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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 04, 1904
Page
2
Granbrook Herald argues the BC budget debate shows mediocrity and partisanship but credits the paper for Independent views. It condemns tax policies and favors a Hansard style record of legislature proceedings while urging fair provincial funding for Cranbrook.
The Cranbrook Herald discusses regional politics, forestry revenues, and mining in 1904. It highlights W. J. Wilcox's Boundary mining edition, feedback from readers in Manitoba and Neepawa, and a long list of timber and petroleum license notices across South East Kootenay with multiple claimants and 640 acre tracts.
Notices outline the licenses to prospect for coal on described lands in East Kootenay district under the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works. Land parcels near Flathead River and adjacent claims list beattie Cameron Wiltes and King as locator parties with December 10 1903 dates and multiple corner post references.
Odd transcription describes a public notice involving coal and petroleum prospecting along a creek. The readable fragments mention Phillips North West corner and adjacent measurements, with reference to a property or parcel and a framed boundary description.
Thirty days after date the applicant will apply to the chief commissioner at Jandy and Works for a license to export coal and petroleum from a plot near Wal Creek to be measured from Stoorce Hillier southwest. The tract contains six hundred forty acres and runs north for four hundred chains to the place of beginning. The date appears as January 4.
The famed Monte Carlo, once a central figure in Port Steeve and Fort Steele social life, has emerged from Edmonton after a year in the far north. He is noted for his large interests and a contract at Fort Steele, plus his role as a charter member of the Kootenay Central railroad and his tree-planting wager intended for cross tires.
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