Mines of Kootenay activity boosts Slocan City hopes
Slocan City sees Arlington mine begin operations under new manager Du Bois with miners secured and a pump en route, aiming to sink a shaft. Bank of England and Black Prince prospects show ore and rising supply while market chatter on silver and mining in British Columbia signals potential revival. Bear encounter report ends with mention of hunting and local promotions for The Miners Specified Kootenay Number.
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Slocan City
Arlington
Black Prince
Coke Ovens Construction Expands With Local Labor
Fernie May 6 reports contractor Baldrof has 150 workers on a plan to build one hundred coke ovens this summer for the Coal Company and will add more once frost clears and work progresses.
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Fernie
Coal Creek
Adventure with bears near Cascade City
Stanley Mayall told Spokesman-Review correspondent of a close bear encounter near Deep Creek. He started at noon to fish, found three bears a cub and two olds, and fired at the cub hoping to attract the others, but his shot ended the pursuit unexpectedly.
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Smith & Wessom
Mr. Mayall
Cascade City
B. C
Stanley Mayall
Spokesman-Review
Deep Creek
Last of Mowat James Mowat dies on Telegraph Creek Trail
Obituary recounts James Mowat who lived in Nelson and Kaslo, died last March on the trail between Telegraph Creek and Teslin Lake. It recalls his peculiar ways, a 1892 claim near Nelson sold for 125 dollars, and a life as an honest trail blazer noted by New Denver Ledge.
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James Mowat
Nelson
Kaslo
Telegraph Creek
Teslin Lake
Jimmy
Ozone
George Neelands
Athabasca
Watson Creek
Blue Ridge Hotel
Neil
Bob MacDonald
New
Denver Ledge
Transvaal War Probabilities Denied by Colonial Office
London May 65 The Colonial Office states there is no foundation for Outlooks Capetown despatch claims of a Transvaal crisis and rejects any suggestion that war probabilities have been seriously considered by the government.
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London
Colonial Office
Capetown
Transvaal
Amalgamated Copper stock subscription allotment announced
In New York on May 5 the Wall Street report said subscribers to Amalgamated Copper Company stock would receive 20 percent of their subscriptions. The issue was heavily oversubscribed, more than five times the available shares.
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New York
Wall Street
Amalgamated Copper Company
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Victoria
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Turner Beetone CO
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Lowing News Stores
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Phair
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Nelson J
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Tria
Josephine St
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Lethbridge
Frank Fletcher
P. Land & CC
W. P. Tierney
Kootenay & Baker Sts
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