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SYNOPSIS OF COAL MINING REG:
ULATIONS.

Coal mining rights ot the Dominion,

Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the
North-west Territories and in a portion
of the Province of British Columbia,
may be leased for a term of twenty-one
years at an annual rental of $1 an acre.
Not more than 2,660 acres will be leased
to pre applicant.

Application. for a lease myst be made
by t agplicant in person to the
A ent or Sub-Agent of the district in
wi ich the rights applied for are situa-

In surveyed territory the land must
be deseribed by sections, or legal sub-
divisions of sections, and in unsurvey
territory the tract applied for shall be
staked out by the applicant himself.

Each application must be accompanied
by a fee of $5 which will be refunded if
the rights applied for are not available,
but not otherwise. A royalty shall be
paid on the merchantable output of the
mine at the rate of five cents per ton,

‘The person operating the mine shall
furnish the Agent with sworn returns
accounting for the full quantity of mer-
chantable coal mined and pay the royal-
ty thereon, If the coal mining rights
are not being operated, such returns
should be furnished ‘at least once a
year. |
The lease will include the coal ynining
rights. only, but the lessee may he pers
mitt WRALE VET baal

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ary tint WOrkiT. us th
vate of $10.00 an acre,

For fullinformation application should
be made to the Secretary of the De-
partment of the Interior, Ottawa, or to
any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion

Lands.
W. W. CORY,
nu uty Minister of the Interior.
nauthorized publication of
this auivertisement will not be piad for

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MINE ‘DEVELOPMENTS.

~ Stoping at the Silver : Standard
mine will be resumed this week.
The stee) for the drills has arriv-

ed and been sent out to the pro-
perty.

will come fast when the drills
get busy. The ore in the north
drift is continuing good and it is
still two feet wide and over.
Duke Harris reports that he has
over twenty-five tons of the Erie

Hill,’ where it will remain until
the roads are dry enough to hall
to the railway. There will be
another twenty-five tons down
from the mine by that time also.
They expect to get it away by
the first of May.. The°work on
the property has been making
good headway. The seventy-foot

on Tuesday they started on the
cross-cut tunnel eOntract. This

Six. men are now + employed onl
the work.

J. & Bagge came in from Nine
Mile mountain on Saturday, after
having spent most of the winter
on the Galena Hill and Horseshoe

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Supt. Hasking will start)
‘at once getting out ore, and it}

open cut has been completed and

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- Get .our ates: on above lines.

Prince Rapert Planing Mls, Limited

GORDON BAIN, Managing Director

claims,
and a bond.on these two claims,
and he has been prospecting
them ‘all winter.
the Harris Mines, and he has
found six good surface showings
with two feet of quartz.. He has

had an assay of' $700, which is H

the highest thus far recorded in
the, eamp.° He states that. it is

the best new property he has/
heard of, and. he intends to do :

considerable work upon it this
coming spring and summer.
is only handicapped now by the
snow, but this will soon.be gone.

The Harris Mines are working

steadily. The property is looking |:

In the No.3
Gib at, level they
ave a nine Soot of ore from two
to three feet wide and for a dis-
tance of 30 feet, which ‘was as
far as they had gone. when the
report. was made, The boys are
starting now to take out another
carload of ore for shipment, and
they will have it ready as. gocn
as the. roads get dry enough to
permit of heavy loads being haul-
ed. Duke’ Harris. informed the
Herald that their next shipment

better all the time.

would go to the Tacoma smelter,

as they could get--a very: much
better freight rate than going ‘to

Trail, where the G.T.P, charges |

$6.40 a ton to- haul the ore to
Prince: Rupert and. $7.00 a ton
from that point. to Trail. The

rate to Tacoma, via G.T.P.R. and

G.T.P. boats is $9.50.

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