ufuctung nnproving, istic view ALSO MONEY TO LOAN} 7 QWEN QARRIE} % i"t1ieiE&i'I'"f'.. . L"."."i66[ We have a number of excel-i lent farms ranging from 50 to 250 acres.at reasonable prices. __, I 'ii`{'f'. 'i'ii"..' '$i':%b'6 l '.~ -roomed house with large lot, stable and henhouse, $1500 S-roomed cottage with water! and electric light .. $1300 8-roomed brick -house with, water and electric light, 1% acres. land .. .. .. $3200 `i-roomed brick, house with` conveniences, large _ lot, beautifully situated, "$3500 8-roomed house, water and light, large lot, beautifully . situated .. .. .. .v._3000 6-roomed brick house with all conveniences, beautifully` f\:$'IIl\"f\A . Amo|d& Sloanegg REAL ESTATE AGENTS } / . I 9-roomed bungalow wxthcon-1 mo;-an 1 venienccs .. ;. .. $3500; ' S-roomed cottage with electric; 1- LA mcannl Perhaps buelneee le dragging fbr the want of a helping hand, era llttle more capital. Men with money and men _wlth bralne read lthle paper. You can reach them through our cleeeted Want Ade. ceunhehn-Inn I mange Flour Mills % and GRAIN ELEVATOR crin- 1.1 For light, crisp, delicious pastry, ask your grocer for ' Q-33* :nu: :;Aj:nI Wgnt %a Partner? Thursday, October 26; 1922 B R T T'S FEED srom: MOSS Ro'is PASTRY Eiizabeth St. Phone 65w Store Opposite Bryson : candy shop We vieliver orders to any part of Barrio or Allandale H Flour, Feed, Poultry Supplies, and Potatoes. ' 'The West" End Headquarters nu-A-. There are thirteen grades of Hay, and what we are offering is No. 1 Time othy. : A trial will convince you. We will leave. it to your judgment if not as stated. ilway uver ighty thun- dou- We will be pleased to supply you with Apple: and Potatoes Phones 193 [and 536 Baledl Hay Cookstown 00.100000-"DUI 9 many "H.s.1i'};.'ii;.~a."t'1.i; "2i1' day of om. er, 1922.` - ` HIIIIIEAII I` IlnBlIAIl!- - NUPICE is hereby given pursuant to the Trustee Act that all persons having claims against the Estate of Elizabeth Beckerton, la"e of the Town of Barrie, in the `County of. Simcoe, sninster. deceased, who died at Ivy, in the Township of Essa, on or about the` lat day of October, 1922, are requested to _aend particulars of their claims to the undersigned on or-before the 23rd day of November, 1922, after which date the Ex-' ecutors will distribute the assets of the es 7 tate among -those entitled thereto, `having regard only to the claims of which they shall then have had notice. IDUUUCCI. uuu wucu Lug, Utsulucu pluauxruuua iht into town zid started to rough-house things in his -bar Bad Bill` proved a re- doubtable customer. j Paddy Sage, Gcnial Irishman Another well-known gure about town in those days was P-eddy" Sage, an Irish- man who had seen a lot of ups and downs in his life but hadn't lost the genial good humor he inherited from the Ould Sod. I"`Paddy" could bake a batch of biscuit `with thehest of them and knew the North like a `book. He owned up to having a reputation" for -cussing; if the black ies got too bad _Paddy" used to tell the world about it. His favorite boast was that he once ran a launch on Long Lake for two. weeks without a -bit of food, but he has- tened to add, however, that his source of sustenance was a plentiful supply of stood Irish spirits in a ask. ' Romantic in Name Only The Golden Stairs was the name given to a steep hill leading down into the waters of a lake that lay on the canoe route to Gowganda. Its name, however, ,. was the only romantic thing about it, unless, per- haps, it was the promise of richm that lay to the southwest when this formidable ob- stacle was overcome. That. may have been down from its top and see the blue, spark- ling waters of -a hill-bound lake nestling some two hundred feet or so far below; but navigating this steep slope with a canoe or pack on your back was a proposition that tested the mettle of some of the best and `hardiest canoe-men. Goingup or com- isg glown it was the same--the most can- tankerous bit of land portage from Cobalt to Porcupine. Travellers feared "it; Indian",- sometimes avoided it by going `down the west branch of the Montreal River and taking the longer way down the river to Elk Lake. But it lay in the track of the only available direct canoe route to the silver elds in those days about fourteen years ago, and because time was `money and the prizes went to the swift the Golden Stairs was surmoun`ed if all the cues words in the whole of a prospector's vocabulary had to be broken to doit. ' . - The Trail of the Butter"I`in Nowadays times have changed. There are now no thousands of travellers to climb up and down this famous land portage; instead. the once well-travelled trail is used only by re rangers or Indians, with per-I hapa an occasional prospector or two. Signs of the silver rush still remain, however. You may meet with them at any of the . numerous camping spots along the trail, where piles of empty, bright red butter tins -the Bluenose Brand"--are scattered about spots where once warm jack pine res how the hill got its name. You could look Hotels` sprang `up. One was the King George, another the Mattabanick. Bad Bill` Bates was behind the bar of the for- mer hosteh'_v_. his accomplishments being {I cheerful grin in which he showed two rows of prominent teeth, and an ability to serve em up in a h-urn . He nver lacked cus- tomers. Bad Bill acted as his own bouncer. and when big, bearcledmrosnectoris `N6 {non O:-nun H31. olrnu-h:A On IIr\IIlI I_`\f\IIlIn u-_uuuuu, nuuusc srraxgnt Wesr, p!lPS`.Il9., Wilson s Half-Way House at the end`_ol ! |_Lonz_ Lake. The land t.rail`was favorewl `in winter; the canoe route in summer. 9 . A. Rough. Tough Town 5 At the time of the silver strike in Gow- l Iganda. Elk Lake was a rough, tough, he- ' !mnn's town, ung out on bofh sides of a narrow body of water called" Elk Lake. A rather wobbly bridge connected both`. `towns. Like all boom towns, Elk Lake sprang up overnight--a teeming centre with `tar-paper-covered sh~aclcs,. log cabins, some stores. :1 post office, a church or two `and a re rangers headquarters. One, Dick Fairies. held down a job as sub-chief of who rangers. His one passion was euchre. but he liked a_mess of good brook trout almost -as well. `He was a picturesque g- . ure. and a. fine fellow, like most of -the ! northern people are. - " Mn 9 -1139 vs . Elk Lake got on the map during the silver rush -to the then promising silver elds of Gowganda, some thirty miles west- ward. It was he jumping-o spot which brought prospectors within access of a ,country timberecl with silver birch. spruce and jack pine and llet! with clear, cold,. 'nor'h-rn lakes. rapids and waterfa'ls. Sil-i i var in paying nuantities waeithe zml these` 'pro.pectors sought, however, `and the mshi 11.0 stake claims in this wilderness of forest! country took*men from allparts, of the world to the district that runs close he` .nenth the height of land to Jame: Ba_v.| |It was another Yukon trail "of '98, almost! The Two Silver Tras From Elk Lakeetwo trails led" to Gow- ; szanda. `One was`a canoe route,; `with about E a dozen portage/s, one of which was a milel land 'hreo-quarters long. V The other run `overland, almost straight west, passing iWil.xnn'n }Tnlf.Wnv `Inning at than our!` nli. ! L)IvlIIE- 9 1 I i I 1 Elk Lake once found- itself in the midst; of .a silver. mining boom that converted it] ovenni-glxt from a struggling town of a. few; shacks into a boom" centre of over 3,000; people. Nowadays it is just an ordinary`. [mining town of a few hundred souls. (But; if you turn the pages of Ontario's silver- mining history back for, say, fourteeni years or so, it will disclose a narrative`in.I which romance and adventure are mixedi in conious `quantities, and it will take you breatl~|e:ssly over a canoe trail to Gowgandai that. is still called by old prospectors and by new ones "The Trail of the Golden Stairs. . Y.`l|_ Y _I,, - -0 ` 'T Press despatches of the recent re New Ontario have frequently referred to.- Eik Lake, 2 smail town on the Montreal? River just outside the re zone of two!` weeks ago. vxlrvu - -- --- NOTICI -3 `ro cm-zorrons [Once Famous Canoe `Route? to Silver` Fields Almost * y Forgotten. ` ' `GOLDEN sums Now umsn TIN TRAIL? uom:\=.rwoou DUNCAN F . McGUA|G,` led the contrac ' Solicitor for the Executoxs. ' tons capacity. v..,..vV In "Bad gill" Bates The following accounts were passed :--~ A. B. Goutts, Secy.-Treas. Telephone Sys- tem, on levy, 8150; Canada Co., for south half east half lot 15, con. 10, $125; Barrie W. D. Minnikin, cement work opposite lot 16, con. _10, $26; W, W. Scott, repairing culvert. and ll opposite lot 16. con. 10, $l24'.O3; A. B. Coutts, clerk's fees, Vespra. Municipal Drain, $29.13; J. A. Donnelly, balance on Colonization road No. 5, 3188; W. G. Richardson, sheep killed by dogs, $16; A. H. Wilson. selecting` jurors, 34; A. Cochrane, selecting jurors, 34; A. B. Coutts. selecting jurors, $6; Walter Forbes, work on Colonization road No. 2. $302.28; Wm. Nicholson, repairing washout, Budd's road, $7.50; John Pain, repairing Mathia- 'son creek bridge. con. 7, 89; J. A. Spence, repairing washout opposite lot 27, con. 2. $6.25; Pedlar People, : culvert for sideroad 5 and 6, near con. 2, $26.33; Herb. Or- chard, ditching with grader. sideroad 5 and 6,_con. 8, $23.75; Geo. Plowright. re- pairing washout opposite lot 8, con. .9. $12.50; A. Johnston, cleaning out award drain, on Sunnidale-Vespra townline, 88; Royal Victoria Hospital, fees for indigents, $49.50; A. B. Coutts, registering deed, tax and search deed, Canada Co. to Township, 35; SawyerJMassey 00., blade for grader. $8.8; J. A. Donnelly, repairing washout opposite lot 5, "con. 7, 82.50; Hy. Harrison, gravel for Sunnidale Road and con. 10. $13; R. M. Bell, gravel for con. 4, 87.60; A. G. Ardagh, surveying road, lots 14 and 4 Examiner, part printing contract. $175 3 15. con. 10,867.80; Marshall Keast. repair- i ,ing washout oppos'te lot 9, con. 10, 810. 7'1- .f`______!I 4,12, trav~ that ough uver -4- ,-_ .. -_v-- ..rr-~.vv unit It uuuu av Thewbouncil adjourned to meet [on Nov. I 20 at 10 am. A 'n nnvvnvnn an I Collinrgwootl [Shipbuilding Co. has secur- ed con_t-tact for a steelsteamet of 3090 $1149 FOR VESPRA ON COLONIZATION ROADS `vlnuooo . Communications were read from: Walter] Stephenson. re [award drain on west town-. line; Treasurer of` Ontario, enclosing cheque for $1149.19 re Colonization roads; H. C. Bates, re new road at -Mac Station and raflway crossing; W. G. Richardson and Isaiah McMaster_. ling affidavits to Hi`? kil ed b dogs. . . run A 1,: A, ,,u A. 4I,,. The Clerk was instructed to write to the following parties: J. W. Orchard and 1. Downey, notifyiing them to clean out their portion of the Tracy-Davis award drain; to the Minister of Public Works, requesting "he Government to build` a bridge over 'Marl'Creek,. opposite lot 3, con. 12, and arch culvert in ravine opposite lot 19, con. 11. a copy of the resolution to be sent to G. H. Murdoch, M.P.P.; to the Divisional Supt. of C.P.R.,o regarding crossing over C. P.R. tracks at.Midhurst station, and ask- ing that some guard be put on approaches in `order to prevent snow from drifting o the road at this point; to Peter Seadon, to remove fence opposite that portion of the road allowance between cons. 9 and 10. Afronisideroad 15 and 16 north to new road diversion. 7'I'\L_ -Il____!__._ ,_____,, _ \ ,,,, ,,, ,1 I T Vespra Council met on Oct. 16, with all its members present and the Reeve in the chair. ' -.1. -uu THE BARRIE EXAIEKINER S, Clerk. HAVE had a wonderful trip. over the Rockies, 1 think they are equally as beautiful as_ the Alps and as for Lake Louise, itewas almost too wondroualy beautiful to be real. I want to stage a fairy tale there." So said AMary"Plckford, the famous moving picture actress. on arrival in Montreal after a trip over the Canadian Pacic Railway from V` am.-on V01`. " (U Inn Pickford` enjoying the view Iron n window In the Clinton. huh Lonlu. (1) Blur: and Don. loud (or the canon on u-u! at Windsor Station. Mont- rul. As I Ionvenlr 0! his trip. Dong. holds 0` C.P.R. porter : cw. 3 CU ll` time. put- Q .nQ Mary was accomzsanied by her `husband. Douglas Fairbanks, her mother, and Mr. and Mrs. John Fair- banks. The party stopped off at Lake Louise, Alberta. A`bn-A arson`:-l:n:u FLA Inn:\unu\:Iq;un .-IA... IJBBU IJUUIEC, FIIUCI |ICIo After spending the mornin view-_ ing the beautiful scenery a `Lake Louise and climbing the Saddle Back mountain. the party left by motor for Ban , where Dougwas especially keen to have 8 swim in the Banff Mrs. Pickford said that it was al- ways her custom in such a rush to hide until the danger was over, so she fled to safety behind a door knowing that as soon as Mary got settled shewould send for hen fl. . u . . . ....4.:...-....l .... 4... (1........x- 1.- acuucu out: wuulu aeuu LUI LICK.` When questioned as to Canada be- ing a eld for the moving picture industry Douglas Fairbanks stated _that the mountains would make 3 marveilmv.s> background, but the essential thing was the story. `'1 would Iove to make a Canadian piv- ture if_l could get the right kind of a story." he said. ' Page Nineteen. CII 5 Ab- and pro- I for and Ah- ......I