‘| Keugh Lumber TERRACE, B. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, “No. 22 Phitbert Hotel TERRACE, B. C. Here and There ‘Another sale of salmon angling leases is announced in New Bruns- wick for the famous waters. of the Upsalquitch River which will Fully Modern Fleetrice Light Running Water Travellers Sample Rooms ° P, 0. Box 5} L. Martin, Prop. Telephone Terrace Mill Stock of | Lumber No. 2 Shiplap ™ S4S common dimension and No. t Ship- lap No. 1 Finish, Siding, Flooring, V-joint Ete. Shingles Mouldings, PRICES ON APPLICATION Geo. Little Terrace, B.C. YORK HOTEL Vancouver, B.C. The House of Comfort and Cheery Service Extremely Low New Winter Rates: WITHOUT BATH «WITH BATH - / pairy $ 1.50$ 2.00 MONTHLY 25.00 30.00 ALL OUTSIDE ROOMS | ° ‘ \ Free Garage e In the centre of the city’s attractions All roome exceptionally large and noise proof C] Write For Hlustrated Folder ‘THE YORK HOTEL Vancouver, B.C, a. G. fourhtan. Manaxer ee CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF TERRACE ——— NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a Dump for Clean Refuse has been established on Block 8 Lot 364, Plan 1066, and dhat such refuse must he tuken to that ytce and to no other. The Dump is situated ahout two and » half miles from Terrace, on the rond to Kitsumkallim Lake, on the left side going north, and nearer the rond which lerds down to “Dutch Valley.” N. Sherwood Clerk Some of the local anglers tried out: Titkelse River during the end of the week and got some fish and had some fun too Sy ey ad "hota te 7. Agar is in Prince Rupert in ate tendance nt the spring assizes, He is one of the juymen, and he thinks it a ‘fine thing that the Grand Jury was “nholished, but also that it would be a finer thing if all juries were abolished be leased to the highest bidder at @ sale to be held in Fredericton, Apri] 27. The leases will be for ten yearg from Mareh 1, 1933, Canadian railway salaries have 7 experienced severe cuts over the past few years. This has ap- plied to officers as well as to workers on the trains and along the lines. The recently issued annual report of the C, P, R, an- nounced that E, W. Beatty, Chalr- man and President of the C. P. R., had instituted a special ent of 15 per cent, for himself and the Com- pany's directors. This' makes a total cut of 259% for them since the decline in earnings began. Nipigon River's famous speck-. ted trout doen't know it yet but the tikase has gone forth that non-residents shall pay only $5.50 for an annual fishing license, or about half the charge hitherto. Further, Nipigon guides will offer their services this year for $23.00 a week us against $28.00 in 1932. These trout in the Nipigon pools and in these off the islands at its Touth including St. Ignace, run to seven pounds and up. . Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan recently hung up a new speed record when she travelled the 2,329 miles from Honolulu to Victoria in four days, eight Lours and three minutes, clipping -seven hours, 47 minutes from her best previous time for the voyage and much outdistancing the best mark for any other Pacific liner except the Empress of Canada. The literary hit of the year has been made by Frederle Niven, --Canadian author, Hving near Nel- son, B.C., whose “Mrs. Barry” has been recently hailed by authori- ties as one of the most profound- ly moving books ever written. Mr. Niven, who thus breaks into the ranks of best sellers, earlier in the century handled baggage and freight for the Canadian Pa- cifie Railway at Nelson. H. F, Mathews, general man- ager, Canadian Pacific hotels in western Canada, with headquar- ters at Winnipeg, has been pro- moted general manager of the company’s hotel system from coast to coast, with headquarters in Montreal, according to a re- cent announcement by BE. W. Beatty. chairman and president of the railway, Tt is necessary to go back to the year 1916 to find revenues of the Canadian railways on a level comparable with 1982. The fol- lowing figures show that in 1932 as compared with 1916: Railway Operating Rev- enues, .Decreased 6.5% Railway Operating Ex- penses .. ., increased 20.9% Net Revenue from Railway Qnerations ..Decreased 60.6% Accruals. va ae we ae Ancreased 135.7% Net Railway Operating Railway Tax Income .. ..Decreased 63.3% Railway Property Invest- | ment ., ., ..Inereased. 34.6% Rate of Return on Invest- ment . .Decreased 69.0% Revenue Freight Ton Miles,. .. ..Decreased 28.3% Revenue Passenger Miles ve as oe ae e Decrensed 50,390 Actual Gross Ton Miles ecw we ve a Decreased 17.2% Payroll] of Hneine and Train Service Jmptoyess and Tolegraphers .... sees ° P'Inerensed 81.9% Train Miles .. Decreased 22.8% . Capt. 7. Willman of Tsk was in town last week and told the Terrace News nan that he expected to get started on a big program with the Columario, Mines Consolidated Ltd., ina very lit- tle while, He already has a few men at the mine getting things inh stiape ; for operation, and as the Terrace-Usk road was cleared Inst Saturday he ts. now able to freight his stuff fram here te his base of operations at Gold Creek. Terrace Notes: lt, L. MeIntosh arriveed from Prince Rupert last week and is. ¢ getting his stunmer * ulaee | in shape. ree ; Theo. Golthuest “arrived from the South, on Saturday evening. - He niads the trip by auto os far as Prince George and there took the train. 0. T. Sundal spent last week end at his cottage nt Lakeise getting tt in a habitable ‘condition again. Quite a erawd went out to Lakelse Jast Sunday. The weather was very fine. . The Tublie Works Dept. is getting the local ronds in fine shape, grading hiving been stated earlier than usual. In addition maintenance work is being carried on on the Lakelse eut off and it is hoped that in the near future le- eal traffie will be able to use this new per trip. at the Philbert Hotel for a month m- derzoing surgical treatment has gone back to his home. Now that the roads are hard enough for heavy traffic both the saw mnills here are able to get logs and are oper- ating full time. : _ Several trucks are hauling ties into town. ‘These were cut during the past winter by district settlers. J, DeKergomenux is making numer- Os improvements to his garage. F, DeKergomeaux is nble to Jook at- ter his business again following a long illness. A very successful sale of home eook- ing and finey work was held at Knox hited church on Saturday afternoon tnder the auspices of the Ladies Aid. A substantial sui was atlded to the Guild’s funds as 2 result of the effort. At the next monthly meeting of the Toard of Trade Harry King will give a descriptive talk on the Telkwa Col- levies operated by Frank Dockrill, As many here have been using Telkwa eon) there will be considerable interest in this lecture. It is reported that the Dominion eovernmment proposes a hew currency issne ta provide a new Dominion Build ing at Ottawa. What about the Otta- wa government printing a few mary hls to provide a flying field for Tei race? Recently the American Consul at Prince Rnpect intimated that a fly- ing ficld here would be eonvenient to his pecople far coastal and transcon- tinentnl flying. Loeal peaple would be vlad of such a development. Pr. J, Murphy and 7. Eriandsen of temo were In town nt the week end, They report that snow is off the land and the farmers are getting their crops planted. —— Geo: Cobh af Kalum Lake made the ‘Tiip to tow n during the latter part of the w eek. The Terrace dramatie soclety staged n very enjoyable dance on Friday ev- ening when a dancathon competition wns put on In addition to the regular program, Miss Betty Anderson and Paul Hertel were the winriers and they | very kindly donated the prize to the alub to help out further efforts. The attetidance wag not large the society enme out on the right side of the leger atid are satisfied with thet -flrst effort Pecos The Terrace News, ls only Two Dollars and district.” lity and operating economy. “We wish to announce the appointment of Jahn Delier- gemeaux as Chevrolet sales and servant agent for Terrace The New Chevrolet Six for 1938 is a beauty. For full information apply to Dependibi- John DeKergemeaux Kaien Motors, Ltd. Terrace, B. C. Prince Rupert, B. C. ore “J Diamond Discov- ery in S. Africa Continued trom Page 1 ix months and eventually a fifth in- terest, in either eash: or shares, in & route saving about a mile and a half. ompany with a capital of not less than 95,000 pounds. But lateer the syndi- 'ente changed their minds. They were Inot so sure of the richness of Alexan- Breuning, who had estimated that they would recover at least 24,000 pounds from a block of 20 discoverers claims, about 2000 square yards. They quib- bled about conditions. The two Ger- man geeologists and the other group of men sat down in a house built of yeed matting in the Namaqualand wild and haggled over cups of tea and glass- es of whiskey. Dy. Merensky offered them 10,000 pounds outright and a half share in all diamonds. Still they were not content. In the end Dr. Meren- sky ngreed te give them 17, 500 pounds. Thoroughly pleased with. themselves, they set their signitires*to the: afree= ment in that murky mathouse. They threw away o fortune. Theunis Grins Dr. Merensky returneed to Johannes bbure. Dr, Reuning, assisted by the original discoverer, Coetzee, stayed at the Bay to explore the claims. For four days they found nothing. Then, on the historic day, January 14. 1927, Dr. Réuning returned to camp rather disgruntled at his lack of suc- cess. He found the Coetzee boys smoking thelr little black pipes, one of them playing significantly with a lit- tle tubaeco bag which clinked with pebbles as he fingered it. Dr. Reun- ing suys that he thought they were spooting Lim. But the pebbles were diamonds alright. The whole crowd jumped into the car nnd dreve to where the Coetzees had been working,. The farmers point ed ont the dramatic spot, and Dr. Renn ug went down on his knees, and, pick- ing up a handful of gravel, found three more diamonds. Never eno a geologist have spent so delizously exciting a time as Dr. Reuning in the next six weeks, In one duy in one trench he found 168 diamonds, wighing 690 car- ats, worth about 8,000 pounds One of the stones; a blue white, weighed 71 carats, ed with the work. 150,000 Pounds in Six Weeks When the first dry of February ar- rived Dr.’Reuning was able to report to Dr. Merensky the finding of a grand total of 2,762. diamonds, weighing over 4,308 carats ond worth: about 80,000 pounds. By February 25° this total had risen, to 6,890 diamonds, weighing: 12,549 carats. ‘This value of stones he ‘and his handful of helpers had found totaled 150,000 poids? The syndicate of Springbok: then: had -thrown away’ 75,000 pounds, and that: as thelr share for six weeks only. “4 _ These six sensatidnal . weeks could not be kept secret. Soon Namaqualand was a whirlpool .of rumors. government to preserve the dinmond ‘ jxolag on about him. The Coetzees were rather bor: ' And the], murket from utter collapse, stepped in and forbade all praspecting from Feh- rnary 25 upwards, Soon the Stato diggings were opened. Dr. Merensky aid his backers, a group of Juhannes- lnrg magnates, were permitted to work their 20 discoverers claims, 2000 square yards of treasure trove. Nobody knows bow much wealth lite heen won from the State diggings. or frum Dy. Merensky’s little plot. bur the men from the desert and the dvy Maurice Barnes of Usk who has been der Bay as Dr, Merensky and. Dr. giriokeen y¥ ilinges, guess in millions. and one little syndicate sigh at thelr lost chance of becoming the first mil- liontires ut Namaqualand. J. K. GORDON’S TRIP SOUTH Following the regular business of the Terrace and District Board of Trade last Tuesday evening J. K, Gor- den gave a very interesting account of his recent trip through California and the North Western States. He des- cribed in deetail thee wonderful az- rienltural development, and also sive © number of incidents of his experi- ‘ences during the earthquake and the bank holiday, both-of which ocenrre:! while he was in the neighborhood of los Angelos. LOCAL BALL TEAMS ARE READY _— Last week (Tuesday) a joint meethi: of the football, baseball’and soft bal clubs was held. Officers were clectod for the season with Fed Nash. sr. 1 president of the football cluh, L.Neu- hanser, vice pres., and F. Nash jr. secretary and treasurer. Reg. Coil son will be president of the baseho! team with Faul Hertel, vice and Thu: can Werr secretary treasurer. Michael and L. MeKenney were nyp- pointed a committee to arrange sal - ball nintters. Tt is hoped that av- rangements will be made for the lor ball players to visit Usk on May 24. SAW A GRIZZLY ON THE TRAIL A few mornings ago Charlie Rave: of the Skeeria River Hatchery wr~ going down the trail to the bout hon: with a pack on his back, As his yeck consisted of nails and other items of hardware he was paying more utten- tion to his footing than to what wi: On looking up tc saw something dark along the tri’? ahead of him and concluded it must 1 some others of the staff caming nm fram the landing, A little later, tat. ing another glance, he discovered tha’ the object was on four feet—not at al) the style adopted by his compinions ‘He found that his friend was a fuli sized gizzley, and it was standing on the trail broadside, That was not s good: fora quick trip forward, but ne fore Charlle could decide which tree to shin up the bear moved off abort his own business and Charlie was unt at all curious ns to what that busines was. It is sald that three grizzlies are seen ench spring close to the trail and always ‘headed the same way. Mr, and Mrs. 0, Raven made a trip to Prince Rupert last.wweek,