,.3, NO. 42.
SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913.
 EXPRESS NOW RUNNING
L Train Service Inaugurated on G.T.P. Helps Communication Here.
As the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway tonpany perfects its system/of train Jce along the new line' from its atern centres to the west, South Fort •eorge grows daily more accessible to je people "outside" and becomes, a }intwhich,can be reached in- comfort nd with speed  from   the  world at
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Shortening  the   journey to   Eastern
snada by one  day, the  new Grand
runk train,   the   "Prairie  Express"
as successfully "inaugurated  recently
ben for the first time in the history of
nonton two  regular  Grand Trunk
jenger trains left for Winnipeg in
e same day.   The  new  train leaves
monton at 5.40 every afternoon, ar-
ing in Winnipeg   at   lO.lfvthe next
|The train carries two sleepers and lerand electrically lighted cars of a latest type will be  put on as  soon
(i the new shipment, which is sorne-hat overdue arrives in the course of e next week or two. Th«0ourney to Winnipeg now takes ¦actically one day only. A business jean do a full day's work inEdmon-.iand leave the same day, arriving Winnipeg the next evening in time get a good bed in his hotel. For we who are traveling to Saskatoon t new tram\is very convenient. ¦ It rives at Saskatoon at 6.45 a.m., but in is no need to turn out at that frly hour as one of the two sleepers tried is put off at Saskatoon and can koccupied until 8 a.m. t ^\ |Through electrically lighted sleepers e run from Edmonton to Port Wil-aon this train Mondays, Wednes-i and Fridays, which give direct (ction with Northern Navigation ny's boats touching at points on & Great Lake3.
The train also connects with the pte»t Lakes Express," leaving Win-Wf tri-weekly at io.3O p.m. on Tues-N», Thursdays and Saturdays, there |ng practically,, no wait. The new P thus puts Edmonton, into direct oaunication  for  all points in the
> Daily Limited leaves Edmonton 30 >nd arrives  in   Winnipeg the day at 1.50  p.m.   New trains ^niUnfo effect yesterday were ¦"MmLocal," leaving Edmonton [6P.m, while  the campers'  special "" Wabimun, Fallis and Edson left on "tyfor the first time Intheafter-"| 1.30, and will  be  continued . »Saturday.
I Jrtef.local service-has been' put toCookmg Lake, Tofield, Camrose 'Mirror, leaving  Edmonton at 1.50
ESLWlowhead Express leaves Ed-P" f°r Tete Jaune Cache at 9.30
REAL ESTATE HERE IS ACTIVE
An important real estate diful was put through late last week when Messrs. Kennedy ,Blair & Co., pur: chased the double corner oppositel the Northern Hotel on Hamilton Avenue for five thousand dollars. The Mercantile firm, together with others of r, local syndicate, intend to erect a handsome building on the comer, and they will occupy the ground floor with another branch of their business as soon as the building is completed.
The corner is one of the best on Hamilton Avenue, and will add very greatly to the appearance of the business section if the purchasers carry their intention into effect.
Other re/alty deals of considerable importance are reported by the local real estate firms, who state that in spite of the tightness of money in the outside markets the demand for inside business properties ,!s increasing here every day.
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The Northern Lumber and Mercantile Company Limited are putting a double shift on their mill\^beginning
j this week. It is found impossible to keep abreast of the demand for lum-
j ber even, when the mills here are running to their full capacity during tne hours of daylight.
The company are also moving the location of their mill to a point nearer town, and are installing a lot of new machinery in the plant. They have recently acquired a considerable area of timber near town.
AFTER THE BLIND P1GQERS.
1 internl to strain every nerve to !« convictions in cases where 1 satisfied'that an offence against: le liquor law has been committed?' mounced Mr. J ustice JMur^by^iii "Preme Court Chambers at J^ancou-!r> in dismissin;* -the appeal pi Lee ^8.and Lee "Wing,/two Chinamen were convicted at Kelowna on 6 for j),illf, in possession of )r for, sale, and for1 selling to an in;'' ...
' R- I'. Stockton, for the con-A men, tooJc^technical obiection le evidin«e, but was overruled by ordship, who said: "I intend to V the principles of commonsense e11 as the principles! of law' to « cases," be stated. '.' .. ' ! two men are now serving six
Kns m iail lor their offence. '• Joan   Hopp   returned recently ^ a bu8ine8s trip to Eastern Ogn-fc  h!nd United- States cities.'As Lrridng..— ^approach-
;yPtepareforoPer. .       ! 8now!a11   having   been
<P«ct d ^      travel-washing- run to •r  I hl8 yeap-   Mr.. -Hopp J          ftve hy^«lic     lfe
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 in-
 on *^tari" o! thr  l^htwaing ertn,
The fifth ball game in the series for the Carney Cup between Fort George and South Fort George, was held on the ball park last Sunday, resulting in another win for South with a score of ten runs to four in their favor. The next game will be played on Dominion Day, Tuesday nett.
The Steamer Distributer made a trip to Milne's Landing, a distance of seventy miles up the Nechaco river this week, with 150 tons of freight. The boilers of the boat were washed but at Millie's Landing, and the round trip was made in 2}-days.     \
"B. C. EXPRESS" MKES A
A RECORD TRIP
Captain Busey Doing Great Work on the Upper Fraser.
The Steamer B. C. Express completed a record trip from Tete Jaune this week, making the 315 mile run from the Cache to this point in an elapsed time of forty-two hours, bringing down a full load of freight and eighty passengers.
After this steamer comes to her rest here, i here is sometimes seen on the streets'of the town a man with a brass bound cap which shields the keen eyes of a river captain whose work on the upper Praser is passing without much well deserved praise, in the press of events.    We refer to Captain Busey.
Captain Busey is performing a great service for this country, and he is performing this service well. Already he has successfully navigated the SteameT B. C. Express, on four round trips to Tete Jaune Cache since'the opening of navigation, covering adistance of over
2,500 miles.
But the captain has a long record of success as a "'river navigator. He worked on the command of the Hudson's Bay .Campany's steamboats in northern waters, that are navigable to the sea, for over twelve years, and in the Skeena river he bears the reputation of being a great river man, and a record of having run the Kitslas Canyon at the highest stage of water.
On every trip the Captain makes to Tete Jaune he faces the terror of the Grand Canyon, with its oeething whirlpools and death record. With a seventy-five thousand dollar steamboat obeying the turn of his hand the captain, runs the canyon where other boats line their way dwon, and he runs it with his'white flyer with knowledge of his ability to run it successfully.
Captain Busey is an old Mississippi captain. He never strays very far from his boat, and has little to say for himself even when pressed for information about bis work. He is a typical sailor-man, one of those whem one would expect to see on the  flying   bridge of an
 $3 PER ANNUM
ocean   liner, yet  no ocean captain that ever   walked  the could rghtly feel   more proud   of record as a master of  craft than Captain Busey of the Steamer British Columbia Express.
There is considerable complaint about horses being allowed to roam at large on the streets of the city with bells clanging on their neck straps. There is a law about tbis somewhere, and it is up to the police to dig it up and make an example of some of the owners of these animals.
Mi. Howard w. DuBois, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, managing director of the Quesnel Hydraulic Gold Mining Company, is making preparations for the ensuing season of gravel washing at the huge mine of the company at Hydraulic, in trie Horsefly  section ol   Cariboo.
WILLOW RIVER TOWN-SITEJVELOPING
Work Has Now Started on Office
Buildings—Gasoline Launch
in Service.
Things are moving at Willow river, the tJrand Trunk Pacific Railway' Company's townsi^e twenty five raUres east of this' point. Mr. F. W. Crawford, the general manager of the Transcontinental Townsite Company, for British Columbia, /tellB the Herald that work' on the, offices of the company at Willow Rivef is well advanced, and considerable development is going on on the townsite.
Mr. H. J. Latham, agent for the company on the Willow River town-site, arrived here/this week, and he is now s-tationed/on the ground.
A splendid gasoline launch congsi-ned. to Mr; /Crawford reached here this week from Tete Jaune to ran between the different townsites of the company in this section. The launch ran down the river from Tete Jaune under the guiding hand of A. Buchcjl of the/port George Hardware Co.   ^
CARIBOO
Referring to the yield of gold from the Barkerville section of this district, John Stevenson, writing in the Vancouver Daily Province, says:
"The gold that has been taken out of Cariboo has never been correctly stated. It has always been too low. The mineowners always kept the teal output a secret. This secrecy was intensified after Governor Seymour put on a tax of 60 cents an ounce. From that moment the government has never been able to ascertain the amount. J. T. Steele,  John Brown, gold commis-
GOLD YIELD IS UNDERESTIMATED
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old Frenchmen had been ground-nluicy ing three or four years. When I asked them on the evening of my arrival hpvr they had been doing, they said nothing at all; that they had not been paying expenses. But when I told them that I had prospected the same/ground in 1862 with good results, they then said they had $180,000 on hand, and would make $20,000 more that season, when their j^arms, they   thought, would be
go to
! wprkeu     Then  they'would Paris and enjoy life;
was done bygone "who knew nothing about the; country, and still less than nothing about Cariboo. Then Mr. Robertson, our present provincial mineralogist, cut that estimate in two, on what authority I do not know. Twenty-five millions never paid for the goods, tools, machinery and. food product! which were shipped into Cariboo. Among these goods, if I .may call them such, were moBt expensive pumps, boilers and engines. Seven of these pumps in the Kurtz and Lam company's claims can^tiever be removed
sioner, and Geo. Tnnstall, gold -commissioner, collected the^utput from each working for our own information Speaking for myaeJ^and I think they all did the sara<t paid periodical vis-Its to each creek,including all'the outside creeks and workings, and enquired carefully into their output. We got our information after a great deal of work, but in some cases the mineowners were very reluctant.                    / \ To exemplify the difficulty of getting honest and correct returns,' I will give this example   I --went fn  1874 to^'the
~Whett Brown^ Steele, Tunstall and I compared notes in later days, we decided that the lowest estimates we could makeof the output of Cariboo was $100,000,000. Williams' and Lightning, we were sure, paid more ,than $50,000,-000. Stouts' Gulch-paid $1000 p«r lin> eal foot for a mile. TW lower hundred feet of the Steele claims, on Williams' Creek, abreast of Richfield, paid over $500,000.
Over thirty years ago, a ttranjpr, who was writing up the country, undertook   to  cut  $100,000,000 in two.
again. Take also into account the freight paid on all these goods and supplies for three years—and heavy years they wer«—when freight was 78 cents per pound from Yale snd Lillooet to Cariboo. In conversation with George Murdock, a few weeks ago, he said that no one who knew anything about Cariboo would venture to suggest that the output of the nines was lower than $80,000,000, although lie felt sure it must have been $100,000,000. Geo. Murdock was forty-nine yean in Cariboo and nuit be considered an authority.
¦AM
fER A RECORD
New Organization Promises to Make Popular the Strenuous Game.
South Fort George now  possesses,
amongst other athletic organizations
V an    up-to-the-minute   football   teairr.
This team intends to do its sharedn making popular the . strenuous game of "soccer"  in the northland/
To add to the interest, and to lend zest to the series of games which the South Fort George Football club intends to engage in, a prominent barrister of this city,' m/. Neville Montgomery, has announced that he will present a challenge shield to be won by a series of/ seven games. This shield h«n already been ordered through Mr./Montgomery's jewellers, alnd should/arrive here during the ensuing month.
Tho t^am will play the first game at the' ball park on Dominion Day, and the kick-ofl will take place sharp
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/Mr. John Bronger, another keen enthusiast of the game, with his characteristic generosity, has offered to donate to the club a complete equipment.
The team, as placed for the game next Thursday, is as follows: Goal, (Jeorge Burley; Full backs, Aithensen and Campbell; Half backs, Mclntyre Hrllhoiise and Kelly; Forwards, Shannon, Lee, Richmond, Ansell and Mil-burn.
MANY STEAM SHOVELS BROUGHT DOWN
Six Shovels Now ^Working Be-
tweenJHefre and Fraser
Lake.
There are six steam shovels delivered on  the work between  this  place . and Fraser Lake, 120 miles west'. The big  steamboats    Operator and Conveyor are busily engaged in landing, these  great    delving   machines from points on the upper river along the grade to the west of her^f he shovel working    along the/lSTechaco -waterfront is making great progress,  and
^ along the line these shovels are operating' night and day.
Sam Magoffin's big steam Bbovel was delivered at Mile 232, one mile, above the bridge crossing here yesterday. This is one of the largest shovels along the line of construction. It will take twelve days to reassemble..
P. G. E. PROGRESS.
A string of construction camps now extend along that portion of the route of the' Pacific Great Eastern Railway from railhead at Chekamus Valley, above Newport,, to a point twenty miles north of Lillooet. The^ grading is. in progress all along the line except on the summit of the coast range and the adjacent approaches where large gangs are busy clearingjl rigbt^bf-way. Mr. P. Welch who has a contract for'building the road^from North Vancouver to Fort George recently arrived in Vancoiwer from an overland trip from Newport to Lillooet. '                      t ¦' ¦
There are now nearly 3000 men on the payrolls of the subcontractors. Steam shovels have jiiBt been moved on to the work along the FraBer river north of Lillooet. The scene of greatest activity at present is the north shore of Seatqn Lake, and and likewise along Anderson Lake. Grading is also in progress in P em-barton Meadows.
The location, of the line between the Second Marrows and Newport, a distance of 42 miles has -keen completed. The w^rk all the way from Point Atkinson to the head-of Howe Sound will be etxcVptionally heavy, the average cost exceeding $100,000 a mile. There will be at feast twelve tunnels on that section, the longpat being estimated at 850 feet. Mr. S. A. Dice and party made the survey.