The element of doubt that has existed around this place has^dissapearedJ FORT (i 4^W -¦ '^ii,;S HERALD 7r>". rpeor The o put off ycMr Fort trip, £mi vnptf get left, t ivel is now. THIS is our first attempt at illustrating The Herald, but not the last, for our aim is to supply information to the outside world relative to the great country of which South Port George is the centre, and to this end illustrations help materially, by conveying an,idea of the stages of development through which this* northern metropolis is passing. The group of illustrations reproduced on this page show some of the buildings arid points in . the townsite of South Port George, in the spring of the present? year. Since that'time many new ami larger buildings have been erected and the growth of-the town has gone forward with rapid strides. South Fort George has open ^uilt up; principally, by the pioneers of the dintriet. Many of them are men who came into the counwy with the preliminary survey parties of the G. T. P! These men chose the location us the natural point to settle on pending the arrival of the G. T. P. steel rind establishment of the railroad company's town-site. The Northern Development Company, who promoted and sold the South Fort George townsite were never in the philanthropist class, neither were they fired with the ambition to upbuild the town by'the expenditure, of any reasonable proportion of their receipts, gained from the sale thereof, in developing the proposition. The upbuilding has been done by the public. It has gone far in advance of the'expectations of the people who invested, after they noted the methods of the economic townsite company, who urc tickled-to-death nt the success of their venture, and take all the credit tbarefor. However, whether .the .South Fort George townsito has been poorly promoted or not, its development has assumed proportions tlmt make it the focal point of commerce and industry for the whole Fort George district. This state of commercial supremacy should remain uninterupted by opposition sites, with any logical claims upon the public's indulgence, until such time as the G. T. P. townsite the Indian Reserve here which they purchased recently for a large sum. After the establishtmont of the genuine Fort George townsite on the Indian Reserve, South Fort George will form the most' valuable addition property, us it will be a continuation of that portion of the Indian Reserve which will lx» developed first by the investing public. Any person will reasonably acknowledge that the most valuable property on the Indian Reserve is' the land in closest praxitnity v.j the Fraser River waterfront, and that the property depreciates, in value for business locations, as it receded therefrom. People who are intending investing in property here, with the idea of putting up any sort of a business house thereon should come hern and investigate personally. The townsite company are practically sold out of business locations, and can offer nothing but listings. On the ground here one -may buy from owners. Busk ness1 locations may be offered by other town-site concerns, notably, perhaps, some of those in tl« Nechaco River background, but these sites are far, removed from the centre of industry and depend for their development upon the wire-pulling, and cash expenditure of tlieir owners. The chief advantage of the South Fort • George townsite over all other sites is found in the fact that every foot of the waterfront affords natural wharfage. During construction, 'and'-beginning next spring when the G. T. P. steel has reached Tete Jaune Cache, the steamboat's plying on tbe upper Fraser River will load and unload cargoes at South Fort George. The place, and the district, afford many opportunities for profitable investment, and the only clean advo-cation from the standpoint of a newspaper that is trying to inform the public of the actual actual status of affairs, is personal investigation of townsite. property before investment, if such property is situated in sections at any distance removed from the nutural points of development. T HE election returns will, be received here on Thursday night over the wire. They will be read! fratn , the stage of the Fort» George Theatre after the show, which has been postponed for the purpose. CONTRACTOR J. CAREY, representing vSiems Carey & Co., and H. Houser, of the firm of Grant Stoith and Co., contracting firms of St Paul, Minn., arrived here from Tete Jaune Cache this week having made the trip down the river in a canoe in six.days, which we believe to be record time. The..contractors are looking over a hundred mile section of the Foley Welch & Stewart contract, which has just been let, between Tete Jaune Cache and Aldermere. The section which they are undertaking to build is the first hundred miles out of Teto Jaune Cache, on the Fraser River. They will probably build steamboats to run between the Cache and. the end of their contract. Both gentlemen are very much surprised at the development of South Fort George and they state that this should be the busiest spot on the route during construction. Their firms are at present engaged on work for the Canadian Northern near Lytton, land are also contracting on railway work on Vancouver Island. They l.-ft for the south on/tho steamer B.-.X. last Friday. \X. I T will be interesting to note I what the Winnipeg Post will have to say about all the Fort Georges, based upon the material acquired by their staff correspondence lust week. THE Government Inspector of weights: etc., paid a visit to this place during the past week. This is the first ti|me in history that the government has taken such energetic steps to see that the people of South Fort George got a square deal. ONE of George Hammond's right-hand-men, R. K. Lindsay by name, was in town last week on a diplomatic mission for the "interests". Ken was 'Hhere" with an armful of olive branches and a cage of doves, as usual, but his line of liquid eloquence evaporated. before the heat of our arguments so we talked- of other things. R. K. is distinctly a success m a promoter, but a failure as a peace envoy for a shady cause. , D OBERT RENWICK, Deputy Commis-»»snorter of Lands, was.a visitor here this week'. Mr. Kenwick ia having a holiday, the ,first, h"e informs us, in the last ten years. He is probably the hardest worked man in the provincial government service, and is thte individus/i who bears the brunt ,of administering the versatile British Columbian "Land Act." Bobert Renwick' is a one-time printerman. He was in Nelson in ,the old days, with John Houston, W. J. Mackay, of this paper, and other well known old-timers in the B. C. newspaper world. As Deputy minister of Lands, British Columbia is fortunate in possessing a man of his splendid executive ability. Administering the detail of this province's "Land Act" is. a knotty problem, owing to the enormous areas of land that have come into the area desired for settlement, with the advent of proposed development by railroads. The lands Department have recently issued maps showing- to some extent the available areas for the pre-etmpt-or. This is'a step in the right direction. Mr. Renwick is a man who will, give the public a square deal if the true facts.of a case come before him. Speaking of the situation here Mr. Renwick said that he had seldom seen a better natural townsite than the Indian Reserve here. NEXT\Thursday is election day? InSouth Fort George the poll will ber-beld in M. C. Wiggins office, opposite Tba Herald office. Polling starts at 9 o'clock a. m. The candidates nre Martin Burrell, our present Conservative member, and Dr. McDonald, .'of Vernon. Mr. Bur-roll is a market gardner, and Mr. McDonald is .an Inspector of Indian Agencies, and Dentist. Martin Burrell is against rec-i iprocity, because, so_ say. his enemies, with protection California can sell apples cheaper in HI G. than he can grow them, and does. Dr. McDonald is for reciprocity, which effects .the » importation of; artificial, teeth, we understand, in some small degree. Martin Burrell, however is making a hit aB a politician all over Canada. He is a clever speaker\and' a live wire, and if he would ball Mr. Pugsley out for not blowing out the boat wrecking boulders on the Fraser River hetween here and tba Cache we wquld love him like a brother. THE distinguished English visitors who 1 arrived here on the steamer "B. X." on Thursday appear delighted with the country through which they have journeyed. His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K..G., on ^ whose yacht the party came to Canada, has ^purchased some 2000 acres of land from the ;North Coast Land Company, which is sit-uated^ar White's landing, about fifty miles downstreani from hero, on the east side of the FraserlUver. His Grace is carrying out a philanthropic colonization scheme which involves the settlUment of his lands, when previously improved tb^a certain degree, by Scotcl/^settlers with somes capital, of the tvpeto advance the best interests of the new ^/country to which they are assisted by his - preliminary work. The Duke of Sutherland is a .man whose name is; associated all over the world with enormous undertakings for the betterment of those of his countrymen A who have not been\favbred in their battle for existunce in the congested centres of the old world. To these people he sends the aid of his wealth, and institutes such enterprises as we see him undertaking at White's landing, on the upper Fraser-River, in British Columbia. The titled gentlemen whom the tpwn~ofSbuth^ Fort-George welcomes with_ u _JhjerljBat wishes, are very quiel~very human - beings. Watching thorn disembark from the SOME BUILDINGS AND 1 .Temporary public School 2. First offices of Northern Development ipany. 3. A peep of the waterfirot. i Job Houston's printing offce. 5. Gore &McGregor building. 6, Bank of British North America. 7. Burns Building. 8. First frame building. 9. Sooth Fort George. ICEnd of Fourth Street 11. William Blair ft Co. . steamer here we noted shades of dissnpoint-ment on the faces of those who saw them come down the gangway. There was no ostentatious sign of their Importace in the world of distinguished men from which they come. No show of attendant retinue, simply a party of English gentlemen, whose names1 are household words all over the British Empire, coming ashore to look at out town. The Herald was. honored by a visit from the party. There was. Lord Charles Beresford, the man wUo commanded H. M. S. Condor in Ihe bombardment of Alexandria; who rescued Sir Charles Wilson's party in Safia and' was commended for his gallantry in both Houses of Parliament. A niah who had received three medals for saving live at sea under trying circumstances, and wlwse voicevis a power for England's naval sur premacy in the House of Lords and the Coinmons. Lord Desborough, K. C. V. 0., .¦Captain Hutton, - Mr* A. Simpson, Mr. Chandler S. Edwards, President of the North Coast Land Company, Mr^G. Cowan, who is well known here from forpier visits, and Mr": Murray,, manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Vancouver, were also :metnbers of the partv. ;. - . ' --^-'-~ ' ' '!¦ ¦" / '¦ ¦ \ NOW that the Attornoy-General has come I back to rule the/ Department of 'Justice.. agq.in perhaps South Fort George:will be granted' some consideration from hrm. For months past we have given various conclusive, arguments upon tbo '. necessity of having ~a jail built hero. The policeman has no place to house a prisoner, and further, no place to lay his weary head himself, unless he lives at an hotel;i which is bad policy for.a policeman. It is hoped Mr. Bowser will take the «necessary steps to erect a lockup and constabls quarters here without any,-more unnecessary delay. s?^ E arc in receipt ofi a communication from a big firm, of electrical engineers who wish to install a 2000 light plant here on. any reasonable proposition from the town of South Fort George. The said town is inhabited by x, progressive and enterprising people. They are, willing,to make any reasonable concessions, within their power to tta firm that would supply us with the safest, bost> and most, convenient means, of illumination' ever , invented'., by the fertile brain of inventive genius. The citizens are willing to'innko a proposittfoh to 'the lighting firm, and wiil, but. owing to the fact that we are not an incorporated city it is impossible to give any sort of a franchise. It is high' titiVO thut the.Bourd of Trade got ^busy "on the qtiostion of incorporation. We find the • need of home-rule- ai every turn, and. 1 ho more acLivo growth of our city is being held back by the fact that as a town we are unable to make any'sort of business proposition to concern s^h at would aid our growth and development by the' exploitation of their capital. WE receive, from time "to. time, letters of''suggestion regarding matters for the benefit of The Herald's publicity service, from our readers. Some of these come from sources that smack of "the interests" who see In this paper a menace to'their rotten operations. These we hurry on their ready route ko tl*j W. P. B. Some, front readers who recognise the benefit of our publicity, we are glad to receive and to carry into effect. The follow ing-, from a gentleinan in Omfcha, is d letter we'intend'to act upon, with the assistance of our readers: ¦''The Editor, ' "FortlGeorge Herald. "Sir: I have been a careful and consist-ant reader of your paper since the start and for a long time prior thereto the Cariboo . Observer, published _ by you. In my capacity of a "con-•-•aistant reader" I Want to take the liberty of-making a suggestion. There - are thousands of investors-in Central British Columbia lands who want to -~toe~kept in touch jwith th^progressyof the country.. They Ivant to know ab- TlIE rag-time writer on the Saturday * Sunset announced with gusto the fact that he is about to become editor-in-chief of a brand new Liberal daily paper in Vancouver. He says that he will continue to run; his weekly promoter's utility organ, replete as before, with sunset>-glows, 'sundogs, and sons of every imaginable kind. The Saturday Sunset is a migerable4 burlesque on Toronto Saturday Night, the paper on which "Bruce" got his start asl a cub reporter. He is an unscrupulous journalistic hold-up thug who runs his pic ture paper in. aid of rotten promotions th at need the bolstering^ of journalistic cattle of his ilk. The Saturday Sunset and its blackmailing columns.are treated as a joke by the' reading public, but the man who pushes the sljmey pen'for'its front page material is less of a joke than a blacguard. 1 CCORDING to Mr. C. G. D. *¦ Durnford there is a fair chance of the mineral discoveries near this place, turning out very well. Apparently, or as the formation indicates, xsome hundreds of years ago when^Brit-ish Colombia was torn into valleys and heaved up , into"-mountains by sc-tne great con-vrulsion of nature the hill which prospecting shows to be highly mineralized, and to which we refer, was heaved up out of the bowels of the earth, plentiously bespeckled with the standard of currency on the surface. Whet- ' her the values, as shown by the surface assays continue in the depths of the rock remains to be seen. There is no question, ¦ amongst authorities, that the rock is not in place. It is just a mountain of rock which, on the surface assays well. It is not in conformity with any of the usual formations, or in correct position, according to the theory of formation, owing to it juxtaposition to the neighboring strata. A RICH strike of gold and silver ore has been reparted from the jDhilcotin country to the south west of here, and we gather from tlie news •wired to^-iiie coast press from AshcroitO on the discovery, that thej>ropf . erties promise great things. It is wellV^nown that thejCaribfco District is heavily^mineralized, . bmt prospectors^,in the past, have turned/tneir researches, in . most instances, to the. creeks for alluvial gold. -THE Herald predicts that * Martin Burrell will he returned next Thursday with a majority of oV*er 1200. There appears to be a very slikn chance for the Conservatives to to overthrow the government. out' the climate, the crops, the devel^ opunent, the building of roads, railroads and telephone lines wad the coming of new industriesr^In i short they would like to jknow all of the gossip there is which concerns itself with the future of their investment., believe that it would be a vervxpro* ductive proposition if you would set aside a department in your^paper each week where you coulci collect all this information and urge all your readers' to send in anynems coming under' observation, Do not overlook the,fact that matters which are thoroughly understood by youNand your readers in^ilJe vicinity, may be news of the most entertaining and instructive to us who are thousands of miles away. If you would give that department an ...appropriate heading, Indicating that it was intended solely for those at a distance and urge your) readers to send in their communications for this col-uton, I believe you would find a flattering increase in ; your subscription list. Trusting that the suggestion, will meet with your"approval, I remain." We are going to act upon this suggestion and would ask the assistance, of i pur readers in doing so. Of) this'more anoh.