PROSPERITY! PROSPERITY! PROSPERITY! PROSPERITY! Tomorrow's Tides a w ncsaay, October 15, 1930 ri w. 7-34 a.m. 15.8 8 1903 p.m. 18.0 v.uo a.m. o.l 3 1259 pm. ip.9 2- El Vol S. p 3 . 240. cs c TWO PRIESTS K Falls River Energy To Enter City Lines With No Perceptible Signal Change Will Be Made Without Disturbance or InterruptionNew Ornamental Lights Will Shine the Day Following Power Corporation of Canada's construction staffs are rwshiner work to completion in order that the new hydroelectric plant at Falls River may be ready for operation by t lie end of this month and the energy from there turned into the city lines. The work will have to be pushed hard if the plant is to be in readiness by October 31 but it is exnec- r-fj by company officiate that thU will be approximately the date v.'n n Falls River energy start to .-..mr into Prince Rupert. In any, 11 wlu not be VCTy iar 'rom ; 1 2 TIf turning on of the new power ! will be marked with rrt interruption disturbance as far as the light ,in I power of the city Is eenceroed. shuwutlans Lake power will be simply shut off and that from Falls im-;r turned on and no one wfiTbe ubli to tell In the city when the last night, heard a telegram from change is made. About the first Acting Premier Sir George Perley Mgnal that the new power Is on will In reply to a wire sent by the city b' the lighting of the new ma- asktng that the new director of the mental street lights probably the Canadian National Railways for day after Falls River plant Is op- British Columbia be from the nor-cih-'I I thern part of the province. After the Falls River plant is In Sir Oeorge's telegram intimated IIon- Dr R- J Manlon' mml-f.n.u been de- operation. It has not yet railwaya. was at present on a lv decided what dispoaltton will be made of the Shawatlans trip to Fort Churchill but that a Lake power plant. It will be used for P of telerm trom Prince Pt "M PlM:ed on hls fUe tin- time being, however, as emer-1 of Itl"- no doubt- considered in con-h,m. ! nrv plant, the future use depndent upon surveys and nectlon with the making of the ap- .si uclio.s which are now in progress. OFFER IS REFUSED Silver Crest Makes Its Own Term To Taroma Interests STEWART. Oct. 14 Shareholders gf Sliver Crest Mines, at a meeting held in Vancouver, refused to accept an offer made by Taroma Interests to expend $100.--000 on the Salmon river property of the company prior to 1932, with right to withdraw at any time. A motion was made that the prroup making the offer be communicated with and the following nronosal made to them: Silver Crest will negotiate on the under-handing that they will spend not less than taso.000 on the claims prior to December 31. 1932. and it will be stipulated that $100,000 must be spent during 1981. There v. ill be no right of wtthdrawaf allowed. Title of property will be held in escrow as outlined in the previous offer. The motion was unanimously curried. It was explained at the meeting that similar offers had been made to the Slver Tip and oilier properties adjoining the Silver Crest, and n Rig Missouri and that those offers had been refused. CARD OF THANKS Mr and Mrs. Joseph Howe and famHjMleslre'to thank their many friends for the kind expressions of sympathy shown them in their recent bereavement. ft ft. II, 'ft. - rri 1 t-i I pIpOTIJTTI c"iaiII 1 rlYllTl IU11I Acting Premier ....... Prince Rupert's Request to Re Considered in Appointing New Railway Director The 4fifty OMmSL at IU meeting polntment after Dr. Manlon's re turn VANCOUVER WHEAT VANCOUVER. Oct. 14: Wheat was quoted on the local exchange today at 69c. Road Approach to New Floats Being Asked By Council A letter from J. P. Porde, district engineer for the federal department of public works, Victoria, read at last night's meeting of the city council, stated that the matter of a road approach to thetaew fishermen's floats east of the dry dock had been referred to Ottawa but. so far, no instructions had been received as to the department's decision. Aid. Pullen suggested that the matter might be taken up with Hon. E. N. Rhodes, minister of fisheries, who is expedted to visit here before long. Aqttng Mayor Coliart stated that It was the intention to invite Mr. Rhodes here in the course of his forthcoming western tour. BYLAWS PASSED Local Improvement initiative bylaws covering the following works were finally reconsidered and adopted by the city council last night: Concrete sidewalk, 17 feet wide, Second Avenue, north side, Second Street to Third Street. Concrete sidewalk, 17 feet wide, Second Avenue, north side, Seventh to Eighth Streets. Concrete sidewalk. 10 feet wide. Frasir Street, north side, Sixth to Fiftli Stnta. Statin NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER PRINCE RUPERT B.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1930 ON IN Japanese Remarkable photograph, taken from ship standing helplessly by showing Japanese freighter, Raifuku Maru, going down off Halifax with her entire crew clinging to the bridge. Heavy seas TWO YEARS FOR MAYOR Aid. Maedonald Gives Notice of Intention to Introduce Resolution After being Informed by City Solicitor E. F. Jones that, in order to change the period of office for the mayor from one to. two years, a plebiscite of the people was re quired. Aid. Maedonald stated at last night's meeting of the city council that It was his Intention to bring in a resolution calling for the holding of such a plebiscite at the next municipal election. The term of aldermen had been increased from one to two years, Aid. Maedonald recalled, because it was felt that an alderman could give better service after he had had me year's experience. He thought that the same applied to the mayor and he was, therefore, In favor of Increasing the term of office of the mayor from one to two years. BELLA C00LA WANTS ROAD Only Fifty Miles Needs to Be Built to Give Communication With Vancouver The residents of Bella Coola have sent petitions to Hon. Nelson S. Lougheed, provincial minister of nubile works, askinc the'comoletion of the Mackensle highway and Co the postmaster general at Ottawa requesting a new passenger and mall steamer service. As far as the highway is concern ed, it Is nearly completed, only one section of about fifty miles artiund Anahlm Lake being required to give' Bella Coola roadi feommunlcaMeW with Vancouver. Completion of the highway, It Is claimed, would open up wonderful tourist attractions. Similar petitions are to be sent by the residents of Ocean Falls. Spend your money where you earn it. Buy Curaon's Canadian-made Men's wear. AIRPLANE ACCIDEN Freighter Stranded pie leuswritaeuewoTk: CITY INCREASES.ITS BID FOR PROSPERITY WEEK BORN CHILDREN Instead of giving one dollar as was at first proposed, the city has decided to open a bank account of five dollars for each child born during Prosperity Week between Oc- tober 11 and 18, It is announ- ced. THREE DIE . INiCRASH Pilot and Two Priests Killed When Mission Plane Has Accident in Alaska KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Oct. 11: Ralph Wien, noted Alaskan aviator; Father Philip Delow, head of the Jesuit Missions in Alaska, and Father Walsh of Kotsebue Mission were killed on Sunday when the mission plane Marquette crashed. The motor seemed to stall and the ship dived to the ground, burying: her nose in the frozen earth. All three occupants of the plane were instantly killed. Leif Erikson Ladies Meet Decide To Hold Bazaar on Novcm-....ber 21 Whist Game Follows Meeting 'The Lief Brlckson Ladies' :AW, met'Ja&t cvnlngv ati-the :hem,.$f Mrs! i Trior .Strendy iFtfth iAveB Bast. It was decided to hold th annual bazaar on November 21. After the business session, the ladles engaged in the playing of whilst and winners were Mrs. K. Llndseth and Mrs. L. Husoy. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess before the proceedings came to a close. Off Halifax MILL FOR WOODBINE Hugh MeGuire, Managing Director of Well Known Stewart Mine, ' Is In Town H. B. McOuire, managing director of the Woodbine Child Mining Co. Ltd., arrived in the city on the Ca-tala this morning from Stewart. Following a brief shut-down, work has been resumed now a( the Woodbine mine with a crew of 12 men employed in developing gold ore disclosed by diamond drilling. A shaft, four feet by eight, is being sunk to cut this ore body at a depth of 50 feet below the main level. 3amples taken from drill holes, ran is high as $20 in gold in some Instances. When development has proceeded x little farther, the company will take up the matter of Installing on the property a small test mill of 25 to 50 tons capacity or, as an alternative, sending a large sample of are to be run by a mineraloglcal firm in Denver. In the meantime, development work is being srfceded up in an effort to cut the new ore body as soon as possible. Recently. C. D. Chtaholm, engineer representing the eastern interests which are backing Woodbine development, made a thorough examination of the proDerty. PIONEER OF NORTH DIES Mex ChishoJm, Who Was In Yukon Gold Rash, Passes Away' in Smithers . SMITHERS. Oct. 14. Alex Chis- holm, well known veteran of the Trail of "98, who went overland from the Stlkine River to Tesltn i Lake just 32 years ago. died in tht local hospital from diabetes. lie was born In Plctou, NJB., 70 years ago and was actively engaged In pros- 1 pectlng until within a few days be- ' fore his death. Of Special Interest Have- you read the classified advertising page In this paper today? If not, now is the time. PACK IS GROWING; Nearly Two Million Cases of Salmon So Far Put Up' on Coast Up to October 4, the canned salmon pack on the British Columbia coast totalled 1,911,748 eases. Following "were the totals for the various districts to that date: Central area, 497,274; Skeena River. 427,143; Queen Charlotte Islands, 260339; district three, 227,-296; Praser River. 216,070; Rivers Inlet, 119,229; Naas River, 108,847, md 8miths Inlet, 55,550. MAY CUT DIVIDEND Premier Co. Warns Shareholders of I Dpfrrasp I Dpvplnninr New Ground STEWART. Oct. 14. Accompany ing the recent dividend checks sent out to shareholders of the Premier Gold Mining Company Limited was a small sup intimating that the next dividend may be somewhat se duced. The slip says: "Due largely to the continued low price of silver which for trie past three months has averaged about 35c per ounce as compared with about 53c in the year 1929 and 58c In 1928, the earnings of your company so far this year have been at the rate of slightly under 31,000,-000 per annum whereas the quarterly dividend of six cents per snare Is equivalent to $1,200,000 U. S. currency per annum. "Furthermore it is Important that your company conserve suniclent cash to be enabled to acquire other mining property of merit should an opportunity upon an attractive bains occur. "Therefore it is probable that the dividend at the next quarter will be somewhat reduced." While local shareholders have been expecting such an announce-neut. they find much encourage-nent in the fact that the company loes not state outright that the dividend will be reduced and Premier s still looked upon, locally at any ate. as an attractive buy. j I Unofficial reports from the mine ndlcate that the company plans xtensive development in a section f the Premier group some distance outh of the main workings and in hich considerable diamond d riling j Is said to have been done during ! he past season. The area indicated ncludes the Cascade Falls No. 8, orm a portion of the southern border of the group. The projected development is said to include the driving of a 700-foot raise, presumably from the long southerly drift bknown as 407 drift, which extends into the Pic to u and Cascade 8 oULna. IS TYING UP HERE ! i To tie up here for the winter. C. N. as. freighter Canadian Winner. Capt. MoLeod, of the Moutreai-Vancouver interooastal servjee 'arrived In port at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon from Victoria and immediately berthed at the dry dock pier. The crew of the Canadian Winner will go soufli on the Prince George Thursday night. The Canadian Winner was tied up here last winter, the Canadian Seigneur having also been here with her. PRICE FIVE CENTJ IN ALASKA LONG HIKE MADE SAFE Yomig California Couple Travelled From Prince George to Liard Post In Ninr Weeks Mr. and Mrs. William Albee, for whose safety in the wilderness of Northern British Columbia anxiety was expressed some time ago, have been successful in tramping from Prince George to Liard Post, according to word received here. Young Albee. who is 24. and bis wife, whose age is 22, left Prince George for the long bike about the middle of June, It was said by guides and other familiar with the northland that they would never be able to make it but would perish in the attempt. Albee carried an SS-poond pack and his wife, 52 pounds. In addition, a dog was strasped with 30 pounds. The young couple heped to mate Liard Post in four weeks bat, in stead, it took nine weeks. Five weeks oat of FrtraeoBjoa, their provisions gave out awi iiey lived for the remahider of the Journey on moose meat three times a day Alter a rest at Liard Post, the young couple planned to go across country to Dawson but, on being advised by trappers that they could ont make it before the feeie-up, tney cnanged tneir plans and floated down the Liard River to bease Lake and thence to Telegraph Creek. They will spend the winter :at Telegraph Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Albee come irom 'Olendale, California. CALL IS EXTENDED Fir-t Presbyterian Church Desires Rev.' A. G. Macl'herson For Its Pastor The congregation of First Presbyterian Church, at a meeting last night decided to extend a call to Rev. A. Gordon MacPherson, pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. New Westminster. Mr. MacPherson preached here for two Sundays a few weeks ago .and made such a fine impression that the congregation determined 'thy would like to have him per-, manently. Mr. MacPherson is a veteran of the Great War and married. He Is at present on a holiday trip to his native home in Nova Bcotia. FISHSALES Summary American 142.000 pounds, 14.9? and 5c to 15.9: and 5c. Canadian 28.000 pounds, 14c and 142c and 5c. American Columbia. 30 000, Pacific, 14.&C and 5c. Ilrne. 44.000. Atlln. 15c and 5c. Washington. 27,000, Royal, 16.1c and 5c. Tatoosh, 13.000, Booth, 15.4c and SC. ' ' ' , iq "Bkttp'. 9,e00,1t3ld Storage, 15.5c and Sc. Zarembo. 9,000, Booth, 15.8c and Sc. Hasel H 10.000. Cold Storage, 15.9c and 5c. Canadian Ternen. 8.000. Atlln. 14.2c and 5c. Prosperity A., 18,000, Cold Storage, 14c and 5c.