PRINCE CITIZE Vol Twelve Producing Placer Operations in Omineca r *pT BOB ADAMS TELLS OPTIMISTIC STORY OF THE DEVELOPMENTS TAKING PLACE IN MANSON CREEK AREA Thursday, May 27, 1937 Prince George, B. C. ¦•Where placer pi" plain from there were only two major -operties producing last year Creek area of the Om-will be twelve s season," is tiie of Capt. Bob in Prince George Creek Sunday evening snent Monday arranging for a nent of mining supplies by air-. w his leases on Manson Creek. Bob, as he is, familiarly known Alaska, to Peru, South Nome. e. has placer mined in South Alaska, California, British nriumbia Siberia and- Manchuria, and ^ono of Canada's most experienced and prominent qualified placer-minins erurineers Ho fon. Ik On the ytc-ain has 41-j miles of leases on Man- sides a big area of bench leases. leases he is working a hovel, having taken in some 60'tons of supplies in January while -TCTfftsst '^nd sn<>w made excellent tran.erintendent i cf the Canadian postal department with headquarters at Edmonton, spent j ¦everal days in Prince George organizing the new air mail .service to be inaugurated on June 2. United Airways Transport Ltd. have the ma:l con- ¦f.l'Onf nvi/5 if tiHil .T-vrv ««»-t/-l*-iv» 4-1- n .3:..An*- I their leases on Mr. and Mrs. in by plane later to upper Manson creek. Porter of Prince George accompanied by Jack Kennedy and Hugh Mann, of Vancouver, went in by plane from Fort St. James at the first of the week, and will be in continuous operation during the summer. Capt. Adams !s sanguine' that the old time placer miners' record in 1871. with crude equipment, of $400,000 from Manson. Germansen, Vital and Lost with expectations of greater production ' creeks will shortly be replaced by an than last year. On Slate Creek the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co.'s drag-line Fcrnner outfit is in full swing with W. M. Ogilvie in charge of operations, and expects to be in production this week. This operation was in production iast year also. On Oermansen creek the deGanahl interests have a large hydraulic oper-p.tion working and are employing 60 mm With another camp headquarters at Takla Landing the deGanahl interests are also working hydraulic operations on both Harrison and Vital <•:< '--s with 60 to 70 men employed. A annual recovery much in excess of that figure, and he looks for long years of regular and profitable production. / The inauguration of the air mail servce with regular weekly planes/fun-ning on schedule will bring many operators to Prince George to/conduct their business affairs and arrange for chipment of seasonal supplies. In fact he visualizes this regular/weekly plane service as the greatest/boost the mining development of the vast evelopment of the vast northern has so far had/ Capt. Adams left and it will be under the direct supcrintendency of Grant McConachie. Mr. Hale flew from Edmonton with Grant McConachie in his Ford Tri-Motored 12 pasenger plane over the proposed loutes of the new air mai service and covered much of the territory north of Prince George, arriving here Saturday afternoon. He was impressed with the immensity of the country and the evident intensive min- j ing development that is taking place i on Manson and surrounding creeks, j First trip of the mail service plane . .starting from Prince George next Tues- j ! day will include deliveries at Fort St. , rJames, Manson Creek and Takln Land- ! ; ing, returning the same day. This will j j be a weekly service leaving Prince i George every Wednesday. ; Mr. Hale has appointed two new j postmasters in connection with th:s j service, Mr. Aiken being appointed for j Takla Landing and Mr. Cunningham j at Manson Creek. i tue mm- i Qn SaturdaVj juried the mail plane northern ] will leave Prnee Geo^e -for Fort Me- area has so far nad' capt Adams leu L ^ ^^ d" Fon Grahame, Tuesday, morning/for Fort St. James arrivjng. sa^e dav; /It wlll ]av over at | hv onr from urniM*f» Vif» unit flv in to _ , - . ,. ... by car from where he will fly in to h:g Manson creek camp. United Airway Pilot Will Be Stationed Here Servicing Plants and Hangar Accommodation Near/Mouth of NechakoJ&ver G. \V. G. McConachie, of the United Airways Transporj/Ltd.. landed his twelve - passenger Ford tri-motored plane on the Nechako Saturday afternoon after a/reconnoitering trip with r-o tal Superintendent R. W. Hale, of Eebv n\xn{over the new air mail routes ';cni prince George to Northern Om-ln(9- Mr. McConachie is standing "y to take a group of witnesses here on Afte Shoffield-Courvoiser fur case back t0 Port St. John on conclusion of the trial. Ho will then double back Wmake the W- trip of the newly inaugurated air John Yorston Cariboo Pioneer Died Yesterday -povl Grahame for one day leaving there on the morning of the 7lh. ar- | riving in Prince George that afternoon. ' Th"'s service calls for eight trips dur- \ ing the year. J. P. Mclntyre has been appointed | postmaster at Fort McLeod, and ar- ' rangements are being made for the i opening of money order offices in these i new post off ices. Mr. Hale left Monday night for j Prince Rupert, thence by boat to Van- j couver where he will confer with Post- ! The spi ing assize court which opened May 19th with Mr. Justice Denis Murphy presid:ng, up to the time of gonig to press today had disposed of two cases. Rex vs. R. A. Mann, and Rex vs. Ralph Sheffield and Henry C. Courvoiser, and was taking evidence in Rex vs. J. Blondeau. In the case of Rex vs. Mann, charged* with stealing a quarter of beef and other meats from the C.N.R. Cafe on March 24, 1937, the accused did not go on the witness stand. Fred Fletcher gave evidence to the effect that he saw the accused packing a quarter of beef Along Fourth avenue towards his home on that date. Mrs. Mann, wife of the accused admitted she had offered the proprietor of the C.N.R. Cafe $10 to withdraw the charge. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. P. E. Wil-•'on was crown prosecutor and A. McB. Young defended. Sentence was deferred until the close of the assizes. __In the case of Rex vs. Sheffield and Courvoiser the charge was one of being in possession of a quantity of furs. The evidence in the case showed that the Hudson's Bay post at Fort St. Jphn had been robbed on the night of June 13. 1934. of several bales of furs, entry having been gained through a second story window. Sheffield and Courvoiser who maintained a trap line near Fort Nelson. r,old a batch of furs to the Fort Nelson post in the sprang of 193G for which they received a draft of $4000 en an Edmonton bank. The furs were shipped to Edmonton and on examination it was alleged that the shipment contained some of_thf skins taken in the Fort St. John post robbery, and were alleged to be some of those .cold to the Fort Nelson post by Sheffield and Courvoiser. Payment on the $4000 draft was stopped and the two men were arrested la.st August and charged w:th being in possession of stolen furs. The evidence in the case mainly hinged on the age of the furs produced in court as exhibits. Some twenty witnesses gave evidence, among whom were several Indians. The Indian---we~e positive certa'n skins shown them were ones they had sold to the^Hxidson Bay at Fort St. John previous to the robbery. One white witness with thirty years experience in fur buyiner said he couldn't tell the age of a pelt after cne year while others with from s:x to ten years' ex]>erience were positive the same skins had been caught over three years ago. A. McB. Young, defending barrister, wanted to know if their positiveness of the age of the pelt-.j could have anything to do with the fact that their employers' Hudson Bay post had been robbed of a quantity of furs just three years ago. Both Sheffield and Courvoiser went on the witness stand in their own behalf and admitted certain skins produced as exhibits in the tnal looked like their pelts but they could not positively identify them, but said if they were part of the pack of furs sold to the Hudsor-3 Bay post they had caught them on their traps Tnes. A. McB. Young addressed the jury for 45 minutes on behalf of the accused, and J. O. Wilson, crown prosecutor 30 minutes.—Mr.-Justice -Murphy instructed the jury on the law, and handed them the case at noon. Court adjourned till 2.30 p.m. when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty and the prisoners were discharged. The jurymen were: Bruce Parker. foreman: .Jchn T. Dawson. Chas. R. Byers. H. E. Oakley. W. L. Hughes. L. M. Bower. R. E. Watson, A. McMillan, L. G. Lee. W. E. Jackson. T. R. Richardson and A. Cleland. Sheffield and Courvoiser were originally charged with robbery of $34,000 worth of furs from the Fort Nelson Hudsons Bay po.st on July 12. 1936. This; case was stood over from the assizes last October to the present ass:zes. On opening of the court on May 19, the Crown asked for a stay of proceedings in this case, which Justice Murphy granted. The next case called was that of Rex vs. J. Blondeau charged with pteal'ng a post letterbag at Vanderhoof on November 7, 1930. The total amount involved in the robbery is $414.00. There are some 20 witnesses in the case, and 15 gave evidence Wednesdav afternoon. Witnesses so far heard indicate that the accused was working for his board previous to. the robbery. Immediately after the robbery he blossomed out as a capltal-(Continual on Page Tern Fort St. James Manson Creek Road Work ; Was One of British Columbia's j master Clarke on connections improve- Best Known Public Men * Served in Legislature Hon. H. G. Perry received the sad news by wire this morning of the death Wednesday of John Yorston. of Australian ranch near Quesnel. "I was greatly shocked on receiving a telegram f: om Mrs. Yorston to learn of the death of my old friend John Yorston. The deepest sympathy of all old timers in this district is felt for Mrs. Yorston and family." said Mr. Perry this morning. Mr. Perry has been invited to act a? an honorary pall-bearer.1 The late John Yorston came to British Columbia some 32 years ago and ments and additions to the new air i mail services to the northland. Mayor A. M. Paterson and Secretary | I J; O. Wilson of the board of trade, will ' i be en hand and have issued invitations j j to the citizens to be at the take-off. . ' near the Fraser bridge, on the morning j 1 of Wednesday, June 2nd to give the j I serv.'ce a good send-off. It is propos- I I rd to have addresses by J. G. Turgeon. j j M.P.. Hon. H. G. Perry, the mayor, re- j ! rresentatives of the board of trade, and I ethers who have been active in sponsor- j ! ing this service. The city council has I extended invitations to District Siiper-' intendent R. W. Hale, of Edmonton and I Inspector Clarke of Vancouver to be present. Five Hunderd Men Expected to Be Employed During Summer Season service on Wednesday next, the ! with his brother purchased the Aus-for which his company holds, tralian ranch. They have lived there r which his company holds, While here Mr. McConachie is busy stabliM continuously .since that date. Mr. Yor- jstablishing a permanent airplane base [ ston was a life-long Liberal, and sat in the Provincial legislature from 1908 to 1922 and from 1916 to to 1924. p \° *rvice his planes, and for the pre-¦ James and Fort Grahame but the ^i operations will be at United Airways, Ltd.. owns and K a fleet of 11 Fairchilds, Ford "Motored and Waco planes. British Hamber lieutenant-governor of ' n Columbia has been made a formed men on matters of agriculture and contributed valuable assistance to tho farmers of Cariboo. The funeral is to be held Saturday. Premises on East Third Avenue BALLOT BOXES BY AIR Ballot boxes and ballots were deliv-cf.ed to Stewart. Juneau (for section of B C.- nearby), McDames Creek. Dea-se Lake. Telegraph creek and Prince Rupert by Pilot Charles Elliot and deputy provincial secretary Phil Walker, in a Pacific Airway plane. The trip involved flying 2000 miles. 1200 of which was done in one day. ENGLISH MONEY FOR B.C. A J T Taylor, one-time operator ie Order of St. John of I Of the rich Dolly Vardon silver mine the King's list of birthday i at Alice Arm, and the organizer and manager of the British syndicate birlcl-the First Narrows Bridge and de- Dan Gallo. manager of the Northwest Produce Co.. with business location on Third avenue just east of George street, has started excavation fcr a new building immediately adjoining their present prem'ses. The new structure will be frame, will have 33 feet frontage on Third avenue with a depth of seventy-five feet, and will be one story high. The front will be finished with plate glass windows and will extend the frontage of the present store premises by 33 feet. The back part of the building will be used as a warehouse and stock room, extra space being required to take care cf the rapidly expanding business. OPTIMISTIC CANDIDATE who Gordon escaped Fawcett in -tv. S was sho m'1 Tuesday last. was shot and captured l attkl,?" Rocke*eller Sr., aged 98, died Fia " „"mmer home at Ormand Beach, ¦ °n Sunday last. injy the Fit veloping the British Pacific properties on the north shore opposite Vancouver city states his principals have already spent $10,000,000 and that Brit'sh capital will continue flowing here. Mr. Taylor attributes this interest, in part, to the visit of the Lord Mayor of London to Vancouver's Golden Jubilee. Charlie Lake, of Stewart, B. C. has cpt'ened his group of claims near the Premier mine to Vancouver interests, and feels so optimistic over his good luck that he is runnJg against Bill As-eeltine. who has represented the Atlin rding in the leg'slature for the past four years. Charlie is the C.C.F. candidate. Col. E. J. Ryan. head, of 'he Associated Engineers, accompanied by his .^on Buz Ryan and V. N. Latimer. company superintendent, passed through Prince George Saturday night on their way to" Fort St. James. The Aosociated Engineers have- n contract on the 125-mile road being built from Fort St. James to Finlay Forks by the Federal and Provincial governments under the mining roads appropriation arranged at previous sersions of both houses.- The Associated Engineers' piece of construction is situated about "20 miles north of Fort St. James and Engineer Gwyer. representing the two governments left Prince George two weeks ago to lay outwthe season's work, which '<-, to start immediately. It is expected the^e will be upwards of 500 mnn employed in this road work. This road is part of the Turgeon highway and will give a direct route from Fort St. James to Manson Crock -md thence on to Finlay Forks and is planned to ultimately connect up with the highway from the cast at Hudson Hope in the Peace River Block. WORKINGMAN'S TOWN Cariboo Quartz, Island Mountain Miners Strike To a suggestion to the c'ty council of Trail that they regulate the type of residences erected in the town. Alderman Anderson answered: "This is no Shaughnessy> Heights, it's a working-man's town.'- PHYSICAL RECREATION The highlight of the work of the government department of recreation and physical education this past season '•3 the registrat'on of 10.481 members for 3986 classes. The total attendance cf members only, was 108,430. Tine grand attendance of members aixi non-members was 171,841. It cost the Province of B. C. only $2.86 to provide leisure-hour activities for a period of 8 months approximately, for each of our members. This amount represents not much more than the weekly cost of many an indiv'dual's game of golf. Demand Recognition of Union and Conciliation Board to Adjust Differences Wells. B. C. May 2(3—The miners working at" the Island Mountain and Cariboo Gold Quartz- mines here, went on strike at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Tt is understood they are making a demand for recognition of the union. C. Shields, business manager of Local Miners' Union No. 253. says negotiations with the mining companies up to the present consists of his submitting the following questionnaire: "Do you want to take up negotiations with us?" Both companies, answered no What notice do you want? Island Mountain answered 24 hours. Do you want us to make provision for union maintenance men in the mines while the strike is on? No. Will make our own arrangements answered both companies. The union will make application to the government labor department for a conciliation board; will you do the same? Island Mountain answered no and Cariboo Gold Quartz intimated they would consider doing so. The union held a meeting at the Commodore hotel. Wells. Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. and appointed various strike committees. -------------o------------- CITY COUNCIL PASSESJ #9,758.87 BUDGET At its regular bi-monthly meet his; Monday evening the city conn1: 1 passed the recommendation- of tho finance committee that general ac :ounts to the amount of S9758.87 be paid The resignation of Miss H<'K':i Quinri as stenographer to take effect June 1st was accepted with regret The city clerk was instructed tr> advertise for applicants for the position. .At the request of the Prince George board of trade, the mayor nnd council have sent a special invitation t-o District Postal Superintendent Hale of Edmonton, and Postal Inspector Clark of Vancouver, to be present at the inauguration of the new air mail service .starting June 2nd from Prince George to Northern Omineca points.