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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
4
Local notes list residents traveling to Moyie Fort Steele and Spokane. Census taking ends this week while Rev. Reid and Rev. Holford prepare pulpit duties. Community events include raffles, card parties, milk routes, and a Mauser rifle drawing at Wentworth hotel.
Pity for a day in Cranbrook notes travels to Greenwood with Miss Keay and mentions C. McNab mayor of Jaffray visiting Cranbrook. George Morrow's week in Nelson and Spokane is recorded. Paul Rookes now braking on the passenger with Conductor Niblock. Cranbrook gun club invites new members at the Cranbrook hotel Monday evening west 6th inst. A. V Lane and J A. McPhee to return to Lethbridge after Bremner stock work. Sidney Colton, leaving Reid & Co for Phoenix to join Hunter Kendrick & Co, is bid farewell by Cranbrook friends.
Fort Steele Prospector Gus Theis returns from Perry creek with over 600 dollars in gold from two months work. A three foot graphite strike with native silver is reported in Swansea. Grey copper ore shows in an upraise on the Stanley. Work advances on the Carbon ate King claim. Nelse Robertson and Ben Huckle head to Horse Shoe Canyon to develop property. Plans to repair the Westport wagon road and turnpike sections via Geary Doyle and W P Henry with E Johnson back in Fort Steele. Reps Reid and Gunn of Moyie visit Moyie. fruit trees planted on Fort Steele lots.
The spring work on the CPR fleet is in full swing with changes to the Nelson shipyard intact and the Moyie interior being altered. Five new state rooms will be added by rearranging the dining saloon area to boost sleeping accommodations. A Pan American exposition rate rumor cites Nelson routes offering a Buffalo bound fare below the standard single fare, with a potential 150 rate under consideration delaying final rate confirmation.
Winnipeg Free Press reports William Whyte, born 1843 in Fifeshire, Scotland, promoted to assistant to the CP Rail president with Winnipeg HQ since May 1897. His long railway career spans North Britain Railway, Grand Trunk, Toronto and Ontario lines, and the Ontario and Quebec system before CP. Also notes Jim Hill’s rumored move to control Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Western to reach Atlantic routes.
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