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Newspaper
Ymir Herald
Location
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 1904
Page
1
News notes from Nelson area including visits by Jake Stierlo and Doherty resigning to the hospital post. Mentions Viniv exhibit touring Spokane and Toronto, road work inquiries, and upcoming rifle practice. Also reports on election candidates Galliher and Macintosh, and voter registration updates ahead of local and provincial ballots.
Pid chilf Coffey outlines signals for fire alarm handling. Steady ridging signals fire. One stroke pause two strokes pause indicates a call for help to sandld the hose during drying and reeling after use.
Sunday school at 12 with morning service and 70 youth society meeting Friday evening at Sveloek. All welcome. PastorAy leader.
Papers serve Daly Hughes et al in Witten-Yuskon litigation. Dresnaham, expert for Patrick Clark, examined Atlin mine. Porto Rico stump mill to resume as profitable ore appears. No 4 tunnel contract completed by Gilbert Peone group. Queen mine output mispriced. August totals show 4 tons concentrates and 710 tons milled. BC Standard Mining moves ore to Granby smelter and Greenwood smelter. Hunter Y to Northport smelter when tramway work finishes. Local assessments logged by Campbell, Wole, Kennedy. Foghorn mine reports eight feet of high grade galena on surface. vein depth and width likely greater. Possible deal on Canadian Pacific group near Wild Horse Creek, vicinity of Host and nearby profitable mines. Wild Horse Creek vein system linked to true fissures. Canadian Pacific crown-granted claims show profitable vein structures. Carmtian Pacific assays around 84 gold per ton. Delicate development expected to unlock further profits for the Canadian Pacific adjacent to richer workings.
The Ymir Gold Mines report August activity to the London Office. It crushed 2,750 tons of ore producing bullion valued at 8,150. Concentrates shipped weighed 257 tons with gross value about 6,700. The cyanide plant treated 1,900 tons of tailings yielding bullion valued at 1,251. Sundry revenue 461 totaling 16,561 with working expenses 9,951 and profit 6,? There was development expenditure of 1,252 for the month.
Presented figures from the Oroville dredging company show bucket size three cubic feet and 12 per minute, monthly ground measure sixteen thousand fifty-two cubic yards, hours thirty-six one hundred ninety-nine, power three hundred fifty-nine dollars and eight cents, oil and sundries two hundred thirteen dollars twenty-nine cents, repairs one thousand two hundred twelve dollars, office and general expenses two hundred ninety-seven dollars, labor four hundred ninety-six dollars thirty-five cents. Depth twenty six feet, dredge cost at thirty-eight and a half cents per cubic yard. Net per cent of operation, after deductions and deterioration, yields a net profit of fifty-two cents per cubic yard and about fifty-two thousand five hundred eighty-seven dollars per year on the cited property.
A declaration filed with the Registrar General at Victoria outlines forming the Ymir General Hospital as a private hospital under the Benevolent Societies Act. Trustees named are Andrew Burgess, Alex Oddie, Robert Elliott, Joseph Leahy, and Wm. Messane, with members electing new trustees by society meeting.
The Nelson libel trial concluded with a status agreement after a decade of hearings. John Houston MM JA defended himself against a strong prosecution as jurors appeared uncertain, retracting the alleged publication amid courtroom banter. The spectacle drew spectators and mocked the jury for avoiding a guilty verdict while not clearing Houston.
The B C Standard Co purchases the Oritl chain adjoining the Double Standard from Aveli McDongall, signaling a local business acquisition and property change of hands.
A clipped list of names and places outlines hotel arrivals including Warton Worti-d, Trebellate, Poplars Ay French, Alex Dewitt Salitio, M. Campbell, Nelson W. Joleen, Montreal, Wid Porvence, PW Huckiey, Vancouver, J. Weller, Melson, Dreendham, Costiofontral Hertth Campbell, Nelson C. Stewart, Mont HE McDonald, Nelson, Osma Ft Nelson, G. Davies, Porto Wie, Mateds Wash, T Coil, S dons Win, Alcon, Nel MeLnoo Ferme WW, Al Wise fethindeet Me Vanity, and other names linked to Poplars 8 1 Mant Ay Sa Seeetaed.
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