PART NEWS NOTES
Rampart, March 3.—Prospect
ors, miners and claim owners on
Quail creek are making prepara
tions for ground sluicing during
the coming summer, and reports
from the creek show that every
body is hopeful for good returns
if we only have a wet summer.
Prospectors along Gunnison
and Troublesome creeks are being
bothered with water. Holes that
have been bedrocked show good
prospects, but so far no defined
paystreak has been uncovered.
Drifting is almost impossible
owing to unfrozen ground, but
the boys are not discouraged.
HUNTER CHEEK
Johnson, on Dawson, a tribu
tary of Hunter, is doing well, and
and his pay holds out good. He
is now well in under Idaho bar—
being in about 190 feet, and what
he calls his pay dump surely
looks good, and one would think
he was trying to shift Idaho bar.
Swanson, on 23-a., is getting
ready for summer work and pros
pecting.
Hison, on 24.a., is taking out a
dump of low-grade pay, and pre
paring for summer work.
Bevier, on 16-a., has the pay,
but has been laid up for the last
ten days with a severe cold.
Powell, on 11-a., has pay, but
has come to town to see the doc
tor as he, too, is suffering: from a
cold.
Clemens & Campbell, on 3-a.,
have been laid up for about ten
days on account of sickness.
They have good pay. Clemens
claims four feet of 10-cent dirt in
eight, and says Campbell has it
very near as good.
LITTLE MINOOK CREEK
Detrick and partner, on 6 a.,
have out a big pay dump, some
of their pay going as good as a
dollar per bucket.
Summers, Climie <fc Nelson,
still have good pay and are ad
ding to their dumps about 200
buckets daily. They claim they
will do better on 8-a. this winter
than has been done there for the
past four years.
Lindebloom, on the lower end
of 5 and upper end of 4 a., has
good pay and will do well this
winter from his lay. Even at
this early date he is asking for
an extension of his lay.
Sundborg & Kalding, on 3 a.,
are drifting toward the right
limit bench, and are in good pay.
Cronk & Woods (Sr.), on the
same ground, and only a few feet
from the pay on Sundborg’s
ground, are sinking and expected
to reach bedrock and pay last
Saturday.
Evans and partner, on2-a., are
doing well, being in pay, and
having out a good-sized dump.
Frank & Graham, on 1-a., have
good pay and are piling up a
good pay dump. While they did
not reach their pay until late, yet
they say they will be prepared
to measure dumps with anyone
on the creek by May 1.
LITTLE MI NOOK JR.
Antonson is sinking on 26-a.,
but is not to bedrock yet. He
has given up work on 24-a. on
account of sale of the ground.
The new owners of all the
ground from 24 a. to 17-a. inclu
sive, are sinking holes to define
the width of their pay for sum
mer work.
HOOSIER CREEK
Swanson & Ott, on 12 a., have
reached bedrock in four holes,
and nothing, not even a prospect,
was found. They hope for bet
ter luck in the remaining four
holes.
BIO MINOOK CREEK
Barnett, on 41 -a., is doing well.
He expects to have out all the
pay dirt on his dump that he can
rock up during the summer, as
he is too far away from water,
! and his lay is too short to permit
his going to the expense of
bringing wateit tap to the bench
where he has his pay.
SLATE CREEK
Pike, on discovery and 3-b.,
has not been in town for a month.
Rumor says he is too busy piling
up a pay dump to come to town,!
and, besides, he don’t want his
sourdough to freeze during cold
snaps. It is wondered if he still
wraps up the lard pail in a
olanket when the thermometer
gets to 30 below.
Swanson & Dickson are stay
ing with Chapman. It is gener
ally believed in town that they
have all kinds of good pay there,
as they only come to town for
grub, hurry right back, and do
no talking while here.
Iverson & Cool, on bench of
Big Minook, are still sinking.
The latest news^f them was that
they had not yet reached bed
rock.
Ledger & Bowen, on Little El
dorado, got bedrock and pros
pects, then drifted a short dis
tance but got no pay. We hear
Ledger quit, but Bowen was not
satisfied, and is still working.
Doffinmyer and partners, on the
bench between Little Minook Jr.
and Hoosier creeks, are still at
work. They reached bedrock in
one hole, got prospects, staked
and recorded, and have started
another hole. It must look good
to them.
Strum, on the fraction between
l a. and discovery claims, Hunter
creek, reached bedrock and got
very good prospects. He is now
drifting.
Dunn & Staples, oh Aloho
creek, had not reached bedrock
when we last heard from them.
Charley Spicer, of Eureka
creek, is in town, and as soon as
he arrived he got so many invita
tions to dances and dinners that
he had to shed those old overalls
and treat himself to a new outfit.
When he showed up all rigged
out some of our citizens wanted
to know who the dude was. Char
ley says Spicer Sr. is on his way
in by way of Valdez.
Archdeacon Stuck paid us a
INGRATITUDE OF MAN
In 1848 the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia peopled the Pacific coast with
thousands of adventurers—all looking
for the best of it. Near where gold
was first discovered lived a man named
Sutter, who was open-handed and good
hearted. He gave the newcomer land
and food and everything he had, be
cause he was simple and had plenty. In
a few years he was landless, and he
passed his old age in want back in
Pennsylvania. Sixty years have passed
since then. In 1908, hundreds of ad
venturers—all looking for the best of it
—came to Prince Rupert, where lived
a man who was open-handed to the new
comers, for they had no place on which
to put their feet. He had a mineral
claim, on which he had built a cabin,
which overlooked the finest harbor on
the Pacific coast. The adventurers,
men and women, were given ground on
visit last week, remained over
Sunday, and held church in the
courthouse. As no one wTent to
sleep, the sermon must have been
a good one.
Mr. Boulter, assistant superin
tendent of schools of this district,
was in towTn for a couple of days
this week, and while here ar
ranged for the installation of a
new bell on the schoolhouse. It
is certainly a needed improve
ment.
Herman Rosberg and Henry
Young, from Eureka, came over
to attend the hard times dance on
the 22nd, and on the 24th another
dance was given their honor.
Charley Spicer was also included
in this.
The hard times dance came off
according to schedule, and if a
stranger had dropped in during
the evening he would surely have
thought we were having hard
times for fair. Everybody had
a good time.
New York is growing six times as
fast as London, and in a few yeai'3 will
be the largest city in the world.
Compared with three years ago liv
ing expenses in New York have ad
vanced 12 per cent.
Statements neatly printed—The Post
which to build abiding places, free and
without cost. Not content with this
generous treatment, these adventurers
have repeatedly tried to close in the
old pioneer’s cabin, so that he could no
longer have a view of the harbor. Dis
gusted at their selfishness and lack of
gratitude, he left Priqce Rupert on
Thursday, declaring that ho wanted
never again to see the face of man or
woman in Prince Rupert. Il does not
pay to be good-hearted and open-handed
—for those who aro die as did Sutter of
the early California days. Better be
selfish and greedy and grasping and
mean, and die with a certainty of hav
ing a long funeral procession behind
your remains when they are wheeled tr>
to the grave.—Empire.
Mayor Fred Howard, of Kemperville,
was a visitor in the city last Tuesday.
Alberta True to
the Workingman
Calgary, B. C., Feb. 21.—That the
Alberta government will stand by the
workingmen is the attitude taken by
legislators of the province. The work
man’s compensation act which went
into force January 1 last, will not be re
pealed. This act calls upon the em
ployer to insure the lives of their work
men to the extent of $1600.
. The first definite action taken in pro
test against the act took the form of a
delegation of about 30 employers to the.
government. They did not mince mat
ters, but bluntly demanded the repeal
of the bill which has placed Alberta in
j the front rank as regards advanced leg
islation in the interests of workingmen.
They protested that the bill gave the
workingman two chances to one under
the old law for gettirg compensation
from his employer.
Another complaint was that it so in
creased the responsibility of the em
ployer that he was liable to compensa
tion in case of accident, whether or nok
the employe’s accident or death was
eausod by his own negligence.
W. H. Clark, a lumber dealer of
prominence, suggested that the govern
ment might undertake the insurance if
the employers continued to experience
difficulty in insuring their employes.
With regard to this suggestion, some
encouragement was given the deputa
tion, but the bill as a whole bill stand.
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