/ A \ > s ' d THE CASCADE RECORD Published in the Interests of the Boundary and Christina Lake Mining Districts

VOL. II. CASCADE, B. C, DECEMBER i6, 1899. No. 6.

» • • ••« ©•© •••-•••••-•-•-•-•-• 9~t Hi j; Cascade City's Great Enterprise !;; o To Cost Half a riillion Dollars! Power For Mines! (I (I n Details of One of the Greatest Undertakings in Boundary Country! I

(« ^-^^> Development of the Great Water Power at Cascade. ^^^^ J

John R. Reavis, of the Grand Forkstha n the flume at Bonnington and Something New In Dam Structure, been seriously interfered with of Miner, spent a day in Cascade recently.th e fall secured is 150 feet, which is The building of dams is like the late by unprecedentedly high water 116 feet more than the fall secured That Mr. Reavis is a keen observer building of bridges, each particular for this season of the year; in fact, at Bonnington. An equal service the men hud to be laid off altogeth­ and forceful writer, when dealing with work demanding some special fea­ can be done at Cascade by one- tures of its owu. The dam being er for some time, hut the cold a subject worthy of his pen, the fol­ fourth the water as at Bonnington. put in at Cascade is not like any­ weather early this week caused the lowing descriptive article from the What Nature Has Done. thing of the kind heretofore seen in river to fall rapidly and operations columns of his valuable paper, abund­ Nature has done a great deal for the country. This enginer in charge are now being renewed A little antly proves : the Cascade water power. At a and the designer of the dam is Wil­ over one-third of the structure is point just above where the Cana­ liam Anderson, a Scotchman, who now up and the remainder will Le The development of the Cascade dian Pacific railroad bridge spans was also in charge of the improve­ up in a few weeks, if the river water power, on Kettle river, twelve the Kettle river this side of the ment of the power at Bonnington, maintains its usual winter stage. miles below Grand Forks, is now town of Cascade, the river plunges where he achieved a distinction in Work on the Flume. proceeding with a large force of men down into a deep, narrow and tor­ his calling, which proves to be in The water, as above stated, will and has reached such a stage that tuous canyon and runs through no wise lessened by the work in have to be carried 2,700 feet from it deserves to attract the notice of this for half a mile, descending 120 which he ie now engaged. Before the dam to the power house. The the entire Boundary country in feet in that distance and being Kettle river plunges down into the flume will run along the C. P. R. which it is to find when completed lashed into a foaming and raging narrow gorge at Cascade it spreads track for most of the distance and its chief, if not sole employment. torrent, carrying everything before out into a wide circular basin caus­ part of the way through a tunnel For some reason this enterprise it with an irresistible force, finally ed no doubt by the engorgement of cut through a rocky point. It is a does not attract the attention it de­ debouching into a broad eddy be­ the water in the canyon below, and solid mass of rock for the entire 2,- serves by reason of its magnitude low which looks more like a lake the water falls over the rim rock 700 feet and very rough in contour. and the part it must inevitably than a river. In the ages past the above the deeper channel in a semi­ At a point 1,800 feet from the play in the development of the min­ water which in no doubt has col­ circle. Around this semi-circle power house the descent becomes ing industry of this vicinity. lected in the form of a lake thatex- with its foundations bolted into the rapid and from there on the water The Cascade Water Power and tended up through the entire Grand solid rim rock the dam is being will be carried in two steel pipes or Light Company was formed in Forks valley, broke through the built. The dam itself is not in the penstocks, eight and a half feet in England and acquired the power rocky barriers thut stretched across form of a semi-circle but iu the diameter. The size of these can be privileges of the Kettle river at Cas­ the present pathway of the water form of a bisected polygon, having better understood when it is stated cade two years ago and are now and in the infinity of years has cut three faces of different lengths, the that a man six feet tall could stand laying out in their improvements for itself a channel more than one total length being 400 feet. This drect and still have two and a half half a million dollars. It will take hundred feet deep. irregularity of form gives it addi­ feet of room above him. At low a year more to complete the work For the utilization of the tre­ tional power, for the water above water a great portion of the entire and have the plant ready to deliver mendous power concentrated in this does not come down squarely river can be brought through these electric power. In some respects it fall of the river a dam had to be against a straight wall, but comes two penstocks and made to do ser­ is an enterprise of greater magni­ constructed at the head of the fall against several which has the effect vice on the turbines in the power tude than that carried out at and a flume cut out to the level be­ of compressing them and of making house. The effective power secured Bonnington Falls on the Koote­ low so the water could be delivered the work self-locking. The frame at low water will be about 6,000 nay river by the West Kootenay upon water wheels and the power work of the dam is of logs. They horse power. are built up in the form of cribbing Light and Power Company and taken up by dynamos and sent out 'Ihe construction of the flume is and broken rock haB been thrown in which is now delivering electric over wires in the form of electrio in itself a work of great magnitude. the cribs. About 55,000 linear feet <>f power at Rossland, Trail and other currents. In this way the power It had just gotten well under way logs will be required in the struc­ points in that part of the country. of the entire Kettle river falling when the recent rise in the river ture. The foundation is 40 feet The Kootenay river is a larger 150 feet at Cascade can be made al­ caused its suspension. About 200 across and the greatest height will stream than the Kettle river and most as effective at Phoenix, 21 feet had been blasted and the work be 53 feet. Between the cribs are the ultimate possibilities of power miles away, as it can at the point advanced to the point where the gates, there being twelve altogether at Bonnington are much greater than of generation. Nothing in modern tunnel is to be commenced. Oper­ and by raising and lowering these they are at Cascade, but the initial scientific achievement is more mar­ ations can be resumed and will be the water can be kept in complete amount of power to he supplied velous than this. The Bonnington carried on uninterruptedly all control. ThiB feature of the work from Cascade will be about the Falls power is carried over 31 miles winter. appears to have been most admir­ same as that now supplied from of wire to Rossland and then de­ In the meantime the foundation ably conceived and executed. It Bonnington, this being in the livered to the mines, with a loss of for the power house below is being not only controls the water going neighborhood of 2,500 horse power. about 13 per cent. The loss in de­ cut out of the solid rock and the into the flumes, but it minimizes The work at Cascude involves livering from Cascade to Grand actual construction of the building the danger of the breaking down the construction of a flume 2,700 Forks and the mines in this vicin­ can probably begin in about two and washing away of the dam. feet long, most of it through solid ity will probably not be over 10 per months. rock. This iB over 2,000 feet longer cent. The construction of the dam has (Continued on second page.) THE CASCADE RECORD December 16,1899

Cascade City's Great Enterprise. enormous. Of course they may sell power at less than $60, but it (Continued from first pa^c) will certainly not be far below that How Power is to Be Delivered. figure as long as fuel is so dear as The right of way for the pole it now is, and steam therefore so I The English Store $ line which is to deliver the power expensive In any event it seems was surveyed long si nee, and five to be a most profitabe field for the miles of it in the nei»hl orhood of Cascade enterprise, and the Miner * THE B. C. Phoenix has already been cut out. is glad of its ability lo lay before The right of way is 130 feet wide, its rea'lers the first authentic ac­ * MERCANTILE & MINING at least that is the width of the count of its operations. Evidently cleared right of way. The poles will it is lo play an important part in 4 be erected in the center of the right the development of the extensive Syndicate, Ltd., of way, and heavy copper wires mining and commercial interests of ^ ....MAIN ST., CASCADE, strung on these poles. The right the Boudary country. * of way must be cleared of all tim­ The C. P. R. Excursion. Is the ONE firm in the Boundary country which is ber and brush so as to avoid all * so equipped as to give the PROSPECTOR or the danger of falling trees and forest The reports of the C. P. R. ex­ * MINE OWNER everything he needs at bed rock fires. In getting to Phoenix the cursion from the Sound cities and prices. company has had an easy task, as way towns to Grand Forks, Green­ mmKmmmmmmmmmmtfmmwmmmmnmf'S # most of the 21 miles to be traversed wood and Phoenix just simply We procure our staple goods by the carload. No I is through the open Kettle river boiled over with praine of the liber­ valley. The line will pass directly al treatment enjoyed by the party, one can buy cheaper. No one will sell as cheap. | through Grand Forks and go up to which consisted of nearly 200 of Phoenix by Fourth of July creek. the representative business men of We can help the prospector right through from A line has been surveyed from the coast country and Kootenay the start—give him reliable assays, bond or buy his Phoenix down to Summitcamp,and towns, at the hands of Boundary claim, and if sufficiently worthy place it ou the this right of way is to be cleared citizens and the railway company. London market. soon. The distributing station for They were wined, dined and regaled We carry everything in Groceries, Hardware, * Phoenix will stand on the high with music and brilliant off-hand Dry Goods, Boots and Mining Supplies—everything ground just east of the townsite. welcome oratory to their hearts' from Dolls to Dynamite. To what extent the mines will content. The affair was in charge Long distance 'Phone and Assay Office in con­ make use of this power remains to of F. W. Peters and Allan Cam­ nection. Nearest store to railway station. Mine be seen, but there is hardly a doubt eron, Vancouver and Nelson C. P. Owners, Hotel Keepers or Private Families out of that they will employ it very gen­ R. agents. Among postprandial * town should write for our quotations. * erally. The Bonnington electiic speakers were Senator Reid, Thos. 4 power is being used very extensive­ Earle, M. P.; A. B. W. Hodges, BRANCHES ON ly at Rossland, and it is cheaper superintendent of the local smelter; and more convenient than steam. J. J. Campbell of the Hall Mines •£ FIRST AND SECOND AVENUES, All the new compressor plants at smelter; S. S. Fowler, Nelson; Hon. T. Mayne Daly, Mayor Goodeve, 4j GLADSTONE, AND AT Rossland are made to be run by * Rossland: and F. Buscombe, Van­ ^ McRAE'S LANDING. Christina Lake. electricity. This power is also used couver. * by the Trail smelter. m i$t 4» Hji Hji Hji 4* Hfi | *$* | *f* 4* 4> 4> ij* Hfi 4* # Big Profits lo Sight. From the capital city were the following: W. S. Fraser, of W. S. While the cost of using electric Fraser & Co.: W.Thomson, mana­ power in mining operations is lepp ger of the Hudson's Bay Co.; C. F, Hartford Hotel, than the cost of steam power where Todd, of J. H. Todd & Sons: F. A. fuel is as dear as it is here, it is Pauline, of John Piercy & Co.; L. -Hartford Junction, B. C. supposed there still remains a big McQnatle, of P. McQuade & Sons; profit for the delivery of electric C. Lowenberg, of C. Lowenberg & power. Co.; Geo. L. Courtenay, of the E. This hotel, which is new, is located at the junction The plant in Bonnington is un­ & N. Ry. Co.; P. Wallaston, of of the Phoenix and Winnipeg branches of the C. P. derstood to have been a big finan­ Wilson Bros.; L. H. Hardie, of R. All the railway traffic for these camps must cial success. The capital stock of Earsman, Hardie & Co.; W.J. Pen- pass through Hartford. Give us a call. $1,000,000 has just been increased dray, of B. C. Soap Works and B. to $2,000,000, and it is understood A. Paint Co.; F. Moore, of Victoria JOHN DORSEY, Prop. that dividends of at least 10 per Chemical Works; Hamilton Smith, cent can be paid on the increased of M. R. Smith & Co.; J. W. Mel- •••••••••••••••••••»•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• capital. Sir Charles Ross of Scot­ lor, of J. W. Mellor & Co.; George land, the original promoter of tlie Denny, of the Conoiist; and Henry Khnlir limav <• Bonnington scheme, has made Hawsoii, of the Timet.. <> about $1,000,000 on the venture <> It is hoped that these Victoria 11 (Late MACFAKLANE & Co.) VANCOUVER, B. C. There is a wider field in Bound­ visitors will have a more compre­ ' • We are manufacturers and direct importers, and carry a large stock of Balances, Furnaces ary than there is at Rossland or, ° Fire Clay Roods, Scientific and Practical Bonks, Glassware, Platinum goods, Acids, Clietni- hensive idea of the Boundary * > cals, and all other Assayers' and Miners' requirements, ... SOLE AUWNTS for Morgan CM- <' cible Co., Battersea, Becker's Son's Balances, Etc. Catalogues and particulurs an application. as to that matter, in all West Koot­ country, its wonderful resources ••••••••••••>•••••••••••••• enay, and in two or three years and wide-awake citizens, than for­ there will, no doubt, be a demand merly, and disabuse their minds of for the whole power of the Cascade the notion that the sun rises and The Cascade Sawmill plant. They are to begin with 2,- sets in the neighborhood of the 400 horse power, which they will Sound cities. Let us hope that A large stock of Rough sell for say $60 per horse power per their horoscopic view has heen en- year. This will bring them in I nged. and Dressed Lumber. $144,000 per year. When they are A contract has been made by Mr. able to sell the entire capacity of the Leckie of the Republic mine, with Laths, Shingles, flouldings, Etc plant when it shall reach its max­ the Trail smelter, to smelt a large imum, say 6,000 effective horse amount of ore. The ore will be de­ power, at this price they can count Estimates Furnished and livered in Grand Forks for ship­ Prompt Delivery Made. on an income of $360,000 a year. ment by rail as soon as snow and This is enough to show that the frost have made the roads passable Correspondence Solicited. possibilities of the business are between that point and Republic. JOHN EARLE, Prop, «*

December 16,1890 THE CASOADE RECORD CASCADE,

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The coming Commercial, Industrial and Mining Centre of East Tale.

Of the Kettle River, Boundary The Gateway C ty Creek and Christina Lake Countries. A Magnificent Water Power of 20,000 Horse Power.

WASHINGTON

The center of a marvellously RICH MINERAL DISTRICT. A most promising opportunity for business locations and realty investments. A most advantageous smelter location and railroad center. One mile from Christina Lake, the Great Pleasure Resort. For further information, price of lots, etc., address,

GEO. K. STOCKER, Townsite Agent, Cascade, B. C. Or L. A. HAMILTON, Land Com. C. P. R., Winnipeg, Man. THE CASCADE RECORD December 10,18M

THE CASCADE RECORD! had heen on the road from Boss­ GLADSTONE NOTES. Latest Arrivals at burg 14 days. Published ou Snturdiiys at Cascade, B. C, Rev. Joseph McCoy, M. A., of H. S. TUKNKR. Editor. Bought a Smelter Site in Spokane. Cascade, visited this place on Mon­ 8UBSUHUTIONS. Report conies to us from reliable day, and conducted divine services PerYear 12.00 in the large store of Mr. G. T. English Six Months 1.25 sources that land has been purchas­ To Foreign Countries 2.h0 ed for a smelter site. The land in Curtis. He expressed pleasure on Advertising Kali's Furnished on Application. question iB a little more than a finding a handsome addition to the The Kecord is on sale at the follow Ing places: mile north of Hillyard and is on population of the place, and in­ Simpson's Ntwstand Rossland creased attendance at the service. Linton Bros. — .Rossland the line of both the S. F & N. and Thompson Stationery Co., Nelson Store: the Great Northern. It is hoped MacKisson, of the John Bull I!. A. King & Co Greenwood R. P. Petrie Grand forks this smelter when completed will mine, has brought his wife and John W. Graham & Co Spokane, Wash. he used for roasting the ores instead interesting children to live here. Cascade Drug Co Cascade if Wm. Meadows Cascade of roasting the stockholders as was Messrs. Reveler and Nims have oook after your cents and the bank-1 the case with Spokane's first also brought their wives. There ers will mind your dollars. If there is a blue mark in \ smelter. will soon be a good measure of I Look after your extremities and your I this square, your subscrip-* heart will look after Itself. Christmas Tree. wholesome home life developed in tion is due, and you are in­ this prosperous little town. May it Cheap and < vited to remit. grow. So that if you needRUBBER RK^S J The ladies of the First Church, Boots,Shoes,Gloves,Hats,< aps, it will Cascade, intend holding a Christ­ Messrs. McKay & Munn have pay you to call at the B. C. M. k M. Owing to the presence of lengthy Syndicate's " English Store.". mas tree and reception in the new completed their improving the in­ '"also find there among the artilcles in this issue, editorial mat­ terior of the Hotel Gladstone, and latest arrivals: N, church on the evening of Christmas I You will! Crosse & Blackwell's ' ter is dispensed with. Day—Monday, Dec. 25. There will now it is much more comfortable • Jams.Turns,. PicklePlnl s and Sauces, Oysters, Marmalade, McLaren's Cheese, Ma­ be presents on the tree for the chil­ for the guests. ple Syrup, Blue Ribbon Tea, Sweet IN AND AROUND CASCADE. Biscuit, Chutney, Herrings, Finnan dren, and there will be a short pro­ Mr. Munn has moved his barber Haddies, Mixed Nuts, .Pineapples, gram of recitations and music by shop into the building lately occu­ aud other table delicacies. Greenwood citizens are agitating the children, and coffee and cake pied as a hotel by Mr. Flynn. He for a free reading room, will he t-erved for the older ones. will have snug quarters for the Mr. C. Spraggett and wife of Brother McCoy says you are heart­ winter, and will serve his customers kju. aokafl Grand Forks, will visit their old ily invited to be present—there'll as formerly to a neat haircut, clean THE B. O. home in England. be no collection, no charge. shave aud a nice bath. Give him a call. NEMO. Lots in Csscade are twice the size Boundary Creek License District Meeting. RAILWAY NOTES. of those in other towns, namely, 50 The Boundary Creek License Dis­ feet by 120 feet. In other words trict Commissioners met in Cascade The forces at work at each end of you get two for one. yesterday, there being present Com­ Bulldog tunnel are gradually draw­ Main Street and First and Second Aves., Mr. E. Jacobs, editor of the Mid­ missioners E. Jacobs and T. W. ing together, and it is expected that Coleman, and Chief Inspector D. J. daylight will be let through the CASCADE, B. C. way Advance, who has just returned Darraugh. Licenses were granted mountain during this month. Branches at McRae Landing, from a trip through the eastern as follows: A section house is now being Gladstone, and Eagle City, provinces, paid this office a pleasant John Albi, Commercial Hotel, erected near the railway station visit yesterday. Midway; Frank Asprey, Lake grounds in Cascade. When it is on the North Fork. G. Sharp, Cascade's tonsorial art­ View Hotel, McRae Creek; O. J. completed, the erection of a fine Boucher, Arlington Hotel, Trail; depot building will be commenced. ist, made a trip to Greenwood. Eholt THE E. P. Butler, Klondyke Hotel, Agent P. Huckerby has been and Phoenix this week. Mr. Sharp Trail; Ira Black, Black's Hotel, transferred to Eholt, to have charge Bays that while those towns are Phoenix; J. Cmcin, Globe Hotel, of the station at that place. His lively, Cascade suits him. Trail; Frank Corti, near Brooglyn; position here iB taken by Mr. Tebo. G. Devon, Roma Hotel, Cascade According to officially corrected City; S. Dahl, Tunnel House, near WAR DIARY, continued.— Nov. J time table just received from W. F. Brooklyn; Wm. Forrest, Gladstone 28th,8UccesBful sortie from Kimber­ West Seattle. Anderson, C. P. R. passenger de­ Hotel; Chas. H. Hazelberg, Copper ly, Col. Scott-Turner killed; Nov. Plate Hotel, Summit; Reinhold 29, Canadian contingent arrived at npHE only place in the Northwest where the partment, Nelson, the passenger genuine Keeley Treatment can be obtained train is due here at 1:02 from Rob- Greiger, OroDenoro Hotel, Summit; Capetown; Dec. 2, Hottest bom­ Fine building, good board, pleasant and J. H. Graham, Hotel Union, Phoe­ bardment of Ladysmith; Dec. 3, healthful snrroundings, and the arrangements eon, and from Greenwood at 2:48. admit of the strictest privacy for patients, either nix; J. H. McMannus, Internation­ night sortie from Ladysmith and ladies or gentlemen. The Keeley Treatment af­ Miss Florence Scott returned to fords the only safe and sure cure for the liquor, al Hotel, Summit; J. M. Hurley. destruction of Boer artillery; Dec. opium, morphine, cocoaine, chloral, and other her home in Cascade last Monday. Pacific Hotel, Trail; Aug. Jackson, 7, Canadian Regiment arrives at drugs, and also for tobacco poisoning. Parties interested are invited to call at the institute and Mise Scott had been absent several Central Hotel, Phoenix; Al. Jen­ De Aar; Dec. 8, Modder bridge re­ investigate for themselves. All correspondence stored; Dec. 9, Gatacre repulsed at confidential. weeks, having visited with her Bis­ kins, Wellington Hotel, Trail; Mrs. M. A. Meakin, Meakin Hotel, Stormberg, loss 600, chiefly miss­ C. H. NIXON, Mgr. ter, Mrs. H. P. Farrell, of Sand Trail; J. Mathews, Hotel Spokane, ing; Dec. 11, Tugela bridge restor­ Point, Idaho, and with friends in Trail; S. McOrmond, Miners' Ex­ ed. The list of killed at Modder Spokane. change; J. C. McDonald, Trail river on Monday includes the Mar­ Church services to-morrow at 11 House, Trail; Harry Nash, Phoe­ quis of Winchester, Col. Downham nix Hotel, Phoenix; Peterson Bros., and Gen. Wauchope. We do not keep "everything o'clock in thd forenoon, Sabbath Crown Point Hotel, Trail; M. Leho, under the sun," but we school in the afternoon at 2.30 o'­ Eholt Hotel, Eholt; Weeks & Ho­ have in stock just what clock in the new church. In the Notice. gan, Imperial Hotel, Phoenix; C. OTICE IS HERYBY GIVEN THAT AN you want when you start evening at the regular service at A.White, Columbia Hotel, Trail; N application will be made to the Parliament of Canada at the next session thereof, for an out in the hills or "up the 7.30 o'clock the Sacrament of the John D. Wisner, Toronto Hotel, act to incorporate a company to construct and maintain a railway from a point on the Interna­ line." Lord's Supper will be dispensed. North Fork«, Kettle river; John W. tional Boundary Line near Cascade, British Columbia, thence in a westerly direction follow­ Shaw, Headquarters Hotel, North ing the valley of the Kettle river to a point on the Johnson Hughes was in Monday Forks Kettle river; GusWasholm, Boundary Line at or near Carson, with a branch from a point at or near Grand Forks to a point 60 from Gladstone. He is interested Windsor Hotel, Niagara; C. H. miles up the N'orth Pork of the Kettle river,follow- Thomas, Cascade Hotel, Cascade Ing the valley of the same river.also with a branch J. LYNGHOLM, with Ed. Hamlin, H. H. Loom is from a point at or near Grand Forks, proceeding City; Flood & McDonald, Hotel in a southwesterly direction by way of Greenwood Fred. Lang and Al. Matheus in the to a point on the International Boundary Line at Clothing, Booto, Shoes, Etc., claims known as Deer Park,Bicycle, Palace, Phoenix; Wilson & Sum­ or near Midway, with power to the company to mers, Atlantic Hotel, Phoenix; Ira construct, operate and maintain telegraph and CASCADE, B. C. Lizzie, Caroline, Addie and Copper telephone lines, as well for commercial purposes Black, Black's Hotel, Cascade City; as for the business of the company and for all Cliff. It was learned that negotia­ other necessary and usual powers. Thos. J Gorman, Summit Hotel, Dated this 2nd day of December, 1898. tions were pending for the sale of LLOYD A. MANLY, Summit City; Norman Luce Sum­ For himself and the other applicants. 12 two of these 'claims, which are lo­ mit Hotel, Eholt. Wholesale—V. ASSAYERS. QUIT BV "DTSfYQ or San Francisco, cated about 3£ miles above Glad­ Monnier, Cascade City. New Li­ Certificates ot Improvements. OJhLiD I DBiVJ a California, Assay­ cense—W H Bell, Bellview Hotel, NOTICE. ers and Mining Experts. To the Mining Public stone. John Bull and Marinette Mineral Claims situate of the Pacific Northwest: We beg to advise you Phoenix; J P Cheiner, Le Roi Ho­ in the Grand Porks mining division of Oso­ that we have opened a branch of our business at yoos division ol Yale district. No. 205'4 Washington St., Portland, Oregon, to This week Republic merchants tel, Phoenix; J Dorsey, Hartford accommodate our numerous clients In the North­ were offering $15 a case for coaloil, Junction; W T Kaake, Columbia Where located:—On the East side of McRae west. As onr name for prompt and reliable work oreek, near Gladstone townsite, B. C. in the past Is known In every mining camp west which was not obtainable at that Hotel, Phoenix; J A Munsen, Take Notice that I, R. E. Yonng, acting as of the Rockies. It will guarantee our future suc­ agent for the John Bull Mines, limited, P. M. P., cess. Our certificates are invariably accented by figure. F. C. Lane told the Grand , Phoenix; J P Black No. B12845, Pree Miner's Certificate No. D1844A, banks and mining corporations as final. Numer­ intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply ous investors waiting for sound mining property. Forks Gazette that while he was in Columbia Hotel, Eholt; W J Saun- to the mining recorder for Certificates of Improve­ We are now ready for work. Send in your sam­ der, Maple Leaf Hotel, Phoe­ ments, for the purpose of obtaining crown grants ples with letter of Instructions and charges, and Republic the town was in darkness of the above claims. we will give yon prompt returns. Our charges nix; R Lockhart, Deadwood Hotel, And further take notice that action, under sec­ are—Gold and silver, 11.80: Gold, Copper and Sil­ at night—he might have said tal- tion 37,must be commenced before the Issuance of ver, 13.00. Coal, Soil and other minerals. tf.OO Deadwood; Wm Graham, Ferry said Certificates of Improvements. each. IST Check assays a specialty. SELBY low-dipness. Coming from there he House; Charles Larsen, Stockholm Dated this 27th day of November, A.D., 1899. BROTHERS, Assayers and Mining Experts, No. R. E. YOUNG, P. L. S. 205'4 Washington St., Portland, Oregon. Hand met many teams at Curlew which Hotel, Phoenix. Young k Burnet, Rossland, B. C. 12 Power Stamp Mills for sale-t80 complete.

December IS, 1880 THE CASCADE RECORD HKK3B2CacaK2CaKK3CaK2CaB3K:caC»CaK3C»K3(SCaK3K3K2K2H HERB'S A POINTER. Just get in line, follow the crowd and subscribe to.. If You Wish ™* Cascade Record. It costs only Two Dollars to get To keep thoroughly posted on the fast in out of the wet, and receive 52 moving events in the growing Bound­ copies of the Record. Printed ary and Christina Lake sctions, there is on good paper with good type only one way to accomplish it, viz: and good ink.

DOUR COUSIN IN CASCADE. Father to be, for 'tis seldom yees "with so much currincy at our dis­ being protected by the fortefied po­ find the fillin' uv de pie on topposa, l 'tis timptid we might be to sitions at Spyfontein. The hills Sure, now, 'tis a most unrason- uv de upper crust, or de stuffln' uv pay for a polaceman to walk the between Modder river and Spyfon­ able man I am takin' yees to be,d e turkey on de outside. beat betwane Columbiaand Robson, tein, and those between Jacobsdale wid yer constant kickin,' an' Phat's dat yees askin'? Phat's a distance uv nearly 100 miles wich and Reit river are occupied by knockin,' an' fauli-findin'; one dat got to do wid de gov'nmint would," sez they, "be ai. unpardon­ Boers. General Delarreis' force is wud tink yees shud have a little r-roads and t-r-rnils? Sure, an' able extr-r-avagence the polace stationed between Gras Pan and gold wurld of yees own made to 'tis surprised I am at de ignor-rance would be so cr-r-r-ouded" say they Honey Krest Kloof. If this Berlin order. 'Tis constant ye have been, uvyees; yees don't appear attall "which will not do at all at all,"dispatc h is correct, and it is espec­ for the past tree months, fin din' to realize de excadin' modisty uv seys they, "for 'tis liberty an' ially significant when judged in fait wid "the showers uv blessin' " die ginner-r-rus guvmint. Ye sea, plinty uv room our police must connection with general Forrester- the Almighty has seen tit to bleep the way uv it is this: The guvmint hav'" says they, "tho' all the other Walker's advice to the war office, crimnals go free, and so" says the de country, furgttin' in ye ungrate- it is that is excadin' anxus to do there must be 15,000 Boers around guvermint "we will purswade the felness de thousands uv railroad much for the prospector, an' encur- Methuen, who is believed to have r-railr-r-r-oad cumpany to expend graders an' odder creme de societie ridge immegrashun, so they sez, sez 11,000 men. Kimberly, however, this monney for us and huve a uvthe great unwashed wanderin' they, " 'tis a big jsubsedee we'll be posseping an armored train, can r-rail-r-r-rode built to occomadate these primeval forrests who are de­ after givvin' to the rail-r-road com­ materially assist Methuen by the prospector in his surch fer gold nied de blessin's uvde shower bath pany to build a r-r-road troo the harrassing the Boers from the says they. What's that yur askin' unless provided direct from dehand country." rear. now ? What ef the claim is off the uv de Almighty; an' den when de "Ye see," sez de guvmint," 'tis a big line uv the r-rail-r-road ? 'Tis A dispatch dated London, Dec. ting t'will be. The prospector can sun shine for a day yees spend yees most aggravatin' the questins ye 12, stated that six hundred and jump on the cars and ride dir-rect time kickin' 'cause de officer at de ask, but notwithslandin' yer ignor­ seventy-two British prisoners were customs makes yees pay duty on to his claim so yee sees" says the ance, tis a civel answer I'l be after taken at Storm berg. In the fight der 'backy yees wuz smugglin' troo. guvemint, "we will have to build givin' ye. the night before at Modder river, An' now jes because yer ten-dollar nather r-r-roads nor tr-r-rails, an' Gen. Cronje maintained his posi­ If its damphool enuff yer are, to cayuse got drounded in der public not only that but the road will un- tion and captured fifty British pris­ locate a claim out in the woods highway between Cascade and cuver the ore so that Jim Kelly an' on ers. Gladstone wich de government did Smith Curtis and the rist uv theawa y from a rail-r-r-road or odder not build, but in its liber-r-ral gin- experts can find their ore, at themane s uv gittin' in yer grub, yer Manitoba elections last Thursday er-rosity and patient delibe-r-ation same time while we will be after had better wait till de goovemint resulted in returning to the house builds a tr-rail or wagonr-road or waited for Messrs. Mann, Foley doin' justice to the hay then 1 mean 22 conservatives and 18 liberals, else yees better walk. Bros. & Larson to const-r-ruct, ye the intilagint prospector we will" thus Hugh John Macdonald will tink yees have rea-son for ter kick. Beys the guvermint "be after relav- DOOLEY'S CUZZIN. be the next premier with a safe- D'yees not renumber phat it was in' ourselves of the great trubble working majority. the good Riverrend Father McCoy ov spindin' a vast amount ov A London dispatch says some A Victoria machine manufactur­ money, for," sez they, "phyle we've interesting light on the position of waz tellin' yees only the last Sun­ ing company has received an order affairs along the western frontier is day as iver wuz whin he sez ter nivver questioned our ability or from Japan for sample machinery thrown by a dispatch issued by the yees, sez he, "Phy don't yeeB look honesty, it's possible it might fall for the canning industry, which* Boer agency in Berlin. The dis­ on the bright side of tings," sez he, into honest hands or be used in the Japanese government is foster' "phy don't yees search for de good payin'honest debts wich," sez they, patch says: Commandent Prins ing. tings de Lord send to yees," says "would be a great political blunder Lose' force is near Jacobsdale, be­ he, " 'Tis under the surface yees an' bring disaster to our intelligint tween Modder river and Riet river A mine explosion at Carbonado, should surch," says he, an' 'tis goovemint." sez they "at the nixt General Cronje is still on the north 40 miles from Tacoma, December 9, right I am belaving' the Riverind elexshun." An' agin," sez they, bank of the Modder river, his rear caused the death of 33 miners.

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fail with development to be a THE ELMORE A SURPRISE greater proposition than anything yet discovered in any part of the Solid Mineral Ore 200 Feet Wide and Boundary district." P. BURNS & CO.'S 750 Feet, or More, Long. FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE. KAB4\T KAARK&T. W. F. Parsons, Formerly ol Cascade, Had BOUND TO BE A GREAT PROPOSITION an Experience. fis|7 anb Oysters, giue anb frresseb poultry Several days ago W. F. Parsons, WEINERWURST AND SAUER KRAUT. formerly bookkeeper for Mann, It cannot Fail With Development to Become Foley Bros. & Larson in Cascade, One of the Greatest Mining Properties P. GRIBI, r\gr. In the Boundary Country. but now located at the Bull Dog tunnel, had an experience he will Second Avenue, CASCADE CITY. Frank Hutchinson, who has not soon forget. pinned his faith to the Elmore, on While at breakfast, he noticed #- Shamrock mountain, near Chris­ that the night cook, a pew man, tina lake, for a long time, seems in was in a quarrelsome mood, owing a fair way to have his fondest hopes to drink, and would not let the day *€€€€€€€€^i#^8^S&K^: realized in the near future. cook go to work. Parsons advised For a couple of months past he him to mind his own business, and 9 has been doing some systematic the man was told to go to the office 9 % prospecting on the property away and get his time. He then became V.IOMIER&CO. from the old workings, and the re­ most abusive, and Parsons, who is W WHOLESALE ^| sults are decidedly encouraging to an athletic young man, promptly aTO him and to the stockholders in the knocked him down three times in | £iquors, pities anb (j£ -1 Belcher Gold Mining Co.,owners of succession, and gave him a drub­ the claim. This week Mr. Hutch­ bing till he cried enough. wa A specialty made of Imported Goods. Glassware and bar Mf inson was in town, and related the A'A Supplies Always on Hand. Sole Agents for present condition of the property to Parsons then went to his break­ W. Pabst's Milwaukee Beer. a Record representative. fast, when some one cried, "Look X MAIN STREET, .... CASCADE, B. C. ^ Since beginning his recent pros­ out; he's coming with a knife." Par­ pecting he has sunk several small sons ran, and grabbed a heavy bot­ shafts, north of the old workings tle as he did so. Turning suddenly and between the No. 1 and the dis­ he flung the bottle at the cook, and covery posts. In one of these it had the desired effect. It struck which is eight feet deep, he struck a him in the forehead and he fell B. C. Livery Stable fine body of live, mineralized like an ox, and remained insens­ quartz, a few days since, the width ible for hours. He was taken to a Good Saddle Horses for Hire. Teaming of which vein he has not yet been hospital at Trail or Rossland, and on the Shortest Notice. Good Turnouts able to determine. He is highly is now recovering. Ready at all hours to go to any part of pleased with the discovery, and as Mr. Parsons has received the the Boundary country. Careful drivers.. congratulations of many friends recent assays have been more than wwww satisfactory, he has every reason to since the affray. He would un­ feel pleased. doubtedly be wending his way J. A. BERTOIS, PROP. In the minds of those familiar through the happy hunting ground, Stables on Second Avenue, ----- CASCADE, B. C. with Shamrock mountain, the El­ had it not been for hie presence of more has always held a high place. mind and his fortunate and ac­ One gentleman not in any way in­ curate aim with the candlestick bottle. terested in the Elmore, said to the The Most Record man this week: "I can tell The highways through the Popular Hotel you, that the Elmore will, beyond country are much improved, owing in the Entire a doubt, prove to be one of the BLACK'S to the recent cooler weather and Boundary greatest mines in the Boundary the enow, though they still are in a District. country. Why, there ia a showing very poor condition. A few teams of solid mineral 200 feet wide by at have been able to get over them Favorite Stop­ least 750 feet long, and I don't HOTEL... which was impossible to do previ­ ping Place for know how much longer. It cannot ously. BLACK BROS., Props. Mining Men and \ Cor. of Main Street and First Commercial Avenue [centre of town] ... Travellers. EUROPEAN PLAN. CASCALVE, B. C. HOTEL CASCADE Splendidly Stocked Bar .... C. H. THOMAS, PROP. ... flfig* ALWAYS OPEN. «=^r in connection The Original and Oldest Hotel in this part of th« district. Headquarters for Contractors, Mining Men and Travellers. Well Stocked Bar in Connection. HOTEL GLADSTONE

J k SECONDEC» D AVENUE, CASCADE CITY. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Situated at the new town of Gladstone, near the Burnt Basin Mining Region and only 18 miles from Cascade; 10 SMITH CURTIS J. S. M. MORRISON miles from Christina Lake. One of the best hotel build­ ings between Cascade and Brooklyn. Good Livery Stable Curtis & ^orrison, A. D. MORRISON, in connection. UP-TO-DATE Watchmaker, Jeweller and Optician. Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Eyei Scientifically Tested Free of Charge "FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS."^* Dominion Hall Block, • COLUMBIA, B.C GRAND FORKS, B.C. MlllMWimMWWWtiaWWMMfli ALBERT W. J. BELGROVE, Prop. ill

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The Centre of the Far-famed Similkameen District. A Mining and Agricultural Centre. :::::: Lots Now on the flarket THE BUSINESS STREET. OTHER STREETS. Third Avenue, 100 Feet Wide. Lots, 30x150. Corner Lots, $100. Corner Lots, $150. Inside Lots, $100. Inside Lots, $75. Terms, 1-3 Cash; Balance, Three and Six Months.

For Further Particulars, Apply to_ BEALEY INVESTMENT & TRUST CO, Ltd., Gan ral Agents, GREENWOOD, B. C. R- H. PARKINSON, Fairview. E. BULLOCK-WEBSTER, Keremeos.

Only a Question of Time. their value. After all, out of evil journey, walking with steady or a bust 38 iuches and hips 40 may come good. unsteady step directly toward an inches. She weighs 130 pounds. The following from the Kootenay open grave, and why worry and Mining Standard, is not only true Will Harness the Falls. fret over anything ? What is the The pet deer belonging to the of the Kootenays, but also of this laurel wreath of fame but a No. 1 fire hall has been handed section of country. The Stand­ Reports of smelters and other in­ shadow ? What is wealth but a over to the park keeper to be added ard says there are hundreds of min­ dustries being established at Kettle bubble ? Let us do our duty—the to the park zoo. The "pet" has in­ ing claims in the Kootenays wait­ Falls have been current for the past right as God gives us to see the dulged in several somewhat too* ing for some one with capital and month. It is said that a party of right, with malice toward none, playful freaks lately, that caused business judgement to turn them engineers were down at the falls last week and surveyed them. And with charity for all. the police to insist upon it being' into paying mines, very many of put under restraint. One of its es­ these can be had for a small sum, now it is reported from what is Foar Quecni. considered reliable sources that a capades was jumping into the po­ and in not a few a controlling in­ lice station by a side window and terest can be obtained without other syndicate headed by the Great Queen Margherita of Italy weighs Northern president has purchased 176 pounds, her height is 5 feet 6 making its exit through a front consideration than an agreement to window, leaving two broken win­ do a certain amount of develop­ the Turner and Peyton interest in inched, her waist measuremeut is the Kettle falls, and that a large 28 inches, her bust 40 inches and dow frames and a dumbfounded ment work on the property. There officer behind.—Vancouver Times. are thousands of people in Eastern amount of money will be expended her hips 48 inches. Canada and the Old Country who in)*developing them, to generate Wilhelmina, queen of Holland, The prediction that trusts just so are seeking investment for their electric power greater than that is the tallest queen in Europe. She soon as they began to make unus­ idle capital, and would will­ furnished from the Niagara; smelt­ is 5 feet 5£ inches high. Her waist ers and refineries are also slated to measures 21$ inches, her hips 40 ual profits, would be met by com­ ingly embrace this opportunity petition, has already been verified if they were but assured of fair be erected at the falls, from which inches and her bust measures 42 railroads, tramways and electric inches. in several instances. Additional treatment. The prospective mine evidence of this fact is about to he- purchaser of to-day is looking for wires will radiate into the sur­ The shortest adult queen in the rounding mining camps. The falls presented by the formation of an a developed paying mine, which as world is Queen Victoria. She is 4 enormous concern at Pittsburg, a rule he does not find for sale. are in the Columbia river, two feet 11 inches high, her bust meas­ miles below the mouth of the Kettle having a capital approximating What we need is to have our latent ures 44 inches, her waist 35 inches $10,000,000 to compete with the River.—Northport Journel. resources developed, and capital is and her hips 50 inches. She weighs wire trust. necessary to accomplish this. We 171 pounds. The Way to Live. find that during the existing de­ Queen Natalie of Servia is said The Unexpected Mine company pression, brought about by the Let us not burden our time with to have one of the best figures has incorporated with a capitai of eight hour law, many enterprising trifles and our soul with griev­ among the royal woman of Europe. $62,500. The Unexpected is an ex­ mining men have been acquiring ances. We are every one of us bad, She is 5 feet 44 inches in height, tension of the Mother Lode in properties at prices much below good and indifferent in our daily has a waist measuring 22 inches, Burnt Basin. 8 THE CASCADE RECORD December 16,1SW We Make a Specialty OF Dominion „ Supply m Co., FINE GROCERIES, Giant Powder, •••••••••••••••••••••••^•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••---^^^ Blacksmith's Coal, Main Street, Cascade, B. C. Hay and Grain. let Us Make You B. WILCOX, flgr. .... Quotations.

IN AND AROUND CASCADE. WE PRINT Spokane Palls & W. R. McKinnon, one of Eholt's Dodgers solid merchants, was in town this Northern System. Circular, Billhead, week. Letterheads Nelson and Fort Sheppord Ry, Co. Visiting Card, Business Cards Rev. Jos. McCoy visited Glad­ Shipping Tags; Statements, Etc. stone and the Tunnel camps this Red Mountain Railway Co, AT THE OFFICE week, where he held services. The direct and only All-Rail Route , . OF . . between the Kootenay District Mr. Fred White of Grand Forks The Record —AND ALL— was married at Nelson last week to British Columbia Points, Miss Carrie Sigmour of Brantford, Pacific Coast Points, Ontario. Puget Sound Points, Eastern Canada and United States. There is talk of another stage —Connects at Spokane with— Commercial Hotel line from Bossburg, to be put on GREAT NORTHERN RY. \s soon as the swamp, near Hall's NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. bridge, is passable. 0. R. R. & NAV. CO, QUINLIVAN & JOHNSON, Props. Wm. Meadows expects to make a Maps furniihed, tickets sold and information given by local and connecting line ticket agents. trip to Whitewater in the Slocan, Passengers for Kettle River and Boundary The Largest and Most Popular Hotel in the city creek connect at Marcus and Bossburg with in a few days, where he has mining stages daily. interests. After that he will visit H. A. JACKSON, G. P. k T. A., if Spokane, Wash. his old home in Colorado. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Charles Willarson, one of the CANADIAN ^ large stockholders in the Mystery, in Burnt Basin, was down this ^PACIFIC KY. FIRST AVE. AND MAIN ST., - CASCADE, B. C. week, and reports work progressing AND SOO LINE. favorably at this promising prop- CANADA'S NATIONAL HIGHWAY D. D. FERGUSON,. erty. W, L. Russell, of the Russell America's Great Transcontinental Line Mining Co., operating on Huckle­ and World's Pictorial Route. Plana Drawn and| Estimates Furnished berry mountain, visited the prop­ The Direct Eoute f I erty this week. Over 10,000 From Kootenay Country pounds of winter supplies are now K being packed to the claims from Kettle River and Boundary Bossburg. Creek Districts to all points Doors, Sash and all As the holiday season approaches East and West evidence of good cheer and greeting First-class Sleepers on all trains Kinds of Glass. nre manifest on every hand. Din­ from Revelstoke and Kootenay ner parties, socials and other gath­ Landing. CASCADE CITY, BRITISH COLUMBIA erings are much in vogue. During TOURIST CARS %ffg$Hi St. Paul, Sundays and Wednesdays for Tor­ the past week Mrs. Carden and onto, Fridays for Montreal and Boston. Same cars pass Revelstoke one day earlier. Mrs. McLeod have given small din­ Direct Connection via Robson for all principal Fire Insurance Agency Hutchins & points. ner parties. On Thursday the Leave CASCADE Arrive Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. Stocker's. 14.48 Daily ex. Sun. 18.02 PHOENIX ASSURANCE COM­ Wingard For rates and fullest information address neat' Are now located in Bossburg We observe by the Phoenix est local agent or, PANY, of London, Eng., BRIT­ with ten four-horee teams, and Pioneer and other papers, that P. HUCKERBY,Agt.,Cascade,B.C. ISH AMERICAN ASSUR­ are prepared to deliver freight towns west of here are having ser­ W.F. ANDERSON, E.J.COYLE, ious difficulty regarding their mails. Trav. Pass.Agent, A.G.P.Agt. ANCE CO. of Toronto; WEST­ in Cascade, Grand Forks and Greenwood on SHORT NOTICE. Cascade in time past, has experienc­ Nelson, B.C. Vancouver.B.C. ERN ASSURANCE CO. Orders received by Telephone, ed the same difficulty and we can and prompt delivery guaran­ tender our sympathy to less favor­ ed localities, but by constant kick­ GEORGE K. STOCKER, AGENT. teed. ing and the liberality of the postal service, our service is now so im­ HANDY & CO., proved we have been able to get PROPS. WOOD! four of the six west bound mails Teaming, Sing Kee this week, the day they were due.