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Middletown transcript., 1898-01-29
THE ERIE CANAL.

Mr.. Ernest Ingersoll writes an arti-
Gle for st. Nicholas on the Greater
New York, his paper being entitled
"Reasoning Out A Metropolis Mr..
Ingersoll says:
The greatest of all the influences
that assisted New York to reach first
place was the Erie Canal. The first
quarter of this century was the era Of
canal building. No matter how fine
the turnpike may be, horses can haul
in wagons only high-priced merehan-
disc. in comparatively small quantities
and for short distances, unless the
cargo is to cost for transportation
more than it is worth. Men found out
in Europe and Asia long ago that for
moving grain, coal; timber. ore and
similar bulky or heavy goods, where
speed was not especially important, a
ship or boat was the only practical
method. If river we're not conven-
lent, then an artificial waterway, called
a canal-that is, channel-must be
made. When in any country some-
thing of this kind cannot be done,
that country must remain undeveloped
and thinly populated, like the Sahara.
Why is. a eanal-so much better Than
good road for commercial purposes9
Because, while two horses and one
man can haul on a hard, level road
perhaps two tons, the same driver with
two horses barnessed to canal boat
can move twenty tons nearly as quickly;
that il, the same force and expense
for pay and food of men and horses
accomplish ten times as much in re-
suit, which really makes the goods
ten times cheaper at the end of the
route.
Hence, before the invention of rail-
roads, it was necessary for any grow
ing country to dig canals to serve as
the highways of commerce.; and this
the young United States hastened to
do. New York, as usual, moved
among the foremost. She planned
and constructed, besides some lesser
ones, that great waterway, four hun
dred miles long, from Albany to Buff
falo, which was called the Erie Canal,
and connected the Hudson with the
Great Lakes.
The canalwas finished in 1925, and
immensely stimulated the growth, not
only of the western part Of New York
State, but of the whole region of the
Great Lakes; for now farmers in the
Northwest could send their grain and
fruit and cattle, and the miners their
ore, and the lumbermen their ship
timber, and boards and slaves, to the
seaboard at profitable rates; and in
return they could obtain the imports,
merchandise and manufactures of sea-
coast cities at fair cost. A feet Of
vessels on the lakes came and went,
bringing from farm, mine and forest
cargoes which were loaded into canal
boats and sent east, often to be trans
ferred to vessels for foreign ports
without ever touching laud at all. And
back went supplies for the interior Of
New York State, and for settlers in
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,
and beyond. who could never have
lived and worked in those distant
parts except for this means Of cheap
communication. To them, also, every
summer, went thousands of new set
tiers from New England and Old Eng
land and all Europe, who needed no
longer to spend weeks and weeks in
travelling in wagons before reaching
their new homes.
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How TO Make Money

Ifyou are out OF employment and want q
clear above expenses by working regularly,
or, II you want to increase your present In
come from $500 to $500 yearly, by working at
St., Phila., Pa, stating age, whether married
or single, last or present employment, and
you can secure position with them by which
you can make more money easier andfaster
than you ever made before in your life~
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the month, Of the political, the
economic, and literary happenings
which are Of value to intelligent
men and women. The Editors
Progress Of the World +" tells sue-
cinetly an illustrated story Of the
month. The "Leading Artieles"
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and increases the injury from drouth.
The general practice in market garden
ing is to open burrows and place the
manure in, and plant seeds or set
plants on or above the manure. Be-
lieving this to be wrong, I planted
peas and potatoes in the furrows and
set plants in the soil, with the manure
above the seed and rootlets, and had
from ten to thirty per cent. more
product with the manure Bbove. The
dryer the season, the greater the diff
ference. By this method | have
cleaner and more fertile farms, better
crops, fewer weeds and insect pests, a
better reputation and peaceful home.
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rIiddIetown Directory.
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MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
President-G. w. w. sNaudain; Secretarys
w, s. Letherbury; Charles 81. Howell.
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J. B. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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Rents Boxes

In its New Burglar and Fire-prco
Vaults, Makes ample provision in ITS
Store Room and Vaults for.the safe keer.
ing Of Securities and Valuable package,
placed in its cussody.
Middletown transcript., 1898-01-29

New York, weekdays. tsls, a93s. .tlo.24 a. m.
tl2.l9, +2.S4, s3.59 1921, " Al, al D. m sun
days, .s.ls, $3.50 'll.s4. a. n.'S6e. s52l. IA,
P6!lade5philss, e .. .wseeb-asys, ( e 1918. $50. $40,
tl2dS La. t2A ts59. 40 tS.2i, $40 ia, ei5
u Chester, @ Hsek,days, 1918, $50, $40, n15,
s sS ts H. ts9 ts ts S s tlGas sl5 nSg ffl a. a sS
IS s9siS}, S},5 81, 2,s %, q: siS. lIo n :. '
Cape May, weekdays, M, tb.5o am, Sun.
3 Baiti@ors Inc and m Washington, weekdays, t41s
M. iI257, t2O9, so4 t457 tS 81 fS.ii IL 8 -; m y
Baltimore and way stations, daily. 7.lo. a. m
III III q q s@.tis5a sC s4os ia5 fsis S asaisfi Iii
q suRd@ys S IA is1n s1s 51a. 1885 a. m. 1857 so.
Pittsburg, week days, 1886, m 1918 o. M.
Sundays 1885 2 m rs apm.
Chicago, daily, IS q m *4.57 m.
Chicago via Cincinnati and Indianapoiia
1885 m daily.
Cincinnati and st. Louis, daily tE.s5 a M
Toledo and Detroit, .s.ll m daily to
Toledo and daley except Sunday to Detroit.
New Orleans and Memphis via Bristol and
Chattanooga, ,t6lS p. IN. daily. weekdays l.57
Sundays sumo Throughsleepers to Memphis and
singerly accommodation, daily 7Io. a I'M.
S'9a, 7.S5, lo.c5 p. m: Sundays, 7l0 m s.Ol,
Landenburg accommodation, weekdays.
i!.io lO'oO, 2. M, a04 4.55, p. m. Sundays. Il,
q. m, 457, p. m. y"
Leave Market Street Station for
Rniladelphia, weekdays, 8 so pm
Palumnre. weekdays, 6t6 m ass p, m.
!. LAndenburg and way stations week days
6'4S s-e5, 2. M, IS. $40, p. M, Sundays, s.56
:, Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street
station for Wilmington, weekdays, tS36 6,I0
zl9 1890 eco ito Is, M.S0, e., m, flS.S0,
l1.S5, 2o0, tSS0, ta2o 4soi Is, t542, 500, $50,
Sunday. is.s5, is,oo, 900, n.se, a.m.,
tl22O, tl:S, 400 tl.2O. t5l5, $50, tT'80
1885 1880 p. m.
Telephone, 198.
other line.
D. B. MARTIN. Manager Of Passenger Tanic
W NJ. GREENE, General Manager.
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a m. q m. q m. . n

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
"a" Stops to leave passengers from Whining.
ton and points north, or take passengers for
points south OF Delmar;
'f' Stops only on notice to conductor or agent
or on signal.
"p" Stops to leave passengers from points
sontn OF Delmar, or take passengers for VIII
"i' Stops to leave passengers from Middle
town and points south
1t" Stops to let of passengers from Har.
rington pointe south.
NEW NEW CASTLE Acco1HoDATIoN TRAIEs.-Leave
8 65, p: m. weekdays Leave New Castle S.3l,
9.46, 1l.O2 q. M, 4.4,7 and 9 IS M, week.
days.
Express trains leaving Harrington SOS a. M.
through solid to and from Baltimore. via Portey
and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS.
DELAwARE. MARYLAND & VIRGINIA R. r.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations lO. .39 m. weekdays, 6.37 I'M Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays. Returning train
leaves Franklin City $50 a. M: week days. and
l42 tuesdays, Thurs'a a and Saturdays only.
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) Las p. M, week days Returning,
leave Chincoteague LAP a m. weekdays.
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
At IO39 q. m, 6.37 p. m. weekdays. Returning,
leave Lewes 645 a. m. .,3 IL p. m. weekdays.
b
days and 6.S7 p. M Tuesdays, Thursdays and
saturdays. Returning, leave Berlin 6.57 q. m.
week days and 243 p. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
QUEEN ANNE Il KENT r. R-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations ~ q. m. and
oSz p; m. week days Returning leave Centre
vile $50 a. M. and LII p. M, Weekdays.
DELAwARE 4 CHEsAPEAKE r. R.-Leave Clay.
ton for Oxford and way stations 93s a. m, and
oH p. m, week days. Returning, leave Oxford
645 q. M, and 40 p. m, week-daye.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAp ORD r. k.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II. II q.
m. and ia p. m. weekdays Returning leave
Cambridge 10 and loss p. m. weekdays
CoENEcTIoE.-:At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend, with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay Railroad. AT Har-
Tington, with Delaware, Maryland 4 virginia
Railroad. At Seaford, with Cambridge Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York, Phila-
deiphia q Norfolk, Wicomico & Pocomoke. and
Peninsula Railroads.
]. B. HUTCHINSON. General Manager.
J. B. WOOD. General Passenger Agent.
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SECRET SOCIETIES.

SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr o. y. A. M.
Meets every Monday uight in McWhorter's
Union Lodge, No. s, A. f. & A. M. Meets
first Tuesday of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 8, I. 0. Q. +.
Meets every Thursday night In McWhorter's
Damon Lodge, No. Il, K. Of P. Meets every
Wednesday night in McWhor4er's Hall at
So'clock.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night In x.
of p, Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 9, A. o. u. w, meets every
I'd and 4th Tuesday night in McWhorter's
Hall.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst FIJI.
day night of each month in Hose House.
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Attends to the

Management Of Real Estate and to the
Collection and Remittance Of Rents In
terest on Securities aEd Dividends
Stocks,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-23
THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF TIE ALLEGORY BY
TIE RR0THERS RHEAD.

There arr. We believe no less than thirty
Illustrated editions OF Bunyan's great work
or these no, one has survived as really vital
Ted work Il art In producing. therefore, the
st Il Illustrations which may be seen al the
Vunae-lich gallery thu three brothers Louis
G. rye and ~. derrick al may indulge N the
cor-fartir-r Action that they have Glne some
thing IL give d new lease Of life 10 4 neglected
classic W. say neglected" for in spite Of
tn frequent references T. The Pilgrim Prog
ress' j.. contemporary letters We doubt If the
book is .st,n rad outside the library Of the
srNialst Vt Buuyan Is anything but
precious writer. ne Is the last man il htera-
ture 20 be- abandoned to mere scholars. The
Who'll value + his work springs from its almost
rough strength from its adaptation Of a homel!
mode u speech 70 the development Of pro-
four aly IMAGINATIVE ana poetic inspiration.
We have already touched upon the strictly ar
tstic merits II The Rhead drawings. They are
striking illustrations Of what modern hands can
DO with ihe line II the old German engravers'
employing Il With a less brilliant precision, with
less distinction than you will find in Durer. for
instance but with fexibility. force. and a keen
sense FOR The color that can be extorted from
pure black and white. AS interpretations OF
buryan these pictures must take high rank
Their atnlosphere 10 begin with IS that OF
Bunyan's England and Bunyan's Imagination.
Tha; is not = hybrid atmosphere. 1t IS one
simply e tangible ouaintness, Iicturesqueness.
and Intangible feeling. There is one Of these
pictures that represents Christian and the Lions
there is another that shows the Pilgrim escaping
from hurting arrows into thoroughly English
house and IN both designs the favor Of England
is in the last gree obvious. Yet in these, as
much a. In the NOR fantastic compositions
Ike that u Giant Pope and Pagan, It seems
70 Us that III. artists have evoked just that
Strange ar which belongs 10 their text. The
.r2nkness with which they have over and over
again pu, Enelsn models and backgrounds into
their illustrations has not resulted in anything
tanal r ~ safe Ou the contrary, II only helps
20 make tls a. more vivid and more helpful
Accomplishments 60 me book. II Is an accom-
I2riu.ut moreover that IS full # life ana
r.9v-u-rl a.l.n carry ing out the idea Of the
au.n,r. ..h.. 20 ..as Ear from being one II mere
dram AID .tllfy. BInyan was a practical
mar. a.l D. matter how high he scared he
ram.rt.,.l that bis readers needed something
fir Da .t..h 60 rest True 20 the kindred
Ioir,s ~ heaven and home" h. mingled spirit
uaAty and the facts f nature with daring
that Wordsworth himself never surpassed, II.
Gleed TX ever equallcd IL A sood example o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-23

and have adorned the book with 4 brilliant
study Of the author himself. They have ar
ranged as the title-page shows, to publish it in
London. We hope there will also be an Arneri-
can edition. Certainly no more artistic enter
prise than this has ever been carried through
In this country. on every count the three
brothers have acquitted themselves in way
that speaks at once for their artistic powers and
their understanding If their author and their
achievement should not lack cordial recogni-
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-23
~ ODE or H4FIZ.
II WALrEE LEAF.

~ WALTER LEAF.
/ went INFO the May garden
To pluck the rose Of morn,
In my ear If a sudden the bulbul
Chanted his wall fororn.
Thy heart. Ike mine. poor singer.
Is sick for the roses love.
And the clamor Of thy complaining
Fills all the echoing grove.
Ofttimes, distraught and lonely,
That garden have sought,
And the pity Of rose and bulbul
Lay heavy on all my thought.
Desire with the bulbul IS mated,
And the thorn is the roses mate,
The bulbul changes never,
And the rose is obdurate.
And the moan Of the nightingale music
Pierces so deep in my heart
That all but faint for the sudden.
Intolerable smart.
Full many a rose has blossomed
Within this world garden,
But without the thorn Of sorrow
Was never a rose for men.
Never a joy O Haiiz.
Shall the dull worlds orbit bring.
1t holds but affronts thousand.
And never a perfect thing.
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the manner in which the present illustrators
have struck the right key is shown in the
powerful representation Of Giant Despair 1t
is a fears me image, one Of fairly Gothic ugli-
ness, yet there is a note Of realism in the thing
which we find positively stirring. In such guise
as this We think Bunyan desired his figures 70
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-23

strike the vision Of his readers, grim awful but
unspeakahy real
The designers Of these compositions have not
been content 10 set forth the salient episodes in
the allegory, some Of them. By the way episodes
which have not been illustrated before, but have
enriched their pages with decorative borders
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
Travellers at the Play.

Members of the California Commercial Travellers Association will lay aside the cares of business tonight and attend the performance of "Cyrano de Bergerac' at the Tivoli The men who compose the well-known organization have looked for ward to their annual theater party and tonight they will fill the opera house. Representative of the large wholesale houses of this city and hundreds of re- tailers compose the association. Presi- dent Alex Mcdonald. Vice-President Har- ry Stokes, Harry Roessler and Secretary selves to make the annual affair a suc- cess, and judging by the number of tick cts already disposed of, it cannot be other wise
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
ACCUSED OF HAVING
 ACCEPTED A BR|BE
Supervisor Charles w. Garrett of Fresno County Indicted by Grand
 Jury.

NREsNO. indicted by the received proe  s9oo Grand Jury present. ed returned investigation bench Sheriff had adjourned been informed that he His fixed with Adoph Shields,
  bibe bought
  Hopkins admitted having
  $40 of 
 
 
 political
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08

of him yesterday sand that later he saw a bottle of strychnine on a table in Hoff- mans room. Early in the afternoon Hoff- man locked his door with a paddock and went away. He has not been seen since, and 1t is believed that his dead body will be found floating in the bay if 1t is not held at the bottom by weights
 Love had frequently given the man em- ployment, but he did not take kindly to the rough work and would not stick to it more than few days at a time. He be- came so unreliable that even this method of earning sufficient to keep body and soul together was at last closed to him. Then he began to intimate to those with whom he was more or less intimate that he would put an end to worry by committing suicide.
 Hoffman had resided at the Green-street house for about a year. He is described as flne-looking man, about 40 years old, standing about feet 10 inches and weigh ing lS0 pounds; with black hair and heavy black mustache He was we'll edu- cated, as the chirography and grammati- cal construction of his letters show. While he seldom spoke of his personal affairs or the reasons for his becoming an outcast, from remarks he dropped from time to time it is believed his fall from grace was primarily due to domestic troubles. He kept a large number of papers In his room, and they may aid in throwing some light on his previous existence, provided he did not destroy them previous to car- rying out his threat.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
WRITES LETTERS SAYING HE WILL
 KILL HIMSELF Eugene Hoffman May
 Be a Corpse. A WATER FRONT ROMANCE EDUCATED GERMAN TIRES OF STRUGGLE WITH POVERTY. Said to Be Connected With the Aris- tocracy of Germany, With
 Wealthy Relatives in
 New York.
A WATER FRONT ROMANCE
EDUCATED GERMAN TIRES OF
 STRUGGLE WITH POVERTY.

Eugene Hoffman, said to be connected with the aristocracy of Germany and with wealthy relatives in New York, but who for some time past has been eking out precarious existence doing odd jobs along the water front, is believed to have com mitted suicide some time last night.
 Ere this letter reaches it's destination my weary head and aching heart will be at rest forever, he wrote to his friend Joseph Plante, yesterday. "I intend to take poison tonight and then to make the wretched affair certain fasten weights to my neck and slip off an isolated wharf into the bay"
 When Plante, who is a longshoreman, re- turned to his home at the Zunkaiser Hoff S16 Sansome street, at the end of his days work, he found the letter tucked un- der his door. In it was enclosed a simi- lar epistle addressed to Frank Johnston. another friend of Hoffman. Plante hast ened to the California street police sta- tion with the letters and Lieutenant Esola detailed Officer Garrison to investi- gate the case. The officer learned enough to satisfy him that the Respondent Ger man had not made the threat in a spirit of bravado, but was in deadly earnest when he announced his intention to end his life. H. Love, foreman for Charles w. Haseltine, the stevedore, who lives at Il Green street, where Hoffman also had a room, says the latter borrowed % cents
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
LYNCH LAW
 IN PROSPECT AT DEL MAR Reign of Terror in the
 Town. DRINKING WATER POISONED CRIMES OF INCENDIARIEs AND ; VANDALS. Citizen Ordered to Leave the Place Arms Himself and Issues
 Defiance to the
 Vigilantes.
DRINKING WATER POISONED
CRIMES OF INCENDIARIES AND VANDALS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 7.-Del Mar, twenty miles north of this city, is aroused over series of depredations and it is not improbable that lynch ing will take place if the identity of the culprit becomes known. A vigilance committee has been organized, and Uri Bennett, propr'rA-- of the hotel that burned there yesterday morning. has been ordered to leave town within rty-eight hours. MT. Bennett refuses to do so and defies any one to lay a hand on him. He goes about the streets armed with a Winchester, and to-day posted a notice on the postoffice door that if any one desired to serve papers on him he could do so through the post office.
 The excitement runs high in the town. Trouble has been brewing for months between certo'- factions there, and on Thanksgiving night the big tank and windmill which supplied the town with water was burned. There was no doubt that the work was that of an incendiary, and as the calamity was a public one there was talk imme- diately of organizing a vigilance com mittee and driving the incendiary out of the town. G. w. Bennett, who owned the property, made no apparent move to learn who had done him the in- jury.
 A night or two later the office of the Justice of the Peace was wrecked, and two days afterward bag of strychnine was found in a barrel of water used for drinking purposes by the section men.
 Affairs came to a climax early yester- day morning when the hotel burned with all it's contents. The building was erected during the boom" at a cost of $5000 or more, and stood in the name of Mrs. Uri Bennett, the wife of the manager and sister-in-law of George W. Bennett.
 The next surprise in the list of senSa- tions was the notice of a committee of citizens which was served on Uri Ben nett, ordering him to leave the town within forty-eight hours. For his part MT. Bennett procured a rifle and belt of ammunition, and at last accounts was marching the streets of the little town defying the constables, vigilance committee and citizens generally to lay a finger on him, and declaring that he would mot leave the town until he got ready to do so.
 Inquiry fails to show exactly why Mir. Bennett has been selected as the un- desirable citizen. He certainly did not burn the hotel as he was in San Diego on Monday night.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-08
CASS|AR COUNTRY
 IS RICH IN GOLD Reports of Discoveries
 Confirmed. STAMPEDE NEXT YEAR LIKELY REMARKABLE FINDS MADE BY
 PRoSPECTORS. Locations Kept Secret Until the For tunate Argonauts Can Provide
 for Themselves and
 Friends.
STAMPEDE NEXT YEAR LIKELY
REMARKABLE FINDS MADE BY
 PROSPECTORS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

TACOMA, Dec. 7.-Authentic news has been received at Wrangel, con- firming the recent reports of new placer discoveries in the Cassiar mining country and also to the westward of Teslin, between Teslin Lake and the Atlin district. J. H. Rose of Fargo. manager of the Alaska Mining and Commercial Company, predicts at Wrangel that there will be a great stampede to the Cassiar placers next summer. Roses company sent several men into that country this year under ms direction. One of these found a stream from which in four days he alone washed nineteen ounces of gold.
 These diggings are reached by way Of the Stickeen River and the road to Teslin Lake. Their exact location will not be made public until locations are made by the party of men whom Rose will pilot in next spring. Rose is of the opinion that railroad will yet be built from Glenora to Teslin, result ing, he says, in the immediate opera ton of number of quartz claims, upon which assessment work has been done.
 Just before Rose left Clenora pros pectors arrived with news of rich placer discoveries to the northwest of Teslin, in the direction of Lake Atlin. y upward per pan, and gold was found from the grass roots down.
 Their description shows that these diggings, and the general characteris- tics of the country, are similar to the Atlin district. At Glenora. in fact. there is little doubt that they are on the eastern edge of the Atlin gold belt.
 Several of the lucky prospectors mak- ing these finds are in the employ of 0 h cfn Glenora, and John Wright, who keeps a store at Teslin. Wright attached so much importance to the find that. de- spite the lateness of the season. he abandoned his business and has gone to verify the reports. It is probable the new diggings will be best reached via Atlin Lake, in which event the in- tervening country will also be explored
 Rose and his men will take into the Cassiar district next spring modern ap- pliances for developing both placer and quartz propositions.