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PRINCE GEORGE CITIZF?
fOL. 7, No. 38.
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., JULY 17 1924.
[arry G. Perry Elected with a Good Plurality
Secured Over Fifty-Four per cent
FIVE CENTS.
of
Accepted Absentee Ballot*.
'ole T.
iken in Fort George Riding Went Heavily in His Favor.
H. G. Perry was officially declar-I to be elected as member for the ?ort George riding shortly after [lO:oO o'clock on Saturday evening. [This followed the counting of the I absentee vote, a matter which engaged the attention of Returning Of-[ficcr E. S. Peters and a considerable [staff from 9 o'clock in the morning until about 10:30 p. m. At the final count H. G. Perry attended in [person, and throughout the long ses-1 sion was assisted by J. O. wilson, [J G. Quinn, P. J. Moran and J. D. '.McLeod. F. P. Burden and J. A. Shearer did not, attend the count, but Mr. Burden was represented by Hiram A. Carney, E. H. Burden and J. D. Corning.
There were not so many absentee ballots as estimated, but all told there were 372, of which number all but 36 were counted, the rejected ballots
Local Men Are in Luck With Shelley Mine
Recent Development Opens Up Six-
teen-inch Paystreak in New
Shaft
Believe Ore Rich Enough to Carry
Cost of Running Drift From
Old Working
The Snowshoe mining partnership composed of local men, is meetin with considerable success in the de velopment of its mining .property i the vicinity of Shelley. Some tim ago the syndicate succeeded in sink ing a prospecting shaft for a dept of 47 feet on a nice showing of ore This work was started on a -,ma! showing which continued to make i width until at the bottom of the shaf the owners had a paystreak twelv inches wide, which sampled $4/ made up of gold values of $11.20 silver 12 ounces and copper 12'/r.
Considerabde difficulty was me with in the sinking of this shaft on account of water. A pump was in stalled but it was kept going con ptantly and at considerable expense To obviate this difficulty work wa commenced a short time ago on a showing 300 feet along the ledg
umbering 17 and the spoiled bal- j from the point of the first shaft, and
at an elevation of 75 feet.
Messrs. W. Bonner and W Cheer who have had this new work in hand came to town this week with a num ber of very rich samples. They have got the second shaft down twelv feet and find the paystreak much stronger than in the original shaft being now fully sixteen inches wide and carrying ore which it is thought will be twice as rich as that taken from the first prospect holel Be tween the two points at which the
Public Meeting Called on High School Matters
Property Owners' 'Association Seeking Explanation of Proposed Expenditures
l0t5 19.
The result of tHe election remained in cinubt until the last few minutes of the count. In proceeding with the count the returning officer took the absentee ballots returned by the deputies throughout the Fort George riding. These went into the box first, and then the ballots from the other ridings throughout the province were dealt with. From the manner in which the ballots came out of the box for the count it was evident those from outside points were fairly evenly divided between the Liberal and Conservative candidates.
The Longworth vote having been rejected. Mr. Peri-y started on the count of the absentee votes with a lead of one over Mr. Burden. The poll at this point had been reported as Burden 5, Perry 1, Shearer 0, but there were six absentee votes which the deputy had improperly opened and taken to .account, so that the entire poll was rejected.
For the first two hundred ballots the vote appeared to favor Mr. Burden, and at one stage in the count he was about twelve votes to the pood. It was when the returning officer got well into the absentee votes taken from the Fort George boxes that the strength of the Perry vote became manifest, and in the f'nal stage there were over thirty Perry ballots taken out without a The result of the count on
shafts have been sunk there is saic to be an even stronger outcrop o: the ledge. It is the present inten tion to commence a drift along the ledge from the point of the first work to the second shaft, and in doing so to tap the intervening showing. I is thought the ore encountered in this drift will pay for the work of driv ing.
Messrs. Bonner and Cheer are con fident they have a true fissure vein on the property, and that the vein lies between slate walls. J. D. Galloway, district mining engineer, paid a visit to the property two weeks ago, while in this section, and expressed himself as highly pleased with the showing.
There are two other outfits working in the vicinity of the Snowshoe and both are said to be meeting with considerable encouragement. On one property George Teetz, Carl Stalls and Owen Griffith are running a
'he absentee vote was Burden 131, i cross-cut to tap a good gold showing, Perry 1�2, Shearer 23, and rejected and on the other the B*rtchs Broth-and spoiled 36. This made the total j ers are developing a prospect which vote of the riding as follows: Perry j ffives an indicated value of $10.50 in 1080; Burden 1028; Shearer 206;, gold and galena. Spoiled and rejected 36.
� yote polled is within a shade per cent of the total list, which IS a very remarkable showing in view �j the changes which have taken ' in the riding within the last 'ears, and also in view of the ]at no attempt was made to the list during the recent re-
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ABSENTEE VOTE RESULTS IN VICTORY OF MELVIN BRYAN IN N. VANCOUVER
Vancouver, July lfi.�The ing of the absentee vote in
Ti pleb
complete figures on the beer cite vote are: Yes 1278 No-ected 14, spoiled 47.
The f
J
is a correct record
vote in the several polling div-t-hroughout the Fort George � ^'ith the exception of Long- p q ;. (Continued on page 5)
RESULT OF VANCOUVER
ELECTION STILL IN DOUBT
count-North
Vancouver has resulted in a victory for Melvin Bryan. Liberal. The total vote stands: Bryan 1285, Hanes 1163., Cruise 1150, and Deacon 439. The victory; of Bryan came as a surprise, as it was thought the contest wouQd be between Hnnes and Cruise. The defeat of Hanes takes another stormy member out of provincial nolitics. Fie kept the fight over the going until the Provincials took it up.
.Vancouver, July 17.�The VK~- l^e absentee
count-in the
CANADA INVITED TO
CONFERENCE ON
IMPERIAL RELATIONS
Ottawa, July 16.�Premier King
and win T..contesk � still proceeding j makes the announcement that the
Part of t Smith m this resi
absentee
f�UlHi to
1700. -
there is still a hope on the that Mary Ellen ace General McRae, ls by no means certain, came to the counting of the .allots tne�r number have been reduced from ... estimate of 3000 to about some talk that the election" * V" protest the entire grounds for ancouver� but the stat'ed and ^^ SUcl1 act'on are not nothing may come of it
Major
"WITH COUNTING Viot JT" �E ABSENTEE VOTE �*ne count of vote in the Alberni elec-the plurality of e over C. A. Mc-t from 14 to 42.
Canadian government has been invited to attend a conference during the present year to discuss imperial relations with the British government.
Naughton,
FIVE PERSONS DROWN
OFF ONE OF VICTORIA
BEACHES ON SATURDAY
Lieut. Watson, of the naval bar-f>cks nt Esouimnlt. his wife, and three enlisted sailors, lost their lives on Saturday evening by drowning of? Ross Bay, one of the Victoria benches. The partv had been spending the afternoon in cruising around in one of the naval cutters. The body of Mrs. Watson has been re-covtred. Lieut. Watson was a nephew of Mrs. C. C. Reid, of thin city. i
Dismissal of Teacher* Will be Ventilated Second Time on Wednesday Night
A public meeting of the citizens of Prince George will be held in the Oddfellows' hall on Wednesday evening for the purpose of considering the action of the board of school trustees in dismissing Messrs. P. C. Coates and Alex. Ogston, of the high school teaching staff, and also the reported intention of the members of the board in the matter of increased jexpenditures in the liigh school for the ensuing term which opens in September.
The decision to call the public meting came after a session of the members of the executives of the Prince George property owners' association and the Prince George Parent-Teacher association, which was held yesterday afternoon in the office of M. C. Wiggins, and which was presided over by A. E. Sibley.
There has been considerable adverse comment over the action of the trustees in dismissing the teaching staff of the high school, in the discussion of which it come out that the school board is making arrangements for considerable increase in expenditures during the next term. This greatly quickened the interest of the members of the property owners' association in the controversy, and resulted in the Joint meeting yesterday afternoon.
There was not very much discussion at yesterday's meeting, but the general opinion was that the issues involved in the dismissial of the teachers, and in the contemplated expenditures, were sufficiently great to warrant the calling of a public meeting so that the citizens would have an opportunitv of thoroughly understanding the situation.
Members of the board of school trustees and of the city council will be invited to attend.
CANADIAN OARSMEN GET INTO FINALS IN THE
OLYMPIC COMPETITION
Pnris, July 16.�The eight-oared crew from the Toronto university furnished one of the big surprises today by winning the right to compete in the finals in the Olympic'competition.
Timber Scale for Current Year Makes Big Gain
Month of June Shows Increase of
Over Two Hundred Per
Cent
Figures for Half Year Exceed Those of Highest Previous Year
J. M. Gibson, district forester, has completed the log scale for the Fort George district for the month of June. It shows the log scale at 6,-480, 212 feet, railway ties 123, 219, poles 60,610 lineal feet, posts 48 cords, and mining props 32 cords.j
For the corresponding month in 1923 the log scale was 2,936,278 feet railway ties 91, 057, poles 18,945 lineal feet, and posts 64 cords. The gain for the current month is there- j fore something over 200 per cent over that for the corresponding month over 1023.
For the first six months of the current year the scale for the district reads: logs 45,556,537 feet, ties 856,429, poles 249,130 lineal feet, posts 544 cords, and mining props 64 cords. For the twelve months of the previous year the log scale was 37, 464, 034 feet, railway ties 8111,797, poles 416,760 lineal feet, posts 799 cords, and mining props 1483 cordR. These figures show that for the first six months of the year an advance of over 20 per cent has been made over the record for the full period of twelve months in the year 1923.
The figures for the six month period also establishes another new record for the district in that they show a higher record than for any previous twelve month's period in its history. Heretofore the scale for the year 1920 wa.v the banner one for the district, the log scale standing at 38,125 000 feet, so that the increase for the first half of 1924 becomes 7, 431,537 feet in advance of the best full year period in the history of the district. Big gp.ins are shown under every heading with the excepton of t,hat for mining props but the curtailing of mining in Alberta has cut the export of props down to the vanishing point.
While the gain in the fgures' for the first half of the year has been phenominal it is not to be expected that the ratio will hold out for the latter half of the year. There will be a considerable gain over figures for the last six months of the year 1923. but the greater part of the logging has been completed for the year.
Business Men Will Deal With Motor Traffic
Oppose Limitation of Time During
Which Cars May be Parked In
Business Areas
Safety Regulations in Driving Considered of Much More Importance
THANKS/
To that great number of the electors of the Fort George riding whd extended to me their support during the recent election, I have to tender
icrewith my sincere thanks.
While we all know that anyone who remains for any length of time
n public life must accustom himself to receiving hard knocks, and to take them smiling, the fact remains that the public man is not insensible to
ividences of appreciation and commendation. For the most part such of
hese as come to him are the only recompense he gets, ot�.er than the satis-faction which comoa with the knowledge that he has done his best in the
nterests of his province, and especially of that portion of it which he has been elected to represent.
In the present instance I am doubly gratefufl to the electors who supported me in that they made the contest theirs as much as mine, and when my recent illness forced me out of the latter period of the campaign, they redoubled their efforts to achieve the splendid victory which came to them and in which I happened to bo the figurehead.
I need hardly state this latest evidence of approval means more to
no than that of four years ago. In the first instance it was simply an
ntimation of a willingness to accept my promises for work to be performed. The later vote. 1 am vain enough to think, signifies approval for work already done, as well as continued confidence in myself for the future.
In the contest throughout our riding there has been little of the bitterness which characterized the election in other portions of the province, ind such as did creep in may readily be excused in the excitement inci-
lental to the time. For my two opponents, and the men and women who supported them, there exists no hard feelings. We all were doubtless try-
There was a representative meeting of the automobile owners in the city hall on Friday evening. It was called at the instance of the Prince George branch of the Cariboo automobile association to consider "business of importance to every car-owner."
When the meeting got under way, with Alex. Moffat, honorary president of the local branch in the chair, it developed the business was twofold. The first appeared to be the enlisting of all owners of cars in the membership of the association, with the net result of enrolling some fifteen new members. It was represented during the meeting the Cariboo automobile association was a very strong organization, which included the greater number of car-owners in the province north of Kam-loops; that it had a great deal to do with influencing the decision of the government in the matter of the selection of the Fraser canyon route as the connecting link in the highway system of the province, and that local car-owners could make their influence more effective by membership in it than would be possible through the medium of a purely local organization. This view was generally accepted, and it was decided to select Messrs. I, B. Baird and Charles A. Pyne as the local representatives to the Cariboo association. Another meeting will be held next week when steps will be taken to perfect organization and select local officers.
The second business of the meeting was the consideration of traffic regulations throughout the city. There are now upwards of two hundred autog in the city, and the opinion was expressed that many of the persons driving cars knew less concerning regulations fop safety than they did about the mechanism of the machines they were driving. This matter was forced on the attention of car-owners by the recent action of the city council in deciding to bring in a bylaw to regulate the parking and driving of cars within the city limits. On the question of parking the opinion of the majority of those present appeared to be that while it was desirable to provide the manner in which cars sho-jld be parked on the city streets, it was not advisable to limit the time during which a car might be parked. It was represented that George street and Third avenue, in the two blocks of which it is suggested a parking limit of fifteen min- . utes should be allowed, were both wide streets, and if the manner in which cars should he parked was properly covered in the bylaw no necessity would remain for the fixing of a time limit. To place a time lim't on the parking it was represented would work a hardship upon the merchants within the parking area, and prove objectionable also to shoppers. It was admitted that the average man might be, able to grab a necktie or n collar within the suggested limitation of the city bylaw, but it was held to be quite unreasonable to expect a lady to select a dress, or rr.ntch a piece of goods, within the prescribed fifteen minutes, or in fact within any given number of minutes. There was also the matter of the shipping of goods from the local stores to be taken into consideration. For the most part it was more convenient to handle shipments from
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ng to do what we conceived was best to advance the interests of the sec- th{, frQnt of the gtores than from the ion of the province which we have chosen as our place of residence.
The
election is over, nnd for myself I am prepared to work with all for the eneral good.
In so far ns 1 am concerned, matters which worn issues durinvr the lection are issues still, and I will strive to secure their settlement in the be?t interests of the province to the extent of such abijity and persistency I possess. On the railway issue I will do my utmost to force the completion of the P. G. E. to the city of Prince George, and will continue tho ight for the adoption of a B. C. route into the Peace River district. T will ontinue to do everything in my power to advance the development of the preat timber industry, which for a number of years will b'e the chief
lanes, and the suggested prohibition against permitting a car to stand in front of business premises for move than fifteen minutes in the parking areas was regarded as unworkable. Tht position of the taxi-drivers was also brought up. A number of them had their stands on George street, operating from telephones in busi-i ness premises, and a regulation which | would keep them shifting about every fifteen minutes was not looked
factor in our industrial life. Every reasonable aid which can be extended upon as a matter of public conveni-:o the farmers who are developing the agricultura] ^�esomve1*, of the district! ence.
will have my hearty support; and the welfare of that hardy group of rappers, who maintain the important fur trade of the district, will not be verlooked.
Alll to the end that the people of the Fort George riding, from end o end, may prosper, and that I may be found worthy of the renewed onfidence which has been placed in me by its electors.
Sincerely yours, HARRY G. PERRY.
Alderman A. M. Patterson, who had taken marked interest in the consideration of the traffic regulation bylaw in the city council, was present at the meeting, as was also Alderman Opie. The latter had not been present at the council meeting when the bylaw was under discussion (Continued on page 5)