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GREAT OMINECA District or BririsH COLUMBIA,

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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914.

No. 28,

It is not too muck to say that world-wide interest is being
miunifested in the projected railway from the mouth of the Naas
river to the coalfields of the Groundhog district, on the Skeena,

Naas and Stikine, .

‘While the Pacific, Peace River & Athabasca is

to be extended through the Omineca goldfields and on to the Peace
river and Athabasca, attention is at present directed to the open-
ing up of the great coal measures which will be tapped by the first

section of the railway, ‘That the

Groundhog coal will prove an im-

portant factor in the fuel situation on the opening of the Panama
canal is generally admitted by those who have given attention to
the situation, and this means that early measures will be taken for
the development of the coal seams on the upper Skeena, The
development of the Groundhog district will mean much to Hazel-

ton.

Pending the completion of the new railway, much, if not all,-

of the supplies for the-field will be purchased in this town, and the
trail from Hazelton to the Groundhog will be busier than ever.
Many of the owners of coal property in the anthracite district are
already prepuring for more aggressive work than has as yet been
undertaken, and it is to be expected that the year 1914 will witness
the beginning of great things in our northern coalfield.

Mining Prospects

Last year the output of the
mines of British Columbia was
valued at $30,000,000, It would
be unwise to attempt to estimate,
with this as a measure, the ypos-
sible mineral production of all
British Columbia; but only a very
general idea of the country and
its resources is necessary to
create a feeling of confidence in
its potentialities in this regard,
gays a coast exchange.

Let us consider very briefly one
part of the province, of which
not very much is known officially,
namely the area in which the

_ Stikine, the Liard, the Peace and
some branches of the Frasei take
their rise, or that part of the
province lying between the 55th
and 59th parallels and between
the 120th and 129th meridians.
H..re we have repealed in a gen-
eral way the structural features
of the great mining area of which
Butte may be said to be the cen-
ter, Itis a region from whieh
rivers flow in all directions to
the sea. On all sides of it placer
gold is found in greater or less
quantities. it is only necessary
to mention the Cassiar gold fields
in the north and those of Omine-
‘ea in the south to show that in
some places at least, these placer
mines have proved profitable,
There are known deposits of cop-
perand galena, and what else
may be found there is necessarily
amatter largely of conjecture,

although very interesting reports

have been brought out by pras-
- pectors, The difficulty and ex-
pense of transportation have com-
bined to render it impossible for
anything more than the most
superficial examination to be
made, and, as a matter of fact,
the prospectors have not been
numerous, and most of the few
prospeetors who have gone, into
_ the country have been looking
for alluvial gold-bearing gravels.
There is the best of reason - for
’ thinking that as soon as trans-
portation can be supplied, the
-history of Kootenay will be re-
. peated, and, perhaps, on an en-
larged seale, in this more north-
erly area.
_ Inthe last twenty years the
, people of British ‘Columbia - have
‘been looking | forward to ‘the
" great results that . ‘would flow];

= from the openinig of. its, tnineral-

. ized area. . At: the, “outset
: were some who, doubted it thier

expectations might not be disap-
pointed, but figures show how
well founded they were,

Fisheries of Province

Victoria, Mar, 8:--The report
of the Hon. W. J. Bowser, com-
missioner of fisheries, has been
issued. Presenting an outline of
the work of the department dur-
ing 1918, the main body of the
report gives the value of the
fisheries produets.of British Co-
lumbia, and compares these with
those of other provinces, show-

duced $14,455,488 out of a total
for Canada of $83,389,464, more
than equalling the products for
the same period of the three
maritime provinces,

The salmon pack was the chief
component factor in this, al-
though owing té the increased
demand for cheaper varieties’ of
the eanned article it shows a
slight falling off from the pre-
vious year, Halibut and herring,
on the other hand, shows increas-
es, The added impetus to fishing
which has followed the removal
of the duty on fresh fish entering
the United States, the expected
benefit which the fisheries will
derive from the completion of
the Panama Canal and the G, T,
P., which latter is believed will
attract much of the produce of
Alaska to Prince Rupert, are
dealt with, and for additional
scientific study and investigation
of the food fishes, the modes of
curing and other details are dealt
with in the report.

Reference is:made at. length to.
the blockade in the canyon of the
Fraser river above Yale, which

Spawning in the upper reaches
of the river, and which Mr, J, P,
Babcock is of the opinion will
prejudicially affect the .run four
years from now up the tiver, ;

Manson Tells of District
Ina yecent speech i in the pro-
vincial legislature, Wm. Mangon,.
member for Skeena district, said:
“Speaking of the requirements
of the outlying portions of British

tory that is comprised. in the

ing that British Columbia pro-

has prevented millions of sockeye|

_{Columbla, I would like to give|:-
‘you some idea of the: vast. terri-|’

'provinee, but.as I indicated be-}

a great drawback to settlement
at the present time. We have
large areas of land in the Queen

cois Lakes.

scattered at great distances from
the centers ‘where roads and

them much needed road and trail
improvements, which, in a new
country, require very large ap-
propriations.

Settlers have been coming in
in large numbers to this territory
during the past few years.
Prince Rupert-alone recorded 442
pre-emptions, Hazelton 167, and
Fort George 581, During 1912
the total pre-emptions were 3,655
in the province, and last year
year they were increased to 3,855,
approximately half a million acres
per year, which shows conelu-
sively that there isa great deal
of settlement going on in the
province from day to day.

“In regard to agriculture in
the Skeena district, I may say
that we are still in an experimen-

tal stage, and I am pleased to
know that the government is
taking interest in the question,
and that as aresult of the find-
ings of the Royal Commission,
we may look for a measure of
assistance that will place the in-

ent condition,

report that mining conditions in

satisfactory manner, The Gran-
by Company has built a smelter
at Granby Bay and is proceed-

along in line. At Portland Canal
we have a tunnel now of 2500
feet, with splendid ore showings,
and in the interior parts of the
province, at Hazelton, Nine Mile
mountain, Hudson Bay mountain
and other places, there are num-
erous mining properties produc-
ing large quantities of ore, and
giving evidence of splendid com-
mercial results, as soon as the
transportation facilities are link-
ed. The completion of the Grand
Trunk Pacific and the Pacific
Great Eastern will greatly facili-
tate this development, and I need
searcely say that the mining in-
terests of the country are look-
ing forward to these events with
anxious eyes.” .

Sir George Ross, leader of the
Liberal party in Ontario, i is dead
in Toronto, He was born in
1841,

fore, the question of facilities is |:

Charlotte Islands, Bella Coola, |
the Naas, the Skeena Valley, the ||
Bulkley Valley, Ootsa and Fran- |
In these sections ‘fr
settlers have gone in under the/|
the pre-emption laws and arel

trails have been built, and heavy jj
demands must be made to afford

dustry far in advance of its pres-|(@

“Tam also glad to be able to ‘
‘the North are progressing in a

tl a ingen mint
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