South Fort Gebtfce will be the;centre of railway con-, struction activity thisjjeason. im\ktiM^'\':*$$&&$? Mk **'§&' »•*** tat ion headquarters. VOL. 3, NO. 33. SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. <£ SATURDAY VuGUST 17, 1912. $3 per Annum GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC FINISHED BY 1914 . An Ottawa press -despatch states that such good progress is being made with construction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific, that it is expected the lino will'be completed through from Winnipeg to Prince Rupert by the end of 1914. This is the report taken east by Mr,. W. P. Hinton, general passenger agent of the Grand Trunk Pacific, when on a visit to his Ottawa home recently. The Grand Trunk Pacific will do its share in the movement of tWs season's grain crop, which Mr. Hinton says will be double that of three years ago. He estimates that the western farmers should have $75,000,000 more to spend from this, year's crop than they had from the yield of last year. The G. T. P. la not Only increasing its freight equipment, but it has added three million bushels capacity to its elevator at the head of the great lakes. The Steamer Chilcotin ra-• turned from an up river trip early in the week, with a record of having- carried her largest cargo jsincejaunching*. The Chilcotin left Grand Canyon with about 105 tons of freight on board. The big boat brought down Provincial Land Surveyor Hagen, and moved a number of contractor's outfits. CHALLENGE We have been requested, in the interests of sport, to issue a challenge to all comers on behalf oi a young and ambitious boxer in tba middleweight class. Terms of conters to be 40 per cent of gate receipts to winner, 20 per cent to loser. Figrht to be held in the Fort George Theatre at any convenient date. Address the sporting editor. READY-MADE FARMS Russel Walker, the energetic local representative of the North Coast Land Company, paid a visit to the Duke of Sutherland's 'land at White's Landing this week, where the land company, and uhe duke's agents are looking afyer the preliminary work in the great "ready-made farm" project, which the company and the Me-of Sutherland/are carry-ing out there. All-the land was acquired first by the North Coast Land people, and they are carrying but in similar area the project of His Grace of Sutherland, on land adjoining that which they sold to him. Mr. Walker states that although it is only two months 8lnce hi last visited the scene of operations at-White's landing, we change on the land is wonderful. "The whole country/' J[d Mr. Walker,,"is cut up into 160-acre farms, on some of which we have thirty or fourt.y-a(*es ^ cleared, broken, and in some instances bearing^crops.'' •The company has five teams "work in the light clearing, and a crew of 15 men. Houses »ve already been built on the lanas, which will shortly be rea(ly for occupancy % the ' of the Duke of ^utiher-and the people whom the n i ^oast kand Company 8e'l the ready-made farms to. ?kTne <Ke Cariboo Observer, to the^effect that the plant of U'Q Hydraulic Gold .-Mining, Company's plant at Hydraulic, had closed down, owing to" pay dirt having petered out, is now proven to be without foundation. W. H. Dubois, general manager of the company writes our one-time paper from Stanley, to tell the editor that his information was incorrect, and that the shutting down referred to was a temporary lay-off ,as some changes were being made in the method of operation. The mine, Mr. Dubois says, is again in full operation, and will continue to be until the end of the season. The item in last week's paper was the first sensational piece of news we had read in the Quesnel., paper iof many moons—and it turns out to be all bunk. v , , SUCCESSFUL DANCE The firemen's Ball, held last night in the Fort George Theatre, was very successful from both financial and social standpoints; The attendance was exceptionally gpodj particulary so in consideration of the fact that it was a postponed event. A large number of people came over from the Necl«ac6 town, and the affair was. voted a distinct success by all. Music was furnished by Seniors orchestra. LADIES GUILD \ A.t a meeting of the Ladies of . the. rcohgregation of St. Stpp-nen's Church,••. South F?rt George, held at Mrs. Herne's residence, it was unanimously agreed tlkat the Ladies of the said congregation form themselves into a "Sewing Guild" for the purpose of raising funds to he\ contributed from time to time,, towards the general maintenance of the aforementioned-Church. ; Mr. Armstrong with regard to h s desire to establish the main depot for the? affairs of construction on the main line of the G. T. P,., and for the Pacific Great Eastern road, on the Hudson Bay property, as it was most advantagously situated. Mr. Armstrong recommended that this "be granted and the receipt of the Land Commissioner's sanction may be considered "as closing the arrangement. Mr. Thompson, now the highest Hudson Bay Company official in Canada, was for years in charge of the British Columbia, or New Caledonia, district of the great trading company's business. During this period he made annual tours on inspection over the company's system of fur-trade posts and sales shops, including all the remote j)osts_of the- Nortr»3m. Interior. Thus7 for years7lTr. Thompson has been thoroughly familiar with the whole situation jX-Fort George, and is able to base his decisions upon matters apertainrag to development up here on a sound knowledge of local conditions. He appreciated the fact that the natural point for the location of Messrs. Fo!ey, . Welch & Stewart's headquarters here should be on the low waterfront of the main river, and he immediately sanctioned the recommendations of Mr. Armstrong here. The terms imposed in the matter by Mr... Thompson are as follows: The area on which the works are to be located is to be bounded as follows: From the south west corner of.the H. B. block to the slough, a distance of about 20 chains. From the slough westerly to the road, whfch is to form the western boundary. All buildings are to be removed, by the contractors at the expiration of their lease,. The boundaries described place the area_ for the buildings immediately north of the northern boundary of this townsite on the Fraser river front. Work on the buildings will commence very shortly. FIRSLEDMONJON tALESMAN ARRIVES J. E. Thompson, representing Marshall Wells & Co:, of Edmonton, came down the river in a gasoline boat front Tete Jaune Cache last Wednaeday. Mr. Thompson is the first traV-eller, representing one of the big houses of the Albertan capital, to pay a business visit to this city. His coming foretells tine new order of things, for by the spring the G. T. P. will be handling freight from Edmonton through the mountains, connecting with the steamboat service from . South Fort George. Mr. Thompson is here to size up the situation for bis firm, and to arrange for future ordersr His firm, , Marshall, Wells & Company, are amongst the largest hardware1 concerns of the continent. They recently bought out Ross Brothers, of Edmonton. Mr. Thompson came down in Mr. Hood's gas boat. INVESTS HERE Mr. Hood, of 0. E. Hood & Company, general merchants at Fitzhugh and Tete Jaune Cache came down the. river oh Wednesday in a gasoline boat. Mr. Hood tells us he intends to open a general merchandise establishment here in the spring ofj the year. He purchased Lot 13 in Block 11, situated next to the Northern Hotel, paying the sum of $1,650.00, and states that he will return in the early spring and will erect a targe store \>n the property. He has a< larve stock of merchandise at the. Cache which he intends to move down here. ' Mr. Hood" came down the river ,in his beautiful gasoline boat, a ' high-speed, powerful craft with a Peterborb' hull. South Fort George looks pood to Mr. Hood^ancji like all the new ibusiness houses coming in Jie located here, in the real business I section. SKEENA RIVER NAVIGATIOE Advices recently received from the Skeena river state that the water on the upper river, is getting rather low, and it is be-leived that in less than a month the steamboat service will be interfered ; with. So far the stern wheelers have experienced no difficulty in making the trips up and down the river, but if the water drops, much more the vessels will be unable to navigate. There are but two stern-wheelers operating on the Skeena this year, the Inlander, under charter to Foley Welch .$ Stewart, .which connects ;/a Skeena River Crossing—with the three trains each week from Prince ~ Rupert, and the Port Simpson, of the Hudson's Bay Company, Which makes connections on Wednesdays and Saturdays. , ¦'/^ The fare up the river from the Crossing to Hazel ton has qeen reduced from $3 to $1.50. By the time the river steamers are forced to terminate navigation on the Skeena it is expected that the rails will be almost into Hazelton. Steel has been laid to Sealy, a few miles fromB«Hazelton, where a large bridge is being built across b high, gulch at Sealy, which is holding up the laying of the steel. BUY STEAMBOAT Russel Peden returned fr,om a business visit to Quesnel this week, after completing a deal for the purchase of T. Marion's steamer "Quesnel" for the Northern Lumber Company. The company intends to enter into the transportation business on both the low^r and upper rivers for the balance of the season after getting < the boat in the water. ¦ \ :- ¦::..". PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER -South Fort George is to have a public stenographer. A Vancouver typewrtyer__ artiste will leave the coast for this point at the end of the month). : Ui A ROCK CUT Dan Carey, a brother of the contractor of Simms, Carey & Co., of St Paul, Minn., came down from the Cache in a gas boat this week to commence work on a rock cut at a point about 15 miles up the Fraser, known locally as "railway crossing." There is a rock hill on the east bank of the Fraser at this point where Mr. Carey will commence operations. In the preliminary surveys it was thought that the G. T. P. would cross the Fraser at the point mentioned, and cut across northwest of here, but this was later found impracticable, and the surveys were run von down the Fraser to the old Hudson Bay. post of Fort George, but "railway crossing" retained it's title locally. Messrs Simms, Carey & Co., are amongst the largest sub-contractors on the work between, here and /fete Jaune Cache. The Grand Trunk Pacific have inaugerated a tri-weekly through pessenger service from Edmonton to Fithhugh, 1,028 • miles west-of Winnipeg and right in the heart of Jaspar Park in the Rockies. This place is about 430 miles east of here. A tourist hotel, to be called Chateau Nicette, will be built immediately at Fitzhugh by the Grand Trunk Pacific, who will actively compete with the Canadian Pacific Railway for the tourist business in the Rocky Mountains. An impromptu baseball game between South Fort George and the G. T. P. boys was played here last Wednesday night. The surveyors put it all over the scratch team from this' burg. PUTTING 'EM OVER With ideal weather for tba game, and a large crowd in attendance, the South Fort George, and Fort George baseball teams opened the third game in the Carney Challenge Cup series on the South Fort, George diamond last Sunday! afternoon. Dr. Lazier umpired the game. The score totalled 20 runs to South Fort George to 7 for the Nechaco townsite team. This great discrepancy between the scores of the, two teams indicates which way the cup will go. South Fort George has won two games in the series, whilst tlie Fort George team have one. The latter team, however, claim, another game by default, as the home team could not play one of the scheduled matches. If this is allowed the games stand two all. To win the cup four games must be won out of seven. Last Sunday's game was too one sided to be very entertaining. Russel Walker, who was pitching for the home team, \ played a splendid game, finish: ing. rather stronger than, his work early in the game. Chad. Brown was the biggest run-getter, his score showing four runs at the close of the match. D. Andrews, who pitched for the Nechaco team, played a hard game. , The next game is scheduled for Sunday next on the iFbrt George ground at 3.30. 1 |, George McLaughlin, manager of the Northern LumberJ^om-pany, will return from a visit to the coast on Monday. Ball game tomorrow.