Fort George is not, at the present time, the best place foraworkingman. FORT GEORGE Thero is no active railway work in the district at this writing. VOLUME 1; NO. 41 SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B.C., MAY 20, 1911 $3 DOLLARS'PER ANNUM Of Trade The annual meeting of the Board of Trade held on Tuesday lust in the Fourth Street hall, was one of the best attended meetings of the year. A. G. Hamilton occupied the cliair and after disposing of the usual routine business, the secretary-treasurer's report for the year was read. It shows a balance on hand of $56.43 over expenditures. The statement follows: KECE1PTS:- ' By balance transferred from first of July celebration 1910............"...V.'......$194.75 By membership dues and special subscription......... .....................94.00 By grant from the Northern Development Company ......... .........100.00 By grunt from the North Coast Land Company,....................................50.00 and Elects Offif»Arc fur YASir—A« G« Hamilton Unanimously Re-elected President «"¦« ^ic^i» \3 Ulcers IOr 1 ear— Board Endorses Organization of Fire Department - Total, §438.75 EXPENDITURES:— To printing und advertising Evans and Hastings, Vancr., .......¦,.......$250.55 Noble Advertising Agency Ltd., Vancouver,....................................40.00 \ To express, oh advt., .matter etc,......32.00 To Telegrams postage etc., ............41.00 To supplies,........................ ............18.55 j Total $382.32 Balance of cash on hand ...............56.43 ; $438.75 i The fire committee, composed of J, |{. Campbell and Chas E. McElroy reported ¦ "that as South Fort George is at present absolutely without fire protection of any kind and that a lire once started would un-doubtedly consume the whole town, we would suggest the immediate organization ; of a fire department and the election of, a fire chief, assistant fire chief and two fire wardens, •making the number -four in all. * These officers to make quarterly inspection ! of all buildings. "We would also recommend that a sub-1 seription be taken up to purchase the nee- j essary apparatus required for the present i time and the selection of such apparatus be ' left in the hands of the chief and » com-.' mittee appointed by the board. The chief to |. bo the chairman of the Committee. We would, further . recomjtnend that the committee go into, the matter of the cost .of installation of a suitable lire alarm and the ! purchase of a chemical engine pulled by : hand, consisting of two fifty-gallon tanks." j The report was received and it was the opinion of the board that a public meeting be called to take action in the matter. On announcing that this was the annual meeting and that the election of officers for the ensuing year was in order, the president read the following report: Gentlemen^jn presenting this, the report of- the first annual meeting of the-South Fort George Board of Trade, 1 take great pleasure in acquainting the members present with the. fact that the objects aimed at in the organization of the bonrd last May—one year3ago— have borne good fruit.V The South Fort George Board 61 Trade was brought into being possibly sooner than would have been the case were it not fQr the fact that misleading and erroneous reports have been circulated broadcast throughput the American continent by irresponsible lot-selling syndicates and obscure weekly publications, operating at centres far removed, from the district proper. It was to counteract these false reports that led to action being taken by business men of the district earlier, as I have said before, than would otherwise have been the case. The work accomplished by the board has been of untold value to thousands of prospective investors and others who have sought reliable information through the one and only represent at ive body in Northern Cariboo. The runge of territory covered by our correspondence may better be illustrated by stating that enquiries from such distant points as Chile, the Philippines, [London and J'aris, have been covered by our indefatigable secretary, and furthermore, it serves to show us to what extent, is the world-wide interest taken in the" district with South Fort George as its business centre. The strides made by South Fort George during the last twelve months must be gratifying to members who have seen the transformation^ from a two-housed hamlet to a rjsing ancl prosperous nucleus of the G. .T. P. townsite of Fort George. All indications point today as the G. T. P. Fort George being one of the largest, if not the largest, inland city of British Columbia, and it behooves us, gentlemen, in view of this, to urge upon the government the necessity of conserving such utilities that will in time bear heavily upon the public unless provision is immediately made [to safeguard them. These utilities are water | and power rights. \Another question of supreme importance to\ the district today is the exorbitant toll exacted by the Alberta Telephone Company Ltd. I believe the board should take the matter up with the railway commission and urge a readjustment of rates, or else petition the Dominion government to install or; extend its telegraph line. The service given by the Alberta Telephone company, is not only outrageous, but it is unreliable and irritating in the extreme, and does not in any particular meet with favor by those who are compelled to use it. The board views with disfavor the endeavor made, in the past, by questionable townsiters, in urging the Indians of Fort George not to part with their reservation, or if so, to place a ridiculously high figure upon their land. The object.of such action is too plainly apparent to those who have followed events in this district. By having action deferred greater opportunity is afforded these questionable people to dispose of their holdings and lots. In this connection I am pleased to say that the attorney-, general has been advised of all these .misrepresentations, and a reply from the department informs us that the matter is under investigation" and will receive earnest consideration. Wishing my successor in .office that measure of confidence and support that has fallen to my lot during the term just past, 1 remain, yours truly. A. G. HAMILTON. The board considered that as A. (!. Hamilton had n done meritorious work for .the association in its infantile first year, his reelection for a second ttfrm was made unanimous. Following are the now officers:' frequent, A. G. Hamilton. Yice-President, W. J. McKay. Secy.,-tres. John Oceolson Williamson. Executive committee; If. B. Close, PL C. | Seaman. L...G. Mcllaflie, .J. B~Daniell, Edward Roberts, P. Campbell, William Blair, W. F. Cooke. and J. McLaughlin. Trying to Steal $1000 The following telegrams will give the reader an idea of the methods by which "Bruce" of the Saturday Sunset, a Vancouver flitn-flainmer's and promoters utility rag mine by his farm and print shop: * Exhibit "A"; received by the Herald; The Northern Interior Ptg. Co. Ltd. South Fort George B. C. "Have nine hundred land ads. Do you want them at five dollars, each, to be printed in Vancouver to ensure proof corrections." " "X" Exhibit "B," sent by the Herald: Messrs., "X", , Vancouver B. C. "Pleased to accept your business quoted figure. Advise .you have printed conformity this paper 7 column size, ten issues < f iHl each, allowing time for transit when da ling head lines. Ship by regisl.er.rl ""tiiiiil." ^Northern Interior Ptg. Co. Ltd. Kvliibit "C"- ¦ a specimen of how Bruce was enabled to buy that farm-- '"*' , 1 The Northern Interior Ptg. Co. Ltd. South ,Fort George(B,.C. "X" has ordered^ twenty five hundred supplements containing nine? hundred land i.wlvertisments, -job charged .to you. Wire your "0. K." also order on "X" for the amount 'of contract, one thousand five ' hundred dollars." , .Saturday Sunset Presses. .Exhibit "D;" our answers: -Messrs. "X" . Vancouver, B. C: Sunset quotes absurdly exorbitant, figure, on job. Please give work to News-Advertiser, they do all our outside work. Northern Interior Ptg. Co. Ltd. And to the J3 unset: "Your figure exorbitant. Have trans-ferrecLofder.'' . *, /. Northern Interior Ptg. Co. Ltd. '( Exhibit "E", showing the hand of the "organization" and^-the crude work of' "Bruce," ,the stool-pigeon: Reciprocity *n Some fellow from the "other town" cafruv .into the office and asked us "why .these 'ownsites round here couldn't get together •uirl boost the Whole thing"." Reciprocity, said our visitor, was in the air, why not "Pply the measure to adjust local differences? He was a new arrival, you see. • Accruing to a wise man named Laylor, who once wrote an Encyclopedia ,.of Political science; reciprocity is a "relation between ^v" independent powers such that the cit-Wens of each • are guaranteed certain com-iierciiil. priyiledges at the hands of the Ptlier/' Now what the missing word could "•'« town gain by allowing itself-to be con-'iijimated by vievving;in a friendly spirit t'n'ipromotion of such a doubtful proposit-">n -ji»s the Nechaco River townsite? A man withere last week vowing an awful:revenge °'5 the man behind the Fort .George town, Avho had sold him a lot with nothing bigger than a chipmonk's nest built within—a r'idiu8 of a mile of it, if they would not re-lur» him his money, Now South Fort George is a real live inhabited town. Ithae The Northern Interior Ptg. Co. Ltd. South Fort George B. C. "Sorry; others interested have placed the business elsewhere." "XJ> ¦ The Northern Interior Printing Co., have always refused to cut rates on land advertising, maintaining that the rates charged by the B. C. Gazette, should apply to other j publications. Albert tJollenm.ayer, the advertising manager for the Hammond town-sites, nominally controls two advertising rags in this district which some months ago cut the rate on land advertising to $1:00 an advertisment at Hammond's orders, for the purpose of putting the Herald out of business. We survived. Such rags as the Saturday Sunset the Cariboo Observer and the Fort George Tribune are the playthings of cultus promoters such as George J. Ham- j mond. The Herald does not want any busi- ! ness from men of his calibre. It .would be interesting to know just what rotten scheme this Bruce animal worked to enable him to quote an overestimate of $1000.00 on a printing job, and because we refused to stand for his work, brought pres-, sure to bear', that made the "others inter-, esti'd" place the work with one of the rags that will accept with avidity the scraps tossed to them by the "ring" in Vancouver. We do not deem it-necessary to mention the name of the firm that offered us this business in the first place. We have always/ believed them to he clear of the operations going on in the cess-pool of .which urday'Sunset is the publicity~stonch. Had it not been for the fact that theJand advertising business is now annulled,/owing to_the frenzied work of the provincial executive, we would have turned down the business that was offered at the reduction, as we have in many previous instances, but we will not be robbed of our legitimate profit to provide a rake-off for the journalistic libertine who eater's1 to flim-flatnmers that he may gratify his lust for their tainted gold. . . •? The Herald is equipped to handle any quantity of land-advertising on the ground, ^without having to pass its business through j the presses that print lies nnd libels, and I arrant rot. ^ ' ¦• Loaded His Pockets with Rocks and Jumped into the" Fraser River A man named H. P. New-combe, hailing from Falmouth, Mass., who arrived here lately, committed "suicide by filling his pockets with rocks and jumping into the river at the foot of Fourth Street on Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock. Newcombe had been acting strangely for some time and was under police surveillance. Immediately proceeding "the act of suicide he had gone to the door of the Hotel Northern, dining rooav' •¦Att-firiuui^ it full he-'a'keJ down toywsi 'liver. The constable followed, and^seeing him Newcombe motioned hinvfiway and leaping onto a large rock sprang into the Fraser. He sank immediately but came to the surface twice aftepxvTirds and was apparently struggling^aosperately to regain the shore. WiUWun Seymour, an Indian, Went to the rescue in a canoe, but the suicide did ...not reappear. Newcombe owned property^on the Nechaco River townsite and spentfa few days there but returned to this town. He seemed despondent, and talked so irrationally, that the constable took a he carried away from him. His efFe him Ao be a,railroad man. all the necessary equipment of one. Property anywhere on the townsite is salable at a jjopd figures and purchasers are satisfied.The promoters of> the Nechaco River townsite are taking chances of meeting a violent end in a puddle of blood when some of their lot buyers reach Vancouver. Our advice to them is to "beat it."¦¦'=• "V ----- New Drugstore Block Ground was broken Wednesday for the new drugstore building to 1)e erected on Laselle Avenue between Third and Fourth streets. The building will be ¦ 30x50 with floor space of 18x29 for the drugstore and 12x29 for the stationery and cigar business, which will be run in connection. There will ybe a waiting rooni and lavatory at the reitr-^pf the drug store proper, and at the back of these two living rooms will complete" the ground floor space. Plate ghiss. will adorn! the front^of both stores, with double doors at both "the eastern and western approach. Contractor McLean expects'to have his contract" completed and the building turned over to its owners by July the first. The cost of the building is $4000. ' \. ' r ¦ /W. F. Cooke;.oprhifNorthern'Lumber"Co., 'returned from "aousiness trip to Soda Creek on the "B. X." Thursday. A drowning accident was narrowly averted on Monday evening,last when a Peter-boro canoe upset inr'/the eddy at the stern of ' the. "Chilcotin" and precipitated its occupants, Mr. and Mrs. McElroy, and Rudd. j Clarke, into the river. The three \vere: able j ,to'-clamber onto the submerged canoe and floated past the town-at a distance of some thirty feet from shore, in full view of" a large crowd. Canoes put off to their rescue* and the shore was reached opposite Close j and Brown's store. Had it not been for the j coolness and presence of mind displayed by i each of the party a serious disaster might j have resulted. ^"\'! George Wood and William McLaren left here last week for Tete Jaune Cache to take the census. Arthur E. Hoberts, accompanied by J. McDonelL leaves'here ' next Week for the Peace River country on the same errand and Chas. Houscr will cover the Nechaco Valley, whilst Engliss Kelly of iBarkerville, is detailed to the Chilcotin country and 150 Mile House; C. C. Cutler who was amongst this week's arrivals, informs us of his intention of-open-s ong a real estate office in the Gore and McGregor block mere. Mr Cutler is in partnei>-ship with W. M. Cunningham who has operated in hind'in this district during the past two years. Mr. Cunningham will arrive on the next boat. • Attention is directcd^to'thc advertisment on page 8 calling (or tenders on the construction of the temporary government offices. The contract will bfl let on Monday. r2? George J. Walker, who has been Gazetted as Government A>_n>nt for the Fort George, ' District.' has been obliged to go to the coast ..from Barkcrville to consultan occul-ist|for eye troubles.,His sight is threatened.. It-is to bo hoped thnt Mr. Walker >yill :have a speedyj recovery.! We "want hini in Fort George because lio is the man for the job. Meets Watery Grave in Giscomb Rapids John Macdonell and George Haines left Tete Jaune Cache on Mn,y 7th., for South Fort George, in order to provision up for a prospecting summer they intended making on Goat River and adjacent country.-George Haines conducted a stopping place at Moose lake, known as 27 B. C.. Hesold out his business and suppleis ana was on his way here to restock, wheir'shooticg the Giscombe rapids the ennoe-'he'was in swamped and he was drowned'last Wednesday. His ^partner, John .Macdonell, arrived herejPhursday morning and reported the matter to the provincial police. / uHaines was no ' canoe man" said Macdonell, in relating the event, "and of a n-hvous ieniperumrtnt. We left the Cache in a dngout with limited provisions, and going through the Goat rapids Haines walked the bank of the river while I took the canoe through. We spent the night of Tuesdav, Giscombe portage and after breakfasfuiere Wednesday morning HainestooK a walk down to Gifecombe rapids^aoad stretch of water seven miles Jong" and 23 miles from South Fort George. He covered part of the ground _a*itd on returning to camp stated' nothing bad about the-^water," alid would go through in the-'canoe.' We both got into, the dug j)ut, Htiines at the bow. Shortly after^en'tering the rapids the white foam, the. drift wood and the boiling water at .this stage of the water must have frightened Haines for he stood up in the canoe and caught the edges causing her to rock violently until she took iji water and swamped and upturned. We both caught the edges of the canoe, one at either end. Haines was a big man and weighed 2201b, 501bs heavier than I. The difference in weight kept my end of the canoe further out of water, and all I could see of Haines was the tips of his moccasins on one side and his on the other, and he was always water. Haines had gloves on aHhe time and about half way throug-h^the rapids he let go and disappeapad'T^I managed to upturn the canoeantfget on the bottom of it, steering jvithiny feet till I ran against^,a-log jfwnand partly embedded the canoe. I for to the shore and followed^the bank of the river Tip; stream to^w-here I imagined Haines had let go and'hunted the vicinity all night, without result. Having been almost all Ln-Imysclf I concluded to come to South Fort George and report the accident .to' the police." , Haines ' was a cook, and a prominent Eagle, and at one time worked in the Vic. toria Hotel Edmonton. He was a native of Iowa, and had considerable money on his person at the tome of the accident. North Coast Preparing for Busy Season The North Coast. Land Co., an English concern, capitalized at a million dollars,-aro preparing for a busy season on the ground here. This company own a great area of good farming land in the district. It was staked about two years ago by Wm. Meikle, a reliable cruiser and staker. Most of this firm's land lies between this point,Tand-Ques-nel on the east side of the Fraser river. Mr. Russell R. Walker, who represented the company last year, arrived here last week on the "B. X." and has re-opened the company's office on Second street. Mr. Walker has been advertising .the country extensively during the winter months by writing magazine articles in the periodicals. In the current issue of the "Canadian Magazine" appears one of Mr. Walker's stories, under the caption. "Fort George; Its Awakening." )V(£ reprint the. opening paragraph: '-xd-^^' . "In the picturesque" Fraser valley of Central British Columbia, near .where the hurtling waters of the-"pretty Nechaco river sweep majestically into the Fraser, there stands, and has,stood for nearly a century, the trading nost Fort George. Here, for a space o.Ltinte; the beginning«sof .which antedates the childhood days of the oldest inhabitants of the valley, the Siwash, with his kloochman, has bartered with the shrewd factors of that intrepid body of pioneer merchants, The Honorable The Hudson's Bay Company, exchanging the pelts of mink, beaver, martin otter and kindred fur-bearing animals for blankets, trade-guns, steel traps, and those staple articles, of food, flour sugar and tea—so essential to the appeasing of the epicurian appetite of the modern Indian. | ''Here, jessj than a year prior* to the time of writing, I witnessed the birth and de-developmont of the embryo town of Fort George—"A city jn the making," so say its opttnnstTc builders; and a brief study of isting conditions leads one to agreCwith them. A koen rivalry betwe^ji-tKepromoting interests, and an unwillingness to cooperate have resulted^uv-the placing on the market of tvvo^.or'uiree townsites each possessing J.he^name "Fort George" with prefixes "South" and "Central" as distinguishing features. However there Will undoubtedly be but one city at the junction of the Fraser and Nechaco Rivers when the transcontinental railroad, now building, is completed— and that the united Fort George. When speaking of Fort George, I therefore have reference lo the united city at the confluence of these two-beautiful rivers, the city that is rapidly becoming the commercial centre of Canada's Pacific Province." Site Selected for Government Offices John A. Fraser, one of the two members who represent Cariboo in the Legislative Assembly, accompanied, by C. W. Grain, the Barkerville Government! Agent, arrived here on the "B. X." Thursday night. Their mission is to establish an exact site for the temporary government buildings on the Hudson's Bay property here. The site chosen is between the post and the Indian Reserve line. Con tracts are being called for and building will proceed, immediately. John A. Fraser will hold a public meeting tonight in the Fourth Street Hall, and will perhaps tell the expectant crowd why the Victoria Government compromised the vulgar Wrangle born of the opposing wishes of a town full of voters as against the desires of a townsite promoted by an American,bucket-shop, shark who is known to the police, by placing the government buildings at a half^ way point, It is always a delicate matter for a local member to explain away tha mistakes of his party). .