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Newspaper
Cascade Record
Location
Cascade, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1898
Page
6
The Cascade Record weekly edition from Cascade City British Columbia lists subscription pricing at 2 per year in advance and advertising rates on request. This issue is dated Saturday November 26, 1898.
The Boundary country faces weeks of outage affecting business as Cascade and Cas cade telephones await a new transmitter. Local leaders urge residents to press for action while noting rising hotel demand and a growing influx of travelers. The region also sees talk of water works, rail charter, and new businesses boosting Cascade’s development.
The banking boom spreads from Green Wood to Grand Forks where Merchants Bank of Halifax opened within two hours of the manager's arrival. Cascade is next with bankers visiting briefly to assess the city and its resources as inquiries rise among influential people.
The article argues for government relief to ease strain on the local custom house and aid Collector Rose who faces heavy workload for years. It laments lack of mail facilities between Cascade and Brooklyn with hundreds forced to travel far for letters and calls for a temporary mail route until the new railway line is usable. The Record publishes the memorial text in full.
The Cascade Taxpayers' Association lauds its memorial to the Lieutenant Governor and James M. Martin as a yearly benefit per resident. The Record asserts the good work has begun and will yield practical city benefits in the coming months.
Several stages have had hard luck recently with most breakdowns affecting routes above Cascade. Receivers of the mail in Cascade are not directly impacted, as failures occur upstream and downstream segments remain operational.
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