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VOL- 15, No. 23
Gold Excitement Now Has Great Hold Upon The People of Canada
.PRINCE GEORGE CTTIZBN, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1933
Fire Cents
Dominion has Become World's Second Largest Producer of ^ The Yellow Metal
m which base metal prices favored gold production as a by-product. During the. current year the world's gold production is exacted to greatly exceed that of 1933 for the very sufficient reason it will be possible to
NEW FIELDS BROUGHT IN Produce gold at S27 an ounce which
1 � - f-DUla not be DrortllV-pri n.t en*. *On
British Columbia's Placer and Lode Districts Command the Attention of Engineers
There is more activity in the search for geld throughout British Columbia this summer than there has been for many years. As a gold producer the nrovince will . figure . prominently for the next decade in the ..dominion's gold production. "The world- has .virtually ' ne (.old-mad, and all because some
t mt oia m tn
of there
not
be produced at say $20. What docs it cost to produce gold? Colonel Barbour, an authority on production costs, fixes the cost at.$15 an ounce. With a margin of $12 an ounce in place of $5 it :s reasonable to assume more gold will be produced.
Canada had the gieatest gold production in its history in 1932, reaching a mark of SG3.000.000 and holding second place among tho nations. Of ttis total the province cf Ontario contributed S47.0C0.OG0. Much of this, came from the Porcupine' and " Kirkland Lake, but several .newer districts will Canada's gold
District Farmers Have Engaged in Fertilizer Tests
Representative Farmers in Five
Districts .Around Prince
George Taking Part
Produce Will be on Exhibit in a
Special Booth at the Local
Fair�This . Fail
John C. Kelly, local representative for. Canadian Industries. Limited, has planned a 'comprehensive test til's summer for the various fertilizers turned out by his company. He has selected a group of representativs farmers from different .sections, and has supplied them witili the class of fertilizer believed tc be best adapted to their special requirements, and the
MATTERN FAILS TO SET RECORD ON SOLO TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
Moscow, June 7�After clipping three hours off the record made to this city by WHey_Post and Harold Gatty, on their world flight, James Mattern, United. Stales flier was cheated of victory . today when his plane crashed on his hop from Omsk to Novosibirsk; The dispatch does not state whether Mattem was injured, but he was unable to proceed and a plane ha-?, been sent to his rescue. Maf.tern is repoiied down at a point 350 miles east of Novosibirsk. Moscow, June 5�Jim Mattern. the Pacific coast flier who U attempting to ze': the record.for a flight around the world arrived safely in Moscow today after being fifty-one hours out from New Ycik. Mnttem encountered very Unfavorable weather in crossing the Atlantic which forced him to alter his course. As a result he missed the British. Isles'svand landed on a small island south of Norway. He was forced to remain there for eighteen hoin
farmers for their part are to make the until he could resume his flight to
most cf their fertilizer. It is at ence j Moscow. He arrived here
in good
S fcr the yellow metal to be re- p^S nSv3 f? T ? ?i B �f 13|the falreSt and the m0St c^*tlnS tcst "haPe a"d h^d an excellent night's Si 2 the monetary-standard^ In ^Sd^arSv^.-^SS1"-*6 ^ ^^^ ^^ ^^'l^- Although flying.condition, wer.
[he
search for gold is easily under-stcod" when the price of gold mounts es"the Price of other commodities fall. It, was a common opinion the price of gold differed from that of all other commodit'es in that it was. fixed, while other prices might fluctuate. This of course would be equivalent to a change in the price of gold in that it would have a greater purchasing value, but during the prevailing depression even this position has had to be abandoned. In Canada today tho. price of gold is bared upon the market quotation for sterling, and sterling being at a discount gold > a l've'ly infere-t for " irimber cf Prince George residents is the gold gravels along the McLeod river, now being examined by Dr. Victor Dolmage under purchase, option fcr one of h4s companies. Mining men who have" visited this section are acrreed there are wonderful possibilities for gold recovery along the McLeod river, and within a few weeks th>- view may receive the endorsement of men who are prepared to back their opinion to the extent of investing the money necessary to establish their conv'ction The McLeod river, however, is but one of the sections inviting development. There are so many of thorn there is said to be a' basis for the bcl'ef the gravels along the rivers to the north of Prince George will within a few years send out a stream of gold which will equal that of the B.nrker-villp district in the most sensational ror'od of its development.
How much gold is there 'in the' world? It is a common mistake r> be $12,000,000,000, but it -V-known "�*? in normal timeo one half of the Pold produced � is used for monetary Purposes, the~other half being used in [he arts or hoarded. That this is true �s atte^ed by the fact that during the year 1932. with the marked aiwecia* fon in gOid values, as much gold came Ir�ni the hoards of the Indian ir as>as produced by the Rand in L Africa. Some of the~g'old used in th< arts is lost, but authorities are more "" Jess agreed the worldVirolrt suppl* te taken at $24,000,000,000. rTV the monetary systems of the even the greater to^al aptoearf it-, and the gi-eater part of '5 p^iri to h�ve been pjccumu.lat.ed ;r.e Colum1�-. .-,et out to seek the 0 of .the Indies. The cold output '�h<3 mir>p<; Vf t-*-.e world since the l7"'"ry of America 'is set at $22'-
�*��*
the pro-
having been made "right up to Arctic C:rcle. All of the western v:nccs are ccVmtcd f-poh to increase their geld output this year, and especially British Columbia. In all of them the airplane, will
and every farmer throughout the several districts will be in a position to judge for himself the advantage he
unfavorable Mattern took off for his flight through Siberia. Mattern is confident he will be able to circle the
Central Interior Stock Breeders Make Progress
T. G. Stewart is Highly Pleased
with His Inspection of the
Imported Stock
RED POLL BULLS ARRIVE
Have Been Consigned to Improvement Center at Chilco, Webber Lake and Ellesbv
T. G-. Stewart, dominicri live stock promoter, arrived in Pi(hice George on Saturday with a shipment cf three Red Poll bulls, consigned to Vander-hoof. The bulls came in from Kam-loops under the federal government's bull-loaning pol'cy for delivery to the Chilco, Webber Lake and Ellesby stock improvement center, the secretaries of the respective' units of the
center being V
McKeown, Ole.
may count upon in the utilization of j glebe, in six days. Mattern has.been
"onportant part, e; amina'.-ion of new
play a very in the ex--Ivch in. the
absencq'of the plan? would be too remote to receive engineering attention essential to the securing of cap'tal for their development.
What is me with^ respect to new geld finds in Canada is equally true with respect to many of the world's gold producing countries. In the Transvaal, the geolog:st"s admit a mistake has been made in fixing the limits of the Rand which has been producing half of the world's gold supply. Sjx'y miles was set as its outside l:init. It is now admitted the gold producing area is very much greater. There have been important finds in the Kenya district in East Africa, in Northern Russia and Siberia to mention but a few. Everything points to. the greatest gold production in the world's history when ths accounts have been made up at the close of 1933.
H. H. Stevens is Pressed to Lead Conservatives
may
?beorv the rni;
-., afford
t.h
s for of
th: in
During 193"
rn'n.er* *-et an a'l-Mme record nrry*Y^ of *23 931.000 fine
of
ro* wrtti $494,-
r o-nf �"er the
of
ounces ever the output cf 1915
C.I.L. fertilizers. Mr. Kelly has
.shown excellent
judgment in the selection of the fanners to whom he has siiplied fertilizers. Here they are: John Hediger. Emil Pearson and Philip Derseauve. of the Pineview district: Charles Westlund and Andrew Allen, of Chief Lake; W. A. Lockyer and Anton Ruste, of Salmon Valley'; Charles McPhee and Charles Cook, of Reid Lake; and G. L. Sutton and Jack Avery, of Isle Pierre. In this demonstrat:on not only the fertilizers will go (*n trial but the farm ere as well, in that they will be engaged in a competition.
The comparison of results attained will be made at the Prince George fall fair. For this purpose Mr. Kelly will have a large booth in which every product raised with the assistance of C.I.L. fertilizers will go on exhib'tion, it being a term of ths agreement entered into that the farmers shall supply him with the exhibits. An interested observer at this exlvbit will be L .A. Murphy,, head of the fertilizer division of C.I.L.. who specializes in fertilizer requirements for differ-:ng soils, and who '� has undertaken to pay Prince George a visit and study the resul's secured in Mr. Kelly's comprehensive tests.
The importance of these tests can hardly be overestimated. There is a great variety of soils in th6 districts :urround!ng Prince George, the treatment of which should differ greatly. With tests carried on in five different districts, with varying forms of fert.il-.
flying for nine years. He made an un-cuccessfu.1 attempt at a world flight last year, but his mach'ne cracked up in Russia and the flight had to be abandoned.
Moscow, June 6�-Jimmy Mattern, the United "States flier making a ?olo flight around the world, landed safely at Omsk, 1450 miles east of Moscow. Ho is said to be so much behind his schedule that he has no hope of setting a new record.
Great Flight of Italian Plarifer Start This Week
Twenty-Four Machines to. Fly in
Formation from Orbetello
to the Chicago Fair
DARINCS UNDERTAKING
Each Plane Will Carry Veteran
of Initial Flight Made to
Brazil from Rome
Rome. June 5�One of tho most ambitious and spectacular undertaking.- cf aviation�the mass flight of a
-Victoria Report Says Folmie Ready to Stand Aside in Vancouver Man's Favor
it should bo possible for the' ffore of bg Italian flying boats across
'zer,
farmers as a whole to closely gauge the advantage attending the employment of fertilizer?. Th" exhibit p o<" Mr. Kellv at the local fair should be
the North Atlantic by the �'�-land to Chicago�is scheduled to start this week. It may be that the- actual take-off from O;betollo will be.delayed
condi-
ADDING TO CONFUSION
^ of mcsHi! citing and p^flt- until about June 10. du; to ice condi-oki- fMl,nTO ^ :i. I Hons ?ri the waters of the Iceland and
able features.
Stevens' Entrance Would Tend
to Widen the Breach in the
Conservative Party
VICTORIA TIMES DOES NOT BELIEVE TOLMIE INTENDS TO RETIRE
Vancouver. June 5�Considerable presrure is being brought upsn Hon. j H. H. Stevens, min'ster of trade in 'he federal government.- to enter provincial politics as' a leader of one of the political division-; with n view to succeeding Hon. Simon F. Tolnile as premier and he id of the Conservative party. Mr. Stevens had just arrived in 'he city from Ottawa when he was �-clici'ed to abandon federal for pro-' "incinl politics. From Vio'.ora comes the somewhat remarkable .story, although it is not official, that Premier Tolmie is prepared to .step down and make way for Mr. S(evens if he can b? convinced tho cause of the Con-�ervat've party would be-advanced by such a move/ This implies that Pre-Tolmie has given ui> hope for
Victoria, June f�The Times (o-doy; discredits Uic story that Premier Tolmie is considering retiro-meni from provincial politics in favor cf Hen. II. H. Stevens, minister of trade in the federal cabinet. The Time; says confidently Premuer ToIniJe will continue at > greatly impressed with the progress wlrch has been made within the past year. In the importing of selected breeding heifers and purebred bull1: ho .says the breeders in this .'�pc'.ion cf tho province ore on the right read, and if tlicv \:^\-^:-;{ in-their r>rcs"nt'policv the d'strict will .^oon be recognized by the buvers cf both ' lvr"-f and dairy cat�J6. and with t!ie el.'mina"ori of (he scrub hulls .=--e1ling nrices will become uniforjmilv better. Mr. S'cv.-art fcuod'the bulls that have born brcupht in have nil received good rare. and->the fame can be said of most pf the b'."ed!n�; heifer^ although with rcs]iect to the. heifers there we've a few lapses, A lnrge number of the heifors have drppoed their first calf, and mo't of thsm from the Dure-bred bulls, with the resuli there "has come a marked improvement in the stock. Mr. Stewart j-avs the breeder nro highly Fn*\^fieri with the results
'onder of the fleet as he did in 1931 f?.h eY^d fonfar- J? n}c Preview dis-when ten similar planW spanned the trie, tho bulls on the farms of A. Lar-o '.m, , An.w.i^ i,'-, termntinn fmm -s(>'i ^"^1 J. Rico were inspected and
the'organization of his Unionist, party, j VETERANS' CUTS to take the place of the Conservative .narty in the admiivstration of provm-ir* 1 affairs.
al affars.
Nothine appsar-s txf have been said by Hon. H.*H. Stevens as to his views oil the proposal. He doubtless realizes' it. would not!, be a case simply of his Hcppmg out of federal- politics and taking over the administration of British Columbia's affairs. As a matter t upon
Stevens' entrance upon {he provincial political st~gs would f:
of fact Mr.
{he provincial p
make confus:on worse confounded. He would doubtless be acceptable to a pertain wing of the Conservative party U a leader and prospective premier, �jut. the Conservative party is by no ? of on?'mind on this issue. A
very considerable section cf the Con-^oi-vftive piirty has come out strongly 'n favor of a non-party adfrPnistro-�irn. and Is siving its support to the Bowier-Dona'ghy alliance. Premier Tolmie mi?ht be willing to steo aside ,-nr jr-n h H.- Stevens but there is liiva'e" /liVelihood that Mr. -^Bowser voiOd. A* a master ci fact it is gen-�rally understood there is no love lost Ni'ween Mr. Bowse'* and Mr. Stevens. They wore fa?t nplitical friends matif,. : am. but hbey are nr> longer the uie poTiUcal.tillicu,ms, There is an-oMier factor wh'ch mav^ influence Mr. Stevens' deci-ron npd this is personified in T: D. Pattullo. leader of
South; Atlantic in formation from Ealamp. Africa.' to Narftl, Brazil. It �� expected that the full two dozen wi1! niak? "the present flight, which will carry them 6.278 miles from the Itplian naval base to the .shores of Lake Michigan.
Aft?r their v:.sit to Chicago, the air flotilla will fly to New York. Thon ?sfter a period of servicing and check-!ng. thev will return to T-nly by way of -Newfoundlnnd and Ireland, a-j�a'.n '.11 formation flight.
VANCOUVER SCHOOL
Washington; Jim? 6�A .confldcnt'al 1 __ . rur,D�, r^^^r rs.Tr>T'Tr"c poll of the hou.se of representatives is I 1 fc-A^rthiO Ojc 1 iNU I > TF^ TN PHTJADELPHIA
Philadelph:a. June 7�Cyrus If. Curtis, conceded to have beon wealthiest publisher in the United States, died in his home here toLlay in his 83rd year. Curtis was the head- of the company publishing the Saturday Evening Post, Lad'es' Home Journal and other nationally kr-own jr.-.irnais Hi.s greatest succe?s came with the Saturdsv Evenincr Po.st which he purchased in the early 90s' for $8000. Cur- � tis at the fime thought ho had paid more for the publication than it was worth, but he developed it into the
�3 within China instead of- cne_as most proftable t-dvertising medium in
at first contemplated.
the world.