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| Very Delicate
Instruments to
Detect Fires

An artide written for the Ominecn
Herald by W. H. Sharpe relating te
, - Wumidity and Forest Fires,

Huan carelessness will, no doubt,
he responsible for forest fires when-
ever weather conditions are favorable
until such time as the general public
lecome educated to the value of our
forests and general timber cover, and
that ideal is not likely to be reached
until every male. person, within cer-
tain ages, can be conscripted. to fight
fire without pay, then the selfish in-
terest of the individual will-see to it
that there nre few fires. ;

In the meantime it is essential that
fire ovceurrence be detected in initial
stages so that same can be extinguish-
ed before much damage is done, also
ta reduce .costs of fire-fighting. To
this end much thought has.been ex-
pended and a great organization . has
heen built up. .

The careless person is always on the
job. Fortunately fire conditions are
not always propitious. Vegetation

nud forest debris become wet or dry

according fo the weather. Rain is not
the only meansof making such mater-

al non-inflammable. There. is the
dew of the evening, which is apparent
to everyone, but what is not so appar-
ent is the moisture content of the air,

When the temperature is 70 or more

ahove, and the mnoisture | content 50%

of what the air will carry at that tem-

perature, a fire ean easily be started
under favorable conditions ‘of fuel ac-
cummation, At 40% of moisture fire
will spread jat 35% tt will spread very
Tapidly sgt 259% it will. be-beyond. con-.
‘trol ‘and. at 20%: it- wil: find the. going.
too slow. in the deep bush-so will take
to the tree tops and travel at express |.
speed across the country,

It would never do to allow these
conditions ‘demonstrate themselves’ by

actual occurrence before - ‘taking any
action to safe-ruard against them so
the forest service use. instruments to
“¢ record the moisture content of the air,

The instrument most commonly used
is the sling hygrometer which gives a
reading of temperature and. relntive
hanidity of the noment durlig which
the rending is being taken, This is a
very useful instrument as it can read-
ilyhe carried in the pocket from place
to place, but it. cannot give the mois-
ture content of the forest debris, which
dees. not tollow! the: changes “in alr
moisture ‘te: the” ‘hon, | ut will hang
back in- drying out, ‘and also. in beeom-
ing moist’ after, ne. moist alr’ has set’ in.

The forest service has lately experi-
mented. with. another. intrument which.
consists of ‘a very ‘delicate: beam senle
‘md a sticl, or sticks, about, 18 inches
long by a 4% inch. ‘round. - These: sticks
represent - -the forest. debris, | They. are
kept outside: in an exposed Désition: on
n wire: rack, They. get, everything the
weuther Inis to offér, ‘Their. exact, ey-
on dry, wealght is known, SU that. when
rhe sticks are brought /in to be weigh.
ed any accummulation of, mmolature can
he rend ona per cent seule at. the point |
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ing Co recelved samples for assay and
elceek. assrys which’ avern; ed $6.00 in
sald across eleven feet,
ceptional, aud it is the hope of the
wwners that these valnes will main-
tain even half and teross
width,

Timmins engineer ali ay eraged over an
ounce and a half of gold across ‘eight
feet, but a true fverage runs around

strip with a small crew: this Year, and
diamond drilling, ete.

so fir Tom Seully hos been in-charge
as a practical miner and he: 4!
bar tier’ ‘in ‘thie” ‘group.

ANOTHER CHEAP Excunsron| ©

from British Columbia points to the
prairies will be on sale at Canadian
National and Canadian Pacifie rnilway
offices from August 22 ty 30th inelu-
sive. These low fare tickets will have
a yeturn limit of 21 days exclusive of

1. fa0d shaking and the vegetable crops
wil benettt. mueh; although the grain
thnt was ent nuiy “not bave fared go thnt city, ‘and-ne, looked for enginers |
Well: to orrive at a very, early date if’ they | ;

the surrounding inaqntains were covers

NEW HAZELTON, B. Cs WEDNESD AY, “august” 4, 1035

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Tom Scully i in.

Patmore Group
Rich Assays

~ Pom Seully of Dorreen, one of the
hest known prospectors on the Skeena
ind one who has had Breat falth in the
gold contents’ of Fiddler Creek, is as-
sociated with Bill Patmore in the Pat-
more group on that creek, and which
Was recently taken over by the Tim-
mins interests of Montreal, The Pat-
more group Has heen very attractive
to mining men and anumber offered to
take options, but the ‘Timmins’ offer
Was considered the most favorable,

‘The Patmore gronp was chosen ag a

Traspecthie grownd becanse of its geo-
‘e¥ which is most favorabie for deep
ove bodies, being of an igneous nature
imd situated well as reyards the min-!
eralizing stock of gvano-diorite. The
showings ure mostly within a highly ‘manages to yet along withont using a
altered. graunodiorite porphery of older

ge than the above stock,

The Consolidated Mining & Smelt-

This is ex-

half the

The first four sumples taken by the

of an. ounce,
The Timmins interests will surface

favorable will continue with the

In all the work that hus been’ done

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~Winnipes— Barguin trip - tickdts

Rupert Editor

Prince Rupert

By The Fen.

Frum Our Own Reporter

north, says writing is hell,

of telling 1 story. gave him fame, and
substantial fortune. Mr.
novels on gold rush days in the Yukon
and Alaska gave him his first renown,
is to tour Central British Columbia,
when he completes his Alaskan visit.
His northern itinerary ineludes the
Matantska Valley, where green set-

‘the land. Mr, Bench weighs more
than 200 pounds, and when writing,

typewriter.
+r
. “the wedding of Norman Freeman of
jthe International Fisheries Commis-
sion and Miss Kathleen Stork, daugh-
ter of vince Rupert's first mayor, and
subsequent member for Skeena. Fred
Stork and Mrs, Stork, will take place
in Vuneouver this week. They will
Miike thelr home in ‘Prince Rupert.’

om, 4
Commissioner W. J. Alder ds taking
a holiday trip to Victoria for a fort-
night. Something definite, concern-
ing the proposed pulp mill at Prince
Rupert is looked for thig week, pos-
sibly by the fifteenth. While the com
;pany mnde the definite announcement
that they will build, there has been
uncertainty as to the site. The com-
pany. want room at the arydock yards
fin At is believed a Jneeting in Ottawa

“| this’ week will ‘setéle - the” matter’ one}?

way or the other,-~ - ~

Learns: About
Interior Folks

te of sale and w ill-be good for stop

overs cut Tusper, aud Banff, This at-
tractive travel offering will be on np
cont a mile basis for

couch ‘travel,
Will also. be possible tu buy tickets

good in tourist ad standard sleepers
for one and a quarter anil one and a
bale cents a mile, vespictively, plus,
regular. sleeper ‘Charges. :

nee

. A BIG ELECTRICAL STORM

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yesterday

Mlamiage was lone,.- The ground got

‘Tt waa a pou Tain any way and
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with, snow this niorning.

-Juxperiment has demonstrated.

‘the |
okie at which firg p nazand con a

rhe: ab and.’ r
‘the instrament

of the: instriaments ned, ‘ap docetied in
the.

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the syund-and Sufe policies of the Con-
The biggest electrical ‘storm and the Servative party at Ottawa.

heaviest rnin of the season visited the PIRY he slow, agit should be,
' disttict, uftertuon, ‘There {ste and it will be lasting if the poli-
Were plenty of hail stones too, and a, cles kre. maintained. .
number uf then were fairly. large, but.
they suon mnelted ‘nnd locally, ut least,

he was asked: by nearly. everyone to
whom be talked, “Ls Prince Rupert go.
ing to ‘get. that. pulp: mill?” to which he
‘Nuswered. that he really . believed . that
the industry. Would, be established in

igolug.” To this he very - wisely - pe.
71 plied that. he had uo" ‘positive, infor-

TY, ¥, Pullan, "editor ‘in chief of ‘the
Prince Rupert News was in this dist-
tiet a conple of days last weet: in the
interests of his paper, He had been
erst to Prince George as a delegate to
the Associnted Boards of Trade. He
reports that conditions are much better
Hi through the interior than they Lave
heen: Tor, some: Yenrs,. ataleast: ‘he: found
it ensier to make collections, und he
+fomd 2 hetter spirit existing all over
the interior: This no-doubt is due to

Recovery’
but it is

‘Mr, Pullan said

re not there hefore. he gets home: The
pther question | was “how is. the election

nation:: ‘The P

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: Prince Rupert—-Rex Beach who was
in. Prince Rupert last week, on his way
He says
80, even if printers ink and the knack

Beach, whose

tlers are trying to make a living off

do ‘to them when the return. match at

seen, but they. “are: ‘feeling ery proud
of’ themsely es “Aas “Mr: “Davidson wra

the” ranner-up in® “the championship
fouraanent per
wo “ARE. Goins FEDERAL.

duinty-In-the north, and especially to.
Ontineca . people : to learn

-Mangqn, ]
iop- | Eaberai |

Government to
Administer all

B. G., the days of the’ rurai schoo
trustees are numbered.: This was ‘ev
en hinted at last sessloz. The. Propo
al is to divide the province Into. edu
cational arens and ‘hare. thew. admin

will he qualified educationalists,

ucation and. that the funds be provid

something of this kind and at‘

effect, the’ recommendations, Of
« ommissioner,

SMITHERS: FALL FAIR NEXT

and 30. This is the 15th annual fetr
good one,
program of ‘entertainment
base ball and horse reing.

hall, For full particulars ‘see. adlver-
tisement elsew! here in this issue. No
doubt a lot af people from this section
will ike | in the fair.

Sedat nay

| THE ‘our ‘cHAMETONSInIE |

Houghton of Sintthers | is’ ‘the Winner

With Bob Davidson: ‘Runner-up
K, Houghton led the field. of four-
teen players in the Northern British
Coliabia amateur golf championship
pared at Siithers on . Sunday last
when he turned i'n 74 for-. eighteen
holes. 2. C. Davidson | af Sunithers
Was second w ith 76 and J. G, William.
son af Hazeltun wre third with 77.

elton this year, H, W. Sharpe, J. Tom
bell, Powell -and ‘J. G. Williamson,
The Smithers course is in excellent con
ditigny : ase ‘this wear’s :Seore.; *Bhow;. Mr,
Christie. ‘of Smithers Who was the de-
fender of the cup was placed fifth,
Atter ‘the tournament fr iendly. con-
tests vere played, “Jas: “Turnbull: and
Be Williamson, holding Bob David.
san nnd Mr. Cotton to a tle for eigh-
teen: holes, What the local boys will

Hazelton comes” * off _réniaing, ‘to be

it will he interesting. to a sreal,

that. “AL ML.

"Hon. Fullerton.
“Rural: | Districts

If the provinelal government acts
on the report of a special commissioner
it appointed at the last session to make
a study of. educational - “costs, ete,, : in

istered by governiient appdintees who
It
is also, proposed that the province tuke
over the whole of the financing of ed-

ed ly either an increase in the income
tax .or a new sales tax- of one ar tivo
per’ cent., ar ‘both, -The minister of
edneation, Hon, Dr.. Welr, is strong for
the
next, session nf the legislature action
will nast’ ‘likely, be taken to ‘put into

the!

The next eveut to “attract the at-
tention of the interior is the annual
fall fair at. Smithers on. August 28, 29;

aud the directors claim it. will be a
They have arranged a fine
including
~Then- on
Friday. night, the list night of the fair
will he held the grand dance in the big

set ey

” feéming “more “and hore popular’ with |

ae

Only four ‘players represented Haz-

..{ to. Brltish: Columbia. .-On June. 27 the
| province did ‘not ask for & continuance

Jowing . a

vr the: legislation: -operat
| trating ‘the det ‘in
‘ solng ahenid with heir Wor

“Talks of Trip
Through West

On owe western trip we were, of
conrse, sveatly interested in the com-
ing crop and were all impressed with
its. volume. - ‘Especially : was. this ap-
parent in districts that for the last
few years had not taken off a crop be-
cause of drought conditions, The ear-
ly moisture conditions this‘ year wet.
u low: Way in putting those districts
back on their feet and there is a fen-
eral fecling of reuewed optimigm and
hope, said Hon, C. P, Fullerton, cheir-
min of the board of trostees of the
Canadian National Itallways,, who ay-
rivel tack in Winnipeg recently.
Werther conditions are playing some
queer pranks on the western ero},
huwever, and beeause of the recent in-
fonse humidity and extreme heat, stem
rust’ will take a considerable tele in
certiin patts,. Ire. cutting is fairly
general naw and it’ uniform crop is
expected. Crops will be late in the
Penve Liver country hecause of the ex-
cess early rains, but conditions there
are good and daninge from any source
will he practically. nil.

The Pacifie Const has a better tour-
ist business to Alaka than for | many
sear. Because of the increase we were
forced to augment our regular Alaska
service with four Special craises by
the Prince Robert. ‘These four extra
trips have been booked to capacity and
onr regular boats have done: splendid-
ly, Tt has been an exceptionally good
Year for our coastal steamships,

‘I paid o-. short visit to. Malinge Lake
to look over the ‘additional accom:
moadation constructed to ‘tgke care ‘of —
the ‘summer _ tourists, _ Thi aren is be-

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| Visiting ‘fihermen,. The opening of the
Tonquin: Balley area is, also’ 00d news,
to’ ‘those ‘interested in: battling the
mountain trout and TI notice that Rex
Beach was a recent successful visitor.
our trip was one of general inspection
We looked: over the ‘line closely and it
will be ready” to do our share in

moving the new cru, stated the chair-
man.

FARMERS’ CREDITOR ARRANGE-
MENT ACT STILL IN FORCE

Provive! al Government Failed to £0 .

Ahead Injunetion—Dominion.
_ Government Helping Farmers

The Farmers’ Creditors. Arrange:
ment Act, a Dominion mersure, is still:
in effect in ‘British Columbia, and’ a
lot of farmers are being: benefited hy
it. There will he a meeting of the
Board of Review in September to con-
Sider applications.

‘The interm injunction granted the’ :
provineinl government, on June*14 re)!
strainiug | the activities of the legisla-.
tion: in British Columbia ‘wag good on-
tyuntil June 27, and in the Interval'n ©
bill was. passed the. House of Commons *
tt Ottawa making. the act inapplicable :

of. the injunetion: ‘Subgequentiy’. the -

disallowing: ‘bill: “Was modified in’ the ‘

Senate to withdraw the: “act. only fol.
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