re ae a - AUT eer gaat ., Sunday Servi Bechool - at .2,20' p Evening Seryice, - PRESBYTERIAN, CHURCH BAZELTON |. ~ deritese held Wat Sunday, evening in. the Reema at 1H ocslack. - ‘caurce ‘OF ENGLAND ces held every By day afternoon ad o'clock aan ane tho chaired building: on Peterson's road. wa _ NEW HAZELTON | eta LG LUCKRAFT, | Mei is important 7 for you to : know that I have stock and appliances to turn out all kinds of CARRIAGE WORK, : ” special Sleighs, - Wagon _ and Sisigh Brakes, Ete, | cr. WILLS ’ General Blacksmith Repairing . Job Work “Horseshoeing a Specialty HAZELTON, B.C. $ 8 Mines and Mining Good Properties for sale — Cash or on ; . Bond. . : Development and Assessment Work. — Carr Brothers ~ Six, Years In This District, "Hazelton, B. C.. ~ noes Draying | Al orders promptly and carefully “exscuted ; " & C. Stephens '. Blacksmith Shop) i FOR SALE. Ten Acres. Cleared ‘Land, with House, two niles from Hazelton. Apply to +H. Coppock Hazelton asv.'b, R MeLaan. ts Bervisen ‘every Sunday evening at 7:40] a s'clock in the Church Tent. Leave your ordera at C.F. Willis’ €.|-, Local | and Personal Goote McDonell has returned [from the ‘coast. BL Brickehden, of: ‘Kitseguecla, was, in town on Monday. ~ Mrs. 5. B, Slinger has returned o) ‘from: ‘a visit to the coast” J. W: Davis left on. “Wednesday for a business trip to the coast, “The. Hazelton brought” quite 2 number of passengers on Monday. Jabez K; and John Ashman came down from their coal tlaims for the election. 2 ‘Mis.: Brownlee, ‘of Francois lake, has gone to'the coast foran extended visit. Mr. and Mrs. -F, Nation were among the outgoing passengers ‘jon the Port Simpson. os GH. “Munro and Ww. S, Sar- gent have ‘returned from a trip to the Babine mountains, Road Superintendent W. A. Williseroft is in Victoria, trans- acting departmental business. ° Seth Godfrey, returning from the Copper river coal field; was a passenger for the coast on "Wed- nesday, Frank © Johnson brought his pack train in from Groundhog mountain, reaching Hazelton on Monday. ; F.C. Elliott, of ‘Victoria, is : spending a coutile of weeks in the -| district, looking after his mining interests, . Herbert ‘Hankin spent a few days on business in ‘the valley, |! réturning to Glen Meadow ranch on Tuesday. . Walter Noel,J,P., spent several days along the river swearing in the deputy returning officers for the election. “The H. BC. steamer Port Simpson left for’ the end of steel on Tuesday with a small passenger list, The steamer Tnlonder, operat. ing between Hazelton and Prince |} ‘Rupert, annoufices a further re- "|duction in the through: freight rate, which now stands at $35 a ‘[ton. . “G.. U, Ryley, Land Commis. sioner of the Grand Trunk Pacific,, and the. Bulkley, left for the coast on Tuesday, en route to Winnipeg. Harry Winfield, foreman at the Groundhog Mountain coal prop- erty, returned to the coast on Tuesday, development work being discontinued for the season, He states the coal measures of the THE MINER PRINT SHOP. Gpposite Govornmont Office’ “7 was not established to fill "a long felt want." oh was > only the desire of down-to-the-minute. men; whom you all “know, to run an’ up-to-date plant ‘of their own“to’ produce, _ Commercial. Printing - and’ Advertising Matter ‘of the -better “sort, execute ‘your next order. ” We can improve your printing and: would be gad. to - Our prices are right.snade on the ‘cost foding oe tem---a detailed account is kept ‘of each job and ‘when ‘it is. finished we know the exact coal This j is the only fait wa vay-—-fai . . _ selves and our. cistomers. - 7 ~ of profit is added. . : Then -a small percentage '|the 1910 report'is a betel the reatest he has ever’ seen, FL ‘Dallas, in! spector. jor the Bank: of. Nancouver, arrifed. on Monday, ‘for. his ‘first: visit: to the local. branch, | Mr, ; Dallas , was much pleased with what: he Saw on a trip. to the west’ ‘slope ‘of Nine Mile’ ‘mountain, where he looked. over ‘the American Boy group, . oj Charleson?s pack train, having completed its work on the.Babine trail for’ this’ season, -has been placed . on: the Bulkley valley route, « ‘Thelarger division of the train, which is packing to Telkwa, left’ on Tuesday with fifty-three packs for Frank L, Charleson, the Telkwa merchant, “At Omingea Pathfinder. George’ Gaffney, one of!'the pioneer prospectors of this dist- rict, arrived on Monday from ‘the Omineca river country,. where he spent the ldst year prospecting and trapping. George has’ not been in Hazelton since 1908, when he went to the Findlay river. He found good placer prospects in that district, and hopes to re- turn when better means of trans- portation are available, Freight by Mail Settlers have shown raré:in- genuity in circumventing ' the high packing costs, as is the case of one Nechaco colonist, who has made a practice of getting inhi ‘hig seed oats by parcel post, postage on his five-pound ‘packages being but six cents per pound, whereas ‘if brought in as freight his oats would cost him double that sum in transportation charges... Last season this one ingenious settler received by mail no less than five huudred pounds of oats, to the infinite disgust of the mail tarrier, who happened also to be the common ‘carrier. 2 ‘ Drug.Store for the Valley An ineident of the growth of the Bulkley valley is. the estab-| lishment at Telkwa of a modern | « drug store. The proprietor of the new enterprise is J. Mason Adams, the progressive druggist, rict, At Telkwa Mr. Adams will carry the same variety of stock as is to be found in the local store, and there is no doubt the people ronage, A well equipped pres- "ott feature of the Telkwa store, Cataline in from North. He will take his train to the Cari- one of the original Hudson’ a Bay’ packers in Washington and Brit ish Columbia, Our Lumber Industry from the report of the lumber. cut of Canada, just compiled by. than. reported last’ year,” duction than ever before. Nearly five billion feet of lumber was cub whose store in Hazelton ig well} |’ who spent ten days in Hazelton | known to the people of the dist- of the valley will show thelr ap~|. . preciation of his enterprise by! giving his new store liberal pat-| | - eription department, in charge of} a competent chemist, will be‘ al" mri fl Jean Caux, the veteran packer, of who is ‘known throughout the] north country as “‘Cataline.” has}. | returned with his pack trainfrom’|"|,° the ‘Ninth Cabin, having com-|" «| pleted his contract for freighting) « 4 |supplies to the telegraph cabins, boo for the’ winter, packing sup- “f plies to the Hudson’s Bay post at|'} {Fort Fraser on his way. Cataline, | who has reached an age‘at' which_|' most men: are. willing to retire|-|" from service, has spent morethan || ~~” half his life on the trail, being || - A highly encouraging view of G the future of British Columbia's | | * lumber industry is. to be gained. |: the forestry. branch at Ottawa:|.| a Reports for 1910 were received} :|.°"- from 2,763 firms operating saws ['1° mills, whieh’ is nearly 700 more. | Thuy! lestil during 1910. Siroughont the nine ‘SEPTEMBER 23; 1 the value of the: 1909 lumber ‘eat: Ontario, a8. in: former y. ar lumber ] province,’ Its forests are made up of. diversified ; ‘species, |i which enabled it ‘to preduce one-| minion.: ‘British ‘Columbia,, how- ever, will soon’ take’ Ontario’s place, from predictions baged on thé 1910 report, In. 1909 the western province . produced. a trifle over: half as much lumber as was cut in Ontario, while for the last year the amounts return- ed from the two provinces were practically the same. : Although one-quarter more lumber was cuti in Quebec in 1910 than inthe year previous, the in- crease “was ‘not sufficient to main- tain it in second place of import- ance,‘ which position was: usurped by ‘British’ ‘Célumbia,.’ The: re- Lmaining ‘provinces, New Brung- wick, Nova: Scotia, Saskatche- wan, - Alberta, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island cut lum- ber in ‘the ‘order of: importance given, but together supply only one-sixth of the amount for Can- ada, NEW FOREST RESERVE ACT Comprehensive Law to Regulate Rre- ‘serves and Parks which Come Within Jurisdiction of Dominion Government _ Rangers Given Greater Powers. ¢ Reserves and Parks Act, As may be inferred from the title, the scope of this bil! is broader than the Forest Re- serves Act of 1906, and by it are super- seded both the Forest’ Reserves Act of | £0 1906 and the Rocky Mountains Park Act, In‘the new bill the frst Bix sections of the original Forest Reserves Act are left practically unaltered. These relate to ‘the withdrawal of lands from sale. and oceupancy for the purpose of creat- ing forest reserves, the constituting of forest’ reserves and the provision. for their control by the Director of Fores- try, authorizing the appointment’ of| A . {forest rangers and granting them the |powers of a Justice of the Peace and providing for. the ranger’s oath, Section seven gives the ‘Governor-in- holds the premier, ‘position as