ponpray ne THE OMINECA HERALD, "WEDNESDAY, FEDRUIBY a 2, ‘1934 a : NO. 33 Prince Rupert: Observations. of The halibut boats: in Rupert aie al ready for the’ first dash to the halibu “nunts the first of March, viys the case the first boats in get the s talking halibut, both as an item o Bihe commercial life of the city. . sue Btion in Prince Rupert is silver, regard to buying and hording sitver a uture settlement of, international ob § ligations, ; Prince Itupert that Canada will have B Onnee, more optimistic that , investments im pinned. With the opening of the sil m ver mines in British Columbia, and es importanee of Prince Rupert 7 coves of ‘the commercial world, sea ful feeling in practically nll. quarters af Prince Rupert over the week end, wee For a week or more the weather had me. been perfect, and when Prince Rupert a gets good weather there is’ nothing on | the continent that can touch it, with ' all due Tespect to M. M. Stephens who has just returned from a-short trip. to me Southern California ‘at a season when fy. thelr’ weather is undoubtedly at its Hest... But th much brighter ‘outlook was aus to the im: fuct that the drydock payrotl. has been spread around a couple of times to the extent of ten or twelve thousand dollars more than’ the regular payroll. There is also a rapidly. inereasing pay islands which. is. beginning to trickle into Rupert, and with prospects of a much larger share of those wages be- tne circulated there, . * + 8 a : We had a talk with Thos. MeMeekin recenty. He is the Prince Rupert re- resentative of the prodneers of farm aid garden: stuff in the Interior. He xnys he lins been’ doing very well for the farmers tip ‘to the-present time, and much hetter than he anticipated far the first senson’ when he taok hold last fail or late simmer, He ta Jooking for- ward to a very much: better year in (1934. The farmers have to get organ- ‘ feed for production and marketing, and that organization work’ is now under way. Bnt Af. MeMoekin stressed] “the immediate necessity of the farmers and xardeners putting in a refrigerator box in Rupert. for storing perishables for a few days at a time while writing for the market to absorb it, He offers: ta furelsh the floor, space and to take charge of tt, if. the farmers will-instal sime. ‘Wie were. given to understand that Mr, Sutheri and, district ‘rericul- » tourist of Smithevs, wis to be in Rupert the first of the week. to go into this Inattery with Mr... MeMeekin. An ice hox ov small refrigerator avould be a big advantage to the farmers and it would materially increnxe the: Amotint. ‘of returns they would -recelye from their goods, Be ae * ok Construction work (s vider way on the new cold storage plant on the water front whieh will le of material benefit: to the fishermen, This, In also n net . industry, and, means’ more wien employ- Wee 7 ya Te Is autlelpated’ ‘that alt tho-Adimon eanneries In the’ nelhborhoad * “Of. Ru- pert will operate this: year, ; _” s as bite : se MN Interior Visitor As is al- vig price. Bveryone in the coast city foud and os an important feature in Another leading topic of conversa- Every slerson seems to be greatly. concerned gis to what Premier Bennett will do‘in me of the big assets of Canada for the It ‘is the genern] belief in to folow the lead of the United States f iti the matter of raising the price of the # White metal to something over $1.00 an So satisfied are some of the a in & iusinerss real estate ave belng made and pecially these it Northern British Col- B wnbin, they see a big increase in the in, the There was a very bright and cheer- le ninin reason for, the:very roll from the, logaing eamps on the _JAln. Raymond visited here last summer 2 -{poprlation. | . [people have never been up here and are ra , | Phira Suicide ' Francois: Lake | . Since January l 4 t|" The third isitlolde since January in’ the Francois. +Luke district ‘came to Hght the: end. of ‘last week when Kurt Unger’ wee found dead in his cabin with a gum shot wound in bis head. [- The: ‘decensed was a “ comparatively ‘p¥oung man between 35 and 40 Years of| ° age. He was'of German birth and res- sided on a ranch nenr Cooleymount. He was secretary and treasurer of the! Frances Lake Timber Products Co.,’a ; farmers organization denling in Doles, ties and timber, A meeting of. the, company had been uv called. but the secretary did not put in an appearnnce, The others thinking he might be tl. sent two of their num ' ber to his cabin to inv estizate. They ‘ found him dead:in the: house with ‘n gum shot: wound in his head. : fhe police were notified and Cons, Taite and the coroner went out. All books, papers and helongings of the man were taken in to Burns Take. It was found that before doing the deal Unger -had rolled up some things that belonged to otheys and had made out 1 number of cheques for sums that he owed. He left a note to his friends ‘saying goodbye and wishing | them a| long and happy life. The coroner and the pollee are tn- vestignting the matter further for flfs. |- covery of a motive as Unger was’ quite a clever yome man and was generally highly regarded. ft. 8 A change has recently taken place! in the ownership of the Prince Rupert Bmpire, the first daily paper started there.» Messrs, W. J. Raymond and O, iH. Erunks shave taken Jn with the Mr. ‘Sid: MeDonali,, one of the’ ‘pioriest ‘prin | ters in that city. ‘These three mer are well known in the city; they know the ; city’ from the grass roots, ‘und even be- “<6 Read our latest eerial, “The Crip- _pled.Lady of Peri- bonka,” by the late James Oliver Curwood. It blends the ro- mance of two cen- turies with mod- ern adventures in the author’s be- loved northland. : It is the story by ‘which he will probably be most affectionately re- Adventure nt 4 res www membered. "Fv portation. This force of men will be increased by another thirty men os First Installment son as accommodation can be provided “The Columario Geld Mine Ltd., pro- API pears. ia penty consists of fony crown. granted. , ASSUE wie arate TRE OMINECA THF ALD IN ras 7 Machinery For ~ Columario Has _ Cupt. Willman was in Terrace wuper- chinery for the Columario Gold: Mine: | jing of an: “Ingersol-Rand . compressa hiving a enpacity of 450 cubic feet ‘a engine of 112 horse power. capacity. Ai a than 2 passing ‘interest, mill when it arrives from the. enst. pany. in business, {camp site, short tram Hine andlin trans one. block: stricture extending over 400 feet. in ‘fore the grass took root. They have some plans for improvement and ex- pansion, but they do not propose to £0 Into these in a- rash, but will take ié slowly and ¢arry ott the plans as the Tosiness of the comniunity warrants. aud in the early days Mr. Frank was on the staff of the Omineca : Herald! May' theiy plains he stecessfully crrried out and thei venture he a success, oe & “Tt will be viemembered that last fat1 the railway conpiny granted a cheap rate from all points west of Prince Cearge to Prince Rupert for cePtain days. Quite xu “amber of people took advan tage of thit rate, ‘ulthough it was inadequately advertixed and the not{ian |° was short, “Rat the business people of Prince Rupert: realized what an advan tige such an exentsion was, both In the! inatter of Imsiness and in creating a better feeling among the people of: the const and the interior. There is now developing quite a demand for a return excursion rate from the coast to the interioy during the summer. months go that a lnvgetnumber of peaple might fet from the const inte the Interior and. lervn something dbout. thety great bin- terlond of vast potentinl resourees, It Must he vemembered that the ‘populn- tion of. Prince Rupert has changed very erently. during the last few Yenrs, and while the old thners are acanninted in and with ‘the interfor. the oli timers ave today na smally propartion of the ‘The great majority of the fornia, MANY NEW SLIDES SLID Along the lower part of the Skeena there were some very big snow slides recently. were. in entirely new places, hardly realize. what a snow slide ts nn- til one has seen. them, had. business for anyone or any object which happens to get in their way. very large slide caine down just west of. Usk and it ent some swath. riilwny did remarkably well to handle the slides as rapidly as was done, and kept the ront open for traffic. Aonumber of the HE Lost His RED’ NIGHT sinker a ——: M. M, Stephens, one of ‘the, ovtainats in clearing this is’ in progress. ‘in Prince Rupert. - recently He thinks some Cimada bas oeeupied: an important phice in the world’s flour trade during the past deeade,, her exports amount ing to one quarter of the world’s total. They ave very returned ground is about a mile from the mine from a holiday, trip to southern Cali-' trail, aud ts. 6,000 feet from the mise. While he was exploring one of: A contract for an arial the parks sonte one Jimmied the door | which the ore will be brought down, af his car anid took his eb? hag. Mr,i Stephens did not miss the bag until he winted to.go ta hed. his red. flannel night shirt- which he al-| Wiys packs with him to keep | away the: rheumatism. Hollywood people got it and he iq go- ing to tuke In all the picture shows m- til he finds it. height. and 12,000 feet long. To date the only. part of the property that has been in any way developed is between the 1885 and 2295 foot levels, and in this area‘ore has been blocked out to an extent exceeding 75.000 tons, on the basis of gold at $20 an ounce, of 980,000, or with gold valued at $32.38 the valine is $130,000, The average, taking the gold to be worth §20, is $12.30 per ton. with on addition of 50¢ in silver, The mine ‘is located on the Kleanza (Gold) creek, ‘nhout three miles from Usk, and comes within a quarter of a mile of the Skeena highway. A trail { takes off from the sonth bank of Gold ereek and ina distance of a mile and half reaches the mine. A: mill site iwas surveyed Last fall, and active work The | higgest One can OA The tram over i has been let, aud the work of clearing Since the consulting engineers cal- enlited: the 75,000 tons of ore in sight, much more development work has been done sand fresh blocks of ore will be fiddled to the reserves very shortly and these new and larger ore bodies are qurrying even p higher grade ore, ot the PIONEER PASSED AWAY Toseph Fraser, a ploneer of Buck ‘| Flats, Bulkley Valley, and a man about Gone to Mine| During. the last day days ' of. last week vising -the- tnlosding -of the: ‘first “mu- and seeing that it got well started on the road to ‘the company’s property. A earload: of machinery . arrived _ consist- free air per minute and a Petter, ‘diesel this is the first mining: inachinery ta he delivered to Terrace it’ haus nore Mine development -at the Colimarté! in future will be.at a much faster. rate than in the past, as there is no longer. any doubt as to the extent of the ore and the values contained in. the are. Enough development has atveady been done fo warrant tle installation uf 2 mill for treating this gotd ore, ard at {the present time bunk houses and other buildings are. heing erected at the site chosen for mill in preparation for the Ternice will he the shipping point and the main supply point for this com Trucks will be on the road be- tween the mine and the railway, and already the merchants and other busiz ness firms are finding on improvement At present there are some thirty men employed on the work, the majority be- ing engaged in’ mine development anc. the others on. construction, clearing a Sd four tn-crown. granted ones, cing aM area of about ¢00-acren “ACTOR in| There is a possible vein _ the rightofway will get under way as!’ Iw the:bag were suon as the snow goes, oo Gee. R. ‘Hodgins Died: Monday In 1 80th Year George ‘Ralph Hodglog, 0 resident of New Hazelton - since, 15T2.0r 1913, pusied away at the Hazelton ‘Hospital Monday evening about £1.30 following tn: ilIness which, extended from early in:November. _He was admitted to the -horpita2 about the middle of November and in a-week or so. he left feeling fine but in a. few days he' was back again ‘nd while he showed. signs of improve- nent at times, ‘he: gradually sunk low- er and lower ‘until. he passed quietly awiy on Monday. He was in his 80th year ‘ant this was his first illness. and the: first time he was ever in a hospit- al. Funeral arrangenients have heen made for Thursday afternoon athwo o'clock from the Tiited Church in Haz-_ elton, Dr, H. Co Wrineh will officlate and interment will take’ ‘place in’ the Havelton cemetery. |. The late Mr, Hodgins was born in Shawville, Que., but spent.many years n the United States where he was married’ and where all his family has always Hved. He was attracted to the north in 1898 and was among the early ones in Daitson, He met’ with a good den! of success as a placer -prospector and miner, but like. many another he did not bring his money out with him. . Fram the Yukon he came to New Haz elton and this has been his home since although of late he has béen watchman at the Silver Standard, He:did some prospecting around this district and was still holding some claims adjoin- ing the Silver Standard mine, He had a great many friends and all-who met him held him inthe highest regard. - He is survived by a widow, four sons and. one: daughter. “Hs youngest son. “Arthir,: ‘apent-severat: ‘pehsoris with: hin. here ‘and for two or tlrée seasong pla ¥ ed base ball with the New. Hazelton team away back in 1918 or "14. Mr. Hodgins will be missed in the commun- ity, and especially will he be missed xt the ball games. He has seldom missed a bali game in this district. : 5 rr f 8 Late Mrs. Norman Redman Rev. 8. V. AH. Redman left on Thurs- day of Jast week for Vancouver. At Prince Rupert he joined his brother Norman who was accompanying the ré mains of: his wife to Vancouver for in- terment, Many in this district will he sorry to lenrn of the sudden passiur of Mrs. Norman Redman at her home in Anyox.on February 14th after a brief iitmess. Besides her husband the late Mrs. Redman is survived by an infant son only a month old, 2 mother three sisters and a brother, all in Van- ebuver. Mr. and Mrs, Redman were married in Vaneouver ten years ago, but for a number of years have been at Anyox. The late Mrs. Redman visited Rey. and Mra, Redman in 1932 and again last summer nnd she mnde quite a num- her of friends here. _ Rey, Mr. Redman will remain in the south for a few days and on his return, will attend Preshytery In Prince Ru- pert and return home following that. meeting. . NIGHT SCHOOL FOR PROSPECTOR The night school for prespectors and _ ‘| practicntly, aud.in some cases, woeful- ly. fenorant of the. wonderful country | y ao close to them. There is no doubt], but thet the railway company, would be rendering a freak service to the en- tlre country through which their ‘line} runs and at the same time: make a pro-; fit from one, two or. even three cheap excuralons . from Prince’ Rupert, to the interlor during. July, Auguatiand Sept- _[ember.:: The Onitneca. ‘Herald ‘advances Tlave you paid you shih eet , rr ace i . t : “Tthig uggestion..to the, rotlway ‘ebinpany. gi to. ‘Boards of, Trade in, the tnterlor. Retare the rifle came into the hands of the -Eskimo the, seal: and walrus’ were hunted’ With the kayak..(cnnoe): or on the Jee with harpoon and. spéar, while caribou were shot from: ambush swith bow tind -arrow. . a we ‘Blocks of geese are reported to have gone” “north. over Prince George last’ week, and wild ' ducks. are reported in thé, Fraser :and. Nechako rivers: "The show. “haw: nboit” ‘all. ‘pone: eround: the town, ‘and Tom: Bpenery-ni ett: oft his - rubbers, eS : sixty yents of age, passed awny in. the Smithrs hospital the first of the week. He had been @ patient‘in the. hospital far about a month. He was a French Canadian, a bachelor and a returned man. He was one of the original trail blazers and spent most of his life in the’ interior, There - ara few in the. country now who. waite: here” ‘When. he' moved: in, : . His’ Hon! Judge Fisher of. Prince Ris miners opened in Hazelton last: Thuts-* day. evening in the high school house, The attendance ‘was far beyond all ‘ex- pectation and at the present, time some thirty five ‘members have ‘been’ enroll. | ed, and besides this the . lecture Inst week was attended: by. more than the. permanent members. . The - prospects are that before this weelr is‘ out-the: ate tendance will‘be even more than-nt the -° first lecture, ‘The setond. leéture Wty billed for Tuesday. night. oe ; ——— ‘pert, ‘went’ to: ‘Smithers. ‘Monday night |" _ to. attend to" any county rout: mattera, ‘ Have you ' Bald, your’ sentation sel CREPE... - . mo