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PROSPECTOR WANTS ACCESS

AW ACCESS road through the District of North

: Vancouver to a proposed mining site has come up

against strong opposition from council.

North. Vancouver District
Council heard. a delegation
June 24 from J.A. Billwiller,
head of a prospecting syn-
dicate, that is seeking to
mine a claim in the Lynn
Headwaters region.

Council had been asked
earlier to okay an access
road to the site which is not
within the boundaries of the
district.

Approximately four
kilometres of the access road

By DAWN BURKE

would be within district
boundaries.

Billwiller, in appearing
before council, outlined the
history of the claim and said

production of zinc could’

mean as many as 1,000 jobs
and a monthly payroll of up
to $1.5 million.

After listening to the
report Mayor Marilyn Baker

road

said council strongly disap-
proved of the proposed min-
ing and would not be ap-
proving a request for an ac-
cess road.

Billwiller, president of
Onsun Developments, said
his group is trying to put

_ together a three-way deal
with Scope Developments,
owner of the claim, and a
major mining company,
whom he would not name,
to work the mine.

In addressing council,
Billwiller said a 1918 report
estimated 700,000 tons of
zinc, worth about $70 mil-

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lion on today’s market.
Billwiller stressed there is no
guarantee of a_ successful
mine but there was a chance.

Billwiller told the News he
council
would oppose a chance to
create jobs, ‘‘without really
looking into it, And just for
the fact they want to put ina
park.””

“This doesn’t make sense.
The road would open up the
area for the picnickers. It is
certainly worth an honest-
to-God effort to get it go-
ing,’ Billwiller said.

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefletd

LOOKING BACK on a century, Francis Grey, known as ‘Granny Grey’ celebrates her hundredth birthday with daughter
Ivy Rollingson who holds a certificate of congratulations from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Birthday congratulations
were also received from the Queen and MLA Angus Ree.

WV flood
contro! to

THE COST of making West Vancouver flood
safe will reach over $4 million.

And according to the
municipal director of opera-
tions, Donavan Walker, the
projects should be ‘‘attacked
at the earliest possible
time.””

Three creeks were fisted as

priorities in the report given
to municipal council last
Monday evening. Cypress
Creek at a cost of $2.2 mil-
lion, Brothers Creek at 11.7
million and Wood Creek in
the Caulfield Plateau at $.4
million.

“The problem of the ma-
jor flooding involving the

But Baker later told the
News the wilderness park is
for serious hikers. ‘‘It's not
the sort of place to take the
kids for a picnic,’ she said.

Baker said it
Billwiller to prove if the
claim could become a work-
ing mine.

“Our concern is whether it
is a reasonable place to
mine,” she said.

In a fetter to the inspector
of mines and resident
engineer with the Ministry of
Energy, Mines and Pet-
roleum Resources dated

O Canada!

O Canada,

for thee.

O Canada,
O Canada,

larger creeks has not been
regularly attacked in West
Vancouver,'’ Walker said.
Although the report was
received by council, no ac-
tion was taken. Walker
recommended that because
the projects would be ‘‘ex-
tremely costly’’ that financ-
ing on a borrowing basis be
sought by the municipality.
“It is not realistic to con-
sider these types of work for
inclusion in our normal level

is up to-

Raise your
voice for
Canada Day

Our home and native land!
True patriot love

in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts

we see thee rise,
The True North

strong and free!
From far and wide,

We stand on guard

God keep our land
glorious and free!

we stand on guard for thee.

we stand on guard for thee.

june !1, municipal manager
Mei Palmer said the
municipality ‘thas objections
to any unnecessary distur-
bance to the lands surroun-
ding the mineral claims
themselves that might
adversely affect the beauty
of the area and impinge on
the future use of the area as
a ‘wilderness’ park serving
the Lower Mainland.

“The long term economic
value of this area's visual
resources is considered to far
outweigh its short term
timber and mineral values,’’
Palmer wrote.

of capital works funding,’’
Walker said.
The first priority would be

Cypress Creek as Walker
pointed out that there is a
“very real danger that a ma-
jor blockage will occur or
excessive flows will be en-
countered such that the
stream will jump its banks
and carve a new channel that
will result in disastrous
flooding of all in the path of
the new channel."'