THE DAILY NEWS The Daily News Formerly The Prince Rupert Optimist Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited DAILY AND WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES—DAIy, 50c per month, or $5.00 WEEKLY, $2.00 per year. OuTsipk CANADA—Daily, $8. $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TNANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—650 cents per inch. on application. HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98, BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES New York—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. ¢ wees ENGLAND—The Clougher Syndirate, Grand Trunk: Building, Trafalgar juare, T year, in advance. per year; Weekly, Contract rates “The newspaper, with the law, should assume the accused innocent until proven guilty; should be the friend, not the enemy of the general public; the defender, not the invader of private life and the assailant of personal character. It should be, as it were, a keeper of the public conscience.’’—Henry Watterson. a THE GRAND TRUNK ASSESSMENT DAILY EDITION. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 2 Owing to the near approach of the time when the citizens will be called upon to vote on the above question to bind the city to an agreement covering a long period of years, and owing also to the evident reluctance shown in certain quarters to discuss the question with the citizens, the Daily News will print a series of editorial articles dealing with the various aspects of the question. In so doing, there is no desire to sway the minus of the electors either for or against the proposed settlement. The aim will be to state the case fairly, without prejudice, without exaggeration, and without rhetorical appeal, letting the issues be clearly seen, and allow- ing the facts to make their own appeal to the individual mind. Our chief concern is not which way the electors will vote, but that the electors may know what it is they are voting for or against. ARTICLE No. 5—WHY THE WATERFRONT SHOULD NOT BE EXEMPTED The proposal to reduce the Grand Trunk Pacific’s assessment to a nominal one subject to a fixed payment of $15,000 a year for a term of ten years is one vitally connected with the commercial develop- ment of the city, for the reason that the railway company’s land comprises the whole of the available water-frontage of Prince Rupert, and this water-frontage is the only place where industries can profitably locate. It is a truism that cities and nations live by trade. To be a trifle more accurate the words production and distribution of com- modities, should be substituted for the word trade. Of the two functions of trade, production or distribution, pro- —YOUR FOOD WILL BE WELL COOKED ON A— Crown Favorite Cooking Stove Price from $45 to $58. Other Stoves from $16. 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Birk’s Values GOODS PREPAID TO ALL POINTS IN B.C, HENRY BIRKS & SONS, Limited Jewellers and Silversmiths GEO. E. TROREY, Managing Director Vancouver, B.C. 7s duction is the more important to build up a community, because it| requires more capital, has more stability, and requires more labor and more highly skilled labor than does the work of distribution. Prince Rupert is already a distributing point for the interior. When the Grand Trunk Pacific is completed it will have a large increase in its distributing work. It will become a trans-shipment point for the trade of the East and the West. But this will never make a great city. Factories, mills, smelters, foundries, engineering works, receiv- ing raw materials and turning them into useful finished commodities to be shipped by rail to the East, and by water to the Orient, these are necessary if a large population is to come to Prince Rupert. It is by the creation of commodities that wealth is to be created. Not until a line of mills and factories adorn the waterfront, will there be any positive proof that Prince Rupert will be more than a trans- shipment point for the G. T. P. and a distributing point for the interior. How are we to get that desired line of factories and mills on the waterfront? By making conditions attractive to capitalists to start enterprises there. The New England ,Fish Company already sees a market for the fish products in the East, and has started work on a iarge plant, in readiness for the time when the line is through. But other companies have not seen the matter in the same light. A sugar refinery which opened negotiations last fall with a view of locating on the waterfront was driven away by the railway company’s refusal to sell it a site on the waterfront, or to grant a lease for a longer term than twenty years. The plant of a sugar refinery is very expensive, and the capitalists were driven away, not by the assessment problem but by the refusal of the railway company to grant attractive terms. What assurance has the city that the railway company will not during the next five years, when it is very important to the city that) manufacturing plants should be under construction, place prohibitive terms on their water-frontage, until such time as a large unearned increment has accrued to the water-frontage and rack-rents can be| exacted from manufacturers who must locate here? The only assurance, the only weapon that the city can employ is to place a sufficient amount of taxation on the water-frontage, so that it will be more profitable for the company to sell or lease a portion of it, instead of keeping the whole in a state of idleness. Surrounded by timber areas, with a whole city, even to the road- ways, built of wood, it is a strange anomaly that we should have to import lumber into the city. There is room here for a large lumber mill employing a large number of men in permanent employment. Why are they not here? Is it not because suitable terms cannot be arranged with the railway company? And where is the economic compulsion on the jp ‘ailway company to sell or lease water-frontage to a lumber company, so long as it can carry its waterfront property at a nominal taxation, and exact a toll on every stick of lumber brought into the city by means of wharfage dues. Instead of maintaining the assessment at $7,291,000 as before, the authorities have this year reduced the waterfront assessment to $2,819,500. The proposed agreement, shortly to be submitted to the people means in effect a still further reduction to $1,000,000. “There is alot of capital waiting to come into Prince Rupert, as soon as the Grand Trunk assessment question is settled,’ is a state- ment that has been freely confided about town, during the past few months. Who originated the piece of information, no one knows, What ground there is for the confident declaration is not kzown. But if capital is waiting until the Grand Trunk assessment question is settled before coming to Prince Rupert, it is a dead sure thing that it is waiting to see that the question is settled right. Any kind of a settlement, a settlement that would tie up the city’s finances and waterfront development, for instance, would not attract capital, oe a u i A GENERAL MEETING OF THE ———Prince Rupert———— Liberal Association Will be Held in the McIntyre Hall Wednesday, June 7 —At 8.30 p.m— Hon. Wm. Templeman, Minister of inland Revenue and Mines, and Member for the District will be present, and will speak. Liberals - — eal All ees SAVOY : : HOTEL _PRAGSER AND Ares STREET THE ONLY HOTEL IN TOWN WITH HOT AND COLD WATER IN ROOMS BEST FURNISHED HOUSE NORTH OF VANCOUVER ROOMS 50c AND UP PHONE 37 P.O. BOX 126 Proprietors Prudhomme & Fisher a HOLDS THE SHIELD “$.0.E:BS, The Prince Rupert Lodge, No. 318, Sons of England, meets the first and third Tuesdays in each month in the Carpenters ae at 8 p.m, FP, Vv. CLARK P. O. Box #12, Prince Rupert Punctuality Contest Won by Miss Johnstone's Class Road Wanted After applying in vain ‘to the contractor on the grading at his The Nelson shield, a small silver shield mounted on oak from the timbers of Nelson's old flagship, is being made the subject of a monthly contest for puncutality at the Public School, place of business, for a roadway to his door, James Donohue has written to the city council about it. The streets committee will attend to the matter, For the present month the shield is being held by Miss Marion Johnstone's class, who won it last month. \jof Tete Jaune |} been considerable traffic over this 'lother side of the mountain, ) | construction ‘lof men are at work, can be palinly || heard at the Cache. BIG BODY OF GO Fort George, west of Fort George townsite, and only a mile from its boundary lies a huge body of free-milling gold ore, pronounced by an expert mining man to be the largest body of ore he has ever seen in British Columbia. The first discoverers of the mineral were A. B. Clarke and Charies Whitmeyer, who staked claims on their discovery last fall, | devoting the winter to develop-| ment work. They sent several | samples of the ore to reputable | assayers in the United States and | Canada, receiving assays showing | FOUND AT FORT GEORGE Thirty Claims Have Been Staked in Last Few Days— Assays Run from $8 to $200 Per Ton— One is Free Milling Ore June 6—To the/g lof even $8 ore will mean fortune LD ORE old values from $8 to $200 ton. Nearly thirty claims have been staked on the prospect and the claim-holders, many of them ex- perienced in mining matters, have the utmost confidence in the dis- covery. A number of those in- terested will form a group and prosecute vigorous development this summer. The milling will make the proposition and a large body fact of the ore being free- easily worked, lucky millions of tons of the to the ones. Reports say there quartz in sight. are TRAINS RUNNING TO THE PASS Residents at Tete Jaune Cache Can Hear the Biasting Going on. -Recent | Fraser Fort Groege, June arrivals from the upper bring word that trains are operating within seventy-five miles Cache. There has now route during the past winter, | || travellers taking adavntage of the company’s road: to get through | from the end of steel to the head} waters of the Fraser.