PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN^ VOL. 9, No. 41 PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. FIVE CENTS. Joseph Graham Made Good Impression as a Candidate Joseph Graham, the Liberal can-late in the Cariboo riding, made self acquainted with the electors i'rince George and vicinity on ' nday evening, when he addressed arge arid attentive audience in the ,if.l theatre. He has been having : rennous tim� during the past two ka in the effort to cover the large ling he aspires to #represent in .' ;ament, but he is full of energy � .,': (jives one the impression he gets :- much kick out of the campaign as do his listeners. Frank Clark, secretary of the Prince George Liberal association, occupied the chair and presented Mr. Graham and the speakers supporting his candidature to the audience. H. G. PERRY, M.L.A. 11. G. Perry, M.L.A. got a great reception when he rose to open the i. beral campaign in Prince George. H( said there appeared to be some . . illusion in the public mind as to issues in the campaign, but in the , � | it would rest with the electors decide whether the one party was etter than the other or whether were equally bad. The Conser-itives were seeking to have the oms scandal and a high tariff as : . issues upon which this campaign ild be fought out, but the Liberal:: were making their appeal on legislation they had presented to parliament, on what had become j ... wn as the people's budget, and | the issue of civil rights of Can-j :. and their relation to the gov-lent of the dominion. These, in ' minds of the leaders of the Lib-i i party, are of much greater im-. rtance to the people, of Canada ..... any muck-raking in conneotion the customs scandal. Person-,. ,. .Mr. Perry said he regarded it as : : i lunate that an election should (ought out in Canada in which the leader of an historical political patty which had'given such great names to the history of Canada and to that of the mother country as had the Conservative party should find himself in the position that the only matter he was prepared to dis-cuss was whether some officials in the customs service of the country had been exporting whisky to the j United States or had been guilty of smuggling silks or other articles into Canada and evading the payment of duties. Canada, to his mind, was a great country, but if it were to achieve its destiny as one of the great nations of civilization it would be n icessary for its people to seri-9usly grapple with the great domes-ic and international problems which confront it. < John A. Fraser, the Conservative candidate in the Cariboo riding, had stated that so far as he as concerned the tariff is the chief issue in this campaign. A statement of this kind fquired a little explanation since i 'it re was no party in Canada today ' which proclaimed itself a free-trade' party. There was the Conservative party which stood for a high tariff, there was the Liberal p"rty which contended the welfare of Can- a demanded a low tariff, that the osperity of the country depended the main in the production from soil, from the forests, from the ; � and from the fisheries. The ; ' time between the two tariffs in that the high tai'iff pushed enough became a protective and forced manufacture with- couhtry, while the low tariff ! aa a means of revenue. In " articles Canada had an ex- rtable surplus and. the price which I i received for its surplus was � price Fixed fa Canada but a I price. In relation to this part t.ida's trade it did not matter ligh the tariff might be raised 1 �' not add one cent to the at which Canadian surplus cts could be sold in the world . ' Frasei has proposed an addi- x upon butter for the reason United States has a higher tax ' have. In a broad sense in- the import taxes upon but- I have no effect upon the Canadian price of butter for -"" that while Canada imports pounds of butter it at the -1' exports 24,500,000 pounds top of this the United States 3 best customer for the Produces. If the members "'�y party in parliament were "erate of the interests of the � farmers as they wished to ' would like to ask Mr. . 'W it was they failed to sup. Uoeral government when it ' .'� �' nieasi-re^to prohibit the "\vin._r onservative, party support- Proposal. jas�.in given for the suggest* ailff was the closing of the � ^(,(�len mills. The Conser. ;1U<1 the mills were closed w *v anff was not high S th^trade figures-showed Canada had imported woolens from the United States in 1921 to the value of $5,300,000, the imports of woolens in 1925 had dropped to $1,000,000. All the talk of tariff increases is directed against imports from the United States! We find in the case of shoes that in 1921 Canada imported shoes to the value of $1,000,000, but in the last year the importation of shoes dropped to $450,000. If the Canadian woolen j mills closed it was not due to the tariff against United States imports. Take the figures of Canadian imports from the United Kingdom. For the year 1921 the woolen imfidrts are given at $22,000,000 but for 1925 they had risen to $33,000,000. In the case of shoes the/imports from Britain for the first year were $290,-000, but for the last year they rose to $1,000,000. Do the Tory tariff changes really mean the raising of the duties against British imoorts, the country to which Canada sells four or five times the goods value which it purchases? In this we have the Tories waving the flaj> of empire with one hand while in the other they hold the knife with which they would cut the economic bonds which bind Canada to the mother land. ~ The low tariff of the Liberal party aims to lessen the cost of the production of goods manufactured from the basic products of the soil, from the mines, from the forests and fron. the fisheries by reducting the cost of the necessary machinery, and by increasing the production increase the profits of the people producing. The issue appeared to be so plain to him that he failed to understand how a single Conservative in the Cariboo could fail to realize his plain duty to British Columbia in the tariff issue which had been raised. The lumber industry of the whole nor^ them country rested upon the facili. ties of trading with the United States as well as with the people of Eastern Canada, and so far as the trade treaties of Canada went he thought the best defence which could be made for them was founded in the belief that in the cultivation of trade relations, on'e nation with another there was the piomise of international peace and an end to war. Mr. Perry commented i^on the unfavorable field which the northern part of Cariboo riding would prove to be, for the Conservative candidate in view of the studied opposition on the part of its leaders to development in northwestern Canada and to northern British Columbia in particular. In this connection he instanced the hostility presented to the proposal for the building of the wheat elevator at Prince Rupert and to its subsequent leasing to the wheat pool in the prairie provinces. To his mind there was no development of recent years which promised more in the way of opening up northern British Columbia than the building and leasing of the grain elevator at Prince Rupert, as it would help not only Prince Rupert but Prince George and the entire country along the line of the old G. T.P. This was one activity of the Conservative leaders which must fail to secure the endorsation of the Conservatives in the Cariboo riding, since they are bound to be as anxious for the development of their district as were members of the Liberal party. Mr. Perry gave some attention to tne constitutional issue in the campaign. There were a number of people who were inclined to treat the matter lightly, but he thought they would change their viewpoint when they realized how seriously the rights of parliament had been invaded. He reminded the audience of the great imperial conference which had been held in 1911 by the premiers of the British dominions. At this conference it was set down as a fixed policy that all of the dominions should rank as co-par*-ne.rs, as brothers and sisters, in the empire, that they should have an equal voice in affairs of empire and control in their own affairs. When it came to fashioning a government Cor the Irish Free Sttae that of the Dominion of Canada was taken as the pattern upon which it should be formed. The whole strength of the empire depended upon the solidarity of its various units. The principle of government in Canada was the same as thai in England. There was an axiom in England' that the king could d<> no wrong". It. may have come after the people had taken off the head of one king, but it simply meant Jhe king had no responsibility for the government of the country. Under the system of government the .mime minister accepts full responsibility for the government which is Carried on in the name 6f the king. Canada has reached the same stage of-.self-government and the governor-general occupies the same relation to the CSnafTjan^ parliament as does the king to tfie' Brit. ish government. This was the posi-(Continued on Page 4) Fort Grahame Mineral Showing is Magnificent Charles A MacKay Says It Is Much Bigger Than Reported by Douglas Lay. Outcrop of Six Ledges Sufficient to Supply Feed for a 500-Ton Concentrator. Paper Mill Promoters Are Again Examining Project The Fort Grahame galena-silver showing is the greatest one on the continent. This is the verdict of C. A. MacKay, the representative of j the Victoria syndicate which has I secured a bond upon it. and who re- j turned to Prince George on Sunday, i Mr. MacKay went in by way oil Summit Lake and returned by the same route, the trip occupying eight days each way. In speaking of the showing to a Citizen representative he said he was prepared for something big from the report which had been made by Douglas Lay, the provincial mining engineer for the dis- | trict, but he found it was much I greater than had been pictured by the government engineer. There is ore enough in sight on the property at the present time to keep a constant feed to a concentrator with a daily capacity of 500 tons, and with existing transportation facilities it would be possible to ship the solid ore contained in the several ledges at a profit. Prospecting of the ground disclosed six veins instead of four, and they occur in limestone which has been tilted at an angle of from 25 to 35 degrees. Four of the veins are replacement veins, in which the mineral has rushed up and replaced th'e limestone. While the width of these veins has been given generally by the government engineer at an average of 12 feet, Mr. MacKay says the replacement area lias a width of approximately 40 feet. The full width of the replacement is not min_ eralized. but the�*mineralized portion will be considerably in excess of the 12-foot average. In addition to the four veins of this charcater there are two strong shear veins. Mr. MacKay secured a careful sampling of the ore showings and he is satisfied the assays from these will greatly exceed in values those reported by Douglas Lay, which gave the Fort Grahame ore an indicated value of 12.2 ounces silver, 30'/r lead and f>% zinc. One of the veins differs from the others in that its content carries much heavier percentages of zinc than of galena. Having viewed the property Mr. MacKay is convinced the securing of it under bond by his syndicate was a stroke of good fortune, but. the property is so big that he has felt obliged to revise his plans for,development. The ultimate plan for the working of the property will call for the erection of a smelting plant at Finlay Forks, at which point a supply of coke could be secured from the coal mines in the Peace River canyon, but as a preliminary to this Mr. MacKay intimates he may. recommend the erection of a concentrator having a minimum* capacity for treating 500 tons of ore per day. A power plant will also be required at the mine, and the recommendations may also cover the building of fifteen miles of roadway to bring the ore out at the mouth of the In-genika. This will mean a comparatively heavy expenditure, but in the opinion of Mr. MacKay no mining company on the continent ever start, ed with a more promising showing, and there will be no difficulty in raising the capital necessary for the equipment. Mr. MacKay was acompanied on the trip out by .lames Ferguson, the locator of the property, and by Louis Peterson, lhe postmaster at Finlay Forks, while Hugh Muir had charge of the party's navigation. Mr. Ferguson will remain in Prince George until Mr. MacKay makes his report to his syndicate at Victoria. It is the intention to commence work in a small way during the present year, and this will be performed under the supervision of Mr. Ferguson. Next summer the Victoria syndicate will launch a big development programme which will doubtless give the province its largest silver-lead uroducer. During the initial stages of .development all supplies will be taken in by way of Summit Lake, but when the company finds it necessary to place boats on the Finlay and Peace rivers the supplies will probably be drawn from Edmonton, a number of trucks being used to negotiate the break in navigation through the Peace River canyon. GAIN IN CUSTOMS DUTIES FOR MONTH OF JULY Ottawa. Aug. 23.�Dutiable goods imported into Canada for the month of July aggregated in value $54,-851,135, being an increase of over ten per cent, and the duties collected were $12,750,236. being'an increase of six per cent. CONSERVATIVES IN PRINCE GEORGE ORGANIZE FOR THE APPROACHING ELECTION The Conservatives of Prince George and vicinity held, an enthusiastic rally in their committee rooms on Tuesday evening when the organization was perfected for the coming election. Messrs. H. A. Carney, R. W. Alward, M. S, Bucl.^.ian, T. M. Watson, C. W. Ferry, J. Aranovitch and A. P. Andersen were appointed as a committee to take charge of the voters' list, and a committee composed of Messrs. R. W. Alward, H. A. Carney, T. M. Watson, G. S. Porter and K. Houghtaling will look after matters pertaining to the committee rooms. As a publicity committee Messrs. A. E. Sibley, H. A. Carney, D. G. Williams, A. B. Moffat and T. M, Watson were appointed. Transportation affairs will be looked after by a committee composed of Messrs. M. S, Buchanan, G. S. Porter and A. J. Peck. Bishop of London Creates Stir With Immigration Views Warning to Canadians Against Annexation Received With Levity in London. The people of Prince George were thrown into a flutter last, evening by reason of the arrival in the city of F. P. Jones, of Montreal, and Angus McLean, of Bathurst, N.B.. the two men who have taken leading parts in the promotion of the local pulp and paper mill. W. L. Armstrong, president of the board of trade, and a number of representative citizens were at the depot to meet the visitors, who were on their way west to look over the hydro-electric part of the promotion and the lake feed of the Nechako river. They will probably travel as far as Fort St. James and return to Prince George tomorrow. The two promoters were reticent, but they admitted their presence indicated another attempt was being made to put the pulp and paper mill project oVer. They were hopeful of success, but cautioned there was no certainty in the matter. There are still difficulties in the way. but they had every reason to believe the promoters of the enterprise would meet with a spirit of co-operation and that these would be overcome. One of these difficulties had to do with the freight rate on the long haul to the market in the central states, wnere it was expected much of the product of the mill would be sold. There is a good prospect that a sat-isfactory arrangement will be arrived at with the management of the Canadian National, but there are other matters which require to be ironed out before the project can be launched. Asked as to when the public might expect a definite statement as to when the project would be proceeded with, one ot the promoters said it was altogether likely a definite statement of their intentions would be made within two months, trmt within this period the persons most heavily interested in the promotion would make up their minds to go ahead or retire from the field. Messrs. Jones and McLean are ac- church of St. John the Divine, all companied on the trip by H. G. Gundy, a member of the financial corporation of Wood, Gundy & Co., of Toronto, and the supposition is he i* looking over the field with a view to a stock flotation, one which seems to bring the long-deferred pulp and paper mill much nearer of attainment than it has been. In addition to Mr. Gundy, a Montreal hydro-electric engineer in the person of C. R. Lindsay, accompanies the party. He arrived in the city on Tuesday, in company with E. W. Bowness, of Edmonton, the engineer who has had charge of the hydro-g-raphic work on the Nechako river tor a number of years. The two engineers preceded the. main party to Isle Pierre, the point at which it is proposed to develop the electrical energy in connection with the enterprise. It is understood the engineer will examine not only the power site Hi.- Lordship Fears Foreign Settlement Will Swallow British Connection. Right Rev. A. F. Winnington-In-gram, Bishop of London, will not arrive in Prince George on Wednesday next as was anticipated and arrangements for his reception have been cancelled. His lordship was scheduled to consecrate the rebuilt Quesnel, and was passing through Prince George on the way. but it is announced that unforeseen circumstances will prevent his tilling his engagements. The unforeseen circumstances may have some connection with a tangle which the bishop got into in Toronto on Friday last when he undertook to discuss Canada's immigration problem. He was very outspoken, and the London newspapers considered it necessary to rebuke him, the West-minster Gazette giving the matter editorial prominence under the caption "Bishop Let Loose." The indiscretion by the bishop (>e- dd dlired by curred in an address delivered ��> him in Toronto when he warned Ca nex anadians against the danger of an. nexation to the United States, and pleaded for the populating of the dominion by British stock rather thai- certain Europeans, and for the sup- but the lake leeds of the river, and port of the Church of England pro- that he will make the trip to Fort ject for empire settlement. St. James so that a complete report "Do not let us hide our faces from can be made upon the power branch the real danger," he urged. "Ij The visitors arrived at Dome Creek know perfectly well that not all | on Tuesday where they were met by Canadians are as loyal to the British empire as those in Toronto and Ontario, and I want to look at the case of those who find great difficulty in thinking it is to their interest to remain a part of the British empire." His lordship paid tribute to the sincere loyalty of French Canadians who, he stated, did not wish to ;;�<> under the American flag. "But can we expect the same loyalty to British ideals from those Galicians, Poles and God knows who, who are populating the West," lie asked. "Can we expect those who do not understand a word ot' Eiur-lish to be equally keen about the British empire?" There were njso financial reasons why some might wish for annexation to the United States. Foreign-born who had to pay taxes on F. P. Burden of this city. Part of the promoters' trip to Prince George was made by way of the Eraser river, which presented an opportunity for viewing some of the timber which will he used when the enterprise is eventually launched. It. is understood a close examination of the timber in the pulp reserve along the Eraser will be made in connection with the present visit of the promoters, as this would be quite as essential on a flotation as a report on the hydro-electric situation. farmer Good Progress on Me Arthur Spur J. D. McArthur is making the dirt fly on the railway spur he is build- every beast, shipped across the bor-1 |*f "",.""� ��*����� -���� -�-. --�--der naturally wanted to have that ing which ls to connect his mills) tax removed. "If you co-operate with us in the i Empire settlement scheme," he said, | "and avoid the dangers and mistakes of the past, and we work together, I believe that we will make Canada not only the greatest nation on earth. but still more than ever the brightest jewel in the British empire." on the Hudson's Bay addition with the Canadian National railway system. Part of the work is being pei"-j formed by day labor, but the mah-iiiLi' of the cut through the high bank j which constitutes the right-of-way of Taylor Crescent, lias been let to I a number of Swedes. A crew of twenty men with fourteen teams is engaged in the construction of that portion of the spur to the east <>f Taylor prescent, and a big showing h,%.- been made Epr the time they have ceen employed. _______ . There is a side-hill cut to be made A change has been made in the at this point for abut one thousand date for the Conservative meeting in Jeet, when the spur will cross the thus citv. A. E. Sibley is in receipt j f'^ ground which extends south to - - �" ����------ci.i I the mill site. The men who have taken the con. W. J. BOWSER, K.C. AND T. S. BAXTER SPEAK HERE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING of a telegram irom u. t>. mcujiu�jU setting out that W. J. Bowser will not be able to reach Prince George until Wednesday, and it has been arranged to hold the Conservative meeting on that date in the Capitol theatre. This meeting will be addressed by Mr. Bowser and by T. S. Baxter, one of Vancouver's former mayors. The men h tract for the cut through the ridge along Taylor Crescent have a crew of seven. They are boring into the hill at a lively rate, and building u~� the grade which is to extend across the swamp to connect up with the railway tracks about one thousand feet west of the portal of the Fraser river bridge.