The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT Haz&.LTon, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA District or Britiso COLUMBIA. Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a yoar, ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 16 cents per line for first insertion, 10 cents per line for each subsequent nsertton. Legal notices inserted at B, C. Gazette rates. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912. . No. 48. In fulfillment of their declared intention to tie up construction work on the western division of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the I. W. W. on Saturday last called out the men employed between Skeena Crossing and Burns Lake. As a result of their activity, probably fifteen hundred men have left the camps. With over half their working force on strike, the contractors are practically marking time on the greater part of the section. A majority of those who have gone out took the first opportunity to seek other fields of labor, and the I, W, W. rendezvous numbers only a small portion of the discontented workers, The line is well policed and there is no prospect of lawlessness or disorder. Notwithstanding strenuous efforts on the part of the organizers, many of the strikers who are still in the district show a disposition to return to work, and the actual workers among them show but little interest in the dispute. The promoters of the strike, on behalf of the men, allege that the food supplied is of poor quality and badly cooked. To this the contractors reply that the board. furnished the men is as good as can be supplied under the conditions, and unprejudiced outsiders who are in a position to judge agree that complaints on this head are not well founded. Another demand made for the men is that improved hospital facilities and better sanitary arrangements be provided. In this revard they have the sentiment of the people of the district on their side. There appears to be plenty of evidence to show that the Foley, Welch & Stewart hospital service is inade- quate, tosay the least, while unsanitary conditions are not un- known. The moneys collected from the men for the hospital service are undoubtedly sufficient to pay for a much hetter service than is now provided, As regards the question of wages and hours, we cannot ex- press an opinion, but incline to the belief that the contractors will succeed in obtaining sufficient men to recruit their working forces without paying higher wages than at present. It is unlikely that’ the construction of the road will be long delayed by the strike. . A great point will have been gained, however, if the men sueceed in obtaining the hospital facilities and medical attendance to which they are justly entitled in return for the money. they are compelled to pay into the hospital fund, Mexican Insurrection Mexico City, July 21:— The dead, asa result of yesterday’s attack by YZapatistag on the Mexico-Cuernavaca train, near Parres, on the edge of the, fed- eral district, today number 84, Three of the wounded died last night in the federal hospital, A second relief train which early today reached Mexico City, brought twenty-three passengers who had escaped the butchery and made their way into Tres Marias, a few miles away. Eleven were accounted for last night, It is estimated that the train carried approximately 75 passen- gers in addition to the 60 soldiers of the escort. Forty-three sol- diers were killed. Nine hodies of passengers werefound near the wreck, Of the remaining 82, a majority are believed to have been killed or wounded, and burned with oil taken from the tank of the locomotive, Horden Entertained London, July 22:—The Cham- ber of Commerce entertained Premier Borden and ministers at a banquet tonight. Hon. L. P. Pelletier was indisposed and un- able to be present. Five hundred of London’s merchant princes were present. Borden declared that Canada would shoulder her responsibilities and that the two great races of the British and French would develop the re- sources of the Dominion together, ’ Sea's Greatest Depth The greatest depth of the sea hitherto measured—namely, 82,- 089 feet—was ascertained by the survey ship Planet. in her last journey from East Asia to the South Seas at a point forty knots distant from the northern coast of the Philippine island, Min- danao. Prior to this, the greatest depth was 31,613 feet, measured by the American cable ship Nero, _to the south of the Island of ~ Guam, in the Marianne group, Russo-Japanese Alliance St. Petersburg, July 22:—The signature is impending to a pact establishing a defensive alliance between Russia and Japan. The actual agreement was concluded a fortnight ago and likely willbe signed for Japan by Baron Monteno, the Japanese ambassa- dor to Russia, who was its ne- gotiator and prime mover, The agreement consists of two parts, one dealing with the de- limitation of the spheres of in- fluence of Russia and Japan in Mongolia and Manchuria, which is similar in seope and character to the Anglo-Russian accord of August 31, 1907, regarding Persia, ete. The second part deals with the duty of the two powers for a joint defence in case either power is attacked, Canadian Ships Increase Ottawa, Ont., July 22:—The volume of Canadian shipping . |shows a steady though not mark- ed increase, according to figures for the last year just completed. The total number of vessels in the service is 8087 an increase of 183 over last year. The agere- gate net tonnage is 770,446 as against 751.029 last year, an in- crease of 17,517, The number of seamen, men‘and boys, en- gaged is 41,447, Good Crops on Prairie Winnipeg, July 24:—Crop con- ditions in the three prairie pro- vineces were never better nor more promising at this time of the year. This is the report:be- ing sent out by the C. P. R., as the general result of statements sent in by its agents from every subdivision on the western lines, Bank Robber Extradited Los Angeles, July 28:—Charles Dean, wanted as one of the five men alleged to be implicated in the gigantic robbery of the Bank of Montreal at New Westminister last September, waa ordered ex- tradited by the American govern- ment today. THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1912, _ At adepth of 160 feet the shaft on the Silver Standard, Hazel- ton’s premier silver-lead mine, demonstrates to a certainty the great value of the property. Angus Stewart, one of the own- ers, who visited the mine. yes- terday, stated on his return that the bottom of the shaft showed an average width of five feet of the high grade ore for which the Property has become noted. A large dumpof shipping ore is the result. of the work on the shaft. Every foot of work on the Rocher de Boule mine improves the value of the property, say those who have watched the de- velopment of the group. I. A, Brown, who came down from the mine yesterday, states that ata point one hundred feet west of the first shaft, heretofore the upper vein, six feet of fine ore has just been uncovered, ‘The winze has reached a point sixty feet from the surface, and shows a fine body of high garde copper ore, easily averaging six feet in width. Work in the drift con- tinues, a distanee of 240 ‘feet having been driven, shows that the drift, at 300 feet, will give a depth on the vein of 150 feet. A sample was recently taken from each of the first hundred and fifty sacks of ore sacked at the American Boy mine to find out what the ore would really run as prepared for shipment. The results were: $2.20 gold, 111.2 ounces of silver, 1 per cent. cop- per, 29.5 per cent. lead, 18 per cent. zinc. Discarding the cop- per altogether and calculating the lead at two cents a pound the ore runs about $81, which is con- sidered perfectly satisfactory. This ore all came out of the shaft on No. 3 vein and is only a part of what was hoisted in develop- ment, A good showing of ore contin- ues in the bottom of the shaft as today 154 feet deep. Wm. Hunter has sold a one. fifth interest inthe Hunter group, in Hunter Basin, to My, and Mrs, Riegle. The consideration was $10,000 eash, Semi-official advices just re- ceived are to the effect that a postofice is to be opened at Jackson's Camp, in the Ground- hog district, with J. Challoner ag mail from Hazelton will be made atonce, George M. Beirnes un- dertaking the work, be maintained, quiries for borate properties, owing to the depletion of present sources of supply. Our corres- -pondents state that satisfactory deposits can be handled without | delay. Borate is found in schists, of high grade, and occurs in veins from four to six inches in width. Killed by Gas James J. Lewis, a station man engaged with his partner McLean in driving a “coyote hole’ at Foley, Welch & Stewart’s camp 26A, was suffocated by gay on Tuesday afternoon. Coroner Stephenson held an inquest on Wednesday. The * evidencé showed that deceased, crawling into the small tunnel to examine overcome within. ten feet of the entrance. He was found by his nate man into the open air. All and he died within afew minutes. The'jury returned a verdict of accidental suffocation from gases, The funeral was held on Wed- nésday afternoon, under direction of §, H, ‘Crum, Mining News of Week | most westerly showing on the! - The survey || sinking progresses, The shaft. is | - postmaster. Temporary arrange-|§ ments for the carriage of the: It is ex-|; pected that a regular service will! 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