Salmo and Nelson in Local Baseball and Mining News
Local items report Salmo and Nelson baseball plans, Kootenay Shingle mill hiring, Porto Rico Lumber start up, and two fatalities in Nelson district mines in 1903. Mentions Wilcox and Broken Hill mining interests, a bonfire accident on First Avenue, bush fire risk near Porcupine Creek, and Spokane school athletics led by BC youths Sutton Wheeler and Reggie Mackintosh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyon Boys
Spokane
British Columbia
Sutton Wheeler
Reggie Mackintosh
Rossland
Young Wheeler
A. D. Wheeler
Hunter V. Mine
Protectionist split in British politics echoed in election bets
The discussion centers on Joseph Chamberlain's push for protective tariffs and its impact on the Unionist party. It notes potential election timing effects, compares to Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, and predicts a future clash between Free Traders and Protectionists in the next general election.
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Joseph Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Old Country
Gladstone
Great Britain
Fresh fruit and dairy at local fairs and shops
The notice promotes fresh fruit at the Fair and lists beans, pineapples, bananas, oranges, and fresh tomatoes at Seaney’s. It also highlights ice cream and buttermilk as double Jersey products and promotes Beaney’s as the place for ice cream sodas. The Fair is the sole agent and the distributor for Haselwood ice cream and buttermilk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaney’s
Seaney’s
Mining News Highlights From British Columbia Mines
The Rossland Kootenay mine seeks workers as mining activity expands across BC. About 8000 men toil in metalliferous mines and 4300 in coal mines, with St Eugene at Moyie employing 275. Output projections approach 10 000 tons valued near $100 000. Graphite and pencil lead facts appear, while Atlin minework is paused and multiple mines push toward renewed shipping and higher-grade ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Ymir
Hunter V
Wilcox
Queen
Arlington
Second
Fern
Dundee Keystone
Canadian King
Salmo
John A. Turner
Mike Scully
William Waldie
Yellowstone
Notice on subscription list and advertiser offers
The notice explains starting with a blank subscription list, invites readers who received copies of the first issue to visit and sign up, and states advertisers received free subscriptions while non-declaring readers will be gradually removed from current mailings.
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L. MacVicar
Woodstock
Ontario
W. Forrester
Magnetic separation promises advances in ore refining
The article explains that high power magnets can isolate minerals not affected by ordinary magnetism. It cites zinc blende and tetrahedrite separations using a Wetherell separator, noting variability among samples and the need for experimental determination. It also mentions roasting can render some nonmagnetic minerals magnetic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingall
Faraday
Plucher
Wiedeman
Othr
Wilcox Mine Advances with Aerial Tramway and Vein Assay
The Broken Hill Company reports an 800 foot aerial tramway linking the Wilcox upper tunnel to the wagon road. Developments on the parallel Big Ledge show milling ore with an eight foot face and assay value of 11 dollars per ton. A Fourth of July vein tunnel progresses 30 feet more to crosscut at 160 feet depth. Annual meeting postponed to the first week in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broken Hill Company
Wilcox
Ymir Lacks Local Branch of Provincial Mining Association
The Ymir mining camp has not organized a local branch of the Provincial Mining Association though the group benefits from central efforts. The association advocates remedial mining legislation, with local branches feeding issues to the center for action and reform. Poplar Creek plans to push for clearer placer rights laws to reduce conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ymir
British ‘Columbia
Poplar Creek
Alaskan Boundary Survey Under Arbitration Agreement
Professor W I King chief astronomer of the American interior department directs a joint survey with Dominion officials for the Alaskan boundary. The Canadian party of twenty one sails from Vancouver to Skagway for Haine’s mission then to the Chilkat river to reach the boundary line.
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W. I. King
American Department of the Interior
Vancouver
Dominion
London
United States
Chilkat
Stickine River
Skagway
C. P.R
Amur
Haine
Chilkat River
Boundary Line
Work Rates at Michel Morrissey and Coal Creek Mines
At Michel and Morrissey coal mines workers are employed only about half the time. Coal Creek shows more activity but miners still do not work full time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michel
Morrissey
Coal Creek
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Nelson
The
Kootenay Shingle Company
Porto Rico
Venus
W. P. Sloan
Creston
Nelson Daily News
Herald
Slaugenhaupt
Broken Hill
A. H. Tuttle
John Norcross
W. A. Stevens
Hunter V. Tram
Granite Siding
Court House
Blind McCloskey
McCloskey
Phoenix
Atkinson
First Avenue
Atkinson's Drug Store
Kuslo
New Westminster
Porcupine Creek
Wheeler
Forrester
John A. Baker
Sara Yeas Mining News
Kootenay Mine
St. Eugene
Moyie
Atlin
Northport
Hunter
le Roi
J. H. Mackenzie
Alaskan
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