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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1908
Page
7
The Queen visited 22 year old Martha Massey dying of consumption at St. Luke's Home for Incurables Bayswater and sent flowers and lozenge boxes. meanwhile the Admiralty withdrew the old battleship Implacable from sale as a historic Napoleonic prize.
The text states that every assignment of a Volunteer land grant right must be through a substitute appointment and in the act’s prescribed form. It highlights Subsection 3 of Section 5 of the Volunteer Bounty Act 1908, noting that the department will not accept or recognize any assignment unless executed and dated after the warrant for the land grant issued by the Minister of Militia and Defence in favor of the Volunteer.
George Hanmant of Wasa British Columbia intends to apply for permission to locate a tract of about 400 acres described by a posted metes and bounds starting at a southwest corner near 1034 A T Miller, with lines east 60 chains, south, east 20 chains, and various Lot corners, ending at the point of commencement. The date shown is September 8th.
James A. Harvey acting for M. Ely will apply within sixty days to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain a Crown Grant for the John Bull Lake View and Porcupine claims in Fort Steele district. Action under section 87 must commence before the certificate is issued.
Dominion lands within the Railway Belt in British Columbia may be homesteaded by a family breadwinner or any male over 15, up to one-quarter section of 100 acres. Entry must be made in person at the local land office. proxy lotteries allowed by certain relatives. Plans require six months residency and cultivation yearly for three years or equivalent arrangements. Six months’ notice to Ottawa is required. Coal mining rights may be leased for 21 years at $1 per acre with five cents per ton royalty.
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