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Newspaper
Ymir Herald
Location
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1904
Page
4
Specially fitted to do all kinds of jewellery repairs. Inspect our jewel cases for brooches needing pit carving and stone reset. We can reuse old settings or reset anew and supply new stones at low prices. We guarantee satisfaction and safety and offer a wooden box by return mail for safe transport.
In Victoria two syndicates led by Judge Prather and J McIntosh with F W Teetzel plan to merge 100 claims totaling 64000 acres into a company that will build a railway and coke ovens on the Flathead river coal district. The venture, backed by suspected backers including Corbin, aims for a ten million dollar capital.
The Toronto Globe urges British Columbia to seize land around the chosen railway terminus. It argues for provincial preemption and favorable terms with the company to capture land value increases and deter speculation, cobering the Pacific to Montreal line. It calls for applying this approach to all stations along the line.
A fragmented note references exceptional values in stationery confectionery and school supplies items from Campbell's. The text is incomplete but indicates pricing or promotions tied to branded products and retailers.
In the Lake Superior region a vast copper mass was uncovered as the largest hopper ore body. It measured about 45 feet long 22 feet wide and eight feet thick with roughly 90 percent copper content weighing near 120 tons.
The article explains carat fineness for gold, noting 24 carats pure and 18 carats with 6 alloy for a fourth alloy. It also outlines U S copper grades lake electrolytic and casting, with lake copper from Lake Superior prized for wire and electrolytic copper as current market standard though slightly purer. Casting copper contains impurities like arsenic antimony and iron.
A historical OCR fragment lists assorted trades and firms including bakery by Mrs Grove, hardware and upholsterers, purveyors of goods and gents furnishings, furniture dealers, clocks, furnisher teams, hotels and lodging houses, mining recorder Percy J. Gleazer, printing, stationery, teamsters Harshaw and Wilson, Jackson and Leahy, and undertaker William Clark.
Freemen F Clements acting for Frank C Risdon Free Miners Cert B 81 593 and George Harrison Free Miner's Cert B 81 276 announce intent within sixty days to seek certificates of improvements for crown grants on the Goat River Mining Division claims in West Mootenay. Action under section 37 must begin before certificates issue. Dated August 1004.
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