The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-02-04
10 DIG IN RICH BRITISH
COLUMBIA COAL FIELDS.
A Large Area Being Opened which
Promises Splendid Returns to
lnvestOrs---LOcal Agents
Appointed.

coma, WASH, has been incorporated to
operate some large and valuable coal
and iron measures in Nicola valley, B. G.
Mr.. S. Andrew Hartman. director
of the company, visited the city this
week and called at our office, showing
samples of the coal, reports, prospects,
maps, etc. The coal is high grade
bituminous, and is pronounced by coal
experts to be superior in quality to
either the Crows Nest or Vancouver
Island coal, or any other coal known on
the coast. 1t is first.class coking coal,
and for steam and domestic purposes
there is no better coal in the country
The Webster Coal & Iron company
have secured a very large tract of this
very valuable land, $3.50 acres, or four
full sections, claiming that the land con-
tains over 100,000,000 tons of coal, such
a vast quantity that it will take 200
years by mining at the rate of 1000 tons
per day, to exhaust it. The coal lies in
blanket form. There are five seams
known to exist and underlying the land,
ranging in thickness from five to II feet.
Mr.. Nelson Bennett, of Tacoma, wide
and favorably known all through the
state, is the president of the company,
and is one Of the leading spirits of the
enterprise. Judge William p. Reynolds,
F. w. CASTOR, prominent among insur-
ance men; Leroy Pratt, general mana
ger of the Peoples Store company Vir-
gil Hayden, paying teller of the Pacific
National bank; Judge Ira H. Chase;
Ben Olson, member of the city coun-
Gil and Andrew S. Hartman, all we'll
known business men, are members OF
the board of directors.
The company has appointed our
townsmen, MacCrimmon & Needham,
as agents for their company. The first
block of the company's treasury stock is
now being offered to the public at the
low rate of 10 cents per share (par value
of the stock 81, fully paid and non-as-
sessable.)
We think this a splendid. opportunity
for the.people of this town and vicinity
to participate in one of the biggest and
safest money-making enterprises in the
northwest, as the shares are sure to adj
vance TO par, 81. The V. V. Il f. rail-
road Jim Hills road, and the C. p. r.
are now about to build into the coal
field.
The Crows Nest Coal shares sold in
1896 as low as cents per share. A
thousand shares were bought for an
even 500, which today will bring
sl25 900.
The Crows Nest shares went up from
10 cents in 1896 to $50 in two years.
The same chances offered by the Crows
Nest company eight years ago are now
being held out the people of this county.
1t is not speculation, but an invest
ment, pure and simple, with a certainty
OF multiplying the sum invested many
hundreds per cent in short time.
Those who invested in the Crows
Nest and in the Great Falls coal mines
all became wealthy on a small invest
ment. Coal mining is different from
any other mining. There are no ''ifs'
no "wild-catting" about it.
Coal lie one of the great commodities
of the world, and always in demand-a
necessity, and with the enormous in
crease in commerce on the Pacific with
the Orient, the rapid development of all