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Cascade City, where he expected to do business with any suckers he might find in that neighborhood.WANT CORBIN'S ROAD.People of Boundary Creek Country Urr animously Favor Him.The agitation for a railway to open up the Boundary Creek country is now at fever heat. D. C. Corbin wants a charter, and it seems the people out there want him to have it. The Canadian Pacific Railway, too, is manifesting its intentions by preparing to survey a route from the Polumbia fiver at Robson through to Penticton, via McCrea creek. Christina lake, Grand Forks and Greenwood.*Mr. John A. Manly, of Grand Forks,who has been interesting himself andfriends in the cause of Mr. Corbin, wasin Rosfland Thursday and was brimfulof enthusiasm over the project. To TheTimes reporter he said:•Throughout the Boundary Creek country the people are a unjt jn fayor of a charter being granted to the Kettle River Valley Railway, which proposes to connect the town of Marcus, on the Spokane # Northern, with Penticton, This road would first reach the Cana dian boundary at Cascade City. Mass meetings have been held at Cascade City, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Anaconda, Midway and other points, and the proposed railway was in oyery instance heartily endorsed. Mr. Corbin asks no subsidy and no land grant. All he wants is a charter, and no stone will be left unturned by the people of the Boundary people in their efforts to aiij him Should the charter be refused we would feel as if the lastjstraw of hope had been lost. We have no ill-will toward the Canadian Pacific Railway people, and earnestly hope that they may be able to get a sufficient subsidy to encourage them in going ahead with their proposed road from Robson. There is plenty of room and business for two roads, and of course competition would be a boon to the district. The country is in perfect condition now to receive railwuys. At Grand Forks we will have a smelter running next spring, strongly backed by English capital, and there will be other smelters started throughout the districtjust assoonasa railwaybecomsafeahtv.” All week long the surveyors in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway company have been busy getting their outfits ready and shipped to the different headquarters along the line of their proposed survey, between Arrow lake and i’euticton. Engineer Tye will have charge of the survey. The supplies, including hardware, groceries, bedding, horses, saddles, etc., were purchased here in Borland and helped out this#• • ■ i • v » i ’.i « «« • ■ w* A • iwill be fifteen fire hvclnnts and all parts of the city will havo ample fire protection,Mr. Chappie, who has charge of put ting in the water svstem, expects to open a plumbing establishment here and thpse who pontemplatg having water put into their house will do well to see him and have the work done before the water is turned on as it will be much cheaper.City Council Meet.At the regular weekly session of the city cohncii held yesterday, all the council were present with the exception of the Mayor and Alderman McCallum. Tho minutes of the last meeting wereread an4 allowed.An estimate was preseniod from Mr. Davey.by his agent, Mr. Potter, for $8,-ooo for labor and material furnished for the water and light system, a: d a request that 85 per cent of that ainount be allowed. The council after examining the estimate agreed to allowing $5,-000 on it.The clerk read a communication from J. W, Jones, F. H. McCarter Son, and other rosidents on the east side of Riverside avenue, requesting that the city build a sidewalk in front of lots where the owners have failed to so. Upon motion of Alderman Johnson, seconded by Alderman L. A. Manly, the board of pticlic works was instructed to have the sidwalk built at once.The bill of Contractor Peter Hanna for $141, for sidewalk building was referred to the board of public works.Qn motion of Alderman Davis thecouncil adjourned.Cheapest Advertising. Everybody reads newspapers; everybody does not read circulars, no matter how well preprod or attractive theymay be. Every thousand circulars mailed with a one-cent stamp costs $10. There is no newspaper in the world that would, or could, charge even for a full-column ad, $10 per thousand of its circulation— Fruiters’ Ink.Surveying the Coin.Fred Wollaston, P. L. S., has just made an official survey of the Coin property some four miles from Grand Forks.This is being done preparatory to the owners of this property applying for a Crown Grant. Harry Sheads, the well known assayer, is one of the owners of this property.In £Overlothermintn sectio ‘•I 1 the fa sents men c whate were ; Overl Forks tance non, e 100 m croft a wagor boo gc “Th the rominin]all the water of any in the for thi are a only nmincH“Peiis mor dary a a dozlt; and it one to there. Klond ly proTheevenirwas a last te inakin house be rec it in flt;NeWorking the Porcupine.Work is being steadily pushed on the Porcupine mine directly across the Kettle river from Grand Forks on the reservation. The lights at the mouth of the lunnol on t'lt; is property being plainly §esn at Grai.ij Forks every night.room the pt ped a lar’s z it a pi city, mnnaperiei who 1 drink know there Horn of th'
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Grand Forks Miner
Grand Forks, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Jan 29, 1898
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