| : i Omineca Herald vand of Europe. natural, resources of ‘this district-are held’ up as} THE OMINECA HERALD, ‘FRIDAY, FEBRUARY: 2, 1914 Printed every Friday at NEW HAZELTON, B.C. . Gl H. SAWLE — "pumas oA Advectising. rates--$1.50 per inch per: month! ‘ reading notices lie per Tine first insertion, 10c per line each subsequent ingertion, Subseription to all parte of the vorld— _ ; “ "Oneyear - + + "$8.00 a Six months -_ «1,95 ° .- Notices for Crown Granta =... 0-5 = $7.00 “. * Puvchaseof Land -. -- . - 7.00 *- * Lieence t Prospect for Coal - B.000 2} 25: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914 © - foocaas fococcr SHOES Playing the Townsite Game to the Limit separate the public from its money, that game is the townsite game in British Columbia] and. along the G. T. P. railway. Scores of town- sites have been put on the market, several hun- dred or thousand lots sold and then allowed to die, while the promoters have the money and the poor unguided public have the lots that are of no more use to them than.a desert island in mid-|. ocean. From Prince Rupert right. through the whole country traversed by the G.T.P., townsites have been staked and sold every few miles, and in a.great many instances for miles at a stretch. We in and around New Hazelton are not. particu-| jj larly - interested outside of our own. district, al-|& though we cannot help but regret the disappoint- ment ‘of struggling. humanity when it learns the real valuelessness of their purehases in the num-|f ‘erous townsites in “British Columbia. | particularly interested i in what has gone on, andjf what i is going on, right here at our own door. Tt is common knowledge that for miles on|@ both sides of New Hazelton valuable agricultural( # land has.been cut up into lots and sold throughout |# the: world; mostly to men and women who putif their-all into the first payment in the hope of|f making'a turn before the next payment became|® due. Townsite after townsite has been put on the market and. ‘sold, or partially sold, and then deserted by the promoters. more. sub- divisions are being put on the market, and are being’ ‘surveyed, As an investment these] - sub-divisions. have no value whatever, and eannot have. ‘for many ‘years to come, and only then pro- viding the town becomes a city as large or larger than Vancouver, Winnipeg or Montreal; and the wildest dreamer that ever dreamed of New Haz- elton’s future greatness: never dreamed anything half so wild as this... It may be none:of. our business if. a few. pro- ‘moters do grab the earnings: of the widows,” the working girls, the mechanics and business people and. farmers of the prairies, the east, the south But it is-our business’ when the an inducement for the ‘unfortunates **back home’? to part jst their money, The natural resources ND ‘DESIGNING * AcraRaioNs’ ‘ a sig de nd: can. carry’ out We arel|a - More townsites and|— panne Ce et ; J ro oe al resources to sell their lots. “Disappointment in| "FE the: lots : gives a: “black® “e fo recover from. . “It is high: time. the. ‘provincial government| stopped such reckless townsite promotion instead of encouraging it by taking : a quarter interest and lending’ its name to the promoters as part owner, |. If the moral side does not appeal to those at. the head of the provincial government, then common |. decency should compel them,to refuse to take a market, “| land, close to the railway, are now. tied. up in | town lots and will remain. waste land for many years. There is a demand for that land as farms and small homesteads and there is none available. Hence would-be settlers are turned away disgust- - |.ed or are compelled to go. many ‘miles away from -|the depot where there is no market and where F EVER a game was worked to the limit. to| Shere are no. roads. ). Can a country progress un- der such conditions? Will the government. for- ‘ever permit townsite after townsite and sub-divi-. vision. after sub-division, to go ontu the market of } program is demanded by al! honest people, and this kind of thing is to go on forever, or is. going to be stopped. It is wholly up to- the provineial government. Ruddy & McKay raed and Feed Stables’ . In Connection With the Northern Hotel TEAMING TRANSFER STORAGE Saddle- Horses, Single and Double Rigs for Hire... Prompt and satisfactory service guaranteed, Open & day and night—we never sleep. Express and pas- § senger service. to and rom ali trains. - “COAL AND WOOD FOR SALE4 — Coal la Cash on Delivery AND FEED FOR SALE Regular Daily Stage to Old Hazelton *. Leaving New Hazelton at 9.30 a.m., except train days, when the. & ataye will meet the passenger train and run to Old Hazelton after J s,m. nonpr.. NEW HAZELTON ' Manager ine ART HET ORS Stucke elect a aa HAY jp Fe ceases pratt oot ‘eet ethiinentd ESN tae Fg LP aed yf ah SS sg, iene enrns vemese oe. 6 9-y, ores Bt he | Pioneer and New Hazelton Hotels UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT. . a a 1 Good Rooms by Day or Week Rates from 26¢ Per Day to $1.00 per. day 7 , Pgh aind-Billiard Parlor Barber Shop Connected — PIONEER BATHS THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY | _ GEORGE ‘TALLMAN, PROP. - sits NEW HAZELTON, | BC. wo: i iE a Pte ER Et Pd 8 oe ey Os mn a En oat it peeves iene stnceavons nto iis Seiten intes ~ a Fs ng EL pe sme mesrmaerees ‘ ra est seta _ Steamship. ; vince John’? ieaves’ . Victoria on Sun-: | ‘to’ the district and. its |-j- resources, It damages ‘the’. whole province, : ‘and : once-the world wakes up‘to the real conditions in|’ British Columbia real. estate,’ a blow will be dealt: which will take the province: many, many years . quarter interest in these. promotions, and refuse : ‘to permit such schemes to be placed upon the. ‘Thousands of acres of the best agricultural irrespective of any merits whatever? A change |. and it is time to know where we are at;: whether |— ey Merchant RITSBUAS, B.C. Ne Ew Hasetron ~ VICTORIA , ‘DOMINION AND B. ©. LAND : SURVEYORS “Bands. ‘townaltes. mineral claims surveyed | omen {noceminn eames acd «s REMINGTON + _ TYPEWRITERS a -RODAKS AND SUPPLIES | o Gh 2) m OS ah en Hd THIRD AveNue—PRINCE Rupert. HAYNER BROS. . me FURNITURE _ Funeral Directors . 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