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SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C./
$3. PER ANNUM
BEAT LOCAL INTEREST IN PRINtE GEORGE
Several Have Left to Attend Sale of Lots in Vancouver on 17th Inst.
Tl,c sale of the G.T.P. townsite of
which    is    to take
next Wednesday
prince; George, place i"   Vancouver
I atSactfng a large attendance from all points. The put-going boats this ' have carried several intending bound  for  Vancouver to
week investors,
attend the sale.
The general attitude
of the investing'public appears to be one-of regret that present financial con^Uo'i* wiU not permit heavy investments in real estate at this time. The Herald's latest information, received by wire from Land Commissioner Kyley ,'of the. G.T.P., is definite on the matter of the date of the Prince  George sale.
The Grand  trunk   Pacific   Railway Company, as    related    long    ago in those columns,   will sell  their town-site under the name of Prince George an(| it will   be known by that  name from the   date  of  the  sale onward. The station on their townsite will be called Prince George, and their hotel will'also bear the name.    The/town-site promoters   who . are endeavoring to spread the-illusion that the G. T. P. railway are putting on the market1 an "addition  to/the    Fort  George townsite" will  soon  be disabused on the matter,   as\   will  the    credulous ones, who get a twisted sens'i of relative values' by perusing, and  4ig?*t-ing such absurd statements. ,-H is understood that certain parts . uf. the townsite  will   not   be  offered for- sale  n't    this time.   The   eastern"' end will  be  probably  sold   first;  and the western end.   held" under^ reserve for future sale.  Ii ls>very  generally
^conceded that the^eastern portion of tie townsitC/vml be the first area to be ££JH?fally developed, and we beUgy<rthat the first extensive busK
stress section will grow up withiir>nve blocks of the. Fraser river
We advise purchase on
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CANYON CACHE ITEMS.
(Special Correspondence to the Herald)
According to Supt. W. G. Dow, Fol-ey Bros., Welch & Stewart's Canyon Cache will be shut down within a month. The canyon has been one of the most important of the caches along the river. Through It all of the tens of thousands of dollars worth of Foley's supplies and outfit have passed. The Cache and its maintenance has cost over $150,000* during the two seasons of its existence which is reasonable in view of the conditions that had to be met and overcome.
Joe Steeirs of the Carleton Co., and incidentally the best dressed man on the line, spent Wednesday night at the Canyon on his way to Fort George.
During the entire navigation season the S./S. Conyeyor in command of Capt. Shannon was the only steamboat to negotiate the Upper Canyon without/a line. She made the run in a scant 15 minutes with her own power, the last four trips up. The only other steamer to attempt it was the Sfi5. Robert G. /Hammond but she did not get far before a line was necessary to save her from the rock's'. It took the Hammond six hours to make it. Capt. Mallory of of the Marshall Wells launch made the JLJpper Canyon several times on his own power in less than 15 minutes.
The present mail service clong the line is now in first class shape. The launch Kathleen leaving Mile 129 for the Canyon every Sunday arid day morning and the Betty F.Jeaving Fort George for the Canyon day and Friday rnornin
Geo. Booth,oniepHhe original "Can-
"eryTues-
yon  Cats" ia
 with Foley Bros.,
Welch &§>tewart's regular pilot «6y The hoyson this crew have^ made/big
shakes
 this   season
$1000 each for each month •on.                      -¦.':;¦
The low stage o:
water has en-
abled Supt. Doti to^begin salvaging scows wreckM^atr^the canyon in the early pafifWthe season. During the" firs^day's work this week several thousand dollars worth of outfit was recorded.
Fishing 'at Canyon is splendid, Fire
intending investors to ! Warden Hanson caught an eight pound the eastern^nd.              :itrou1t JU9t in front of the Upp€r WMe"
INDIANS ARE BARRED
view   to  encouraging  the to work and save his earn-_jiie_
sitting    in   Edmonton, an order that hereafter
Ueutenant^governor-i n-has
passed   an order that hereafter "no Hian   is  to be permitted to enter ••*bj pool or   billiard room or bowl-; ing alley in the province of Alberta.* '.-.."'is also provided that.any propri-' Wor failing to observe the order shall be subject to the cancellation of his licehce.  William Alexander Wilson of Edmonton,  who has been appointed Wol room licence inspector, is char-,. 8^ with the enforcement* of the law;' ^'ch was enacted, at the last "ses-S1^n of    the    provincial legislature. ;-^th'  pool     playing,      intoxicating quor and gambling- under the ban, about the onlv/things left for In-aus. js farming, trapping and horse racing,  gani a mem^ oj  ^he Cree tnbejn   Edmonton recently.    "Prbo-\$* »t is for    the best" he added.
 house.   Two  and quite plentiful.
 three pounders are
the
1 it is spoiling a lot of' fun for younger men." " '
(The local, school   re-op«*ied     last witli about fifty pupils. The name,   for the   term,   is
The
 balance  of   the local  electric  Plant i8 expected next week. v j
BULKLEY'S DEVELOPMENT
Telling of the development brought into the Bulkleyi valley by the advent of the steeli a despatch from Smith-ers says that a new order of things is rapidly replacing the old in that  t
portion of    British coming of the iron
 Columbia. The  hor.se is^malting
great changes, and the^pioneers are not yet accustorried/td thefnew conditions.     • ' ,>^^
The tedious freighting of supplies into the interior towns is now a thing of the past for trains_are running, bringing everything the district needs at a minpftum cost and time. The pack horse and the canoe, as well as the winter dogteams, have found their places taken by more modern transportation means.    /.-
MARVIN-OLIVER NUPTIALS
A quiet weeding was solemnized last Tuesday, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Williamson, the contracting parties being Mr. Hugh Gordon" Marvin and Miss Evelyn Gronow Oliver, both of London, Bng. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Father Cocola, O.M.I., before a party of friends and relatives. Miss Oliver is a sister of Mrs, J. O. Williamson.
LABOR COMMISSION SITS HERE MONDA
Party Will Arrive Tonight—Local
Labor Problems Will be
Discussed.
The Royal Commission on Labour will reach this place tonight, and will sit in Burch's hall on Hamilton Avenue on Monday morning next at 10 o'clock. Rooms have been reserved for the members of the commission at the Empress hotel."                -. .
The commission will hear the views of any persons wishing to give testimony upon labor problems or conditions.                 ¦""/•
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.
A general meeting of the South Fort George Football Club was held last night and the following officers elected:-Trustee for Montgomery Shield^Fonn Crozier; Pres., H. C. Seanjan; Vice-Pres., J. O. Williamson>eapt., John Hillhouse; Vice-Capt.,/J\ F. Richardson; Sec-Treas.^Alfan Mclntyre. Committee to consist of captain, vice-captain, secretary, J. 0. Williamson and S. Shannon.
^-Resolutions were passed thanking Mr.'Brbnger for presentation of shirts and hose, and also Jermyn& Bowles for jerseys.           -y*V
A practice game will take place Sunday on the baseball grounds at 3:30 in the^,fternoon.
<^A series of. five games will be played between the two teams for the Montgomery Shield, the first to take place on Wednesday next m Fort George where a fair is being held on that day. Both clubs are enthusiastic and good games are^expectedN.
The Montgomery shield is now on exhibition in Kelly's window.xThis is one of the finest, if not the finest, association football shield in thepro-vihee.
CLUB CAFE ENLARGED
Fred Wilson,^ proprietor of the Club Cafe, on Third Street, has completed a large addition to his premises. The Club only recently commenced business, but the rapid growth of its patronage has rendered necessary the large additions made. Private rooms and tables may be had at The Club when the addition is opened to the public.                 •-      *
 Cach
 ache, the dead
 ^ the headwaters of the Fraser.
On the night of August 21st a car containing liquor was broken open at the Tete Jaune siding and a number of cases of whisky consigned to Fort George were taken out.: Twenty-seven crses of whisky were found buried in a sandhill near by and Win. R. Ogilvie, A. L. Ogilvie, A. Wortz, G.T.P. Railway employees, were arrested on suspicion and brought before justice of the Pence Sugars. Allen L. Ogilvie •was released, there being not sufficient evidence to detain him, and the cases against W.,_R._Ogilvie andAWortz were adjourned.
Fearful of what the inventions of the the white msn may lead to, superstitious Indiana of Skidegate have watched the operations of the new wireJLess station there with awe. A party of old Indians called on Dr. Spencer, the Methodist medical missionary, and told him they thought it was time to die. They had seen the new station working and were convinced that men hundreds of miles apart were talking together. "We hear, but we cannot see them talk," said one Indian. "Pretty soon white man can tell what we are thinking about.":
Leswing1 Kolovvna in an auto ltj«ded with fruit and produce of the^Okana-gan Valley, including1 a fine^assortment of cigars, "prown and manufactured in JCelbwna, George Gi^ham Lyster left Recently from t^e^pard of Trade building, to ride tarTort George to sprerd enroute the glories of the Orchard City district^ He is making the trip with thri&ject *t>f setting forth in a cor-wicing manner what Kelowna has to offer the growejr. The route will lay through Vernon, Kamloops, Ashcroft, passing 150-Mile House, and skirting, the Fraser Rtver on the Fort George, returning by a ehcular/tour, and covering altogether ovtr a thousand milea- .
ICED ON BRIDGE.
ers Construction Co.
for building the lift going forward rapidly,
a steel cofferdam on Railroad Island, which the bridge crosses on, for the abutments. The bridge contractors are getting out rafts of piles, and have two pile drivers at work on the crossing at this writing.
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PEACE RIVER'S GOOD CROPS
"Crops in the Peace Rivar district are well out of the danger zone," Baid H. C. Wilson, a farmer from Dunveg-an, at Edmonton, Alberta, recently. "With the exception of a small amount of grain join two .quarter sectionS/Otfthe Peace River towwsi.te, the work of the binders north of the PeaceKiverCrossing is complete for this year.
"The year lM3iia3 been a fine one for "the entire Peace River district," continued Mr. Wilson^ "Dunvegan has seen^the erection of about 12 mills, "while the number of improvised stores that have been erected is astonishing. All that is needed to make these , little merchandise establishments as advantageous as some of the Edmonton stores is lumber which the mills are trying to, turn out. Most of the mills are,finding tljat the demand for lumber far exceeds the supply, but this condition will be entirely relieved before the middle of September.
"Negotiations are being made now for the construction of a church in Dunvegan during the next month, and it is ^expected that the townsite will have^a house of worship before winter sets in. The district is becoiaing so thickly populated that a church is necessary."
BRAND-NEW STEAMER
is'iiEopor
Local Company Launches New
Boat for Work on Upper \              River.
The Steamer Fort Fraser, owned.by the Fort George Timber and Trading Company xt.td., is^ no longer a unit of the fleet of steamboats on the upper Fraser. The^little< Fort Fraser was, not a good model for the kind of work her owners required her to do, and she was recently dismantled by shipbuilder Dan McFee, of Victoria,' and was re-assembled on a new hull. Shipping , registration laws do not permit two .keels to be named alike, and as in the regard of shopping circles the defunct Fort Fraser is still among the quick, the new model has been named "The Doctor," in horior of Dr. J.K. McLennan, one of the company's officers who is a well known man in railway circles.
The Doctor is a neat littte craft. She has an importance hitherto unknown to the boat before her latest transmigration—that of possessing two decks.- ¦• -   ;
The engines have bcten re-bored, Messrs. Fowler Bros., of New Westminister, doing the' work, and according, 'to Engineer Rankin, who installed "tne engines in both models, they are now, as good as hew.      \.."¦¦¦
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN SHUSWAP FIRES
Forestry "Department    Reports
About 2,000,000 Feet of
Timber Destroyedv
Just what amount oi damage, was done to British Columbian timber by the recent fires in the Yellowhea<l Pass cannot.be definitely ascertained, but it is believed to be>-run into perhaps a couple of mil-lion feet, accord-' ing to Mr. R.-^C. Benedict of the provincialforestry department, who has completed a tour of the afiectcl district.  ;            V                           /
"At first," said Mr. Benedict, "we thought that the Alberta <outbreak" had spread over the boundary line of this province and had started to burn up our reserves in the vicinity of Tete Jaune. Cache, but on Iook-ing over the situation I discovered that our first reports were inaccurate and .that as a matter of fact our rangers succeeded in keeping the flames out. They did it with a margin af about two hundred yards or so> but. that was sufficient, and I think Mt speaks well for their activity and\methods to be able to say it, for seldoni has such a blaze occurred without doing much greater damage."     '          ^\ ,
"Th& trouble to the provincial timber did not come fronKAlberta, nor in .fact did it happen ffWTete Jaune at all. But we had a big b^a^p some thirty miles off at Sjh'vfsyr.ap^ which I think "has destroyed about two million feet of timber. I cannot estimate the loss" for the simple reason that we-iiave as yet no means of getting 'Tinto the territory, and had to'content ourselves with looking at it from afar. From Tete Jaune I could see the smoke, and occasionally the flames, and I based my calculation of the loss upon my knowledge of-the country. I can say that tift" timber that was "destroyed by this fire, which I am inclined to think covered an area of from six to ^en1 miles, was not of any merchantable value, and would not be so for perhaps thirty years more to come. Still it was unfortunate, although of course impossible to avoid on account of the lack of trails. We thought at first of starting in to build trails into the country and fighting the fire, but then it occurred to us that the rain would, 'beat us, and so it happened. Befd're'we came away we had. lots of rain and the fires ^irere , all out. Everything at the present looks good but of course the danger is by\no means past. Taken so far the province- has enjoyed splendid immunity from fire' this year' as compared with other places, and I think much of the credit for. that condition  belongs\%6 the  fortist de-;
Mrs. George E. McLaughlin/enter-tained a large party of friends at dinner last Thursday/ evening, the occasion being the^anniversary of her birthday.' The McLaughlin home was prettily^aecorated with flowers.
partment.
"Now that the fires are out we . are commencing the construction of trails at certain points and the general improvement of our systetoi of communication. .In fact the principal object of myr visit this time was' to see, just where it would be advisable to have trails cut; and L intend now to draw up a report for the consideration of the government.
"On my way down I made a call-at1 South  Port    George^and    several other. Points,  and saw  the  rangcirs. I found everything in excellent shape all over; I may say that "during my travels      in   the    interior  country I discovered other  .vast forest  areas,; which are so far entirely  uncharter-ed.              N         '       .v

A constrjictton camp 'on .the Fraser-riveir/near tUe Willow..
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