01 Aug 1912
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Newspaper
Hedley Gazette
Location
Hadley, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1912
Page
1
Detailed description of ore processing at the Nickel Plate mine. Scheduling covers crushing, screening, cyanide treatment, and tailings consolidation. Notable changes include tube mill use, Deister tables, Oliver filter presses, and zinc precipitation improving gold recovery and tailings savings. Power plant uses water and steam power with Pelton wheels and dual engines.
Paris hosts a high profile Canadian delegation led by Postmaster General Gunewl and Premier M l Borden. They seek to reduce cable rates and introduce two cent letter postage between Canada and France while discussing reciprocal shipping rules and trade improvements. The program includes Versailles visits and banquets with the British Chamber of Commerce and the France American Commission under Premier Poincare.
A wave of charitable gifts is noted with residents offering flowers vegetables fruit jars fish trout oranges lemons magazines and various canned and fresh items. Names include Mrs Wirth Mrs Smith Mrs Chire Mrs Mier hoffer Mrs Brass Mrs Critchley Mrs Collins Mrs F Richter Mrs Shier Mr Jacombs Mr Cody Mr Drinkwater and Mr Me holfer among others.
A Canadian immigration inspector was shot aboard a boat en route from Windsor to Detroit by two men he had ordered deported as undesirable. Bank robberies persist in Vancouver with the Northern Crown Bank at Central Park last targeted. Coal miners strike again at Coleman Alberti with about 150 leaving on the second and several hundred more next day. Rural mail delivery gains traction as the Post Office faces many Ontario applications. Rainbow's crew return to England with stipulation to go out of commission after service term ends. Railway Commission in Calgary held a decision reaffirming that railways covering town relocation must pay to move the town.
The text notes machines from Jencks Machine company and Vancouver Engineering works, including two LCO-horsepower Cabulat re-t tire boilers and a 100-horsepower Mumford heater for steam at 10 pounds. It mentions an Intercoder and aftercooler, excavation links, and a long 17,000 foot pipeline to a mill.
Delegates of the Twelfth International Geological Congress will visit multiple mining regions in British Columbia and Alberta after the September 1914 meeting. The itinerary includes Nelson, Rossland, Sheep Creek, Phoenix Greenwood, Slocan, Hedley, and pre Cambrian rocks west of the Kootenay River with a Crow's Nest line route to Medicine Hat and Vancouver.
The first oil burning locomotive is attached to a south bound passenger train in the Okanagan Valley. The C. P. R. plans to convert 28 locomotives on the Mountain section to oil burning as quickly as possible.
A 1892 note states the Vernon mail runs monthly on the last Thursday to Penticton Osoyoos Keremiocos Rock Creek and Kettle River with separate lookouts to each office and a waypoint between the Mission and Kettle River for local use.
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