Dec 30, 2017 — GREENWOOD, BC (BG)

Editorial wisdom and words of sentiment to early Greenwood, from the editors of the Times — as true today as they were at the turn of the century, and just as heart-felt.

Many Happy Returns

A guid New Year to ane and a',
And mony may ye see.
And during a' the years to come
O happy may ye be.

The foregoing spasm is not from the poetical tank of The Times' chained bard, but was built over one hundred years ago by Scotland's grand poet, Robert Burns, so we throw it with the best of wishes at Times readers.

In a few days Old Father Time will cash in his stack of blues and a new booster will take his place, so it's now up to this great family journal to wish its many thousands of readers the best that 1908 has on tap, and that they may live as long as they want and never want as long as they live. …

To our readers we will say have no grudge against past years, but enter the new year with a vim, vigor and push and help make the Boundary, as nature intended it should be, the most productive district in the world. We have the goods — gold, copper, silver, lead, zinc, lumber, stock raising, farming and fruit growing. As Ella Wheels Wilcox once warbled to a friend who had made life a failure for a number of years:

Waste no tears
Upon the blotted record of lost years,
But turn the pages o'er and smile, O smile to see,
The fair white ones that remain for thee.

Here's our F to the new booster. May 1908 be a year of health, joy and prosperity where o'er the old flag flies.

"Happy New Year 2018"

Behind The Veil

Writing a New Year's Editorial seems to have become somewhat of a chestnut — one of the things which happen again and again in our lives, so that they cease to have a meaning. But the New Year never fails to come around and as it is one of the natural halting places where we consider the progress we have made and what the future seems to hold, we stop as we have done before to ruminate over what has been and is to be.

In the mind of everyone there is one thing which is not, but is to be desired — settled labor conditions. And when the present melee is finally straightened out, we hope that the relations will be such as shall promise for miner and mine owner, for merchant and patron a continuous and satisfactory working arrangement.

It is needless to speak of the possibilities of the Boundary. Our ore deposits have already justified the expenditure of many million of dollars on the part of keen financiers and they need no better commendation. In other words, the self-fluxing low-grade copper of the Boundary can be mined, smelted and placed on the market at a figure which with normal extraneous conditions should make them a capital opportunity for industrial investment.

In the Boundary, we would like to see an enthusiastic Canadian spirit. The fear of the Easterner that British Columbia's constant intercourse with the people south of the Border tends to make the danger of a separation of this province from the Dominion great is a vagary of vagariees. Coming from the East, one is surprised at the soundness of the Canadian spirit here. May it ever increase. May our reverence for law and justice, our conviction that this country shall and must be the home of free and assimilative peoples grow more and more.

These are two things in which the New Year holds for as possibilities of progress. With them British Columbia will stand unequalled among the provinces of the Dominion and among the countries of the world.

Let us see to it that they are ours.

FOOTNOTES:

[4] Boundary Creek Times — Dec 27, 1907, pp. 1 & 2
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