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NEW HAZELTON, B, C., AUGUST 3, 1923

Plans Well and _
‘Truly Laid For

Next Barbecue

The Telkwa Barbecue on Labor

Day, Sept..8, is the biggest sum-
m mer and early fall attraction in
the interior. All committees are
ma On the joh for this year’s barbecue
fy and horse races. See the adver-
tisement announcing the eyents
me elsewhere in this issue. Make
ms your plans now to be there. "The
mm roads in all directions lead. to
fe lelkwa and ‘those roads are in
aa 00d shape for motor or borse
me travel. The barbecue lunch will
me, De served at noon on the grounds
ae followed by baseball and football
me games, horse races and broncho
busting. The admission price to
ae the grounds is only fifty cents
me and everything is included.
me the evening there will be the
ae Usual grand ball which needs no;
a other comment, Arrangements
are also being made for a band
s to furnish musie during the after-
fnoon. School children will: be
fa admitted to the grounds free,

Mrs. D. B. Morkill Dead

It‘ was learned in this district
ast Friday with a good deal of
Fsurprise and sorrow ‘that Mrs.

a Dalby B. Morkill had passed away
Mein Vancouver on July 25th. The
\deceased was well known through-
gout the northern interior and at
Meone time made her home in Ha-
ezelton during the summer
onths. She assisted at many
oneerts in this district and was
‘always warmly welcomed. To
aMr. Morkill is extended the sym-
athy of many friends in the
orth. The funeral took place
fo Vancouver last Friday morn-
jing. Mrs. Morkill was the daugh-
meer of J. F. and Mrs. Maguire,

Mining Brisk at Usk

am Messrs. Gall & Stewart have
mcade a find of grey copper, sil-

Per bearing. on Chiminess creek,
pnd it appears to be the richest

mebecamp. Their ore exists in a
meanded structure, with bands of
Bre on each wall that should al-
most bear the consistency of ruby
milver. The property is close to
mee Silver Basin group, owned by | -
B D. Wells, at the head of Chi-
miness creek, . The same forma-|-:
fon extends into the vicinity of
gegate creek, where large values
Me silver are also found in the
mame kind of ore,

Blew Out the Front

- On Thursday afternoon a balmy
reeze hit the South Hazelton
otel owned by P. Jennings and
Bok out the front of the building.
: 8.0.8. was sent to the old
fwn fora crew of men to prop

mm going down. -
anow being repaired, ad

In|:

ilver sulphide ore vet found in]:

to cost $12,000; Port’ Clementa-
Tel El road to cost $20,000. All
works to be carried ont by day
labor. So

Fup and thus save the building! . —
The daniaga

‘Prince Rupert Fair
the Prince Rupert show, was in

trict exhibits,

Lake and Bulkley Valley have
already promised to send dis-
trict displays. There is no doubt
but that this district will also
exhibit. He also hopes to get
Woodcock and Kitsumkalum or
Terrace.
As for entries for the Carnival
Queen Contest Mr. Koberge re-
ports that Prince George Board
of Trade has entered Miss Kath-
leen Brown and that Smithers
Athletic Association has entered
Miss Elizabeth Stratton.
Arrangements are being made
for the Smithers baseball team
and the Telkwa football team to
play in Rupert during the fair. °

Prize lists for the Bulkley Val-
ley Fair at Smithers have been
issued, and a large number of
prizes and cups are offered. The
dates are Sept. 19, 20and 21. A

good exhibit will be made from
New Hazelton and Hazelton.

Wonder in Apple Trees

On Tuesday afternoon last Rey,
Dr. Grant picked eight yellow
transparent.apples from a tree
which he just planted last spring.
From another tree planted at the
same time he picked two apples.
The trees were just from the.
nursery lastispring and the trunks
of the trees were only about the
size of a walking stick, The
editor visited the Rev. Doctor at
his raneh at Terrace and saw the
apples, therefore the story must
be accepted as genuine. The

W. F. Koberge, manager for

town today arranging for dis-
He reports that
Prince George, Vanderhoof, Burns

Cottonwood Is
Now Attracting

Two men from the south spen

examining the timber leases tha

have taken an option on the tim

tion. They are particularly in
terested in the cottonwood tim

islands is very heavy.
that the cottonwood will be man
there is a steadily increasing de

natural

time, Geo. Little and Geo.

the timber.

Born. —At Victoria private hos
pital on Sunday, July 29, to Rev.
J.R. and Mrs. Hewitt,a daughter.

metic,

apples were shipped by express
to Mrs. Grant, who is visiting in
Winnipeg and who was skeptical
as to ‘the Doctor’s ability as a
horticulturist. Dr, Grant set out
a large number of trees last
spring and all but three are do-
ing exceptionally well,

Money to be Spent:

The following expenditures
have been announced by the
Minister of Public Works for
Omineca and Prince Rupert dis-
tricts:—

Omineca — New bridge near
Evelyn station to cost $600; min-
ing trails at Fort St. Sames and
Manson Creek to cost $500: cable
and assistance to settlers at Wal-
cott on Bulkley River who are
erecting towers and building a
ferry boat.

Prince Rupert—Road improve-
ments under Highway Loan Act
on Lakelse road to : cost $5,000;
Kitsumkalum road to cost 5, 000;
road approach to ‘Terrace bridge

“Are, you a ‘subscriber yet?

east.
able damage to spuds and grain
crops is reported.

Miss Avis Wall. who returned
with her on Thursday for a visit.

Mr. and Mrs, P. Slavin arrived
from the interior on Thursday
morning and are spending a few
days in town guests of W. Ss. and
Mrs. Sargent,

A carload of Smithers nimrods,
including A. J, McIntyre, A, Me-
Dougall, L. Lane and R. Lan-
caster, spent a Sunday at Lost|:
Lake, and reported a very fair
eatch.

Fairly heavy frosts are report-

Bulkley Valley from. Smithers
At some points consider-

Hon. Dr. King, Dominion min-

ister of public works, arrived in|:
Prince Rupert on Wednesday af-
ternoon, and on Thursday started | °
on a trip throegh Northern Brit-
ish Columbia..
to make many stops-en route,

He did not intend

Mrs. Wm. Gow.gave a bridge

on Tuesday evening in honor of
her guests, Mra, Gordon Wood, of
Burns Lake, and Mrs, Anderson,
of Prince Rupert... Theffirst prize
was won by Miss: Watkins: and

the consolation was 5 WOR n by. Mra.
\Send in your name and cash now La : ie

We.

Outside Money

several days in Terrace this week

have been held for years on the
islands in the Skeena river. They

ber, subject to their examina-

ber of which the stand on the
If they
take up their option it means

ufactured into vineer for which

mand, and Terrace is the most
location for the mill,
which will convert a once’ con-
|sidered worthless wood into one
of the finest finishing materials
on the market at the present

Dover, of the Lakelse mills pave
the visitors every assistance to
get around the district and see

a ¥| Playing Tournament
OVERHEARD AROUND A good many matches in the
Hazelton Tennis Club tourna-
| NEW HAZELTON ment have been played during
He . : : =| the week with results as follows:

_ Mitchell Newman passed his
first year high sehool examina-
tions with a total of 677 marks.
He took 100 per cent in | arith-

Miss Jessie Smith spent several
days in Smithers as the guest of

ed this week from points in the].

the police. foree. Ses

Old-timer Returns
James Dunbar, an old-timer in
the district who has been on the
accounting staff at the..Premier
mine at Stewart for the last twe

tj years, arrived at Skeena Cross-
ing Tuesday morning to. meet his
t| partner, Paddy Creigh, who has
been doing assessment work on
mineral claims for the past couple
-|of months, Paddy and Jim have
held the Brian Boru group, on
-|Rocher de Boule mountain, for a
-; number of years, and as a result
of the yearly assessment work
Paddy has uncovered some very
fine showings that run high in
-|silver and lead.. These showings
have been sampled, and assayed
-|at the Premier mine and by other
assavers. The yalues are so en-
couraging and the size of the
veins is such that men from the
Premier are going to examine the
ground. Dunbar will be around
the Crossing for a short time and
will then visit the several places
in the district where he worked
in years gone by, indluding New
Hazelton, Hazelton, Telkwa and
Smithers,

Ladies’ Singlea—
Miss Horbury won from Miss Wat-
kins, 6—3,

Mixed Doubles— .
W. A. Wattie and Miss L. Wattie

won from W. W. Anderson and Miss
Watkins, 6—3,

L. B. Wrinch and Mrs, McCutcheon
gon from H. H. Little and Miss Hogan,

Men’ 4 Singles—

D, Galloway won from Dr. Petrie,

L. B. Wrinch won from H. H. Little,

6—3,

Rev. V. Sansum won from Rey. T.
D. Proectox, 6—3,

E. A. Goddard won from W. A.
Waitie, 6—2,

Start Work Sultana

A. R. Macdonald, accompanied
by Messrs. Gill and Jessen, who
will do the diamond drilling for
the Granby Co. on the Sultana
propertv at Boulder Creek, left
for their work on Tuesday morn-
ing. A number of men went up
to the camp a few days before.

Aparty of New Hazelton young
people, headed by Mrs. Marshall,
left Wednesday morning for the
huckleberry patch on Rocher de
Boule mountain. The huckle-
berry crop is a heavy one this
year and large quantities are be-
ing gathered by people through-
out the district.

Col. J. H. McMullen, superin-

tived in Rupert this week.
was joined: there by Inspector
Parsons, and they propose mak-
ing a tour of the northern part of
the province, visiting each post
wherea provincial man is: located.
he. tour is .in. connection ‘with

Larger Amounts
Free Gold Found

by Kleanza Co.

(Usk Correspondence) _ o,
The Kleanza Company: has been
working on its central group’ of
gold properties—the Wathalla—on_
Kleanza mountain, The work is:
taking on the nature of surface
stripping, with short cuts on the
veing. On the. Walhalia No, 2
vein, in one of the. lower cuts,
about 1500 feet: lower down the
mountain, where a series of cuts
shows the vein 2 out. two and a
half feet wide, fee gold has been

tles, part of which has come from
the decomposition of ‘the’ pyrite
and some being primary in the.
quartz,
parallel veins showing great per-
manene¥ and continuity from. the

itively show every evidence of
future mines. Usk ig proving
beyond a doubt that itis a gold
and silver camp, through every
bit of development recently tak-

tral Skeena,
accepted and the copper features
of its resources taken as by-pro-

progress may be made in induc-
ing a more favorable impression.

Prospects at Pacific Bright

Conditions in mining are much
more active on Legate ereek this
season than for the past two
years. Jack Burns and J. D,
Sweeney are driving a tunnel on
the Independence, at the head of
the center fork, Orr & Smith
are busy on the ’Prisco group and

broken into some fine ore in their
No. 2, tunnel.
been done in the tunnel of the
Imperial group, owned by T. G.
McManamvon and partners, . In-
dications show that the hematite
capping covers a good copper
deposit. Jas. Brown has been at
work lately on his Cabin group,
from which his assays show. good
gold values. Roy ‘Moore, Bud.
Corley and Nels, Thomson are
now on the creek, at work on
their respective properties,

P .
Looking for Timber
A couple of. timber men stopped

in the district for several days
this week, looking for cedar pole
ground, They have been getting
out ties near Prince’ George, and
their object is to ret cedar timber
tendent’ of provincial police, ar-|so they can keep their nien work-. -
He |ing in the summer as well,
Monday. they went down to Skee-

na Crossing to look the sountry
over there,

On.

A Roy MeDonell’: returned « on |

‘Thursday morning after a trip of.
‘inspection of the | rivers, lake :

the proposed feorganization of

aud | ‘streams in connection.

Asheries ‘department;

found in more than usual quanti-.

These veins are a set of

lower river valley to higher ele- :
vations of the mountain and pos-

ing place over the whole of cen-.
When this idea is

duct of the veins, _then.. some.

within the past few days have .

Further work has -