GEORGE No. 44. Thursday. November 3, 19J8 THIRTY YEARS IN CANADIAN POLITICS Cariboo Gold Quartz Mining Big Business ] Four Mills To Be Grinding Ore In District By End of November. With the. mills at. Cariboo Gold Quartz and Island Mountain a; Wells setting the pace with increased production and regular dividend payments, the Cariboo district is taking a prominen; place in British Columbia's gold mining picture again. During this month two mills start grinding ore, the Cariboo-Hudson and the Quesnelle Quartz, and given, the came chance for success that obtained at the Car-ibco Gold Quartz and Island mountain when those properties were, in the same stage of development, the Cariboo district will soon be in the top brackets with the best gold producing districts in the province. The mill machinery for the Quesnelle Quartz gold mines on Hixon Creek has all been transposed from the C N. R. yards in Prince George to the property and is now being rapidly installed in the mill building at the mine. It is expected the complex unit of 25 tons will be in operation by the middle of this month. Development is proceeding so satisfactorily at the Cariboo-Thompson property located about two miles from the Cariboo-Hudson that the operators (Continued on Page Five) Prince George, B. C. On October 26, 1908, Prime Minister Mackenzie King entered Canadian Ipalitics at the age of 33, when he was elected Liberal member for Wat-lerlco. Ontario, and was immediately taken into Sir Wilfred Laurier's cab-line:. The Prime Minister is shown abive (left) on his arrival at Bermuda where he has been holidaying for sev eral weeks past. (Prince George A. & I. A. Hold Annual Meeting SECRETARY-TREASURER SUBMITS FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND REPORT � SUGGESTIONS FOR IM-PR NOVATIONS PROVEMENT OF FALL FAIR�NEW INNOVATIONS The annual meeting of the Prince George Agricultural and Industrial As-; sociation as held on October 19 at the Prince George Hotel Ballroom. Owing ge Hotel Ballroom. Owing ^e good harvesting weather there was not a very good attendance from outlying districts/The following of-iicers. were ae-elected: President, McNeill; vice-president, C. C. Secretary-treasurer, A. R. V. committee is as follows: The >,The fin&ttce committee is as follows: Messrs. A. B. MJoffat, J. Leith and Beit Bteckburn. xt was decided to hold a further meeting jn the spring, the date of *wch will b d i h iti rt ch Wl11 �e announced in the Citizen Qunng February. This meeting will vir? on Secretary Giles* report which lf>?^s as follows:. secretary-Treasurer-ts Report for 1938. aiS16 fal1 Pair of W38wes, from most thfes- a more successful fair than a �!Lbe.en held for several years. of the essential iig- Ul'es beUve ls bet^.oen this year and last shows follows: 5�:, of. Ehxibitors , Exhibits *Jfees Paid" 1938 199 .... 557 1040 ... - ;- M..U. . $375.35 $461.15 1,piie;lent balance at the bank. cheques of goods amounted to about the same this year as last. Besides the cash donations that are memtioned in the back of the programme, I would like to acknowledge the following that were received too late to be included there- District 'C Farmer's Inst....... $5.00. Salmon River Farmer's Ins:. .. $5.00. Mud River Community ....... $12.65. I should like especially to commend \ the action of the Mud River Comrnun- j ity in putting on a dance, the proceeds of which as shown in the above list, were handed over to the Fair man- j Remembrance Gathering in Legion Hall Ex-Service Men Will Parade at 10 a.m., Followed by Remembrance Service. Heading a parade of Veterans, Scouts andGirl Guides, the Prince George Boy' Band will lead the Remembrance Day units to the Legion Hall on Friday, November 11, at 10:30 tor the annual services. , ��;, :r" The Veterans will muster at the Legion Building at 10:15 in time to move off at 10:30 with Piper Dave Ross in the van. The parade will proceed through the main thoroughfares of the ci y before returning to the Legion Hall where the traditional two minutes silence will be observed at 11 a. m. The services will follow the general outline .of last Armistice, which received so many favorable comments. A good portion of the service will be given over to music supplimented by short talks by Scout Commissioner W. Munro, Comrade J. Jardine and Inspector C. J. Fi'ederickson. The aid favorite hyms that became so familiar during the war years will be sung by the congregation and the chior will sing Kipling's "Recessional.!' ' At the conslusicn of the service, which are under the arrangement of W. J. Pitman, the Ve erans and all others so desiring will proceed to the cemetery grounds where wreaths will be placed on the graves of departed comrades. CM. & S. Rush Winter Camps On Cinnabar Claims RIPE STRAWBERRIES PICKED HERE ON NOV. 1 Attesting to the salubrious climate and wonderful, productiveness of the soil in Prince Gdorgs tnd vicinity Mrs. George Abbott presented the CLizen with a box of luscious strawberries gathered from Dunlop plants in her garden in the. Millar Addition en November 1. The berries are large, well formed, firm and beautifully colored and taste just as good as they look. - They were grown on plants bedded cut this spring and are no; supposed to be of the everbearing variety, Mrs. Abbott has plentifully supplied her table with berxies from these plan s during the summer season and is justly proud of this substantial additional procf that Prince George is a favorable fruit growing area. Fire Wipes Out VanderhooPs Pioneer Hotel Builditig and Contents Complete Loss in Monday Morning Blaze. Fire on Monday morning at 4:30 o'-clcck,. starred presumably from a defective chimney in the kitchen, completely destroyed the Vanderhoof ho.el at Vanderhoof. There was only one guest in the house at the time, and he and the hotel staff got out of th-e building without injury, but none of the furnishings were saved. Insurance of $12,000 is reported to have been carried on the building and furnishings, but the loss is said to be considerably in access of that sum. The Vanderhoof hotel,, was a three-story frame constructed building and was built in 1914 by J. L. Rattan, and its original site was alongside the Can, adian National grade. Along about 1926 Rattan sold the hotel to Bob McCorkell who moved it to its later site about two blocks north. Before McCorkell finished rehabilitating the premises after moving it he sold to J. W. H. Day who has operated it up to the time of the fire on Monday morning. Being the most modern stopping place in Vanderhoof for the past 23 years, it was well known to the travelling public, and until replaced its destruction will work a hardship on the transient visitors to Vanderhoof. Volunteer fire fighters worked valiantly to save the O. K. restuarant and rooming house and the B. C. Liquor sore directly across the street, and although the roofs of both buildings caught fire several times from embers and the fronts were badly scorched, the fire fighters were able to keep the fire frcm doing further damage. agement. Property by Boats and Wagons. year, �d to < 'ah\a r(*atc on! Pertv "r'uu-e Policy covering the pro-ias.', nan�ed over to the city at the '.�J* "eral meeting, of $21.60. This is a worthy action which Thope will be copied by other j Supplies' Being Transported To communities next year. * r ** Changes-in Rules. In regard to the actual Fair Day, I made several observations which 11 ------- >,��..� . i think would make for a more efficient I Fort St. James� (Special)� The j handling of that day. and which, with j short , fall days are here and as j vour nermission I will set down in the I winer draws closer the men begin to | form of recommendations.. --'| drift in from the camps and creeks,. In my opinion, it is impossible to j most of them with the feeling of a I s- tisfactorily ai range exhibits on tab- j good summer's work finished, les iudse same record the priize-win- , George Snell is out after a season's j ners correctly and exhibit the display prospecting with a small crewmen Sil-o the public'all in the same day. That , ver and Kerihy Creeks out from TaWa | there were not more mistakes made ' Landing on the Germansen trail. Geo-j in the record of prizes awarded this ; rge has cpent a great part of his life | with the larger array displayed.' in the hills and on the creeks, starting j a miracle. Mr. : in Western Australia as a lad. the gold I f^ver was well on him before he start- ! ed on the now famous Klondike stain- j pede. He spent his twenty-first birth-day on the great trek. His report on j this season's work is very good. The Cinnabar Properties on Pinchi fTS S that in Smithers. with ~, an office staff of 4 or 5 clerks working til day. You are all however, familiar, with the unnecessary rush and sonfusion which .......... , a, -. T------- _ ". j.nis yeal. and no doubt in. Lake, recently take> over by C. M. & than umintin& charged were higher ,y7vious. years when a one-day fair s. is the scene of great activity as a Petises s�!ai^Ms year- your total ox- * s growing. In Quesnel, where the crew 5-regftrd~werer$36:�T-kis�j^^-Jii-ir. n.-i^t iho number rf exhibits fUae the fair programme more n. r~*~ into -alphabetical order WriteJ IS1 which necessitated the j � whi and ivMt'i g up ci static b tnis yeal'! stoc W because of the low Diio k �" hand- We should de-^ii'tii'vr" u ,nncfit next year.: ps the about $5oI should n�t be more than e cash collections and donations of between fifteen and twenty , men under Mining'!Engineer Bronlund � it compare with "oTirTrlr, tiiere-r-v,Tc -at^work- building..a_canip_and ^pve-; v I Hvo-dav Fair., and furthermore, j paring-for operation on what is expect-all ?xhibiits HAVE to be .in bv the i od t0 iDe in the'near future, one ot the filch1-' nreceeding the firs- day or the I greatest mines of its kind in Canada. L, . l i The property has an ideal locatioin ' ..�,._ T prm hot too strensly- en the north side of Pinchi Lake. At Therefore..! J^noj. ^ ^ ^ ^ _^^ ^ materj^ ,nd supplies recommenct ai ^ � ^^ ]yoivorticns re btltik t,i-Pn i via Stuar- Cake" to S� Sontinued on Page Four) ' (Continued on page five) Los Angeles To ;| Prince George In Forty Hours Passengers and Mail Cut Time For Trip Down To Minimum. The U. A. T. are making plans for an expansion programme to include greater air service for new B. C. mining deveopmen s, it was announced today by Sheldon Luck, who is in the city on a short holiday from the coast. Mr. Luck, popular U. A. T. pilot, is now flying the run from Vancouver to Zeballos. working in conjunction with Bill Holland ad Mel Lee. Wea.her conditions have been particularly good for United Air Trans-pert planes on the Prince George-Yukon run this fall so far. The planes are still able to operate from, here north on floats. The winter season to the north, however, may be expected anytime now which will necessitate changing to skiis. At present mail and passengers are handled between Vancouver and Prince Geo.ge by the tri-motored Ford plane on wheels and transferred to a pan- j tcon plane to go on from here .to WfTltehorse and the Yukon. Planes on both the north and south runs are being well patronized and an instance of ..-the' saving in time in a t-.lp from Alaska to California is Uri of a passengers last week who left AInyo. Yukon, on Saturday afternoon affe nhived ip Los Angeles Tuesday On the last week's north bound plane Mrs. Jack Adams a*. Prince George receive;! a letter at noon on Wednesday. October 26. thfft had been post* -firrrk-ed- in -la--- ^Anaelgg_at^7 p.; in. on Monday, Octcbrr 24. Trnv>l by U. T. A. planes from Van- . fouver tb^Zebblias on the west cons of Vancouver Island keeps up! In addi- i ticn to the two regular company-own- j ed plar.es on the run two more are being operated under charter, Coal Property Will Transport Coal to Wells by Deisel Tractor and Snow-Train During Winter. In an editorial published October 20 the Citizen called attention to a high class bituminous coal deposit si.uated on the 3oT>Tcn river, 45 miles east of Piince George and the statement was made that as yet no serious at.empt had been made to develop this potential natural resource. Registered at the Prince George ho el on Monday were H. Quest; c. K. Johnson and J. McDonald of Wells, B. C. They were enroute to Wells after having crossed ever from there, a distance of approximately 40 miles to the coal deposit referred to in the Citizen's edi brial, and th,ey located a group cf leases covering the- coil showings. The party reported that tentative arrangements had been made with several operating' gold mining companies around Wells and Barkervilie for a considerable tonnage of coal this winter. It is the intention of the syndicate to transport the coal from .he property to Wells by deisel tractors and snow train, sleighs during the coming winter months in a similar manner to .hat in which freighting is done for the northern Mar.itoba^Ontario and Quebec mining camps. The locators s ate that the trip' with a snow-train from the coal property to Wells can be made in about five hours, The equipment they are figuring on for transporting the coal, they s ate, will cost in the neighborhood of $25,-000, and they intend to immediately begin opening up the coal and get the road ready for winter operations. During 1910-14 considerable development was carried on consisting of surface stripping, shallow pits, and sev-(Continued on page tour> Legislature All Agog Over Ini unction Gasoiine Price Regulation Held in Abeyance by Supreme Court Order. Victoria, Nov. 2�The Nineteenth session of the B. C. legislature started out on an even keel with indications of being a very ordinary and mild gathering, but the Supreme Court injunction against the government's or-red reducing the price of gasoline has rocked the boat to a greater extent, probably, than any incident, effecting legislation in the province for many years past. The reply to the speech from the throne was in the hands of W. T. Straith. Victoria, and Louis Le-Bourdais, Cariboo, both o[ whom ably acquited themselves in their duty. Hon. John Hart, minister of finance, xpects to present his anual budget on Tuesday or Wednesday next, but (Continued on Page Five) Monkman Pass Publicity Man In Prince George Art. Smith of Grande Prairie Arrives to Welcome Pathfinder Car. Art Smith, energetic publicity director of the Monkman Pass Highway Association, arrived in the city yesterday to await the arrival of the "pathfinder car" daily expected in Piince George from Hansard. Mr. Smith was accompanied by D. E. Harris, newspaperman of Beaver-lodge, and Lorne Lyle, of Aleza Lake. Mr. Smit^v-will travel down the Cariboo Highway from here to herald the coming of the car that came overland from the Peace River to B. C. through the Monkman Pass of the Rockies. In the publicist's considered opinion, Prince George's prestige will be advanced as a-thriving metropolis when the Monkman road is made into a first-class highway; Business v ill- ac-cure to this city from the tourist traffic, and- there will be an influx .cf settlers .into" this area, he cpnteded. -The Monkman highv.nvMvill be the best trucking road on the North Amer- nc t." he continued, "raid'as the read gives.good service it will bring an increase cf population." " Mr. Smith \v?s frank in his compliments over Prmee GeorgeTs~~develop-ment; and he was enthusiastic of this city's futu-e because of! its gecpraph-' ical position.