CITE Vol. 21, No. Thursday, February 17, 1938, Prince George, B. C. Gen. Hornby Inspires Faith in Central 6. C. Before a large gathering of ox we .boam ol x'*tnrougn his untiring ei-io�is to secuxe pu&ac supporc iur xxi-ciedsixxg"tne population oi trie I>j- HuiuUXl. rxttMoeat W. R. Munro in well cxxoien wu.ds referred w> trie previous visit of tnexr aisanguisnea gue^t ana now appreciative uie pe-pie he^e were ex uie continued intexe*c- he iook in tais casuic. lie reminaea tne <*ud uience that uen. Hornby was mmsexf aut oiu-ume sen/ier in Western uan-Mat icujiung su^essiuily large acieage near be-nonage, Aita, Mlayor A. M. raue^son, on behalf of the uty, maue a gracious speech oi welcome and expressed the gratitude oi the citizens oi Prince George lor the uemendous publicity given by Gen. Hornby to Central British Co-iiunbia. At the conclusion of Gen. Hornby's .-auieas moaon was passed appointing j. committee comprised ol Mayor Patterson, J. O. Wilson, secretary oi the b^ard and H. G. Peny, M.L.A., widi instructions to draw up a brief for presentation to the Royai Commis-s.on investigating inter-provincial ana federal relations uiging a policy oi planned immigration in consultation with the provinces. This was moved and seconded by B. G. Parker and A. Holmwood. Another motion by C. C. Keid, seconded by Harry Bowman was adopted officially inviting those who aa-dressed the big Guildhall conference in London last October to visit this district during the coming year. On rising, Gen. Hornby thanked the board and members for their v.*aim and kindly reception and surprised many by recalling that over 50 years ago his father settled in British Columbia and had a farm, near, Clover-dale, when they ' had:7 ix>1 ferry 'their produce to market at New Westminster, and that 28 years ago he had, himself, purchased a farm and settled �near Lethbridge, which is now his home. He had seen Vancouver and 'district grow from almost nothing to its pessnt greatness and Lethbridge �district which had only a scattered few settlers develop into one of the most prosperous parts of Canada, and 'that neither of these areas had possessed any better opportunities for development of resources and settlement than the areas in Central B.C. He looked to see a similar expatision in this district within the next ten years. The geographical position of this city was most important. It was well to remember that the center of world gravity had shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific and this was only just dawning on the minds of our statesmen and people. No defence of any account had been provided for until recently for Northern B. C. and with threatening dangers across the Pacific it was more than ever essential that this territory should be more thickly populated. He paid a tribute to the men and wemen of many races who had contributed so much to Canada, but said that in one lifetime there was no chance for one to cover all phases oi" the population question and having limited energy he felt it his duty to �concentrate on the migration of British people in Canada. The old days have passed when immigration can succeed on individual (Continued on Page Foun Prince George is Distributing 7 Point for Goods One of Canada's Best Known Representatives of Many Firms Dr. Patterson Conservative is Dead Surgeons and Most Popular Public Man In the death of Dr. Frank P. Patterson, 1VLLJL and leader of the Conservative party in British Columbia, at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, last Thursday, all Canada mourns the �passing of one of the nation's most 'popular public men. For upwards of 30 years Dr. Patterson has been a leader in British Columbia's medical circles with a Canada �wide reputation as a bone specialist. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Royal Surgeons of Canada. He served �with the Canadian Medical Corps during the Great War. Although a stalwart of the Conser--vative party in British Columbia for upwards of 30 years, Dr. Patterson "refused many nominations as a candidate until after he was prevailed upon 'to accept the leadership of the party In July 1936. He contested a by-election �in Burrard riding in September 1936, "but was defeated by J. Howard For-'rester, Liberal. In the 1937 provincial 'election he contested Dewdney riding, 'and was elected, leading his party during the last session of the legislature. Dr. Patterson was born 61 years ago ^n St. John County, New Brunswick. 'He took his medical degree at McgYu, 'graduating with honors, M.D., CM, Surviving are his wife, one son 'Frank, in his fourth year in medicine 'at McGill University, and two daughters, Mrs. George White and Dorothy; �one sister, Mrs. M. R. Prout, and one brother, J. w. Patterson, all of Vancouver. London press reports state that the danger of an outbreak of hostilities in 'Europe's "war camps" is rapidly receding. Germany�for the time being |�is stricken from the list of probable 'hostile factions because of the breach oejween the army leaders and the government, and Italy, with -her ttght-�.g forces divided bebween Spain arid 'Ethiopia; cannot be included in a threat .to! European peace. In the east w is stated Japan has probably "bitten off more than she can chew." ----------~o------------ The all union parliament of Soviet Russia composed pf 1143 members in J"w�h�uses voted themselves a salary �i $190 a month at their first meeting, roughly four times the wage of jne average Russian worker. In addition they win receive $27 a day indemnity while parliament is in session y�^�r UviT1B expenses. Parliament is scheduled to sit two months a year, /�ne chairman and two vice-presidents Vere v�ted $57,000 a year each. Now Established Here Permanently That Prince George is fast becoming a distributing point of considerable importance in Central British Columbia for food supplies and other commodities is attested by the monthly g. owing number of keymen being permanently stationed here by the larger wholesale firms of Canada. Resident representatives are now regularly travelling out of Prince George along the C. N. R. east and west and south to Quesnel and the mining camps of Wells and Barker-ville. Among the popular "Knights of tne Grip" now established in Princes George are M. G. (Maynard) Kerr and J. W. (Jack) Lang, representing P. Burns & Co. Ltd., fresh and smoked meats, butter, cheese and ice cream; 'H. G. (Harry) Pebtis, representing Swift Canadian Co. Ltd., fresh and Smoked meats, etc.; C. H. (Harold) Brown, representing Marshall, Wells, Ltd., hardware; W. H. (Bill) Trotter. Representing McLennan, McFeely & Prior, hardware; August Dornbier, re-�presenting Karl Andeson, wholesale goceries; Jack McGrath, representing 'Imperial Tobacco Co., and AJ (Lord Choknondley) Reynolds, representing 'McKenzde, White & Dunsmuir, motor car accessories and radio supplies. The boys are all popular in and 'around their territory, and when Har-'old Brown and Jack Lang tickle the 'ivories to the accompaniment of "Lord "Cholmondley" on the trumpet the resultant music is classic, except, maybe, >when Bill Trotter and August Dorn-�bier insist on lending vocal support to 'the orbhestra. It is -rumored that the "gang* are seriously contemplating organizing a Vaudeville show at which they will ^display their musical and story telling talents, in at of the fund for the covered rink, and if they decide to put it on, the general opinion of those in 'the know is that it will be the hit of vthe season. ------------o-------�� Hon. W. J. Asselstine, minister of tttade and industry, has announced that the provincial government will spend $60,000 in tourist publicity this �year advertising British Columbia. Four horse teams and a 40 h.p. die-sel tractor are busily engaged in hauling supplies into the Cariboo-Hudson gold property at the head of Harvey �and Cunningham creeks. 20 mUes southeast of Barkerville. for the erection of a 100-ton mill. This is ilie spec-, tacular gold property opened during the past two years by Fred Wells and �associates. ' Waterworks Bylaw Rfeceives Council Support Crescent Road Shows Ask City Council for Exclusive Right to Show Here * The' ireguiar bi-monthly meeting of the city council was held Monday evening at .the city hall. Present were Mayor A. M. Pajteison and Aldermen W. L. Armstrong, W< H. Crocker, J. N. Keller, W. R. Munro, C. C. Reid and x'. D. Taylor. Minuses of previous meeting read oy City Cxerk Fraser were adopted on motion of Aid. Keller and Taylor. AucounicS for January totalling $5,-986.08 were submitted by the finance committee and on motion were ordered paid, as also we*e accounts of $2,-937.64 for the period in February up to the 14th. Reports from the fire chief stated one call had been made in January on account of a chimney fire at which no damage ensued. Pclice report for January showed that Victor Homstead was arrested and convicted of stealing a roll of b.anke:s and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Several cases of non-payment of trades licences were investigated and ..he cases dismissed on payment of the n.ence fees. Three applications for relief were allowed one month's, relief payments. W. Manson of the Shasta Oafe, wro.e complaining about his electno light bill. After going into the figures The council did not think it could deliver light and power any cheaper than at present, and the city clerk was instructed to so inform Mr. Man-son. A letter from the provincial secretary's department notified the council that a charge of 80 cents a day dating back to April, 1937, was beiujj made on all patients being treated in tubercular sanitariums in the province. Prince George has two such patients in Tranquille and a bill was rendered to the city for $450 for their keep up to January 1, 1938. A previous communication written in 1936 had led the city to believe these charges were to be absorbec|.Jjy the provincial government, and payment of' the account was held . up pending further information. Word was received from the provincial government that the lots in Block 171, applied for as a site for the cohered rink, had been deeded to the city, without any trade deal for other lots. �....;� A letter from the Cescrent Shows asked the council for permission to show iii Prince George in July and August, and wanted to know if the city council would refuse a licence to other similar shows previous to their arrival. The council instructed the city clerk to inform Crescent Shows (Continued on page Tour) Hockey Queen Contest Away To Good Start Three Candidates in Field and Entertainments Arranged In Their Behalf The Hockey Queen contest got away to a start over the week-end with i-hree candidates in the field�Miss Audrey Houghtaling, supported by the Elks, Miss Celia Goheen supported by �Che C. N. R. A. and Government Offices and Miss Beatrice Baxter supported by the mei chants. As the proceeds of this contest are for the covered rink fund the commitee bespeak the generous support of the citizens on behalf of their chosen candidate. \ Among entertainments being promoted on behalf of Hockey Queen candidates is a public cribbage tournament which will be held upstairs in the C. N. depot under the auspices of ithe C. N. R. A. on behalf of their candidate, Miss Goheen, on Saturday night at 8 pjn. � Tomorrow evening friends of Miss Audrey Houghtaling are staging a dance in the Elks' Hall at which Jack Aitken's Swing Band will provide the music, and refreshments will be served. Stanley Parker, operating a garage in Point Grey district, Vancouver, returned to his garage after closing time and found two strangers inside. He tackled one as they endeavored to escape and one of the bandits fired a shot. Reaching into his pocket for his cigarette case after they had gone, Parker pulled out a bullet that had j been stepped by a cigarette cas:3 in | his right hand breast pocket. It was r. j .32 calibre slug which in all probability would have killed him if it had not bean stopped by the metal cigarette case. Premier Pattullo Outlines B.C. Economic Expansion British Columbia today stands upon the threshhold of a great era of economic expansion that should absorb sjvery employable man in the province. Briefly summarized the- program will include: 1. Thousands of men engaged in actual construction of a motor highway through British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska, of which the 600 miles of �oad to Hazelton, already constructed, would be' the contribution of this province, with the Dominion and United States jointly arranging the remain* der. 2. Hundreds of tractors, graders, "bull-dozers" and trucks oh the same $12,000,000 project. 3. Untold potential wealth brought into production from the vast northern hinterland of British Columbia. 4. A new "highway of romance" opened up to the travel-minded public of North America.- 5. The last upspoiled paradise of big game hunters and fishermen made ac-jersible by motor car. Forecast By Pattullo This was foreshadowed by Premier T. D. Pattullo in a statement made public Saturday and in his birthday speech here last month. And in the new department of trade and indus-tiy, in which is included the bureau of tourist development, every effort will be made to encourage a real program of industrial expansion and tzavel extension. In the neighboring state of Washington the Hotel Men's Association has enlisted the support of four sister states in urging President Roosevelt to render concrete assistance in financing early construction of the pro-iected British Columbia-Yukon-Alaska highway. In Victoria the government is earnestly studying the question of the great proposed highway and will request federal supporc of the project. G. G. McGeer, K.C., M.P. for Van-couver-Burrafd, is now in Ottawa leading other British Columbia federal members in an appeal to Dominion authorities to assist in building the road. Trade Extension The Canadian Hotel Men's Association, with membership from. Victoria to Halifax, has added its' voice to the chorus of demands for early construction of the great project. A resolution to this effect has been forwarded to Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Vancouver business men, conscious of the possibilities of trade extension into the northern mnterland and stimulation that construction would bring to all industries here, join in the general campaign to link northern British Columbia, the ruKon, the Peace River district and'Alaska with the Pacific highway and the trans-Canada highway system. Defence officials recognize the value of a great north-sou:n motor highway to any effective scheme of defence for the Pacific coast and it is generally understood thao a road of this nature wculd be an integral part of defence plans. First discussed in 1928, the feasibility of building a motor highway through Northern British Columbia, across the Yukon and into Fairbanks, Alaska, was established by a commission set up by President Roosevelt. This commission surveyed' the whole pi^ject and reported favorably on a route from Hazelton north through Telegraph Creek to Atlin, thence to Dawson and on to Alaska by following the Yukon River. Approximate cost of the British Columbia section was set at $12,000,000. (Continued on Page Pour) Work Started On Quesnelle Quartz Plant Crew of Men Now Busy on Construction at Hixon Creek Property With lumber ordered from H. J. Gardner & Sons, Quesnel, being Weighted to the propelty, carpenters on the job, machinery for a 25-ton byanide mill ordered and the contract let to Charles Docherty for hauling it (iiom Ashcroft to Hixon Creek, the Quesnelle Quartz Mining Company expect to be in production early in May, according to Newton J. Kerr, president of the company. Complied plans provide for stepping up the first unit of 25 tons to 50 'tons capacity when ore production jusLifies the enlargement. The mill will be powered by a new 120 h.p. diesel engine which will allow Of doubling the milling capacity when required. Development at the mine during the past four years in which the Quesnelle Quartz Mining Co. has had control of this pioneer gold property, consists of two shafts sunk to the 400-foot level and upwards of 3000 feet of drifting and crosscutting. On No. 4' level a 72-foot ore shoot has been j opened up varying in width from five j to twelve feet, and according to company reports giving average values of $29.76 per ton in gold. No. 8 vein averages 45 inches in �width and average values are placed at $17.40 per ton. With upwards of 4000 tons of mill feed ore on the dump and mining crews drawing ore from No. 4 and No. 8 levels, it is hoped in a short time to' be mining sufficient tonnage to double mill capacity. Completed financing has provided $40,000, and $30,000 of this is apportioned for mill purchase and construction. These funds may be returned either by the sale of shares at a later date, or repaid out of production. A crew of eight men is now engaged in construction work at the mine- under _the superintendency of Russel Ross, mine "foreman for the past four 'years. . Good Sport At Klondyke In Ritz-Kifer Games, Jitney Dancing, Other Attractions in Aid of Covered Rink Last Friday the House of Commons at Ottawa defeated, 132-42, Conservative Leader Bennett's censure amendment to the throne speech address re-*ply; adopted the reply without a division. It heard Prime Minister Mackenzie King say Canada would not 'prolvibit export of war materials to belligerent nations and that his government, was concerned mainly in keeping Canada out of hostilities. It g?.ve first reading to a bill which would give parliament authority over electflb power exports, authority now held by the Governor General in Council. " To those despairing of good times just around the corner a trip to the �"Klondyke" in the Ritz-Kifer Hall is recommended. The wild spending of thousands of dollars last night and the expectation that tonight will see even larger sums spent recklessly will surely dissipate any thought that gocd times are not here again. A grand array of games of chance and- skill is provided, and thousands and thousands of dollars are changing hands nightly at a rate equal to the palmiest days of the Klondyke. It is a regular thing to see purchases of upwards of $1000 in "Klondyke'* money going over the counters and there need be no lack of ready money if ycu go to the Prince George "Klondyke" tonight in aid of the covered rink fund in the Ritz-Kifer Hall. In addition to the many other attractions offered, Jack Aitken's Swing Band is dispensing the latest dance tunes, as well as those reminiscent of old Klondyke days. Also, as in the strenuous days of the Klondyke rush,, provision is made for the hungry, a bountiful supply of "hot dogs" and coffee being provided for the "Dangerous Dan McGrews" and other boosters for the covered rink. ------------o------------ WEATHER REPORT (Prepared by R. B. Carter) For week ending February 15, 1938: Wednesday ............................12.0 -8.0 Thursday .............................. 4.5 -7.0 Friday ....................................12.8 -16.0 Saturday ...........;........-........il4.0 -4.6 � Sunday .................................. 9.0 -0.8 Monday ..................................15.5 -9.0 Tuesday ................................15.2 -14.0 Sunshine, 28 hours, 30 minutes; precipitation, 0.02 inches, being .2 inches snow. ' Prevailing northerly winids during the week and sub-zero minimum temperatures indicate that February may "be somewhat colder than normal, northerly winds huving been general �since January 27. Wednesday morning the minimum dropped to 25.5 degrees �below zero. Fort St. John 28 below and slightly warmer at Pouce Coupe and Grand Prairie with decidedly cold west-Tier on the prairies and in Ontario. Snowfall in Prince George to date has been 35.1 inchres, the normal winter's supply, bein? 65 inches. The barometer reached 30.72 on February 15 and is naw falling slowly. Higher temperatures may be expected Friday and Saturday.