PAGE FOUR The Daily News PRINCE RUPERT - BRITISH COLUMBIi Published Every Afteinoon, except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Dally News, Limited, Third Avenue. II. F. PULLEN - - - Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES City'Delivery, by mail or carrier, yearly period, paid In advance $5.00 For lesser period, paid ill advance, per month 60 Uy'mail to all parts of Northern and Central British Columbia, paid in advance for yearly period $3.00 Or four months for $1.00 By mail tc all other parts ot British Columbia, the British Empire and United States, paid in advance per year .... $6.00 By mail to all other countries, per year $7 50 Transient Display Advertising per inch, per insertion $1.4!) Transient Advertising on Front Page, per inch $2.S0 Local Readers, per insertion, per line . .25 Classified Advertising, per Insertion, per word '" .2 Legal Notices, each insertion per agate line ................ .15 Contract 'Rates on Application Advertising and Circulation Telephone 93 ' . Editor and Reporters Telephone - 86 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations DAIL,Y EDITION S$t The o$ bodies of the Tiger mine at i$llce Arm, which is being developed by the Utility Min Monday, October 8, 1928 News of the Mines AROUND PRINCE RUPERT Encouraging Ore on Mona Mine Near Burns Lake Toric Mill is Now Shipping Concentrates Independence at Stewart Looking Good After several weeks' work of cross-cutting on the property of tiie Mona Mines Ltd. on Deep Creek, ten miles south of Burns Lake, an ore body four feet in width has been located. Assay returns have not yet been received but, from all appearances, the ore is rich-and carries considerable silver values as evidenced by ruby silver in' the samples. O. W. Owen, who is managing the work on the claims, is very jubilant at the showing made with such a small expenditure and feels that his faith in the property Is being vindicated, - A few Jay ago the Toric mine shipped to Shelby, Montana, 200 tonB of concentrates, the first shipment; jof concentrates ever to be made from Alice' Arm and Biver silver zone. It is expected that the ore in the Tiger will go as deep as it does in the Torie which it adjoins. marking another important step! Following a recent visit to vari-in that camp's progress. The mill! 0Us mining camps in Northern at the Tqric is. now functioning British Columbia, J. D. Galloway, satisfactorily, about three tons of ed upon tne number 0f mining en-concentrales being produced for; provincial mineralogist, comment-shipment each day. Owing toi , tnA -nM..nn .. inner uenjanus on me power piani, the mill li unable to be operated to capaoify just now but next year theje will be additional power and the fjjJT fifty tons of ore per day wljjje concentrated. Development VjSMTk is proceeding on an abundance of milling ore at the foundations of an, international ionc ami recoveries or values are said to bpfrom 86 to 88 per cent. A new bjikhouse has recently been erected at the mine and some of tfie older buildings renovated. Ib is expected that the mine and,mill will be operated throughd'tt the coming winter. side capital. "A notable feature," he said "is the number of gradu ates from the University of British Columbia now In the field. These young men are not only making a creditable record for themselves but they are laying the reputation for their Alma Mater." The Woodbine revelations should act as a warning to responsible brokers against publishing in their market letters statements of a misleading character regarding mining develop-: ments comments E. A. Haggen, editor of the Mining & Industrial Record. This has been notoriously the cate regarding Pend Oreille, ing & Finance Co., are expected George Copper, Big Missouri and to go tospte&t depth and carry Coast Copper. The public are value witgWhe depth. At the pre- bound to learn the facts in time sent timfiAhMfact of .the 400 foot 'and if they feel they are being cross-cut -uhel has been ad- misled they will lose faith both In vanced t&'lj! feet and the start- the brokerage houses and in mining of a fcoO foot level tunnel k ingr enterprises with serious injury now urioer construction. Good to both. The stock broker should ore i exposed in ten open cuts for occupy the same relation to a a distance, of 300 feet as well as' client as a banker, directing his underground for a similar dis-1 business with the strictest integ- tance in drifts and cross-cuts to a rity and good faith depth of M0 feet. The ledge is a true future vein in the usual porphyritk of the upper Kitsault ii The Ferguson mine on the In-genika River is the subject of a long and complimentary nrticle l in the current issue of the Mining &. Industrial Record. Editor E. A. Haggen describes the location , and history of the mine as well as climatic conditions, the transportation problem, ores of the mine and development. Three thousand feet of diamond drilling which has been carried out on the Independence mine on' the Bear River at Stewart for the Revenue Mining Co. shows that there exists on this property pro-bably the largest mineral zone yet discovered in the Fortland Canal mining division. The zone is COO tVet wide and borders an intrusion of augite porphrylte such as Mme of the best mineral deposit in British Columbia have been found to be associated with. The average mineralization over the whole wdie area is too low to be commercial value but it gives h Hence o carrying flenn of payable, ore, to locate which diamond drilling is being rushed before winter conditions set in. Other development on the property has proved very satisfactory. On ' the 3600 level in No. 2 vein ore aggregating a value of $10.40 per' ton has been proved over a width of eighteen feet. On the 4,000' fnnt lni'ol voin nt.tnlna a width of sixty feet and is well mineralized, there being a fine showing of galena. There are four main parallel veins all of which are strong and well defined wftH'ridhte'tof 'trakcoires-whrclV'are1 likely1 ternWocaT-feiH richhiiints, ' One'o'f 1 the'Veihs'has been traced for a length Of tf.OOO feet. ' . TO OPERATE MINES THROUGHOUT WINTER Kitsault-Eagle to Continue Work on Silver Cup and Sunrise Properties W. G. McMorris, managing director of the Kitsault-Eagle Mines Ltd., was a passenger aboard the Catala last night bound for Alice Arm to make an inspection of properties which the company is operating on the northeast fork of the Kitsault River. Work will be carried on throughout the winter on the Silver Cup and Sunrise properties while the camps at the LeRoy and Eagle minea will be closed down this week for the winter. YUKON STORY A GREAT ONE Mrs. George Black Gave Local Women a Wonderful Treat at Lnchcon Saturday It was a wonderful story tha. was told by Mrs. George Black to the Women's Canadian Club at the luncheon given in her honor Saturday afternoon in which she recounted the attractions and hardships of life in the Yukon and colored pictures that illus trated the lecture were also won derful. For an hour the speaker unfolded her story and for an hour with kaleidescopic effect the pictures of mountain, wood, lake, glacier, flower garden and pretty residences succeeded each other, viejng with each preced ig one for beauty of effect. Those who have never beeri to the Yukon can hardly realize what flowers are to be seen there. The pictures showed them, both wild and cultivated. Some of the vardena would nut to shams' others farther south. There were pictures of dogs, huskies jf the, land of snows. Caribou were . sin crossing the Yukon. Stes,mr plying the rapm.11he real jife of the Yukon, Its best art!' moat beautiful were shown and he audience absorbed it all In tlUncft. h story opened with the trailers going to the Yukon by wv- of the S. E. Alaskan cities Climbing the mountains in the old way. canoeing In the rivers and lakes was compared with the rail way and steamship service of to day. The towns of Carcross, Whitehorse, and Dawson were there and the story of the early days from 180S oa was told and Pictured. But it was the flowers with their splendid coloring and beau ty of form and arrangement that caught the afney of the audience, Then as the story progressed was told the story of the news of th outbreak of the war, which was announced In the crowded theatre at Dawson, when the audience rose en masse and sang the Na tional Anthem. The vote of thanks was proposed bv Mrs. McNaughton put by the president, Mrs. McLennan, and received with the utmost .nthusiasm. : PROVINCI L POIJCE GIVEN A FREE HAND . 7,W0,oni8t) The1 decision of R. II. Pooloy; the Attorney-General, to do away with political interference with the provincial police force means the institution of a long-needed reform. In -ffect he has told Col. J. H. McMullin, the superintendent of the provincial police, that the control of that force is wholly THE DAILY NEWS in his hands, that the government will not interfere in the matter of appointments and dismis sals, that no politics will enter I into, any of the police ramifications and thaj the object in view is to secure the building of the most efficent body of men for seeing that the law is observed in the unorganized Crsuicts of the province and within those municipalities which will avail them selves of thp services of thepft-Viiicial force. , . , i Ten Years Ago I In Prince Rupert I October 8. 1918. "You cannot carry on the bus iness of a great port without proper terminals. As soon aB you can show us that the- business ities to carry on the- business" stated Hon. F. B. Cavell, federal minister of publicWQrk, In addressing a public meeting in the Empress Theatre. The meeting was presided over by A. M.. Manson, M.tnA., and other speakers were Hon. J. A. Calder, minister of colonization and Mr. Douglas, M.P., for South Edmonton. "Prince Rupert, is bound to become one of the four ottfive.big national ptrtMcttaarHl art, Mr. CarvJB prpiclcdf . B. RoerigJi4,writteu' a Jet-4 to the Prince Tippert-Board of de in which he urges that thire be a better steamer service j between Prince Rupert and Stew The military nolice under la. spector Adams today c-,twejft4 two men rrom tne steamer rnnce Rupert and Prince John. They will be tried under the military Serv'ce Act before Magistrate Tlfred Cam in city police court is here, we will provide facll- tomorrow. Monday, Oil. v.aef.'.'ji-T'..-.'- "CATERPILLAR Tractors BIGGER THAN TIIE WEATHER! A Size for Every Use , ;,,. Vf mfi TON, ..TiVISiYPlf BiAix BETTER QUICKER CUE ,;iJUl$Eftrnd Prices oh Repeat, Sole Distributors for B. C. MORRISON TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT ( LIMITED , i Northern Purine Freight HullUIng 910 Station Street VANt'Ol'VEK. II. C. IMIIICIl WIIit: - liH-(Wi'n IIIih K ' SHIMON. 11.1. O.. If your paper docs not arrive, telephone the oiii n 'Ky V I HV vH i 191Si2EE21 Q liMS 1 witt&EssmmL B 'Sssyj U3LM vGPV Increase 5S R n y Vy''l ildWb V f H SCHOOLS -Increase 31.7 - J THE material progress of our Province is known the world over, We speak with pride ... and rightly ... of its vast natural resources awaiting conversion into merchandise and wealth. We take the figures of ten years ago and compare them with those of today . . . and tbe world agrees that c ur progress . . . considering our population . . . has ,been the brightest feature in the recovery of the British Empire from the war. And If this progress, of which we arc so Justly proud, is to continue, does not the most vital force of this country lie In our children? Some day, they will take the helm. Etents will follow their judgment, skill and decision. TIILV ARB OUR GREATEST ASSET 1 The Boy of today it the Mm of to-morrow . . . the Girl, the future Mother of our citizens. On us rests the responsibility of shaping their formative years so that when we hand over the reins, they may carry on tho Torch of Progress, undlmmed. How have we met our resjxmsibillty? Can we look Yo.ung Br!tlh Columbia In the eye with the feeling that all will be well with the future of the province for which we have planned so-cnrefully and labored so faithfully? SURELY! In the last ten years our school population has crnwn from 64.570 to 101,688 . . . 58. Wc have s I I 1 i n i . . . 1,1103 scnoois nuuineu uy o,jvo inorougniy trained, competent teachers ... an Increase of 31.7 and 71 respectively! Recently wc have established special vocational schools for our flit Is and boys, where they may be fitted for those occupatloni for which they have a natural bent. Iliihcr education is amply provided for at our University of JJrltlsh Columbia, where two thousand students are now enrolled, the majority studyiug for their degree In Science and Agriculture. And to the school training of our children we add the powerful Influence of Home, the religious and other organizations, each of .Alch ii.cjDiitrlbutln itt full manure of the physical, mental and character uplhilldliig of our dearest, most treasured asset . . . OUR CHILDREN! With confidence and faith we will hand Tfer our beloved Province's future when tho tlmo comes! ; Kea4 thtst annouiuemoiti and understand yur province's 1 progress . . . jii 4e put ami und them to Jmnds. lyou M destre extra 'Afse fcoMtmenls at, tolhlt fV newspaper u WJfnMiM,. AJp, our PnueL i b H - t