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•1 â- M W' DP I T :^JOL]) MINES THEY ARE STILL MAKING FINDS IN GOLUEN KOOTENAY. While Two Blvitl Rnllvrnr I'ompnnlM Will Baen for Ilia â- louiMliiry I'rrrli t'oiiiiliy'* Tnideâ€" Wlml Ihc Miura Arti Duliig. A BCDtleinan Vi\m en>>yH Ibe lonfi- dence of D.C Corhin, nnd who was in N*l*on • few days Hinco, in aulliorily for the itatomeut Ihut tl>e C'urbin sya- t*n> of railways will bu uxleuduii to the iMMUrt of the BouniUry creok distriiit at tb* eaxU^it iwsaible date, aays the Nel- â- on Miner. The preaent season li liable to wit- BAM a moat eioiting raco between Oor- blo and Juaguat Helnxe ai to which •hall be firat to build a railway into th* KetlU Rivar uouiotrr. Mk- Hainae bits obtained imtiortant Mllftaaoc troia ^ Pcorincial Govarn- SmM in tiw maitaB' Of sabiidias and la 8uppoa«d to he on the friendliest terms with the Ciinadiun I'uritio Huiiway Company, llowovor, I'reaidonl Corbin of llm Hpok.inp l''alls & N<i(rlliein Hp- pii.irH to havo arrived at the <xinclusion that the ^roat resounes of the Iloiin- dary ireuk country would prove highly firufilalilit la hini .niiould ho bo able to ninndpnlizc the t riin.spoitaUon business of thiH diatrict. Tho Corbin systrm at pro.sent i-on- aiats tkf tho Ni-isDn ilt tVurt (^heppard, tho ypokauo l''uil.i & Noirlhern and thu IlocI Mountain Haihvays. Kach line ia owned by a 8l^lulrate corporation, al- though Mir. Corbin is the rontrolling faotoir in all tlu-oe. The Mioar'a informant declares that arruiiganientu are now beins made by whirh these tbnree lines wlU be con- solidated under one uou;i)any, and the entire property will be covered bv a blauknt mbrtKai^. Tiha money tnUa obtainnd will be used in conatructiug thr Bonnd.iry Creek o.xti>n»ion. It is eapect.ad that New Vork financiera will be induced to fulmish the money ao tliat tl>u work of gradintf will be com- meucod this suuiuieo". Thii proposed extension will run <rom Northpon up JShoep Creek, theme into the Kettle Hiver valluy at the southern end of Christina Lake, and so westward to tirand b'orka. Mr. Cor- bin's engineers elaitn that this is the tihortest and uioi^t f(><-\sible route to the lioundary Creek di.strict. KnKiiieors of the Columbia & West- ern Huiiway have completed their sur- vey for a railway extending from a point opi>osite Uobson, on the Colum- bia river. The route, after following the banks of the Columbia for a short distance northward, turns to the west, and by a circuitous route winds through the gold range to the south- ern end of Christlpa lake. From thence to Grand Forks, the Heinze road will follow the same course as the Corbin line. The interesting question is: Whioh railway wilt be first to reach Kettle River Vallo;r » While President Cor- bin's route is the shortest, he has not yat raised the necessary funds with' which to build his extension. l)n tlio I other hand. Mr, Uelnie has the benefit of fat subsidies from the Provincial Government, and is said to have all financial arrangements completed. K. L. B'itih, Tom Allan, and Steve Grinby, of Ainaworth, recently made a luiky strike in prospecting alons the tTaaer River near its junction with the Salmon, says the Spokane Chroniole. Some years ago, while placer minins along the Fraacr, Allan diwovered a ledge, but did not record it. B*ver»l weeks ago a parby oompoaed of tumaelt. Fitch and Grlsby, started on a pros- pecting trip for it, and succeededjn lo- cating it. Fiteh returned to Koote- nay, and reports that it it a big, strong leoige, whioQ can be easily traced f9r a considerable distanco. The ledge oar- rles free nulling gold rook, from which assays ranging from t'i to |70 were se- ctired. Allan and Grlsoy are worklnfl on the claim. There are a great many Slwashes washing gold iilong the }<Va«er. They use the otd-fashioned rocker, but one atorekeeiier is credited with having purxihaaed 910,000 worth of gold f^om them this spring. Iâ€" Til l:i>i'n v(ni.r 'ff I'r-- day»!â€" Stand on youj head. on rainy THE FIGHTING GRUMIBKOFFS. Grtuubkoff I^ha, the German officer ' who has been playing such a prominent I part in the couninels of Kdhem Pasha, ia a descendant of that famous, ur a| least notorious, general of ' the same name who figures ao. conspicuously ia the earlier chapters of CarljrU's "Kred« erick." That Qrumbkoff, a London p»> per, has discovered, was the ohl«t wire- puller in the Tobacco li^arliauient e^ Frederick Wllliaiu, and was the chief perpotrator of the cruel praotlcal Jokea that were practised on Jaoob Gundllng, the omniscient pedant, who sat in tUt Tabagie as a kind of court (ooi. Bara Grumbkoft was f IwllMSsO/ *tl ^^ DJisaulV, and WNjt ^ui ft meet tut aq versary, but instead ofonering htm a isfaction he offered him his sworoii a humble apologyâ€" whicA was onljr _ accord with what Carlyle, wko draws fi most graphic picture of tbe man csw " his own astucities and audacities/' The Grumbkoffs are a very old Pomar- i anian familjr. r SUQGE rraiTta* Vlr*( yarti A. â- Â« engine* Xiujtrnc by" aa 1896. i and wo lim all r«a>ort contain Mi. 4B^rcrv i^ot kej along system way de inlnga best ay With a addreei U96 hi Sow prior, e^or Oarlet( Paifloj liorria Paris. 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