The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-09
IN AND AROUND ROsSLAND.
No Sunday Work ON b. A. c. and
Other PropePties--Lc Rot No.
Floated.

Special Dispatch to the Post-Inteliigencer.
ROSSLAND. Aug, S--A joint announce
ment has been made by Bernard Mac
Donald. general manager OF the British
America Corporations mines. and Z. b.
Kirby. general manager OF the War
Eagle and Center Star, that they Will
close the mines for twenty-four hours
every Sunday hereafter. This arrange
ment takes effect Immediately at the War
Eagle. Center star and lie Roi No. 2,
and on or after October l at the lie Roi.
Rosslsnd. Great Western and Columbia
kootenay mines. In their announcement
the general managers recall the moral
and physical benefits of one days rest
In seven, and then say:
las the result OF practical experience
II Is generally recognized that the bene-
fits OF sunday closing are as great In
mining as in any other branch of In
dustry. and it should therefore be adopt
ed. TO the end that the best interests
Of the mine-owner and this miner may be
promoted
Claim Jumping of sophie Mountain.
A sensation has been caused here by
the jumping of the Blue Bell and several
fractions In the. Velvet group on sophie
Of British Columbia The Jumper Is +. s.
eits Who demands ss Si for II releases asss
crown grants. but the owners had ne
elected 10 record the assessment work
since 1855 Algiers took advantage OF
this fact The claims are Of value chiefly
and tunnel entrances being on the Tup-
per fraction. which Algfcrs has relocated
under the name e the We've, fraction.
The pipe line which carried water 10 the
Velvet IL on the Velvet The owners dis
pute AlEiers' claim on the ground that
their applications for certificates OF i'm
pFovement--the requisite for crown
plant--are still pending and render the
record OF assessment work unnecessary.
The Velvet IL the hest developed property
on sophie mountain, being opened BY tin-
nssr and shafts to the 30 foot lexrl and
having 1000 tons % 10 ore above the
ss1-foot level Algisre claims that the
for So@o cash hut he demanded IS 900
and told the cofs9anS's representatives
that II the money was not paid IN TWEEN
ty-foar hours be would raise me price
to sSS1oo The company denies any
.huU~ht OF COMPROMISE, and says that
tho matter win be taken into court.
FIotntien OF Columbia X ootenay.
The last AZ the British- America corpo-
ration's Rnssiaua properiies-the Column
bia- ko0fenay graup-hss been naate1 on
as the companies which PRESIDED a. ThA
name adopted Tor the company Is under
stood 70 be IL Rot No. 4. but this Is NOT
positively known and II may Be called
the Columbia X oatenay. A change os this
kind was made IN the name % the com
pauy holding the Nickel Plate group,
which - called the RrsSiand Great West
ern instead 81 the L. Rot No. 3, as At FIRST
iniended. The capital % the L. R0i No
4 nDnoa "a Is shares and f50"o Is re-
served as WORKING capital Tbs stock was
al taken y London brokers as soon as
of-e.ed. for some % them had been
caught short on I,e Roi No and they
we're afraid % falling into the same pre-
dtoament again. The stock quickly went
10 81 premium Whitaker Wright. the
promoter o. the Is A. C. group Of COM
psnies. Is Understood TO have cleared ~ A
Gig pile on the floating Of the stocks, due
10 his clever handling or the market.