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Newspaper
Phoenix Pioneer
Location
Phoenix, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
2
G S Waterlow reports after two weeks on the Snowshoe mine that ore returns are satisfactory and shipping totals reach 150 tons daily. The main shaft is 300 feet deep with a large ore body exposed, machinery erection is underway, and a railway spur will be added.
A Vancouver Liberal association repairs fences as 14,000 attend the New Westminster Exhibition. A mining and railway news roundup includes a Kamloops canal plan, Revelstoke damages suit against the CPR, navy prize essays, and labor disputes. Observations on wages, emigration, and railway timetable changes round out the dispatch.
The Hamilton Spectator cites unrest among coal traders and Boer leaders eyeing Canada as old men and officials in eastern Canada shape policy. Slocan mine owners expand zinc and copper outputs while Nelson electric street railway resumes service amid council debate. Mining output is forecast to rise by about fifty percent in 1902, with provincial tensions over mining laws and deputy minister Tolmie advocating field presence. The Granby coke and power shortage looms as the industry faces supply pressures and expansion moves by major companies.
Advertising is the lifeblood of business and newspaper ads fuel growth. It urges tracking competitors but warns against imitation. Success comes from timely, confident messages about sold articles, with well-placed inserts acting like seeds for future gains.
The article argues that removing customs duties on machinery and requisites for mining would aid the industry as no other measure can. It cites Granby and Le Roizo mines using large amounts of powder and notes duty costs of about 30 900 dollars annually. It criticizes tariffs as the main threat to mineral industry and advertises an ad for a double spring mattress at Pioneer Office.
A Canadian newspaper advertises a wide weekly subscription deal for the Phoenix Pioneer. It offers free weeklies and reduced rates with options to receive either Sunlenal Family Her ahLand Weekly Star or Taranto Weekly title, and mentions sending three months of Pioneer with purchase.
Notice states dissolution of partnership between party and partner and liquidation of county matters. C. W. Stack and C. Oliver of Greenwood received a contract to manufacture 1500 feet of thin wire wound wood pipe for the city of Greenwood. Dated Phoenix Arizona September 10, 1902.
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