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: [Men Marooned

m “|But it had been friends

 ldark eyes, and-capable hands. It war
“Ipeenuse she had wnderstood-—-had re

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‘Out of the silent places this doomed
child of the valient heart had come.
and now—-into the silence had gone.
What must: have been her despair, he
thought, to have left her people and
sought sanctuary among strangers
she founil.

|| But what a miracle to have had that
‘Ischooner driven on Akimiski with the
|girl who had shared the watch with
him! What a. solace and nt rock she

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bad been—those fine, straight, gazing

sented his thinking it necessary to ex-
plain the situation at ‘Eliewan that he
bad been able to talk go freely of Nin-
da. She bad proved her metai—sht
too, was a soldier. He pictured Ethe!
yyith her horor of the ugly, thrown in-
tu. the sltuation which Joan Quarries
had calmly met.with delicacy and skil
That afternoon Etienne and Guthric

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ereeted a spruce cross over the fresh

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THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF WESTERN CANADA

| BAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—
Placer Gold, $78,018,548; Lode Gold, $126,972, 318; Silver,
$80,787,003; Lead, 3106,976,442; Copper, $209,967,068;. Zine,
$50,512,567; Coal and Coke, $294,699,188: Structural Materials
and Miscellaneous Minerals, $50,176,407; Making mineral produc-
tion to the end of 1926 show.

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $988,108.470

The substantial progress of the mining industry in this prov-
ince is strikingly illustrated in the following figures, which
show the value of production for successive 5-year periods:

For all years to 1895, inclusive ........ $ 94,547,241 oe
' For five years, 1896-1900 .......---+-+ . -BT,607, 967

Por five years, 1901-1905: ........6+-- 96,507,968

For five years, 1906-1910. ........ veveee 125,584,474

For five years, 1911-1915 .....-..- wares 142,072,608

For five years, 1916-1920 ..,....0.-- ,. 189,922,725 :
‘For five years 192] to W926... eee eee eae cee. 214,926,650
Wor 1926,..-...++5 cee renerosteeneseues seoees 67,388,842

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PRODUCTION DURING LAST TEN YEARS, $429,547,755 _

26 years, and only about one-
half of the Provinee Haa been prospected; 200,000 square miles of unexplored

Survey Districts are
Reports of the Geologi-
B.C,, are recommended as

BC,

The Honourable The Minister ot aMines

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

yrave in the little. post cemetery ane
on the white wood of the arm, Guthrir
inuned with a hot iron the words

“In memory of ‘Ninda—a Soldier,’
which for years was to be the cans
of much shaking of ‘puzzled head:.
among the whites and the Crees whe
saw it. so :

’ .At dawn the next morning Guthvie’s
York boat with a Peterboro canoe in
tow, slowly picked its way through the
Blkwan delta. In the stern, steering
with a sweep hewn from ‘a spruce snp-
Ung stoodthe wiry Ditenne, who knew
the channels of the river mouth and
the depth of the shoal const from the
Haft to Albany. To give the — craft
steerageway on the first of the ebb,
the sailors of the shipwrecked schooner
manned four long oars, In the bow,
the gevlogist, still smarting from his
lwnilittion, talked in Iow tones to his
sailing master. Beside -the steersman
stood Guthrie, holding a compass, for
the shores were: invisable. Near him
with forefeet on the rail, the airedale
peered into the white wall of mist, his
blaek nostrils dilating as he caught, at
intervals; on the moist air, scents va-
gue, ilusive, enticing. |

in your boat,” suggested Joan Guarrier
to Guthrie, who had found a seat be-
side her. ee

“After what you've done I could noi
send you off in that -ship’s boat. You
might havy@ been days making Albany
~-had serious trouble making. shore. to
make ecnmp if the wind changed. It’:
a-triecky const. Yor're not much like
your dignified brother,” be answered.
his face lighting with amusement as he
glanced toward the suiking - Quarrier
“Fle’s hardly worrying about our goose
supply for the winter,”
The clear-cut mouth of the man be-
side her curled in the smile she had
come to associate with the factor at El
kwan, Then her. eyes, shifting to the
dim ribbon. of: spruce. rimming the

marshes, saw the face of the girl in the

photograph at the post, and she won-
dered what was bebind it all.

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GAS:

Ee studied the profile of Joan Quar-
rier, the musing. eye’, with ibe strong
ly marked brows, the half-parted Hps.
the frame of ‘chestnut hair shot with
gold: Tine, he thought, it was, with
the beauty of expression, but above ity
cameltiness of. Une and skin—the stam;
of strength, the essence of character.
The absent look faded from her eyes.
““T'enn understand on a day _ like
this,” she snid, “what you mean by thi:
grey coast holding you. Iis so wn-
touched—so primival, It seems almost
as if we were the first to see it.’
‘Its like this for a thousand miles—
the west coast,” be replied, “with a few
fur posts nt the mouths of the rivers.”
“A thousand “miles .,of. silence-—-ex-
cept the call of -the spose.” a
You". won't be here for the Black
‘Brant ind the grand geese. They are,

we th jy

Why .Not Plant a Few Trees This Spring?
We have a surplus of very fine two and ‘three year. old Apple
Trees which we are offering for Spring 1928 Delivery at a apecial —

plendid, well grown,..well rooted trees

price, while they lust. ' By .
that will please you. ‘trees that will bear fruit in two .or- three

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the pr

‘the last to-veach. the west . coast—
they anid‘the swans,” .
Swans, al.
- He nodded, .You-haven't heard the
yoice of the raw solitudes Jif. you've

high against the October stars.”
“Man, yowre growing poetic.”
“Phe swans .and thé grey geese,” he
went on,.“typifylng it nli—the silence.
the Joneliness, the beauty.” 04.6
Tor-a space ‘she jsaty.ehin in’ hand.
looked up with, "Like so many, the di
and excitement .0£ the wnar—the ‘disih
‘usion..of {ts* aftermath, hns ‘left you

f|which attracts’ you-new will make“:

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- “You are loosing valuable time from |.
your goose hunt by. taking us to Albany}.

missed the trumpeting ofthe swans.

- Provincial ‘Assayet
J.D. Boulding

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— SYROPSISOF
LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

; PRE-EMPTIONS

Vacant, unreserved, surveyed: Crown lands
moy be preempted by British subjects
over 18 years of age, and by aliens
on declaring intention to ‘becore ‘British
subjects, . vonditional “upon residence, occt-
pation, and improvement for agricultural
purposes. | . -
Full information | concerning . regulations
regarding pre-emptions is given in Bulletin
No. i, Land Series, “How to-Pre-empt Land,”
copies of. which can be obtained frea of charge
by addressing the Depurtment ‘of Lands,
Vietoria, B.C., or ta. any Government Agent.

_ Revords will be granted covering only
Jand suitable for agricultural purposes, and
which is not timberlond, ie. carrying over
5,000. board feet per acre west of ‘the
Coast Range and 8,000 feet per. acre east
of that Range. : , .
Applications for -pre-emptions are. to be
‘gidressed to the Land Commissioner of the
Land Recording Division in which the ‘land
applied ’for is situated, and are made. on printed
“forms, coples of which can be obtained from the
Land Commissioner. sO

and improvernents made to the value of
$10 per sere, including clearing and cultivat-
ing at least five acres, before a Crown Grant
can be received. a —_
- For more detailed information see the Bulletin,.
How Pre-empt Land.” . ;

PURCHASE

Agplications sare: received ‘for durehnss
of.. yacant. and’. unreserved Crown . lands,
not belag timberland, for agricultural purposes;
minimum’ price’ of first-class (arable) land
is $5: per acre, . and second-clage (grazing),
land $250 per acre, -Yurther information
regarding purchase or Jesse
lands: is.. given in Bulletin No. 10, Land
Series, “Purchase. and. Lease . of - Crown
Landa.” 0 oe cas - a ct,
, Mill, factory, “or. industrial sitea on timber
land, not exceeding 40 acres, may. be-purchased or
leased, . the’ conditions including _ payment of

‘atumpare.. :

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Th ems sae Pa ne

‘ Pye-emptions must beoccupied for five yeara |.

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WOMEN’S INSTITUTE .MEETING®

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