: VOL. I,.NO, 41 eo oe, - -HAZELTON, B. C:-SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1912. | |  , PRICE $2.00'A YEAR -

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TATEST FROM =e] MUCH EVIDENCE HEARD IN [=== <]ROAD CREWS
FIAGER FIELD cE) HAZELTON STATION CASE) “=== "="2) BEGIN WORK

| today. So — LC _ || down today.
lic Miners in Ominieca River} ~_—>» Galaxy of Legal Talent and Many Witnesses ; =
Gold Camps, | Bowser Is Mentioned Testify Before Railway -Board---Decision|Premier Is Coming

: | MANY OUTFITS AT WORK For Mabee’s P osition Reserved after Three-day Hearing---Strong | About End of June [ ARR A SUPERINTENDENT ;

ane ree: Ottawa, June 7:—It is stated| Case for South Hazelton Townsite. .
Profitable Year for Historic District | here that Hon. -W. J. “Bowser, | - Ce ee ot ae -
' Preiiicted—Oldtimers Returning—New attorney-general of British Co- ae .

Companies | Begin Work—Prospectors lumbia, may have the - chairman- (Special to The Miner) ~~ :
"| Narrowly Escape Drowning — Harry |ship of the Railway Board, Ottawa. June 6:—The :rehegr-
Walker Injured. . yacant since’ Judge Mahee’s

‘ Early Season Favors Hydrau- Many Men Now Engaged In 4
Construction and Improve- cet

ment of Highways,

(Special to The Miner}

. Vancouver, Juné 6:—Wim, Man-. Popular Foreman Promoted To New’
-" - 7 ; oa son, M. L.A. for Skeena, _ who . Position—Takes Charge In South Bulk.
that it was not the business of| sailed tonight for Princé Rupert, tev and Lake Porat Same of the
ing of th 4 , the Railway Board to adjudicate|stated- that Hon. Richard Me-|~ "DPortant Work Underway In Ominoca
death, if he will aceept. It is befor the Hazelton townsite case on an agreement between the|Bride and Hon. W. J. Bowser ws has just been received ,

‘ Harry . Walker. arrived ‘from| the general belief that’ the poaj-| before the Railway’ Board ve_{tilway and private individuals | will leave about the end of June News has just been received of —
, ben tion should go to'a western law-| eluded today,. Judgment was X@-] and which w ;  inter-|f isi i the appointment of W. J. Carr as
-Manson ereék'on Monday, hav- snou ee {8nd which was not in the inter-| for a visit to Prince Rupert and| ‘© 35 :

Man . nays /8V-lyer, in view of the large amount] served. No intimation has been’ ; : : superintendent of the new South
ing made a quick 200-mile trip to! 7 railway construction in the| to th wabls date of ests of the public. The province| other northern points, Mr. Man- Bulkley road district, comprisin

ep woseplbeen 88 to the probable date of | im nlaced its lots in South, Haz- / son atinounced that Alan Waters, | Bulkley road district, comprising

obtain treatment for an injury +637 ¢3¢,-- sem oe ee ¢ t oe oe ee
his ‘right -hand, The Mangon| Vancouver, June7:—It is: the/ecision. elton on the market, never sup-|city engineer of Nanaimo, had|*He: country south and east of

Gold Mining : general opinion, amongst the| At today’s session, Walker, & posing that, an order prohibiting) been appointed by the: provincial Telkwa, including the Francois
‘Gold Minne sath Co. attorney-general’s friends that/G. T. P. engineer, testified: that. station at that point would be government as district, eninear and Ootsa lake districts, Mr,
with which Mr, Walker is identi-~ he would refuse to accept thelit was quite possible to establish i.sued, The province was will-|for Skeena, with headquarters |©@!F has proved himself a! com. _
fied, and which is more generally | Railway Board . chairmanship a station at South Hazelton, with [in f to'leave the question of thelat Prince Rupert. petent road man, and there is no

known as the Huderle-Ottersdn | were it offered to him. OV prea doe . te hte eo
; company, owns valuable ground , Proper curvatures and’ grades, public interest with the Board, - doubt he will make good in his

ee Wor ' ” |Many stations in eastern Canada, ‘the first witi LICH. Te Y new position. Superintendent -
| Bere eer 6 MAMET TRANS ct ana ngTa n MTOR vee acne erate
; an ha. : * ; “x, | testified that G. U. Ryley ‘had! . vs rae :
O nauee arena erent az . 18 SKEENA CROSSING Fave . cont . be cee ete told hi the station ‘ould be on oe oe | Which, as it includes some six

: ue co hundred miles of roads and trails
time, but everything isin good oe wy ~ \10¢ 882, Boyd Affleck testified ; s . we wa
conditions now ant ehe sletntor Through Trains will Run, but|and the necessary grade main-|+nat New Hazelton was the hest Head of ‘Contracting Firm |is quite enough for one official, .

. et ae w, | Ro Provision as yet for|tained at an additional .cost of location. The question of navi-| ‘Starts on Trip-.Many Men ' The ‘season’s work on roads
is handling its 500° yards daily, Hazelton Freight, __ |$20,000. This evidence, based gation was then brought up by| Being Broughtin.. © and trails has. now begun in
nected __- |on topographical data, was intro: | 47, Rowell, who stated that. the “ earnest: Many crews. are now
. ; : nbn . duced to offset the opinion ex 7 wea nat. + ; (Speetat to The Miner) at work or on their way to the

d, the ill be| special despatch toThe Miner Baird. an ‘encinoen | cukley was not: navigable and et me: Sa digteint’ 2

7 moaneae peated in he Ominece from A. E.. McMaster, ‘district pressed by. Baird, an. engineer that steamers ‘could not nin to Vancouver, June 4:—P.. Welch, varibus parts of the digtrict. Oe
iver district this seasc; than for| agent of the.Grand: Trunk : Paci- who gaid a station could not ‘be New: Hazelton. Th ‘reply. to a head of the firm.of Foley, Welch | Ed Mullen, with fifteen mén
river aletriet Then Pal fic, announces that authority lias established at South Hazelton. question, Mr. Lueas: explained and Stewart, who. recently re- and sixteen packhorses loaded
‘ready ell advanced,: and those|been received. to operate trains| N. Gaucher, C, E.,. called :by how South Hazelton wai located, {tuned from a trip to the Yellow-| with supplies, is on his way to
who Went in enels ens pring | through to Skeena Crasaing.. and the Price interests, said it wal Id _Vernor W. Smith; man ager at head,. sailed lastnight for Prince | cut the new trail to Groundhog.

“have been able to"work "ah" goad that ‘a “tri-webkly “schedule ‘hue | Pobably.cost'$200,000 to straight New-Hazelton “for -Foley;--Weleh| Rupert en ropte-for Hazelton to| Hugh Gibson and his crew _

advantage, Many, parties are|beenarranged. Beginning to-/¢" the curvatures and reduce & Stewart, testified ‘that he: had |'™Shect the prgsress of construe-| have started. work! of the "Man- *

now on the trail to’ Manson, in-|™orrow, through pas senger the grades at South Hazelton, invested in New Hazelton on the| '#0n.on the western. section of/|son creck trail.
cluding a number of men under | rains will leave the Crossing at

Walker, recalled, stated that, strength of the fact that” the|*the-Grand Trunk Pacifit. Railway, |’ A party of twenty.is already
Superintendent, Brudvik of the! 12:0 noon on Tuesdays, Thurs-| vith the improvements he outstvaiiway had Bled plane for el. Hats Zelurn here Mr. Welch, | working on the, main wank: road
Royal Standard Investment eom-| days. and. Sundays, arriving in pee bie ation woud bee Station there.” He was interested wiite of the be ite Gr ot Bice shel “Robs h ne to
; ; W. B, Steele, George Gaff. [Prince Rupert at 8 p.m. on the| desirable location. It would be in‘mines east of New Hazelfon| "te of the Pacific. Great Eist-| - el. sobinson has gone. to.
ney, Charles McKinmen “crglsame daye,” Traine seit ec | better if the Sine were straight-| and believed thie latter’ wag the|¢™" between North Vancouver| North. Francois to superintend
other ldtimers. "™" -*"4lPeinee Rupert. Zor the toring | ened. In reply tod quant in [best shipping point, . When the| 2% Lillooe where two survey-|the eompletion of the wagon
HOM. Gibson, with a large! at 11 a: m, on "Mondays, Wednes- ated that the G TP. bad contractors undertook’ work: on low pores line. vais aneaged ae trom Burng, Lake . to
crew, is engaged in improving|@aysand Saturdays, in str si phtening 3 th lines UMS|the next section of the railway entered into cont act ith the WER El ‘in’ charge at...”

“the pack trail * The trains leaving the bridge, in straightening such lines, _ they. would. probably - move® a| &#te nial @ contr ne 46 ‘build | Ootsa Eak Be tak enarg® ab

Dr. Stanwood and partner have/0n Thursdays and Sundays will ee etment, John Thompson, | hundred miles east of New Haz ailway from North Vereen t | Oots4 Lake, has taken in sup- |
P SEAN WOO? and p: * Ms Pepresenting several mine-| align .. | 7 “yp. |a'tailway from North Variconver| plies for the season, 8
located claims on- Boulder creek, owners, said the locatioiof the}! ¢ W. Peck said that when he|'0?Fort George “ina period of|, A. Blayney, foreman on the

_ They” ae snow engaged in-pros. [£7 Vancouver and Vietoria, ~ /station at South Hazelton would first visited the distriet "the (titee vears from July. 1ét,-next./ South Francois road, “who also. ° -

- pecting for. habeas oet ave Secretary DeVoin, ofthe Bogrd| crease the cost of the’ mineral years: ago everybody said: the|. .OVer two hundred laborers’ arg: ‘hes the Pleasant Valley-Francois
th stost Grace Hyar ie @o,,|Of Trade, yesterday received a[@ttput by four. dollars a £90. /station would be on lot 882... For |!Saving “Vancouver weekly; for) Lake’road in his charge, is Pree
niet econ acuta. ‘tho [telegram from.the Prince Rupert James Smellie, for Robert Kelly, |109 serag $102,000-had ber, paid the Scene of ‘construction work/paring an outfit for the season's
‘Siete afl rope is jer Boal af ade conveingthe|*2 le Png, who saperaliy ig cman teres Way. A large pert of lboters| Week has begun oF the Kies
ating in Skeleton .Guleh, ‘ The|itiformation that the Grand Trunk |*% ti ded" that s mel both since. cost” $20,000.' Since the an 1 nian hows os will onorth on{sepuéela road Run on the vite.
_ installation ‘of a ‘pipe line ‘and Pacific Railway is only accepting conten ‘t ; vould be ; a by: Board’ order in, favor of, New toni It’s bont for Prines Ru ert: s ie G Tohngo with _— it : i
_ construction of a damn will occupy | freight. for Skeena Crossing when Having the statin 1 e cde Ne Hazelton the company -had’ sold| "eh ® Rupert, ere ene " wi ‘ a sme =

"the best part of the summer, . |charges ate prépaid: and owners Hazelton. th Tad tee oN [lots ‘to the - value “of $90,000, | — terided by expert wit-|wést side-of the Skene onthe

, John “Huderlé. is expected to |accent’ all risks, “owing to--the the all mM, i oth laid stress on Previous. to that’ date the sales Tease that. accepting A flevets vr W. Brewer fe na.. fiers

arrive in Hazelton within a-week, steamer InJander not guarantee-| Te alleged engineering difficul-| had totalled $20,000, “"." + | foures aa conrect a-high level] wovk on the cond teen

Hewitt tea oveed to ing to accept or deliver. freight, | ties For'the people of Hazelton, | 75g" Clements, “M.-P. said| bridge for New Fis Jq/ Work .on the road to.the Nine.

He ‘will immedidlely proceed to|in# to accept or. deliver, freight. F.G..'T.’ Lucas upheld. th eae " eallitve ae pene | oridge for New Hazelton would mile mountain'mines,. 2.00

Manson... 0. 7s” | Tb is understood that-the steamer |. G.. 1. ee the OP- this firm became selling agents for | cost $225,000: that a. bridge at/™"® mount ds and traile’witl he
vo ait “been “chartered ‘to take two/Posite. view. © The older ° com- | New:Haselton on the understand. | lot 160 would cost, $60,000. arid). Other roads and trails’ will’ be .

Mu Walker reports that King] has-been -char! nify, . he maintained, would|:\°” to Ki be natrtny,| that theofficial estimats of ine constructed dnd” jjmproved a3 ~~

‘and Wrigley had a narrow eseapa|C8tloads of. freight each trip for uit Yi. eb pete ined, wou . ing that there was tobe a station cont of & bridge at’ the South dodii'an erewe n'be & cinized
from drowning in the Middia|Foley, Welch & Stewart... This|5¥ at financial lose tf ene ane’ there. When South Hazelton | Havelton site was $30,000. | ard ams ies cbtained. weunize oy

—_ River couniry. . An old canoe in practically precludes the Prompt vers’ Hot establiehea it tk was. put on the market he called] ‘There was @ new. development) “0° SuPpies, optar pee ee

which they.were erossing col-|delivery of commercial freight, | Were nd a cate for thee. (n> Chamberlin and’ Ryley andjon. Wednesday, . when Harold * “Marvelous Coal. Shawiig-: ~~

A very profitable season is ‘ex-

lapsed and‘ managed} It is. hoped that the Hudgon’s | Hazelton. “The. case forthe G. expressed the view that New|Price. appeared. to assure. the © - Marvelous Coal-Showing- _
| pheed a ame rep Bay Coripany’s steamer Port |: P. was argued by Mr. Biggar. | Hazelton was the bettet site, ;Commissioners ‘that. lot 160,..in|. On Wednesday, F. B. Chettle- ..
uti hey st ola Pet allow his f logicallocation for a high-level| velopment work-on the de.
within a few days, inwhich ease, pareld P mean wre owners oe sell another lot until after the bridge. He. testified that the| hog properties of the Canadian are
“al days-on-two “pounds: of split | !£.that boat can-make the nepes-, ob Abu. Nei ee cay, © Mining-€
- pens and one grome '|sary arrangements for the tranis-| Victoria, on behalf of Ellison peo: lots to the value of $265,000: had| New Hazelton .was, before the | arrived-in town, to meet Amas
are going to Stranger River for jing, the public may obtain the cate re saith. AE (8) the district, including: Hazelton, ah lane.cxamination of W. P.|way to Hazelton, in” commas
“ani “extended. prospecting and|Decessary service, 2. the eeor te oan
trapping trips SO “Prince Of Ireland”: | strongly favor’ South Hazelton, (0.0 tated |dents ‘of He rollet 3.
ae. t yo. a r ee 1 EW, R. ‘Ross had lly stated | Gents -of Hazelton, and stated areas controlled by the Operators,
~ Charles Paquette has gone to _ Dublin, June $:--Dublin hopes| Mr. Calder appeared for W. J: Th thatif he had Known the that those who had reserved lots! Since going in to’ Groundhog
at. °° GNR Plans | | Prince of. Wales. Itis expected pouth Harelton vomneite, ee South Hazelton on. the. market, event that a station was .not es- | ting trails, building camps, “and: -
_- Winnipeg, Jue :—That the|that his. younger. brother . wil| the: ‘Methodist Mission, - whic Gross-examined by! Mr. Lucas, | tablished at South Hazelton, locating the, many showings of.
~:nental trains early in 1914; that |society into.chréds, . It.is under. | oPPosition, explained that the in |y¢ the town,declded in. favor of | Me8d8Y' ‘and Thursday.’ ‘The/triet watered by Mose creek ard
elt Ww . -§. Goodeve,” did not: sit, not |ing from a céal ‘mining point of
an ‘Hend that ultimately the line be- cabinet thé question of whether | contended. that, in the public in| 5 majority of the people -ha met Board when. the. case -was firat| with the showings to be ‘seen _
ing a Prince of Ireland, the: title} On -Tuedday. Rv ‘A. -Pringle, ‘Toeaday, the two former teaving| land, which ‘bids. fair. to prove’
Ma Bie dee oe pea ite [NA mabaterly arg ft Ha cee na the ¢ase and heat avider h hava ir
‘woat|be held: by. such’ aon 6 ‘} 20-8 meatérly argument. ‘i cbusiness': men ‘the case aud. ead the evidence| others who have in
HRM Neer age Hens uaa” nel. ”On baba ut ston ithe a be," EY ae di

Outfit, -They made their way to Simpson will return to the Skeena WV. D. | Hogg appeared for ‘He refused to allow his firm to which he is interested; was ;the| burgh, who is inseharge of des
old Fort Babine, living for sever. Board’s decision. He added that| proposal to locate the station at Mining Operators ahd Associates, - | oe
Larry Canty’and Max Gebhert [shipment of freight at the Crosg-|Ple, said that townsite had’ been been sold, and that residents of| Boatd’s decision, regarded as a Coltrey, “and erp rector of the:
Se | had bought land to the value of Murray followed. He explained | with a party of engineers who
ds sara ta op there the people interested would $100,000. He declared that Hon. |the position taken by the reai-/are going in to examine the coal:
| ' Fish Rivér..-, pe! ae va mit| it, New -Hazelton had done so early in the spring, Mr. Chettle.
ot acai “|soon to ‘welcome the young} Sanders, one of the owners of the conditions he-would not have DUE! oniy.to protect themselves in the | burgh has been engaged’ in‘ eut- :
rad pees, POSES PUES Te oe eee ‘the adjoining property, N.| ths weitroce anid iat ha aces ~The hearing opened .on..'Tues- anthracite on: the’ eo: "ge
Canadian Northern’ Railway |comé with him and thereby hangs) owns the adjoining avio| ie Witness said that he was not). The hearing opened on Tue ies. He declares the dis
would’ he operating - transconti-|a tale. which is tearing “Irish| V+ Rowell, leader of the Ontario}; ,, Hazélton: when the: residents day ‘and ‘continued through Wed-| properties. He declares the ‘dig.
7 “bdime tne i aty. tr tis und cae a ‘ of cata] western member of the ‘Board, ‘its branches to be most promis: :;
‘Ya Une of steamers would goon be (stood that King George is discuss. | eres iata.che represented: were not South Hazelton, but maintained| A 8 Good | promis
established on the Great, Lakes, /ing with some members of the/0BPOsed to New Hazelton: but! iat when at Hezelton last fall /having been a. member ‘of the| view, and is particularly’ pleased.
on a eee ee conth Heron o® © elon favored Now Harolton, (BEAT. Acting Chafran DArey| trom Falter ieee noah S00
tawanh in the desackothi coke, Lat Gey ee eR Pease Gece abo boa, cot “and Commissioners Mills | Jackson roperties, His: :
interest in the dynasty:by creat: | #t South Hazelton, . . Mr. Lucas presented copies of ind “McLean were present oe control. ighty, sections of ea
to be horn by the second: son of} Counsel for the British Columbia in.the evening for. Nova Scotia, | extremely valuable,
each alee ot ing mofiarch,” and to | @0verntnent, summed up the case Commissiones McLean. continued! My. _Chettleburgh joins
pe era) vais ae -{ dtated that the privince was not} ATOR DI rene | tee Tata? arguments, which will. be field in stating tha “nt
ft chenwe of reign until the next ini going to bet xed_up. in. ay|Bouth Heaelton. -{ considered in written form’ tiy | ous int its extent an in' the ‘high:
G on oe + a