featurdfcf, October 20, 123 THE DAILY NEWS PAGE FOUR The Daily News PMNCE RlirERT - BRITISH COLUMBIJ Published Every Aftemoon, except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Dally News, Limited, Third Avenue. il Managing Editor. F, I'ULLEN - - - SUBSCRIPTION RATES City Deliver), by mall or carrier, yearly period, paid in advance $5.00 For lesser period, paid in advance, per month 60 By mail to all parti 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 01 britlsh Columbia, the British Empire and United Slates, paid In advance per year .... $6.0e Uy mail to al! other couitries, per year I7.M Transient Dispiav Advertising per inch, per insertion $1.40 Transient Advertising on Front Page, per inch $2.?0 Local Readers, per insertion, per line 25 Classified Advertising, per insertion, per word .2 Legal Notice, each insertion per agate line .....t 15 Contract Rates on Application Advertising and Circulation Telephone 93 Editor and Reporters Telephone ... 86 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations DAILY EDITION system of the Bulkley Valley. Saturday, Oct 20, 1928 DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHWAYS Canada is spending huge sums on her highways. Every town ami vilage and even the most remote hamlets arc connected up with the rest of the world by good roads. Roads have become essential to modem development. In the year 1927 the federal, provincial and municipal expenditures mi the improvement and maintenance - - - - 1 ed a total of 34,230 and was higher than in any previous, year. FINANCING THE ROADS Roads are financed largely by revenue derived from those who use the roads. The total amount collected in Canada in 1927 from registration and license fees amounted to approximately $21,000,000. The gasoline taxes which are imposed in everv province reach a huge DOMINION GOVERNMENT AND ROADS The Dominion Government secures a lartre amount DEMAND "Rupert Brand" pers rrilK DA1NTIK8T IIUKAKI'AH-r HXIl). I' Smoked Dally by Canadian Fish & Cold Storage Co., Lid. Prince Huprrt. B.C. News of the Mines AROUND PRINCE RUPERT Fine Ore Being Opened up on Ore Mountain--OJd, Dandy Star Property Is Active Again Opening upQliUif Creek f 1 . Mines Vein System the Or Mountain nrooerty north of Bill known as the Main Reef, at Stewart and the Dandy Star Mines Ltd. are making a determined ef fort to prove the ore body which was opened up in the upper tun nel in the early days of min- ng history in the Portland Can al area which covered the outcrop of the , will resume Id studies. vein and before solid formation was encountered the vein had been passed. The tunnel now being driven at the lower level was started at the point where the or- of Canadian roads amounted to $45,750,000. The number iginai tunnel left the vein and of neonle emnloved in road construction that vear reach- i now advanved 40 feet on the vein, showing a width of four feet between well defined walls. The vein is considerably oxidised and weathered but good sulphide on is beginning to show up at the face. It will be. necessary to drive 40 feet further to get under the ore exposed in the tunnel 100 feet above. This ore carried com bined values of ISO per ton of j which $16 is in gold. A feature sum. British Columbia in 1927 used for motor vehicles!0' the ore consistently high 25,000,000 gallons of gasoline which was a little less than!M." w5h " bwe 1 one-half and two-thirds of an ail 1 it- u "!. 1. r l 1 Alberta and nearly twice as much as Manitoba. Ontario ounce ton. Surface prospect used 131,000,000 gallons. Prince Edward Island levies a, in en the northern end of the two cent tax and all other provinces three. grop shows sulphide and srsen- In British Columbia in 1927 there were 77,853 motor1 fcai ore. identified with the! vehicles operated but the number has materially increased I star Mines Ltd. are Col. , i, - - in. vt. rorster, president . v.. since then. D . .hi PRINCE RUPERT HANDICAPPED Prince Rupert is badly handicapped in its use of cars owing to the lack of roads. The result is that the num- lis. WIUVM v svi-i vo- ' 1 Col. W. S. Buell, secretary. It is the intention of the company to enlarge the crew on operations throughout the coming winter. ler of cars used here is very small. In 1927 there were mKr ,117 Kilt tVita mimKot has inroaaarl vom cl lUaianrinllv Good progress is being 1 1 ijr 1 jt uuv viiiu s s v ssi Kr a ssu o mvi vucvu v j ijuvuvuiiviisitj With ffr1! tUsfPea-fy ftXptOsTfttitiflt since then. Once the road gets through to Terrace. or ork wJh JcomJ2nC-d 5 even as far as the canneries there will be a great impetus the Bitter Creek Mines about Sep-shown in car buying. It is noticed that Smithers has'tember 6. Already several vein more cars than this city, owing of course to the fine roadjbave been located in addition to inose aireaay Known, oringiag the total of veins to seven. Tilt majority of these have been traced for an average distance on the surface of 1000 feet, all of of revenue from motor vehicles. Directly it collected lria to. carrjr va,ue" iB 125,000,000 in the year 1927 most in import duties on JJS new cars imporcea irom me unueu auues anu in auvo jn the leads so far known are parts. This is used as an argument in favor of the do-1 two carrying good grade minion spending more money on highways in Canada es- 0. one of which 16 in gold, 40 lccially in, the sections of the country where road building is most difficult. The dominion also collected many indirect taxes as a result of auto traffic. In British Columbia tourists are .. .it . ...1 t .. 1 eon nm Ann f ...i..v I'Miuiuieu wj nave Burnt fou,Mw,wu, n imjrc unit ui wmvji .rfM.ku is in dutiable goods on which the government collects re-; opment in nutter of the venue. I Woodbine mine at Stewart eon- Roads and more roads and better roads is what neo- tinue to draw comments from pie need today, Prince Rupert 'must keep in Hne with j '"' Journals tail 1 LA gineers. It is noHcesble, that lilt: iinniciu ticiiu( ounces silver and over twenty per cent lead. The group, which is splendidly located. known for years as U)e L. L. 1 11. lenme. who were formerly very en thusiastic about the property, are now prone to take an "I told ou so" attitude. Withal, the inadvisaMltty of sending oat mis-leading propaganda about a prop-' erty is' being demonstrated and the mining world may yet profit fromthe example of Woodbine errors. The Portland Canal News last week devoted all' Us rditorial space and a large portion of Its front page news columns to the Woodbine situation. A special general Meeting of Woodbine shareholders is called for November in Vancouver when the facte in regard to the property wdjH be submitted and line of action decided upon. It ,1a possible development of the property may be assured. Steady projrrpKK Is being on tiie Marmot (.old property at Stewart. A full fori- st No. 1 tunnel is now in 320 feet and, while the vein ha not et been "ii -ui fit cl tali it- .ni'l I'vri'ti j J. Jr. ; : ' ft !! ii, 1 1 er Creek and about four miles by pack trail from the road to Bear Lake has been carried on all summer and has consisted of stripping and open cutting on two veins which have been opened up on the surface for 500 feet, showing favorable ore exposures running high in lead and line with good gold values. Samples brought into Stewart by Henry Unwin, one of the locators and managing director of the company, show twsttltifur colors with -valena, ilnc. marquesite iron and iron pyrites mineralisation. The Ore Mountain consists of fourteen crown-granted claims and four others held by location. Operations have been carried on steadily but quietly during the past few years and many expect to see the Ore Mountain break into the limelight in the not far distent future as a property of major importance. Good progress has been made , by a small crew working on the mineralisation oh oeen run tow, Dandy Star property, originally No. 3 tunnel, in 16 feet, is also showing a two-foot vein of cry-staiised calcite all pyretics. The calcite in both' veins indicates sil-er values. Sam Simpson, who has been spending the summer on the Th. nrftvinha on tnrs Queen Charlotte Islands employed commenced driving a cross-cut to bjr the Langara cannery of which intersect the vein at a lower level Ms rawer, a. n. Simpson, i but the nortal was located in manager, sal lea issi nigni on in iti rnrkiCardena for Victoria where he " " TOC II. MEETING IS HELD DURING WEEK Light Which Was Ignited by the Prince of Wales Burns j Here I With the coming of the, light! to Prince Jtupert another link has been forged In the chain of this new service movement. I This light which was origin-' ally lit by the Prince of Wales, was recently' received from Van-1 couver and 'it now used at their j meetings in 'this city. In spite o the inclement wetth- er over SO were present ort Wed- ! nesday evening when an enjoyable time was spent. At the meeting to be held on Wedne day, 24th inst, the 2nd initiation ceremony will be held. Among their guests on Wednesday last were Rev. J. G. Gibson and Ald erman J Greer, who enjoyed the evening and promised to pay an other visit- Toe. H. meets at the I.O.D.E. hall every Wednesday at 8 p.m. nnd invites all young men over t he age of sixteen to join them. 1 Mrs. Fred Nash arrived in the! city from Terrace on tiis after- noon's train end will proceed by, the Prince Charles this evening! to Moasett where she will visit with relatives. m your u 4.. if- . Ml, ITbestJ oach CWl Sold eveiywhercl y S. E. PARKER, LIMITED 3rd Ave. East. Phone S3 iJominion Royal Cord Tire ARCiuy Ford Cars and Trucks Flat Uatc Repairs USED CARS We have several excellent bargains in used Cars. 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