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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1916
Page
2
The notice lists Ertace Ruper Journal contact details with editor O H Nelson at 1128 Third Avenue East near McBride Street. Postoffice box 1545 and daily edition published except Monday. Rates: carrier delivery in city. advance and nonadvance options shown. Advertising rates open for application.
Reports from the south show improving business while northern areas see a slower revival. The country's natural resources are being commercially utilized and the drydock work advances despite skeptics. The GTP extends time and trade avenues, turning new business over the road toward Prince Rupert with an inviting outlook.
Reports claim molybdenite, a highly prized ore, has been found on Gibson Island near Prince Rupert. The Granby Company operates a copper bearing body there for fluxing, though location and occurrence remain unspecified.
The Red Cross Society thanks Mrs. Woodland and Mrs. Mobley for organizing last Friday’s sale and all contributors who helped realize 59.30. Prizes included a framed pansies won by Mr. Venables and a nugget pin won by Mr. Goldbloom. A box of cigars donated by Steuart & Mobley was won by T. L. Tingley, and a brass kettle donated by Mrs. Galland went to Mr. Allison. The fruit dish from Mrs. George Wilson remains available. A long list of contributors is noted, with return of some donated items for future draws. Claims lie about twenty-eight miles up the Moestall from Port Esington. Indications are that
An immense body of ore is prized by Mr. Hinman who has taken it as a copper property. He anticipates deeper ore could prove satisfactory and foresees a producer operation that would require a nearby smelter, transforming the area into a new mining hub auxiliary to northern enterprises.
Liquor Act notice states that on December 1 an application will be made to renew the hotel liquor license for the Nichol Hotel in Pacific, British Columbia. Dated October 7, 1916. Applicant Mary Anderson.
The document outlines coal mining lease terms across western Canada with twenty one year duration and five cent per ton royalty, plus surface rights purchase at ten dollars per acre. It also records Surf Inlet Power Company notices for water diversion plans from Cougar Lake near Surf Inlet, Vancouver Island, filed February and May 1916 with inspection access in Victoria and Prince Rupert.
Notice from the Superintendent of Provincial Police renews the liquor wholesale license for Beaver Wholesale Liquor Co of Prince Rupert Limited at 708 Fraser Street Prince Rupert B C on Lots 15 16 Block 82 Section 1 City of Prince Rupert. Dated October 12 1916. Also notice James McNulty Prince Rupert merchant intends to apply for coal and petroleum prospecting on Graham Island near West River with Austin Brown agent dated July 19 1918.
Austin Brown of Victoria and George D. Tite of Prince Rupert announce intents to prospect coal and petroleum on Graham Island and near C.L. 9,971 with surveys described as 80 chain bounds. Notices dated July 19, 1916 list Brown and Tite as applicants and agents respectively.
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