CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Sept. 1

ONE OF THE LAST remaining houses of the
Waterloo Landing gold-rush days is the home
of Hiram B. Landis who first settled Water-
foo. The house has changed little apart from
anew “shake” roof and siding placed on top
of the original logs. Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Kabatoff, present residents, think the hous2

1, 1958

ce

. a bia.

is over 60 years old and. say it is as solid Perhaps the best view is
as ever, At one time it was occupied by Peter from the new Kinnaird-Chrisitaa
(Lordly} Veregin who planted fruit trees and Lake highway, where it is easy
strange “upside-down” mullberry trees. In to see Aaron Hill rising- to the
the hills behind Waterloo’ many of the mine south 8£ the 7,700 foot Siwash
shafts sunk in gold-rush days are still visible Mountain.

although some are overgrown by trees.

An Anglican Church ilistory |

@ Killough Home Served as a Church
@ Railroad Cars Bid the Same Task We!!

In the early days of the cans and Presbyterians. The
century most of the churches services and Sunday school were
had travelling ministers. The begun by Rev. C. F, Orman of
schoolhouse at Robson was used Rossland.
for services until it became a When the Castlegar - Fruit-
full-fledged church. vale Mission with 13 points

It became the Community| was started in 1946 by Arch-
Memorial Church after the last] deacon Resker,
war when the building, which church was organized with a
belonged to the Baptist church, ‘committee and WA. Services
was given to the cormimunity. continued to be held in the

Services arc now held in’ hall until the basement of St.

this beautiful church by the John’s church was opened in
United, Anglican and Baptist’ 1955.

churches. The community ;, Sons of the pioneer Killough
Sunday school continues to family did much volunteer work

WwW, along with many others in the

At Kinnaird, services were building of the basement. It is
held on and off from 1921 by hoped the church proper may
various Anglican clergyman, at/ soon be built,

the Anglican

strumental in raising much of
the money and furnishings for
the little church,

St. Alban’s was enlarged in
1955 and now seats about 125
Persons. It will celebrate its
20th anniversary in Novem-
ber,

Servfces were theld from
1938 by Rev. D. S. Catchpole and
Rev. C, F. Orman until the ad-
vent of the first vicar, Archdea-
con B. A, Resker.

The mission bécame a parish
in 1954 and self-supporting in
1957. St. Alban's hall was built
in 1945 with materials from ‘the
construction of the Brilliant Dam.

It is used by all types of
community organizations and by
many other churches, The late
W. H, Toogood was builder of
the church and hall.

first: from the Lower Arrow Services
Lake Mission and
Nelson and other points,

The Arrow Lake
operated a boat out ‘of Edze-|also used.
wood and services were held in

were held from
later from) legar in the old school by the’
clergy from Edgewood and oth-|
Mission!er points, Railroad cars were

When the old caianmaney!

From Waterloo fo Kinnaird,

@® Kinnaird Was Known as West Waterloo
@ Assays Show Gold Worth ‘$3.00 to $12.00”

(continued from page one)

circling the entire group, then
strikes east to the Aaron group
at the creek headwaters,
Looking at a map one can
locate Aaron Hill, and the Aar-
on Group was on the northern
peek of this mountain which can
be seen from several points on
‘the western bank of the Colum-

The location of many of the
old mines is vague, one can only
hazard a guess, but several Kin-
naird and Castlegar residents
ean tell of visiting the “Maude
5,” one of a group of recorded
claims at the south of Aaron
Hill, on the headwaters of Cale
Creek.

In news reports of that day

commenced on the tunnel at the
Ontario mine and a shaft had
been sunk 10 fect at the Fin-
ance, Plans were being made
for an aerial tramway to carry
ore to the river bank from the
two mill sites owned by the
Lillooet-Fraser River and Carl-
boo Gold Fields Company,
which were represented -by Mr,
Horne-Payne, 5

The LFR & C Company was
engaged in extensive work at
the Waterloo site and it was
said they had secured an inter-
est. in a 640-acre tract of land
about three miles south of the
mouth of the Kootenay river.

There was talk that the
town of Waterloo Landing would
merge with the Montgomery
Townsite, one mile up the river,
and some authorities sald “Mont-
gomery is the own.” ‘However,
the name of Waterloo stuck, the
site is still remembered locally
as Waterloo, while nothing is

‘|small boat in which he was pull-

Creek News, i L. C.

1895 - 1958

In the July 24, 1896, Trail’ boom.” The entire camp was in #

state of

“spoke In glowing terms of
the Waterloo Camp, predict-
ing it would rival Trail and
Rossland.” It. had been very
fortunate in obtaining capital
for development, said Mr.
Crawford, "
Waterloo . was not without
its tragedies, one of these being
the accidental death of the ferry-
man, E. D. Cannen, who drown-
ed on Aug. 20, 1896, when the

ing away from the Steamer|
Nakusp, became entangled in the
big paddle wheel of the boat.
There were hard feelings on the
part of the Waterloo residents,
who thought the crew of the
Nakusp had been careless.

In the summer of 1896 there, 4
were seven steamers on the run
from Arrowhead to Trail, and
four regular trips a week were
scheduled. The river boats were

and eager anticipation as the
future
Prospects were bright.

appeared assured and

Miners and prospectors were

arriving daily by steamer and
by packtrail, a post office was
Planned, the ‘telephone was com-
ing in, stores were opening up.

A good packtrail was rushed
through the Salmon River
country and the head of
Champion Creek by Inte
summer of ‘96, Prospectors and
minners could make the trip
from Waterloo to the Salmon
river mines with saddle and
pack-ponles In 12 hours.

Waterloo Landing! A legend?

No, a real life story that might
have come from the pages of

fiction novel,
In Sept, 1896, an advertise-

ment began to make a regular
appearance in the Trail Creek
News to the effect that the estab-

of Chas.

taken over from the C & KSN
Co, that year by the CPR.

could supply the townspeople

Sept, 1896 zaw new strikes, With the daily paper, stationery

ever heard of Montgomery.

we read that “Mess'rs Gillness|
and Hill and E, B, Eitner of,
Rossland were in town to look
up the Maude S,.Dave Cronie's
free-milling proposition assay-
ing $47.00 to $100,009 per ton.”
Also in the Maude S group were
the Yellow Jacket and the Touch-
me-not claims,
There is a legend telling of
a rich strike at the foot of
the hills behind the Castlegar!
golf course. The hapless pros-
pectors, so the story goes, made
a fabulous find and set off to

in equipment to start develop.
-ing the mine.

Can anyone imagine their
feeling when. they returned to
find a rock slide had brought
in-side dow: to hide

Legion Dinner
Tuesday Night

the old school house on the east! Hall was built it was used for

side of the “highway” and in‘ worship by many churches. The’

A dinner meeting of the Cast-

the Killough home. There was first non-Roman Catholic churen' legar Legion will be held Tues-

also a Sunday school held in| built was St. Alban’s. a 5. ;
T. C. Bloomer showed great. dinner will be $1 per platé.

various homes.

From 1945 to 1955 ne in securing lots in she
were held in the Community/centre of the village when it
hall alternatively by the Angli-].was very small. He was also in-

;day at 6.30 p.m. Cost of the

Bert Martin advises Legion-
airés to phone 2011 or leave their
names at the club by Saturday.

TIMELESS TOPICS

By ARCHDEACON RESKER

Last April we held our community
thanksgiving service for God's goodness to our
province during the past 100 years. We shall
be thanking Him again when Thanksgiving
Day arrives. It is fitting that we should re-
member to thank God for not all our bless-
ings are created by the efforts of man.

British Columbia has such a wonderful
wealth of raw materials, scenery and people,

That wealth is the gift of God. Material.

wealth is only made really valuable when it
is developed by man.

For instance, the great store of rich ore
of the Sullivan mine has been in “those thar
hills” for a long time, but it was only made
useful for mankind ‘through the efforts of
mining engineers, chemists, miners, trans-
portation men and those who work in the
concentrator and smelter.

The other industry of our District is
lumbering. The trees are supplied by God
who gives life to the trees, the soil and the
weather. t

He makes possible the wonderful miracle
of the growth of the giants of the forests.
But man must protect the forests from fire
and disease and through many processes
turn them into wood products for our buil-
dings, clothes and papers,

The greatest wealth of B.C. lies in its
people, for without man these good gifts of
God would lie unused. The children are’ our
greatest wealth—in them fies such a won-
derful potential. .

God gives them their life, their bodies,
minds and souls, but all these things need
training and developing. That is the job of
all of us for we all have an influence upon
the younger generation. [t is the great work
of parents, teachers and clergy.

We can misuse or waste these ‘good

gifts of the Creator; we can misuse the min-
erals by turning them into weapons; we can
burn the forests through carelessness or mis-
use the paper to pervert the mind of man
through false propoganda or salicious litera-
ture,

We can waste our youth by neglecting
to train them in body, mind and soul; human
wealth can be destroyed by softness, self-’
indulgance and intemperance and neglect of
the spiritual’ site of life.
~ The world and all its wealth is the gift of
God,. but He does not turn men into spoiled
brats. He makes man work that His good
gifts may be of real value. He has given man
a wonderful mind and great skill of hand
that he may develop the raw materials.

God’s system is one of co-operation. He
and man must work together. .

We are honoring at this time those who
in the past 100 years have made a great
contribution to the development of this pro-
vince. We think of the engineers, miners,
farmers, policemen, doctors, teachers and
clergymen and last but not least, the women
faik who along with their men endured hard-
ship and difficulties which we with our soft
and easy way of life cannot imagine.

* In the exciting and so-different world of
the next 100 years, the people of B.C. will
need that same pioneer spirit if they are
to co-operate with God in properly using the
wonderful natural wealth that is theirs, ‘They
will need the same shrift, the same joy in
vhard work and the same faith in God that
carried the early pioneers through their dif-
ficulties,

i The wealth of “things of the Spirit’?
will have to be cultivated if there is to be
@ second 100-year celebration for British
‘Columbia,

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the

the diggings forever! Fortune
hunters and curiosity seekers
are said to have searched in vain
for ‘the buried lode, but it appears
destined to remain one of a hun-
dred such lost gold-mine legends:
To return to the claims
which were recorded, work had

in the area. A news item said}
“we are on the edge of a great

needs, ete,, and also offered that

{continued on page three)

record their claims and bring ff

The British Columbia Centennial Committee
is proud to join the people of Castlegar

in their celebrations of our
Province’s One Hundredth Birthday.

BRITISH COLUMBIA’ CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

- From Waterloo to Kinnaird

(continued from page two) ,
’ great convenience, a public tele-
4’ phone, .as well as housing the

post office. i
q like a corner drug-store! :
The town of Waterloo was
fortunate to have a faithful cor-
respondent for the Trail Cresk
News. The writings of this carly
historian went under the nom-
de-plume of the “Waterloo
Growler,” and to the Growler
we are indebted for the follow-
ing Sept. 10, 1898 news:

“Waterloo hes a boom, the

town is platted and laid out in
lots, in spite of the Lillooet)
Fraser River Company. Water-
loo has a fine river front of
4 miles, with paying mines in
close proximity to her and a
small payroll,

“A contract has been Tet
for a tunnel at the Columbia
River Mine.

“The

B| © Rich Strike by Golf Course Buried
ma, © Wood Worth $3.50 a Cord
; e@ © 12 Hours by Pack Horse to Salmon River

the streets
stumps.”
Miners in the new town or-
ganized H. Unton No. 77 at a
meeting held in the Waterloo
Opera House, with C. 5.

and removing

errive’ In January, :

An contract was awarded
for 100 feet of tunnel at the
Raisy Belle Mine and develop-
ment was going on at the
Wheel of Fortune, the Found
Treasure and the Big Kootenay
Claims,

opening of a Methodist Church
by Rev. Ferris, and also the
opening of the school, with 12

electe
and J. C. Cate elected seerc-
tary.

Other new establishments
added about thot time were 2
blacksmith shop, a gencral
store,
Columbia Hotel. There were at
one time three hotels in the
town,

As in all mining towns the
bar was the place of importance
and a number of applications
for liquor licences at Waterloo
were regularly posted in the
Trail Creek paper. -

As there were now several
school-age children in the town,
school trustees were appointed
if went ahead for

is’
soon to commence grading’

and
a school. The teacher was to

a large stable and the! |

The teacher was 2 Miss
Fletcher of Victoria.
Shortly after

the schovl

pened a teacher's desk made]:

of native wood was presented
to the establishment by Hiram
Landis, One can safely say it
was a welcome addition as it
is probable Miss Fletcher had
ttle enough to work with.
J. R, Hunnik was officially

The new year, 1897, saw the

CAFE SCENE from the
Nugget, features three popul

Wednesday in Castlegar and

Mgr Mes.

Centennial play for children, The Magic

Theatre group. The play will be on for two performances next
District.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Sept, 11, 1958

on :

lar members of the Holiday

in April
of that year and a mail service
was established between Water-
Joo Landing and the settlements
north and south along the river,
Mail went out from Waterloo
each Tuesday and Friday at,
6.30 p.m. .

‘Two timber inspectors were
appointed ‘to’ the locality and in

tains back

the fall of 1897 the thousands of
cords of wood cut on the moun-
of Waterloo - for
Augustus Heinze’s smelter were
floated down the ‘Columbia on
rafts fo Trail, The wood was said
to be worth $3.50 a cord—a good
price in those days,

A news item of January 1,
1897, the arrival of

CPR, CO.’S S.S. ROSSLAND ON FIRST TRIP DOWN LAKE

FROM ARROWHEAD, 1898

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workmen, graders and horses
from Butte, Montana, to com-
mence work on a new road to
run from Trail to Robson.
Times were changing. Across
the river, on the west side, she
Trail-Robson branch of the Col-}
umbia and Western gauge rail-
way had been completed. and on
September 28, 1897, the first
train went through with a load,
of coke from Robson.

That year there was re-
newed excitement in the min-
ing camp over the assay reports:
from mines in the Bryan,
group. The Bryan Mine was
discovered accidentally by a)
packer, who, returning fram!

more social events recorded.
Perhaps it was because in
1898 the rush to the Klondike
was on dnd distant pstures
looked the greenest, perhaps the
ore just wasn't there in suffici-
ent quantities, but the following
editorial comment in the Trail
Creek News is significant and
™may have been the hand-writing
on the wail: . ‘
“Waterloo prospects are all’
right enough as far as surface
showings, but the camp has not
recovered fron the terrible
‘black-eye’ occasioned by the
Horne-Payne Company, who took
bonds but did not develop the
claims, :
“The owners and prospectors
should pull together and prove
to the mining world that such
immense bodies of ore as Champ-
jon Creek have values under-
ground. Some have proven good,
suth as the Maude S, the Bryan
and the Oregon, with their high
assays.”
Perhaps it was because all

3

pletely cut off from Waterloo
Camp and its mines, by the
Columbia river.

Residents agitated for a ferry
to West Waterloo, and this did
go in, the road to the Guido
home is the route used to the
old Waterloo ferry.

This ferry was an overhead
eable-type, using the river cur-
rent to drift across, and it opera-
ted for a number of years. It was
the only crossing along the Cole |
umbia until the Castlegar ferry
was completed in 1916, after
which the Waterloo ferry lost|
its importance and soon stopped j
running. 4 |
The road from Trail to Reb-
son was going ahead at a re-
cord pace with enly one or two
spots causing much trouble,
notably the Genelle bluffs,
Three camps were established.
One at Rock Creek, about a mile

south of Waterloo, was called

Boomer's Landing after the road
foreman, H. H. Boomer. A saw
mill and bridge camp were s2:
up at Blueberry Creek.

Back at Waterloo the mines
were shutting down. The Maude
S, one of the last in operation
closed down about 1904, old-
timers say, and the equipment
was left at the diggings. Landis:
was employed as watchman at|
the mine for some time and is
said to have taken out a con-
siderable sum in free gold from}
the many surorunding © smailj
veins, |

Residents of the dying town
moved out too, and when Marc
Dumont arrived in West Water-
loo in 1903 to become the first
settler on the west side of the

(continued on prge five)

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Venus and Miniette .groups.
'| Hills, the Saratoga, Golden. Plate,
| "Matilda,
i}and .the Black

,| building from one of.the
yeould still be seen .at. the top

a trip to the Queen of Sheba
‘and Solomon claims, picked
up ‘a likely looking piece of
quartz on his way home,
This sample, assaying 50

the recent advances in transpor-
tation facilities were on the west
‘side of the river. The railroad
‘and the highway,
‘was in those days, were com:

co.

such as it

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ounces gold and 1,125 ounces
silver, was terméd “phenominal.”
Other promising claims in the
same area on the north fork of
Champion Creck were the th:
Silver Champien, the Gomez and
the .Bilot. The Bryan mines were
being.backed by private .capital,

-Many claims and diggings
centred around Waterloo, some
of .the less familiar were the
Tron .Clad, Minetta, PRennsylvan-
ia, Telephone, City of Harrisburg,
Lilly; Sunset, Ely .and -the

Earther south -were the
mines in the Champion Creek?

Free Cainage, Jeff
Davis, Abe Lincoln, Water Meet
Hawk,

-In.the late 1920's.an.old log
mines

|

SL
-  'WIMDOW SCREENS
DOORS

CABINET -
MAKING

.Of .a .cliff opposite the .Castle-| %
We i railway

‘A pair .of binoculars brought it
wclose venough for 2 .good look,
sand .it would likely have been
ithere today had a forest fire
snot destroyed it. From the. gener-{ 3
al location it could bave been
sone of ihe Waterloo group of
claims,

Abont the end of the cen-
dury it appeared that Water-
Joo had.reached ifs peak—the
“golden.era” was about to end
wand the town which had de-
veloped so rapidly vanished,
as fast.as it had grown.

There are nc more glowing
Teports of sich strikes, n0 more
reports of miners streaming .in-
to the camp, and there are-.no

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AND SIZE
at the

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