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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1916
Page
2
The notice lists telephone and post office box details for a newspaper including address at 128 Third Avenue East near Mesride Street and a daily edition published every morning except Monday. It notes carrier delivery in the city and advance payment rates.
An officer of the 102nd Battalion writes from Bramshott describing departure for France and plans as a base battalion. He recalls Tom Maitland shouting for a field kitchen before breakfast at Sema position, mentions Tom Stewart wounded again, and notes Capt. Travis Lucas seen for the first time.
I J Fred Ritchie as agent for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting Power Co applies for a Certificate of Improvements on the No 4 to No 8 Mineral Claims adjoining Carney Lake Granby Bay B C. The action must be started within sixty days from date hereof to obtain a Crown Grant. action under section 50 must be begun before issue of the certificate. Dated June 1 1921.
J J Fred Ritchie acting for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power Co Ltd gives notice to apply within sixty days for a Certificate of Improvements for the Mineral Claims BALSAM HOOTER MALLARD No 1 No 2 No 2 Fraction HEM LOCK Fraction and LAKANIAN Fraction located between Hidden Creek and Carney in the Skeena Mining Division Caselar District dated May 19 1916.
Certificate of Improvements for Nos. 9 and 10 Mineral Claims in the Skeena Mining Division Cassiar District east of Carney Lake Granby Bay B C J Fred Ritchie agent for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting Power Co Ltd Free Miner's Certificate No 30050 intends sixty days Mining Recorder to obtain a Certificate of improvement before issue Dated July 20 1916
Prince Rupert city invites tenders by August 18 for a return tubular boiler 80.7 h p 125 psi, a 1 1/4 inch boiler feed pump, a Penberthy injector, a copper coil feed water heater and an Underwriters Fine Pump with fittings. Equipment claimed nearly new and in use briefly on Shawatlans survey system.
Notice announces coal mining rights for Dominion lands in several western territories may be leased for 21 years at $1 per acre with fees and royalties. Applications must be in person to district agents, up to 2550 acres per applicant, and staking rules apply in surveyed and unsurveyed areas. Royalty five cents per ten tons. surface rights may be purchased at $10 per acre. Also records intent to apply for Crown Grant on mineral claims near Granby Bay, B C by Fred Ritchie with required notices and deadlines.
Public notice dated January 31 1916 names Daniel Lindeborg Hiram Stevenson Barbrick and James Proudfoot Estate acting as administrators. It warns sixty days to apply to Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain Crown grant for the Portland Canal mining claim and that action under section 85 must begin before the certificate is issued.
The Surf Inlet Power Company Limited filed plans and specifications for diverting water from Cougar Lake at the outlet, to be used at the head of Surf Inlet on Prince Royal Island. Copies are open for inspection in Victoria and Prince Rupert. the filing with the Water Recorder occurred February 24, 1916, dated Vancouver May 26, 1916.
I J Fred Ritchin agent gives notice that under Crown Grant and Section 85 of 1916 he intends to take a Crown Grant for the Dolly Fraction Mineral Claim adjoining Hidden Creek Granby Bay B C. A sixty day period is stated with dates from June 29 1916 to September 4 1916.
Olier Besner, holder of Free Miner’s Certificate 82230, intends within sixty days to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements on mineral claims Moose Elk Humboldt and Black Bear in the Skeena Mining Division Glacier Creek Granby Bay. The notice is filed under the Mineral Act Form F.
Sealed tenders to the Minister of Lands must be received by noon August 16 1916 for Pulp Licence X 682 to cut 8 525 000 feet of Spruce Hemlock and Balsam on Nos call Lake Head area Coast District Range 3. Eight years allowed for removal of timber. Further details from Chief Forester Victoria or District Forester Prince Rupert.
Wanted large quantity spruce logs of good size and with at least 30 percent scaling. Provide price quality and earliest delivery details to C. P. Coles & Co. Vancouver.
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