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Newspaper
Queen Charlotte Islander
Location
Queen Charlotte, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1913
Page
3
Local readers note a group of sportsmen on a fishing trip at the San river. Several residents travel for business, and weather aids farm haymaking as a boy sustains a leg gash but receives prompt first aid.
Land formerly covered by twenty-one coal licenses revoked after revisions on Graham Island, open for pre emptors. The area adjoins Delkatlah on the east shore of Massett Inlet, land held since 1907 is now available.
While cleaning a chicken at Mr and Mrs Wrights camp along the Yakoun a small pea sized nugget of gold was found in a crop. The find prompts speculation about local gold prospects and the possibility of a Shushanna style strike along the river banks.
Queenstown school resumes on Monday with Miss Tingley taking charge as teacher. The first day marks the return after the summer holidays.
A meeting in the Harrison Block Massett last Thursday outlined sending an agricultural exhibit from Massett Inlet to the Prince Rupert exhibition in September. Representatives from Nadu Sewall Queenstown Woden Delkatlah and Massett attended with Rev Father Macdonald presiding. The committee will gather further arrangements and an exhibition will precede shipping to the fair.
William Manson, district member in the Provincial House, will tour Graham Island. He plans stops at Skidegate and southern points, then travels to Queenstown and Massett Inlet settlements. A meeting of local settlers will be convened to greet the member.
Oscar Wright and George Sheerer ferried supplies for Fred Nash's survey camp. Mr and Mrs F C Wright arrived from their Yakoun river camp with a string of mountain trout weighing 12 to 4 pounds each.
Launch Westover makes weekly trips between Massett and Queenstown calling at way points and returning to Massett to connect with the mail steamer. Freight and baggage are delivered to all points on the Inlet. For hire by hour day or week at reasonable terms. For further information apply.
J A K Meldrum of Vancouver engineer plans to buy lands in Queen Charlotte Islands Skeena district. Description covers Lot 2023 boundaries totaling 500 acres more or less. Notice date June 30 1913. filed June 28.
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