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OL. VIL. | No.4 FINANCIAL. . DA The Bank of Ottawa, HEAD_OFFICE, OTTAWA Capital authorized - $3,000,000 'Capital, paid up . $2.339,040 - Rest and undivided vided profits $2, 161,136 RAT POR TAGE BRANCE ¢ Beneral Banking Business Transacted, Special Attention Given te 'Collections. Re- Tlitonces made on slay of masmrity al lowes) eral Rates of Inserest Afowred in Sav ings ank Accounts of Merchawss, Traders, Manufactur- ers, Crarporations aud dndividuals received on favorable terms CHAS, G. PENNOCK, MasAGER Established {1817 Bank of Montreal "i HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL Capital, all paid up. . $12,000.000 Reserve Fund Urofit and Loss Account FCRT WILLIAM BRANCH A General Banking Business transacted. Collections made on favorable terms Iaterest allowed on depusits at current rates. Dratis sold, available at all poiuts in Kurope, United Staies and Can ada, points, Dawson City and others. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Deposits of one dollar ar d upwards receivedy and interest allowed. No Charge is made on withdrawing and de- positing Sails . STEVENSON, Manager S. W. Rar C. W. Jarvis RAY, STREET & CO. Port Arthur - and - Fort William Bankers General Agents, Mining Brokers, Ete. General Banking, Business Transacted Interest Allowed en + Deposits FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND MARINE INSURANCE Having Purchased the properties of an estate I am prepared te sell cheap some vatuable, picked 'mining locations in the rich Mani- tou and Luke of the Woods district. Ibis is the reatest opportunity to pat properties at a low figure. ~orrespondence solicited, J. CURRY Banker and Brok : : NTO x ONT. -- v F. H. SANGSTER, LLB. BARRISTER, Notary Pusiic, Fre. WABIGOON ONT. --0-- Ax Special attention given to the trans- action of departmental work. =. 3: DRAPER, (Successor to Boyce & Draper) BARRISTER-AT-LAW, Solicitor, Notary Public, RAT PORTAGE - ONT. ' Etc., 'olicitor or the Dominion Permanent Loan Co. The Bank of Ottawa. ties wishing to negotiate for good | pen Fei] -- colle able Address, Calle Addie Moreing & Foals "Alston," W abigoon HUGH D. ALSTON 'Wabigoon - - Ontario Minivg Propesitiong in the Wabigoon and Manitou Regions Inspected" and Reported on. Prospecting and Development Work Superintended Contracts Let Terms and Conditions forwarded onApplication References Exechanged F. HILLE, Mining Engincer, Assayer ---t = and Analytical Chemist Mines. and Mineral Lands Examined and Keporced ou, 7,000,000" 876,531 ; { Unanimous Belief in the Manitou's including Yukon jon 2] Vi isitors-- Presia 3 puting Pro 4 Mi Selie Camphell, president of the ra Ontarie atining and Developing Co., of Detreit, arrived in Waubigoon from Toronto onsTuesday. morning last and left for the Manitou bto examine the extensive mining cn {terprises with which he is connected. While in Toronto Mr Campbell consummated a mining tra ansaction of considerable magnitude bx the sale of { mining location HW 43 "adjoining the well known Lwentietl) Century mine. I'his is an exceptionally fine sold pro- position and the sale wus made to Messrs. J. B. Moran and Jus. S. Do herty, capitalists, of Escanaba, Mich., for something over $50,000 Mess-s. Moran and Doherty are: largely inter- ested in copper properties in the Houghton district, and the iron prop: erties in the Gegebic range, and this PORT ARTHUR ONT., ALLAN B. MONKS MINING id v INVESTMENTS or FICE uy J SURVEYORS. SPEIGHT, VanNOSTRAND & WARD, Bominion 8 Ontario Land Surveyors, Draughtsmen, &c. WABIGOON - ONT. Toronto Address, Room D, Yonge St. Arcade, Toronto. INSURANCE, - LIFE - ACCIDENT © COMMISSION J. R. BUNN, Agent H. B. Land Department. MATHESON ST., P. 0. Box 133 FIRE Successor to M. Kyle RAT PORTAGE Correspondence Solicited CAN. Properties Examined and Reported on | ) HW 43, will be available for the south- property from ai direction. contact between the gra te trap trav crses 'the locatio: 1 and a number of the veins are on or near this contact. The road tc the northern veins will be direct from the Twentieth Century roads and the road and dock of the Reliance Coy, which are situated on ern end of the location. The main shaft of the Twentieth Century is only a quarter of a mile west of HW 43, on a vein which can be plainly traced from the skaft to this property. They and they propose going straight down soo feet and then drive a crosscut acioss the location to cot the other seven veins which traverse the surface. Among the visitors to the Star office en Friday. last 'were Messrs; DD. M MORAN & MACKENZIE, arristers, Solicitors, Notaries, etc. Offices, Imperial Bank Chambers, Rar PorTAGE, foney to Loan on first-class security W. J. MORAN, P. E, MacKENzIg Crown Attorney "for District of Rainy River LEGAL J. FE. MacGILLIVRAY, ~ Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. -- Imperial Bank Chambers RAT. PORTAGE, ONT. Office MONEY TO LOAN « For Winnipeg July Where 1 intend to devote myself entirely to the Raw Fur ~ Business. on or ahout 1st, reduced Balance of my General Sack now on' hand selling off at Store Fixtures and part of Household Furniture for Sale. prices R. 'emporary premises next to Gardner's old stand. | MANITOU MINES AGENCY. THE Seven years' experience in the Manitou and Wabigoon Gold Fields. We buy and sell Mining Properties and att as MINING BRCKERS. Address all communications to us at Wabigoon, Ontario. Cable Addre 88, 'Manitou Code: Moreing' & Neal Te ------ [EnTRaL House, MATHESON STREET. ; .P.R. Depot) RAT PORTAGE (Opposite C RATES, $1.00 To $1.50 PER DAY Cood Table Fine Liquors and Gigars EVERY ACCOMMODATION \ i pre J, BEAUDRO & SON, from the extraction of the gold from : of mineral wealth on what Mr. Picker- {ing Co., which has a valuable 80-acre are now down 350 feet in good ore o'itained from surface tests already ought to produce most satisfactory results. from his visit of inspection of his Giant property on Mosher Bay on Thursday afternoon last,apparently well satisfied with the result of his investigation. Before leaving the mine a contract wag let to the Smith brothers, of Rat Por tage for the 250 feet of drifting irom the foot of the shaft, at a very reason- able figure, for the Manitou un Tuesday morning were the foilowisg gentlemen from Detroit : contracter, who is secretary-treasurer of the I'ree Gold Mining and Milling Co., owning valuable claims near Mud Lake comprised in HV 41. ing location on' 'I'hree Sweeney, President of the Gold Rock Miniiag turned from Gold Ro: Lon Tuesday A soblh DOLLAR 4 Splendid Mineral Resources by Numbers of Interested nts and Managers Arranging for Active Development -- Dis- Spectors Appeal to the Legislature -- Activity in the Li den Belt--Increasing Interest in Contact Bay. Kennedy zud Gea. Newall, of Dettoit, on their return from their visit of ob servation to the Manitou. These gen- tlemen, after looking 'over the Sum-| mit Lake ahd National properties, with which they were extremely well satis- fied, walked over to the is Master mine, accompanied by Mr. S. V. Hal- stead, and were ¢ntertained 4 Gener: al Manager' Pickering, who, with his usual courtesy, showed the party over the entire property. The visitors were intensely interested in all they saw, district. The party consisted of Dia C. S. Thomas, Loganspaint, ind ; Dr. J. Hyatt, Detioit; De. D.C. Del: zelle, Loganspoint, Ind; J. W, Gose, Geneseo, 1.5 Lewis Seitz, of Evans ville, Ind. and G. \V., Seitz, of Mourns Carnell, Ind. The objective point of their visit was the property of th company clese to Gold Rock, where they spent a considerable portion of the time investigating the phenomenal. rich surface indications which are s» prominent a feature of the six veins which overrun the property, tl.ree of which continue tightinto the adjoining Big Master projerty. At No. =z shaft, now down to go feet, the party were [Initiated into the mysteries of panning the ore themselves and presently the amatuer prospectors became quite ex- pert in the art, and with hardly an ex- ception succeeded in extracting a sub- statis] showing from pieces of roek picked up indiscriminately from: the foot of the shaft. And they related this to the Star in all seriousness and ore at the stomp mill to the extraction of the ore from the shatt. Then a visit was paid to the Jubilee shafty which is now being re opened after a lapse of. five years. Mr. Kennedy, whe is also interested in this property, was parti- cularly struck with the evident signs ing and othe who ought to know clare to be the future buliion pro-. ducet of the Big Master Belt. es Mr. Wm. Johnston, superintendent of the well known graphite works of Detroit TW ho arrived i in Wabigoon on vement and also the prespeets general ly. 'of their operations. Mr. 'Sweeney arranged to sink 200 feet. crosscutting, and before the fall 'the necessary machinery will be iatrsuc- ed to expedite operations. A ldiger boarding house will also he ereciad and other improvements alove ground' commenced. to the properties in which hei is inter: ested. Besides these Mr. Johnston is also president of the Ides! Gold Min location near Dryden, and on his re turn from the Manitou he will visit the Dryden belt and arrange for the letting of a contract to the Hutchison brothers for sinking the first 100 feet, In close proximity tothe Redeemer mine, which is now being systemati- cally and rapidly developed, the Ideal presents alniost identical surface con. ditions," the outcroppings showing more or lers defined continuous quartz bands. Such good values have lecn Some verv attractive rock wag | brought in from the National property: by the president of the company, Mr. John A. NcLean, state manager ins Assurance Co., 'of 'I'orouto, has beeh visiting the mine in his own interest, one piece of which shown to - the Star was prettily tinctured with" free gold, A thorough inspection of the property was made by the president, who is entirely satisfied with the pre- sent position of affairs. The shafi, now down 85 feet, pierces large hod ies of blue quartz,intersectad by smali- er ones of a white color. Some the rock wus panned by Mr. McLean himself just outside the Star office and . in every case a satisfactory tail of gold was produced. Crosscutting will con- mence at the 100 foot levei, and the process of development will soon be accellerated by the installation of a boiler and hoist, which will be on the ground by the end of this month. It is not sury rising, therefore, that with such an exceptionally cheerful out- look Mr. McLean should arrive at the conclusion that the company would be warranted in issuing the next. block of stock at an increased price. President McLean was accompan- ied by his brother Wm. McLean, of Ottawa, who has travelled exiensively through this continent and Western Australia, is conversant with other: prosperous mining regions, aud inclined to be skeptical ragard- ing the Manitou, but 'who was si imply: astonished at the visible and tan-- gible evidences of the mineral: resour- ces of the 'district. made that its further development - General Manager Simpson raturned Among the' SS Galatea's passengers Eugene J. Dunbar, a well known Geo. W. Cooper, general manager 'ashington Life Insurauce Co., ay r.of the Manitou , recently or "79, a promis- undred Lake, of . One the most enthusiastic] Before retuining to Wabigoon they parties. of visitors to the Manj-{bhad an interest: ng experience at the: tou district was that of Mr. J. M. Big Master, being taken down the shaft and then up the 55 foot raise where the $22 orc is being mined that * 18 now enabling the stamp mill to make = and Milling Co., who re- Rrops. S. ROBINSON afternup. after a three days tour of th. [Continued on page 8} were naturally elated with their achie« It appears that the shaft is all in quartz, which accounts for the ruccess "hefore Detroit of the North American Lajos whe «| of