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SOUTH   FORT   GEORGE,   B.C.,   JULY 29,   1.911
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LOOKS MUCH LIKE A FEDERAL ELECTION FOR THIS FALL
Apparently wo are to have a Federal election this fall in which Mr. Martin Burrell, M. P. will again distinguish himself as an after-dinner speaker, and will tell his constituents in Yale-Cariboo what he has done for them at Ottawa since the general election of 11)08, when Duncan Ross, the Liberal, was ousted by this constituency to elect Martin Burrell, the Conservative. Now just what hits Martin Burrell done for this district since he went to Ottawa? We can't find out. It appears have to us that the one thing n fighting an,d determined representative for Cariboo could have done, would have been to exploit the necessity of clearing the Fraser River of" obstructions to navigation between Fort George arid Tete Juane Cache, in anticipation of the time, so near at hand, when a steamboat route would be imperative between the end of construction, now creeping into the province from Alberta, along the great water lane to Fort George. Certainly this work will have to be done before the navigation of the upper river can be attempted at regular intervals without taking absurd risks to life and property. As Mr. C. H. Lugrin, editor of the Victoria Colonist, pointed out last year, were the equivalent1 sum to the value of but one of the stciim-^boats now. running on^ the river to be expended between Soda Creek and  the Cache,
a great deal could b* accomplished. From time to tfcme, during ITr. Burrell's reign, the canyons have been scratched and nibbled at by* bmall gangs .'of Liberal voters under the direction, of incompetent men, who expended much, of their appropriations in getting on to the work, and today it is always a subject of argument whether or not any benefit has been rendered navigation by so me of tliis Liberal meal-ticket jobbery. Of course Mr. Burrell, as a Conservative representative, has a hard roncl to hoe in Ottawa, but we beHeve that with a little more aggression he could have forced the government to have recognised the necessity of making a clean-up of the menances to navigation on this river. Hon. Mr. Pugsley would then have turned the machinery of his department loose upon the boat-wrecking rocks othat turn steamboat captains pre-" maturely gray wondering whether or not their knowledge of river navigation and water surface indications will enable them to dodge the dangers of the river for the season without a wreck. Martin Burrell has done a great deal to exploit the wonderful advantages of British Columbia as a fruit raising country, back in eastern" Canada, and if the Liberals dig-up another Duncan Ross to run against him this fall he will become more firmly' seated in his political
'saddle than ever, and, in time, when Bill Laurier goes down to defeat on a tin-pot navy policy, or a reciprocity pact proposition, our esteemed member will probably be awarded the portfolio of agriculture. But in the meantime we would impress.upon our representative the necessity of this river-cleuning job being thoroughly done.
Men who inhabit a town 300 miles from a> railroad want political results. Down on the steel routes the action of governments with, respect to public itrnprovenients, provides merely additional advantages to the public or the corporations affected. Here all this is different. We depend absolutely upon the whims of men with the say in government departments. To the provincial government we turn for roads, trails and bridges. To the Dominion Government 'we raise anxious faces to read the inscrutable countenance of JMr. Pugsley as he glances at the petition and asks just where the leaser river is. The provincial government have responded as far as their surplus accumilat-ing policy will allow them, toward the opening up of this section by the building of roads. The federal government has given us the baby stare, and turned the marble heart to the pleadings of this district for the- removal of its river death traps. And now the march of progress brings us to the threshold
of a new era. For the first time in history the old Cariboo waggon road route into the northern interior has a rival looming up in the^ middle distance that will be established as the commercial route of travel into this district. We are separated from the end of the new and infinitely superior overland route to our waterway system by 315 *niles or river navigable to those steamboats whose owners are willing to take the chances of destruction the navigation of the unimproved rapids and canyons involved, which a competent gang of men and a carload of powder could transform into reasonably safe channels, for the value of one of the craft that will brave the perils of the water course.
When the election takes place next fail we hope to see Mr. Burrell returned with a larger majority than ever, providing the Liberals can not put a man in the field that will produce better results for his constituency, for, until this country is connected by steel rails with both edges of this continent, we want political results more than political idealism. We can not imagine who will receive the Liberal nomination to oppose Mr. Burrell. There are some clever and experienced politicians in the lower end of the district, one of whom, Mr. Stuart Henderson would poll a strong Liberal vote. However Mr. Henderson is a busy lawyer, who refused the nomination Ln Yale to run
against Mr.-Lucas in the provincial by-election in Yale hvsi sununer, so it would appear that he has retired from active political, life. However there an; more things in the brain of n lawyer-politician than.are dreamed of in our philosophy, and none can. tell what next will he evolved.
The Liberal organization in this district is improving visibly, and is gaining strength. It used to.be very rotten. A butcher, who applies his trade also to the English language, was at the head of it to all intents and purposes. They appeared to seek nothing but personl gain from the support of their party. The butcher ' pulled the strings hard ^ enough to secure a private wire, connecting with -the Dominion Government Telegraph service, and complete tel-ehraph installation in his own ranch house, where, being an amateur telegraph operator he could listen to messages passing over the government" lines. The fifteen thousand dollars spent on the Cotton wood canyon was a fair sample of the way river appropriations have been squandered in this section. A sort of promenade \vus built round the canyon at high water levfektfmt has never been used much, and most oKwhich. has now slid into-the river.
The fall election .promises well to be a jiyo political battle in Yale-Cariboo at least. The Herald looks forward to the haze of conflict with keou anticipation of something remarkable toward.
Local and Provincial
The Fort George, Tribune apparently is not aware that a man cannot change 1 is name except by act of parliaments^.
The Ledge, published at Greenwood>says that Jack McConnell is a daring journalisl> and that some day" he may get shot. We once heard of the daring one being about three parts shot on a public platform.
The steamer "B. X." owned by the British Columbia Express Company, is said to have cleaned up about $15,000 during the firstjrionth's run this season. Last trip her cargo consisted of some. wooden pipe and part, of a saw mill. Competition, is the life of trade.
The ^Vancouver  World  says that, in Winnipeg 60-cents worth of booze, served over Tamarack's bar.^was accepted as collateral by natne ^venders   w*�o pttr4�l     with their riglit Urbuy land in B. C. for that consideration to Peace   River land operators. If . they changed bar-keeps often enough there the.feliow. with enough aliases could acquire a. cheap jag.                               ,            <�
In the year 1909 Prince Rupert had a population of 300; Last year an estimate^shows �r)"(i(i, -and it is prophesied tliat "by-11)15 5u",000 people will be.Jiving there. Fort (ISorge is at present where ltupe stood in 1909; but -
It i.s reported that George J. Hammond, 'President.of the Natural Resources Security Company, will arrive here next week. We understand that an arch of welcome will be erected at the foot of Fourth street, composed of a-la-carte bills of fare from the .Hotel Fort George, his property..The stcairt^ landing^will be carpeted witlvSatur-� day .^insets. Fort George Tribunes^ Quesnel
The report of the Minister of Mines for the year 1910 has just come to hand. Its covers contain 269 pages of most comprehensive information on the mining industry in tho province of British Columbia. The annual report is copiously illustrated with half-tone engravings, and it deals with every phase of the industrjKfrom alluvial gold mining to coal producing properties. The department of mines in Britishi^Qolumbia, is perhaps the most exemplary governjnent department in Canada. This state of perfection is due largely to the energy and knowleageof his subject possessed by the Minister, the Richard McBride.
So far the Fort Georg* district has not come to the direct notice of the'public as^i mineral section, either in the report of the Minister of Mines, or elsewhere. iTh-is has been due to the fact tliat the district has never yet been prospected for anything but diluvial gold to any extent at all. During the last three or four years most of the prospectors have laid aside their rock picks and shovels to grasp the corner post axe in their' quest for unalienated land areas,', which they have found a profitable vocation without the same element of chance as the |>rosj)ecting of a country so heavily covered with vegetation as this district. However we are pleased to note that with the placing of the land reserve that now covers the dis-�trict, prospectors are'now taking to the hills again bent on the examination of the
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horn band wilNplay "Look Whose Here," and the reception^&^mniittee will see that ho. other details^are labkmg. lo "ulke llim feel thoroughly at home.
Nothing has yet been done the building of a jail. The irnnient maintains, a police officer, presirto^. ably as an ornament, for what good aj:ofi-stable can be without some place;,to*lodge his prisoners,  we fail, to  see.,It's a funny idea�isn't it ?   and   it'^certainly   -does not redound to the credit" of the Attorney-Geit^ 'nil's departments the least. The>est we (an suggestr^for the constable j&fdo to of: i �ndecs-'against his Majesty's laws, pending Jhe"building of thojuff,  is to shoot thorn
'full of holes anxKbury" them;\,or, as alternative, he ^cduld erect the cages which arrived here in November df last year, with-
x (>ut any building round them* then, if it rains" the prisoners could be provided >vith umbrellas,                       ".-��'     N        .     j
It would seem about time that some steps were taken by the government to establish Laricl- Registry offices nt more frequent intervals throughout the province,  than the.
present system .provides. It seems strango" that with the enormous amount of title registration and railroad | location registry that goes through from thisruipper country, thut it should be necessary to t.ravcjl to Ivamloops fbr| information.
HOW' SUBLIMELY IGNORANT. It would ai>pear   that the   Grand Trunk Pacific   Railway   Company's townsite aiid development, outfit ate '.too busy cieatiing ,.UP on their prairie .tow'nsites to push, the Promotion of their B. C. townsites.. It jnaust �be a great' graft, jtpwnsiting on�the li�nit-N kss prairie.    If someof "the      tiliik
CARIBOO IS A PROMISING FIELD FOR THE PROSPECTOR
country for minerals." The Fort George country is known to be, highly mineralized, and in .sections where exposed rock may be found, many discoveries of gold.bearing quartz and copper ore have been made. At Tete Juane Cache, and on Beaver River, toward the extreme eastern end of the Cariboo district, free milling gold ore is now being mined by hand. Mica has been found in very large "'quantities near Tete Juane .Cache and the Rocky Mountains that spread over the province in that neighborhood show,promise of supplying the world with great quantities of raw material. Down at the Cottonwood Canyon, about 70 miles iouth of here on the Fraser River, Don (Kil-lah>a well known prospector of the Quesnel River js^working 'his cfllment gravel proR-osition whictKcarrios high gold values. We understand that^negotjations are now in progress for the purchase of Mr. Killan'e mine by a Vancouver syndicate who intend to work" the property as a hydraulic proposition. The report of George J\^Wallter, Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo Diviet ion, which includes an area extending over the Cariboo Mining Division which includes the Fraser River at its most northerly point an area extending from,the North Fork,of of Quesnel Lake, in the south, and the Yellowhead Pass nnd headwaters of the Mud River as its east and^.w. of their station �rbunds,-and it will be showtiJxow sublimely ignorant the Natural Resources Security Company have been of the plans^of -the railroad coinpany, although they havcMoeen showing the station on their maps evet\ since they started peddling lots.
DUKE OF SUTHERLAND TO VISIT FORT GEORGE DISTRICT
 FREIGHT VIA THE HUB. A shipment of wooden pipe.arrived i^-e this week consigned t*,) the Department of "Fisheries at Babine Lake. This pipe will go from here via the Nechacp and Stuart rivers to -Stuart. Lake, and thence across the portage of about. 18 miles to the southern extremity of Babine, one of the largest lakes1 in B. p. If the Dominion government verc to make the Stuart River navigable for a small Istenmboat, all the enormous territory round Stuart, Tretnbleur, Babine 2toth Tacla and even the Nation Lakes could he supplied fromothis source at a great reduction over the present source of l^iHl        \       \
�,r CONTRACTORS HERE.     -
This week a . contractor   named Nelson,
representing the1 Toronto Construction �57
Preparations are being made by Russell R. Walker, local representative of the^North Loast Ltind Gompany, a corporjvtion which is dealing with the pick of the-districts far�m landsj backed by English capital, to entertain His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, and seven other members of the British nobility who are expected here early in September.
The Duke of Sutherland owns 1,500,000 acres in Scotland, or" about 2,122 square, miles. He is one of the -wealthiest men in the British Empire, and is aj great philantrop-hist. His object in visiting the. interior of B. C. is in connection with great-colonization schemes which have in view the population of darge areas by British colonists.
The steamboaC^Eort Fraser^ has been chartered in which the par4\'/will travel up the Nechaco River to Uriisor Lake. Some of the North Coast "Land Company s-land, which lies on the^east side of the Fraser river near White's'landing will also be inspected. The partyw expect to stay in the district for" about a month, malting South Fort George their headquarters.
earner-down from Tete Juane Cache by canoe jwitn a companion. His mission is to size up the country, between the Yellowhead Pass and Aldermere, along the line of the G. T. F. survey. Mr. Nelson stated that in his opinion Fort Georgo would be the place where the rails from east and west would meet on construction. According to Mr. Nelson the steel will.be laid to the Cache by. next July, and through communication be-rtween Fort George and the railhead would be established.                ,,
SUPERINTENDENT HUSSEY DEAD.
On the 'twenty first of the month there died in St Joseph's Hospital at Victoria on& of the finest guardians of the peace'that north-west Canada has ever known, P. S. Hussey, Superintendent of Provincial Police., Mr. Hussey was 59 years of age* He entered the provincial force in 1878 and was promoted to the superintendancy in 1891. Mr. Hussey was a'true type of westerner, splendidly capable of dealing with the worst ,type_of law-breaker that over terrorised a countryside. The history \of Mr. Hussey's life, recounting the'many experiences he has met on the trail of bad men, would make interesting reading, ancl would hv. a mute tribute to the^memory of~a nvan renowned" .for his cCiurage and deteruiiiTation. Mr. Hussey noweyer was always reticent regarding his adventures, and many of hisvdaring deeds will never bo chronicled.
WILL BUILD TWO HOTELS.
Messrs Johnson & Bums, late proprietors of the Hotel Northern, which was destroyed by fire here on the first of the month, have dissolved partnership by mutual agreement. Both gentlemen intend to erect separate hotels on this townsite. Robert Burns left on the "B. X." early this morning for the coast, armed with a petition signed by two hundred property holders, requesting that a licence be granted a hotel which he is now preparing to build at the corner of Fourth Street arid Laselle avenue. Albert Johnson will build his hostelry nearer Second Street, retaining the name Hotel Northern. Mr. Burns will call his house The Clarence. The necessity of having hotel accommodation before the fall is very pressing; and it \s to be hoped that the government will accede to the requests of ^,heir petitioners as shortly as possible. South Fort George is more en-, titled to two licences than any other town in Cariboo, yet in the little town of Barkerville there are no less than eight licences, whilst Queanel has two, and Van Winkle two. Two licences may be granted to any town, but no more unless the population, exceeds 500.                         '.   � "., '
WE'LL HA\y5 TO PASS.
Our dear old conteniporary_in Ashcroft, wrote a very nice editorial on the exemplary line of the good a unanimous press could do for this upper country. We will refrain frotn
criticislii because the editorial read like the Simon Pure dope, but ve would rather that the Journal would leave our name out of any suggested alliance in which the name of that prodigy of promoter's pamphlets, the Fort George Tribune appears. The Tribune is owned by George J. Hammond, a.n ex.-bucket shop operator and get-rich-quick artist who has flouted 11 coalition of town-sites Jiere jthnt promise poor return for cash invested therein for years and years'," perhaps for ever. This "iium Hammond has a company named the Natural Resources Security Company, which was well thought of as a confidence inviter, but take The Herald's tip and don't confide ' without personal investigation of the > property they offer. We have been after tlu\ scales of the men who are maiming this part of B. C. by promotion methods that will inevitably react disastrously upon the country in the not far distant future. The time is not far off when we hope to achieve our object, and then we want all the credit and mean to see that we get itl The Herald is here for the interests, of the investing public, first, lastj and all the tiine. \Ve;'have passed up lots of promoters hush'. money to be consistent, .and have been, battered and torn " ;by the promoter's organization and their money power. However _wk chose to fight^ and, as the funny paper would say, wcliavo fit, and we will shortly deliver a Blow or two in the solar pleads of our adverJLary... ._v