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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 26, 1911
Page
7
At a quarterly meeting the Tranquille Sanitarium board reviewed May June and July figures. The report notes patient counts discharges cures deaths and hospital days while highlighting a cash shortfall and arrears. Construction on an electric plant begins as maintenance costs rise.
The Dominion government, unhappy with American reciprocity in fishery rules, intends to withdraw from the 1908 food fisheries treaty. The pact, signed April 11 1908 in Washington, shifted regulatory power to an international commission, removing state control.
H A Maclean appeared for the Province before the railway commission on a proposal to require patrols behind trains to reduce forest fire losses in British Columbia. Ontario showed two wardens per ten miles and costs of 66 172. BC will draft a patrol plan and regulations the commission will enforce. A subsequent public hearing will consider proposed patrol areas and rules. The forestry branch will provide documentation and submit it to affected companies and the commission.
The reserve over Crown lands on the Morrice River Range 5 Coast District is cancelled for lands surveyed as Lots 3881 to 3910 excluding none, per notice dated May 5 1910 in the British Columbia Gazette and issued by Robert A Renwick Deputy Minister of Lands Victoria September 12 1911.
The Lieutenant Governor in Council appoints Albert Howard McPhillips Price Ellison Lugrin and Malkin as commissioners under the Public Inquiries Act to report on the Assessment Act 1903. Meetings run September 25 to October 23 in multiple British Columbia cities with notices to be heard. Price Ellison chairs Treasury Department Victoria. A separate notice cancels a Graham Island reserve for pre emption only. Deputy Minister Robt A Renwick issues the land department notice on April 5 1911.
Edward Chesley of Prince Rupert B C trainman applies to purchase land described as starting mid way between mile posts 77 and 78 on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway main line about 50 feet west of the right of way. The parcel runs 80 chains north 40 west 80 south 40 east and totals about 820 acres more or less. Land located August 26 1911. Dated August 28 1911.
Notices announce George A Mc Nicholl railway superintendent seeks lease of 320 acres along the Grand Trunk Pacific line near Prince Rupert with bounds 300 yards west of Mile Post 80 and 80 chain runs. John A Kirkpatrick dry goods merchant likewise seeks lease of 320 acres near Mile Post 79 with identical boundary pattern.
John Gabriel of Aldermere B C Prospector announces an application for a coal and petroleum prospecting licence. The lands begin five miles east and two miles north from the Kitayakwa River mouth, outline a 80 chain square and return to start. Dated July 9 1911.
A survey description begins at a post four miles east and one mile south of the east S80 chains. It proceeds south 80 chains, west 80 chains, north 80 chains back to the point of origin, designating a locator named John Gabriel with date July 9 1911.
Multiple notices dated July 9 10 1911 announce Vivian O’Brien Copper City BC prospector and John Gabriel seeking coal and petroleum licences over described lands near the Kitnayakwa River with posts at varying east and north offsets and 80 chain boundaries.
Aldermere B C Prospector seeks a licence to prospect near a post planted miles from the Kitayakwa River mouth. The claim traces a rectangle north 80 chains east 0 chains south 0 chains west 0 chains to JOAN GABRIEL as Locator dated July 10, 1911.
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