VOL. 4. NO. 9. , s~ SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1913. $3 PEJfc ANNUM IRapitl- Growth' of Local1 Sys; xtem Makes Change Imper-ative^rvice Will be Greatly 1m An improvement in\the important utility ofit'[ is expected . that other resignation^ will follow and Possibly some prosecutions. The evidence m the Pedley' case has been ;- Placed, in-,the -hands of the Justice Department, and whether there) are -sufficient grounds for prosecution is n()t -yet known. j "'-'..• ¦Mr. Pc/iiley was ^appointed by the 1-ibcifll Government in 1897 as Su-.Perjn.tei^ient of . Immigration, and s-transferred to the Indian Depart-in. 1902. "¦ . ; '• ¦'• , TIip evidence taken before Mr. Fer-suspn alleged that Mr. Pedlefir, while __J1 ^_ii1l^!^L Mr w a token ofxappreciation"of his one of the Grand Trunk Pacific y stations in the Bulkley valley l ^ be called after Duperow, general agent of e^cornpanv'3 passenger department atlUVerNand *<>«nerlyCof Vic tori *<>«nerlyCof Puperow has reeved a Mr. W.P. Hinton, general f for the oA P,. at Cbes"^tating thaVthe name is be-Rood ' ¦ in^xrecognition of his L,, U° c and eflforta on behalf of the :^any. The General agent has been ie G. T. P. for more and was one^f_the _to represent the company's 'first rests in OIL ABOUNDS PEACE^RIMXWIMM Possibilities of the Peace River district and the tar northern territory through which winds the Mackenzie river were interestingly depicted to the Vancouver Progress Club recently by Mr. Charles Camsell, of the Dominion geological survey, under auspices of the Vancouver Chamber of Mines. Mr. Camsell's address was the- first of a series arranged by the" chamber of mines, and a series of steroptican slides were shown to emphasize his address. 'r~T^-. Mr. Camsell characterized that district known as the Mfkenzie River district which stretcnes nortward from Athabasca to;the Arctic, as unparalleled in/the fur trade at present, and a-future country where minerals will be largely produced, from all: present indications. The mineral indications found there by Mr. Campbell gave indications of probably; large deposits of copper, zinfc, silver and lead, as well as gold. In addition to its other vast resources there would be oil. Oil and tar exudes from the earth in areas which were spread over from 150,000 to 300,000 acres. These, he said, were the best possibilities in the worl Oil, and where to find it, and And it and find it iribig quantities, he said, is Britain's most intensely interesting proFlem~justfnowV owing to the fact that the use of fuel 'oil is growing to such a degree tkatfit is but a question of time when all the big-ships will of necessity , have to use it as the cheapest and best known, fuel for economical operation. J A ^project is under way for. the construction of a large skating rink on the- Hudson's Bay ^Company's slough. \ N \ Amongst the arrivals from the south this week was* Manager Ben-south this week was Manager Reynolds, late of the North Vancouver branch of the Bank of British North America, who will relieve Manager J. Muttro whilst he travels over Scot-ljitTl oiijoyltig a well-earned holiday. The staff of the local branch of the Bank of B^.A. has also been, in-creased this week, the office force now numbering ' CITY STREETS Will NOW BE UGHTED Mr, M. G. Brown, manager of the Northern Telephone & Power Company, informed The Herald today that it is the intention of his company to install street lights at several important points in the city. These will be put in at the electric company's own expense and will be operated for the benefit of the citizens without charge, The public spiritedness of Mr. Brown's company is extremely commendable, and coming at this season of the year will be warmly welcomed by all ythe citizens of this rising metropolis. Since/the company first turnedyOn their, current, some few weeks ago, South Fort George has assumed all the airs and graces of a metropolitan city. The business sec-tion^is now abloze of Bright lights, and nearly every residence of^any pretension is connected up'with the electric current. ¦Nr ENJOYABLE TIME aTx ODDFELLOWS'BAIL The second annual masquerade ball of the Indeoendent Order^-of Oddfellows, which was ,held last night in ^ Oddfellows^ Hall on Hamilton more than fulfilled the most optiml8tic\expectations of the committee of management. The Ball may be'cited withqutvfear of contradiction as the most successful and the most largely attendedxdance ever held in the Fort George District. The hall was hopelessly crowded, which proved the only grettable feature of the event, the attendance aggregating* about three hundred persons'. So great was the crowd in the hall that the dance was held up for a few moments, by the authorities whilst the floors were additionally braced from below.„. The costumes worn by the many characters__represented were generally original and in instances quite elaborate. Prizes were awarded to five ladies and gentlemen, Rome of whom undoubtedly deserved the awards of the judges as clearly as others of the chosen ones did not. The floor of the hall was in excellent condition and the music rendered by John. Senior's orchestra.was a feature of the occasion. " The committees of management are to be congratulated upon the success which crowned their efforts. leb- ^ewJs Before Justice Murphy at Clinton, on October the 14th. Ole Jorgenson was found guilty of the murder last February of - the boy Inkstec—pn'" the ranch, a few miles from Ash-croft. He will be hanged on December 29. The4irfjrwas only thirty minutes in coming to a verdict. The ladies of - the — Presbyterian congcegation of Fort George are holding a Bazaar next- Wednesday afternoon and evening in the Masonic Hall on Central Avenue. Fancy, goods of all descriptions and samples of home-made cooking will be offered for safe.' In the. evening the proceedings will be enlivened by orchestral music. The proceeds are in aid of the* church. \ ,! The home of Mr. and Mrs. George Wase, engineer in charge of the residency a few miles above this point on the G.T.P., was the scene of a bachelor's dinner party last Saturday evening which is described by the invited guests as cne of the happiest social events they ever attended. Mr. and Mrs. Was*, who live in a pretty location on the bank of the Fraser river, entertained, besides many engineers and contractors from the construction line, a luge party of unmarried gentlemen from this town. BIG DEAL IN CLOSE-IN ACREAGE One of the largest realty deals carried through in the Fort George district this summer was closed this week in the sale of the well-known Hamilton Ranch,- across the Nechaco river from the G.T.P. townsite of Prince George. The deal, which was consummated by Messrs. Wesley & Wiggins, an old-time real estate firm of this city, approximated an investment of about $70,000. I. E. Haight, of South Fort George, and A. M. Hunter, of the Union, Realty Company, of this city, a newly established and strong reel estate company, of which Mr. A." Hunter, of Pittsburgh is the president, are the buyers of this property. Mr. Hunter is heavily interested in Prince-George property, and is investing large sums of money in property here on finding from personal investigation that Prince George property and the surrounding territory is entirely up to the expectations he had formed from a distance. Mr. Hunter believes that the Hamilton Ranch, situated as it is within half a mile of the business centre of the Prince George townaite, where lots recently sold at auction for as high as fourteen thousand dollars, will develop nto ati important industrial site. The Property is level and beautifully situated to fulfil Mr. Hunter's optimistic belief. Lying.to the east of the high cut banks known as Dean's Heights, the Hamilton Ranch stretches evenly jack from the Nechaco river at a height of only ten to thirty feet above high water nark. ,¦••';¦ The property has a history worth resting in so far that through an error of a provincial land surveyor, m when the property was surveyed many years ago, the acreage included in the survey, which was not allowed to exceed 640 acres, was found, later toin-!e a much larger area, and the government altered their maps and a contest resulted for possession of the excessive acreage. The Lands Department eventually^rendered a commendable decision in permitting the land to go to Mr. Hamilton^ wiiose original application was supposed^Ui cover the whole area. >r The property will bie offered for-sale >y the Union Realty Cortfpany and other real estate firms at an early-date, and it will undoubtedly sell for high values, and owing to'' its strategic pos-tion s,hould find a ready tnarket.. FOH^THE INTERIOR Scheme, to Construct New Line From Kamloops to Barkerville via Quesnel. There is a possibility that in the hear future New British Columbia will have another railway started. Mr. A. Reed, of Winnipeg, a well-knownjrjanin the prairie capital, kas been in Victoria foi object is to secure a charter from) the provincial government for"a line to connect Kamloops with Quesnel and Barkerville, and incidentally open up i splendid stretch of rich mining country Wo definite information can yet be obtained in regard to the project, but it is believed that full details of the scheme will be issued, shortly. |The rough outline of the route as described Indicates that the proposed road will have its terminals at Kamloops and Barkerville. After leaving Kamloops the line stretches up the Thompson River to Clearwater Lake and thence to Horsefly Lake across the ''height ©I land," down tlie Horsefly. River to QuesTiel and thence on to Barkerville Jus who are the people behind the proposition it is impossible to say at this time, but it is rumored that in time it will be connected with one or other of the great railway- corporations already operating in the province. No-Tfuth in Statement That Express Company Will Remove Boats to Peace River NextYeap. The winter outfit of the British Columbia Express Company came up on the last run of the B. C. Express last week to Quesnel, in charge of Sam Boyd, and it is now strung along the road between this point and Quesnel. This equipment includes the horses, Thorough brace Concord coaches, the Special winter sleighs which have been built in the B.X. shops this summer for the run between here and Quesnel, and the drivers and stablemen to drive and look after the stock. Driver Jimmy Gannon, well known o» the Cariboo road, will drive out of South Fort George this winter as heretofore, and Joe Grenier, another well-known whip, will drive stage between Blackwater and Quesnel., Three new, specially designed sleighs of great capacity have been constructed for service on the Quesnel-South Port George run. ^-^^ , Mr. Stewart Adamson, purser on the steamer B. C. Express, and, for many years past an employee of the company in different capacities, called on The Herald this week on behalf of the transportation company, to request us to correct, through these columns, a rumor given birth to by an irresponsible journal published in these parts to the effect that the British Columbia Express Company would move their fleet of steamers into the Peace river watershed as a result of the company Having lost the Cariboo mail contract. Nothing, Mr. Adamson assures us, is further from the intention oi the British Columbia Express Company than to remove any portion of their, transportation plant from the route of travel totween Ashcroft, Fort George and the 'Upper Fraser river. .Their company and .its predecessors have been' common carriers on the Cariboo road , and into Fort George since the beginning of things, and the Joss of the mail contract, .considering the -uncertainty of its future volume and the growth of the more profitable express business; ¦ we judge from the expressions of dif-'erent officers of the B.C. Express Company to be more of a blessing in disguise than a loss of a serious nature to their business. To demonstrate the absurdity of the report circulated, Mr. Adamson stated that ill arrangements had been completed to lengthen the steamer B. C. ). Express . ten feet during the coming winter in older that her freighting capacity might be increased^- Tnis work would not be undertaken if the company were "abiut Jtq,dismantle theiir . boats. ¦ . . y' j ; .. • ¦'•;. That the B. yC^ Express Company will evenjpally extend thiir transportation system into the Peace river countryviatheGiscombe Portage route or. the route advocated by The Herald by way of the Salmon river, connecting with a proposed wagon road following the direction of .the Bud river to the height of land where the headwaters of the Parsnip river can be reached by steamboat from the Peace river, is as lifcfcJX,,«*• was *n* extension of their syitenTfrom Quesnel into Fort George Herald has tried on diifter^rrt: occasions to bring the possibilities of the Peace river route to the attention of the B.X. officials.' and we/fiave their assurances that the company are very much inter-/' «st«d in^tnese same possibilities^and this means much with progressive con-like the B.X. ,;, >X The construction^ of offices) and other buildings '^now under way on Hamilton Avenue, has built that thoroughfare up solidly from Second Street to Third. Every available 1 pot of building space has been utilized on the street between those points^/ George! Bowes, a well-known surveyor, ^jand an ' old-timer in these parts," lies seriously ill in the^ Fort George hospital as a result of plood poisoning' having set in-, irom the thorn of a devil-club, the horrible prickly weed that all woodsmen hate. kJ m ¦y;