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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 18, 1916
Page
2
C H Nelson Editor Office 128 Third Avenue East near McBride Street delivers daily edition each morning except Monday. Rates in advance are five dollars per year, two fifty for six months, one twenty six for three months. Depositing if not paid in advance is fifty cents per month. Advertising rates available upon application.
Ottawa reports the Montreal and Toronto Highlanders and the Western Ontario Battalions receiving decorations for recovering lost positions at Hooge. Casualties among Canadian officers in the past two weeks reach 395. Sir J. A. M. Aikens of Winnipeg is re-elected President of the Canadian Bar Association in Toronto.
The Methodist Sunday School held its annual picnic at Digby Island with travel aboard the Thomas Crosby from Prince Rupert at 1 PM and return at 9:30 PM. Prizes were awarded for multiple races and contests with winners including T Sherman Geo Robertson Elyert Stevens Laura Stevens Mary Lancaster Laura Frizzell Natman Kilpatrick and others.
The Surf Inlet Power Company Limited, under the Navigable Water Protection Act, deposits site and plan descriptions with the Minister of Public Works in Ottawa and the Prince Rupert Land Registry office for wharves and a power house at the head of Surf Inlet Princess Royal Island in front of Lot 40 Range 4 Coast District. After one month from first publication the company will apply for approval and leave to construct. Dated Vancouver May 29, 1916.
J Fred Ritchie agent for Granby Consolidated Mining intends to apply within sixty days for a Certificate of Improvements under the Mineral Act to obtain a Crown Grant for the Limestone Mineral Claim in Swamp Point Portland Canal Cassiar District B C action under section 85 must be commenced before issue of the certificate Dated May 12 1916.
Notice that on May 18 1916 Surf Inlet Power Company Limited filed plans for diverting water from Cougar Lake at Surf Inlet Prince Royal Island. Copies are open for inspection in Victoria and Prince Rupert. application filed February 24 1916. water source Cougar Lake. diversion at outlet. area within ten miles of Surf Inlet head. dated Vancouver May 26 1916.
Daniel Lindeborg and co executors of James Proudfoot Estate announce sixty days to apply for a Certificate of Improvements for the Tip Top Rambler Bu Ena Vista Province Jain and Knob Hill claims in the Portland Canal Mining Division Cassiar District on Salmon River to seek Crown Grant after approval by Mining Recorder.
Robert Cecil Gosse deposits site and plans for a wharf in the North Skeena Passage at the mouth of the Skeena River, fronting lot 117 range 5 coast district BC. He will seek approval from the Minister of Public Works in Ottawa after the notice's first publication dated May 27, 1916.
Richard B McGinnis and associates intend to apply for Certificates of Improvements to obtain Crown Grants for the Dolly Varden claims in the Skeena Mining Division Cassair District located about 17 miles from the head of Alice Arm on the Kitsault River. Sixty days from the date of notice to commence action under section 85. Dated March 30 1916.
The memorandum details twenty one year leases for coal rights across Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and other northern territories at one dollar per acre with a two thousand five hundred sixty acre limit per applicant. Applications must be made in person to the local Agent or Sub Agent with a five cent fee and royalty of five cents per ton on merchantable coal. Operators must file sworn statements annually and may lease surface rights at ten dollars per acre. Full information provided by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior or Dominion Lands agents.
Fred Ritchie agent for Granby Power Company Limited gives public notice that, sixty days from April 7 1916, he will apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements for Balsam Cedar Cyprus and Spruce Mineral Claims in Skeena Mining Division Cassiar District at Granby Bay British Columbia. The notice cites Free Miner's Certificates 90 810B and pertains to Crown Grant of the above claims under section 85.
Windsor Hotel at First Ave and Eighth St offers European and American plans from $1.00 to $2.50 per day under W H Wright. Hotel Central at First Ave and Seventh St advertises similar plans with Peter Black as proprietor. Rochester Corley & Burgess operate at Third Ave and Sixth St with European Plan and steam heat.
A notice dated January 31 1916 records filings for the Winer Terminus Kan Sas Big Missouri Daunt Less Golden Crown Ep Luribus and Laura mineral claims located on Salmon River in the Portland Canal Mining Division Cassiar District. The filings involve 888B Hiram Stevenson F M C No 93844B and D C Barbrick F of the James Proudfoot Estate as parties seeking a Crown Grant.
Theed Pearse of Vancouver solicits a coal and petroleum prospecting licence from the Chief Commissioner of Lands BC for lands in Skeena Land District Queen Charlotte Island. Land description starts at a post at northeast corner of C. S. 10 and runs 80 chains east and west and 80 chains north and south to the southeast corner. Dated April 10 1916.
Public notices from 1916 include a sixty day intent to apply for a Certificate of Improvements for the Blue Jay Mineral Claim near American Creek in Caeciar District and a liquor licence application for the Alice Arm Hotel Lot 3,648 Casiar District with dates June 8 1916 and July 8 1916.
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