Shareholders Meeting

A meeting of the Fort Steele Mining Company, whose head office is in Spokane and who hold the Lily May and other mining claims near Fort Steele, is shortly to be held.  A great many of the shareholders are resident in East Kootenay.  The mine was in operation but work has ceased.  There is either a nigger in the wood pile, or some person is sitting on the fence and that that objectionable person will require to be moved before work can be resumed.  It is asserted, by those who should know, that the company has very valuable properties.  Mr. David Griffith of Wild Horse Creek, who is himself a shareholder has gone south to attend the meeting fortified by the mandates of nearly the whole shareholders in this district.  It is hoped he will make matters hum and that the result of the meeting will be the resumption of work in the mines.  Fort Steele stands greatly in need of a pay roll.