Sane THE DAILY ‘NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To $2.00 per year. Canada, Daily, 50c per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance, All Other Countries: Weekly, Daily, $8.00 per year. Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING rates on application. 50 cents per inch, Contract HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C, Telephone 98. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New York—Nationa! York City. Seattlie—Puget Sound News Co. Newspaper Bureau, 219 Bast London, England-—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar Square. Subscribers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of non-delivery or inattention on the part of The News carriers. DAILY EDITION A GREAT FACTOR IN PRINCE RUPERT'S PROGRESS. Any one who is at al! familiar with the wonderful natural re- sources of British Columbia is forced to admit that this prov- ince is bound to become, in the not distant future, one of the most important of all the provinces in the dominion. Al- most day by day new resources are being diseovered and greater possibilities are becom- ing evident. For some time past it has been known that the Groundhog coal district. which is within two or three hundred miles of Prince Ru- pert, is rich in anthracite of an exceptionally good quality, but it is particularly gratifying to learn from an expert who has examined coal areas on nearly every continent that this par- ticular district is destined to become one of the greatest coal producing centres in the world. Just what this means to Prince Rupert it is impus- sible to estimate, but it will, beyond doubt, play an important ant part in the city’s develop- ment. The presence of such a high grade coal in large quantity so close at hand is bound to be an important fac- tor in the development of the city as an industrial and manu- facturing centre and the work- ing of the coal fields them- selves will necessitate the em- ployment of thousands of men in a district for which Prince Rupert is the natural dis- tributing centre. The Ground- hog coal areas is an asset that probably was not counted on when Prince Rupert was chosen as the terminus of the great- est transcontinental railway in America, but it is one ihat wil! not play the least important part in the building up of one of the most important com- mercial cities on the Pacific Coast. =~ FOR CANADIAN AUTONOMY ai Wednesday, Mar. 12, 1913. The colors of the Liberal party were nailed to the mast- Wilfrid Laurier head by Sir early yesterday morning. The Liberals of Canada are unal- terably opposed to Mr. Bor- den’s policy of “hiring” naval defence. They believe’ that as the daughter nations of the Empire grow in strength and wealth . they should protect their own coasts and trade routes, and be prepared, if the need ever comes, to take their place in the Empire's firing line. That is the policy of the Li- beral party today. It was the policy of the Conservative party also 1909, the Parliament of Canada deliber- ately adopted it. Upon that policy Sir Wilfrid Laurier challenges the Borden Govern- ment to take the verdict of the people by a general election. Mr. Borden met Sir Wilfrid's challenge by the announce- ment that the Government con fidently believed that in its po- licy it had the Canadian peo- in when GREATEST COAL PRODUCING THE DARBY NEWS CENTRE IN THE WORLD United States and Mexico:| THAT 18 THE OPINION EXPRESSED BY NOTED EXPERT IN REGARD TO THE GROUNDHOG DISTRICT : | Gustav Grossman, one of the best known engineers in the pro- ivinee of British Columbia, was a |visitor to the eity yesterday |morning, says the Victoria Times He is a graduate of Freiberse School of Mines and Heidelberg University, and has engaged = in experting properties all over the world, having acted for the Peat } son Syndicate in Burma and Peru 28rd St., Newland for other firms Africa, Australia in China, Siberia, Borneo, and on this continent Last year he reported on three hundred and thirty-five claims in the Groundhog Mountain coal district for the Groundhog Amal- gamated Anthracite Coal Syndi- cate, taking in a party of nearly twenty men and spending the en- tire season in compiling a vol- uminous report , which he sub- mitted to the provincial govern- ment yesterday morning. He estimates that there over two hundred million tons of fine anthracite coal available in the Groundhog field and believes that that will become one of the greatest coal producing centres in the world. His examination covered the slopes of the Skeena, Stikine and Klappan Rivers. There in the are is greatest na- Dominion. “one of the assets of the terday, tional atories has shown as high as 85 per cent. fixed carbon, with an average of a little over 80. Some of the seams are exposed at the surface and the country offers no difficulty for railway construe- have many admirable W. Fleet Robertson, provincial | coal. Groundhog | field,” he said to the Times yes-| The coal I have tested in labor-| tion, and in addition the owners) sections which may be used as townsites.” | government mineralogist, in his report of the fleld says that the eoal is undoubtedly an anthracite, | while Dr. Martin, of the United] States Bureau of Mines, after ex-| amining many specimens, reports | it is a “good, firm anthracite.’ Mr Grossman is confident that} the anthracite flelds of Pennsy!l-| vania, where his father before} him was an expert, and where he himself was brought up no| better in its resources than the} Groundhog basin. There mountain there, he says, which is |} | almost all coal, | | | is one “T cannot conceive he says, ‘that tHere should be any in the railway companies enter ing that field for the certain ton- nage, not only to the tidewater, | but throughout the northern sec- tions of the prairie delay | pr ovinces | western coast “All along the of the United States there is a shortage of coal for household} and manufacturing purposes and} though they have had in the past large forest areas and to draw upon for firewood this re- and the people are coming to de- now dissipated pend more and more strongly on As their manufacturing industries increase with the op- ening of the Panama canal and the influx of settlers and cheap- i mills source is being er labor the demand for good steam coal, such as anthracite, | jwill be enormous and the com- panies first*in the field and best able to supply the demand of} that market are the ones who will benefit most from the demand. | Anthracite peculiarly adapted to steam-making, and there nothing to prevent the Ground- hog field from becoming one of the best on the continent. is is] | SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL SPLIT Premier Botha and Genera! Hert- zog Still at Loggerheads—Lat- ter Will Only Be Satisfied if Botha Resigns the ple behind it, and would there- fore its proposals to a conclusion in Parliament. The | issue is joined. The Borden} Government will not consult the people unless it is forced to do so by the withholding of supply or the prolongation of debate on the naval bill with the object of preventing its passage. Sir Wilfrid's speech seems to indieate an intention to force the question to a de- cision at the polls. Canada may have a general election on the navy issue in May or June. In that election Liberalism will stand for Canadian con- trol of Canada’s defensive for- ces on land and sea.—Toronto Globe. press “FROM HOME TO HOME.” HOTEL ELYSIUM Sid. Sykes, Manager The Finest, Newest and Most Up-to-date Hotel in Vancouver. Excellent Cafe. 1142 Pender Street West Moderate Prices, - Vancouver, B.C. Phone 8500, Read The Daily News Leadership. Cape Town, March 10,—The differences between General Botha and General Hertzog are still occupying the attention of the Nationalist party. At a re- cent caucus of the Nationalists a large majority declared in favor of General Botha retain- ing the premiership, and there- fore as a party the Nationalists are supporting Genera! Botha. It is now said that Genera! Hertzog’s adherents are consid- ering the advisability of separat- ing themselves entirély from the Nationalist party. In their opin- ion the bulk of the Afrikander constituencies are with General Hertzog in spite of the fact that the majority in the parliament are against him. Meantime General Botha continues to hold office as premier, and _ pariia- mentary business is being car- ried on under disturbed condi- tions. General Botha has issued a statement denying General Hert- zog was left out of the new cabi- net owing to his statement that he placed the interests of South Africa before those of the em- pire, declaring that he himself and his colleagues agree with that principle. The differences arose as the result of General Hert- zog'’s speeches and general con- duct. He declares that since parliament met every effort has been made to reach a solution of the difficulties, but owing to the fact that General Hertzog will only be satisfied if General Botha |General | resigns office as premier the min- | isters have found it impossible | to go further as they do not} agree that such a step would be jin the direction of peace. Botha, having General denies answer to Hertzog In jmade the retirement of General | Botha an absolute condition of| jhis return, or that the negotia- | jtions failed on account of his} having taken an absolute stand. | He maintains that if General] Botha can find honorable terms suitable to himself and General Hertzog, he will be willing to sink all personal feeling and submit to the will of the people As yet no allusion to the Botha- Hertzog quarrel has been made in parliament which, however, is supporting General Botha, main- ly on account of the fact that the speech made by General Hertzog at Smithfield wes of an outrage- ous character, but General Hert- zog’s influence in the country by no means ended. It is gener- ally felt that the breach between the two leaders is final and that the solidarity of the Nationalist party is thus broken up. ALLEGED DEFAULTER ARRESTED AT RHEIMS Filed from Brussels Last October —Alleged to Be Short Over a Million Dollars. is (Special to The Daily News.) Rheims, March 411.—Wilmart, former manager of the Grand Ternauzen Railway, who fled from Brussels in October, 1912, after alleged defaleations amounting to over a million dol- lars, was arrested here today. The paper that prints the facts new comer —the Daily News. PERFORMED DARING FEAT AT MASSET Crossed Inlet on a Single Log | With Tide Running at Its Swiftest The Masset Leader gives the following particulars of a dar ing feat performed recently by an experienced river man: remarkable agility acquired the of Eastern Canada, Robert Violet, a Displaying on swift rivers from Kelowna, last Tuesday sucessfully crossed Masset Inlet on an old loge He stood upright for the whole dis tance, steering the strange craft with an oar. The tide was run- ning out at its swiftest at the time and it was calculated that he travelled nearly four little more than twenty minutes Those watching him from the shore near the Woden river tho ught he would capsize more than once wheen the eddies caught the log and whirled it around This happened several times, but each miles in time Violet succeeded in steering the log out into quiet water, and headed with the tide. : Violet had accompanied Albert Goulet and Patrick Galnin to in some land up the inlet ac from the Woden river and during the night their boat went adrift and landed on the opposite of the iniet Against the advice of his companions Violet spect ross side jsecured a log and set out across in which he others after the boat, returned to the Little’s NEWS Agency Magazines :: Periodicals :: Newspapers CIGARS :: TOBACCOS FRUITS 2nd Ave. Below Kaien isiand Ciub Laying the Corner-Stone The first deposit, with which you begin a Savings Account, moon is as important an event as the laying of the corner-stone of a fine building. 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