Thursday, February 25, 1926. PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN TIMBER SALE X7853. Pathfinding Trip of Sands, Seattle to Hazelton in 1911 Sealed tenders will be received by the Minister of Lands at Victoria not later than noon on the 5th day j Distance of 1280 Miles Was Cover- of March 1926, for the purchase of Licence X7853, to cut 1,624,000 feet of Spruce, Balsam and Cedar on Lot 3284, situated on the south side of Fraser river, opposite mouth of Torpy river. Cariboo District. Two (2) years will be allowed for j removal of timber. Further particulars of the Chief Forester, Victoria, B.C., or District Forester, Prince George, B.C. f25,2 Department of Lauds. NOTIOE ed in Flanders Car in an Even 38 Days. Activities of Public Works Department Have Made Real Road of Visions of 1910. "Chai-ting a Famous Highway" is the title of an interesting article which appears in the March number of Motor Life. It deals with the remarkable trip made in 1911 by P. E. Sands, of Seattle", when travelling in a little Flanders machine he undertook to deliver the greetings of Mayor Dilling, of Seattle, to W. E. Allison, the British Columbia gold commissioner stationed at Hazelton. Pacific coast automobile associations were just as far ahead of the road builders in 1010 as they are at Applications for permits to graze j tion of the motor world the Pa-livestpck on the Crown range within j cine coast highway which would ex-, acb grazing district of tlio province ] tend from Mexico through the Pacific of British Columbia must be filed i coast states and British Columbia on with the District Forester at Fort j into Alaska. Most people were in-George, Kamloops, Nelson. Prince dined to laugh at any such highway Rupert,'Vancouver and Williams aspiration^ but the motorists stuck Lake fe>n or before March ".1st, 192-6. ! to their proposition and with a view p.lank forms upon which to submit i to bringing their plan to the atton-applicationa may be obtained from j tion of the motor world and the Pa-the District Foresters at the above cine Highway association in 1910 named places, or from the Depart- j offered a gold medal to the first car which would cover the distance from Seattle to Hazelton, which was the tentative northern terminus of a very ambitious highway scheme. Several Applications f�r Grazing Permits for the Season of U>2($. Soft Ice Spoiled Big Carnival Race Friday Evening Rev. H. Kuring Did Not Win But Showed Himself Very Speedy on the Blades. Soft Ice and Threatening Weather . Had Little Effect on Carnival Attendance. ment of Lands, at Victoria, B.C. G. R. NADBN, Deputy Mnister of Lands. Depnrtmrnt of Lands, Victoria, P>.<\, January 9th, 1926. J21M 8 I attempts were made to win the ! medal, but it was not until P. E. Sands undertook the trip tha,t it was accomplished. There was little semblance of a road north of Quesnel at the time, but Sands and his companion covered the 1280 miles between Seattle and Hazelton in 08 days, leaving Seattle on August 28th and bringing up in Hazelton on October NOTICE is hereby gv/en, .':� nc-i 5th' .For about forty miles ,of ^ cordance with the statutes, that all ^aY * wa.s necessary to take the assessed taxes, assessed and levied little Flanders to pieces and haul it under the "Taxation Act" and "Pub-! Wlt^ horses, but saving this gap the lie- Schools Act", are due and pay- entire distance was made under mo- BARKERVILLE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT Fort George Subdivision Of. able on February 15th, 1926. All taxes collectable for the Bar-kcrville Assessment District (Fort George Subdivision of) are due and payable at my office. Government Building, Prince George, B.C. This notice, in terms of law, is equivalent to a personal demand by me upon all persons liable for taxes. Dated at Prince George, B.C., this 9th day of February, 1926. G. MILBURN, Collector of the Fort George Subdivision, Barkerville Assessment District. is Due to 94 Years rrience CANADIAN WM8SKY rI his advertisement is r>ot pub'fchcd or displaye dby the Li.j.j r Control '�"aid or b> the Govo.-ani-nt of l>0 I rnvinej c* Pritish Columbia. RAW FURS Bring your Furs to me or �hip them direct to me. I Suarantee the highest prices obtainable. P. Pavich Third Avenue. P.O. Box 62. tor power. The most interesting development in connection with this pathfinding trip has been the conversion of the visionary highway of 1910- into the reality of 1926. If Mr. Sands would undertake the same trip today he could cover in about as many hours as his first one occupied in days. The activities of the public woi-ks department of the province in the interval has provided the highway which w^Cs pictured in the imaginings oj^the motorists of sixteen years^efgo, and in 1927 the trip from Sgat'te or Vancouver to Hazelton will be an ordinary motor trip which will be taken by hundreds. .- The article in Motor Life is illus-tratew ,wifh a number of interesting snapshoots taken of the trip, and one Has but. to gance at them to sense the advancement which has come to this portion of the provided in means of transport during the past sixteen years. Numbers of residents in the district remember the Sands exploit. A fool trip, was the verdict rendered by most of them who saw the motorists fighting their way along the old telegraph trail, but there can be little question but that it brought results. The first real difficulty in British Columbia faced Sands and his party when they reached Quesnel. Sheriff E. S. Peters was residing in Quesnel at the timch He was possessed of the only knowledge of the roads or trails north of Quesnel. He told Sands how he might try to get through, but he was dubious that the first motor he had seen could make it. One of the snapshots shows the sheriff in the car with Sands at Qutsnel, following a run about town to convince him that the Flanders could do everything except climb trees. \. One noteworthy event of Sand 3* trin was the meeting with the Duke of Suthei'land. Lord Desborough nnd the late Admiral Lord Charles Beres-ford. The duke was then formulating a plan for the settlement of the country between Quesnel and Prince George with people from Scotland. The great land boom was on at the time, and the duke and his friends had been loaded up with a lot of it. The duke had an ambitious scheme for settlement in the Strathnaver district, and at other points, but his death occurring shortly after his visit very little in the way of development resulted. Admiral Beresford was just seeing t:ie country, and made* a great hit with everyone whom he had a chance to talk to. If the old admiral asked Sands as many questions about his little Flanders as he put to other persons ho met concerning their employments and expectations the pathfinder must have started north with an earful. As the highway to Hazelton will be opened this summer it is sug-pested the local automobile association should mark in s6me manner the really wonderful achievement of Sands in covering the entire route as far back as 1911._____ MRS. DAVID BELASCO DIED IN NEW YORK ON MONDAY New York Feb. 23.�Mrs. David Belasco, wife of the famous dramatist, died suddenly in this city yes-terdaflk Despite threatening -weather and thaw which made anything in the j way of. an ice sheet almost hopeless, I the carnival in the skating rink on: Friday evening proved to be one of i the most successful affairs staged in j thie city this wintei\ Although rain was falling during the early part of | the evening, and everything pointed! to a complete washout, the people j finally turned out in surprising numbers. Those who had secured j costumes evidently made up their: minds they would show if they were i the only ones at the rink, and as they: all appeared to be of one mind they | were all there, and the result was a very pretty picture. The big attraction in connection with the carnival was the race between Rev. H. Kuring and four men who were, chosen to go against him. in a two-mile race, his contestants relaying in half-mile periods. Very few residents had seen the parson on skates, although many had. hearc of his performances in Edmonton and elsewhere, and although the ice was in no condition for racing the exhibition given was considered a well worth the price of admission The parson did not win the race, but the consensus of opinion was tha he would have won handily had the ice been strong enough to keep hi thin racing blades from cutting through. Tom Corless took the first half-mile and H. Taft relieved him and for the first half of the race Kuring had no difficulty in showing them the way without exerting himself. Bud Graham took on the thirc half-mile and pushed the pai"son as hard as he could from the start. He was on even terms when three laps had been covered, and passed ^hi The ice was getting worse with each lap and Kuring evidently-decided to trail Graham, but the Tad was light and his wind was^rood, with the result that he presented Jimmy Williams with .a'lead of half a lap for the last^fralf-mile. There were few men^wlio were faster than Williams spate years ago and he figured he had ^margin enough to finish if he could keep his feet. He started at a lively clip and won rounds of applause with the manner in which he took the turns. He got one fall, but was up and away before he lost much distance. W]ith three rounds to go Kuring started to catch him. but in making one of the corners his skate went through the ice and he got a bad fall. He recovered himself and finished out the race, but from this point it was never in doubt and Williams crossed the line an easy winner. The following were the winners in the other racing events: Boys race�Cecil Presence and J. Van Somer. Girls' race�Nettie Ferguson and Joyce Campbell. Men's race�Rev. H. Kuring and Bud Graham. Ladies' race�Phoebe Davis and Muriel Rogers. The judges awarded the following prizes to those in costume: Girls' comic costume � Lucille Watson and Bettv Gait. Ladies' comic costume � Kate Renwick and Marjorie Renwick. Boys' comic costume�Frank Perry and R. Carson. Best dressed ladies�Mary Sinclair and Patricia Lyon. Best men's costumes�Reeve Harper and George Peters. Men's comic costumes�J. S. Robertson and C. Bergeron. Best dressed girls�H. Demas and Maude Renwick. Best boys' comic�W. Robertson and D. Robertson as "The Gold Dust Twins." The prizes awarded were all donated by the merchants of the city, and the carnival management desires to express their appreciation of their co-ope-ration which contributed so much to the success of the affair. As an evidence of their appreciation of the co-operation of Rev. H. KuVing tWp management presented him with a handsome pair of cuff links. NECHAKO HOTEL DESTROYED AT FORT FRASER The Nechako hotel at Fort Fraser was completely destroyed by fire .on Thursday. Tlio hotel was a large two-storey structure which was built, several years ago. Its destruction leaves Fort Fraser without an hotel building. 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