Show PLANS SMELTER AND RAILROAD spokesman review spokane wash thomas jefferson formerly of this city is the personal representative of P F agustus heinze the montana copper mine owner in a copper mining proposition that mr heinze is cr edited credited with starting in the bulkley valley in northern british columbia in speaking of mr jefferson last night a prominent local mining man said thomas jefferson who is well known in spokane has been associated with mr heinze for about a year past ile he has spent spent much of that time in the bulkley valley country and has been advising mr heinze as to the merits of that country mr jefferson is highly regarded by mr heinze 11 some of the british columbia papers have printed the following details regarding mr jefferson and mr heinze F P A heinze the butte copper king has interested himself in the tel kwa district of the bulkley valley to the tune of about 5 great secrecy has been maintained regarding the moves by mr heinze in the the north but it is known that his right hand man T jefferson of butte accompanied by harry hawson of victoria spent last summer in the bulkley valley and it has leaked out that mr jefferson secured on behalf of mr heinze working bonds on over 40 copper claims at prices aggregating besides the copper claims secured con by mr heinze 28 miles of coal lands in the same district have been secured in the same district it is understood that a smelter alsto is to be operated in connection with the copper mines it is also reported that mr heinze plans to build his own railroad from tel tei kwa to the coast mr heinze is not the only one who has been attracted by the coal lands of the bulkley valley james dunsmuir the vancouver island coal king is also in the valley another company has been recently incorporated with capital stock to work tel tei kwa river mines and it is said the company has some excellent showings all of the corp orators of the last named company are british columbia men among them being A J campbell and H E macdonald of nelson and C H Sch epster and E S topping the last named having been one of the first owners of the le rol roi mine at rossland |