THE OMINECA HERALD. FRIDAY, JULY 1, om

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Manufacturers of.

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‘TRE MINERAL PROVINCE’ OF WESTERN CANADA
: HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—

Placer Gold, $78,018,648; -Lode Gold, $126,972,318; Silver;
$80,787,003; Lead, $106, 976, Aaa; Goppen $209, 967, 068; Zine,
_ $50,512, 557: Coal and Coke, $284, 183; Structural Materials
and Miscellaneous Minerals, $50, ay 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

For five years, 1896-1900 57,607,967
For five years, 1901-1905 ............ .. 96,507,968
For five years, 1906-1910 ....,..6..,.65 125, 534, A474
For‘five years, “TOVT-19IB oc secs en eeees 142, 072, 603 .
For five years, 1916-1920 ......5.005 0s 189, 022, 725 °
For five years 1921 to 1906. aeeaeneceneeeseaee 214, 736, 650
For 1926 67, 188, 842

° PRODUCTION ‘DURING LAST “TEN YEARS, $429,547,755

Lode mining has only been in progreas about 26 years. and only about one-
half of the Province has been prospected; 200,000 square miles of unexplored
rolneral bearing Janda are open for prospecting. -

The mining laws of this Province are more liberal and the fees lower than
any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the British Empire,

Mineral locations are granted to discoverers for nominal fees. Absolute titles
are obtained d by developing such properties, security of which is guaranteed by
erown gran

Preceally all British Columbia mineral propertiea oh which development
werk has been done are described in one of the Annual Reports of the Minister
ef Mines, Those considering mining investments should refer to such reporta,

thes are available without charge on application to the Department of Mines,
Victoria, B.C. - Reports covering each of the six Mineral Survey Districts are
published separately, and are available on application. Reports of the Geologi-
eal Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver, B.C., are recommended as
valuable sources af information. .
Full information, together with mining reports and maps,

may. be obtained gratis by addressing

The Honourable The Minister of Mines
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.

Heintzman & Co. pianos
Orthophonic Victrolas
- Singer Sewing Machines .
Underwood Typcnriters

Each the standard j in its line,

‘Prices standard,
your station. ; °° ; ;

Freight paid to:

Prompt ‘effidlent- vvepakes & to. al. ‘makes ote cars speedy. and careful’
taxi service: ‘to all parts of the district, and regular serviee to trains,
‘with Prompt. attention to tranfer. and ‘drayage—This is the service of :

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2 entation to’

|The Challenge.

Of th the North}

’ Sine Conteaeration the villderness
frontier of Canada has entirely, shifted

substantial representation to. the house
vf cummons, were knuwn only to in-
few explorers, ‘Ihe first task of the

wes to-avrange fur u transcontinental

\yailway to link up’ the: infant: settle-

meut in British Columbia; and as as-
tute men as Kdward Blake ‘argued
earnestly ugainst the ‘dolly of wasting

permanently uninhabitable: arens © as

‘the southern parts of the present pro-
“lyineés of Manitoba, Saskatchewan’ and

Alberta, As late as 1874 Sir William
Butler wrote a. forbidding description
o£ the site of the prevent city of Prince
Albert to prove that Huropeaus could
never live thére the yeur round.

‘he wealth aud hubitability of. the

| southeri’ prairie’: are now’ common.

knowledge. ‘Woday the push jis northy
Northern Quebec and Northern Ontoy-
io huve attracted ‘miners’ ‘and farmers.
Settlers ure raising ‘vegetables, grains
and cattle and even fruits far north
ot New. Hazelton on the Skeena. A
way té the north of Edmonton the fer-
tile Perea River Valley is rewarding
its pioneers. The push to the north is
coutineut wide, and is on in earnest.
We dare not predict what, .by the end

of those great central ' regions, which
bare all been. ‘prove valuable, ;

The Arctic and sub-Aretic ‘plains
alone remain a challenge ‘to the plon-
eer. Already, thanks to Stefansson,
this vast, exponse is loosing its mytho-
logical. terrors. Here .ure one and .a
half to two million square miles of
grazing lands, with their native mos-
‘ges, lichens, ferns and 762 ‘species of
Yukon is yielding ler
‘gold ; but. in Alaska the onnnal catch
fof fish now exceeds the products* of
‘the mines in- value, dnd Canada’s Are-
‘tie waters teem with fish.

The reindeer industry in Alaska has
proved so profitable that Lomen & Co.

that bring=a higher price than, beef. in
the cities of the United. States.- In-
spired by’ Stefansson. the Hudson's Bay
Qo. has lensed for raising reindeer
the southern half of Baffin Island—
an area the size of the ‘British Isles.
If the project of domesticating the
inusk-ox is carried out, a new source
of food will be available that will put
to profitable “use “great: tracts of our
Far North. Oil lias ‘teen found «be-
tween Fort Norman and the Arctic.

time glone will tell. But the Canadian

,/ Polar regions are not as cold as Siberia

which is being voluntarily colonized.

'¢] And as the climate of, the Atlantic at

one time presented terrible difficulties
to the French colonists, and yesterday
that of. the southern jwairies seemed
an insuperable obstacle to our fathers
so the belief, in which we were b¥ought
up, that the Far North, was an -impos-

|aible region of perpetual snow is fad-
ing in the'light of scientifle know- [.

ledge that the whole of Canada ds hab-
itable. ‘and -produetive. One of ‘the’ “big-
zest problems df the’ younger . genera:
tion is to discover Ways and ” ‘means of
making . the north - “an intrigal. part, of,

hasbeen. . |. a

SCHOOL WAS ‘CLosnp-
tert, Son FLEy’
School was formally’ closed: at New
Hazelton last -Triday ‘afternoon: When
he ‘diplomas were handed out ‘40°, the

‘a various’ children’: who’ won .them;" A

splendid record was shown.in the ehil-

| dvén’s. standings in ‘school, ‘all: being
promoted to ihgher grades except, three |.

The winners of bhonor® rolls were:
deportment, John Sargent; proficiency.
John. Sinith s~ regularity, ! Charlés . ‘B,.
-Jane York then: mado’ a’ pres: |

Then the, prairies, which now sends a

dians, ‘fur traders, missionaries, and 4 |

newly formed Canadion goveiument [

mouey‘ln laying a railway across such}

of the century, will be the population |°

"| No, 1, Land Series, “How to Pre-empt Land,"
copies of which can be obtained free of charge |

alone ship annually 10,000: carcasses |

What else the far north will give,

Canada, instend of the hinterland at ;

The Hazelton, Hospital :

The ‘Hazelton Hospital ‘teaues tic.
: H kets: for. any | period” at $1.50" per
} month in advance. ‘This rate in-
cludes .office consultations, ‘medi-
. -cines, as wWell-as-all-eosts while
in the hospital. Tickets are ob-
tainoble in Hoaziton at the drug
store or by mail from the medi-
cni superintendint’ at the hospital

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SYNOPSISOF = |
LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

Voeant, unreserved, aurveyed’ Crown Janda

may be pre-empted by, British subjects
over 18. years of age, and by aliens
on declaring intention to heearr Britlsh
subjects, conditional’: upon ‘residence; occu-
pation, and improvement agricultural
purposes. ;

Foll ‘information . concerning regulations
regarding pre-emptions is, given in Bulletin

: for

by addressing the Department. of Lands,
Victoria, B.C.,.or to any Government Agent.

Records will be granted covering only
land sujtable for ogricultural, purposes, and

which ig not timberland, ie, .carrying over |

5,000 board feet per acre west of the
Coast Range and 8,000 feet per acre enst
of that Range, :

Applications for pre-emptions are ‘to be
addressed to the Land, Commissioner of the
Land Recording Divieton in which the land
applied for is situated, and are made on printed
forma, copies,of which can be obtained from the
Land Commissioner,

Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years
and improvements made to’. the ‘yalue ‘of
$10 per nere, including clearing’ and cultivat-
ing at. least. five acres, hefore a Crown: Grant
cnn be received. ee 4

"For niore detailed ‘information | see the Bulletin,

‘How Pre-erapt Land.”

PURCHASE

< _ purchase
and unreserved - Crown lands,

Apolicationa, ore received for?
of.. vacant.

J.B. ‘Williams,
ei VENCIAL ASQAYER
 Prige liste sent on request

’ ee eile. .
Credit. Foncier inte. VANCOUVER, BAG."

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not being timberland, for agricultural purposes;.|: .

minimum price of first-class (arable) land
Is $5 per acre, dnd second-class (grazing)
land $2.60 per acre, Further information
regarding purchase. or. lease of Crown
lands ia given in Bulletin No. 10, Land
Series, “Purchase and _Leaga . of Crown
Lands.” yo

Mill,’ factory,” or industrial: aites on “timber
land, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchaced or’
‘leased, © the‘ conditions including payment af
stumpare. ;

a HOMESITE LEASES:
” Uneurveyed areaa, not exceeding 20 acres,

upon a dwelling” being ‘erected in the
first year, title being obtainable after’
residence) and. improvement -conditions are
fulfilléd. oa. the: ~- land » has been. eure
veyed, | a ;

LEASES,

For grazing and ‘ndostrtal purpose
-ayeas not excooiling’ 640” “acres. -may ‘be leaned
by: ‘any one ‘bercon ‘or’ company.

! .
Bite le “GRAZING
Under. the Grazing. “Act “the | * Provisce

ia‘ divided ‘into grazing ‘ districts, ' ‘and. ‘eae
| Tange -adiministered |. under: the”,

-Aesued, - af

may be leased a) homesites, conditional ||

Griatog. ) hn
‘uel bere 2 nam evening. permits welt.

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