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January
11,
1951
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Specials
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building
boom'
had
struck
Western
Canada
and
railways
needed
freight
and
new
coal
discoveries
should
mean
tonnage
for
new
railways.
Oething
did
his
part
well.
He
discovered,
staked
and
proceeded
to
develop
a
mountain
of
coal
near
Hudson's
Hope.
He
first
tried
the
Pine
Pass
country
but
said
that
the
coal
seams
there
were
more
broken
up
than
at
Bullhead
Mountain,
near
Hudson's
Hope.
His
interest
In
the
new
town
of
Prince
George
was
the
result
of
his
Peace
River
coal
explorations.
He
visualized
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SCIENCE
PIONEER
Vancouver
Scots
Prince
George
as
a
clearing
Sir
Robert
Christison.
fan.
Scottish
expert
on
poisonj
died
in
1882,
frequently
gavt,
pert
evidence
In
criminal
ca!
894
H'
PAIR
w
a
A
NYLON
HOSE
house
of
the
future
for
the
i
wealth
of
the
northland.
Backing
Covenant
I
Mr.
Gethlng
was
a
contem-
VANCOUVER
0
The
Scottish
I
porary
of
J.
Augustus
Heinze,
"Bl
ILD
B.C.
PAYROLLS"
most
dazzling
of
the
early
Koot-enay
millionaires.
Heinze
had
Only
One
Pail
Per
Person
RcguUi
$2-K5
P'irst
Qualify
made
his
fortune
in
B.C.
mining
had
built
a
smelter
near
the
site
of
the
present
Trail
smelter.
covenant
movement
Scotland's
fight
for
home
rule
has
spread
to
Vancouver.
A
petition
is
now
being
circulated
to
all
persons
of
Scottish
origin.
(Already
1,700.000
signatures,
urging
a
Parliament
for
Scotland,
have
been
recorded
from
among
tile
5,000,000
resident
of
LADIES'
SLIPS
$1-29
PaC
wintd
SUNSHIw
t
TV
Trfvifpc
Mi'thrw
Aibrm
Srrtr
lin
'
'
"Do
you
Klve
estimates?
Scotland.)
Donald
G.
MacKinnon,
president
of
the
St.
Andrew's
Cale-
S'zc;
34-48
While
or
Black
and
dozens
of
other
values
Rupert
Peoples
Store
Heinze
battled
with
the
CPR,
Wall
Street
and
all
banks.
Geth-ing
often
recalled
the
sad
end
of
Heinze's
career.
The
Kootenay
millionaire
boldly
entered
Wall
Street
on
his
own
account.
He
launched
a
bank
which
failed.
When
his
empire
had
collapsed,
he
bought
himself
a
revolver
and
suicided
in'
his
office
in
his
bankrupt
New
York
bank.
When
Whittaker
Wright,
the
English
promoter,
controlled
the
War
Eagle,
Le
Roi
and
other
UU
mil
olLit-l-y,
aaiu
ICWW
.
,.,MrIlf
itl
rill
A
wonderful
all-purpose
i
th(
th
.in;,n
u,m
h
nut.
into
I,,
mining
properties
at
Rossland,
.
country.
In
addition
to
the
late
Gething
was
in
the
Kootenay
Senator
Robert
Green,
Dr.
Ayl-country.
'
Victoria
was
a
partner.
Wright
promoted
com-'"d
.
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.
The
estates
of
Senator
Green
in
nnd
swindled
panies
England
and
of
Dr
Aylward
retain
wlde
English
bankers
ini
Investors,
interests
t.
Hudson's
Hope.
When
arrested
und
placed
on
Mr.
Gething's
gifts
to
the
mu-trial,
Wright
suicided
In
Bow
seum
of
the
Geological
Survey
Street
court
room
by
swallowing,
at
Ottawa
were
numerous.
He
circulation
immediately.
rll'n
nourishing
Pacific
Mti
He
added
that
the
association
piepared
from
farm
fresh
s
Is
"neither
endorsing
nor
con-
of
Fraser
Valley
herds.
fy
demning
the
movement.
But
increased
Vitamin
I)
con
every
Scot
will
be
given
an
op-
gives
added
"sunshine"
to
s,
portunity
to
sign
It."
meals.
It's
economical
too.
potassium
cyanide.
Gething
was
in
Rossland
In
PACIFIC
discovered
the
three-toed
tracks
of
dinosaurs
in
the
sandstone
bedrock
in
Peace
River
Canyon.
He
made
casts
of
these
and
sent
them
to
Ottawa
where
they
continue
to
create
great
interest
among
students.
He
found
skulls
and
ribs
of
mammoth
creatures
at
Hudson's
Hop
with
his
son
Lawrence.
Mrs.
Gething
predeceased
her
husband
by
many
years.
A
son
Wesley
died
suddenly
some
years
ago
from
a
heart
attack
attributed
to
uveiwoik
at
the
Canyon
Mine.
Ouentln
Franklin
"King"
Vacuum
paikrd
and
II
omojfinj
which
roamed
Canada
ten
mil
Hon
years
ago.
Anthropologists!
Gething
and
Lloyd
Gething,
op-were
able
to
build
up
some
oflerators
of
mines
at
Hudson's
the
fascinating
exhibits
in
the
Hope,
are
sons.
A
daughter,
Miss
1900
when
William
Lyon
Mackenzie
King,
destined
to
become
Prime
Minister
of
Canada,
came
to
the
mining
town
to
settle
a
strike
which
had
paralyzed
the
country.
Active
In
the
strike
picture
at
Rossland
were
such
famous
men
as
Eugene
V.
Dcbbs,
ia'.er
Socialist
candidate
for
President
of
the
U.S.A.;
Big
Bill
Haywood,
who
launched
the
In-oustrial
Workers
of
the
World
movement
and
who
died
in
Russia
following
the
1917
revolution;
Oovernor
Charles
Macln-j
tosh
of
the
Northwest
Territories;
Hon.
Joseph
Martin,
Premier
of
B.C..
and
Dromlnent
SfflMj
j
Tour
i
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yow
Mnrict
la
'''
Victoria
Museum
Building,
Ot-
Vesta,
is
postmistress
there,
tawa,
from
these
remains.
He
Mrs.
Lilian
Aubrey
of
Fort
St.
gave
Indian
relics
from
the
re-'John
is
another
daughter.
Dr.
gion
to
museums
at
Victoria,'
J.
W.
Gething
of
Battle
Creek,
Ottawa,
and
the
Smithsonian
a
brother,
also
survives.
Institute.
Burial
took
place
at
Hudson'3
Mr.
Gething
once
had
the
Hope
Thursday,
January
4.
scientific
world
pusaled
when
he
a
live
creat
financial
and
railway
men
from
shipped
to
Ottawa
rtjulir
we
of
your
ywft
Hit
yn
ol
Univtniiy
km
fc
In
tin
rt
end
tcicnci
ol
n
J1"
pttmib
him
to
mtv
yoi
ii
,
the
CPR
and
the
Great
Northern.
Among
the
transient
labor
agitators
were
Moyer
and
Pet-
BABY'S
COLDS
Help
Nature
To
Fight
Them
Off
Medical
Sconce
denlei
there
in
any
rh
thin
m
cure
for
roliln-only
Nnture
hrwlf
can
do
it.
So
when
btby'i
sniWt-".
or
ntuffy
hrealhinii
warn
you
of
a
eohl'a
yrewnee
cooiwrate
at
oner
with
Nature,
Sw
that
hnly
i
kept
warm,
et
plenty
of
Bleep
and
take
Mlta
car
that
the.
tibone
who
murdered
Governor
ttuenenberg
't
Idaho.
Out
of
ure
resembling
a
lizard
which
he
encountered
far
underground
in
a
coal
seara.
Unable
to
continue
actively
in
mining
these
last
few
years,
Gething
was
frequently
a
partner
of
geologists
and
prospectors
on
tours
of
exploration.
Of
recent
years
he
conducted
a
farm
lull
pioltuional
hwiki.
the
riot
and
bloodshed
emerged
Ill
a
new
laboi
code
for
Canada.
Out
of
the
wreckage
of
mines
and
smelters
developed
the
Con
solidated
Mining
and
Smelting
Company
and
its
vast
metalliferous
plants
at
Trail.
,
Ll
him
hlp
yon
to
kttn,
ceiRfofUW,
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ViliOH
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and
Healing,
Boot
hin
bowelH
are
thormwhly
cleared
or
rmrmuu
WHMtex.
To
do
thin
without
upnettinn
mby
a
whole
fyntem
and
fmther
weakening
it,
try
Haby'a
Own
Tablet.
Mild,
yet
art
promptly
In
netting
rtd
of
Irritating
mate-rials
that
make
baby
renllewi
and
fevprth.
Una
Nova
Scotia
Mother
iaya:
"My
bahy
of
?fi
month
rauirhi
a
nasty
cold
no
I
tried
Hahy
n
Own
TalM
and
ahe
threw
thin
cold
off
HUirker
lhnn
ever
before.
I
certainly
am
for
Hniiy"
Own
TfhU-t
fr..m
mow
on."
Effective
also
In
twining
troubles,
eonotipation
and
other
nimpie
baby
Get
a
package
tuda
at
druguture
KW
While
Neil
Gethitig
often
recalled
the
giants
of
the
past,
he
antiseptic,
Dr,
Chase's
Ointment
bringi
qukk
rtliei.
A
aie
home
treatment
fur
over
50
yearn.
0c.'
Kcon
BURNS
&
BRUISES
retained
a
youthful
outlook
and
numbered
among
his
friends
prominent
figur.-.s
of
today.
Carl
Springer,
gold
mine
operator
in
Ontario
and
B.C.,
was
an
associate.
He
knew
all
the
bush
pilots.
W.
Grant
McConnachie
of
CPA
and
Russ
Baker
of
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friends;
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Capt.
Wop
May.
He
admired
Premier
Byron
I.
Johnson
of
British
Columbia,
and
hailed
him
as
a
natural
successor
to
Sir
Richard
McBride
who
launched
the
B.C.
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country.
Mr.
Gething
recently
paid
tribute
to
Mr.
Johnson
as
the
only
statesman
with
courage
enough
to
add
one
mile
to
tha
PGE
Railway
after
the
line
had
reached
Quesnel.
It
was
his
ambition
to
be
present
at
the
arrival
of
the
first
train
over
the
I'GS
to
reach
Prince
George,
an
event
scheduled
for
late
1951.
Gething
dreamed
of
a
great
industrial
centre
at
Hudson's
Hope
and
never
tired
of
point
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that
.the
divide
between
the
Arctic
and
.
Pacific
watersheds
was
the
lowest
pass
through
the
Corililleran
system.
Indicating
a
point
near
Summit
Lake,
north
of
r
1
Prince
George,
the
old
man
,
would
say:
"The
continental
divide
at
this
point
is
a
wheat
field!
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He
was
a
member
of
a
family
In
Wales
long
Identified
with
mining.
He
had
received
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Gething,
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and
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now
living
at
Battle
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was
almost
equal
to
that
of
the
Lackawanna
Valley
in
Pennsylvania
where
Gething
had
work
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in
the
mines.
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no
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and
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of
the
coal
was
a
problem
which
Nell
Gething
sought
to
solve
luring
nigh
lilty
years.
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merely
whetted
Geth-U's
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desire
to-
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developed
and
he
lived1
to
sec
.two
sons
operate
cc-.il'
mines
at
the
"Hope"
and
haul
the
stuff
out
more
than
a
hun-
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di
ed
miles
by
motor
truck
to
j.
Dawson
Creek,
railway
tcrminasi
of
the
Northern
Alberta
system.)
Lord
Rhondda,
Welsh'
coalj
magnate,
who
became
food
con-:
troller
for
Great
Britain
during!
.he
First
World
War,
was
a
part-j
ner
of
Gething
and
spent
some
I
millions
in
an
effort
to
open
up
j
the
wealth
of
natural
resources!
contiguous
to
Hudson's
Hope.
He
i
was
foiled
by
the
war
and,
when
j
Lord
Rhondda
died,
a
daughter
i
tried
unsuccessfully
to
carry
out)
the
great
plans
of
her
father
for
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