THE OMINECA M|NER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2/1918 -°.- The Omineca Miner PUBLISHED BVERY SATURDAY AT HazELTON, THE CENTER OF THE Great OMINECA DISTRICT OF British COLUMBIA, By B.S. Sargat, Ltd. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: — Canada and British Possessions, ‘Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.50 per inch per month; Reading Notices, 15 cents per line for each insertion. Lepal notices inverted at RB. C. Gazette rates, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1918. Says the Prince Rupert Em- pire: “Zero weather on the prairies. Everybody kicking. Mild and mushy in Prince Rupert. Hvery- body beefing. Cold as the finger of scorn up in Yukon. Every- body howling. All kinds of snow in Anyox. Everybody growling. Hot as Sheol away down south, Everybody snarling. Aw, what's the use?’ As the colored preacher said: “Breddern, dar "pears ter be aj’ "round heah Live in great moral. lesson’ somewhar,’’ which is: Hazelton, «|. Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, ‘Nor ever wind blows loudly, but it lies Deep meadowed, happy, fair with erchard lawns And bowery hollows....- His Excellency the Covernor- General has issued the following appeal to the people of Canada to continue through 1918 their] penerous support of the Patriotic Fund: “After giving the most careful “consideration ta various sug- “ywestions, the executive commit- |: “tee of the Canadian Patriotic “Pound, consisting of men repre- “senting all parts of the Domi-| - ‘ion, unanimously decided to “appeal again to the public for ‘voluntary support, rather than “to ask that the burden be borne ‘by the public treasury. “conclusion was: reached -only “after all other alternatives had “been exhaustively considered. ; “AS president of the fund, 1); “geain ask the people of Canada “to continue their generous ef- “fort to help the families of the “gallant: men who, on land and “sea, are so nobly defending the “Empire and maintaining the “principles of liberty-and justice. “We. at home know the sacrifices “they. “are making, and the very “least we can do is ‘to give them “the fullest. assurance that those “whom they left behind are well “and adequately provided for. _ For over. three years, the fund, ; “thanks to the. support: which ‘it ye) has. received). has dealt in. a S _ “thoroughly satisfactory manner, “with. the’. éver-increasing de-| otmmainda upon * it, ‘and Lam con- *‘fident that, in ‘the: fulitre as in ‘the past, we shall regard it not - “‘meiely as._a duty, buts asa This e. P Bonen, ; ROR GH RT TUPETER DEES tsi : TELKWA 4 ‘Litbits from the Bridge Town a SOLE eaen Suet ERR REBE RE 1 (From Our Special Correspondent) F, E. McFeely was a business visitor in town this week. Telkwa is experiencing a cold snap, the thermometer hovering around 25 degrees below zero. Jack MeNeil is shipping an- other fifty-eight dressed hogs this week, This makes a total: of three hundred and fifty Bulk- ley Valley hogs that he has ship- ped to Prince Rupert this win- ter, Tnere is every hope of thenew Telkwa bridge being started next month, Should it materialize, it will gladden the hearts of every- one in the community, especially those who are teaming over the old one all the time. The bills are now out for the farmers’ annual dance. -Accord- ing to the information we have on hand, it promises to outshine any of the previous ones, with dinner, midnight lunch, and breakfast of farm cooking of farm produce by farmers’ wives. The World's Wheat The following erop data have been given. out by the Interna- national Institute of Agriculture: Production of wheat in Canada 285,742,850 bushels, a decrease of 29,038,160. Uruguay, 18,372,000 bushels, an inecrease“of 12,980,000. Union of South Africa, 8,883, - 000 bushels, an increase of 4,150,- 000. . Argentina and Australia. have not yet reported. Production of oats in.New Zea: land,. 21,318,000 bushels, an in- crease of 14,870,000... In England and Wales the area sown to wheat shows an increase of 16 per cent and rye 8 per cent, The area sown to barley and oats is practically the same as last year.’ MINERAL ACT Certificate of improvements uate in the Omineca Mining Division of Cassiar District. Where located:;—On hhe sotithwestern tnunde Babine Lake, and near Silver sland, -- - acting, as agent for M. J. Kolb, | Free Miner's Certificate Ne. 7862C, intend, sixty days from the,date, hereof, to ap ply to the MiningRecorder for a ‘Certi cate of. Improvements for the purpone of obtaining a Crown Grantof the above claim. ‘And further take notice. that. action under section, 85, muat be commenced | before the issuance of sucht Certificate of’ Improvements... - Dated this 20th day, of Decomber, A, D, iglt, - 16-2 Green Bros, Burden & Co, Civil Engineers - ° and Alberta Laid Surveyors: Oteet at’ ‘Victoria’ Nelson; Fort, George . -and.New .Hazelton,-’ QUEENA, MINERAL CLAIM, situ-| TAKE NOTICE that I, FP. ‘Burden, _ Dominion,. British Coliimbia, ~ na fee . New Hagelton ‘ _BUY AT HOME Get your letterheads printed ‘at } q THE MINER OFFICE “Printing of Merit” “ FARM LANDS OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAIL-1§ ,ROAD CO. GRANT LANDS, Title to |i same revested in United States by Act {i Two million, three hundred thousand Acres ||| of Congress dated June 9, 1916. to be opened for Homesteads and sale. Agricultural and Timber Tiands, Con- sarvative estimate Forty Billion feet of commercial lumber. of best land left in United States. Large Map showing land by. sections : and Description of soil, climate, rain-| jf ~~ Postpaid’ One | iil - fall, elevations, ete,” Dollar, Grant Lands Locating Co., Box 610, Portland, Oregon. MINERAN ACT Certificate of Improvements NOTICE LITTLE HELEN, COPPER HILL, '} Containing some | § and SKEENA MINERAL CLAIMS, ait- d vate in the Omineca Mining Division of Cassiar District. Where located:—On the west slope of | Rocher de Bonle-Mountain. ‘TAKE NOTICE that Dalby B Mor- kill, of Hazelton, B:C., acting asagent ' for Hl. S, Lavery (Can. Exped, Force) and Andrew Fairbairn, of Telkwa, B.C., Pree Miner's Certificate No. baGeC, intend sixty da ays from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the B| purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of | B the above claims, _ And further take notice that action, || under section 85, must be commenced BS E before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. : Dated this 24th. day. of September, |I A.D, 1917, 4-12 . Dalby B. Morkill NOTICE =: N THE MATTER OF AN APPLIC- - ATION for the issue of a fresh | Certifieate of Title for Lot 32, Block 3, Town, of Telkwa, Map 817), : Satisfactory evidence having been furnished as to the Joss of the Cdrtifi- q cate of Title to the above lands, notice || is hereby g'ven that itis my intention | f to issue after the expiration of thirty days after the first publication hereof al fresh Certificate of Title to the above lots in the name of Pete Saari, which Certificate of: Title is dated 8th Sep- ‘| tember, 1914, and is numbered: 6529- Land Registry Office, Prince Rupert, B, Coy. 20th November, 1917. H..F. MACLEOD, - District Registrar. ” Synopsis Of Coal Mintay Regulations Coan. mining rights of the Dominion, in. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and ‘Alberta, the Yukon “Territory, the Northwest Territories and in‘a portion of the, Province of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one ; years ‘ft 'an annual rental of $1 an|i— nere:. Not more than 2,560 acres will be! leased to one applicant, Application for a lease muat be made | il: by the applicant in person to the A ent |i or Sub-Agent of the district in: which |} ‘| the rights applied for are situated, In. surveyed territory the Jand: must qi be deseribed-by sections; or legal sub- ‘divisions of sections, and in. unsurveyed territory the tract applied: for shal be Btaked out by the appli¢ant himself. Each application must be accom ed by a fee of $5, which will-be reiund- ed. if -the righta applied for are not ‘available, but nat: otherwise. ° ty shall ‘be paid on the merchantable eutput of the mine at the - rate of five | f cents per ton. ‘The person opsrating furnish the Agent with sworn returns A royal- ? aecounting forthe full guantily of mer- | -Chantable coal mined and ay ‘the royalty thereon. If the’ ‘coal ‘minin| tights are not- being opérated,: such | jj returns should’ be furnished, at Jenst } “jonce a-year, ea a) ce _ The Tense will ‘nelude the. eoal min g Department: of the Ino or, ttawa, ta any ‘Agent or.’ ‘Sab- ‘Agent ’ of Dominio Lan a : in civil life when, they retuln.. fani- | (6 a! “stand behind the 1 man ~ who fights for yous © ae Which assists “the wives 5 and Failte of Canada’ g rallant.- “ goldiers, requires millions of dollars’ to ‘keep ‘the’ soldiers’: honie fires burning.” Distriet Treasurer: “Stephen H. Hoskins, Goverment Agent. Hazelton Committee: J, E. Kirby, R. E, Allen, J. K. Frost, J. R. Barker,” and J. G. Powell, _ / Monthly Susertions a are Solicited The Canadian Red Cross» The Hazelton “Branch requests: “the support of all: in’ ite efforts to. assist i in the noble work of this great humanitarian organization. Cot Honorary Presidents: Mrs, (Rev, ) Jolin Field; Mrs. (Re y. W. ‘Hogan’: . oo Dr, H.-G. “Wrinch. ae - Viee- Presidents: he Maguire, Mrs.- Chappell, Won, » Grant . ” Honorary Secretary: Miss W. Soal: "Chairman: . Honorary Treasurer: i. B.. Little, Manager Uivion Bank . * Executive Committee:, “Mesdaines Watt, Wrinch, Sealy, and Glasey; Rev. Toho ; os | “Weid, WwW. " Wattie, John Newick » oF “Large or Small Contributions will be Grateful i Received: - | SOLDIERS AID & EMPLOYMENT - COMMITTEE |. " Endeavors to. supply ‘goldier from Hazelton district with: . such. comforts and necessities as. cannot. be readily outained. - - at. the front, and, will assist them to. re-establish themselves. ‘The Committee i is, actinig in co. = “operation”. with “the | “Provincial | ‘Returned - Soldiers “Commission and. the Military Hospitals Commission, _-Contribations to the. Soldiers’ Aid Tobacco F Fund ¢ are Weleome. » Cbairmal A. R Macdonald: : the mine shall | fl.