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Secondly. That a Recorder, or Deputy Gold Commissioner, with 

 powers to issue mining certificates and records of mining claims, be 

 appointed for the season 1884, or that powers be granted to the district 

 Justice of the Peace to appoint one of our number elected by ourselves as 

 temporary Recorder of the Kootenay Lake district. The great distance to 

 the Assistant Gold Commissioner's office at Wildhorse Creek, Upper 

 Kootenay, a journey there and back of 480 or 500 miles by boat and bad 

 trail, making it impossible for us to comply with the requirements of the 

 law respecting miners' certificates and records, while at the same time the 

 law requires that work be done on a claim every seventy-two hours. 



W. A. BAILLIE-GROHMAN, J.P., free miner. 



MARTIN M. FRY, free miner. 



ROBERT GORSUCH, free miner. 



JESSE HUNLY, free miner. 



JACOB A. MEYERS, free miner. 



R. E. SPROWLE, free miner. 



G. E. HARMAN. 



A. O. FRY. 



GAY REEDER. 



NOTE VI. 



As a warning to travellers, I may narrate the following little experience in 

 connection with trans-continental railways in America. When I was 

 leaving Victoria for good, the Victoria agent of the Northern Pacific 

 Railway made me more advantageous terms for the transportation of my 

 party and luggage to New York than I could obtain from the agent of the 

 C.P.R., viz., the former agreed to charge me the same rate for the tickets 

 that the C.P.R. asked, and made no charge for my luggage, which latter 



