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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 29, 1915
Page
4
Joseph Howe and KE Shockley plan Monday departure for England. Dr Montizambert, Director General of Public Health in Canada, arrives in the city with Mrs Montizamabert, signaling a notable public health visit.
The G T P steamer Prince Rupert brought a large southbound group to the city yesterday morning. The list includes Mr Severs and family Miss Balfour Mr and Mrs Howard Hartley and child Mr Kline H F Troy Ruddy Rea H C Sproule Newell and daughter Trapp Scott Reverend Harker Babley and many others. Also of record is a notice from the Northern British Columbia Agricultural and Industrial Association inviting 1915 Fair members and supporters to enroll, with a goal of 1 000 members and two free entries, to boost government aid and local development. The document is signed by F Wright and dated August 22 1918.
The Prince Rupert port conference highlighted connections for Alaska trade with routes via the inside passage. Attendees included executives from Milwaukee Road, C P R, Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Grand Trunk Pacific and Grand Trunk Railway, with agents from Seattle and Portland.
Sealed tenders for the Granby Bay School two room building in Skeena Electoral District must be received by the Minister of Public Works by noon on September 2 1915. Plans and details available August 13 from J H McMullin Prince Rupert and other listed offices. Tender requires a 10 percent bank cheque or deposit. lowest bid not necessarily accepted.
Rates listed for advertising under headings with minimum charges and per word costs. One insertion six words, twenty six insertions one month. Birth marriage and death notices priced individually. Card of thanks twenty five or four cents per line. All condensed ads require cash in advance or one cent per word per insertion.
Coal mining rights in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta the Yukon Territory Northwest Territories and part of British Columbia may be leased for 21 years at 1 per acre up to 2560 acres per applicant. Applications must be made in person with 45 fee. royalty five cents per ton of merchantable coal. annual returns required. surface rights may be purchased at 10 per acre.
Peter Piambo of Prince Rupert B C a prospector intends to apply for permission to prospect for coal and petroleum over 640 acres on Graham Island West Coast starting one mile north of Lot 2485 northeast corner. Location dated 8 July 1915.
Notice by I J Ritchie as agent for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting Power Company Limited to apply within sixty days for Certificates of Improvements for multiple mineral claims on Bonanza Creek Granby Bay Observatory Inlet area in Skeena Mining Division Cassiar District. Action under Section 37 must begin before certificate issues. Dated July 2, 1915.
Richard B McGinnis of San Francisco California mining engineer intends to lease lands in the Alice Arm Observatory Inlet area. The description runs from a post on the west shore three quarters of a mile south then specifies bounds along high and low water marks 425 feet each and returns to the starting point. Date August 12 1515.
A North Pacific land description locates a 640 acre parcel on Queen Charlotte Islands. The description runs three miles north of the northeast corner of Lot 2487, then 80 chains north, 80 chains west, 80 chains south, and 80 chains east back to the start. Date noted 8 July 1914.
Skeena Land District District of Queen Charlotte Islands TAKE NOTICE that Peter Piambo located four miles north of the north east corner of Lot 2 437 thence 80 chains north thence 80 chains east thence 80 chains west to point of commence less Date located 8rd July 1915 a 26.
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