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BLASTS FROM THE PAST March 26 - Stamp mill to be placed at Long Lake (Jewel)

Chronicles of Boundary Country from the pages of The Boundary Creek Times Volume V, No. 20 – January 21, 1899
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➤ New Chief of Police Knows His Place – “Greenwood is fortunate in securing the services of Chief John McLaren. He is a better man than the city could expect. Having long police experience in Winnipeg and Vancouver, he has learned to keep his place and do his duty. A chief of police requires a big body and a good deal of common sense. Chief McLaren has both. Those who are anxious that Greenwood should be an orderly city, will find the new chief a good-natured fellow who attends to his own business and is not at all anxious to meddle with other people’s affairs. The vicious, the tinhorns, and people of that ilk, will find that the road to Grand Forks offers greater inducements than an acquaintance with Greenwood’s new chief of police.”

➤ Restaurant Advertisement – The Gem Restaurant and Lunch Counter located on Copper Street in Greenwood is advertising their new establishment as follows: “Meals at all hours; open day and night; private boxes; lunches put up; fresh eastern oysters daily.”

➤ New Railroad to be Extended – “It is reported that Messrs. Mann, Foley & Larsen have secured from the C.P.R. company a contract for 15 miles of railway from Midway to Rock Creek. It is stated that the sub-contract for this will be awarded at an early date, and will be completed at the same time as the Robson to Midway railroad.” (ed. – Like so many other railroad plans at the time, this enterprise never got off the ground and it would be another 15 years before a railroad would be completed west of Midway to Rock Creek and beyond.)

➤ Stamp Mill at Long Lake – “A stamp mill is to be placed at Long Lake (ed. – now named Jewel Lake) to treat the ores from the Jewel, Anchor and Enterprise mines. There is an excellent mill site at the foot of the lake. The work of the mines during the past few months has been of a most encouraging nature. The ore vein is widening materially and increasing in value.”

➤ The Times Expands – “In order to keep pace with the growth and development of the city and district, we have decided to issue The Times twice a week in the future. Outside of the larger cities, where dailies are published, Kamloops is the only other town in British Columbia that has more than a weekly paper. As soon as the Robson to Boundary Creek railway is completed, we expect that Greenwood will be a city of several thousand inhabitants, and that a twice-a-week paper will give place to a daily.”