vol. a no. 40.___
SOUTE[ FORT GEORGE, B. G., SATURDAY, JUNE 14. 1913.
$3 PER ANNUM
Steel is mm at Mile 92, B.C. This-/a point about M2 miles up the^ra-ser river from t)ii« point.            <T
AH "long the line the gangs working. nthe steam shovels are,running night Iddav and the wor>%ill continue in S  manner   until'the   road   is com-
plThe' contractors have all the men levjAe for the work, and. new Srkis being Jet daily. The bf construction shows-the atest activity, the only trouble, experienced which is holding up tho work it some points  is   the  extremely high
water,
At points through the Eagle Lake cn't-oir, and along the Willow river the unfinished grade' is almost submerged, and the stores of the contractors in some spots, where they have been located on low land, are threatened by-tbe Hood of   the   Fraser river.
Huge warehouses are being built east from Foley, Welch & Stewart's docks here for the accommodation of\the enormous volume of supplies which will arrive here this year for the work next winter, The steamboats Distributor and Conveyor, are now making rapid work of bringing down the supplies from Tete Jaune. They, and the scow fleet and other steamboats should land over two thousand tons of freight for construction here before the  close
I of navigation in November. The Distributor and Conveyor arrived here this week again" with two more steam shovels and dinky engines. Carle-ton's shovel, at his camp on the G.T.P. townsite here, is assembled, and will commence work on the high banks whickfronton theNechaco river-across the Fort George^ v townsites, very shortly.                                          .     /<
PAMIRST VISIT
. E, Tisdall Looking Over  tfie District to Gain First-Hand.
Information.
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The Steamer B. X. included in her gcr list on Thursday Charles • Tisdall, m. P. P., of Vancouver. Mr, Tisdall made the trip .to this l*w lor the purpose of becoming itsonaUy familiar with this section the province, which he has not Wted up to this -time.' Mr- Tisdall is a great exponent of « necessity of British , Columbia i6in?as much of her own products possible, and he looks forward to %the Peace river. section to the 'rth of us, developed and opened U] ^ough ^is section and from ttrfs a« as a base. The McBride^oyern-said Mr. Tisdall to^Tfo Herald 11 continue its progressive railway ^cyupon the cprtlpletion of the P. • by eonj*nuing that line into Peace RiVer valley. "!r- Tisdall travels extensively all Province, and, in conversa-•on^ith The" Herald, he estates that intended id visit the ...   fn Interior   section,    and has
Si: oietra in thiB by th°
.'^es of   transportation  in ! the Q days.                                                       - i• •-? ¦
Mr, Ti<![iniT    t ,
aunu .states tbat he intends
*1 .a thro«gh trip overland Hftzelton and the G.T.P. tnis place, as soon as he the time;,
named    Harry    McVeety, ¦snubbing a scow on the water. ^»e   became entangled in the "l broke his leg last Saturday. hospital  at Fort George, well.                       ¦.
and fifty Russian labor-_4iroctly from the .father-on    the G.T.P.   grade around the local gov-Jk, talking nd waving tppe»rs    that
LOCAL NINE WINS TBIHDJALL CAME
The third g'ame "in the baseball series between South Fort George and Port George was played last Sunday on the Port George diamond before a lrrge crowd ~of spectators. The game resulted in a sweeping victory for the home team, with a score of 24 to 5 in favor of South Port George.
Stone, the new Fort George pitcher, showed himself to be a ball player of considerable ability, and had hiB Bup-port been stronger, a closer, and' much more interesting game would have resulted.                  • «
A large crowd witnessed the game, the weather being ideal. The Steamer Chilcotin made an excursion trip to the other town wit^h* the players and their fans.
The playing of the South team was up to the. usual standard of excellence, although it was noticea'ble on onexoccasion that they went "up in the air." for a few. minules when a sensational play was scored by the Port George boys.
The next game^is scheduled for tomorrow on the new diamond below this place. It is rfepo. t>. 1 tiat the Fort George team haa'secure new material, a citing game th nessed will resu
GOOD PROGRESS ON
WESTERN END
THREE
Dr. F. J. Ewrag, of VancouveF wbo has charge of the medical service along tbe construction area here, returned to Vancouver recently1' from a tour of inspection rpver the work.
To the Vancouver Province he said that the contractors would be supplied from this point as far west as the Bulkley summit.         .
Dr. Bwing has eight hospitals along the grade and will shortly establish three additional ones which will be west of Fort George. Very little sickness, he* state's, was found to exist among the men engaged on the work of  construction.
N. H. Lesley, of this town, who bringing in his car, a' five' passenger
Ford,  over the road, was-turn    back   from a   stump    in middle of tbe Blackwater road.
to the The
car out in thq Wesley is for    some
now
new
stump   knocked^ttie first round, ecM   Mr, waiting^v Quesnel part
'Bill" Collins, who has been manager of the Hudson^ Bay Company at Quesnel for many years, has resigned from the service of the great trading company. Mr. Collins has leftQuesnci for a abort stay at Soap Lake, Washington. The business is at present in the hands of Mr. W. F. Bunting who has for some years been officer in charge of the Fraser Lake post.    .
Boulder Creek Bridge Last Structure Offering Barrier to Rapid Advance.
Ah soon as the great steel bridge is completed over Boulder Creek, 20. miles east of Hazel ton, the steel will take a great leap eastward over the finished grade, which will bring it into and past Aldermere, only 237 miles west of Prince George.
This week there arrived here a party of well known land and timber operators from tbe coast, amongst, whom were Dave Newell, the Vancouver broker, and Eugene Croteau, well known in this section as a locator and cruiser. The party came over the road from Hazel ton by stage and saddle horse.
The building of the Boulder Creek bridge will mark the completion of the greatest barrier to progress on the western end of construction, for as Mr. Stewart pointed out to The Herald last fall, the remaining bridge' crossings on the Fraser and other rivers can easily be negotiated on piles until the permanent work could be installed.
The big bridge at Boulder Creek is rapidly approaching completion, according to Mr./ Croteau, and this side of the gulch which the bridge laying, barring a few culvertB, for a distance'of about one hundred miles. When the track laying machine crosses Boulder Creek steel will be laid along the grade at a rate of about five miles a day.
Progress all along the line west o! .\ere is very ^ttefactory. The heav---.~t .piece ot worgkon the unfinished I ort ion of the ioqp. is a half-million yard cut on the Nechaco river near the mouth of the Stuart
LEFT UNDISTURBED
FOR THIRTY YEARS.
While going over the route of the Canadian Northern along the North Thompson River about * 112 N miles' north of Kamloops and 35!L-tniieB from Port Mann, engineers discovered a huge pile of capper wire, left there in 1884 by the men who attempted to string a line  up to  Alaska
and lay a^oable under the Behring Sea te^Siberia.
JFhej wire weighs something like 450 tons. It lies at the edge of what is known as 8 till water Flats. It ia estimated'to be worth somewhere between eighty- and ninety thousand dollars. The reason it lay there in the timber for so long was because of the difficulty of transportation and when tbe Dominion Government abandoned the scheme they left the wire.
It is expected that they will soon claim it now, and that as i soon as the Canadian Northern operates its trains as far narth as tbe Stillwater Flats the wire will be taken out and sold.
Great trees having a girth of one oil more feet have sprung up and forced their way through the heap of copper    coils.     •*«  -•
ANOTHER
MARSHALL, WELLS & CO. OPEN SAMPLE ROOMS
Amongst the travellers here this week from Edmonton and Vancouver tbe following firms were represented: Smith, Davidson & Wright, Vancouver: The Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, Montreal: Wood & Co. Ltd: and Marshall Wells & Company. The latter firm, perhaps thq greatest hardware firm on the North American continent, were represented here by the general manager of their Canadian bouses, Mr. Hooper. It is the the intention of this firm to build a permanent sample room here, and to have a regular representative of the, firm to look after the rapidly increasing volume of business which is being received from the mercantile houses here.
DAVE HOY'S LIVERY.
Lave Hoy, who is starting (a livery business here, arrived in town yesterday with seyeral more teams. Mr. Hoy has opened a stable on Third Street.
"Dave" is well known throughout the whole upper country. He has for years been ranching in the Nechaco Valley at Milne's Landing, and to The Herald he stated that he had never seen crops looking better than they now appeared.
Mr. Hoy was at Fort Fraser for the twenty fourth of May. Things are quite lively there he states. A good hotel provided excellent accommodation to the traveller there, and' many buildings are going up at that point.
ION WRESTLES.
lonroe, a former   champion of   Great Britain,  and the man who   wrestled the    redoubtable
Another large building was started on Hamilton Avenue this week when the contract was let by Mr. C. Merian for tbe erection of c two storey pool hall on a lot adjoining Murphy's restaurant.                      ^
The building ie to be 110 feet in length and 28 feet in width? It is. being built by Messrs. McFarlane & Bird.
The building .downstairs will have ten pool tables and two English billiard tables. Upstairs the rooms will he available for offices.
Mr, Merion, whp recently arrived here from Edmonton, did not deliberate ydry long upon the question of a location. He arrived here one day and bought the property and contracted for the building within the next twenty four hours.
ODO CHAMBERLIN'S DEATH
Referring to the tragic drowning of Odo Chamberlin a few weeks, ago, at a point on the Fraser abbve here near the mouth of the Willow, the Vancouver Province says:
Mr. Odo Chamberlin, formerly of Vancouver, was twenty five years of age. He was the son of the late Captain James R. Chamberlin, Ottawa, and Mrs. Chamberlin, of Vancouver. He was one of seven brothers, the only sister being Mrs. Quain, of Vancouver. Young Cham-bfirlin waa born in Ottawa and came to- Vancouver six years ago. Aftc/r some years in the hardware trade, lie went north and too* k up two preemptions in tbe.-northerh interior. He worked on the surveys of Messrs. Green Bros./& Burden, His frien say that he was a fine manly cha; of great pluck and spirit and tha they" are afraid that it was hjs at •venturous spirit which cost him h life. Hg was a good canoe man an was looked upon as one of the best
Hftckensctimidt   and broke his knee,   men on    tne river.  On occasions he was amongst the arrivals h*re from
up river this week. Monro is at the present time engaged in work with a contractor on the upper river. He is a huge man, weighing 260Ibs. Mr. Monro has offered bis services to the committee for the first of July celebrations here. He was champion catch-as-catch-can wrestler of the British Isles, and came to America to wrestle Gotch in St Louis where the world's champion defeated him only after a long hard struggle. Mr. Monro also claims the title of champion cabre tosser of the world. He will give an exhibition of his prowess in this latter on the first of July here.
STONEY
had been known to venture in places where Indians coulJd not be paid to go. A sad feature lies in the fact that Chamberlin intended selling his ranch and retrning^o the city where he wished to enter into tbe hardware business.
WESTERN PAPERS THAT BARK ON COMMAND.
(Toronto Saturday Night).                       jy^
The western papers that have found it to their advantage to back up the
Natural Resources Security Company (promoters  of  the Jownslte of Fort
George), are now waking it appear Jthat by the rtct
Board wherieby the Grand Trunk Pacific will be
the decision'set aside on appeal) to place the raii'
thousand feet away from the Natural Security
of six thousand feet as originally intended
outstanding victory.
.     For instance, one of Hammond's weejT
another; in ^Victoria come out with
to one and all that now the G.T.P.
where the Hammond outfit always A3 a matter of strict truth ib*.
a fair share cf its
etc., actually on the'proper* > i
and not three thousand Wit t
owned by the G.T.P. .Mh • to
offices of the Natural Bej
Saturday Night, and
Among
river this week, was George Me Vicar, of the Q.T.P. Engineering department, ffr. Me Vicar leaves here soon to take up his duties as resident engineer at 8 toney Greek. George Mc-Vicar was a member of the preliminary survey parties who came in to this country to locate a G.T. P. line seven years ago this spring. He remembers this place when it was the
ISSUING GUN LICENSES.
I Harry Borson, one of the district's deputy game wardens, arrived here this week from the Gache^Jbtr. Borsoir is issuing gun licences, in conformity with the new regulations, to people owning guns along the grade* The idea' of the new regulations is to pxevejitthe carrying of firearms by irresponsible huntsmen, who will pick up a gun and "go hunting" without a knowledge of either firearms or game laws. The necessity of owning an un-transferable ¦ licence before a gun can be legally carried, will give effect to a judicious use of sporting rifles by people only who can get a decent value out of the licence they must buy. Mr. Borson states that the regulations are well adhered to along the. construction zone.
DR. M'SAWLEY
re-emption, and when the
was the oi&y stopping undred miles. Other
of the Railway yean"
hit th'
Amongst the arrivals here this week
is Dr. McSawley, a medical
reliminary  surveys
country today >are
president of th A Mercantile Com
*Rusell Peden, also of that firm:
"of The Herald,
esources n maps showing Natural Resources S h\ r distance away on the
one may judge f »vti,'n
 judge That fmt c hePreri
the city perance
e   requesting
father* to pass a bylaw pron iuch matches   provoked this rulin and the councilmanic   discussion* of this subject. ',
egree~ of
^afterwards, in   Bdin k his degree of F.R.C.S. r. McSawley came down the r rom BJdmonton. He has recently be practicing in Regina
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