_ al values are. hoiled. ‘or ‘bubbled apart
“wil sent on thelr way down‘ their pro-.

_ and no more rock was taken out than

‘the trucks take it ina Yoose powder to to 0

Vol, 21

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NEW HAZELTON, B. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929

“No 46

Turns Out Concentrates
Silver Cup Mill a Success
Formal Opening Sunday

The mill at the Silver ‘Cup mine is
now on a ful production basis and is
turning ont a concentrate that iy up te
everything that hus ever been predict-
ed for it.) On Tuesday of this- week
the first truck load ‘of these eoncen-
trates was brought down to the rail-
woy. Hauling will be continuous un-
less sumething unforseen happens and
nothing {s anticipated which would
_ cause any delay or tie-wp.”

‘Tt Ik very simple how to see the big |:
ehunks of ore go futo the crusher at
the top and come out: the bottom all
ready for ‘the final smelting and refin-
jug id conversion’ into dividends and
pay cheques. .

It is just a year dnd a halt slice tha
Silver Cup’ was.taken over. by W. 8B.
Dornberg and his associates. . That tha
mine has been developed toa stage of
itumage production with -2 reserve of
ove in sight to last for.a long time;
thit a mill has been constructed and
perfected to a point almost perfeect in
its separation and srving of values ;
that the mill is turuing out tons of rich

”

Lust week everything ubont the mill
Was tuned up aud was running smeoth-
. ly and Mr. and Mrs. W, B. Dornberg
sent out {nvitations to all the local folk
who are in anyway futerested, in the
Inining development of the district to
he their guests over the week end. To
accommodate all who were expected to
visit the camp and see the mill in oper- point now that even banking men are
ution open house was held.for two days inclined to take an interest. ‘To Mr.
eee me ee on anced Dornberg and his associates, and to
iy to see vite of the ‘ost moder ‘n and the men who were in charge of the ac-

anyone might well be proud of, ‘The
job bas been done, The gamble {s ov-
er. The property hns reached that

most efficient milis in British Colum." tual work, areat credit is due, and to.

these men this district are Indebted for
their success means increased prosper: ] e
ity to all in the district. - Mining has
only started. The Cup is‘ only one
small section of a “areat mountain and
on many other places! on that moun-
tain have been. found mineral deposits
that are quite as.good on the. surface
as the Cup was. The Cup has proven
the stability of the deposits and most
of the gamble so far as the.cther -pro-
perties are concerned, has been = re-
moved. Other companies ‘can go on
with a large amount of confidence that
their efforts will be rewarded. -

Mr. aml Mrs. Dornberg received
their guests and entertained them in
a handsome manner, and there was not
one-of all'the visitors that wns not de-
lighted with the trip, the knowledge
gained and the good time given them.

-

bia do its stuff,

' The trip from New Hezelton and
Hazelton to the Silver Cup mine on
Nine Mile mountain is itself? one that
will long remain in the memory of thd
uninitiated The road is not too bad
os mining or lumber roads go, but the
one to Nine Mile ig about as crooked.
as it could be made, but it has 9 fair-
ly good grade, there being only two
switchbacks and they..are. now being
improved. But the read, after getting
_ past the ald logging camp, hangs on the
upper lip of the mountain, and tt in-
creases in’ height very rapidly. For
miles one can run a car along the edge
of the mountain and look down to the
Salmon river from half to a mile be-
low and: the number of degrees to the
slope is uiwise to consider if one is a
little Light headed. _ ‘For several mites
the road is cut out of the soild rock

LOCAL BOYS BEAT SMITRERS
Was necessary to let_a truck get by. | t

On the out side the slope is well tim-
bered and one wonders how those trees
hang on. It is n wonderful trip and
full of thrilly und its all scenery from
start to finish, Mr. Dornberg informs
us, however, that before this summer
Is over that road will he srently im-
proved and to drive a cur up will be a
very simple matter even for the aver-!
ie person who can handie a steering

First Baseball Game of the Season at
Smithers Last Saturday—Re-
-turn Game Here May 24

ee

Written by Earl Spooner, Grade §
The junior baseball team of New
Hazeltun motored up te Smithers last
{ Saturday ‘afternoon where the first
ibn] game of this year was" played. The
first inning was a tie game and In the
wheel. At present It is not such. second one Thomas Willan started tle
But the wonder of wonders ta those ball x Sling in favor of New Hazelton,
not familiar with mining ts at the up P- and ‘nfter that it kept rolling, The
per end of the rond-—the mill camp und pitchers were Bar! Spooner, first two
the mill. These buildings are all buiit inilings and then: the next two were
on the side of the mountain ond ona pitched iy Louis’ Parent, followed by
wondets how all that stuff got up the ‘Earl Spooner - for enother Inning 1, }
hil: It was a grent. fob and “much parent pitched for the rest of the game
credit is due those who were in clinrge. The Smithers hoys played well and are
The difficulties have all been overcomg |), be. congratulated on thelr plucky

and: now the: rewnrd is. starting to be cateher who continued the game {,
paid.

Fram the bottom: of the nil to the A ele painted Injury ph well sup
top Is n long clinib, even though. there ported by three good rooters who made
ive steps all the way, but to Ernep the up in volume of sound what they lack-
husiness of the- mill one must start at. ed. in: nninhers. - ‘The visitors won the
the top where the ernde ore comes - ‘game with n score’ of 8 to 1. After. th,
tumbling down a chute to the first. big: “ball game‘ waa over the. team enjoyed
crusher, “Then by exsy stages one the hospltatity of the Smithers team
travels down those steps: stopping a at the Bulkley hotel where supper. was
eneh floor to see’ the progress the or sérved, After: ‘supper the. boys motor:

is making as it passes through one ‘big
ed home again. The return game will:
niuiechine after. the other until it reach-
he pl yed-at New Fnz lt i
ed the separition tanks and the miner- piny ° elton on the 24th

of. May. z ws :

per channels to the dvier\and then: “There, Wald another alarm of tire. in
dropped down into. the ‘Ding from. which - ‘Hazelton Inst ‘Thured

the rallway.

colicentrates ey ery day, is a work that’

don’ that. Rev. ‘Ty Ferrier. is still Ina
very eritienl condition; ©

in fact was ‘taken’ or last)"

PRINCE RUPERT
NEWS LETTER

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ern Cannda.

fice

built somewhere near Prince “Rupert.

and two
Eehstal River:

slowly”...

An interesting visitor to Prince Rup-

retary of the Canadian Legation in
Toklo, He is now on his way to Japan
to await the coming of the Canadian
Minister, Herbert Marler, of Montreal.
Mrs, Keenleyside will be the guest of
her parents Mr. any Mrg, J. H. Pills-
bury -for a few months, later leaving
to join. hethusband.: os

That” well known institution, the Pr-
ince Rupert rumor broail-casting sta;
tion .is not .affected with spring lassi-
tude, It.is ever up and doing. Just
now ‘there are many stories-all uncon-
firmed-which: concern the devious
ways of politicians and néar-politiclans
and changes in office. But, so far, it
is just tnlle—of yhich there is much.

BIG STAFF AT OWEN LAKE

_At the present time there are forty-
five or more men at.work at . Owen
Lake and quite a community is being
built up around the mining properties.
Ten feet n day are being made in the
tunel work and it Is expected to. do a
ttle better. than that as: 300n as the
mechanical mucker géta down to work.
The reports from most reliable sources,
are to the effect that Owen. Lake is In
the ever increasing: circle of - coming
nines. It is big and will warrant a
big expenditure for transportation at-
tern little more development work has
been done.

SCHOOL ‘REPORT FOR APRIL
“The class: lenders in the New Hazel-
ton school for the month of. April are
as follows:—Grade 1, Margaret Greer;
Grade 2, Brie Sargent; Grade 8, Chas.
Bugg; Grade 4, Athol: Russel ; Grade
5, Fred Thornton; Grade 7; Louis Par-
ent; Grade 8, John Willan. The fol-
lowing Tuplls ‘received awards" during
the UC jnonth—Delcourt, P Parent, rs
Smith, Arthur. Willan, Orrice. Sargent,
Fred. Salt, - Sam. - -Senkptel, Catherine.
Smith, Peter Smith, ‘Kenneth : Smith,
Margaret : Willan,. Esther Bug, Kath:
leen York, bee

_

“Word has een ecatved 2 from Bran-

He. ‘is. well

_. Hon. Thomas Duffern Pattullo, ro-
tund ‘and rosy, spent the week end in
Prince Rupert, while enroute to Enast-
The Jeader of the Prov-
inclal Opposition had e hand clasp and
engaging smile for all and sundry, and
in thé course of an address to all with-
in and without the fold, ‘told’ about the
late session of the Legislature. He de-
xerlbed the wickedness of the govern-
ment, and the bentfence of the ad-
ministerition in which he had held of-

The Power Corporation of Canada |
engineers, George Kohl and C, Hend-
ersun, Montreal, have already selected
four possible sites for the plant. to be

Two are In the Wark Canal region,
in -the neighborhood of. the

Canteen Fund
In B. C. Made
. s 7 .

Third Report

The third annual report of the trus-
tees of the Canteen Fund for British
Columbia has been made and it will be
of much Interest to soldiers and their
dependants, The portion of the Dom-
inion Canteen Fund alloted to. B. C, is
$251,905.02 and to this has been added
$83,963.10 interest, ‘making a total of
$285,958.12. There is remnining in the
fund $211,641.34.
Practically all expenditures are. for
Relief when assistance is required on
account of iliness, death or emergency,
No. grants are mode for straight unem-
ployment relief, although it frequent-
Ty happens that unemployment is a
partial cause at least why applications
for assistance ave made, for exampie
& man who is out of employment may
have illness in his family which nec-
essitates some assistance being grant-
ed, whereas if he had been steadily em-
ployed, he would not have needed this

Improvements :
Soon be Made
Dominion Line

"John Dore, superintendant of the
Doniinion Telegraphs and Telephones,
was a visitor in the district this week.
Mr. Dore expects to have some Zood
news for the country in a very. short.
time in connection with improvements
and extensions to both the telephone
and telegraph lines all through the |
north country, and the local’ districts .

are to be benefitted also, One of the
immediate changes to be made at the
Hazelton office is an apparatus which
wilE do away with telegraphic inter-
ference with the radios. That WHI be
a big help. The felephone system ani |
the telegraph system are both to be
brought more pp-to-date- and something
like a service given to the long suffer-,
ing patrons... Mr, Dore stated that the:
business from practically © every office
in the north had been increasing very
rapidly, especially the past year, anc
the present wires and staff cannot

They are taking their
tine; or, as’they put it “making haste

ert, Sunday, was Dr. Hugh Keenley-
side, of Vancouver, appointed first sec-

in New Hazelton. For! many years. it
has: been observed in “New Hazelton!
The affair will ‘be under the auspices
of the Community Lengue™ and. ‘there
are to. be. the usual: sporta in’ the’ after-
noon at the ‘athletic grounds: to’ be fol-
lowed at night by: a. grand dance in the
Community . Hall.” ‘Arrangements have.
been. made: for Grey’s orchestra’ to pro-
‘vide. the music for.the. dance: That ts
‘suftlelent.. _Suarantec. hn , the. dance

assistance. oO
In ceases of death assistance baa
been given in « number of cases in pay-
ment or part payment of funeral ex-
penses. ;
Under the category of “Tumergency”
assistance has been granted in soveral
instances to men who had the miafor-
tune to haveing their homes burned or
their furnature distroyed,
It frequently happens that applica-

tions for assistance are made when the| _ '
necessary help is obtainable from some ROAD FROM ALASKA NEXT

- Continued on page.4 ... | ameriesn “Automobile Association: Tn-

— terested and Canadian will Join Also
Telkwa Tales

J. J. Dore of Prinee Rupert was in

town a couple of days supervising the
construction of new telephone and tele-
grap lines.

handle ail the business. There is also
to be a lot of work done on the trails -
to the north. In this work the provin-
cial public works department will bear
n half of the cost. In short it begins
to look as.if the Dominion Service had
at last realized that either the business
must be looked after or the Domir.
jon would have to get out of the busi- |
ness in favor of private enterprise.

A ‘good deal of interest is being: ‘tak-
en locally in the proposed road from
Alaska to Hazelton or some point near .
by to connect with the B C, main high-
way. The American Automobile. .As- _
sociation is behind the move and the
Canadian Assoclation is Joining with
the Americans, It looks like a good
chance for the road going through, It
is too early to say just where the far
north road will connect with the hizh-
Way aS no surveys have as yet been
made. It will not, however, be far
from this section. The road will be > -
purely auto tourist road to begin with
although considerable commerce will
be developed in time during the sum-
“lmer months, “As” a winter road it will
‘|not figure seriously in the commerce
of the country, but ao Some’ place: for
the millions of cars-in the Southern re-
pubiie to go in order to get away from
the crowded thoroughfares ‘of the’
south {t should be very popular. ,

eee

A son was s born to Mr. and Mrs. A.
Fairbairn at the nursing home on the
2nd of May.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson from Top-
ley motored to Telkwa Sunday on a.
visit to friends

Miss E, Cornwall of ‘Topley is spend-
ing a couple of weeks holiday at home.
Mr. and Mra, Slevin motored up ta
Hornston Inst Sunday. _

Mr. Letchford returned Wednesday
night after. a business trip to Rupert.

Mr. and Mra, Amos Wells, formerly
of Usk, have moved into Telkvwa. from.
the.ranch at Round Lake. They are
living in. Wallace's house.

—.

ELIT SAW AN AER ROPLANE |

— emirate
o

WILL CELEBRATE VICTORIA DAY

New Hazelton People Now Preparing
to Entertain Friends From all
Parts of the District -

One day last week a skinner: from .
one of the pote camps: was waiting in:
Hazelton. for the spirit to move’ ‘him on.
to camp. with ‘his team when. he haw!
soniething in the’ alr which he took
for an ‘aeroplane, | _ His .compantois al
agreed | ‘with: him ‘and so the skinner
| thought “he ‘would like to see it land,
He hirad' a‘ jithey and took some of his”
friends ‘off to. the: landing field where .—
they .. Awaited: for HOME - considerable as
‘time! watching the piané hovering over 9.
the town.” Then the- Plate disappeared .
and: the ‘skinner. thought: ‘it had’ gone:
onto Rdmonton; He returned -to town
Rot: ‘Ais team and left: for «amp muett

“F

” Arrangements are under way. tor the
celebration of Victoria Day, May 24th,