. | THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1926

Pacific Milk has the testi-_
mony of more than a thou-
sand letters as to its quali-
; ty written by the Women

of British Columbia. We
. are truly grateful for these
7 acknowledgements. One

7 of their results has been
; to make us wish we had a
letter from every woman

whe has used this good milk

| Pacific Milk

a Head Office: Vancouver

* Factories at Abbotsford and Ladner

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.- Winter | sport activities at old
Quebee are in full swing. This is
considered the most brilliant season
of entertainment for years past,
“yndreds of sport enthusiasts and
tourists from the New England

States, Canada, and other parts of
the continent are turning up in force
at the Ancient Capital

Miss Isabel .Coursier, only’ nine.
teen years of age, is the world’s
Woman champion ski jumper, She
created a world record at Revel:
stoke, B.C, at the age of sixteen in
1922, This winter, taking part in
the winter sports at Quebec, Miss
Coursier made a jump of 83 feet ix

the International-Intercollegiate Ski
contest.

A report from Smiths Falls, On-
tario, is to the effect that a train
Was stopped in order to avoid a col-
lision with an automobile making
for the tracks over a crossing. The

Y

Y SYNOPSIS OF

) LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

fy
i PRE-EMPTIONS

F Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown Janda
_ by British subjecta
aliens
Britieh
R subjects, conditional upon residence, oecu-

rany be pre-empted
over 18 years of age, and by
"on declaring intention to kecor-

| pation. and improvement for agricultural
}' purposes,
Full information concerning regulations

N regarding preemptions ia given in

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

Records will be granted covering only
my land suitable for agricultural purposes, and
4 Which ia not timberland, i.e., earrying over
§ 5,000 board feet per sere west of the

Coast Range und £000 feet per acre east!

am) of that Range,

. Applications for pre-emptions are to be
a addressed to the Land Commissioner of the
| Land Recording Division in which the land
applied for is situated, and are mada on printed
forme, copies of which ean be obtained from the
| i Land Commissioner, :
Pre-emptiona muat be occupied for five years
Eeand improvements made to the value of
mu'310 per acre, including clearing and cultivat-
= jing at least five acres, before a Crown Grant
a con be received,
For more detailed information see the Bulletin,
‘How to Pre-empt Land.""
¢

PURCHASE

Applications are received for purchase
emf vacant and oumreserved Crown lands,
ie 10t being timberland, for agricultural purposes:
minimum price of first-class (arable) land
Bis $5 ner acre, and second-class (grazing)
md $2.50 per acre. Forther information
egarding purchase or lease of Crown
nda is given in Bulletin No. 10, Land
“Purchase and Lease of Crown

BM Mill, factory, or industrial sites on timber
i yoda, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchaved or
Beseed,- the conditions including payment of

Mm tumpage,
a HOMESITE LEASES

a) Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 2 acres,
mray be leased as homesites, conditional
Boon a dwelling belng erected in the
inst year, title being obtainable after
msidence and improvement conditions ara
meeiuflied a the land has peen  enr-
Boved,

LEASES

- i For grazing and industrial purpose
. Hens not exceeding 640 acres may be leased
mr any one person or company.

GRAZING

oO &

WUnder the Grazing Act the Province
i; divided into grazing districts, and the
F1ge administered under the Grazing
mmmissioner. Annual grazing permits ara
eeiied, based on numbers ranged, priority |,
Jing given to established . owners, Stock-
ners may form associations for range}.
mnagement, Free, or partially free, per
‘ts are avallabla for setilers, campers and
pivellers up to ten head, .

f
» ik
7 Blackheads : simply dissclye and
oy dizappeay by thia ono’ simple, safe
_ and sure method, “Gat two ounces
m veroxine powder from any drug atore—
Baginkle it on a hot, wet cloth, rub the
mee kly—every Blackhead will be gene. .
1

faca

Bulletin
Ri No. 1. Land Series, “How to Pre-empt Land,”
f copies of which can be obtained free of charge

ACKHEADS|

vain was stationary when the av- -
tomobile struck one of the cars.
The occupants of the ‘automobile @3-
caped uninjured,

Tourists on the Canadian Pacific
liner Empress of Scotland were at
the famous King Solomon quarries,
beneath the walls of Jerusalem, on
Christmas night. Many of them,
according. to a cable received at
C.P.R. head offices, bought gavels,
made from the stone of the quar-
ries, with olive wood handles,

Accor'r+ to information at the
headquarzers of the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway, holiday passenger
traffic this year from points west
was the heaviest since 1920 in the
past fow weeks and represented . a
fifty percent increase over the
amount handled over Canadian Pa-
cific Railway lines last year, Spec-
fal arrangements made to take

_|following an operation for ap-

Hon. G. Boivin
Died Saturday
In Philadelphia

With quite a shock the people
of Canada learned on Saturday
morning of the sudden death of
Hon. Geo. H. Boivin, the former
minister of customs in Canada,

peddicitis in Philadelphia. Mr.
{| Boivin had gone to Philadelphia
as a delegate to the Knights of
Columbus convention, and was
suddenly striken down,

The late minister was in the
prime of life and was making big
strides as a public man, and was
taken into the cabinet by Hon.
MacKenzie King last September
and given the customs depart-
ment, then in deplorable mess,
to a minister, '

He is survived by twosons and
one daughter, and they have the
sincere sympathy of the Cana-
dian people.

Motoring to Vancouver

Mr. and Mrs. Stanlev Parker
passed through on Monday night
to Smithers, where thev started
4 motor trip te Vancouver, They
are being accompanied by Mrs.
George Woodland. Mr. Wood.
land will accompany them to
Prince George. | They propose
making a slow trip so that they
will get well acquainted with
Prince Rupert’s great hinterland,

care of the Christmas and New Year
rush worked efficiently,

Canadian Pacific Railway earn-
ings for the month of November
were $19,294,184.87, an increase of
$1,198,239,12 over the same period
for 1924. Net profits for Novem-
ber show an increase of $218,153.80
over the month of November of
1924. Net profits for the eleven
months ending November were $35,-

government officers who visited
the country.

Passenger traffic on the Cana-
dian National is heavier this ses-
son than ever,

First Big Fire. This Year

days on the north side of Lake
Kathlyn among the dry, down
timber. Thirty men were put
on but they could not handle it,
and additional men were sent for
in this part of the district, This
is the first fire this season of any

importance and the forestry men
got all ket up about it.

A fire of considerable propor-|
tions has been burning for some

' Father Plamonden Dead
Catholics of this district will
regret to learn of the death on
Sunday morning last of Rev.
Father Plamonden, who passed
away at the Prince George Hos-
pital. Rey. Father Plamonden
was in,charge of the Industrial
Schoo] at Fraser Lake with Rev.
Father Coccola, O.M,L, and the
young people lose in him a great

friend. The people of both towns
offer their sympathy to the Ob-
late Fathers,

$74,111,397; Leud,

PRODUCTION DURING LAST

Mineral locations are granted to

crown grants.

They are available withort charge

Victoria, B,C. Reports covering each

Last Saturday’s Provinee care
ried a story of the splendid crops
in the Bulkley Valley as seen by

valuable gources of information,

BRITISH COLUMBIA

THE MINERAL PROVINCE OF . WESTERN CANADA
HAS PRODUCED MINERALS VALUED AS FOLLOWS :—-
Placer Gold, $77,663,045: Lode Gold, $122,808,190; Silver,
$89,218,907;
$39,925,947; Coal and Coke, $273, 048,953; Building Stone, Brick,
Cement, $44,905,886; Miscellaneous Minerals, $1,694,387;

Making mineral production

AN AGGREGATE VALUE OF $920,919,628

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:

eaten n meee oF

Ci a rs

teeta ewes awae

Phare sesese nese .

Lode mining has only been in progyesa about 25 yeara, and only about one-
half of the Province has been prospdeted: 200,00) square miles of unexplored
mlneral bearing lands are open for prospecting,

The mining laws of this Pravince are more liberal and the fees lower than
any other Province in the Dominion or any Colony in the British Empire,
discoverers for nominal fees, Absolutetitles
are obtained by developing such properties, security of which is guaranteed by

N.8.—Practically al! British Columhi
has been done are deseribed in same one
of Mines, Those considering mining investments should refer to such reports.
on application to the Department of Mines,

of the six Mineral Survey Districts are
published separately. and are available on application, Reports of the Geologi-

I Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver, 5.C., are recommended as

& mineral properties upon which work
of the Annual Reports of the Minister

The Honourable The Minister of Mines
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA

+

Copper, $197,642,647; Zine,

to the end of 1925 show

soeered 94,647,241 .
57,605,967
--- 96,507,968
save teeeee 125,534,474
+ 142,072,608
189,922,725

ee

48,704, 604

TEN YEARS, $44,649,375 |

327,988.58, an increase of 81,830,-
043.82 over the corresponding pe-
riod for 1924, .

Aecor’ing to Johannes Borge,
Journalist, of Bergen, Norway,. who
is visiting the Dominion to rec-
ord his impressions of Canada,
silver fox farming has become a
very important industry in parts of
Norway. There are now about 150
silver fox farms in the Sondmore
district of Norway. Last autuma,
about 120 silver foxes, estimated to
be worth 1,000,000 kroner, were
shipped from the island of Norwey.

Traffic on the Great Lakes this
season compares well with that of
last year as far as Canadian Pa-

CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK OF

Hardware and Furniture

cific earnings are concerned, M.
Mc.D. Duff, manager of the Great
Lakes Steamship Service explained
recently that while grain tonnage
fell below that of the 1924 season,
Passenger traffic and package
freight. business was considerably
better, making the total well up to
the average, .

A party of Mennonites, bound for
western Canada, mostly to Mani-
toba, arrived in Montreal recently
with the report that those of their
sect who had gone to Rosario, Mex.
ico, were fay lrom satisfled and in-
tended going north. . It is under-
stood that 1,000 Mennonites have |
éemigrated:to Canada within the last
two months and that about 2,500
‘more would be coming in the spring,
Hans Aaidler, in charge .of the

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