Selous Postpones British Columbia Visit for Mashonland Crisis
Canadian Gazette reports F C Selous the lion hunter and rival of H M Stanley postpones a planned visit to British Columbia with Phillips Wolley due to the Mashonaland crisis. He expects to return to England by year end and hopes to shoot in the Pacific Province next winter. His Africa trip preceded a new lion hunting chapter and Badminton series volumes illustrated by Whymper and Willink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Selous
Lion Hunter
H. M. Stanley
British Columbia
Phillips-Wolley
Mashonland
England
Phillips- Woolley
Charles Whymper
Willink
Banker Lacey Advocates Canada Style Bank Note System
At a Chicago bankers banquet ex comptroller Lacey urged Canada-like bank note circulation tied to capital with pro rata tax, saying the U S needs a similar system to curb depressions and prevent currency lockups. he warned against efforts that would worsen the crisis.
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Chicago
Lacey
U. S
Canada
Gold Quartz Mines Report Finds Rich Alberni District Ledges
Government minister receives Carmichael report on gold quartz mines near Alberni on Vancouver Island. Assays range from 200 to 2500 dollars per ton. Ledgers lie between quartzite and granite walls. only one has been developed, with other surface samples found along the same mountain group twenty miles away.
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Carmichal
Alberni
Vancouver Island
Moun
Prospectors Rush to Riches Near Victoria
Assayer Carmichael notes gold encrusted rims amid bare hills offering strong inducement. The district lies a day from Victoria by water or rail and wagon road. China Creek ledges lie twenty eight miles from tidewater on Alberni canal. Prospects are hurrying to the field.
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Carmichael
Victoria
China Creek
Alberni Canal
Halifax Indian reports bonanza of gold and silver coins
An Indian named Gould tells Halifax Nova Scotia authorities of finding a vast cache of gold and silver on a Colchester county riverbank. He describes four feet below water edge digging revealing varied coin sizes with inscriptions including fifty silver dollars in size and weight. The discovery is said to include both gold and silver pieces with distinct shapes and inscriptions.
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Gould
Halifax
N.S
Colchester County
Nakusp's Ambitious Civic Vision and Oddities
A historical list outlines Nakusp civic improvements including fire protection a first class lock up sidewalks and a brick block plan with a target of three thousand residents by spring Also noted are electric light water works a suburban park and a public reading room A quirky line claims pangram completeness by using John ex temporized five tow and mentions Hindoo origins of using eggs as immortality symbols amid notes on gold mines in Australia and an old legal document dated 1699 found in a Palmyra Michigan paper mill.
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B. C
Nakusp
John
India
Australia
Magdala
Stawell
Lansell’s
Sandhurst
Palmyra, Mich
Peter Genelle
Columbia House
Nakusp, B. C
Corning & McDonald
Prop
Hugh Madden
Slocan ‘Mines
New
Denver
Neelands Bros Nelson
B.C
Nault
Chop
House
John Colletto, & CO
Prop’s
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