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Only a week or .so ago a new strike of rich ore was found In Number 3 level and the management states that such kinds are of common occurrence and do not cause any excitement Monday. August 6, 1928 The Mine That Made Portland Canal Famous is Still Making .Good and Finding New Reserves Premier Situation Described From First Hand Information During Ifecent Visit to The Property. (By II. F. Pullen) The mine that made Portland Canal famous is still the centre of attraction for all visitors to the district- It is still going strong, shipping ore, paying dividends and keeping a little army of men employed either directly or indirectly. So great is the faith of the management In the mine that when the big fire came recency and wiped out the big bunkhouse and offices connected therewith, they immediately set to work and rebuilt them better and more per manently and more modern than they were before. just what the life of the mine is likely to be is not known. All that is known 1 tbat they are constantly accused of trying to hamper the B. C effort to beguile the public. Even the prospectuses of some of the companies read to him like humorous publications M.utMOT ntornmt: Mr. Pitt also deprecated calling the newly acquired properties, the Porter- Idaho, the Prosperity and the Silverado mines." He called them "good prospects." At present the aerial tramway being buUt to the top of the mountain where the Porter Idaho and Prosperity workings are and tbls will soon be In operation, enabling supplies to bo taken in much more easUy than at present and ore to be taken out. A dock has been built at the mouth of the Marmot Biver by the company and a townalte I being cleared there. The tramway 1 rather unique in that la crosses the big Marmot Olaclcr at one stretch, a distance of about three quarters of a mile. Iron pillars arc being tued In its conitructlon Instead it wood. The mine being something like five thousand feet above ea level is Inaccessible except by pack trail. The Government ha built a good road to the foot of the mountain, a distance of two and a half1 mile and at present pack, trains are oonreyuig supplies to the mine crowing the glacier near its lower end. In spite of Mr. Pitt's deprecation of the suggestion that these properties are mines, it 1 the general opinion at Btew- art that ore shipment will begin Just as soon a the tramline Is ready and will be likely to continue Indefinitely. Mr. Pitt stated that no attempt would be mad to operate the Silverado through he mountain to the other working but tbat If the development warranted It, a separate shipping plant would be con structed from Stewart, the mine being right alongside the town although sev eral- thousand feet above It. At present the quarterly dividend of the Premier Company ha been reduced by two per cent in order that the Com pany may have sufficient cash to Install the Improvements at the three new properties. The acquisition of the new properties enable the present organisation to con tinue operation indefinitely, especially in view of the fact that D. O. Silver and possibly other Salmon Illver properties will be worked by them. It adds atabll-Ity to It financial position and Insures at least one good producer to carry the reputation of the district as It has done In the past. It. a. Johnston, manager of Inverness Cannery, and Mrs. Johnston have returned north from a trip to Vancouver and Victoria whence Mr. Johnston went for specialists' treatment following a recent illness from which he is now practically recovered. Wide Scope of Work Undertaken Fisheries Experimental Station Practical Relation to Industry Utility of Fish and th J Oils,, Ffijh Meal ahd Vase,.Discolorntion of Halibut, Me Mechanical Hefrigerntion off iShVihK studied entists mtjjl't be able to cfter considerable help even though their methods were painstakingly slow at tunes. The man of Industry who wa accustomed to demanding results and reforms in very snort ordei, began to see ttoat ha must wait for the building of a found- knowledge upon which the reforms oi the future nhght be built. lerrl)tlo!i f Itulldlng The building at Prince Rupert was jpened In November, 1926, but It was not until the spring of 1927 that thai iqulpron.t and facilities permitted actual work to be undertaken. It Is a frame structure of two storeys. Its dimension being 60xS8. It contains a library, chemical and bacteriological laboratories, a special room which was built to contain experimental animals such as white rats which are used to lett the food value and medicinal value Silver, whereas they were doing everyr "' ! The building Is 'equipped with hot and cold water, el- thine DosalbM to hem the Th., w.r always ready to lend any aid in de-ieclrlc ,lght and power- comPrc'1 ,r velopment of the mine but did notina iuumlnalu Amon lH W think It deslrahlP to rtnnlwt,. f h- t- ieni are auiociaYes. iukt Pw, u, mler plant in order to work the mine. with them. It ts lujt part of the rou-1 Because of that thev had voted dawn tine. The Interesting thing about It Is proposal to increase the capital of the that each find prolongs the life of the mine, their position as shareholders to mine, i the extent of 25 per cent making such TonilST ItOlTE lactteji possible. They believed that the Pr-emer la. situated away -up in the natural way to work the TLC- Bilver -must piciurraqu pan- was through their own workings where tlon. The road to It Is being steadily they had a plan and organization al-improved and very soon will take the ready In operation, character of a highway, for the num- Mr. Pitt deprecated the iwulng of ber of mines likely .to be served by it In lurid untrue statement in regard to tbat neighborhood is steadily Increasing mining propertle. They had the fullest and demands are constantly coming In possible information in regard to all the for trail extensions leading to new 1 prospects In that region and it often prospects which are said by the owners 1 made him smile to hear the reports to be marvellously rich and which the provincial engineers agree are well worthy of further development. Probably In days to come this highway will become a real tourist route and whereat today the gold Is taken from, the ground, in the days to come. If ever the mines are worked out. the gold will be brought In by thousands of visitors, The men who work at Premier are lodged and boarded by the company with the exwuUuu ol few married men who live In houses there and who have their families with them. The bunk-nouses are strictly modern and all the latest devices are used in the culinary department. Including the latest electric ovens, dish washers, and appliances There is also ttore. an Ire cream and refreshment booth, operated by the Prince Rupert firm of KUlas and Chris topher, a gymnasium and dance hall with moving pictures shown once week. In fact there la ebout everything that can tend to provide for the comfort and enjoyment of the people who live there. OHE ItlCltVtM I haveno, Intention of trying to describe the OIL floatation mill which takes care of the tower grade om of the mine, all of which have been fully set forth In mtniug journals and In Oovernment re ports. It Is, enough to say here tbat last year the total net earnings of the mine were over two million dollar and hat thate fecms every prospect that there wUl be no depreciation for several ye-nn to come. A wording to the last annual report the present ore reserve were 884.000 ton representing a gross value of UJ3 ton, but even since that report was made new reserve hare been added and It' U most probable, according to unofficial reports, that there will be not leu than a million tons more re mined before It becomes time to clofe down. All official reports Issvci by the company are of a most conservative nature and do not allow for probabUltles. While the Premier Is known as a gold mine and It name even sigrilflcs that. If is really a silver mine for the output of gold is less than half an ounce to the ton whereas the output of silver I from aeven o thirteen ounce to the ton. il c. sii,vi:u Adjoining the Premier and with working opening into It is the British Can-.tdtan Silver Corporation pwperty. better known a D. C. Silver. In this concern the Premier owns approximately 38 per cent. Aiked as to the possibility of the Premier acquiring this property and working it. Dale L. Pitt, manager of the Premier, said there was a general misunderstanding of the position of the Premier 19 caga'd to that concern. They already made a good offer for It but this had not been accepted. They were spread by promoters and others in their draullc presses, electric ovens and fur naces, and other apparatus. Workers are not only supplied with what they need for chemical analysla, but are also supplied with facilities for reproducing on a small scale any of the processes which they are investigating. This last type of equipment Is not by any means complete, but It la the goal towards which we are constantly working. The work of the station may be said to include two main divisions. Firstly It ts concerned with methods of preservation of fish for the purpose of food and secondly, with the development of by-products from the waste of various processes. The first division Includes a study of freeelng. canning, smoking. salting, pickling, drying, and any other method of preservation, and the second division Includes a study of the pro duction of fish meal, oils, glues and other product which may be derived from material which would otherwise r waited. Prntrrvatlon of I'immN The preeervatlon of foodstuff has teen a serious problem from the time tbat people began to live together In large numbers such as arc found In the, modern city. Perhaps one of the earliest. methods of preservation was that of smoking. The discovery of this method might easily have been accidental by those of our ancestors who cooked their meats over open fire. Since then many type of preservation have been devel oped. Most of these chance the nature of the foodstuff preserved. Some of the method depend upon sterilization by cooking, other by dehydrating, and till other by adding chemical preservative. The method which come near est to being the Ideal preservative la that of freeelng, since a thawed out frozen flh is more nearly like a fresh fish than one preserved In any other manner. Aa is well known, freeelng haa had Its defects. These defects were such that the general public developed an antipathy to anything which had been frozen or placed In cold atorage. Recent research has shown that practically all these defects may be overcome by rapid Instead of alow freezing. It has been shown very frequently that a rapidly frozen fish, when defrosted after at least short periods of atorage wider pro-, ner conditions, can scarcely be distin guished from a fresh unfrozen tutu There I no queitlon about the effec tlveness of quick freezing. The pro-. blem which confronts refrigeration men now la the development of 'machinery embodying the principle of quick freetng. and at a coat per pound of materia froren which will be aa low if not lower than that which obtains under nresent methods of sharp frecalng. There are many ytems of quick freezing now In use. soma .of .wpfch claim to have jiccompjlshed. tbls 1 end. At an rats it is onlv a mwltcr of HlnTe before machinery will be deVlKcoT 'Vhleh will make rapid freezing come Into very wide and general use. It la quite pos sible that rapid freezing will replace the practice of shipping fish in ice to the Inland cities. Fish deteriorate from the time It I caught to the time that it la used. Icing does not arrest thla deterioration. Bacterial decomposition can occur at the temperature of melt ing Ice. and it ts seldom that Iced fish reach a temperature aa low as thla. In frczen fish on the other hand, these de generating change arc alowed up to I v. ( .IJy ifc'jj. i-inn; Readers of these pages have from time to time seen reference made thUYirimpnfnl Station of the Biological Board which is situated at Prince Rupert, but up to this time no detailed description of thla Station or Its work has appeared. The Station at Prince Rupert, like the one at Halifax, was established by the Biological Board in order to cope with some of the problems which confronted the fishing industry, more particularly from the point of view of science, as applied to fish handling and fish processing. Previous to the establishment ol these new station, little or no work had been done upon the many problems with which the fishing Industry found Itself laced. It seems strange that soietce nad teglected tbls spijere lor so long, but not only was this true, but also tt -va apparent that th fishing industry was only. Just beginning to reulUso that sci such an 'extent as to become ineffective, thus the gtod qualities of a fiewly caught nh -can be fixed and htfd -until the time of. thawing which should occur in the nnds of the consumer. STAIIII.I.E ' MAKKKT In addition, methods with such pos-slbliile$ should stabilize the wholesale market fchd should guarantee the fUh-rmtn alible price. The1 majl emphasis of research should bedriaeted towards the removing at the dated of quick iresslng rua-Chlnecy. !( towards an Investigation of the chutes which occur In food- I stuffs dUT& cold storage. Such an tn- tlon of knowledge upon which the u- ivsstJgaiSon s urgently necessary, -or ptratructure of applied science might though Ttih may be rapidly frozen, be bUUt. The inieiugent inauswiauei, welcomed the establishment of these station, not only because he saw that they might possibly be. of Immediate use to him. but that they were a mesas of gathering together the preliminary and go Into storage in splendid state, the condition of the storage rooms may be uh. as to render It very similar to an air frouri or sharp frozen nth. after the period ol a few months. We know that invariable and low temperatures are best for. fish storage, but there are many phases of the storage problem about which little or nothing Is known as yet, and it is to this particular phase tbat the station at Prince Rupert 10 bending 11 eitorts. OTIIEK METHOD The other methods of preservation such as canning, drying, salting and smoking all -present problems for solu tlon. and it hoped that the develop ment Of tha station will be such that In the near future skilled workers may be obtained to 'devote their attention to them, though at the present tout work la this direction Is limited. Considerable work has been under taken In the field devoted to a atudy of the chemical) physical and medicinal properties of dogfish oils (Squalus ucklll). This work was undertaken tit an effort to stimulate fishing for dog ci which are a sec urge on the Pacifis Coast. Experiments showed that this oil could be hydrogenated to produce a solid white odorless fatty substance which was 'Chemically and phystcaUy similar to crico. Indicating that It might be used for the manufacture of edible fats such as margarine, or for fine toilet soaps. Its content of Vita nUn A, which is an accessory food fae ;cr without which growth In animals csnnot take place, was greater than cod liver oil: Tfatr was shown by II. N, Brocklesby, a member of the Prince Rupert Station, In his paper which ap peared In "Canadian Chemistry and Xletallurgy" Vol. XI.. No 9. Its con tent of Vitamin D, a similar substance which prevents the appearance of rick :ta In young growing animals is at present under Investigation, and it is expected tbat the result will be published very soon. Other Investigations are those concerning the use of fish oils In paints Certain fish oils will dry. other fish oils dry to a lesser extent, and still others will not dry at all. As to whether a fish oil wlU or will not dry depends upon its chemical composition. Certain substance known aa catalysts have the power to change the arrangement of the chemical components of fish oUs. and thus it may be possible to greatly Improve the drying qualities of the oils. Investigations along these lines may provide new markets for the -ever In creasing production of this commodity. I IS II MK.U.H Fish mesls are also .produced In large quantities from various type of fish and fish scrap ou the Pacific Coast. The meal are usually sold on chemical ana lysis which include nitrogen content, cflclum. pbospherous, and perhaps total ash. Little or nothing can be said aa to the relative value of mal as foodstuffs or as fertilizer from this analy sis. Hardly anything 1 known as to the biological value of fish meal from Tart oua sources and the effect of various, treatments upon tnls value. A thorough investigation is being undertaken of the effect of various types of reduction ma chinery upon the value of fish meals, at U conclusion of which study the station wUl be able to prescribe optl mum conditions for the handling of the many types of scrap from which fish meal la produced. Fish roeal plants annually throw away thousands of gallons of press liq uor, that 1 to aay the liquor which r pressed from the cooked scrap, and' which is afterwards allowed to settle Into layer of oil, and a watery layer containing large quantities of soluble brpleln.1 material; The protsln material contains large quantities or gelatin In rattcmpting to -find a use for this wasted ailtrofiet), the -nation is Carry ing experiment with a view to ascertaining the possibility of utilizing thla liquor as glue. At present tt comes quit llkelv that with alteration Of the present method of processing. fairly good glue may be -made 'from certain type of waate. If this I not found pos- Hble. then come other mean of utilizing the wasted nitrogen will be found. lltl.llH T IHStUII-OKATION Other Investigations concern the dis- coloration of halibut. Halibut, when landed at the fish wharve. Is very of- (continued on pag m) Plunc Black 418 LAND ACT NOTICE OK IVTKVTION TO APPLY TO LKAfcE I.AM) ; In Prince Rupert Land Recording Dls- j trlct and situate adjacent to Aliifora I Bay. Moresby Island. Skldegate Inlet. ! Queen Charlotte Islands. TAKE NOTICE that Pacific Mills i Limited. Of Vancouver, B.C., occupation Pulp and Paper Manufacturers, Intends, to apply for a lease of the following de-! scribed lands: Commencing at a post planted on the 1 H.gh water mark of an island; thenc following the high water mark around ' the Island to point of commencement, i and containing one acre, more or leas, t FAUl'lU MiLLB, LIMITED. Applicant. Donald Wilbur Matfirfon . A?ent ,or pll MM. Limited Dated May 3. ig28. . Form No. 13. Section 39) LAND ACT. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY TO Tl III IIAKK LAND In Prfnrsn Tfiirwt rn t-ti. - - . i asvs ivivviu 'I'm Ml trlct and situate about S miles from the mouth of Khutre niver. takr Krvrir-if tv,.. .v.. - ' vnw uvinub . , . western Mining uonipany ol Vancouver. a... wutu)i.Muu Mining uompany, in tends to annlv tnr rr, Inlnn chase the foliowtne described lsn'tU- Commencing at a post planted one th Weit aid nf Tsit IT. .... lr 60 chains; thence aoutherlv 20 chalna; w.v vmwiij vu uiiaiiut, mence nor therly 10 chains, and containing " 100 acres, more or leas. P. PAuDOE WILSON. Agent for . ,..Detrolt.w"trn Mining Co. Dated 18th April. 1928. LAND ACT NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY TO in Prlnpe Ttnnrt T .nH trlct and situate .i .f..t'" Bay. Moresby Island Skldegate inlet ' ' Queen Charlotte Islands. .TA.K3F i'9TIcE -hat Pacific Mill Limited, of Vancouver. 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