A Gon I More ‘Than ~ Make Wages in: ’ Manson Country ‘Anyone who knows anything| | about placer mining and who will | do any -work can make’ better ‘than wages in the Manson Creek country by hand mining, is the]; | opinion: of -J.- D. Galloway, dis- trict mining. engineer, -who got + back: from that country the first ) of the week, oe ‘Mr. Galloway™ was | away more # than a month and he spent most of his time ‘around Manson Creek examining ‘the placer ground. “It| | “was his first. trip into. that coun- |. trv. and he was’ particularly keen - to investigate some’ of the many glowing” ‘tales he had: heard of | the gold. deposits. He panned a + good deal of dirt and brought out samples of black sand concen. ‘trates. Besides being satisfied ‘that individuals can make good] money he found opportunities for + dredges. He wonld recommend ‘ drilling the ground. first and then taking i in the dredges. ‘He saw the old Kildare proper- { ty which is now owned by Beach 1 of Ottawa, and he believes that a lot of gold will come out of that |. ground, _-chere are. other leases Y in that’ section available that aré @. in appearance quite as promising. _ Ag to the prospects ° ‘for quartz’ a taining Mr. Galloway would not}. f say much. .He-examined a lot of me the country and brought i in some : samples 'to be assayed; He wants oy to get those - “assays: “before ‘he B for m8 an opinion. The forma. | tion is very Similar to that i in the $ Barkerville district. Billy Steele and. two: partners Bare working at the old town of ; Manson ‘Creek. and-they are do- B ing pretty well. [hey are shap- ed up to work all winter. Billy ® is feeling good and hopes to make. faclean up. There are very: few @ people in that country at the pre- f sent time, but indications are the m population will increase befars ° a gp Rreat while, mn d ‘emow BE 1 | ‘Kitwanga ee Pele. Anderson, general ‘road foreman, was (up from Rupert Mlast week.and- pave the roads in tbe district the once over. -M. Barbeau;- and, ‘patty,. who Fwas studying. ‘the ‘Tndians: here Sfor some: government. fad, ‘left aglast week . for . -Kitsegukla: ‘where ghe will repeat: his observations, Bill Blacksioek” ‘moved: hid tele 7 : and -took.. threa:. accused: OF con- |! ‘cropping: fora Jong: distance. - -trall,. three and a, half thiles long, readiness 4 for ‘an atthe ele alt ing, too much j Joy: water... fener ere mi eet armen NEW HAZELTON, B, G, OCTOBER | 38, 1924 ata " Skeens’s Indastrial Centre _ we ro { i op W. Shackleton has: returned froma visit to’ Vancouver with little Jack, who is rosy and cheer: ful over the trip. .. . - The Misses McCall are holiday- ing amid the sylvan glades and visiting the haunts: of the finny denizens of local waters,: having arrived from Hazelton on Thurs day of last week, Mrs. Ay - Wells is ‘Visiting. Mrs, G. Lacroix at New Hazelton for a few days... Pi] BF. A. Stewart’ is” “building a new: home on the corer of Lot 25 of the townsite,. — B. L, Woodward, an old:time resident of Usk, was forced to go to the ‘Hazelton Hospital for at- tention, owing to a severe attack of rheumatism. ed ‘Usk Mining Notes - William J. Elmendorif, M.E., who has been conducting an ex- amination of some of the mineral prospects on the 0,K. and Kile- anza ranges, returned to -Usk from the hills on Saturday... “He later left for Alice Arm, in con- nection with. his duties. voiced A new “discovery. of a. large mineral” outcrop was recently made bv L. E. Moody, with whom is associated Guy Mills, The find is situated twelve miles east of Usk on the 0.K. range, and i is on the western rim. of Silver Basin. Two veina, nine feet and thirty feet wide ‘respectively, were proved in well-defined fissures. and were found to carry much carbonate of copper-on the sur- face, while later they were shown to contain. grey copper and bor- nite, . The property may also be silver bearing. cas - The Chiminess Creek trail, the outlet for the Silver. Basin claims and others surrounding: that local- ity; is nearing the completion of the. brushing-out: process, ~ The|o trail will add much to the accessi- bility. of that district and the new discoveries, : ~ Joseph. Hamlet made a during 4, | last. month. a’ very important find. of silver- lead ore.on Silver moun- tain,. in the. OK. ‘Range. Re: porta. coming ‘aut. indicate solid ore a foot- ‘thick, and-samples of} | the ore. ‘apeey. ‘938.5 0z8.. ‘silver, ‘42 per cent. lead, and-34 in gold. The: veins seem substantial, “outs | TA has been: -built: to. the property in _ Cona, Goddard. and Cérpl:: i, Cc. tn b sBrice were here on. “Wednesday |. | 4| I ment “worthy: of the name in ‘China, jis in charge of the forees in Pe- {been recognized as-leader by. the jing ‘Shanghai: and j is a rival of Canton for first ‘Specially written for The Omineca : Herald and The Terrace News s by REY. -A. N.C. POUND, ” who recently returned from a. four-year stay in that country. | Ortein of the Trouble: © . For the mast. of forty centuries China has been riled by. a strong Imperial hand: - About fourteen years ago.this power was remov- ed by the Revolution, when the Chinese overthrew the Manchu powers, from the north..- The new president, . Yuan Shi Kai, was strong ‘enough to. control. the- country for a few years... Upon his death ‘authority fell into the hands of the various military leaders, -who had ‘accumulated wealth and organized armies dur- ing the Revolution. «In recent years ‘their has been no govern- ‘The people do not know what it means to vote.” Aathor- ity is in the hands of the military, who too often plunder the help- less people to accomplish ‘their own selfish ends, © The Three Great Leaders, © It seems to the writer that the strongest man in China today is ‘Wu Peh (pronounced “bay’’) Fu. ‘His: two great rivals:ere Sun-Yat- Sen in South -China, andJang ‘Tsao Lin in, the north. -Wu Peh Fu became famous as the leader of central China and was suceess- | ful im driving. Jang Tsao Lin northward from Peking, where he has his headquarters at pres- ent,. -He is a clever and able Chinese leader, | Under nim are three preat generals, Chi Hsieh Yuan and Sun Shan Fung, whose forces. are. attacking Shanghai at present; the -other . ‘general is Feng: (pronounced Fung”), the famous Christian Reneral, - who king, many of whom are his own Christian army, Dr. Sun Yat Sen the leader of South China, and ‘supported by most Chinese} outside China, is zreatly. admired and respected by most foreigners who know him,but has ‘never rest of ‘China, since he failed to be ‘elected: the. first . president, The - third: great ° “leader, Jang}. Tso.Lin,. has. gathered a’ "atrong |, army: in-the north: and ig endea- voring :.to. tegain. hia “lost terri- tory, AB he: advances: ‘Ob. Peking. In- league” with him is General Lu Yung Heiang, ‘who is defend: ” Shanghai is the greatest commercial city of China place: i in- regard ‘to. population, OVERHEARD AROUND... _NEW HAZELTON | - Walter MacKenzie of Prinee Rupert and a former resident of. New Hazelton, spent. the week lend in town and then proceeded to Vancouver on a holiday. 8. H. Senkpiel was a business visitor to Smithers over the week end. Last Saturday evening Mrs. F. A, Goddard entertained to a most enjoyable dance; The boys have been getting a lot of ducks’ from Mcffullen’s pond. It’s the early bay who gets the duck—also the ducking. ‘Thanksgiving Day this year willbe on Monday, Nov. 10th. A lot of geese are running about town now which will stand con- centration, without humanity’s protest, Thanksgiving Day. *. There is a change in the sail- ings of the C. N. R. coast boats. Look up the advertisement this week, ‘Sines the report of gold ‘in the far north several we)l known old placer miners have got itchy feet and are very uneasy. The latest good reports are from Gold Pan ereek in the. Dease Lake country, There® ‘should’: -bé “no” surprise if some morning a, number of the boys fail to report at the rammy ‘table. - Rev, Wm. Doney, formerly of Trail, B. C., but for some months has been motoring: ‘over the con- tinent, has arrived at Telkwa to succeed Rev. Wm, Mawhinney in the work of the ‘Union church. The. Telkwa people will be glad to go to church again after a long huliday,-and especially now that the summer sports are over, Fred Peterson was down. from Telkwa Thursday and -returned on Friday to work on the road between Smithers and Telkwa, via Tatlow. ‘some time as a new section is to!- be built that will do away with the long trestle bridge. When open for traffic it will- give two good roads between Smithers and Telkwa, one on ‘each: side of the Bulkley river. "The Herald i is only $2.00 8 vear The great civilian This work will take | who.-are ‘located. on Mp and - Mrs. James. ‘MeLeod- President E T. Kenney : = occupied the chair,. and after re-