D Vvou. 19. _ NEW HAZELTON,:B. C., JULY 9 , 1928
f Lieut.-Governor [Smithers People {Continue Shaft Saw Some Wild  |Had Wonderful

|- Was Impressed
E Greatly by North

For the first: time since Sir
m@ James Douglas was governor of
| British Columbia, the northern
| interior of the province was hon-
| ored last week by a visit from the
!. Lieutenant-Governor, Hon. R. R.
Bruce, who, for the first time
during’ the many years he has
been a resident of the province,
was in the northern ‘interior..
In company with his niece,
Miss MacKenzie, Hon.. Dr. Su-
oe therland, minister of public works,
fm and Mrs. Sutherland, Hon. A, M.
Manson, attorney - general, and
= son Alex, and Mr, Dixon, His
@: Honor visited Prince George on

ed the stampede, the biggest
two days of sport that have been
“put on in the north, Following
ae the stampede, the party motored
m, through the Nechako Valley, the
4 6Bulkley Valley, and down to Ha-
Me: zelton, where they were guests
at the Hospital where they had
fm: luncheon Sunday. They visited
me: several points of interest and in
the Jate afternoon when return-

_ ing to Smithers they’ca!led on the

Dominion Day and officially open-|,

& editor of The Omineca Herald.

prise and mach. pleasure at the

- His Honor expressed great sur-|

@. extent of country we have in the
me. north.
| its resources much greater. than

mm: he had anticipated. The vastness|:

m of the valleys, when compared

| with the valleys of the south,
. i was a revelation to him, and he}
ais prouder of British Columbia
‘than ever he was before, He
took a great interest in the agri-
, cultural development that has
a already taken place, a3 well as in
ma the development of mining and
Mee the timber industry, .

m Miss McKenzie and Mrs. Suth-
Berland were delighted with the
f trip and the wonderful scenery.
a The Hagwilget canyon and the

; F hgh level bridge, together with

the beautiful scenery surroun-

Mi ding, aroused their enthusiasm,
Mrs, Sutherland said she would.

im like to come back here and spend

i; at least a week. © She was quite
® sure she could not take in every-
7 fi i thing in-the district in less time.
m The party. left for Smithers
m about 5.80 on Sunday. evening
P and intended ‘reaching that town
a in time for supper. - From there
Mm, they returned to Prince George
fem and then back tothe south. The
monly unfortunate part: of. their
me visit’ was its brevity,. but there
is no doubt that every member of
am} the party will be baci: i in ‘the not
a distant future

4 A son was born: on Friday, July
- I. at Coaasvale, to Ney and Mra.’

Alget lotte City and, willcouimence ‘hig
ta 3 ‘duties at: the. berinnliiz: ‘of thé
. able regarding: the peorenty.

ani
with’ ‘the salmon.

‘Tt was much larger and.

; ‘I ]Jéads,

: ceived. an ‘appointment: to teach
the public school at. Queen Char}

Entertain. Huge
Crowd July First

Smithers Athletic Agaoeiation

and the local. lodge of the Sons
of Canada staged the biggest and
best celebration on July First
that Smithets or any other town
in the district has been able to
achieye thus far. The organiza-
tion of the sports program and
the different forms of entertain-
ment was excellent.. From the
time the first race was called
everything ran smoothly and on
time, so that when the last main
event was announced it got under
way only about five minutes after
schedifle. It was something new
with such a lurge program.
The day was bright and hot.
The roads were in excellent condi-
tion and the people went to Smi-
thers from all directions until
there was gathered one of the
largest crowds the town has yet
been called upon to entertain.

The program was started off
with a big parade of. children,
adults, autos and clowns, and
marched to the exhibition grounds
where everything was in readi-
nesy. The program included over
fifty events in. the line of field
sports, a- baseball. game.-bet ween
Smithers and Telkwa, a. lacrosse
game between two local teams,
and a soft-ball game between
.two local teams of ladies,

There were refreshment booths
‘and other means of entertainment |
and every place did a big busi-/,
‘ness. The gate receipts were|:
large.
was one of the best ever,
hall was uncomfortably crowded,

pleasure of the affair.
During the afternoon many
visitors made side-trips to the
lakes and out into the farming
community, to try to cool off,
The sun was, if anything, a little
too hot to make a long afternoon
in ‘the open as enjoyable. as it
other wise would have been, but
that was no fault of the commit-
tee in charge of the affair, who
did their work well.” '
The receipts of the day were
around tne: thousand- dollar mark,
and after-the expenses -are all
met the Athletic Association will
have several hundred dollars. to
their credit. This will put them
financially on ‘easy street.

Skeena river mills are now fig-
uring .on supplying the grain
ships with lumber for lining and
with logs and ‘squares for deck
Times will’ ,be good for
the lumber mills if they Rat this
business..

“Mitohell .E. Newman has. re-

The dance in the evening |
The|

but there was a cool breeze which |
added much to the comfort and

addition,’

and Drifting on

W. &. Harris, who will have
charge of operations on the Ame-
rican Boy. mine, is expecting to
start work this week; for the
Vancouver capitalists who have
purchased a controlling interest.

the shaft on the No. 3 vein
which is pow down 270 feet, to a
depth of 300 feet with a 10-foot
sump. Then they will drift’on
that vein and continue the work.
until the proverty is opened up
sufficiently so that regular ship-
ments can be made.

A Rood deal of work has been

done on the American Boy mine
in years past, particularly on the
No. 3 vein.
has been shipped to Trail smelter
with good results.
_ Arecent issue of the Western
Canada Mining News, published
in Vaneouver, contained the fol-|.
lowing reference to the deal just
completed:

“Control of the American Boy

couver people. another example
of our own people interesting
therigelves © in development | of |:
good mining properties in’ the
province. © Those interested. in
the deal are Fergus R, Macdonald,-
W. W. Macdonald, A. P. Denby,
‘Dr. R. B. Boucher, Gen. J. Duff-
‘Stewart, and R. B: Webster. The
‘deal was put through ‘by A, Ers-
‘kine Smith and Archie Smith.
The American ‘Boy group ‘con-
sists of eight full claims located
in 1910 by Harris Brothers on
Nine-Mile mountain, seven miles
from New Hazelton. Consider-
‘able work ‘was done on it and

showing 102 oz. silver, 27 per

The low price of metals and the
war was the cause of the mine
shutting down.

The property is well equipped
to start work, ‘and’ it is-expected
that‘shipments will be made be-
fore the present season | is far
advanced.

'“‘Bifteen years ago shares were
sold at 25 cents, and those who
have held on to their shares
should soon find them of’ value,
as both the financial and working
ends of the- company are in

. capable hands,

“This property has been the
subject of ‘very favorable re-
ports ‘in the reports of. the de-
partment of mines. - W. ° Fleet
Robertson, who for many yebrs
was provincial mitieralogist, spoke
very well-of it ‘in. 1911; and” in
1914: John D: Galloway; then
resident’ éngineerin: that -diatriét,

Aid

‘and now proviricial ' ‘mhinéralogist,

also“ told: of “ital attength:.~ In,
‘ye O! Neill; Dominion:

Péolopist;” was’ sonnel favor

“fall term,

f

American Boy.

The first work will be to continue | -

A good deal of ore

group of claims, near New Hazel-
ton, has been acquired by Van-

ithe future,

shipments made, smelter 1.eturns |

cent lead, and $3 gold per ton. |:

of the week or early next week.

‘Nature on Trip

Michaud Bros. returned to Ter-
race the first of the week from a
summer trip over their trap line
between the south fork of Copper
river and Kitimaat. For fourteen
years or more they haye travelled
over that territory and admired
its beauty, but have never before
seen it in summer or when it did
not carry a heavy coat of snow.

‘What thev, found during the|
two weeks they were away was
arevelation, Many placea they
went over in the winter without
a thought confronted them this
summer as deep pulleys and
grown up with brush so heavy
that it was most difficult to get
through. Away above timber-
line they eame upon most won-
derful wild flowers, a number of
new varieties of which. they
brought back to plant in their.
own gardens; wild ducks foster-
ing their young in the turbulent
waters of the mountain canvons:
acres of wild flowers alive with:
bees and humming-birds; moun-
tain peaks they never saw before
without the snow, and canvons
so deep and so narrow that it
made them sick to look down,

” Bven with all they saw, it-was
too early for them to reach. their

Over Trap Line}

Trip by Car to —
Southern B. C.

R. S, and Mrs, Sargent and the
family returned on Tuesday after:
noon after an auto trip of more
than two thousand miles during:
which they visited Vancouver:
and several points in the State of’.
Washington, They were away:
about six weeks and they saw:

every day, .

On the trip down they attempt-. :
ed the new main highway, but
found they had to ship their car
from Asheroft to Hope over the
C. P. R. They motored. from
Hone. into Vancouver, On ‘the
return trip they crossed the Jine
into Washington below Everett,
then west thrnugh the fruit-dis-
tricts and back to the Canadian
side, through the Okanagan Val-
ley to Kamloops and. thenee to
the Cariboo road and on north to
Prince George where they took
in the stampede.

Mr, Sargent stated that there
is a lot of fine looking country to
the south of Quesnel. Just now
itis atits best too. But every
foot of that country is under ire
rigation. It is sandy, and gravel

water,

objective. They had to get home
to harvest their strawberry crop,
but will go back again and have
another try, if not this year, it
will surely be next year.

The scenery in that country is
most wonderful, and Messrs. Mi-
chaud state that it would not be
very difficult to get a trail fit for
tourists into that region. That,

of course, would be some time in
It would be only the
hardier variety of tourist who
could make the trip, even over a
trail, and, in any ease, there is
80 much wonderful scenery along
the railway that so few. have
seen. Some day, Michaud Bros.,
explorers, prospectors, trappers,
gardeners, and naturalists, may
realize their dream of seeing a
flow of tourists over the Copper
River country. .

. Drive River Next Week
It is expected that by the end

the Hanson Lumber &’ Timber
Co.’s boom will be put across the

logs along the Skeena and Kiapiox
rivera will.be dumped in.
are about a. million. feet of poles
and piling on the river banks and.
these are badly needed. to. fill
orders, The pole yards at Cedar-
vale are -pretty--well cleaned: out
except ' for: some of: the ‘longer
poles‘ and not’ “Many” of: them. 7
Small shipments.e are baing picked
up at. several. ‘points. ‘along, thie
lies. which: Helps: out: just tow. :

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There}. *50 a
be held in‘New Hazelton school.

‘tomorrow *: ‘night: at 7.30 o'clock,’

nel oné does not: see a naturally:
freen. field, ; :
From Quesnel north and west
there is a wonderful transforma-
tion. One travels through an en-
tirely different country. There
is no need of irrigation and the
farms are all producing splendid
crops. Having lived so long in:
the north where nature has been
so kind that to get a crop one has
only to remove the trees, turn. up
the soil and plant the seed, that
Mr. Sargent did not before ap-
preciate the great difficulties the
pioneers ijn the south had to over.’
come before their country came
to its present state. Likewise he
has today an appreciation of the
value of the-north country he
never had before, although he
always was a strong north man.
He believes that the opening of
the auto roads is: Roing to help

populate..the’ northern. interior

faster than any other agency will
do. Personally he is more satis-'
fied-than ever to: continue in the
north in spite of the artificial ad-

vantages offered by.the south. |

riyer at Cedarvale, and: that the|'~.

The annual school meeting will

The sewing meeting which the.
W. Auto the: By: H, shold monthly.
will’be held.at the -home: of Mrs.
Sawle.on Tuesdav-afternoon r next.

_ The New Hazelton members of mo.
the W. Ai to the'H: “FR and those”

| interested ‘inthe: work:will pat:
{on their annual ‘dance on Friday ,
;| Ataust-6th,”. Atiorcheatia.from
‘Benltbers. will supply’ the music,

some new country practically:

and hot and one of the heavy ex-:
penses to get a crop is to get the.

Until one gets to: Ques-.

ee