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SF Siw eae pee yey THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, November 16, 1966 Company Strikes B.C. Bonanza Mine By TOM CARNEY drilled a 550-foot tunnel under CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. | the lake bottom, tapping the (CP)=-Western Mines Ltd, is | natural reservoir, Then the an impressive example of how | men laid a 24-inch pipeline despite awesome odds | down the slope of Mount Myra against success ---a favored | to a generating station, few make it in the booming To get the ore out, Western British Columbia mining in- | had to have built, at a cost of dustry. $2,000,000, a 22-mile road link- Six years ago, Western con- | ing with island highways and stituted some rotting buildings | terminating at the company's at an abandoned mine be- | wharf in Campbell River, The tween Nelson and Kaslo, with | road was one of the Jast yea ny fe * -- rec- | projects to be completed, ords of past glories and even | Ai the construction equip: ues olsen erty and | ment and men had to be Ay, & new property transported 20 miles up Buttle $15,000,000 later, it stands for hundreds of. jobs for conatruce | Lake in. a strange armada, SAWMILL SET UP tion workers, loggers and The men came and re- ot ang ggg Pen and townsite. where Myra | turned for days off--on yac Creek flows into Buttle Lake | or ps ls Trucks = 55 miles from here in the | brought up the lake on a land- centre of Varicouver Island, ing craft. Cedar-log rafts, 125 And in the future, it repre- | feat by 65 feet, capable of sents a place to work and live | carrying 80 tons and pulled by for the 1,000 persons who will | a 165 ~ horsepower tugboat, --~ he. inhabit the iwR WAST CoM: | were weed te bring up --o Ri ta' equipment, mn the other end of the ' scale, Western is almost an encaiink tone pn Dp obscenity to a group of con | sawmill, since transportation costs ruled out importing servationists, shocked at the provincial government's prec: | pasig building materials in the early stages, edent-setting decision giving > oC y rmissi t the company permission to Minbar clnared HORT the mine site was sawn into develop a mine nie vast, sly-owne: Srcioens Pathe Sh gra planks and boards for use in | Six years ago Harold | Construction, Logs too large | Wright, Western's president for the sawmill were split | and a Vancouver engineering | With dynamite charges, | executive, negotiated pur. The lumber the sawmill chase of 28 claims along Myra | produces will also be used to Creek where prospectors | build the modern, ranch-style bungalows which will house the families of the employees, started claim staking in the 1920s, The company apa 15 additional claims an ' staked 128 itself, WORTH EXTRA COST The mine is attractive in OUTPUT GOES ABROAD appearance, Stained or oiled From there it started pro- | cedar siding--from the saw- duction this fall on an ore | mill-and sheet metal panels body known to have at least | with. colored finishes cover 9,000,000 tons of ore averaging | the buildings, A landscape .06 ounces gold and 2.5 ounces | architect was flown in for silver a ton, and 2,2-per-cent | consultation. Some of the copper, 1.1-per-cent lead and | flowers and lawns are already 10-per-cent zinc, which com | Planted, And this is the mine bine at today's current prices | ~-not the townsite, for a gross value of $100,000. | Charles M, Campbell Jr., 000, ; general manager, admits the Concentrate production for | nice appearance cost a little the first four years at a -- more, of 200 tons a day has already "But the pride the employ: been sold for shipment t0 | ees have in this setup will De smelters in Europe, Great | an important aspect of our Britain, the United States and | efficiency." And the cost of the extras "'is not significant over the over-all capital ex- Japan, Western's Vancouver Island project is one of many gam- | penditure," bles in the B.C, mining indus- "B sae try and one of the few that is | | ut let's not make an paying off. To ante into the | § pine lodge out of it--you game, the company raised and don't hide the fact it's an in- put up $4,500,000 for initial | @ustrial building. And Western will control the town, "Even if we weren't in a exploration and early develop- park it would have to be a ment. On another gamble--backed by scientific tests and the latest in skills and knowledge, | company town," Mr. Camp- but still a gamble--the com: | bell says. Because of its small size, there can only be a few merchants, who would have a virtual monopoly because of pany executive decided to put this $4,500,000 into developing the isolation, There could be abuses, just one of its three groups of "It's a company responsi- claims in the area, This summer Western com- bility to protect its employ- ees,' says Mr, Campbell, pleted its mine, with four miles of underground tunnel Tomorrow: Small companies economic mineral properties, drilled, and where the ore was close to the surface and t Maa open-pit operation under way. anrwedathe A EQUIPMENT FLOWN IN Christmas Before construction of the mill was complete, more than Or, 7 athan wise BROWNIES BOOST Oshawa Girl Guides and Rangers are encouraged to help community projects with their services. These include such projects as the COMMUNITY PROJECTS Red Cross Blood Donors Clinic, helping the Humane Society on tag day 'and stuffing letters for the Tuberculosis Society, The A DRILLING RIG pounds its way down into the depths of a mountain near Buttle Lake, B.C., inside the publicly - owned Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, 'Down East' Boatbuilders Begin Work On Ship Replica EAST BOOTHBAY, Me, (AP) jest yachts the British could sail Thirty - five skilled 'down east" jagainst her in a race around boatbuilders have started work/the Isle of Wight, Aug. 22, 1851. on . replica sf the sy wt The original America cost America, one of the most famous . ; $30,000. The new version will yachts in the history of sailing cost Rody alent fo craft, coon and lifelong yachtaman, The 103-foot vessel will be built of Maine fir and West poi than a dozen times as Virginia oak, It will be an au- thentic seagoing version of the yacht that won the ornate old mug known since that day 115 years ago as America's Cup, The keel-laying ceremonies in the shipyard of Goudy and Stev- ens are aimed towards a gala launching on the high tide May $, the 116th anniversary of the launching in New York City of the original America, Her swift lines drawn from the rakish pilot schooners of the period, the America crossed the Atlantic and trounced the fast- The mountains and glacier -- in the background give an idea of the terrain with which the miners must con- tend, Guides and Brdwnies are encouraged to develop skills which will help them to become good homemakers. (Oshawa Times Photo) Lautle Crew, a nine-year- old Oshawa Brownie, tells about the life of a Brownle Police Get Helping Hand From Priest MONTREAL ae an the call for radio car 500 is flashed from Montreal police headquar- ters it is answered not by a burly constable but by a dimin- (CP Photo) with special paper-cut illus- Toronto in 1938 and carried! this urge with him: on his) trations pasted on a board. wanderings to Vancouver where | Canadian Primitive Artist |ic%0" 78.5.5. Succeeds In Maytair Show 33 {ses sia cr: Helps You Overcome | FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry Nok be ann feel sake Weatoateea wot Ie (oneacta) wder Fim gh pene dee eel more com: ie, m PASTEETE we any drug story is that he filled a Gran-| ville Street shop with 750 of his curious sketches and at+| tracted a lot of lookers but no buyers, | 'The published version is that he went from Toronto to Van- couver and then got the inspi- ration on his return to Toronto doesn't trust banks, quaintance said: SUPPORTS BROTHER Almost as mysterious as his financial status is his personal background, = tia ~ older brother, now blind, it is known,/in the mid-1930s when he dealt and Scottie helps support him.|/in perfume bottles ba go utive priest. But when you start talking Ofjfoyntain pens. He'd strip the The priest is Rev. Arthur family life and background/pens of their gold and sell the/Garequ, who for the last four Scottie is likely to change the/fragments to refineries. years has been working with subject. One day he found a pen that/the , police department as a mo- Png: plang on a BR gage "looked like a bulldog' with ajpile comforter of the injured interview with The. Canadian|™> 'so thick and beautiful"/and spiritual adviser to the Press in 1949 he gave it as 67|that he decided to keep it. |public. and that would make him 84/Listening to the radio in his) He operates from St. Mary's "Haven't been feeling too|day. shop, he used the pen to doodle|College and from his office at walk he sald, "Had an . ile "They used to sell my stuff|°" : See ----o be ae gs og General Hesoitel 6 sre" " airs," -jcouldn't stop, His S be-iwhere he has been Roman tion down here'"--pointing to) Ti Spree Ne jesicame his creations and his|Catholie chaplain for 17 years his abdomen. marked as he cast his eyes clover the handsomely-framed stock of sketches grew into the/and is on call from the police Suddenly the television cam ry aundreds. ppt Sagar jonable| Oddities, the two-dimensional ey ene Mommy in tis trees, fish, flowers and birds| "Then the dealers and critics) His unmarked car is equipped direction and Scottie Wilson's|2"d sometimes the little green} began calling," Wilson recalls) ith 9 two-way radio, a siren blue eyes brightened, his bul-/Monsters that go into his paint-|in Levy's book, 'Douglas Dun- and ac flasher which' enables bous nose glistened and. he) '"&%. can (a Toronto art dealer) was} ' y seemed to take on new life in With fountain pen and col-|the first to take any real inter-|him to reach the scenes of the glorifying publicity paid to ored inks he will start drawing] est in my work and Normanigrave accidents quickly and ad- Britain's leading primitive|the trunk of a tree on hard|Endicott of the University of/ minister the last rites of the painter. paper, Then, beginning at the) Toronto. They loved my work! roman Catholic Church to badly He stood against walls lined|toP and working down, he will|and bought it from me in those! with his child-like, dream-world|Construct simple-lined branches,|¢arly days. That's how it all injured or dead accident vic- sketches priced -as high as decorated with birds and flow-|came about. jtims, £115 each, many produced in| es: Sometimes he uses fountain) 'There's nothing you can do;| Father Gareau also is sum- Canada where he had dabbled|Pen and black ink and covers|it's a plan; it's all mapped out/moned for suicides and_ at: In the isolated Myra Creek in junk and scrap and had sud the objects later with crayons.|for you; you just make the|tempted suicides and to inform] area, there was no electricity, | denly turned doodlings into, Lately he has used water col-/moves you must. The bulldog|the next of kin of accident vic-| A helicopter flew men and | drawings. ors applied with a fine brush,| pen was part of the plan, that's|tims if the family's parish priest} equipment to a lake 2,200 feet | particularly in connection withjall,... " is not available. above the mine. The crew SUBJECT OF BOOK the plate decorations completed | james ieeeieaadiiiadiiontiaad apenas | A bit confused by all the at- under contract with a promi-| tention, Wilson presented anjment British china manufac-| incongruous figure, his plaid | By HAROLD MORRISON LONDON (CP)--The gnome- like figure in the crumpled brown suit slipped through the crowd of cocktail sippers, nim- bly lifted a glass of cham- pagne from a disappearing tray and then tucked his prize into a corner desk for later consumption. A cigaret butt fell from his lips and he was about to grind it into an expensive-looking grey rug when he suddenly re- membered, bent down to re- trieve the stub and searched guiltily for an ashtray. an ac- $1,000,000 worth of ore was piled up, waiting for the cop- per, zinc and lead to be turned into concentrate, The silver and gold will be ex- tracted at the smelters, Western had to do much more than simply raise the money and start construction of a mine and mill ameeons ' turer. shirt, green tie and brown suit contrasting with the haute cou- ture of the excited patrons who milled around him. A new book, written by his long-time friend and mentor, Mervyn Levy, describes Scottie as "a rare figure among prim- itive masters, a visionary and a mystic." For all that, Wilson still sticks close to his one- room '"'kip" in a rundown Lon-| don suburb, cooking his meals on an old hotplate and smoking the choapest Cigaieus fe can get. "Oh, I'm all right,"" he said. "Don't need much and I'm still doing a bit of work. But most of these paintings here don't belong to me. They were bought by others and resold. They bring me out here to mix with the crowd." His friends say Wilson is by no means destitute. One re- called that when, Wilson re- cently went into a hospital for a prostate operation, he dragged an old suitcase with him containing bundles of bank- notes wrapped in a towel. And when he recently ordered a new supply of picture frames, he paid in cash -- £70. Scottie "I've tried oils but they just! don't work. They're too thick, or something. Can't work with them," Author Levy says the key to the meaning of Wilson's dream world of faces as big as houses, castles with bulbous turrets and birds and fish in exquisite de- tail "may perhaps be sought in the proposal that he is a} world wanderer forever seeking his lost childhood," Senttie had na ee left a.Glasgow school at nine, working the streets with his; elder brother selling patent medicines, At 16 he was with! the Scottish Rifles in India; a few years later he was in South Africa and then «in 1914 with the Scottish Rifles on the West- ern Front. 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