

MANY . CANADIANS tf

Charles M. Hays, President of
. Grand Trunk Pacific Rail-
way, Among Those Lost,

Canadians on the Titanic were:
CG. M. Hays, president of the
Grand Trunk Pacific, Mrs. Hays
and - daughter; Major Arthur
Peuchen and Hugo Ross, of Van-
couver; Mark Fortune, ‘wife, son
and three daughters; J. J. Bore-
bank and Thomas:Beattie, all of
Winnipeg; Thornton Davidson
and wife, Mrs. F. C. Douglas,
Mrs, James H. J. Allison, daugh-
ter and son, all-of Montreal, A
Canadian cinematograph operator.
was on board, making films of
the incidents of the Titanic’ s in-
itial voyage,

New York, April 18:—Of the
fifty Canadian passengers knowu
to have been on the Titanic,
thirty-six were drowned, includ-
ing Charles M.. Hays, president
of the Grand Trunk Paceifie rail-
way. Mrs. Hays and daughter
Marguerite were saved. ‘Thomas
McCaffrey, of Vancouver, super-

ty

branches fat’ the: Union, “Bank,
was among’ the lost, Other Can-
adians knriown to have gone ‘down
with the steamer were. Quigg
Baxter, Winnipeg; Anne’ Per-
raulf, Mrs. Hays’ maid: Rev.
Arthur _ Christopherson, Sher-
brooke; Sarah Soufsky,- Toronto;
F, H. Mayberry, Moosejaw; Gus-
tave Lesneur, Ottawa; H. J. Alli-
son, wife, daughter, and son,
Montreal; — Bates, Calgary;
‘Thompson Beattie, Winnipeg; J.
J. Burbank, Winnipeg; EF. P. Col-.
ley, surveyor, - Victoria: EB. C.
Groshby and wife; Thornton
Davidson, Montreal; Mark ‘For-
tune and son, Winnipeg; W. H..
Harbeck, moving picture oper-
ator; Mrs. Marshall and- two
children, Calgary; H. H. Molson,
Montreal; James McCrie,-Sarnia,
Dr, Alfred Paine, Hamilton; W.
H. Parr, Montreal; Austin Part-
ner, Vietor Payne,. secretary ‘to
C.-M. Hays; Mr. and-Mrs, Pugh,
Calgary; Hugo Ross, Winnipeg;
Ernest: A. Sjostedt, mining en-
gineer, Sault Ste Marie; George
Wright, Halifax. °

The following Canadians are
reported safe on board the Uar-
pathia, which will reach this port
tonight: Mra James ‘Baxter,
Montreal; Mrs. Thornton David-
son, Montreal. A. A, Dickald
‘and wife, .Calgary;: Mrs. F,- C,
Douglas, Montreal; Mrs. Mark
Fortune, Miss Alice Fortine,
‘Miss Ethel Fortune, Miss Mabel
Fortune, Winnipeg;. George EB.
Graham, Winnipeg; Mrs. J. C.
Hogeboom, Toronto; Mra. Gus:
tavé . Lesneur,- Ottawa: Major
Arthur Peuchen, Toronto,

New York, April. 20: Astate-

‘tent issued by officials of:
: White Start ine today gives the

-Iehy, reported a ag het
full apeed to be. mintntehied, de.

~ PROMINENCE DEAD gypaNies BEGIN WORK -

‘Crews Engaged in in “Developing Many
Seams ‘of Valuable Anthracite on =
_Numbor of Large | Groups in Famous

. Upper ‘Skeens Coal Field .

London, April 16 -—Arhong the

‘the work.

he: for

Richard
5 of tha: Titenle: dectard? hhinay | York

predicts

ent Season.

“Tnreey iS
FNTHSSTIC.

Groundhog Looks Better than
Ever, He Says After In-
specting Coal Showings —

More than ever: pleased with
the coal showings of Groundhog
district, Amos Godfrey, the well!
known coal operator, returned on
Tuesday from a five-weeks trip -
during which he inspected . the.
exposures of anthracite coal on
the properties of the companies.
in which he is interested.
remarkable
ments in the course of the prea-
.The snow is going
off ‘earlier ‘than usual,
large quantities of supplies have
been sent into the field, active
‘development work, which has -
already begun, can be. continued
without intermission throughout
the entire season,

On Trail creek, the B. c. An- _
thracite Coal Ltd. had driven a’ -.:
tunnel 76 feet on a seam’ which
showed three feet of coal-on the:---
surface. During Mr, Godfrey’ g
stay this tunnel ‘was - continued,
and at 100 feet five .and a ‘half .
feet of clean coal ‘was: being talien?— wy
out,. leaving a six-inch coal roof:
This tunnel is being driven three: -
feet a day.
Jackson -has constructed a car
and track, which greatly expedite
A camp has been ;
built on Telfer creek, on-the north
side of the Skeena valley, and 7
supplies have ‘been laid in fora.
small crew,. which is now en«
gaged in developing a five-foot
seam of clean anthracite, of un-
usually bright appearance. |
company has seventy sections of’.
coal Jands, with 56 exposures of
coal,
A Grew of men in charge of F,
B, Chettleburg is building camps
and making preparations for pre-
liminary development work ‘on -..
the groups controlled by Williams S
& Murdoff, of Vancouver; the
Canadian Mining Operators, and’ |
Andrew Laidlaw, of Spokane: ©;
Mr. Godfrey - hag engaged addi-.
tional men to supplement this
crew. oh,
A pertinent suggestion is ‘made .
by Mr. Godfrey, to the. effect.
that the government should take:
steps to conserve the -timber of -
the Groundhog district. There
is. sufficient mining | timber - for.
some time to come, if there- is no
waste and no destruction by fire, _
‘but an efficient fire warden: is.
needed to see that the law is |
complied with, wo

He
' develop-

and as

Superintendent

This -

Ne uver,
“McBri
tod

he |aplte wireleas wainloyé thir the thtp waa
athe Heariog: Nexberas: a

an i

- Premier. Will Be. “Here, co
Premier McBride, accompanied
by Attorney-General Bowser,
visit Hazelton i in June, if }

wi

osived i iy W. Ba