I i ;nARY j VICTORfa _*s^ ,<� Prince George, B. C. ovenor-General/To Visit rince George On Sept. 15 /TIT MOTOR OVER CARIBOO HIG1 TAMES FOR TWO DAYS VISIT / J WILL MAKE OFFICIAL VI 'AY TO FORT ST. ON RETURN HERE �rord has been received at the city Tin a communication from A. S. a V secretary to the Governor-f1��X bating that Their Lord and Lady Tweeds- pay an official visit to ge on September 15. Cloy Fraser Ms replied to the acknowledging the tv-rappSiation of the honor of a 3t from Their Excellencies and stat- later information would be iS^d detailing the 'omx the re-[eption to Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir Monkman Pass Popular Route For Travellers Party. \ of Three Arrive Last Nicbt After Hi_Te From Stonev Lake party will pass through p George on September 13 on way to "Stuart Lake where they iUi remain at Douglas Lodge until mini to Prince George on September ? where Their Excellencies will re-11-30 ajn. until 1 p.m. i-_i,iu���g last year from hls fcrlp trough Tweedsmuir Park the governor general intimated his desire to take the trip by motor over the Cari-wo Highway and also stated his de-Sre to fly over the upper reaches, of the peace River, as he had previously done on the lower Peace and Mackenzie Rivers While the motor trip is as-Mired by the notification of the pending visit to Prince George it is not certain whether he will make the air trip as suggested last year although it could be made, if weather permits from Fort St. James during his visit to Douglas Lodge. Included in the official party will be a lady-in-waiting, the governor-general's secretary and an A.D.C. Gar Plunges Off Ferry and Four Persons Perish One Woman and Three Children; Loose Lives in Queesnel River \ Early Saturday morning four persons were drowned at Gravel Ferry, 18 miles up the Quesnel river from Ques-nel, when a light delivery truck plunged off the ferry into the river. The dead are: Mrs. Frances Denby, widow, 32; three daughters of Mr. end Mrs Chancey Conners, Marion aged three, Kathleen, five and Lorain aged 15. , The party liad spent Friday in Quesnel and were returning to their Cors' light delivery Youth Stricken With Appendicitis On Trail __�i������ | MEMBER OF COUNT N. IGNATIEFF'S PARTY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS BROUGHT BY PLANE TO PRINCE GEORGE FOR OPERATION __________.�.-------�-----� Cyanide Mill For Quesnelle Quartz Mine _sk Government To Blatk Top City Streets [should Make Arterial Highways of Streets Used as Cariboo Highway Although no official notice has as yet been received by the city council of Prince George, press reports from Victoria intimate that the provincial government contemplates* assistance to municipalities in the payment of relief to unemployables. Figures suggest that this vote will be from 40 to 50 per cent of these amounts, and that it will mean an extra vote of $300,000 to municipalities for the yeaT. It was disclosed at the city council meeting last Monday evening tnal Prince George city relief payments for the month of June amounted to $1158.40. Payments to. employable single men and women totalled $148.20, while the married list comprising 48 adults with 59 dependents drew $613.35, and straight charity cases collected $396.85. . The regular bi-monthly meeting of the Prince George city council was held in the council chamber at the city hall on Monday evening last, with Mayor A. M. Patterson in the chair and present were Aldermen W. L Armstrong, W. H. Crocker, J. N. Keller W. R. Munro, C. C. Reid and Fred D Taylor. Minutes of the last meeting were read and on motion adopted. The finance committee submitted accounts amounting to $2,991.71 and on motion of Aid. Munro seconded by Aid. Reid were ordered paid. The committee appointed to investigate the application for a licence to operate a travelling tanch wagon re-Ported that the applicant had agreed to confrom with the necessry - sanitary conditions to meet the city bylaw and on compliance with these regulations Aid. Armstrong moved, seconded by Aid. Keller, that a licence be / granted. The appication of Karl Anderson for permission to install a gas pump was granted providing it is installed in compliance with the city bylaw regulating such installation. A report from the fire chief for the month of June stated that the department had held three practice runs during the month and had responded'to three fires, two unimportant and one causing approximately $400 damage. m the matter of the application for h i^< on to remodel the Commodore �rw Ag on the cofner of George and imrcl avenue so as to make it suitable th fa �RaraBe' the council was informed inat if the building were remodelled according to the city bylaw governing Public garages the fire marshal's de-t of the province would have tion, and it was moved by Aid. CRer, seconded by Aid. Taylor that application for remodelling the (Continued an Page five) The Monkman Pass road bids fair to be a well travelled route before the highway is finished. Several parties are coming through with horses, and airplanes are using it regularly. Last night Bill Mays, Childon May and Peter Dick of Dawson Creek, B.U. landed in Prince George, having come through the pass on foot. Previous to embarking on the trip south through the pass they nonated two weeks voluntary labor each, working with the crews southerly from Stoney Lake. The party left Muskeg Creek, 32 miles southwest of Rio Grande on June 30 by truck for Stoney Lake Then they struck out for Prince George walking to the McGregor river, taking a raft down stream for five miles, then over the trail recently blazed from the McGregor to Hansard by Martin Framstead and party two weeks ago, coming from Hansard to Prince George by train last night. They travelled -light, their food supply consisting of 25, pounds and otner equipment comprised an axe and blankets. They report the. road from Rio Grande to Stoney Lake as good, only requiring grading with a machine to make a perfect auto road. From Stoney Lake the road crews are working as far as 20 miles south, and a truck can negotiate, this distance without any difficulty as it is a natural grade and good bottom. From this point there Is a pack trail'to Kinuseo Falls and on to McGregor river. The only bridge of any size required on he route is over the McGregor river. From the McGregor the recently blazed trail goes through heavy spruce timber for about 30 miles and is good travelling right through to the railway and highway near Hansard. homes in Mr. Connors' light delivery truck. Accompanying them were Steve Bastin and Joe Cantin. Bastin" and Cantin got out of the truck before Connors drove onto the ferry about 2 a.m. In getting aboard the ferry Connors is supposed to have stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake and the light delivery- truck with its load of passengers struck the chain barrier of the ferry, and carrying it away, plunged into the swift running Quesnel river, Bastin, Cantin and Ferryman McDonald succeeded in rescuing Mr. and Mrs. Conners from the water about 100 yards downstream, but no sign of the three children or MSrs. Denby could be found by the searchers in the dark and fog. A sad coincidence is that Mrs. Den-by's husband was drowned at the same spot on July 3, 1937, when the raft of logs he was bringing down the river struck a bar and he was thrown into the river, his body never being recovered. There are four, Denby children, aged from eight to 15 years which are now left motherless and fatherless by Saturday's tragic accident, while Mr. and Mrs. Conners in the loss of their three children are left childless. Both the Denby and the Conner families came from Saskatchewan originally, the Denby's two years ago and the Connors one year ago. Three and a half hours after the Party of Prince George Business ld P men Visit Gold Property On Hixon Creek Inspection of Quesnelle Quartz mine by a party of twelve local shareholders featured a goodwill tour into the Hixon Creek mining area sponsored by representatives of- the Prince George Board of Trade yesterday. Many important changes have taV.en place at the property which is no\v assuming the appearance of a mining metropolis as work pro-jreses on preparatory work to construction of a 25-ton cyanide mill. An increased crew of 26 ir.i-n are employed at the property where work Called by radio from Finlay Forks early Tuesday morning Charley Tweed of the United Air Transport arrived back in Prince George about 2:30 p.m. with Graham Robertson of Toronto, suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis. Robertson was rushed to the Prince George hospital by ambulance from the Fraser river landing float, where Dr. W. D. Smith of the Toronto Children's Hospital, assisted by Dr. J. G. MacArthur of Prince George, successfully operated upon him. Young Robertson is the son of Dr. D. E. Robertson, head of the Children's Hospital in Toronto, who with H. R. Magill and Charles Scadding, was entombed in a Nova Scotia gold mine by a rock cave for ten days in April. 1936. H. R. Magill succumbed to exposure in this disaster and Dr. Robertson and Scadding were rescued just in time to save their lives. Graham Robertson and his brother came west to Prince George from Toronto on July 5 with a party of 30 odd university students under the leadership of Count N. Ignatieff, leaving here for Fort Wiare on the upper reaches of th il i th day via is going ahead at the 400-fcot level. Up above, activity is centered on installation of equipment for the mill. One of the most significant changes to the property was seen in the new and fully-equipped assay office which was recently installed. Here, as many as thirty ore assays are made in one day. Most interesting feature of the comprehensive plant was the small trays of grey colored dust, each one of which was the result of quartering dowh at least 30 samples per day. Men are also working on a new sec- | tion to the company's power Piaru where a 120 h.p. diesel engine will be � for Fort Wie on te upp the Finlay river the same day via rt j a June Timber Scale Shows Small Increase Sawlogs, Poles, Cordwood and Mine Timbers up from May Figures The timber scale for June as released by K. D. Greggor, strict forester fdr the Fort George district shows a slight increase in the cut oi sawlogs over Mar^gnres, as also does the cut of poles. Cordwood is up ov 300 cords from May figures while t show an increase of around 4000 piece. Mine timbers are up from 1670� to ^ pieces in comparison with May sou The June scale in the various classifications and species is as folio as. Sawlog: Douglas fir ................... .....ion7".55O 2,467 26 Summit Laek with Dick Corless jr., as guide. The party had reached a point about 15 miles above Finlay Forks when Graham Robertson was stricken. Dr. W. D. Smith', who Is chief assistant to Dr. Robertson in the Toronto Children's Hospital, and who is accompanying the party of college youths on the trip, as physician and surgeon, immediately diagnosed the trouble as appendicitis, and word was got to Finlay Forks where the U. A. T. radio operator called the Prince George base to send a plane in to bring the patient out. Accompanying Graham Robertson- Spruce ................ Lodge pole pine Balsam Total for month................. Total for year ....................11. Cedar-lineal feet .......'............. 32-841 Total for year .......................... Cordwood Lodge pole pine�cords Total for year 5,440 Ties ,, 5.892 Douglas fir ..............................19dc2 Dg Lodge pole pine 12,452 1ft 281 Total for month ....................i_n'ittV7 Total for year ......................,,iw,wm Mine Timbers Lineal feet ................................ 5'36(? ------------�o�---------- TEACHERS MISSING Two school teachers, Vancouver, and GeorgesKtfg* toria. are believed drowned. They we e vacationing in a 12-foot f �^ *nd3 been missing for several fd b ear sToop waTfoun, * �_*� *g~ about two miles off Oak Bay, v�. car plunged into the river, a box which had been in the back o^the truck, was picked up at Quesnel bridge, it having floated down river 25 miles in that time. __________o------------�� Oil Drillers Optimistic At Pouce Coupe First Sign of Oil Encountered at 938 Feet in Guardian Well Geologists and oil men conversant with conditions in the Pouce Coupe district in the Peace River Block north of Prince George have for many years predicted the largest and richest oil field on the North American continent would be found there. A seepage of high gravity on has been exuding oil for many years to Section 26, Township 80, Range 13. west of the 6th Meridian on a deep gorge of the Pouce Coupe river. in September 1921. a well being drilled by a subsidiary of the Imperial Oil Co., near this seepage, at a depth of 1673 feet struck a now of gas estimated at 10,000,000 cubic feet. As drilling continued an additional gas flow estimated at 33,000,000 cubic feet a day was encountered at 1800 feet. It is reported that at the time this gas was piped into the cookhouse for use in cooking, but the gas was so wet with gasoline content that an explosion blew off the roof of the building causing several men to be badly Drilling continued to a total depth of 2733 feet when the total gas flow was estimated at 60.000,000 cubic feet per da& and necessitated the installation of special equipment to take the well deeper, and the operation was closed down,./ During the past two weeks the iT^-fUan Oil Co. have started drilling at Bonanza, 27 miles northeast of Pouce Coupe, with equipment capable of going to a depth of from 5000 to 6000 feet, and last Sunday at 938 feet the drill passed through a three-inch sand strata full of oil. > No attempt was made to test the flow of oil at the 938-foot level owing to the fact that officials in charge are very optimistic of reaching the 40-inch strata of St. John sand stone at a depth of approximately 1035 feet, where, it is believed, a much stronger flow will be encountered. Dr. E. R. Loveweil, eminent Amenctu oil geologist of Lo_ Angeles, in charge of the Guardian operation states that these upper^sands were not the horizons which are the objectives of-the company's drilling crew. "Our drilling (Continued on Page Five) where a p ine will be i Accompanying Graham Robertso installed to operate the mill. T. N.! On the plane were his brother Donald Youngs engineer in charge, explained j and Dr.'W. D. Smith, that it is planned to begin production \ young Robertson is making a. speedy at 25 tons per day. but the capacity of I recovery at the Prince George hospital the mill can readily be increased to j and ^ soDn as he is strong enough 50 tons. Mr Youngs escorted the party over the entire property, explaining tne technical details involved in construction of the mill. The crushing and grinding unit involves installation ot a 200-ton coarse ore bin. for whicn , g __iiCgc ou�yiW1x�. ----- �-- . the concrete will soon be poured. Mr. j of northern British Columbia. This is Ycunss �=aid A. '.the first time any untpward_incident to travel wiiraccompany his brother back to their home in Toronto. Dr. Smith will again join the party at Fort Ware. This is the fourth year that Count N. Ignatieff has conducted parties of college students into the wilds After "hearing Mr. Youngs' interesting explanations of the various phases of work throughout the mine, the nartv of Quesnelle Quartz shareholders 'proceeded to the . Cottomvood group, 400 feet from the "Quartz. At thi<= property development has been undertaken ' by Colgrove-Charmvood Ltd. The party was taken over the property by C. H, Colgrove. Included in the instructions of the afternoon was a lesson on goil panning by A. B. Moffat, the only prospector in the party. Those making the trip were M. C. Wigeins. S. J. Watson. Dr. E. J. Lyon. H G Perry, M.L.A.. Dr. C. Ewert. G. ' Williams. V. Morgan. William Coop, A. B. Moffat. T. M. Watson. E. Burden and W. Trotter. Prince George Board of Trade Meets July 20 Arrangements For Public Receptions to be Made�Delegates To Be Elected A luncheon rn^eTirTg of the Prince ime Board of Trade will be held at �._ Prince George Hotel Grill on Wed-nesdav July 20, at 1 P.m. Busfness to come before the members will include making arrangements for entertaining the party, of British parliamentarians coming to Prince George and district on Augus 16 and 16 under the leadership of Brigadier-General Sir Hnery Page Croft Bart C.M.G., M.P. This distinguished party are coming at the Svitation of the Prince George cfty council and board of trade and Brigadier-General M. L. Hornby of Sbridge. to investigate British immigration and settlement problems It is also proposed to arrange for co-operation with the Pj�*the meeting will be the election of delegates to attend the annual convention of Se Associated Boards of Trade of Cental British Columbia at Smithers on August 4 and 5. has marred their enjoyment. This year the party will have their main encampment at Fort Ware, and fly camos will be established at various points surrounding the main cairm. from which the youths will study the geology, flora and fauna of the district for the next five or six weeks. -------------cv�--------- Hoover Party Catch Sixteen Pound Rainbow Ex-President Landed Eight-Pounder and is Coming Back for More The distinguished party consisting of Hon. Herbert Hoover, former president of the United States; Hon. A. R. Hyde, former secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; Dr. Lyman Wilbur, president of Stantord University, and Al. Hager. head of the New England Fish Co.. Vancouver, who arrived at Fort St. James on July 4 for a week's fishing in Stuart lake, had lunch in Prince George on Saturday last on their way south. Mr. Hyde proved the most fortunate fisherman, having landed a 161-.-pound rainbow. As Dr. Lyman Wilbur estao-lished a similar record at Stuart lake last year. Mr. Hoover decided he was not In their class, as his best catch was an eight-pound rainbow. However, he states that he is coming back next year to try and best the records established by his two companions, lie thoroughly enjoyed the fight with his eight-pounder and will tell all his friends of the 60 trout the party ciVglV"' on Stuart lake in one hours fishing. Mr Hoover expressed hlmseit as / highly pleased with the reception accorded him by the residents of Fort St. James and particularly with that or the Stuart Lake Indians who had made him a chief or their tribe during his visit. _ After having lunch in Prince George the party motored south, stopping at Williams Lake for supper and �ayj_� over night at Lord Martin Cecil s 100-Mile House. On Sunday the party motored on to Harrison Hot Springs, spending a day there before proceeding to Vancouver..