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Last week end the editor paid a 3 vist
to the Silver Standard mine for ‘the
first time in fifteen or twenty years,

for, during that time the mine has not)

licen operating. “But the property is
operating now, or at least being made
yeady for operation on a large scale, a
mueh larger scale than at any time in
the past. /

Mr. A. 8. Williamson is the man in|

charge of operations and he is getting
results with a small crew of men who
are working in splendid co-operation.
Mr. Williamson,- before.gettling in Van-
couver to a less strenuous ‘ft than
inining, spent some thirty ot :. more
years, first as a miner, then an ‘opera-
tor and then an organizer. He knows
the lusiness, and as. most of il experi:

ence was ‘gained in’ the: silver-lead dist-}

rict of the Pacific coast, he Engws sil-
yer-lead mining: In fact, so well, does
he know the business that, as s00n as
he got the lay of the-land at the ‘Silver
Standard, he started in to pick up the
ore shoots, not only in the tunnels, but

_ on the surface, and. today the mine is

9

as

ahout ready for a good sized crew with
Inodern drills, drifters, etc,, ta go to
work, . .
Without making any unreasonable |
predictions, it is safe to say that this

nine will shortly be shipping high |.

grade ore to the smelter in quantities
that will surprise even those old tim-
ets who have always believed the -hest
of the Silver Standard. And the ore
is high grade.’

Lesides clearing out the ‘entrance to
the tunnel on the two levels, in itself
-a-very Dig job, as they were cavd in
for, a distance ‘0f-150 feet, Mr. Willan
Yon has been studying ‘the Welns” Below
ground and’ above. ground, and: digging
Hy Hew ‘ore shoots and new veins. At
the present ‘tine he has ore coming in|’
on the No. 2, No.4, No. 5 and No.6
veins in the tunnels. He has marked
out places for raises, for drifting . and
for ¢ross cutting, and there is room for
a fot of men to work.

‘On the surface: of No. 7 vein &@ new
shoot of ore has been opened that is 15
feet, widé and neither the hanging or
‘the foot wall has. ben reached. Num-
Prous _other open cuts. and trenches
hare heen made on the surface of sev-
ral other veins and these are lined up.
with .the ‘tunnels’ below. One of the
first’ opértions will probably be to

stope out’ ‘the ovedn these vartous. show
ings from the upper tunnel while ‘the
lower tunnel:{s being: extended’ and the
big shatt’ thither 500" foot revel ie “be
ing jitmped out.”

For_a number of Years ‘the lower, orl
400: ft, tunnel, : will ‘pe. ‘the, mein haul-
aye tunnel as. it avi” “oneit the entire
property to the 500: zt. ‘level, ahd as yet
ho stopelng has been done from the
lower level; just. Cross ‘cutting and
dvitting. What is on. that level ig al-
ready well known to the.< owners, of the
property,

At the present time the Silver Stan:

dard has been: ‘well: prospected “and” ‘is |-

in ‘fin shape for.an operating’ company.
to go in and mine,”

- Now.that the. tunnels are opened up

nenin, | ‘and the | trails: cleared” ‘ont,’ the
recent trip of the writers to the: inine | *
_ brought back memories of many glad-,
some days. whep men, were ‘working
und oye was going out and’ money com:
Ine. i. .Outslde' the mine: ‘the country:
Is vat the same. except that much dam-
nee. hag been ‘done. to bulldings;and. to
equipment’ hy tatural . ‘and: by: human:
avencies:~ .But none. of ‘the - ore:
dug out. ‘during the - tong’ years: “of; idle,
ness, and many thousands ‘of dollars:
of eqalpment, 48" ‘being salvaged : and
put ‘into gondition.: a

Glen: Mountain: on “whieh ig. Joeated,
the Silver. Standard inn

: Four Days of -

of Commerce banquet. 4¢ 9.30 Dance

| Miss’ Gwen McMaster, .

was |"

ds as‘near ay'm

Business and -
Fun, Smithers:

ihe

7 ‘The following has been given 23}:
‘the official program for the doings at
Smithers for the ‘balanee of the week:

‘Thursday, August Ath—Cdnyention
of Associated Boards of Trade opens

at 10 am, eonéluding in evenitig.
se

Friday, August 5—Baseball at 2.30
and 4.30 between Hazelton, -Telkwa
and, Smithers.....At % pm. “Chamber

in the Town Hall,
wa ‘. *

Saturday, August 6—Program ‘of
children’s races at 10 am. Parade
to .prounds at 1 p.m. “HHorse races at
2 pm. Baseball, Prince: Rupert vs
Smithers at 2.30. Old Timers concert
at. $30, Dance at Lake Kathlyn at
il pam. .

* * OR: .

Sunday, August {--Baseball, Prineo
Rupert vs Smithers at 10.30 a.m.
‘Elks flag day picnic at Lake Kathiya
at 130 pm, Full prograni of sports. }
Refreshments, all free for children.

Wedding Bells
MacKay-Crabb
. From the Province
Fink ard white.was the color scheme,
for the floral decorations: of, g#ladioli
and phlox in Ryerson United Church
Friday evening, when Miss Jessie Hel-
en MacKay«beeame the bride of Mr.
William Lioyd. Crabb. The bride is
the eldset danghter of Mrs.:‘M. L. Mac-
Kany and . the late James Mackay,
while. the, groom 4s, the. gnly.san, aff. Mrs...
4). Crabb" and. the late ‘G. G. Crabb.)
The.ceremony was ‘performed by Reve
-H. Grant..,
riven in marriage Wy her uncle, Mr:
J. L; Law, Calgary, the bride wus :at-
(lred in pale pink French lace over taf-
feta with matching jacket, showing &
Peter. Pan collar, fastened with crystal
buttous. Her pale pink Maline’ bonnet
was gathered at the back. with a spray
of. orange blossoms, Pink * rosebude
and white dweet peas were inthe bon-
quet.
She was attended hy her sister, Miss
(Mar fon MacKay, wearing turquoise
‘blue georgette with Peter Pan colar
and matching jacket trimmed . with
mtching and she. carried pink ‘gladioli
and. sweet peas,
ported by his nephew, Mr. Ttaeburri -Al-
Jen, Ushers. were “Mr. ‘Jack .. Barclay’
‘and “My. Jack Law. The soloist was

sare

Ae ‘Feception was. held at, the home of
the -bride’s mother’ ‘thére Mrs, Mae
Kay’ and. the gitoom's mother received
the'‘zuests. The former hod chosen
my y georgette with taffeta jacket of
navy-‘and rose. - Accessories were navy
her corsage of Talisman: roses, ‘The
mother of the groom wore navy sheer
‘vith biege ‘accessories and corsage of
Taliaman roses, .

A three tier w edding enke surround:
ed by pue pink tapers, centied the tea
table where Mrs. G. K. Allen, Mrs. J.
B Law, Mrs. L. M. Ball and Mrs, Wm.
Barwick presided. i)
<Wwore. a: tailleur of light grey with top
‘coat of wavy’ and matehing accessories,
Her. blouse was blush, rose, and her cor-
sage of: pink-carigtions.” ib “atter™ viri Hog.
“in * Victoria, ‘Mr, and’ Mrs, Crabis will
reside ‘at Port: ‘Tahsis.

‘and. most
‘Tong years
= Thi mine. is. only five)
H vend it ‘is ‘al

perfect ‘Diace- ‘te work’
found:in. the, inining worl

ne

‘| spent ‘ay couple of, days" here. .

The groom was sup- [-

For her wedding journey. the bride

..Prince Rupert -

The Garden City by the Sea

By Our Own Correspondent

How soon the renewal of the ele-

vator lease will take place is uncertain
but to judge from yemarks by Mr. W.
"Hetherington of Fort William, who re-
presents the Dominion government in
all matters concerning state owned
elevators, it will be at as early a date
as possible. . .

_Mr. Hetherington and Mr.
708. Bennett of Vancouver, the latter
the ‘manager: of the Alberta Pool in

this provituce, were here Jast week, in

connection | with the turning over of
th plant. to the government, the lease

hay ing’ expired ‘in July.
“se *

For the first’ ‘time in four months
Norman Watt has resumed his duties
ns government agent, bis absence hav-
ing heen dueto a serious illness. My,
Watt bas been for the past few weeks

resting at, Lakelse Lake...

: i. a .
Bare. headed and deeply tanned, no

Jess 2 personage than Mitchell Hep-

Imrn, premiex of Ontario, stepped off
the as. Princess Alice last Saturday.
With bis two friends, Mr. Bickell and
Bernard Smith,, prominent — financial

* |men, Toronto and. New. York, .he had

come down. from: the Yukon, heving
got that far. by plane. The visitors
were met: by Commissioner. Alder and

a citizens committee and driven about

the city. Premier Hepburn finds his
north western trip a good deal of ‘a

revelation. ©
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Paddling a 17 ft. canoe from Seattle

tO, Juneau, 2, lirnee..0f. Tauseular. look: |.

1 Stockton; Cal.,;
Martin Goldberg and Wm, Kenwick,
Brery-
thing has: been: going along well, and
the boys Jook the part. They. rested
in a cabin aeross the bay. It was on
Jtine 16th ‘that the little erdft glided
away from Seattle for the fjords of
the north.
** *

Among the resolutions from Prince
Rupert to be snbmitted at the Asso-
‘elation of. Boards of Trade convention
in. Smithers this week, will be one
that ‘presses. for the esteblishment of
nn assay office at Prince Rupert, this
to further extend the proven useful-
ness of the government sampling plant

* 8 @
' Guests thot filled - St. Andrews eath-
ata, witnessed ; the. marriage on ’Fri=
day eveniig®, dst of Miss Wadeal M.
Murssnllem and Wm.'H. Trotter of
Vangouver, and Ly¥epreseiitative of a
‘cotiiercint house in “Prince George.
The service, fully choral, was conduct-
ed hy Bishop Rix. The bride, given -in
marriage by hei father, -N. -Mussallem,
wore a -gown of lustrous white’ satin,
with lace inserts dotted with ‘pearls,
ind skirt sweeping’ out into a fan
shaped pearl, “She ‘carried. a bouquet |
of Talisman roses. Miss Cathérine
Mussallem was ‘maid of honor. The
Inrgely attended reception took place.
at the home: of. the bride. on Fourth
Avenue, ° re

A road ennip was “established at Me-
Gregor Creek Monday morning and ‘it
will be moved westward. as a the work
progresses, _ :

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MATRICULATION oe RESULTS

tase hee ~
4s ante

“rhe: resntts - of the Senior’ Matricuta-
lion examinations: in’ the northern in-,

J terior: ‘were ns: ‘folléws: tee i n

vt ‘Smithrs—George’
Junior - Matriculatio
7 Burns: ge Lillis

War Pat

tine OMINECA “HERALD, NEW H AZELTON, BC. WEDNESDAY, ™ AUGUST 3, 1988

‘NOW'S

ess

From Smithers

The fire which has been blazing

‘| from the Moore ranch, and spreading

for..several miles," destroying timber,
threatening farm houses, barns and
hay flelds,.is now under control. It
appears..that ‘a friend ‘of Mr. Moore's
Wes. looking after some - - burning, A
spark jumped. some distance away and
started a spot. fire, The man who had
charge of the fire ‘went for tools, but
found on his return that he was help-
less. The fire had eaten its way into
the thick timber and was going fast.
Seeing the smoke Rangers Martin and
Kerr investigated and finding the serl-
ousness of the blaze, put on a prelim-
Inary crew. The fire was almost un-
der control when a heavy wind carried
it into a dry forest. Inspector Mat-
theson and Ranger Martin added to
the fighting crews and called on out-
side points for further help. Angus
MeJ.ean. got busy, and -in due course
with the help of a few drops of rain
now and again, got the fire under con-
trol after approximately; 3000 acres
had heen’ burned over. “Where once
beautiful trees covered lovely hillsides,
there is now only black sticks and
stumps glowing with ugliness in the
hetps of sand and ashes,. Birds that
once dwelt in the safety of nature were
scured from their homes. Some escap-
ed, but many were burned. Smatl ani-
mals were destroyed, and -many only,
partially .so and were left by the fire
to die in misery. Small squirrels chat-
‘tered incessantly at:the egrelessness of
man. Fire is war again ‘nature and
‘too much ‘caré cannot ‘be exercised in
dealing with fire in dry weather.
The: alitomobites of. H. Zolgoff and
Jimmy Briggs collided on the Drift-
wood road about five miles ‘out of
Smithers, -

and. the two cars ‘tere damaged.
oe -_

‘

Pai. “Hann and: “Daintry’ * Goodnere
have returned from.a holiday at Lake
Kathlyn, They. claim, they had a yip-
snorting good , time.

ex .

Friends and relatlyes were greatly
bereaved at the death of the young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Me-
Clain.. The little girl was taken to
the: Smithers hospital two days previ-
ously ‘and was operated on for appen-
dicitis from which she did not recover,
Sympathy is expressed for the bereav-
ed parents and grand parents,

Harold Iekes, secretary of the imter-
‘uy for the United States, ig visiting in.
“Alaska: -He is’ talking to the people
there of, the rand to that part of the
Sates to" he built hrough British Col-
umbin. A ‘Vancouver paper scoffingly
wishes to het the secretary would uot
travel over that road, There are times
when. even a Vancouver paper lets slip
theiy real ettitude towards ‘Northen
and central part of the province. :

. * 3 * : .

A inan. from Crilifornia. visiting. Ru-
pert. recently, ‘tried ‘to, awaken ‘the folk
‘there to the fact tliat there was ‘some-
thing to life. besides. waiting for some.
Poor bool ta come along: and ‘buy them
out 80. they’ vould get away south to
hecome inemployed, and ‘seeking re-
lief.” The Californjan. tried to. impress
upon them the ‘necessity’ of a "road up
the Skeena river to connect. with the
intevior. ‘and with the. outside, - He said
It. would: bring dn. .tliuugands: of, people,

and go'aftter: thatirdad?:” an: ‘party ex:
| pedteney he: forgotter
Make: an! effort: to
their. ‘roperty?,

Amn -Indion hoy with Zolgof,
5 lighiyoinjiner:tiboutthe® "fave,

nee ‘Rupert take" hischallati¢e ‘

. ne Connan.,

Land Crying to ~
Young Folk to —
To Make Good

" From The Evening Empire
Howard Mitchell, editor of the Fin-
ancial News, Vancouver, who has been
making a tour through Central Brit-
ish Columbia, taking pictures of min-
ing and other forms of industrial de-
velopment, was in Prince Rupert last
week. In the course of an article he
recently sent to his publication, des-
eriptive of a tour through the central
interior, emphasizing the scope and
natural wealth of the country, said
lack of population was possibly ex-
plained by the handicap of distance
from populous markets. It costs too
much to sell: products,

He says:—Yet there is the Jand, the
timber, the coal and the water in the’
interior plateau country to support sev
eral million people on a higher subsis-
tence standard of living than they en- —
joy in most European countries.

Talk of the anomaly of poverty
amidst plenty! Here is a potential
plenty going. without population. Here
is n land erying for young pioneers of
the old type, offering them food, shel-
ter, independence, the ownership of the
means of production—and ‘there. are
few takers. True, it does not offer
them all the amenities of civilization.
The winter .climate ‘is rigorous. Pro-
duets subject to. frost+ are grown at
some hazard, But experimental  sta-
tions show the way. Farming can be
unde to give a man a good living. It
is only this generation that has con-
ceived the notion that it should, as
well, give him a six-cylinder car and a
winter in the palm belt.

Fer ‘strong, healthy men to be staz-
 ingy: ‘demonstrations BOE. ~pernminent-goy-
ernment relief tn-@- provirice’ that. has
sti te be pioneered | is a commentary

‘Jen the lack of organization. to bring

idle men and idle land together as well
as a reflection upon the initlative of
youn nen, What Japan would give
for a raw, rich, virgin country like this

PICTURES SEEN OF MINING .

!

There were a number of citizens of
Hazelton and a few from the district
turned out to see Howard Mitchell’s
nictures of the mining industry of B.
© lust Saturday night. The pictures
were given un very short notice or a
much Jarger crowd would have been
present. Thy were. well worth seeing
and gave the laymay; #3000 ‘conception
of what-the industry means to the pra-
‘yince.. In one picture Jack Bolding,
formerly of New Hazelton, was seen
pouring gold from the furnace at the
‘Rralorne mine..-Another picture waa
of Fred Wells looking for his big gold .
mine.. Future pictures will show a
mmmnber of views of mining in the nor-
thern part of the province, | :

.

NISCRLLANBOUS SpOwER ,

« Honoring Miss. “Jessie MacKay. a
miscellaneous shower was held at the -
home. of Mrs. H. A. Harris, on West’
2ist Avenue when Miss Joan Strong
-presented the gifts, At the tea table
centred with a erystal and silver bowl
of sweet peas and illuminated by tall
yellow tapersthe hostess had . asked
Mrs. J. Crabb,” mother of the’ groom.
elect. to: preside, and the cake was. cut
by Mrs. M, L. ‘MacKay. Serving the -
guests were te Misses“ Fda Crawford,
Norma. - Harris,’ Alex.. MacKay, - Iris
Williseroft, Vera: Tanglaniis and Yvon- _

; ‘tain ‘that enn de brought 0 out, and they aa
‘|meed Jook no sa par the ere