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The plan for making the auc tioneers profession a close carpoi tion like that of solicitors or gold
AY MARCH
THE RETURN OF THE GOLD MINERS
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEW BOOM
smiths and drawing up an official LONG-FORGOTTEN
"code of conduct for their busi- ness, described by Mr. J. D. Cassolls at the dinner of the, Incorporated Society of Auctioneers, is long over [due.
CAMPS BUSY
(By Sholto Watt.)
Seventy years lie between British which, oddly. enough, "cultus At present anyone, who ran rulse Columbia's first gold boom and her Boston" means worthless Ameri--
latest. By one of time's fronles, can
More "bad men," handy with ten guiness can take out a licence mining camps which have slumber- as a valuer and auctioneer He may be completely ignorant of theed since the 'Sixties and Seventies their "shooting Irons, were found of new dis- in the rich Wild Horse ages, which true value of the goods he is called coveries.
was for some time a month's ride on to assess and he has many of The miner of this winter, going from justice, than anywhere else, portunities for varieties of sharp practice which are difficult to ex-by aeroplane where his forerunners Wild Horse, a camp of thousands took snowshoes or struggled along of men, returning two members.to pose.
are 'tow the scene
to
He may, for instance, if himself the frozen rivers, finds himself at the Colonial Parliament at Vic commissioned to bid on behalf of veritable Rip Van Winkle townatoria, presently shrank away
Jone of the few. Botten Boroughs of linger a client, run the price up to his where
| North America, .. limit by bogus bids when no one else, eternally hopeful.
is competing and so inflate his com- mission.
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It may amuse him to explore the!
Election Day At Wild Horse
were
was too late in the season to bring
| old bar-rooms, draughty relics of In the election of 1881 the the days of mighty drinking and eleven voters at Wild Horse were gambling. with their walls still divided five against five, and the: adorned by pictures of alluring odd man was kept continually The present law relating to auc- Ladies permitting slender ankles to drunk so as to be incapable of re- tions is extremely complicated and be seen beneath a swirl of netti- gistering his casting vote. Un- has grown up to, cover what
fortunately, the two parties coats, known in the trade as "chapel auc- Here, fifty or more years ago, the equally divided in the House; the tions," which include all sales of hurdy-girls, Austrian dancers. im majority depended on the Wild land, horses and second-hand junk,ported to entertain the campe,reap Horse members, and a second elec- The great art and book auced a golden harvest - nuggets,tion became necessary. This used tloneers, like Christie and Sotheby, bracelets, and little bags of pre- up all the liquor in the place; it conduct their business on very strict clous dust, 'rules, but on entirely different prin. ciples to other auctioneers. They are not members of the Incorporated Society and have not been consulted over the proposed code of conduct. encouraging results, the possibi- The last legislation on this sub-still survive, venerable and respect-tion and Sheep Creek. lity of closer understanding with ject was on Act passed in 1927 to ed. Their plush and horsehair It is difficult to estimate what Mr. & Mrs. ALLAN CAMERON The two countries are dependent room because it is difficult to proys macassars; their clothes are of the realised.
Hungary in the economic sphere. prohibit "ring" in the auction furniture is protected with anti-the new gold developments have Up to 1932 British upon one another for prosperity, an offence, it has already become a fashion of many years ago: they Columbia's total gold production and any approach to mutual re-dead letter.
are the guardians of rigid decorum was. $226,867,000. Placer gold pro- cognition of that fact can be re-
in their small community.
Iduction was heaviest in the 'sixties, The new gold boom of to-day, is rising-to nearly $4,000,000 in A
P.P.C.
The China Mail
garded as offering hope for Aus-
trian recovery. Their acceptance!
of closer economic relationship
Your Daily Smile.
would open a way to the restora- If It Had Been To-day-
Old Mining Town Itself: Again
more, and Wild Horse had to
spend a "dry" winter.
•
Now they are working Wild
In at least one such town, two of these delicious intruders into an Horse again, the Cariboo and other- almost exclusively masculine world old fields-the Bridge River sec-
caused partly by the devaluation of [year. former gold currencies, partly by new discoveries. One of the most
Lode production was at its
露
tion of that wider area of in- "Yes, Mrs. Brown,” sald the important of these is due to the Fatest from 1910-1915; when it Hong Kong. Wednesday, Mar. 21, 1934 ternational trade in Central Sleeping Beauty as she peared out Europe without which Austria tea, some of my mulds have been will remain a problem vexing all with me a hundred years and best statesmanship.
Austrian Socialists'
Suppression.
At a heavy cost in lives and property, the Austrian Govern-
Eye And The Serpent.
at
the
part of a week now."
Baw
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Police Protection · ·
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persistence of Fred Wells, an old-averaged well over $6,000,000 timer in Barkerville, long an afya. After the war production most forgotten town, centre of the declined, and only began to mount
|appreciably in 1932-
folds drew
It
Cariboo country, w
Soon after the gold rush started Last year was doubtless an ex- For the first aix in 1858 Barkerville, was a town of cellent one. A little boy came flying round seven or eight thousands, where toonths gold Agures totalled From the days of Eden the
the corner of the street and pulled "placer" gold was sifted from soil $2,232,946, as compared with $1,-
881,137- in the fand' sand:' but the exhaustion af
corresponding ment has establishing ite author serpent has exercised & subtle up beside a policeman. ity The Government's superior-fascination over woman, a fascin- the constable grufity.
What's all this about?" asked the gold and the "strikes in new period of 1912, an increase of 22 This is calculated in symbolized by, its in armaments, was such that ation
sway the population Percent. exhibition
"I say," the
said the boy, "if you until only a few hundreds remain sold at the standard price. In the fighting had only one result. recent
Institute, The Socialist domination of the Imperial
little boy getting hurt, ad. Fred Wells maintained that addition the gold premium aver- London reptile skins for municipal administration of Vien-jof
would you interfere?"
Tode guld was also to be found, and aged about 21 per cent, and com- na is ended, the party has been mercial purposes. The exhibi- The policeman looked very im-after years of effort managed to brought in $480,000 more to the
}portant.
producers. enlist enough capital to open a
premium has declared illegal, and such of its tion was a revelation of the ex-
"Of course, my lad," he said tunnel and set up a small 50-ton since riser leaders who have not escaped tent to which reptile skins are!
quickly. have been dealt with. Alike by the used for purposes of dress.
mill. For the last half-year the What bounty next year or future It
"Well, will you come along with monthly "brick" produced has been years will provide cannot be said, anticipatory measures of Major is true there has been a long
but the estimated potentialities are Fey, and by the power with which preparation for this stage in me, please?" said the boy. "Dad worth $7,000 to £11,000.. the final blow was delivered, Aus- women's fashions. The imagi- is waiting for me at the front door
with a stick." tria has probably been spared nation of ancient poets, who en- civil war on a large scale, but at dowed Medusa with a anaky a price. Many lives were lost, headdress and Tisiphone with a the destruction of property was serpent girdle, prepared the way.
D
SPRING SONG "Give me a rose," the poet cried, With burning, soulful eyes great, and included some of the So did the feather bos, highly, Surs, give the guy a bucketful,''
magnificent workmen's dwellings popular in Edwardian days, and that have been at once the pride recently revived.
But thesa Gite me, inaltad, a rite.
of post-war Vienna and a cause were only the shadow of things
of much of the financial difficulty to come. Not merely serpentine
Q AND A..
A woman.correspondent asks
·Facts You Did Not -
This
Barkerville is now a town or so great that they appear almost thousands again. The old house fantastic. The Cariboo Trail, that road. on stilts so built that the tailings, breath-taking mountain or rubble, could run beneath are which was built by the Royal En~* being rehabilitated. Something of gingers of the British Army, has the liveliness of long ago is being carried great wealth from the recovered. But efficiency has taken Quesnel, Cariboo, and Prince Its tall of the picturesque.
George districts to the Fraser. River and the coast; the British” Columbia Government now plans Gold never seemed to stay with to extend the Pacific Great Eastern="2"
Cariboo's Rich Goldfield
restaurant owners, transport agents, washerwomen came to British Columbia, to repeat that feat in the Cariboo or Kootenay, and were per hape found later in the Yukon.
CONCLUDING PLAY BY TOURISTS
in which Austria has been in-ideas but serpents themselves volved. When the full story can are used for the adomment of why I never write paragraphs the man who wreated it from the Railway to the Peace River coun- ̈
earth. Many "Forty-Niners” made fry--the last Great North-West. be told judgment probably will modern woman, who in an unin-about happy married men.
For the same reason as I never fortunes in California," lost them (Continued on Page 10.) declare that the situation in Aus-tended sense has become a snake tris has not been handled with charmer. A trade of surprising write paragraphs about seven-between professional gamblers;| skill.
The Socialists had ample dimensions has sprung un-in, rap-legged elephants that can fly lady, warning in the preliminary men-tile skins, which will fetch any sures taken by Major Fey that thing from the 20s for "Python their future existence as a party reticulatus" down, to id for its was threatened, and yet were baby brother "Eryx conicus." left with the power to make a des- The spotted serpent which the
Two coal, distillation plants have perate resistance. As a conse-sparing eagle hore, over the city quence there has been such blood walls and dropped amid the fear been established in Hungary to Villiams Creek in the Cariboo, one
utilize the domestic brown coal, shed as has attended no other ful Trojans was indeed a portent, similar stroke in Europe. The not as they thought of the wrath Flexible waterproof cement has Chancellor has obtained a strong-of, Jove, but of the commerce In
Know
at
William Dotz, German, known "Late Mr. Christopher
a "Dutch Bill," who discovered
Bean taking 8.
GRANT ANDERSON AGAIN OUTSTANDING
of the richest goldfields in the world, was a few years later Ilving on charity in Victoria. From Williams Crack in 1868 Barnard Expresa, a stage-coach service, car ried 220,000 In gold weekly to the Gras cosat, and one won of, that Barnard, a country
| ko made,› is a wealthy senátor, and
| another an ex-Lieutenant-Governor
of British Columbia,
er control of the internal, situs reptiles which has since grown been invented for sealing cracks tion amid circumstances that up. So large has this, trade be the molding of automobile tops, may leave him a big legacy of come that Ireland may well cease trouble. At the same time he to bless St. Patrick for clearing machines to sell small phonograph who, be it sald, deserved every
An Englishman has invented slot may have simplified his external the Emerald Isla of serpents, and dimculties. In establishing his may rather seek her national records when coins are inserted. power as he has done Dr, Doll hero in Aaron, who throw down fuse has freed himself for that a rod and picked up snake. Old able that the python, alim of task of statemanship necessary Damoetas's warning, There's line and with a close-fiting pull. Incredible hardships had to be to the economic recovery of Aus- enake in the grass-no, this is lover or the viper with his natur tria. The Peace-Treaties left no Americanism, but good Viral V-marked garment should and when the spring thawa Austria shome of most of the 81), “latet, anguis in herba”... excite the interest of the dress elements that accounted for her would strike Jubilation instead designer, and indeed the skins those eventful
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