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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
2
The notice lists office address 128 Third Avenue East near McBride Street and postbox 607 with a 138 telephone. It details publication frequency and delivery charges, plus foreign subscription rates and advertising inquiries.
The Canadian Trade Commissioner in London reports rising demand for canned salmon among laboring classes and notes shortages of first British quality stock. He cites prejudice against pink and lower grades, attributing it to packing methods and predicting growth if packing improves and prices stay affordable.
Continued from page one the roster names captains from various locations including Wall Rupert Hannington Wilmer McKenzie Vancouver Green New Westminster Dunbar Gibson Victoria Milley Rossland and quartermasters Winch Lewin Victoria and dental surgeon Hartman with warrant officers Glass Morrison Vancouver
The United States steamer Leelanaw, once owned by Bo Dunsmuir & Sons of Victoria, was torpedoed off Scotland by a German submarine. The vessel, formerly Bariwell, operated in Nor Maellie ports and Panama Isthmus freighting, as part of a plan to ship cargo with government rail transfers.
The Provincial Department of Agriculture offers cash prizes in three classes for Prince Rupert garden plots. House Garden with labor use offers 12 and 5 dollar prizes, owner-run plots offer up to 15 dollars, and an ordinary cultivated plot with utilities consideration offers 25 dollars top prize. An entry fee of 1 dollar applies, entries advised by A H Tomlinson Box 1693 City. The Canadian Patriotic Fund invites notices of needs from residents with service breadwinner.
Questioned enlistment terms explain duration to end of war plus six months, pay for privates at one dollar daily plus field allowance, government clothing equipment and subsistence, care for the wounded with continued pay and disability allowances, and pensions for widows and dependents including widowed mothers.
The Leelanaw used by the Dunsmuirs in coal shipments for years also served for charter. Bids for the craft were brisk for Alaskan trade when US-flag tonnage was scarce and summer freight rushes to northern camps yielded high rates.
I J Fred Ritchie as agent for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting Power Co Limited gives notice that within sixty days from today he will apply to the Mining Recorder for Certificates of Improvements for the Bonanza and related mineral claims in the Skeena Mining Division Cassiar District on Bonanza Creek Granby Bay Observatory Inlet B C. Action under Section 387 must be commenced before tissue of such certificates. Dated July 2 1915.
Peter McLachlan, broker of Prince Rupert BC, will apply to purchase lands in the Skeena Land District TAKH. The site begins at a post at high water mark on the east side of Detention Island in Prince Rupert Harbor and follows the island contour to the start, containing about one acre more or less.
Michael Seeburg and W J Kennaugh face a court ordered public auction in Prince Rupert BC on December 20 1915 at 11 am for Lot 14 Block 21 Section 6 in the city subject to a 1519 74 judgement and 5 interest per year since December 22 1914 with sale costs. Also notice of Tomas P O Farrell applying for a coal and petroleum prospecting license near Lot 2451 with defined boundaries.
R M Stewart acting for Wim Pigott W D Noble and D J Rainey give notice they intend to apply for a Certificate of Improvements for the Rainier mineral claim in the Portland Canal Mining Division Cassiar District located on the east side of Bear River. Action under section 87 must be commenced before issue. Dated June 15 1915.
J W G Humble, agent for Ella Humble, holder Free Miner's Cert No 4097R, intends within sixty days to apply for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain a Crown Grant for the Warry Mineral Claim at Maple Bay Portland Canal, Cassiar District. Action under section 85 must be commenced before the certificate issues. dated June 26 1915.
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