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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
2
Prince Rupert Journal provides daily edition details with editor O H Nelson, office address, and contact. Rates listed for delivery and advertising, including prepaid options and monthly prices.
The letter from ex Alderman Mor rissey urges immediate sewer projects to create city jobs and boost prosperity. It notes council aims to avoid receivership by proving sane city management and reestablishing investor faith through steady finances.
The editorial warns that even if times improve the city must avoid default risk and eschew elastic financing. It argues against large current expenditures and notes outside taxpayers bear tax burdens, urging policy focused on immediate needs and investor confidence.
Local users report instant relief from constipation sour stomach and gas using Adler i ka with buckthorn bark and glycerine. One spoonful is said to affect both bowel sections and may relieve frequent discomfort and prevent appendicitis in some cases. Pioneer Druggist C H Orme endorses the remedy.
Job ad seeking a manual training instructor for Prince Rupert Public School with a salary of 100 dollars per month. Duties begin August 1 1916. Applicants must state experience and qualifications. Address W D Vance secretary P O Box 1556.
Robert Cecil Gosse deposits site and plan for a wharf in the North Skeena Passage at the mouth of the Skeena River in front of Lot 117 Range 5 Coast District British Columbia. He awaits public works approval after one month from May 27 1916 filing.
Certificate of Improvements filed for six mineral claims on Salmon River in Cassiar District and Portland Canal Mining Division. Daniel Lindeborg and co executors of James Proudfoot Estate give sixty days to apply for Crown Grant and warn action under section 5 must start before certificate issue dated January 81 1916.
A historic hotel directory lists the Windsor, Central, and Emapesis hotels with locations and rates, followed by a notice from Samuel Horner of Vancouver stating intent to apply for a coal and petroleum prospecting licence in British Columbia. The described land tract covers 640 acres on Graham Island Otard Bay with a start post at the northwest corner. The application is dated April 11, 1916.
J Fred Ritchie agent for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting Power Co to apply for a Certificate of Improvements within sixty days to obtain a Crown Grant for Mineral Claims No. 3 through No. 8 in Skeena Cassiar District adjoining Carney Lake Granby Bay B C. Dated June 15 1916.
Notice by Daniel Lindeborg and partners of a Crown grant pursuit under section 85 for mineral claims in the Portland Canal Mining Division Cassiar District located on Salmon River dated January 31 1916. The names include Winer Terminus Kan Sas Big Missouri Daunt Less Golden Crown EP Luribus and Laura with interests from James Proudfoot Estate.
The Surf Inlet Power Company Limited filed on May 18 1916 at the Comptroller of Water Rights its plans and specifications to divert water from Cougar Lake at the head of Surf Inlet Prin cess Royal Island. Duplicates are open to inspection in Victoria and Prince Rupert. The Water Recorder approval filing date was February 24 1916. Source is Cougar Lake as the water source and the diversion at the lake outlet aimed at Surf Inlet within ten miles of its head. Dated Vancouver May 26 1916.
Government outline authorizes 21 year coal mining leases in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and parts of the Northwest Territories and British Columbia at one dollar per acre with a maximum of 2 660 acres per applicant. Applications must be made in person to local agents with a five dollar fee and royalties of five cents per ton. Surface rights may be purchased at ten dollars per acre. Guidance provided by the Department of the Interior Ottawa and Dominion Lands agents.
Fred Ritchie as agent for Granby Consolidated Mining prepares to file for a Certificate of Improvements on five mineral claims B C Granby Bay Sleena Mining Division Cassair District within 60 days to obtain a Crown Grant. Action under section 85 must be started before the grant issue dated April 7 19 fly 14 J
Notich is hereby given that on the 8th day of July next, application will be made to the Superintendent of Provincial Police for the grant of a licence for the sale of liquor by retail in and upon the premises known as the Alice Arm Hotel. The hotel sits at the Head of Alice Arm on Lot 3,643 Cassiar District. Dated this 8th day of June, 1916. Olaf Bvindsen, Applicant.
Theed Pearse, Vancouver solicitor, applies to the Chief Commissioner of Lands of British Columbia for a licence to prospect coal and petroleum on lands described as starting at a post at the Northeast corner of C. L. 10,155 West 80 chains and running north 80 chains south 80 chains to the southeast corner. Dated April 10, 1916.
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