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NEW HAZELTON, B, C., AUGUST 3, 1923

Plans Well and _ ‘Truly Laid For

Next Barbecue

The Telkwa Barbecue on Labor

Day, Sept..8, is the biggest sum- m mer and early fall attraction in the interior. All committees are ma On the joh for this year’s barbecue fy and horse races. See the adver- tisement announcing the eyents me elsewhere in this issue. Make ms your plans now to be there. "The mm roads in all directions lead. to fe lelkwa and ‘those roads are in aa 00d shape for motor or borse me travel. The barbecue lunch will me, De served at noon on the grounds ae followed by baseball and football me games, horse races and broncho busting. The admission price to ae the grounds is only fifty cents me and everything is included. me the evening there will be the ae Usual grand ball which needs no; a other comment, Arrangements are also being made for a band s to furnish musie during the after- fnoon. School children will: be fa admitted to the grounds free,

Mrs. D. B. Morkill Dead

It‘ was learned in this district ast Friday with a good deal of Fsurprise and sorrow ‘that Mrs.

a Dalby B. Morkill had passed away Mein Vancouver on July 25th. The \deceased was well known through- gout the northern interior and at Meone time made her home in Ha- ezelton during the summer onths. She assisted at many oneerts in this district and was ‘always warmly welcomed. To aMr. Morkill is extended the sym- athy of many friends in the orth. The funeral took place fo Vancouver last Friday morn- jing. Mrs. Morkill was the daugh- meer of J. F. and Mrs. Maguire,

Mining Brisk at Usk

am Messrs. Gall & Stewart have mcade a find of grey copper, sil-

Per bearing. on Chiminess creek, pnd it appears to be the richest

mebecamp. Their ore exists in a meanded structure, with bands of Bre on each wall that should al- most bear the consistency of ruby milver. The property is close to mee Silver Basin group, owned by | - B D. Wells, at the head of Chi- miness creek, . The same forma-|-: fon extends into the vicinity of gegate creek, where large values Me silver are also found in the mame kind of ore,

Blew Out the Front

- On Thursday afternoon a balmy reeze hit the South Hazelton otel owned by P. Jennings and Bok out the front of the building. : 8.0.8. was sent to the old fwn fora crew of men to prop

mm going down. - anow being repaired, ad

In|:

ilver sulphide ore vet found in]:

to cost $12,000; Port’ Clementa- Tel El road to cost $20,000. All works to be carried ont by day labor. So

Fup and thus save the building! . — The daniaga

‘Prince Rupert Fair the Prince Rupert show, was in

trict exhibits,

Lake and Bulkley Valley have already promised to send dis- trict displays. There is no doubt but that this district will also exhibit. He also hopes to get Woodcock and Kitsumkalum or Terrace. As for entries for the Carnival Queen Contest Mr. Koberge re- ports that Prince George Board of Trade has entered Miss Kath- leen Brown and that Smithers Athletic Association has entered Miss Elizabeth Stratton. Arrangements are being made for the Smithers baseball team and the Telkwa football team to play in Rupert during the fair. °

Prize lists for the Bulkley Val- ley Fair at Smithers have been issued, and a large number of prizes and cups are offered. The dates are Sept. 19, 20and 21. A

good exhibit will be made from New Hazelton and Hazelton.

Wonder in Apple Trees

On Tuesday afternoon last Rey, Dr. Grant picked eight yellow transparent.apples from a tree which he just planted last spring. From another tree planted at the same time he picked two apples. The trees were just from the. nursery lastispring and the trunks of the trees were only about the size of a walking stick, The editor visited the Rev. Doctor at his raneh at Terrace and saw the apples, therefore the story must be accepted as genuine. The

W. F. Koberge, manager for

town today arranging for dis- He reports that Prince George, Vanderhoof, Burns

Cottonwood Is Now Attracting

Two men from the south spen

examining the timber leases tha

have taken an option on the tim

tion. They are particularly in terested in the cottonwood tim

islands is very heavy. that the cottonwood will be man there is a steadily increasing de

natural

time, Geo. Little and Geo.

the timber.

Born. —At Victoria private hos pital on Sunday, July 29, to Rev. J.R. and Mrs. Hewitt,a daughter.

metic,

apples were shipped by express to Mrs. Grant, who is visiting in Winnipeg and who was skeptical as to ‘the Doctor’s ability as a horticulturist. Dr, Grant set out a large number of trees last spring and all but three are do- ing exceptionally well,

Money to be Spent:

The following expenditures have been announced by the Minister of Public Works for Omineca and Prince Rupert dis- tricts:—

Omineca — New bridge near Evelyn station to cost $600; min- ing trails at Fort St. Sames and Manson Creek to cost $500: cable and assistance to settlers at Wal- cott on Bulkley River who are erecting towers and building a ferry boat.

Prince Rupert—Road improve- ments under Highway Loan Act on Lakelse road to : cost $5,000; Kitsumkalum road to cost 5, 000; road approach to ‘Terrace bridge

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east. able damage to spuds and grain crops is reported.

Miss Avis Wall. who returned with her on Thursday for a visit.

Mr. and Mrs, P. Slavin arrived from the interior on Thursday morning and are spending a few days in town guests of W. Ss. and Mrs. Sargent,

A carload of Smithers nimrods, including A. J, McIntyre, A, Me- Dougall, L. Lane and R. Lan- caster, spent a Sunday at Lost|: Lake, and reported a very fair eatch.

Fairly heavy frosts are report-

Bulkley Valley from. Smithers At some points consider-

Hon. Dr. King, Dominion min-

ister of public works, arrived in|: Prince Rupert on Wednesday af- ternoon, and on Thursday started | ° on a trip throegh Northern Brit- ish Columbia.. to make many stops-en route,

He did not intend

Mrs. Wm. Gow.gave a bridge

on Tuesday evening in honor of her guests, Mra, Gordon Wood, of Burns Lake, and Mrs, Anderson, of Prince Rupert... Theffirst prize was won by Miss: Watkins: and

the consolation was 5 WOR n by. Mra. \Send in your name and cash now La : ie

We.

Outside Money

several days in Terrace this week

have been held for years on the islands in the Skeena river. They

ber, subject to their examina-

ber of which the stand on the If they take up their option it means

ufactured into vineer for which

mand, and Terrace is the most location for the mill, which will convert a once’ con- |sidered worthless wood into one of the finest finishing materials on the market at the present

Dover, of the Lakelse mills pave the visitors every assistance to get around the district and see

a ¥| Playing Tournament OVERHEARD AROUND A good many matches in the Hazelton Tennis Club tourna- | NEW HAZELTON ment have been played during He . : : =| the week with results as follows:

_ Mitchell Newman passed his first year high sehool examina- tions with a total of 677 marks. He took 100 per cent in | arith-

Miss Jessie Smith spent several days in Smithers as the guest of

ed this week from points in the].

the police. foree. Ses

Old-timer Returns James Dunbar, an old-timer in the district who has been on the accounting staff at the..Premier mine at Stewart for the last twe

tj years, arrived at Skeena Cross- ing Tuesday morning to. meet his t| partner, Paddy Creigh, who has been doing assessment work on mineral claims for the past couple -|of months, Paddy and Jim have held the Brian Boru group, on -|Rocher de Boule mountain, for a -; number of years, and as a result of the yearly assessment work Paddy has uncovered some very fine showings that run high in -|silver and lead.. These showings have been sampled, and assayed -|at the Premier mine and by other assavers. The yalues are so en- couraging and the size of the veins is such that men from the Premier are going to examine the ground. Dunbar will be around the Crossing for a short time and will then visit the several places in the district where he worked in years gone by, indluding New Hazelton, Hazelton, Telkwa and Smithers,

Ladies’ Singlea— Miss Horbury won from Miss Wat- kins, 6—3,

Mixed Doubles— . W. A. Wattie and Miss L. Wattie

won from W. W. Anderson and Miss Watkins, 6—3,

L. B. Wrinch and Mrs, McCutcheon gon from H. H. Little and Miss Hogan,

Men’ 4 Singles—

D, Galloway won from Dr. Petrie,

L. B. Wrinch won from H. H. Little,

6—3,

Rev. V. Sansum won from Rey. T. D. Proectox, 6—3,

E. A. Goddard won from W. A. Waitie, 6—2,

Start Work Sultana

A. R. Macdonald, accompanied by Messrs. Gill and Jessen, who will do the diamond drilling for the Granby Co. on the Sultana propertv at Boulder Creek, left for their work on Tuesday morn- ing. A number of men went up to the camp a few days before.

Aparty of New Hazelton young people, headed by Mrs. Marshall, left Wednesday morning for the huckleberry patch on Rocher de Boule mountain. The huckle- berry crop is a heavy one this year and large quantities are be- ing gathered by people through- out the district.

Col. J. H. McMullen, superin-

tived in Rupert this week. was joined: there by Inspector Parsons, and they propose mak- ing a tour of the northern part of the province, visiting each post wherea provincial man is: located. he. tour is .in. connection ‘with

Larger Amounts Free Gold Found

by Kleanza Co.

(Usk Correspondence) _ o, The Kleanza Company: has been working on its central group’ of gold properties—the Wathalla—on_ Kleanza mountain, The work is: taking on the nature of surface stripping, with short cuts on the veing. On the. Walhalia No, 2 vein, in one of the. lower cuts, about 1500 feet: lower down the mountain, where a series of cuts shows the vein 2 out. two and a half feet wide, fee gold has been

tles, part of which has come from the decomposition of ‘the’ pyrite and some being primary in the. quartz, parallel veins showing great per- manene¥ and continuity from. the

itively show every evidence of future mines. Usk ig proving beyond a doubt that itis a gold and silver camp, through every bit of development recently tak-

tral Skeena, accepted and the copper features of its resources taken as by-pro-

progress may be made in induc- ing a more favorable impression.

Prospects at Pacific Bright

Conditions in mining are much more active on Legate ereek this season than for the past two years. Jack Burns and J. D, Sweeney are driving a tunnel on the Independence, at the head of the center fork, Orr & Smith are busy on the ’Prisco group and

broken into some fine ore in their No. 2, tunnel. been done in the tunnel of the Imperial group, owned by T. G. McManamvon and partners, . In- dications show that the hematite capping covers a good copper deposit. Jas. Brown has been at work lately on his Cabin group, from which his assays show. good gold values. Roy ‘Moore, Bud. Corley and Nels, Thomson are now on the creek, at work on their respective properties,

P . Looking for Timber A couple of. timber men stopped

in the district for several days this week, looking for cedar pole ground, They have been getting out ties near Prince’ George, and their object is to ret cedar timber tendent’ of provincial police, ar-|so they can keep their nien work-. - He |ing in the summer as well, Monday. they went down to Skee-

na Crossing to look the sountry over there,

On.

A Roy MeDonell’: returned « on |

‘Thursday morning after a trip of. ‘inspection of the | rivers, lake :

the proposed feorganization of

aud | ‘streams in connection.

Asheries ‘department;

found in more than usual quanti-.

These veins are a set of

lower river valley to higher ele- : vations of the mountain and pos-

ing place over the whole of cen-. When this idea is

duct of the veins, _then.. some.

within the past few days have .

Further work has -