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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 20, 1901
Page
6
Advertising rates will be made known upon application at this office. A poem fragment by James Whitcombe Riley laments the days gone by with pastoral imagery of orchards, meadows, and childhood memories.
The piece urges a strong leader to guide British Columbia toward prosperity, criticizes current politicians, and laments Chinese immigration as harming Canadian workers. It also notes Nelson wholesalers seeking protection from Dominion Express Company rivals and accuses merchants of underquoting to steal retail trade.
The Dunsmuir administration outlines a five million dollar railway policy with two million subsidy lines at four million loan and a six hundred thousand bridge build. It grants the province absolute control of rates four percent gross earnings and a potential takeover price by arbitration. Plans suggest PR building some lines while others may be built privately. Eastern dispatches discuss a lead refinery site at Toronto or Montreal with delegates leaning location. Slocan Lake ore shipments totalled 270 thousand dollars value this year with refinery prospects cited. Mining wealth adds new capital to the country and benefits growth.
A political opinion argues that stock gambling wastes wealth by transferring money to manipulators and not adding real country wealth. It urges governments to foster a prosperous mining industry to build Canada. A passenger scene on a train illustrates social contrasts and conversation.
Francia J. O Reilly of Silverton acting for Frank Owen free miner cert 445043 applies to Mining Recorder after sixty days for a Certificate of Improvements to obtain a Crown Grant for the Norick Hagan claim in Slocan Mining Division West Kootenay District with action under section 37 to be commenced before the certificate issue dated February 22 1901 Francis J O Reilly
W. Kyte announces labor expenditures to hold Congo No 2 Commander and Arival claims on Red Mountain Slocan Mining Division. Jo an Tivxo and others receive notice to pay proportional costs within ninety days or their interests revert under the Mineral Act 1900.
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