Mines of Kootenay mining outlook and expert views
In London The Colonial Goldfields Gazette interviews Simon D. Ord of the Kootenays. He highlights Rossland and Boundary Country as copper gold strongholds with vast deposits in East Kootenay. He praises Le Roi War Eagle and Centre Star in Rossland and notes Slocan as a leading silver lead camp, while coal deposits in Crow's Nest offer rich coke. Ord criticizes mal administration in some companies and endorses strong development firms like British America Corporation for a swift, disciplined path to a golden harvest.
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Simon D. Ord
Kootenays
London
Colonial Goldfields Gazette
Rossland
Boundary Country
Kootenay
le Roi
War Eagle
Boundary
Nelson
East Kootenay
Crow's Nest
Ord
Great Britain
British Columbia
British-America Corporation
Smelting Industry Profits Highlighted By New York Tribune
Quote notes the smelting sector as the largest profit source in America with capital turning five times yearly and margins exceeding 20 percent of the totals managed.
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America
New York Tribune
Engineer Clapp Finishes Kootenay Canyon Work
Fort Steele May 6. Government engineer J M Clapp completed canyon improvements on the Kootenay River five miles from Jennings and left for Seattle. He exhausted the $1000 appropriation by blasting a rock with 700 pounds of powder, widening the channel and shifting the current along the eastern bank for safer navigation.
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Fort Steele
B. C
J. M. Clapp
Kootenay River
Jennings
Seattle
Gray's Harbor
Wash
Metal Quotations From The Miners Special Kootenay Number
The Miners Special Kootenay Number reports metal prices with New York quotes on May 10. Silver certificates 613 to 621y, bar silver 61 and a half percent, Mexican dollars 48 percent. Copper futures at 74 and a half shillings per pound, market quiet with 200 tons spot and 800 tons futures.
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New York
London
Nelson district special number prospectus promises wide reader reach
A proposed special edition will span Nelson and East Kootenay regions with 50 000 readers and two tons of paper. It will cover Nelson history commerce mining and tourism plus writeups of Slocan City Silverton New Denver Sandon Kaslo Ymir Fernie Cranbrook Moyie and East Kootenay towns. Patrons with contracted photo cuts are urged to supply photographs promptly.
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Nelson
Kootenays
West Kootenay
Slocan City
Silverton
New Denver
Sandon
Kaslo
Slocan
Ymir
Salmo
Erie
Fernie
Cranbrook
Creston
Moyie
Crow’s Nest Ry
East Kootenay
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mines OF
Golden Crown Group
A. J. Marks
Ore Mining & Milling Co
Golden Wedge
Six-Mile Creek
Toad Mountain
Crawford & McMillan
T. Leo Peel
Sandon, B. C
Pen and Picture
1. Vincent
H. Byers & CO
Giant Powder Co
Truax Ore Cars
Canton Drill Steel
Gurney, Tilden Stoves and Ranges
Box K& K
Irkpatrick & Wilson
Baker Street
London & British Columbia Goldfields, Limited
England
P. O
Nelson, B.C
J. Roderick Robertson
S. Fowler
E. M
Arthur R. Sherwood
the Birkbeck Investment, Security
Front Street
P. Burns & CO
Nelson, B
Cae
Trail
Three Forks
Reisterer & CO
Peter Genelle & Co
J. L. Vanstone
Nelson, B. C
E.c. Beer Agt
Kaslo & Slocan Railway
South Fork
Sproule's
Whitewater
Bear Lake
McGuigan Payne Tram
Cody Junction
Dar
CODY
Sandon Cody
Copeland
C.w.west & CO
General Teamsters
Imperial Oil Co
Baker & Hall Sts
T. D. Woodcock & CO
Canton & Jessop’s Steel
W. J. G Dickson
West Kootenay Valley
Nelson & Bedlington Ry
Geo
M’farland
Creston Townsite Co., Creston, B, O
Atlin
Dawson City
Wake Pass
Yukon
A. R. Sherwood
Agt
West
Nelson Cleaning and Dyeing Establishment
D. Pierre
Tear of Clarke Hotel
R. P. Rithet & Co., Ltd
Victoria
Columbia Flouring Mills
Enderby and
Vernon
A. B. Gray
P. OQ
Kootenay Agen
Merchants’ Bank of Halifax
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Ceesee
Grand Forks
Nanaimo
Vancouver
East End
Te Nelson
Geo. Kydd
Lson, B.C
B. C. Portland Cement Co
Winnipeg
Turner Beetons Co
West Kootenay Butcher Co
Lowes
EB. C. Traves
Dickson E
H.H. Applewhaite JR
McPhee Kootenay Electric Supply and Construction Co
Josephine St
Lethbridge
Frank Fletcher
P.L. S
W. P. Tierney
Land & Coal
Cor. Kootenay & Baker
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