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Lands open for purchase and prospect in Skeena district
Notices list numerous individuals from Vancouver, Masset, Chicago, Blair Nebraska, and other places applying for permission to purchase or lease land on Graham Island and surrounding Skeena area. Entries include Theone Gange, Miner Converse, Oscar Brown, Philip Chesley and others with descriptions of lots, post locations, and land areas up to 640 acres. Also notices for water licensing at Ain River and development company activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skeena
Queen Charlotte Islands
Theone Gange
Lindsay
California
Indian Reserve No. 11
Graham Island
Christie
Miner Converse
Peabody
Kansas
A. S. Christie
Oscar M. Brown
Vancouver
B. C
Point of Commencement
Oscar M, Brown
Coast
Philip T. Chesley
Prince Rupert
Shamos River
Shames River
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Skeena Land District
AIN River Development Co., Ltd
Ain River
Masset Inlet
Sin-tsua Lake
George
Mayer
Queen Charlotte
J. Austin M. Brown
Chief Commissioner of Lands
C. L
Austin M. Brown
Skeenaland
I. Austin M. Brown
Sseena
U. S
Eliza Sutherland
Blair
Nebraska
Point Commencement
George S. Mayer
Aimee Merrill
Masset
Harry Martin
George M. Wilson
Mountain
New Mexico
Hell’s Gate Slough
Island Sound
A. Wilson
Aimee Mervill
Massett
Kundis Island
Massett Inlet
Orland P. Merrill
Margaret A. Merrill
Chicago
Illinois
Allan Orr
Carpenter
Thomas Stewart
Burton Vivian Brewer
Queen Carlotte Islands
Edgar J. Young
Vancouver B. C
Margaret Merrill
U.S.A
Arthur W. Nelson
Frank Gray
Blair, Nebrasaka
George 8. Mayer
Wirt A. Stevens
Ellen Ives
Joseph C. Merrill
Joseph C
Merrill
District of Coast
Alice Munro
Lakelse Lake
Norman Hurst
John Henry
William Robert Little
Mason
Fred Jackson
Stanley Holbrook
Patrick O'Connor
William H. Hargrave
William T. Hargrave
Charles Lamb
Hattie Sutherland
Abram Sutherland
Miriam Haller
James Mullin
Murdo
South Dakota
Belle Lamb
Bhlle Lamb
Queen Charlotte Land District
S. Barclay Martin, Jr
New Westminster
Barclay Martin, Jr
W. G