——— a ———— ————— o —————— THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY: MARCH 7, 1994 | en, a’ tap’ i 1 Prince * THE LeapinG HOTEL * ™ NORTHERN B. C.. Prince Rupert, B.C. . European Plan. i t Hite | ‘Ropert | { ‘ q d Rates $1.50 per day up. t l att Otis E. &. Orchard. Owner ind this a grand hotei to stop at. : All trains met. Autos, fea s2dile horses provided, ‘Smithers, B. C. MThe Bulkley Hotel 4 European or American Plan | The headquarters for the Bulkley Valley, Tourists and Commercial men livery or rigs Omineca Hotel C. W. Dawson Manager Best attention to tourists and to commercial men. Dining room in connection y Rates reasonable. Patronage is solicited f tl on) cf | Hazelton - - B,C. 0 ek a NN Fed Fd Ror s oases BE ! { . i Importers and Dealers in ol Wallpapers We carry the ae . Burlaps. ’ largest and Prints moat varied Oils ‘stock in Me Varnishes Northern mem Glass British ae) Brushes, Etc. Columbia : : ii Write us for information when fae Tenovating or building your home —— Ba Make Your Home Attractive! a BEAVER Boarp Disraiurors #A.W. EDGE Co. mY -O. Box 459, Prince Rupert, B.C. Brokers _ Auctioneers * Valuators (We Swap the Earth) foods, all kinda, Bought, Sold, Exchanged Speclal attention paid ta _ Out-of-Town Customera metrivate Auction Sales Conducted J. Sigmund ~ Manager mr Auction Rooms, Third Ave. gmuction Sale every Saturday at — RINCE RUPERT xchange Tince Rupert -. B.C, my, * and a half of slush ice on top. _ H . - _ TELKWA. TALES News from the Hub of Bulkley Valley i Orme ree etree, are resuming work on their own coal claims-in the same -vicinity, supply coal next winter, Mrs, Bree, of Timothy Hill, months in the Hazelton Hospital. She was very seriously ill and learn that she is now so far re- home. °. Have you read the advertise- ments’ in this week’s paper? Store news is just as important to you as the local news. Make a practice of reading the adver- tisements. . The tie industry in the Telkwa district was a great help to the settlers this year-and a good many farmers in this way are getting paid for clearing their farms. Some eighteen or twenty teams have been hauling to the depot here. , Fifteen hundred tons uf coal is the output for the Telkwa coal property this year, much greater than in the past, and only two months of hauling was secured. made at the mine before next fall. , The ice crop was harvested the past week and Hoops & Maple- ton have filled the local ice houses with some of the finest ice that was ever put into saw- dust. There is nearly two feet of clear ice and not over an inch Tasty Tested Recipes Gillespie & Wilson have finish- ed the season’s work on the Telkwa coal mine and this week and they expect to be ready to returned to her home Saturdav morning after spending several her many friends will be glad to covered as to be able to be at Some improvements are to be ~~ — ~* i Usk | | Skeena’s Industrial Centre +~ some + Q. Berge returned to Usk on Thursday looking well following his recent attack of pneumonia, which took him to the Hazelton Hospital. . Dr, H. C. Wrinch, of the Ha- the week. Lester Harrison left this week for Campbell River, V.I. J. H. Barker, manager of the Bank of Montreal, Terrace, was a week-end visitor. Tony Brussing, Copper River, is' spending a few days with Jas, Darby, on Knob dill. Mr. and Mrs. D, Lidstone and Mrs. 5. Kilbreath were visitors to their parents during the week- end. .The two former returned to Rupert on Monday. Miss Marshall, of Hanall, spent Saturday evening here, and lent her assistance at the entertain- ment in the schoolhouse. Have vou read the advertise- ments in this week’s paper? Store news is just as important to you as the local news, Make a practice of reading the adver- tisements, Mrs, W. Thams, in company with her son, J. Flockhart, left for Rupert on Sunday to join her husband; who is fast con valescing at the general hospital there, Miss Irene Weatherhead, late of the teaching staff here, but now of Prince Rupert,:-paid a visit on Saturday and was happily met by old acquaintances. - { violins, guitars, ukalale and saxo- phone, and was the best ever. GRIDDLE CAKES Milk. l‘euptul water. or butter substitute, 1 egg, well beaten. 8 cupfuls' white flour. 1 teaspoonful salt, 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder. 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. Combine the milk and water, add the shortening, sugar, and the egz, and beat in the dry ingredients which have been sift- ed together, and fry as usual on a slightly oiled griddle, or on an unoiled uluminum or soapstone griddle, If very thin’ cakes are desired, add two more tablespoonfuls of evaporated milk and water. . ‘HALIBUT BAKED IN MILK ‘Order two pounds of: halibut steak cut half inch thick. Lay it in a dripping pan, or large Shallow baking dish. lightly with alittle flour, salt and pepper ‘and a sprinkling of minced parsley’ and barely cover it with one part: of ‘Borden's St, Charles Milk’ dituted ‘with ‘one af Hand one-half’ parts. of boiling | I cupful Borden’s St. Charles 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter Beat . thoroughly act as a delicious sauce, The leap year ball on Saturday night, held under the auspices of the school board, netted $23, which will augment the funds for finding wet in their very deep dry well. The music was exeel- lent, being rendered by tee Sham- rock Orchestra consisting of two There was a pond gathering from handled. “There were no silk any casualties, nor was it neces- sary to show passive resistance. For once the whist room was vacant—the tournament was for my fair lady’s favor. water, De ‘Bake in a moderate oven until the: fish is tender—about 25 minutes. It should be somewhat browned on top and the liquid will be thickened by the flour and t «BC. LAND SURVEYOR J. Allan Rutherford All descriptions of sur- vaya promptly executed. Dust it} : SOUTH HAZELTON : | BARRISTERS SOLICITORS © NOTARIES McGill & Tufts | SMITHERS zelton Hospital, was down during |. Dorreen, Pacific, Hanall and Ter- race.” All the ladies were very busy and showed how the initia- tive in the ballroom should be Zowns won, neither were there rs _———— ee ee a | Here andThere | The gold mines of Northern On- tario broke all previous records in the month of January, when they produced approximately $2,100,000, sed on preliminary reperts re- ceived from the mines, have been made for the financing of a $500,000 plant in Edmonton, Alta, for the manvfacture of paving blocks from the tar sands of Fort McMurray. . The first of the private fur aue- tion sales which the Hudson Bay Company has decided to hold in fu- ture at their head office in Mont- real took place recently, when a eol- lection of various furs, estimated roughly at $25,000 to $30,000 value, was put up for sale by sealed bids, Grain handled at the port of Montreal in 1923 totalled 120,013,- 988 bushels, -the largest amount shipped through any port in North America during the year. Montreal thus maintaing for the third con- secutive year her position as the leading grain exporting port of the continent. Dr. Geo. H. Locke, chief librarian, Toronto, at the request of the Ca- neadian Authors’. Association, has undertaken to supervise the’ selec- tion of volumes for the Canadian literature exhibit at the British Em- pire Exhibition. The task involves the ‘gathering together of 500 repre- sentative books and it is anticipated will take about a fortnight. From all indications, the potato shipments to Havana this season from the port of St. John, New Brunswi*<, will greatly exceed those of last year. To date there have been 750,307 ‘bushels sent forward in twenty steamers, while from Sep- tember 1, 1922, until January 31, 1923, a total of 505,668 bushels were shipped in seventeen steamers. With heavy enquiries from South American sgurces for Canadian flour, millers expect to see‘their ex- port volume substantially increased during the month of February, as compared with January, This move- ment, together with offerings of a premium for wheat at Vancouver, has been the most encouraging trade feature of the past month in Win- nipeg, Man, Colonel Geo. H, Ham, of the Cana- dian Pacific Railway, who recently returned from Florida, reports that Canada was prominently featured at tl South Florida fair, held at Tam- pa some time ago. .A very striking exhibit of Canadian preducts and natural resources was displayed and a “Canada Day” was celebrat- ed, all of. which ia said to have been a revelation to those who attended. Buffalo meat from the park at Wainwright has recently been on -sale thtoughout Canada and has been extremely well received. It is described as resembling beef but of & more gamey flavor, Government officials expect that this meat, with hides and ether buffalo products, | will become a regular source of in- come to the people of Canada in the future, . Magazine for rifie found F ound on road between Hos- pital and Two-mile. Owner can get same at W. J, Larkworthy’s by proving preperty and paying for this advertise- ment. ’ 8b- | BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION "Wembley Park | APRIL to’ LONDON | OCTOBER, ‘24 — THROUGH — . RAIL AND OCEAN BOOKINGS -SEE ME FoR- FARES, SAILINGS, ete | It you-have friends in Europe whom | ¥ou wish*to aasiat in coming to this” country, come in and see me, GD. PARENT, AGENT. _ New “Hazelton, BC. | CANADIAN NATIONAL BLYS, : oe ee It is reported that arrangements W. F. Trant, post office ingpec- tor made an official visit to Ter- race last week, SYNOPSIS OF AND ACT AMENDMENTS PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed crown Jands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years of age, and by aliens on declaring intention to become British subjects, condi- ional upon residence, oocupatjion, and improvement for agricultural purposes, Fuil tnformation concerning regu- lations regarding pre-emptions is given In Bulletin No, 1, Land Series, “How to Pre-empt Land," coples of which can be obtained free of charge by addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria, B.C., or to any Gov- ernment Agent. Records will be granted covering only land suitable for agricultural Purposes, and which is not timber- land, ie., carrying over ‘5,009 board. feet Der acre weat of the Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre east of that Range, Applications for-pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Com- missioner of the Land Recording Di- vision, in which the land applied for is situated, and are made on printed forma, copies of which can be ob- tained from the Land Commissloner. Pre-emptions must be oceupled for flye years and improvements made to value of $10 per acre, including clearing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be recelved, : For more detailed information see the Bulletin “How to Pre-empt Land." PURCHASE Applications are received for pur- chase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands, not being timberland, for agricultural Purposes; minimum price of first-class (arable) land ia $5 per acre, and second-class (grazing) jand $2.50 per acre, Further infor- mation regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands is given in Bulletin No. 10, Land Series, “Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands,” Mil, factory, or industrial aites on timber land, not exceeding 40 acrea, may be purchased or leased, the con- ditions including payment oft stumpage,.. : . HOMESITE LEASES Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 | acres, may be leased aa homesites, '« conditidnal upon a dwelling being erected In the first year, title being obtainable after residence and im- provement conditions are fulfilled and land has been surveyed. LEASES For grazing and industrial pur- POBOS areas Not exceeding 640 acres” may be leased by one person or a company. . GRAZING . Under the Grazing Actgthe Prov- ince ia divided into grazing districts and the range adminlatered under 1 Grazing Commissioner, Annual) stazing permits are issued based ,on numbers ranged, priority being given. ' to established owners. Stock-owners may form associations for range management. Free, or partially free, permits are available for settlers, pampers and travellers, up to ten ead, am ST. Cc. 24.24 0° my - “ — sce | B.C. UNDERTAKERS'| EMBALMING FOR SRIFHENT a BPROIAL "POS Box ba oe |. PRINCERUPERT, B.C. - wi ia Boats oat sou