Waekbone

Bee

- * Hubbard,

“year reserve:

Minerals

|. Stewart’s share
|: mine and a reopening date in mid-1980, the town

’ has.a.new lease on life once again but this time
witha difference, says Alderman Garry Hub-

_ The reopening of the mine will get the .
families back and the community
stabilized,’ he said...“‘But I consider the Arrow
_ Transportation Systems through Stewart as the
of the future.”’ the drugstore in
31, operates the re :
Stewart. He moved to town from: Quesnel five
. ‘years ago. He said his business will be helped
‘f > with he return of workers with their families
, and this hasn’t started yet. -- ’
: He said the mine reopening will give a difinite ©
- ghotdn-the-arm to business in. town
'- allow three .to ‘five years for the minin
_ trucking-industry to stabilize community life. ,
"He said he understands the Grandue has a five

will be

but - says
@ and

, /ss0 ‘Minerals. spokesmen have said - the
_" Company Is to spend’$700,000 on exploration in
; the: area cover . the ‘next’: two
“But what happens if the gold.price at $800 an
. ounce drops to $100”Hubbard asks, ae

He said the $35 niillion the provincial govern-
ment has apent on the highway from Kitwanga to
Stewart in the jast three years in drawing more _

‘ and more tourists each year. ~ a an

“We're rw getting the motorhome and trailer -
traveller whereas. even five yeara ago it was
what I call the hardy adventurer only.”

A recently-arrived Stewart resident who can
attest to the turn-around in business prospec
al-year -old Ken Curley, B.C. Hvdro manager. __

Curley, who'ls also president of ‘the Stewart
chamber of commerce, said he arrived a year
ago from Comox’ before Arrow:'and Easo

announced ° their .* -
A reasonable size building lot for a home the

cost about'$1,000'and now it has jumped eight

times that, he skid. ;

years.

ts is:

plans.:

=

‘‘Boarded up houses will soon be homes for workers coming in

Neill Gaddes Is a Vancouver freelance journalist,
formerly a senior reporter with the Hamilton Spee-
tator, who with Herald editor Greg Middleton took a
look at the mining boo: In the Pacific Northwest and
how itis affecting the nearby town of Stewart,

We pay cash
for Pine Mushrooms

$qoo
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Photo by Greg Middiston *

Stewart is booming again

W2oPe fate

Stewart native said

 “['ve never seen a boom

like this here ever
hefore.”

McLeod is in a good
position to know what's
happening in Stewart. He
runs the biggest hotel-
mote] businesss in town

Seottie Gold, whose
‘president is) McLeod's
ther, Don, is looking

at development work _

done in the late 1940’s now
that gold prices have
‘poared

“We were pretty
depressed here |. in
1978,"McLeod said. (“A
lot of people left and
didn:t really want to go.

“Now I understand 120
former Granduc em-

lyees have applied for

with the new mine
owners."

At the moment, Esso
Minerals has workmen

readying the mine for a

projected 1980 start-up
date. There's expected to
beroughly 30new jobs at
the mine

spokesman said.

Heavy snowfall last
winter caved in part of
the foof of the aban-
doned mine and damaged
a concentrator. Com-
pany officials feel the
mine roof will be closed in
by October by the clean-
up workforce which

LOOKING)
FORA

“See our
BUSINESS.
(DIRECTORY

should reach 200 by then,

The $20 million take-
over. by Esso Minerals,
which was finalized in
June, Includes deep-sea
shipping facilities and a
company townsite of
about 250 homes.

Eighty per cent of the
company homes remain

~ boarded up, a grim
remainder of the 1978

mine .closure by the
eonsortium that
previously operated
Granduc,

The renewed mining
activity has created a
housing shortage that
McLeod says can be
resolved with the

establishment of com-
‘pany work camps near
Stewart. He also says the .

reopening of the 200
boarded-up homes will

accommodate mine
workers and families
moving to town.

Besides Granduc and
Scottie Gold, Stewart is
going to prosper from the
Norquest project near
Meziadin Lake and the
Falconbridge . molyb-
denum. mining site, both
located within 65
kilometres of the town.

This means that cop:

per, gold,. silver and

molydbenum, all listed as

‘said. “we had to shut |

hot metals by the Mining down the sewage plant
Association of B.C. in a then because there
report released last wasn’t enough effluent ot
week, will translate into keep the bacteria alive.”
dollars for Stewart. He expects the seven-

But mining isn't the year-old treatment olpzt
only industry adding to
the rejuvenation of
Stewart, For the first
time; the town has some
diversification.

Cassiar Asbestos
Started shipping its
product south through
Stewart last fall when the
route was previously ,
through Skagway to
Vancouver. The mayor

says about 100,000 tons is
expected

Time: 8:00 p.m.

Place:

to be trucked

| The business will consist of

Hospital Board of Trustees,

He said Canadian covering the year 1978-79.

Cellulose C. Ltd. had 12
trucks delivering pulp
logs to the stewart harbor
to. be towed to Prince
Rupert.

‘There are Indications
that forestry could
become a bigger part of
the town’s economic
future with rumors, of an
eventual pulp mill,

it's certainly changed
from last fall,”"McLeod

purchased at:

_ Terrace aud District Hosptal Soclety Eq
ANNUAL MEETING

Date: | Wednesday, Sept, 26, 1979

Main Floor Conference Room
2 Mille: Memorial Hospital

the Soclety, the election of the members to serve on the

In order to be eligible to vote membership must ba
purchased before August 26, 1979, Membership may be

to soon be back in full”

operation.

“Some: say there’s -

already enough B.S.

floating around town to

get it going now.”

art

the election of members to

and presentation of reparts

Roya! Bank

Toronto Dominion Bank
Bank of Commerce
Credit Union

Millis Memorial Hospital

me

.: shalfthe ciitrenttateiifihflation, :
s ‘J : n]

-— OnSeptemberl,
there will be a moderate -

Increase in Hydro’s rates for

electricity,

Nobody enjoys a rate increase, __
But we have kept this one down to less than |

j

_’ Hydro’s first rate increase in 18 months becomes effective
September Ist, 1979, For residential customers connected to the

integrated transmission system, the increase averages 4%,

RESIDENTIAL ELECTRIC RATE (TWO-MONTH PERIOD)

OLD RATE NEW RATE DIFFERENCE
BASIC
CHARGE, $4.90 $4.50 UP 50¢
IST 550 kWh wee =
PER kWh 45¢ 4.5¢ NONE
ALL ADDITIONAL
CONSUMPTION ‘15
PER kWh 2.5¢ 2,65¢ UP 100 OF I¢
MINIMUM ;
CHARGE - 86.14 - $4.50 DOWN $1.64
Customers with very low annual consumption will actually pay less under the
new rate structure,

Here are some examples of how new rates will affect typical
electric bills: _

@ Small apartment suite without either electric space heating
or water heating—two-month consumption of 300 kilowatt-
hours: 25¢ a month increase. .

@ House with electric water heating-but without electric space
heating—two-month consumption of 2,000 kWh: $1.34 a
monthincrease. ©

@ House with both electric space heating and water heating—
two-month consumption of 6,000 kWh: $4.34 a month

_ increase. mate »

Ste ta, ee

In areas served by diesel electric generators, the rate
str «ture is slightly different, but the percentage increase will
be similar. oe
RESIDENTIAL DIESEL ELECTRIC RATE (TWO-MONTH PERIOD)

OLDRATE NEWRATE DIFFERENCE
BASIC
_ CHARGE $4.00 $4.50 UP 50g
IST 550 kWh
PER kWh -4.5¢ 4.5¢ NONE
NEXT 2450kWh 15
PER kWh + 19°59 2.65¢ UP io0 OF Ig
ALL ADDITIONAL ;
CONSUMPTION oy
PER kWh 5¢ 5.23¢ UP ig OF Ig
MINIMUM
CHARGE $6.14 $450 DOWN SL64

Customers with very low annual consumption will actually pay less under the
new rate structure.

General Service rates for commercial and industrial customers
also will increase on September Ist.

~B.cHypRO GH)