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VOLUME 3, NO. 10 SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B.C MARCHitth, 1012.' %_ PER ANNUM W LIBERAL MEETING The Liberal candidate for Cari BX. Express" Will k boo electoral district, Mr, John This Town's Prospects Were Holt, addressed a well-attended meeting in the Fort George The Queen of Fraser River trait atre last evening. The meeting Never Brighter Than Today was called to order at 8:30 by Mr. Manager West, of the British gress, and providing, nclthihg unjr John Flynn, who officiated as South Fort George, two short ernment, will run right through chairman. Mr. Holt was accom Columbia Express Company, was foreseen occurs, the new boa£ years ago, was a poplar-covered the townsite. After the town be-, panied by Mr. Dowling, of Ques will be ready to take the water a business visitor here this week nel, a prominent Liberal. Mr, pre-emption. Tpday it is a thriv comes incorporated, which we on matters in connection with the by the firtt.week.'jin'iM^. iJjDutfi Dowling spoke at some length ing community. It is peopled by believe will be in the immediate preliminary organization of the ing the e&iy part of the'sdaso^ upon the Liberal view of the a progressive, bustling element— future, the municipality will un company's summer service. Mr. she will run between Soda Greek shortcomings of the McBride a people who welcome opposition* doubtedly develop the town by West told The Herald that rapid and .Quesnel, assjsjtingjlie, "B, government; he was indisposed who fatten upon the attempts of the addition of such necessary progress was being made on the X." in moving?thc heavy import! and'had to terminate his speech their townsite adversaries to' op improvements to streets and pub construction of the company's of freightlhaf comes to jwitblthe" earlier than he had intended, Mr. pose their title to the champion lic properties as may be expedi*- new boat at Soda Creek. A large opening of the navigable season. Holt, whilst placing himself on, ship be^t for tfie 'trade centre of ent and, justified by circum gang of ship carpenters are al Later she will establish a service^ record as being in support of tjiej the Northern Interior, and a stances. ,: i : i:; railroad policy, condemned the ready at work under Builder with TetejJaune
• and without exaggeration, and it and cannot be too strongly con demned, but as the evil has been served its purpose against the r. FORI GEORGE HERALD stack of petitions and the army done and cannot be undone, we PUBLISHED BY THE Our Price of lawyers employed by the pro must grin dnd bear it in the in \ NORTHERN nT£RI33 PRINTING CO.Ltd. terests of progress, which will J. B. DAUI.U.. PRESIDENT moters. The policy of The Herald, that separate us eventually from the ?E take this opportunity to inform our many custom Devoted to the interests of Fort narrow-guage politics of Old Ueor-je nml the entire North of the protection of public inter Cariboo, ers and the public generally, that the low prices ern Interior. ests, together with the support which have prevailed in our store through the summer J. B, DANIELL, Editor. of everyone expressing a view of months will be maintained throughout the winter. local conditions that does not co incide with, or that obstructs the ?E have been fortunate in receiving most of our heavy A COUNTERFEIT. schemings of the townsite con • Fort George A lions a goods before the close of navigation and having our Newspapers that continuously cern or its protecting journal, is A Specialty A own teams will be able to bring our goods over the road print material calculated to fash blatantly condemned by the man Drug Co. ion public opinion against the who writes the confidence-inspir A at the minimum cost. dictates of that which their pub ing ragtime for the columns of b lishers know to be the truth, and the Nechaco weekly. He takes a NEWB00KSS,£. t RUSSELL PEDEN W. F. COOKE that use their columns to inter fling at President Hays, of the largeshipmentjust received rupt the formation of proper Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co., Toilet urtieals, Patent Medicines, MiiK,i/.ino«,Hook», Stut iinii'ry. , ideas with regard to any exist in his latest issue, for going on Toilet Ariirl™, Drugglsta' Sundrios ing conditions affecting the wel record as endorsing the policy of fare of the public at large, should this paper, and tries in his be expelled from the mails and wheedling futile manner to dis Store, Office and Lumber Yard, South Fort George dealt with as a menace to the credit this paper by lying about iilWWJCJCJ'ISWJWJKWJWWW'SWWWWWWWfWWWWWWj- l nation. Such a paper is the Fort the standing it possesses in this Intending Building? George Tribune. community, and by trying to in Until quite recently this once- still the idea that the people here HAMILTON & WHITE respectable organ has been run are sick of having The Herald NOW is the time to build, openly under the ownership of fight this thing through to a whilst seasoned lumber is PROPRIETORS obtainable. Labor conditions the Natural Resources security knockout for the protection of are now in your favor. We Company, of Vancouver, who their interests. Unfortunately contract to design and con purchased the paper from the es for the townsite promoter's util struct your building, guar Second St. __\ tate of the late John Houston. It ity organ, President Hays is un anteeing satisfaction: Call or write us. Rigs, Saddle and Pack Horses furnished on short notice. is now, apparently, the property doubtedly in possession of suffi Draying of all kinds and excavating done. Feed of all sorts of an outfit called the Central In cient of the facts in this case to continually kept on hand. have more than justified his ac terior Publishing Company, Ltd., Terms reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed. of which H. W. R. Moore, a man tion in endorsing our policy, and, Bronger & Flynn who has executed various com by the same token, he appreci Builders and Contractors missions for G. J. Hammond, ates fully the mission of such SOUTH FORT GEORGE president of the townsite concern, contemptible newspaper counter L. in Victoria, and W. E. Playfair, feits as the Fort George Tribune. the advertising manager of the As for the inferences of that rag jur M. C. WIGGINS aforesaid townsite company, are with regard to the standing of the reputed controllers. The this paper in this community, we FARM LANDS Real Estate GARDEN TRACTS maintenance of this alias is rude have only to say that there is less CLUB POOL ROOM ly disrupted by the palpably Ham foundation of truth to them than THIRD AND HAMILTON STS. 155 acres 6 miles above DAVIS & FORREST, Props. mond controlled policy of the to any other canards it has as yet fjY|i«-4 G_4kg%W*_fA on Nechaco River with G. T. published. organ referred to. M. VA I WCU1g-C p survey throngh property. On another page we reproduce Smokers' supplies Price $12.50 an acre l-3rb cash, calance 6,12 and 18 mos. a specialty a telegram sent by him to his local The provincial estimates of Settlers located on ISO-acres of good Government land. townsite manager, together with revenue and expenditure show a FOURTH ST. - - SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C one received by The Herald from gratifying increase in the amount Four pool tables the Secretary of the Grand Trunk of money appropriated for the Splendid environments Pacific Railway Company. The construction of roads, trails and Hammond telegram was publish bridges in the Fort George dis ed in the last issue of the Ham trict. This is quite as it ought | Kennedy, Blair & Co. Ltd. | mond organ, together with sev to be, and if anything, not suffi 5| WM. KENNEDY. Manager. fj eral columns of material which ciently so. Because this place is I am prepared to would lead the reader to believe widely advertised as the radiat 'A Cor. Second and Hamilton Aves., SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C. tt that a pronounced victory had ing point for 1000 miles of navig Locate Pre-emptors J i : : , 1 74 been won by the Natural Re ON 1 BO ACRES OF. We are fully equipped to meet the "rush" of 1912. able waterways, the government Those who will require outfits during the coming sources Security Company. Ltd., must not fall into the error of in their application for special Good Government Land. season can procure anything desired at our store. We imagining that we can walk on I sell the best goods at the lowest figures. .."'.. ,.".. station privileges on the Indian water—it is too soft—and some WRITE FOR INFORMATION TO Reserve here. Now, everyone people have to walk in a country N. C. Jorgensen. \VATATATATAV/J\V/VTATATATAT/ conversant at all with the situa like this where there are no street tion here knows that statements cars. P. 0. Boi 21. South Fort Gtorft, B. C, have frequently been made over r Mr. Hammond's signature to the r/_^___t__^_t___:_t_'A_'j_'j__t__v.^ effect that this much-vaunted The oracle has spoken, George FOR SALE station would be placed at certain J. Hammond gazed into his cry jj Do yoni •; _ ... —r-a precise locations near their town- stal a week or so ago and saw a site, whilst the maps of the town- railway line nicely laid out along * ' •' ' V I A_, _+_0l2\lil±V*>U__VU/_IUt,lb'_*coraeinnip; fi BUILDING on corner of Second site concern have shown it in such the eastern boundary of his town- Then in- g various localities as have best sites. He is now advertising the vestigate f) Street and Lasalle Avenue, suit _ our work- £ suited their purposes from time fact in big, blackfaced type. jj building? fl manshimansh.Dp and geeet our estimate, g able for small store: to time in the past. Hammond likes to play the "in side information" game. He is A DANFORTH & MCIIMNIS •: As our telegram shows, no lo just crazy about inside informa cation has Deen decided upon, or A CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS.i-i.i.a. . WAf) tion. Back in little old Chicago A Hamilton nnd First. m Only$850 can be decided upon, as we have he started in to sell the stuff to Ik ^4. v^5 oP/ \9K -50/ IWA \W_ \}WKr.-KZKZK'A l_MZ always maintained, until the people who wanted to plav the proper surveys are made, yet stock markets. He was very suc A. P. ANDERSON Hammond and his townsite organ cessful, we understand, but his A^« JlJlo W LtJ-LlCi II e south Fort George. are vainly trying to impress the clients went belly-up with the CABINET WORKS ^ J public with the idea that the de bucketshop concerns which evolv v*^*^^£-^^£*^^£*^*^*^*^'^'*r£'^"'*jV'*fV**'|£'^*^|2^£^£'^*^^22£^ cision of the Railway Commission ed themselves out of his original and General Wood Work _=z=_z is a victory for him, whereas the "inside information" peddling HAMILTON AVENUE • decision maintains the contention stunt. The brand of advertising | Close & Brown GENERAL of the independent business in- that this man finds effectual GORE & MCGREGOR*, • South Fort George, B. C. MERCHANTS tertsts here that the station doesn't fool us for a holy minute, should not be located until the but apparently it has the desired B. C. LAND SURVEYORS steel reaches this place. And this effect upon the credulous. Now is the Time to Order Your SPRING | preposterous townsite organ, the VICTORIA AND Tribune, masquerading as an in FORT GEORGE, B. C. Ask the first best dressed man you meet—-We are fe There is no earthly show for dependent organ of the people, P. G. B. BODEKER M"" sole agents for; \, has nerve enough to criticize direct representation from the LAND TIMBER CRUISER those people who opposed the ab north of Cariboo during the forth surd application of the nervy coming term. In spite of the fact Pre-emptions Located. J TheArt Tailoring Company. Z St It * * townsite promoters, and succeed that the British Columbia Con SOUTH FORT GEORGE, B. C. " . ! ed in maintaining their conten servative Association declares the ESTIMATES SUBMITTED. tions before the Board of Raii- basis of allotting delegates to the "Liquor Licence Act 1910" known as Campbell's store sit- Quesnel Conservative convention Fort George, B.C. Victoria, B.C. way Commissioners. The docu F. P. Burden, Mirr. F. C. Green, Mgr. (Section 19.) uato at. South Fort George, ment which left South Fort unconstitutional, there is no time IvIelBon, B.C., A. H. Green, Mgr. NOTICE is hereby given thut upon the lands described as Lot on the First day of March next, George bearing the objections of to shuffle and deal over again now Seven in Block numbered seven, Green Bros., Burden & Co. application will be made to the in District Lot numbered 933 the people here to the Commis without deferred elections in Cariboo. It has been a rank piece Gvil Engineers, Dominion { B. C. Und Sorreynri Superintendent of Provincial Dated this 27th. day of Jan sion stated the facts concisely .Surveys of LandB, Milieu, Townbitee, Timber Police for the grant o' a licence of political jobbery in the.party, uary 1912. Limits, Etc. for the sale of liquor by whole P.CAMPBELL. sale in and upon the premises Applicant. FORT GEORGE IKJUL-BLMtiu _IIV OUUI.II IWU vjcuij^e luwilBllt*, U1C BT.aut.iy reuuruiug uauunuuic puu*. business and residential centre of the for investors. Lots In the townsites In 1906, just five years ago, district, is situated on Lots 933 and of the Natural Resources .Security when Gore & McGregor made their 934. The Hudson's Bay property and Company depend for their value on their proximity to that portion of first surveys about Fort Geurge, Lots 931 and 932, generally known their property along the waterfront the Nechacq and Fraser valleys as the "Bird Addition" are not as at which they are trying to central were far less known and less i.asy i yet on the market, The area sub- ize their development. At that point of access than their geographical j dlvided. and either owned or sold the townsite company is putting up a number of buildings, and are trying position would lead one to expect. Z«™iXL£TL$% *„£ in every way to start a trend of Circumstances had sent them, pany Ltd., totals about 1800 acres. development, having their business during the preceding 15 years, This concern has been respsnsible centre for its radiating point. This backwards and forwards from the for such development as may be will hardly be accomplished to any found today on a small portion of satisfactory degree for the large forty-ninth parallel of Southern Lot 938, the smallest of their sub majority on their sites, for a long Koo'tenay and the Okanagan to thu divisions. Their townsites are lo time to come. We advise no one to wheat latitudes of Edmonton and cated on a high jack-pine flat. The purchase on the strength of their ad the valleys of Tada, Babine, Uease soil is gravelly, and, generally speak vertised statements. Intending In vestors in any sub-divisions here and Teslin Lakes, ranging from ing, will not produce domestic veg r etation. There are no wells on the Bhould bear in mind that the Grand , i2 degrees to 60 degrees North townsite, Owing to its height, and Trunk Paciac Railway. Company's Latitude in British Columbia. water must be brought from thej townsite will add about one thou- river. The South Port George town- sand acres more townsite property At all these points fertile valleys site iB a very much smaller area. It to the combined area offered for were found, and settlers success totals about 150 acres, and is sit- habitation. The market has been ful in agriculture, uated on the lower benches of the i dangerously flooded already, and This broad knowledge of what Fraser River, which is navigated by j bearing this in mind the careful in- the largest steamboats throughout j vestor will not venture his funds in the wider country contained the open season. The Nechaco River i any townsite that can not actually brought home to them instantly townsites are not regular ports of', claim the active and independent the great future of Central Brit call, as owing to the difficulty in I development that signifies the ap- ish Columbia, and impelled them navigating the Nechaco river except ! proval oi the people on the ground, in high water the boats do not call j Unless they can invest in a townsite from that day to this to keep an there unless paid to do so. Lots in j that is being developed and in- open office at the Hudson Bay post, now growing into the great City some sub-divisions of the Natural Re creased in value by independent en sources Security Company Limited terprise, they had better await the of Fort George. have not increased in value to any sale of the G. T. P. property or At that time the initial surveys material degree during the past three buy in or near the business centre of the Grand Trunk Pacific were years. Their initial sub-divisions of the district. confined to the north shore of the are as yet quite indeveloped. South j Intending settlers can obtain 160 Fort George is a good live town. It acres of land by pre-emption. There Nechaco, and those who put their has been largely built up and de j are large tracts of land open for faith in Fort George were sus veloped by the pioneer element, who alienation by pre-emption only, in tained only by the natural char settled on the site as soon as it this district. The land is capable of was placed on the market. The Late raising good crops of garden pro acteristics of the junction of the John Houston, the veteran frontier two big rivers. duce, hay, oats, and practically any newspaperman, established his paper thing but fruit, which has not so far The isolation of the spot in those at South Fort.George in its earliest proved a success up here, should days. The town contains over two- maintain that this district should days is almost inconceivable now. thirds of the entire population of all Only six days' journey from not be regarded as a fruit growing the inhabited townsites. It has two country until that branch of culture Quesnel, it was praceically out of banks, the Bank of British North has been properly tested. ThiB is reach of mail communication, and America and the Trader's Bank of naturally a mixed farming country. it actually took less time to plant Canada, two sawmills, tin shop, Wild berries, however, are found three large general stores, a large and grow a sack of potatoes than throughout the whole northern in theatre, a newspaper issued by the terior country, as far north as the to send for and receive the same pioneer publishers of the Cariboo Peace River Plateaux. Wagon roads from the nearest railroad. district, a licenced hotel, pool hall, are being built into the surrounding bakers, confectioners, two churches, In fhe spring a few cottonwood country, and progress will be made drug store and restaurants. It is (he on such public works, as future cir THE HERALD is the recog dugouts passed up to Giscombe terminus of the British Columbia cumstances demand. The Fraser and portage with the year's grocery Exnress Company's mail steamboats Nechaco Rivers aflord transportation luxuries of the trappers and fur and stage line. Tt is the headquarters to their tributary valleys, the Fraser nized newspaper of the New of the Fort George Trading and traders. particulary, being navigable for 160 Lumber Company's steamboat and miles south and 315 miles north of Through the summer an occa sawmilling operations. The head this point. We believe that the best Cariboo. The entire district sional scow, poled and pulled by quarters of the Northern Lumber Co. way to secure a' good pre-emption merchants and sawmill operators. is by engaging the services of one a dozen young Indians, brought Tt is close proximity to the Govern more or less bacon and sugar to of the reliable locators, who make a is thoroughly covered and its ment buildings, and is situated in business of locating the settler. the Hudson Bay posts, and pos such manner thnt the main de Some of these men have been in the sibly a mail bag. velopment of the Indian Reservation district for a long time, and can influence extends far beyond will benefit it more directly than Nothing was certain but thc save the land hunter time and cash any other sites. The railways that by his experience. The Hera'd will bigness of the country and the are to be built from the south must be pleased to advise the settler re the confines of the province. fertility of the soil. of necessity follow the Fraser River garding lands open for pre-emption It takes great faith, when you shoreline in order to secure a water and the best means of obtaining erade. and will form a junction with information thereof, on application. Its advertisers reap rich re are months and months away from the main line of the G. T. P. near the nearest of bare necessities, to the east end of the Tndian Reserve. Building materials are at hand in see and believe that some day the Acreage close to the South Fort large quantities. The local miHs turns as a result of their in valley of your starvation will be George townsite is changing hands have about three million feet of every day lor larce figures. The land flowing with milk and honey, but lumber in the yards, in preparation comnriBing the South Fort Georee for the spring. Lumber costs from vestment in HERALD publi this is the faith that Columbus be townsite, and all the Fraser River $35 to $75 a thousand feet. People queathed to America. properties is of excellent quality, intending building should consult This faith—the faith of the covered with a liirht growth of pop by letter some of the local con city, why not get on the band lar with scattered firs. tractors, who, we are Informed, will prospector and pioneer—is even be pleased to furnish all inform yet strained to the breaking point The foregoing resume of the town- ation. wagon yourself? by adverse happenings, and not sites here will give the reader some The fare into the country from the until one or more railroads are in idea of the respective merits of both railway point, Ashcroft, fluctuates operation will the wild land sub townsites. The Fort George Her/ild with the seasons. During the summer mit tamely to the yoke of the cul has no affiliations with either of the when navigation is open on the Advertising Rates on Application exploiting companies whose inter Fraser River, May 1st. to October tivator. But the promise is suffi ests appear1 to be opposed. Those 31st., tht fare amounts to $45, and ciently proved to satisfy those who who have invested in South Fort the expenses en route about $10. go a little ahead of civilization. George property, not too far back This is by automobile and steam All land surveyors must do this from the river, may rest assured boat. The winter fare, from Novem that they have excellent value tor ber 1st. to March 31st. totals $62, in the way of business, and the the money they have invested, owing with expenses of about $15. Travel firm of Gore & McGregor have to the rapid growth of development in ths winter is by sleigh. The ex- done their share in every part of created by independent inltative. If j press rate in ths summer is 121 cts. thc Province. they desirt to sell they should list I per tb. The winter rate 20cts. The their properties with one of ths! summer Freight rate is 6cents, and Their pride in being the first of local realty operators, who are con- | the winter rate 11 cents per tb. llie Fort George Herald their profession to settle at Fort George, to build an office there aud to carry out explorations and sur South Fort George British Columbia veys in the now well known val leys of the Little Salmon, the Wil low and the Mud rivers, is based only on the experience that deter mined their actions. Occidental For five years they have seen QUESNEL the whole of Fort George, south, eentral and west, as certain to B.C. grow into the great central city of Hotel British Columbia, with no more doubt or hesitation than had Si mon Fraser when he founded the chief trading post of New Cale donia a century ago. In five more years, when half a dozen railroads have converged at Most modern up-to-date hotel in the interior of British that point, they may feel justified Columbia. in sitting back and taking ease, New four-storey building. Accommodation for 120 guests hut in the meantime they will be found always ready to work, to All outside rooms—large, well-lighted and ventilated. hoost, and to advise, to the best of Steam heated. their ability. RATES $2.00 PER DAY UP
GENERAL INFORMATION / Weekly and monthly rates otfapplication There are a great number of town- Wire for rooms Wire for rooms site properties on the market in the lend adjoining the Indian Reservation here. Most of the subdivided proper- ties are owned, sold by or controlled by A * the Natural Resources Security Com- E. L. KEPNER, Proprietor P»ny, Limited, of Vancouver. Their Properties comprise Lots 777, 1430, 936, M», 937, 938, 2608, 2610 and 2507. houses, and a mountain of fodder ' store midway between ine uaj for horses. At the Cache there I offices and the improvised ship Activity at Tete Jaune Cache are a few log buildings and stop yard. The engineers' camps are DON'T BUY ON PAPER ping places; a restaurant and a - at Goat River, where Engineer Two men named J. Laurie and poolroom are being started. A. I Weiss is in charge, and L. C. C. H. Cooke left Saskatoon on the K, Bourchier of this place has a Gunn has a camp 40 miles above. We don't ask you to purchase South Fort George lots by seventeenth of January bound making a pencil mark on a townsite plan—You would for Fort George via Tete Jaune be safe in so doing, but if skeptical Cache. They arrived here a week COME TO ago. An account of their journey IT- is of considerable interest, as it j McGAGHRAN deals with a recent trip through the route of G.T.P. construction tr SOUTH FORT GEORGE the other side of the big hills. Bakers and Confectioners ^=a Investigate Our Proposition <-=^ The two left Edmonton for Edson, ^ and you will find a good live town--Two banks, sawmill, the next divisional point on the pool hall, newspaper, two general stores, splendid G.T.P., on the 20th of January. Soda Water and Ices : Caterers hotel, bakery, stationery store, mail-boat Edson, they state, is about the landing, scores of buildings, same size as this place, but is Cigars and Tobaccos and crowds of satisfied buyers rapidly growing. It is the gate WRITE FOR INFORMATION TO way to the Grand Prairie country FOURTH STREET SOUTH FORT GEORGE and the Peace River. From Ed son the train proceeds direct to Fitzhugh, a place in Jasper Park, NORTHERN DEVEOPMENT CO. and the next division on the new Fort George Trading & Lumber Co., Limited road, near where the steel ends, 172 Hastings Street, Vancouver, B C , or the resident agent, 300 miles from Edmonton. At Freight consigned to steamer Operators of Steamers oa the Fraser, Nechaco and "Chilcotin" at Soda Creek will G. E. MCLAUGHLIN this place there were a few Start Rivers —— Manufacturers of Lumber tm^_t______f^to th e stores, log cabins and tents. The Fourth Avenue, South FortlGeorge travellers' tickets showed their AD Kinds of Rough and Dressed Lumber for Sale destination as 'Resplendent,' but on reaching the end of steel no "Bone Dry Lumber in the Yards " one could inform them where this Phone: One-One Mouldings place was, so we presume that | 1836 | Assets Exceed Fifty Million Dollars | 1912 | 'Resplendent' will move toward CHAS. E. MCELROY / South Fort George General Manager. Fort George with the advance of steel. *_t_mn-MmmMxM_v**m_i__v__M-^—w_*^^ They arrived at the track-end TBe Bank of British North America on the 22nd and proceeded over the tote road to Tete Jaune Cache Tour money is safer in the Bank than in your house or In your Fort George Hardware Co. pocket. It is not tied up. You can get lt out at any time with on foot. There are about one out delay. NOTES discounted. Local and Foreign Drafts bought thousand teams freighting from General Hardware and Sheet Metal Workers. and sold. COLLECTIONS made promptly. Money Orders issued. the end of the steel through the All kinds of tin and sheet Iron work done. Yellowhead Pass,>aid Mr. Laurie. FORT GEORGE BRANCH: J. MUNRO, ACTING MANAGER There are roadhouses along the Camp stoves: Hot air Furnaces, etc. tote road, which follows one side of the Fraser River, whilst the LASELLE AVENUE SOUTH FORT GEORGE. grade is on the other. Both tracks \_an__tm,»tmmmm___}Mm____wmitM'it_»miit_\v.^ The Average Deposit of the are high above the river level- - about 300 feet—and they follow Canadian People is $122.00 the high level to Tete Jaune Cache. There are great numbers per Person of men working on the rock this o Roberts, Jones & Willson o Saving money can be made a habit. A portion of your weekly or monthly wage deposited regularly in a savings account will soon bring side of Moose Lake, near Fitz UWUD10KRTSN*nrrtfc. E. E JONES. A. J. SELWVN-WIUSOH. t___. you up to the average, and you will be surprised how rapidly $2 deposited hugh, the work being done by REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE AGENTS, AUCTIONEERS, weekly will amount to enough to make a substantial payment on your home. station men. Progress is neces VALUATORS and ACCOUNTANTS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, S6.800JIOO TOTAL ASSETS, K2-0CMII sarily slow, but the rockwork FOR SALE: Farm Lands. Garden Tracts. Timber Limits. Mineral Claims. Valuable town lots. should be complete by the late UST YOUR PROPERTIES WITH US. \t_7*V™)_\tZJXx THE TRADERS RANK spring. H. C. SEAMAN, Manager South Fort GeOrse A place called Hinton. in the TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "ERIN" FORT GEORGE, B. C. mountains, is the end of com Olces: Hamilton Awnue, Sooth Fort George: Central Avenue, Fort George, B. C. munication for independent freight. Past this point the G. T.P. refuse to carry the supplies of the Canadian Northern (who THE BANK OF VANCOUVER have been able to rush their con BRITISH COLUMBIA EXPRESS Head Oflice: VANCOUVER, R. C. struction by the aid of the G. T. CAPITAL AUTHORIZED •2,000,000 P. facilities) until the road is DIRECTORS: • . - • COMPANY —— R. P. McLENNAN Esq., President, handed over by the contractors McLennan, McFcely & Co. Whole Robert Kennedy, New Westmin- to the company. This place is at hsItoribMii Scad for a folder sale Hardware, Vancouver, B. C. 8t6I*. t. W. SHATFORD Esq., M. L. A. J* A. MITCHELL. Esq.. Capitalist, Mile 65 Alberta, and 100 miles OPERATING Vice-Pres. Merchant, Hedley, B. C. Victoria. B. 0. E. H. HEAPS. Esq., E H. Heaps A from the Cache. HIS HONOR T. W. PATERSON, Lieu Co., Lumber and Timber! President tenant-Governor British Columbia. Columbin Trust Co.. Ltd., Vancou At a point about midway be Stages Autos Steamboats M. I). CAKL1N, ver, B. 0. tween the end of steel and the From Ashcroft to Fort George, and all points in Cnnitnllst, Victoria. B.C. J. A. HARVEY, Esq., K.C.. formerly Cache the travellers passed the A. ISTEI, Esq. ol Cranbrook, B.C., Vnncouver, B.C. the northern interior of British Columbia, carrying C. S. DOUGLAS Esq. two heavy boilers from the dis A. L. DEWAR. General Manager. the Royal Mail, passengers and fast freight. GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED mantled Skeena River boats Dis Fort George Branch; F. N. DEWAR, Manager. tributor and Conveyor, being IV Palatial Steamer B.X. Awaits the Arrival of the Company's Stages taken in to Tete Jaune Cache for Frebtht consigned to steamer at Sula installation in the two duplicate creek will bt promptly forwarded. Head Office: Ashcroft, B.C. boats now being built there by Foley, Welch & Stewart. Oneof these boilers is being hauled over FARM LANDS IN CENTRAL the tote road by a donkey engine and the other by 12 teams of BRITISH COLUMBIA. horses. At one place it took five days to haul the boilers a distance of one mile. At Tete Jaune Cache In every case our there are forty men working on KODAKS Fort George the steamboat construction. The lumber is all shipped in prepared SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS District. lands were care from the coast, and the boats are Nechaco Valley fully inspected by being built by coast carpenters. a We have The point where the boats are secured the expert cruisers be building is about three miles exclusive Bulkley Valley. south ot the old Cache. Foley, i agency for fore we purchased Welch & Stewart's cache is at the Skeena Valley MilebS B.C., mrtherdownstream Canadian than the boats. Here they have Kodak THE GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY will make all these districts big otncts, two 200-foot ware Company, accessible to all the world. Every rail laid adbs a and have a to the value of the land complete Satisfaction I uar- 3 stock of Watch everything Repairing •__*\ for the photog North Coast Land Co. Ltd. C^^AVIE rapher. General Offices: 619 to 824 Metropolitan BIdg., Vancouver, B.C Band articles by null to Fort George. B.C. Just Drop In and Let Us Show You. London Office > 6 Old Jewry. Remember we pay special attention to PAID-UP CAPITAL, $1,500,000. mail orders. Robert Spinks CASSIAR LANI) DISTRICT. , the nortli shore and marked "H. •?*, 8. E* 01 the Peace River Land District. corner'' thencc north 8o chains; tnenee JOHN A. FRASER TAKE notice that Hcnrier Prcpoiituine, west 8o chuins; thence south 35 chai'" Painting and Paperhanging ol Vancouver, B. C, occupation gentleman morc or less to thc lake; thence easterly Front Street, QUESNEL, B. C. intends to apply (or permission to purch* along the shore to point of commencement ase the following describe :1 lands: containing 320 acres morc or less. South Fort George : B.C. Commencing at a post planted II miles HBNRY PRBPONTAIN. m west ot the east end of Choo-chi lake ou September 15th., 1911. Dec 9*
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