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NHMBBK 4. AINSWOETH, BRITISH COLUMBIA, OOTOBEB 3, 1891. TEU CBHT&
PAVOK& THE PRKR ADMISSION OP OUR ORES. Blue Bell and Kootenay Chief on the east side WILD OVER A K12W DISCOVERY. of the lake and a score or two on the west side— The free admission into the United States of are practically-dry ore propositions, and produce The reports circulated and stories told by Jack the lead ores of British Columbia is a question just the ores \hat are needed on this side, of the Sea ton, the Henuessy boys, Prank Flint, and that is receiving considerable attention, both in line to making smelting a success. Nearly all John McGuygan on their return from the this section and in the neighboring sections to the lead claims in Hot Springs district are owned Kaslo-Slocan divide, on Thursday, set the town by Americans, and the wages paid miners and of Ainsworth wild with excitement. Even G. the* south of the boundary line. The people of other employes ai-e the same as paid in Montana B. Wright felt as if he was young enough to Spokane generally favor the admission, while and Idaho. pack his blankets over the range to the new find. those of iho Occur d'Alenes are in opposition. "Were the lead ores of British Columbia Bill Hennessy, who has bar) considerable-ex allowed to flow into the United States as freely perience both as a miner and a prospector in The following are the opinions of a well-known as the waters^pf the Columbia river, it would not Spokane, business man, and are copied from the detract one particle from the income of a single Colorado, says the croppings are fully as large Chronicle of Sept cm her 30th: Cceur d'Alene mine owner. On the other hand, as those of the Hall mines on Toad mountain, it would be an advantage to him. It would and that hundreds of tons of ore are in sight. , **1 have noticed lately a number of articles in make Spokane a great smelting point, and save The returned party is the one that left Ains the, Cceur d'Alene papers regarding the admis the Cceur d'Alene ores being sent 1500 miles dis worth 2 weeks ago to head off; Eli Carpenter and sion of British Columbia lead ores iuto the tant for reduction. It would enable him to get E. A. Bielenberg, who started via Nelson arid*" United States free of duty. These papers assert quicker returns for his ore and keep all the the Slocan river to reach a, reputed rich ledge in > that the reason Spokane citizens are so anxious v n money required for their, manufacture nearer the neighborhood of Slocan lake. That they^ to'have this obnoxious tariff removed is because 1 home. The concentrates of the Cceur d Alenes were successful in heading off .Carpenter and^; it would enhance real estate values in this city. average50 per cent lead. In shipping, the miner.'„ Spokane citizens have in the past years.aequired Bielenberg is proved by the fact that they weret must pay for transporting 40 per cent of waste oh the ground 8 days and during that time sawf more mining interests in the Kootenay country material. Is it not reasonable that he would than in all the other districts combined. It rather have that product hauled 100 miles than nothing of the others. They found the Carpen?1-•> ^ should be remembered that Spokane was hut an J500 miles? ^ ter camp, and they also found his ledge. Jn ~t^^|^ infant when the opportunity for securing Cceur "That Spokane at some day will be a great many respects nis statements were confirmed^ d'Alene mining property was at hand, and as smelting center but few deny, but to make it although the ledge was not as wide as here-, she thrived and grew, her citizens branched out such the dry ores of British Columbia must be ported. After making several locations they „ in mines where the best opportunities were drawn upon, and to get them, it will more than started back, and when about a mile and a half if* offered. As far as lead-silver bearing ores were from parpen ter's camp discovered a ledge^ that concerned, the Kootenay presented the most likely be necessary to also secure the lead ores favorable advantages. But, unfortunately, of the same section." made every one of the party imagine himself / 1 just at the time when handsome profits at<, once a millionaire—and they, are still pretty w .~ should be 'realized on their investments, HINTS TO PROSPECTORS. strong in that belief. The ledge is said to be|; l^ll*1 the McKinley bill became a law and tlie lead J$he following sensible advice to prospectors is from 12 to 20 feet wide, and, 5 full-sized 'clahris^fe&I tariff clause was, adopted. No wonder the peo-^ were located on it. The ore""frrought'ba^cka^^^'^^ iiom a Colorado paper, and is as applicable to u pie of Spokane.desire to see this ta l£f removed, coarse galena that assays ,trom $i7UTD-^z^rtd^fgg||M and in. this they are joined by thou>ands all over %§t Springs district as to the galena* and* car the ton in silver and averageSrOverv,50.^e^Vcept?^^^^ a f the United States who are far-sighted enough to bonate sections of Colorado:' " , ' lead.- Twenty-one locations in all were inade.T "1 .«'™"M"3K see what it is leading to. Perhaps the Cceur It is not definitely known whether fhe?"nejw^ "The great object of prospectors in Hinsdale d'Alene editors should be informed that the ma find is on theoSlocan slope or the Kaslo slope of t jority of the miners in the Kootenay country county in the past has been to find and locate the divide. One"report is that the ground is not, are the same identical persons who prospected pre bodies in fissure veins; and tJhe result is that more that 18 miles from Kootenay lake and, and opened up theOceu r d Alenes, and made i t the study of formations favorable to ore deposits another that the distance is between 25 and 28 possible for them, as well as many others,\to and tlie occurrence of slips and faults has been miles. All agree that the route is a practicable make a living in that, prolific mineral section. neglected to such an extent that it may safely one for a wagon road. The party were only a' The Kootenay miner receives the same wages as t>e said very few of our mine owners have the day in making the distance between the And- the CoBur d'Alene inrnei-, so the t hteadbai e argu least idea what such breaks and. features of a and the month of Kaslo creek, having sent their ment of competition with Mexican peon labor formation really are. The consequence is, with packs ahead with Indians, who were 2 days in cuts no figure. man.yn•'• sections" of our -mountains exhibiting funking the trip. This would indicate that the HOT SPEDJGS HEWS: AfflBWOBTH, B. 0., OCTOBER 3. 189L THE HOT SPRINGS NEWS IS PUBLISHED ON SAT- and industrious; the West Indian and Central urdays, and -wiH be mailed to subscribers at the following American refu&es to work. The enterprising NELSON SAWMILL 00. rules, payable in advance i One year $4, six months $2.50, three months $1.50*- Advertising rates^gizten on application. Yankee himself lives in the same climate JVo communication or letter otter an anonymous signature and region where primitive savages scorned to will be printed.. K HOUSTON & INK, Proprietors. labor. The hardy, industrious, persevering, en Yard s At end of Flame in Nelfton. terprising highlander of Scotland, the Swede, Mills Twt Miles South of Kelso*. the Norwegian, enjoy about the same icy sur ot springs $ttos. roundings as the lazy Esquimaux who hiber nates like a bear. What, then, is the explana Manufacture Cr tion of this vastly varying experience of human BRIGHT PROSPECTS OF OUR DISTRICT energy that infuses one generation with enter Things in the vicinity of Ainsworth have prise and industry, while leaving another in the never looked as bright as at the present time. disgraceful fetters of sloth and indifference? LUMBER, Capital is weejkly being invested in our mines by Why, it is simply—motive. The motive makes men from Montana, Washington, California, the man, arid the population is the repetition of MOLDINGS, Canada, and the eastern states. Our mines are the man. The greatest of all human motive now an established fact not only as to their rich powers is hunger; the next is ambition. Hunger ' f ness (which has always been acknowledged), but does not move the West Indian or the Central also as to their continuity in depth. The striking American because the fruits of nature are for SHINGLES. of the wide and rich vein in the Skyline at a depth him both plentiful and free. The climate ex of 200 feet, the continuous progress made on the /' empts him from the necessity of roof or cloth /Number One with its, rich deposits, the almost ing, while the wild banana forest generally feeds The mill is now in thorough order phenomenal character of the ore which is being him and his family. He knows no other needs •?, ,'T extracted from the Neosho, the existence of rich and does not comprehend the philosophy of .-carbonates in .the Dellie, the high-grade ores of making himself tired. But if some American And Will Out 20,000 Feet a Day, the Tenderfoot, the Libby, the Tam O'Shanter, natives were transported to Siam or China, ; the Ellen, the Fourth, the On Deck, and the where every inch of land is under fence at a o * j^: scores of other claims, insure Hot Springs camp high rent, where nature is in slavery and where a certainty of a long and prosperous life. The Orders for special-size stuff will receive prompt food implies incessant labor, he would soon find attention. recent discoveries of large and extremely rich himself working as hard as his neighbors. Con veins of \pre in the Kaslo creek region proves trast the ancient Roman and the modern. There ^clearly that the Selkirk range is a vastc depos could be no rest, no repose while something re itory of mineral wealth, extending from Coffee :i. 1*1'A mained to be conquered; no danger, no bodily feffc *ereek to the northern extremity of Kootenay labpr, no intellectual training was avoided that lake, and in all probability joining on the north might help to the coveted end. But sxich fires t_W'I''« ' ..with the Fish creek and^Illecillewaet lead-pro- burnout;, modern Rome is but the scoria) of the The Kootenay Lake Saw-mill m ^ducing regions. It is now a certainty that the ancient volcano. Is this climate? Would Vesu Hendryx syndicate will erect large smelting and vius be more active at the north pole? always ready for business. Lum refining, works but a short distance from Ains ber- good,, bad, and indifferent- on worth. \ An era of prosperity is assuredly HENRY AN DERSON, JOHN L. RKTALLACK. opening before us, which will put to shame the Notary Public. prophecies of the chronic croakers, which are hand or made to order. the bane of every new mining camp, and will reward some of the old-timers who have never Anderson & Retallack, G. 0. BUCHANAN. lost faith in our resources. Nelson, January 15th. Real Estate and Mining Brokers, ; . ENERGY AND CLIMATE. Conveyancers, Etc. It is curious how whole populations of intelli Crown Grants obtained for Mineral Claims, gent people jump at conclusions that are flatter Agent* for Absentee Claim Owners. ing to themselves while utterly in contradiction of the best established historical facts. One of Collection* Made. The Davies-Sayward the most widely accepted of these pieces of non ' Correspondence Solicited. ° sense is the dictum that human energy is Office in Townsite office, Sutton street, Ainsworth, B. G. effected by clihiate. Now the fact is that hu MANUFACTURERS OK man energy has reached its fullest development in every kind of climate and in every latitude BREMNER & WATSON, except the frigid zone. The equatorial regions furnish us with the history of Carthage and AISSWOKTII, K. C. Egypt, the heated latitudes give us Tyre and LUMBER PACK AND SADDLE HORSES Sidon, Troy and Babylon. Then in those regions OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. which are now sneered at as effeminate and ener FOR HIRE. vating, we have the unequaled science of Greece •XT Jrv* JL'W P l III o JL Contract* taken for hauling supplies, machinery, ore, etc., and the matchless mastery, of Rome. But, non to and from mines in Hot Springs district. (DELIVERED AT NELSON, AINSWORTH, OR BALFOUR). sense, say our theorists, do you not see with 1IRKSSKD. your own eyes that people will not work at the ALL TEAMING WORK UNDERTAKEN. No. 1 flooring, 4 inch, per M.. $32 00 south, while they will at the north? Is not that No. 2 " 6 inch, " 27 00 Agents for Navies- Snyward San nil 11 Company A No. 1 ceiling, 4 inch, " 32 00 the effect of climate? Is not that better than No. 2 "" G inch, " . 27 00 lumber, Moldings, and Shingles. Rustic, " 27 00 history? On the contrary, we find that in the Select, clear, DI), . ". ... .,.. 40 00 southern states an extraordinary amount of en No. 1 common, I), " 25 00 I)I>, " 27 00 ergy has developed since the war. We find that YANCOUVER HOUSE, Bar and counter tops, clear, per foot. , 10 a population which under former conditions was AIVSWOKTII, B. C. itof <;n. No. 1 common, per M $20 00 charged with indolence and negligence is under Having leased the Vancouver from A. A. McKinnon, the No. 2 " 4* 15 00 the new conditions credited with an energy and undersig-ned will conduct it as a first-class hotel, in Culls, *« 12 00 all its departments. The dining-room will an enterprise that have redeemed its country be run so that its reputation will he Shingles, " 4 50 from the desolation of ruin and brought it to MOLDINGS. Second to None in the Kootenay Lake Country. Read, panel, crown, base, etc., etc., per foot 2J@10c the front of progress and prosperity. Then look Mills at Pilot Bay, Koot-rnay Lake. abroad. In the very same line of climate, everv- The bar will always he supplied with choice brands where, you will find the two extremes of indus of wines, liquors, and cigars. S. 0. Spalding, . . . Manager try and indolence. The southern Chinaman, £^NO CHINESE EMPLOVED. ^ Siamese, East Indian, Egyptian, is laborious It. F. I'KltllY, Agent at Nelson. JOHN SHANNON. T. D. MORRISON. BttEMNKR A WATSON, Agent* at AiUHwortb. HOT SPRINGS HEWS: AIHSWOETH, B. 0., OCTOBER 3, 1891 OF AINSWORTH! This rapidly growing town, being the center of the well-known HOT SPBINGfS MINING- DISTRICT, presents an unrivaled field for business and speculative investment. The townsite proprietors are now prepared to sell on reasonable terms a limited number of business and residence lots. For particulars apply to & 1 .<•• i ,,-&$. D 1 A.iisrs'W'joiiTB: il '" ' iff" ' JL * */ ' ffi£i§® NOLDIM; CliAINH WITHOUT WORK, own an interest iii this mine.' At this the two GONE BY FOREVER. prospectors said they were tired of listening to / Although the present Minora! Act of British people who owned an interest in the ground, and Old tinie mining and prospecting have gone Columbia is noto perfect, it is certainly as good hereafter they would not let anyone on the by forever, and the social conditions which J)hey as the mining sections of the United States. The claim till the court commanded them to do so. produce are no longer possible in the.XJnite^l The broker replied that they may expect to hear States. They live only in the stories of Brejt, following anent the holding of claims without from his lawyer any day. Now, the fact is that work is from the pen of one of the editors of the the claim was located by a woman, a.year ago Hart, the "Roughing It" of Mark Twain and; tli0 Seattle Press-Times, who has put in (he summer this month. She was aided in the labor of loca memory ot those who are a part of therii. DThe \n the mining camps in southern British Colum tion by a gentleman who owns property near hurdy-gurdy, the gambling tent, "Mother Ship- by. A few days more than a year had elapsed ton," the prospector with his bag of gold dust, bia and northern Washington and is now camped and no assessment work was done. The vein near Little Dalles, Stevens county, Washington. was not even intelligently explored. These pros the rough-and-ready life in a house whose roof Was the stary sky, the .enthusiasm, and mischief He says: V ,^ pectors; came along, assumed the claim had oeen • - UK. (j. j. L. mwUl tt\m '*' "This particular feature of the mining law, abandoned, uprooted the stakes of discovery and hope of youth, the good fellowship and arid location and destroyed them, and striking rovaLnature, the honor that comes from confidk intended, as it is, to extend the fullest protec the vein in anew quarter, claimed possession. tion to the prospector, inflicts hardship on him. en^e%hd trust, if from no deeper;.soTO*NMJJ^,'. ^-^ms Where the state law does not ej^e^h^re provide Soon after rolling up their sleeves and going to —and Colorado took care early in" hekexistence work they struck a body of excellent ore. About dai^coming of the-'.mail coach, tlie occ^ibft^'^i'i^^g that time the broker appeared, and the woman whl^fcry racket or gambling duel'wben sonie^ QflelXlSP to pass a 60-days' assessment work act—the $100 ~-"V •^•rajS: worth of work required'of the discoverer inky sold a half or a major part of her claim, with turned up his toes to the daisies, and the healthy, not be done until within the year following the the understanding that he take the contest into enjoyable life of work and fun, where aristoc the courts and oust the prospectors. He looked racy was a matter ot intellect and honor instead discovery, the year to begin on the first day of up >ihe law and soon familiarized himself with the January succeeding the. date of location. the^ax labor provision under which most of the of money and clothes, exist now like a dream. •Technically,.-in Washington, a'..cla.hu may be lo available ground in this^sectibn of the coiiutry In a few years more they will be wholly histori cated on January 2nd, 1892, and the year during is held by non-workers. He saw that tech cal, like the events of the days when our New which $100 worth of work must he done does nically the woman retainer) her right in the England ancestors went to church carrying their hot begin until January 1st, 1893. In such a case muskets for protection from Indians. t he mere fact of discovery—the requiremeiit s of claim, though she might have relocated or held location and record having been complied with it for 20 years and she would not have done or Perhaps it is just as well for humanity that just ifies possession for 2years, at the exact ex paid for the work these earnest prospectors have this old life is gone. It would be folly to say piration of which the claim •"•may be relocated done in a Couple of weeks. The broker will that the arts, refinements, and improvements of under another name, without one dollar's worth secure the best legal talent obtainable at Spok civilization are not better for the world than a of work having been done. If there is no one ane,and doubtless the technical requirement of frontier life, free and happy as it may have been. present on the first of January, 18JM-, to contest the law will he maintained." But it is something to have lived in those days? fin- the relocation, the original discoverer may and" formed a part of their life. The wan who allow a day to elapse, and .in dating the reloca Another Use for Electricity. grew-"up with them has seen tipified in a small A Chicago dispatch says: "A new system of way the growth of mining as a science and ah tion January 2nd, 1891, he has till January 1st, art since the days of civilization. In fact he has 1896, to do what should have been done, as a stopping runaway horses by electricity was seen theintroductionof nine-tenths of the ini* matter of- expediency: and good faith, before given a practical test on the lake front yester- provemerits that have ever been made. He has April 1st, 1892. seen placer mining, which consisted of panning And h<- may continue to hold the ground in da y by O. B. Holson, t he in veil tor. M ichigan avenue was lined with spectators. Holson got and rocking—which it had always been—emerge definitely! doing nothing for the development of into the use of a ''long torn," then a sluice box the'-country himself, and making the enterprise into a carriage with 2 horses attached and with no driver on the box. The man lashed the and finally the crowning triumph of Yankee in: of others 'impossible,.'while discouraging the genuity, the modern hydraulic plant. He ha$ very presence of experienced ".and resourceful horses with the whip and they dashed away at a breakneck speed. Suddenly the animals raised seen the Mexican arastra superseded by the men. ' • themselves on their haunches and came to a full "Georgia stamp mill" with wooden stems, and It was designated hy the framers of the brig-. stop. The invention consists of a dry battery that in turn supplanted by the modern mill. He inal and amended federal laws that mining under the driver's box, connected by wires with has seen roasters, desulphurizers, amalgamating should he encouraged and maintained as an in- the metal balls placed in the horses' nostrils. pans, leaching plants, secret processes and patent dustrv and hot as a'speculation. The hope of all There are 2 buttons, one on the driver's box and processes without number come, create their these* lazvOwners is that someone will come the other on the inside, which will close the cir sensations, awaken the hopes of people, fail and along some day and buy them out at a fabulous cuit when pressed. The result is a wild shock, disappear only to be succeeded by some other or unreasonable figure. They are not prospec which the inventor asserts will invariably bring thing of like nature. He has seen the coming of tors in the true sense of the word, since a gen a runaway horse to a standstill." the foreign expert, who was once supposed to uine prospector invariably does more than to know everything, and listened to his more or stick up stakes, file, a record, and wait. They Does It Mean Business? less learne-d or unlearned, wise or otherwise are mere bucket shop dabblers in location cer theories, and has seen most of them disproved, tificates and croppings, and the sooner the legis The officers of the Northern Pacific land de He has watched the development of the mining lature abbreviates the privileges of the federal partment recently visited the United States land swindler in his glory and the coming of the statutes so as to enforcer an expression of good office at Cceur d'Alene, Idaho, to secure plats sucker in his innocence, and out of it all has intent in the matter of prospecting and mining and data in regard to the country between Koot evolved a few general truths, learned a thousand the better it will be for Stevens county in par enay station and Bonner's Ferry. It was under valuable lessons, and become very skeptical ticular and the state in general. stood at the land office that their object had about the value of all new things until they bear "An illustration of how this scheme works reference to the building of a branch line from better credentials than new things are apt to may be drawn from a scene I happened to wit the station to Bonner's Ferry. There seem to bear. If he is scholar enough in the domain of ness on the range south of here. Two prospec be hardly any doubt in well-informed circles but natural science, or student enough to go to the tors, not long in the country, were digging away that the Northern Pacific intends to build this foundation of things and study cause and effect, in a hole as if for dear life. They were throw branch and have it in operation by the time the he has been educated in the school of schools ing out some excellent ore. A mining broker Great Northern is running cars to the head of whose lessons are the hardest and most valuable from Spokane approached, looked over the deep water navigation on Kootenay river. that mankind ever did or can learn. dump a few moments, and then observed, '1 HOT SPRINGS SEWS: AlflSWOETH, B. 0., OCTOBEE 3. 1891. Having Purchased the Stocks Carried by The Lindsay Mercantile Co. J and Fletcher & Co. . *• ^ is prepared to supply Prospectors, Mining Companies, and the General Trade with ... i '^vaything in the line of MINING AND MINERS' SUPPLIES, Groceries, Provisions, Hardware, Tinware, Clothing, Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, etc. The stock carried will ' : be sold at low Prices and on Favorable Terms. •u f'd IFCXK, GKCATTT IFO'WIIDIEIR o ozMczp^isr^r. t (The best powder made foiPuse in mines.) n •* '. W life V'1 ' Corner Wright and. Sutton Streets, _A_T"TSJ"f^"^7^(^T?,T TT ft*. : - • I*-,' .•• Continued from First Pajfe. •-r - •• is reported on the divide. Notwithstanding THE JOHN DOTY ENGINE COMPANY, LTD. 'this,,-between 25 and 30 of the boys have pulled lift- • <• *»dt for the hew strike since the result of the as O^ TOBONTO, OaSTO?^RIO. 4/» " says became known; and there is not a dugout or asjwHslj left in the cahip. The boys report a low divide at the head of the north fork of Kaslo MANUPAOTUEERS OF ALL DESOKIPTIOlirS OP MABUTE AND STATIONAET ; creek, and say that th*»re need he no difficulty in getting in a trail, as the route is a natural one. •frv;*. b w« LOCAL AX1» FKU&OXAL. P*isjr \A ENGINES AND BOILERS •••* The Cockle, brothers, boat builders of-Crawford**'bay, ISft'* ^ *.i'j ' ' ' ' •' ,• . r f|have turned out another jppeciroenof their handicraft, this I r ' "* I) t^*yw-- 4 ; j* xiljde a double racing skiff with sliding scats.' It is a vvon- ' British Columbia Branch: 520 Cordova Street, Vancouver. iderandav world-beater, the builders being willing,to race .en. ' *-•* •The ledge has been struck on the Charleston, the south L extension of the Little Donald. Messrs. Cody and Hark- _ _ ' ' ' •" » •ness are the lucky owners. The vein on the Dellie is now exposed for 750 feet. The HOISTING ENGINES AND SINKING PUMPS FOR MINES, shaft is down 30 feet, which shows the vein to be fully 7 ^eet in width. The ore assays from 86 to 150 ounces, and •jeojitains little or no lead. —-,- lake, and being a north extension of the John A. Layard; Cameron to Thomas Shearer, an undivided ] interest fri Our merchants did a rushing business during the week Walter M. Adrian locator, The Macbeth, situate about 5 the (iood Link and Clifton, situate at the hcadofSchrtxler in outfitting the boys who, started for the Kaslo-Slocan miles west of Kootenay lake, southwest of th(* Skyline, creek about 12 miles west of Kootenay lake Kaslo districts discovery. , ' and being a southerly extension of the Hill Top; \\v liter r consideration §2;"). Thomas Shearer to It. McL. Cameron, M. Adrian locator. The Mountain Quail, situate about . ) an undivided A interest in the Republic, situate on HI NEKAL CLAIMS ItECOKUEO AM> TK4XSFEKKEI* miles West of Kootenay lake, southwest of the Skyline Schroder creek and being an easterly extension of th* and being a southerly extension of the Macbeth; G. \V\ Beaver; consideration §100. AT AINSWORTH, HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT. Adrian locator. Saturday, September 201 fo. -Randall II. Kemp to mrs. Thursday, September 24th,~The Crown Jewel, situate Tuesday. September 29th.—The Morning Star., situate A. C. Adams, a full interest in the Little Rustler, situate about 1 mile west of Kootenay lake on the south branch of about 5 miles west of Kootenay lake, running parallel with on the west side of Crawford's Bay; consideration £2o. •! Woodbury creek and adjoining ihe northeast corner of the and adjoining the cast side line of the Thor; Z. Montgom Wednesday, September 30th.--\v. II. Montgomery, John Surprise; A. W. Palmer and James Anderson, locators. ery locator. H. Fink, and L. R. Lindsay to Ernest Harrop, an undivided The Eureka, situate about 14 miles west of Kootenay lake BILLS OF SALK. £ interest on the Ellen, situate about. 24 miles west, of on Bear creek, a tributary of the north branch of 'Kaslo Friday September 24th.—Jostah Fletcher to Alexander Kootenay lake, between the PaUil.nl and Maud S, Hot creek; Robert McDonald, John McPhee, arid'J..D. Moore M. Bilshland, an undivided k interest in the Montezuma Springs cam|>; bond with conditions. locators. The Silver Tip, situate about I miles east.'of the and an undivided £ interest in the Mexico, situate about north end of Kootenay lake; J. A. Dawson locator. 10 miles west of Kootenay lake near the headwaters of Friday, Sept ember 25th.-- Hie Blue Grouse, situate ••: on Galena creek, a tributary of the south branch of Kaslo the east side of Kootenay lake about 12i miles southeast of creek; consideration §200. William Lynch J. A. Larjgc'nt, HENRY & ADAMS, Crawford's bay and 100 feet sbuth of and running parallel and C. M. Parker to ...the Western'Consolidated Mining with the Rose Bud; C. Von Mbrekerke locator. Company, a full inteeest in the Club, Mo ida\\ and Nor Saturday, September '25tbW! he Choteau Brillent, situ way, situate in the Hot Springs camp; consideration S17(K>. ate about U miles west of Kootenay lake and \ of a mile CM. Parker to the Western Oonsol.idated Mining Com PIONEER DRUG STORE; south of the south branch of Woodbu'ry creek; N. A. Par pany, an undivided A interest in the Katie, situate between ent and G. Baillod locators. The Colonel, situate about U the'Jerusalem and -Retriever, Hot Springs camp; consider AISSUOKTII, ||. Wright Street, Wright Street, AINSWORTH. AINSWORTH. DEALEBS insr Miners' Supplies, Iron and Steel, Hardware, Groceries, Provisions, Boots and Shoes; Dry Goods, Clothing, Men's Furnishings, Eta, Etc: irsr. :B Having bought the stock and book debts of the late firm of E. S. WILSON & 00., all parties having outstanding accounts are requested to call and settle them as soon as possible.