VOL. L NO: 45 ,; HAZELTON, ’ B. C. “SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1912 PRIGE $2.00 A YEAR ANNUAL MINES | ~ REPORT OUT Contains Descriptions of the Groundhog and Mines in ‘Hazelton Neighborhood. BG PRODUCES HOST GOLD Report of Great Interest to Local Miners —Contains Two New Maps: of the ’ Skeena District~Labor Disputes De- crease Coal Production, Victoria; July 5:—The annuai report of the Minister of. Mines has just been issued. It gives a total production. of 23,500,000 tons of coal for 1911 as compared with 26,877,000 tons for 1910: The decrease is accounted for as dueto the closing of the Kootenay coal mines on account of ‘labor disputes. Figures of the: report exceed by 287,000 tons the esti- mate given by the provincial mineralogist carly’ in the year. The grand total amount of coal that has been mined in British Columbia-now reaches 397, 798, - 700 tons. ; Special features of the yeport . this year are lengthy notes on] the Groundhog” coai fields. by Provincial - Minerologist Robert- ‘ gon, and also on-the coal areas in the southern part of the Skeena river district. « ‘The ‘mineral elaims in the Hazelton district are also given considerable space, Among the many. excellent illus- trations are two new maps of the Skeena district by H. T, Nadon, of the provincial minerologist office, Granby’s. Hidden. Creek ’ Mine is described by Donald -G. Forbes, Atlin district leads in placer gold production with over half of a total of $426,000, | Analysis of figures shows that British Columbia produces more lode gold, copper and. lead than all the rest of the Dominion com- bined. The total men employed in the metalliferous mines ig 3494: totalin coal mines. 6,783, Rushing Work at Fort George (Speclal to The Minar) Fort George, July 5:— Con- struction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, bath east and west of Fort George has act- ually begun, The contract for clearing the right of. way. from Fort George to Frazer _lake,-a distance of 100 miles to the west has been let to George Hardie. ’ On the east of the town for seven ‘miles McGoffin & Berg will.do the clearing, arid from there on to Grand Canyon, about 100 miles, Sims & Carey have the contract. Joining this isa stretch of 60 miles ‘under’ contract ta Lund, Rogers Construction Co., of St. Peul, Minn., whichis being . sup- ervised by Mr. Lund, Work on this section of the road is ‘to, be} pushed along as rapidly 3 as Poss sible. mo, Large’ ‘Wheat. Yield Indian Head, “Sask., July 5:— arises to retard the ‘growth’ of ‘wheat one of the most: ‘bountiful crops in the history of Saskatche- . wan is promised. Wheat. has, .. gained. an early start and the "warm weather is speeding it to! “rapid maturity... Apprehension. is felt over ‘the. possibility of an- other grain blockade such as pre- tips tor: be e the fi Tharvest, ‘leubie yards: of . pravel Wilson Receives Nomination ' * Baltimore: At the Democratic Convention . Woodrow Wilson was nominated on the forty- sixth ballot. Allcandidates and whole party pledge their sup- port. Wilson feeling spreading throughout the United States. |Balloon Explodes and Five Are Killed | - €Spacial to The Miner). ’ Atlantic City; N.J., July 2:— The mammoth dirigible balloon: Akron, which was built to cross the ocean, exploded a half mile off shore and the five passengers were killed. The balloon was inflated with gas and was up about one thousand feet when explosion. oceured. Those -who met death were Melvin Vaniman, the builder, his brother Calvin, Fred Elmer, Walter Guest, Geo. Bourtillon, Explosion probably due to sun’s rays, HYDRAULIC PLANT EN ROUTE TO OMINECA Royal Standard Investment ‘Co. Will Develop Placer. On Germansen Creek, ‘Mr. P. H. Fraser, manager. of the Royal Standard Investment Company, Vancouver, isin Ha- zelton completing “hrrangémentis for the transportation of a large; outfit of hydraulic ‘machinery “to Germangen creek in the Omineca river gold field, The Royal Standard Investment Co. own leases covering’ several miles of placer ground on that creek, and as soon as the preliminary: bor- ings have been. made a large dredge will-be installed on the ground, Mr. Charteson’s pack. train of Torty horses expect to Jeave Hazelton next Monday with the hydraulic plant which has al- ready arrived here, - This plant has anaverage capacity of 2,500 every twenty-four hours, Mr. Fraser says there is more: than twelve totis of supplies now en route to Hazelton, together with twenty- five horses which will be kept on the trail between Hazelton. and the company’s property during the season, packing supplies for the large crew which is to be employed, Many favorable reports have been sent in from. that district, indicating thiat vast wealth‘is to be taken out of the Omineca. Dlacers, © Mr. Fraser, in company with a party of, mining engineers, ex- pect to leave j ina few days for Germansen creek. Champions Retain Their Titles |’ | (Special ta Tha Miner) — Las Vegas, New Mexico, ° July 4:—Jack Johnson today success- fully defended his title as cham- Ipion of the’ world against Jim '_» Flynn, California aspirant for the horior.. Flynn was no match for the champion, and Johnson could . won early but was probabl Unless some unforseen condition have 4 ly. PB y playing to. the moving pictures, The ‘police interferred “in the ninth round and stopped the fight ‘when Flynn, seeing he ‘had no chance’ to win, started ; fouling, Only. a ‘amall crowd saw the’ Aight, = * chneatai to The Miner) ~ a Les: Angeles, -Cal,, July 4,— Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a. champion- ship battle, Wolgast, lightweight - + thampion of the w | Joe Rivers in the 1 th: round ‘on a foul.’ “The battle: ‘was even’ to ‘the finish, both seoring a knock down in the thirteenth round, d, won from! Worth of Property | a devastating cyelone cama from as if they were matchwood and leaving the streets in a mass of of the. people seriously, injured. All night long in, semi- darkness, stroyed early in ‘the evening, {willing survivors were. at.’ the work of rescue, but dawn coming rather heightened than’ minimiz- ed the terrible seriousness of the disaster, ; The storm continued north- Heavy losses to buildings are ‘re- at‘ Melville, -: ! the celebration of Dominion Day: Bunting and flags covered build- ings everywhere and networks of colored lights glinting in the sun- shine were strung ready for ilum- ination. In the space of half an hour little was to beseen in many sections but building after build- ing lying in ruins on the ground swathed in their shrouds of gayly colored.bunting, The most mar- vellous part of the whole disaster was that not asingle building took fire, though for half an hour after the storm struck, the power came tering dangerously among the ruins, Many were separated at the time of the storm while others remained at home. Numbers were out on the waters of Was- cana lake, Five are known te be drowned, failing to reach the shore in time. the city that is standing has been thrown open to the homeless, - One.of the large grain eleva- tors was picked up and thrown a distance of fifty: feet from its foundations, falling on a freight train of box and cattle cars: One house, barely on the edge of the storm, was picked off its founda- Last Sunday ‘afternoon without | warning: other than a darkened sky that looked as if it might threaten a summer thunderstorm: thosouth partly wrecking the two million dollar Parliament : House and sweeping away- many. basi- ness blocks and apartmerit houses debris from which it was im-}., possible to extricate one giarter the power plant having been: de- west from Regina through Cen- tral Saskatchewan, - doing . great [great damage, but no logs of life). is reported outside of Regina. : ported from Qu’Appelle, and ale - Regina was in. preparation “for and scattered over the streets, on and off and wires were splut-+. Every house ‘in. DEVASTATING WHIRLWIND ‘SWEEPS THROUGH REGINA Twenty-ight Killed and. Many Others not Expected to Recover--Millions “of Dollars Destroyed. tion ‘and next instant it was settl- led squarely on thé vacated site, A roof, carried three blocks, wag poked cornerwise through. the roof of the residence . of one of Regina’s business men “and re- mains there. Four livery stables have lost everything. Hardly a horse has heen saved. and the buildings and contents’ are total losses. Early in the evening ‘the mounted police, at their barracks two and one half miles west of the city, were apprised of the ‘disaster and the whole force of one hundred and fifty men came immidiately tothe city and su- pervised the work of rescue throughout the night. Buildings but a block from the scene of devastation were left practically untouched, having a few windows broken at the worst, 1 : (Speclal to The Miner) - Regina, July 6:~The city is fast recovering from the scene of “Taibaster. Street cars are already running on the principal Toutes: The citizens areshowing remark- able optimism and some have he- gun-toerect temporary atores and homes, The .city: will build houses to rent ata low rate and the building inspector says’ that many of the partially destroyed structures can be quickly repair- ed. -Four hundred and fifty houses were’ destroyed and the death list has reached twenty- eight, Some of the injured now in hospitals and private homes are not expected to re- cover. These include Miss Me- Elmoyle, suffering from’ concus- ‘sion ofthe brain: Her mother was killed. Robert Kerr and Miss Russell of the telephone ex- change whose backs were broken, The dead are: Nelson Boyd, Geo. Boynnen, Robert Fenwick, James McDougall, Ada McDougall J.J. Bryan, Scoutmaster Appleby, Geo. Craven, Frank Blankhorn and wife, Billa Guthrie, Mrs. F. Ww. Harris, Laurence R, Hodsman, Fred Hindson, Mrs. W. T. Me- Donald, . Mrs. Isabella McKay and infant son, Mrs, Paul McEI- moyle, James Scott, Mrs. Samuel D. Shaw, Phillip A. R. Steele, John R. Steeie, Vincent H. Smith, Andrew Boyd, infant son of Clarence Logie, three Chinamen. W. B, Steele has returned from: Hazelton and ia again busy on his placer claims, - F, T. Childs is one of the min- ers who will make good this season. He is reported to have four feet of pay dirt and to be doing well, - W. J. Bowen: has operations well under way on the property of the Lost Creek: company, re- cently taken over from W. B. Steele and Jack Mullen. _ Excellent prospects for thé best season in many years in the are reported by. J: J. McInnes, who returned ftom the goldfield a few. days ago, whither he ne companied R. D, .. Featherston- haugh, “Johnny” mide the round tp in three @ wesks, which speaks Manson and Omineca river camps Mining News of the Week well for the condition of the 200- mile trail, on which Foreman .| Hugh Gibson has a eréw at work. Dy, Stanwood, who went in early in the spring, ig greatly taken with the country, Mr. Mc- Innes: says, and expresses the belief that it will rank high as a producer of gold and other min- erals.. - ! Among the miners of the Omi- neca fiver district a’ movement ig on: foot to secure the extension of the ‘Valleau trail to the Omin< eca, ” The trail, 85 miles of whieh was cut by F. W.-Valleau, when gold commissioner for the | dist- rict, needs only . to’ be extended 16 miles to allow easy: necess’ to the igricultural lands and ininer al -areas’ of the’ Peace river country, as the balance. of the E. J. Warren Killed Menttt, B.C.; A special mes- ‘sage today brings news of the death of E.G. Warren, manager of the B.C, Copper Co., as’ a result of -an auto accident last Sunday, his car falling « hundred feet down the mountain. Fatal Wreck on the Lackawana Railway (Special te The Miner} Corning, N. ¥. July 14;—Thirty four passengers were killed and fifty injured, many probably fatally, when the New York— Buffalo Express of the Lacka- wana railway crashed into the rear end of a standing passenger train at full speed. On board the passenger train was a large party of holiday excursionists including many women and vhildren. CHINESE BO NOT WANT FOREIGN IN SUPERVISION To Refuse §300,00 000,000 Loan Rather than Submit to the Terms of the Big Bankers, Pekin, July 1;—The Chinese authorities have refused to con- sider the proposal of the six powers’ ‘bunkers embodying the’ terms worked out- by ‘the Paris conference. The finaneiers proposal is that the consortium act as sole bankers for China for five years with much more strin- gent foreign supervision of the expenditure of the loans to be made, amounting to $300,000, 000 than under the present arrange- ments covering temporary ad- vanees, Both the acting pre- mier, Lu Cheng Siang, and the finance minister, Hiung Hai Ling, declared” that :the acceptance of such terms would mean not only the overthrow of the minis- try, but the secession of the southern provinces. The Chinese say that if the bankers insist upon their terms they will look elsewhere for money, While the bankers did not ex- pect an immediate acceptance of their proposal, they had hoped fora favorite reception. They believed it would be impossible F, | for China to obtain loans of any size through other channels, and are confident that the present impasse is only temporary. journey can readily be made in| boats. This route, which would make Hazelton the distributing point for a large and valueble stretch of country, could be de. veloped at very little expense, ' G. E. Neilson, of Vancouver, of the management of the Silver Island Mining Company, returned on Wednesday from a visit to his company’s. property, - Silver Island, which is in Babine lake, ten miles from the east end. He states that the claim, which hig company. acquired | last winter from the original owners, Siver- son, Swanson, McDonald and Hagen, is showing up very well ‘junder development, Five men have been at work for some. time with good results, ‘The ore, .of which there is an average width of a foot, in-a twelve foot lead, is grey copper, carrying native silver, and assays as high as $1530 to the ton’have been” obtained, An effort is being. made to have the provincial government coi struct a wagon road'to. the -rail- way by. the short route to 0 Burns lake, : LELEBRATION ABICSUCCESS - Dominion Day Crowd Larg- est ever Gathered in Hazelton. TIGERS WIN BOTH GAMES Base Ball, Horse Races, Foot Races and . Other Events Furnished Pienty of Ex- citement for All—Many Visitors from Prince Rupert and Neighboring towns. Glorious weather, a record crowd, and asplendid program of sports marked Hazelton’s cele- bration of Dominion Day as the best we haveever had. Early in the day the throng began to gather, and. the events of the morning were - witnessed by nearly 800. When the second baseball game was called, at three in the afternoon, the dia- mond on the athletic club grounds was surrounded by the largest crowd ever gathered in Hazelton. Townspeople and visitors united in declaring the day a big suc- cess. The principal features of the morning program were the foot races, Failing theappearance of any contestant who appeared. to have a chance against Hethering- ton in the 100 yard dash, the popular. Hazelton sprinter was handicapped ten yards... The half-dozen runners who started ahead of him got away well to- gether and made a good race, but the champion showed excelient: form, and before two-thirds’ of the distance had been covered was at their heels looking for a way through. With a fine burst of speed he dodged through the buneh, winning with comparative ease, H. A. MeVittie was a creditable second, In the quarter-mile race Hetherington was again handi- capped, but won without having to extend himself, McVittie wag again second, Indian horses won all. the equine events. The frst race, for Indians only, was won by Donald Lum, David Robinson second. The half-mile free-for- all brought out a large field, After a clase race, David Robin- son obtained first money, Michel getting the short end of the purse. At 1:30 a Special free-for- all half-mile. race in heats was contested. -~ Robinson again carried off the first prize, with Donald a good second, - The prospectors’ pack race, in which the contestants had to carry fifty-pound packs, was won by “ Gordon Wilson, with Tom Brewer well up in second ‘place, Miss Ritchey won the- fifty- yard race for ladies, Miss Cliff being winner of second prize. Among the other track events were several races for: children, in which every contestant was successful in winning a prize, and races for Indians, which were closely contested, ‘The baseball -yames were,” of course, the chief events of the celebration. The husky players who represented Prince Rupert on the diamond were. a. ‘business-~ a like aggregation, and’ showed ‘a: - good deul of class. That Hazel- ‘ton carried off the honors in both a, games says not.a little for ‘the . . ball-playing ability. of the, Tigers. : Had the coast men the same facil«’: it.is doubtful “if victory ?.would ~~ have perched upon, the red: and . black banner, Oiven who: brvssed. we tie river to help defeat’ the} . Wonttawed ou n Page Te ities for practice as the local team’. ~ ;