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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
VIOLIN LAKE
The Walking Dead
City confident in logging process
Walk through downtown Trail graveyard until Friday BY SHERI REGNIER
Trespassers pose biggest concern
Folk lore can be spellbinding, is often tragic, and sometimes downright eerie. Consider the story of James. M. Worth, a New York native who became one of the best known men in Trail back in the early 1900s. Before moving to Trail Creek in 1895 to work at the smelter and later as a timber man in the Rossland mines, he was well known for holding off a gang of 16 Italians during the Long Island Railroad strike. He was a powerful man and his habits were notable in that he never touched tobacco or intoxicants of any kind. What eventually felled the prominent Trail ballplayer, and married father of a two-year old son - was a cut to his foot. His obituary notes that Mr. Worth returned to work before the wound could heal, and blood poisoning ravaged his system and led the man, with a particularly strong constitution, to a lingering death. Worth was laid to rest by the side of his wife, in a little burying ground on Smelter Hill on Oct. 11, 1902. Or there's the story of Chow Kwang, a 27-year old Asian man who died of Bright's disease, today known as kidney failure, on April 13, 1901. He was given a traditional burial when his family distributed small slips of stamped paper all the way to the grave. The traditional Chinese belief was that the devil follows in the wake of the procession seeking to capture the soul of a dead man. The
BY SHERI REGNIER
Times Staff
Times Staff
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People of all ages are invited to follow the trail of the Graveyard Walk through the Silver City this week after incrEDIBLE Trail unveiled the route during Saturday's Spooktacular event. Visitors are promised an entertaining stroll by the Spook Square grave markers that tell tales from the city's past and other stories from the Halloween world. Archival research was provided by Lana Rodlie. scattered papers are supposed to distract and lead the devil away from the procession until Confucius had time to come to the rescue. Mr Kwang's obituary notes that Messrs. Clark and Binns had charge of the funeral arrangements and placed slippers at the man's feet so he would have something to wear in the world to come. And a 10-cent piece was put in his mouth before the coffin lid closed,
so he would have a little ready money in the afterlife. Customary bowls of rice and roast pig and chicken were left on the grave, but later that day a hungry dog took off with the chicken, which is noted to be doggoned mean thing to do under the cirumstances. Just as woeful is the story of the Arlington’s chief clerk, John H. Lynch who succumbed to an illness just before Christmas in 1897.
He was an educated man, fought in the 19th Battalion in the Riel Rebellion, and authored a book titled Lynch's Hotel and Railway Guide. But after his death in the Trail hospital, no relatives came forth, so the Catholic ladies of Trail were left in charge of his remains. Tragic yes, but all play an important role in shaping Silver City history. See GRAVE, Page 2
The recent logging project near Violin Lake has prompted some community concern that deforestation is disrupting the area’s diverse ecosystem. The City of Trail maintains that the 45-hectare area currently being logged by ATCO Wood Products is not within the watershed so the undertaking will not have any direct impact on the lakes or various amphibians that reside in and around the Mill Pond or lake. “ATCO follows standard logging practices for an area like this,” noted David Perehudoff, Trail’s chief administrative officer (CAO). “This includes that construction of logging roads are done to a high standard where streams are protected,” he explained. “And the location is carefully considered in order to minimize environmental impacts.” Questions about leopard spotted frogs and other flora or fauna in the watershed falls on Warren Proulx’s desk, the city’s engineering technician who, after 30-plus years of service, is very familiar with the area. His concern is of the two-legged variety – because trespassing and illegal dumping on the privately-owned land is the primary and ongoing problem facing the city. The road that connects Cambridge reservoir to Violin Lake has been blocked off to prevent unwanted people from accessing the logging area and access to the watershed via the Casino road is gated. But “keep out” and road blocks aren’t enough, so he is telling people to stay away because logging activities are perilous. “Logging is a very dangerous business with heavy equipment, fallers and logging trucks that persons trespassing could be harmed in a restricted area especially during logging,” said Proulx. “The Violin Lake watershed is private property owned by the City of Trail and we have numerous signs requesting persons not to trespass.” Persons who are asking questions have been in the watershed either watching or near the logging activities, said Proulx. “Trespassing, vandalism and theft are activities that the city is trying to prevent in this area.” ATCO forested the Violin Lake area about 12 years ago, and those lands now support a healthy stand of trees that could be potentially logged again in 30 or 40 years, noted Perehudoff. See VARIETY, Page 8
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