A. E. Watts

EAST KOOTENAY ORE IN LONDON.

            The following letter has been received from Mr. A.E. Watts, of Liverpool, who spent last year in the Fort Steele district.  Mr. Watts has secured several fine properties near Moyie Lake, upon which considerable work was done.  He is also interested in placer mining and a new townsite in that vicinity:

            “Liverpool, England, March 7, 1898. – It may interest you to know that I have formed a development syndicate in London, and a host of people want to come out with me.  I am doing my best for the Fort Steele district and East Kootenay.  Your district will surely come to the front this season.  I may say that the collection of specimens I made in East Kootenay have been on exhibit in the window of the C.P. Ry. Co., King William’s street, London, and thousands of people have become interested in seeing them.  I am sending them by request to Lord Strathcona, the High Commissioner for Canada, who will send them to the School of Mines, then to the Imperial Institute.

            “I remain, yours truly,

                                                            A.E. Watts.

            “Chiselhurst, Waterloo, Liverpool, England.”