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0. P. R, Rxcursionists Visit Rossland’s Great Producers.

CLIMB UP RED.. MOUNTAIN

A Sleighride to the Heavy Plants of Machin- ory Which Burzow the City’s Wealth from the Harth—A Lunch and Hearty. Farewell Ends the Exoursion.

The C, P. R. excursionists from the coast cities this morning saw. what a great industry is a producing” mine. They will go home this after- noon duly impressed with the ‘re- sources of the rugged .mountain. to

about rr'o’clock on’ Sunday night,

60 were distributed among the: sev-, eral hotels and enjoyed a good night’s rest. They awoke . this morning to find the city, wrapped in a new white blanket of snow, Soon after 10 o'clock they were taken in charge by a committee of citizens’ composed of His Worship Mayor Goodeve, Alderman Edgren, A. B. Clabon and J. B. Johnson and were taken on sleighs~ to: visit the .mines of Red Mountaic. They passed the compressor. of the Iron Mask,

and.the War. Eagle hotel. with -its solid stone foundation. They climbed upward among pine trees dy laden. with fresh. snow--to

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the great hoist of the War Eagle mine.

” There they saw.the electric plant with its fly wheel 20 feet in diame- ter which opérates the compressor. They saw the shaft and its heavy iron skips going hundreds of feet down into the heart of the moun- tain. They saw the hoist with its heavy wire cables wound on huge steel drums. They walked out along the tramway which leads to the ore bins. They picked up sam- ples from the chute into which the ore is dumped from the skips as they come up the shaft. They climbed the high, steep stairway which leads to the upper story of the shaft house and went out on the little veranda, from which they had an unrivaled view of the city spread like a panorama on the flats below, the railroad tracks winding in and vut and the engines puffing up the steep grades.

From the War Eagle the party went to the Le Roi mine where they saw the equal of the immense plant that had just excited their wonder. Then they went down the mountain again and’ saw what the Centre Star had toshow. They saw the ma- chinery.of the four great shipping mines of the district and they looked around the mountains where a dozen others are fast approaching the shipping stage.

HORSES

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The Rossland Warehouse and Transfer Co., have just ‘received a carload of young, d teams, ighing from twenty-five to Sitwe hundred pounds. They can be seen at their stable on Second avenue and St. Paul street, Rossland, B. C.

They also have

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On returning down town about 3 o'clock the party was regaled with an ample cold collation at the Hotel Allan, to say nothing of the various other things calculated to warm the inner man.

They left on their homeward journey at 5:50 this evening amid many invitations to come again.

A FEAT OF ENGINEERING,

Remarkable Features. and Grand Scenery Along the Neve Rallroad.

THEY SEE MINES

>}itHe advent of a railroad.

which Rossland owes its prosperity.-|' Arriving in the city from Nelson |

the visitors to the number ‘ofiabout |

the. fine. office buildings of the War -Eagle

‘belts on the. ‘cqnti-

mt, connecting the: greatest ship- ig camp, ~Rossland, with the ‘Boundary, which. has the” greatest Sup of mines which was ever de- loped to the shipping’ stage before Had the e SP. R. been willing to build a rail- along the natural route, partly rough Canada and partly through 16. United. States, it could have sned the Boundary country at a epst-of $2,000,000, but ‘it deter- ned to build an all Canadian road, ‘matter what natural difficulties t stand in the way, and it has soat an extra cost.of $3,000,- making the cost of the 100

he train on’ n' which the excursion- were the guests of ‘the C. P. R. isted of four tourist cars, and 2 ed from West Robson atg a. Yon Thursday, Dec. 7, the Ross- d contingent having left here at’ go'clock that morning. It was met ‘West Robson by the contingent m Nelson, Victoria, Vancouver, iw. Westminster, Kaslo, Sandon, d Moyie, and there the start was ide over the new line... It was in rge of Allan Cameron, assistant éneral freight agent, of the Pacific ‘ision; F. W. Peters, assistant- géneral freight agent at Nelson; J. G&.Sullivan, principal assistant en- gineer and assistant superintendent of.the C. & W. railway;.F. P. Gute-. lus, superintend of Rossland section; H. E.~ Macdonnell, *con- tracting freight agent at Nelson; HW, -M. Anderson, traveling passen- get agent, Nelson division; E. J. Co: le, assistant general passenger agent, Pacific division; and Capt. J. Wi, Troup, superintendent of the C, & Ky steamers. The Rossland party left on the

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ot snow and under a lowering sky, and.rode down to Trail over the 13 miles of road which boasts of more curves than any. equal length of track in thn world. This is made necessary by the descent of 2600 feet to the Columbia river and there are three miles of 20 degree curves, equal to nine complete circles on this short stretch of line. From Trail the road runs along the bench} es on. the west bank of the river for 20 miles to Robson, the narrow corkscrew gash in the i

patch from General Forestier-Wal

regular C. & W. train amid fiurries |.

eee WITH A REPULSE

Gatacre’s Column Led into a Trap and Defeated.

SPIES’ TREACHERY

Boers Rose Up on All Sides and Splendid Work of Ar- tillery Alone Averted

: Disaster.

A Boer Attack Reprised.

London, Dec. 11.—The Daily Telegraph despatch from Mod- der river December 5 says ‘‘A thousand Boers attacked two com- paniés ofthe second Northamptonshire regiment who had been leftto guard the lines of communications at Enslin. General Methuen dispatched the twelfth Lancers and Seaforth Highlanders, to- gether with the sixty second field battery, to the assistance. The enemy withdrew when the reinforcement approached. The caval- ry pursued them. The British loss was one killed and six wounded. The first train crossed the temporary bridge over Mod- der river Friday.

: London, Dec. 11.—The wat office publishes the following dis- éry at Gape ‘Town:

Gatacre réports: Deeply. regret tojinform you that I met | with a serious reverse in attack on Stormberg. | T'was misled as to the enemy’s position by the guides, and. found ‘impracticable ground.

Casualties, so far as known at present, are:

Second Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles—Wounded: ant Colonel Pager, Molor Seaton, Captain Bell, Li Step Barnardston.

Suffolk Be wounded Second Lieutenant Maynard, 12 men, Missing: Captain Weir, Lieutenant Christle, Second Lieutenant Rodney, 290 men.

Seventy-Fourth Field Battery—Severely wounded: ant Lewis, three men. Slightly wounded, twe men. \Seventy-Seventh Field Battery—Killed:

Wounded: Major Percival. 3

Northumberland Fusileers-—Missing: Major Stevens, Cap-

tain Fletcher, Captain Morley, Second Lieutenant Wake, Second

Lieuten- Captain Kelly,

Lieuten-

One gunner.

alternately widening and narrowing as the snow-covered, pine-clad mountains spread.apart or hugged it close.

The road: from West Robson climbs the precipitous walls of the Columbia canyon until one can look from the windows sheer down at the black water, hundreds of feet below. .[t goes up and up, the gorge narrowing to a mere slit in the mountains, only to widen again, with equally perpendicular walls. where the river spreads out to form Lower Arrow lake. Then the road turns up the deep, narrow ravine, through which Bulldog creek flows from the west, and which has sides so steep that one seems almost to beriding on the tops of the pine trees that tower from its depths.

” Still climbing, the road comes, 28 miles from Robson, to the east por- tal of the Bulldog tunnel, 3100 feet long, which is being pierced through the ridge, dividing the watershed of Bulldog from that of Dog creek. This tunnel is being driven ahead by eight air drills from each end andthe headings were only 80 feet apart on Saturday. It will be fin- ished within six weeks. The road now crosses the ridge at an altitude of 4500 feet above sea level by a

The gave the men of the Kootenay and ceast cit ies an opportunity to see a railroad which is one of the greatest feats of engineering in America. Itis a mountain road for the entire 100 of its length, except for the short stretch along the Kettle river val- ley between Cascade and Grand Forks, and traverses one of the

back five miles long, with six legs on the east and five on the west side, thus’ climbing 450 feet with a’grade of four per cent. The le6s of the switchback scar the mountain side like a series of ter- races and are clearly traceable from above andbelow. From the west foot of the switchback the road

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_ Officers and men.

al Irish Rifles, which formed the advance,’ sought shelter behind

Li Colson, Li Radcliffe, “306 non-commissioned

Royal Berkshire—Killed: One private. The remainder of my casualties will be wired aS Soon as as- certained.

How It Happened.

Molteno, Cape Colony, Dec. 10.—General Gatacre left Put- ters’ kraal tor Molteno and then proceeded towards Stromberg by forced marches.. He had 4000 men, including the Northumber- land Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Rifles and two batteries of field ar- tillery. ;

* About half past 11 o’clock the column arrived safely within a couple of miles of its destination. _ Suddenly a terrific fire open- ed simultaneously on the British front and right flank. The Roy-

a neighboringkopje and were speedily joined by the remainder of the column. It was soon found, however, that this position also was covered by Boer guns, which were more powerful than had been supposed. Tye troops, therefore, sought a sater position about half a mile away, two batteries in the meantime engaging the Boers and covering the troops in their withdrawal.

The action now became general at long range and a_detach- ment of mounted infantry moved northward with a view of falling on the enemy's right flank. Suddenly a strong commando was sean moving from the north and the Royal Irish Rifles and the Northumberland regiment were sent to meet it. It was soon discovered, however, that the Boers had machine guns well placed and the British were compelled to face a terrible fire. Finding it almost impossible to hold the position in the face of an enemy apparently superior In position, numbars and artillery, the British retired on Molteno, the Boers following up the retirement closely and bringing two big guns to bear upon the column.

General Gatacre’s movement was to ascertain the strength of the position of the Boers, who are strongly intrenched “long the Sto.mberg range.

Spies Led Them Into a Trap.

London, Dec. 11.—I ater details regarding the disaster to General Gatacre’s colum.. show that, but for the magnificent work of the British artillery, the disaster would have beeu far more ex- tensive. Apparently the British were set an impossible task and were treacherously guided. The burghers numbered Gooo men, instead of 2500 as the spies reported.